EmpireForgotten

Originally Posted by Not_Destiny

lolz these forums are the only thing I truly miss

Originally Posted by Ironblade

Necropost moar plz.

Originally Posted by Rylas

A lot of people are throwing around the argument that "every set has it's hole." This is true. Ice has low resistance to Fire, which is common enough to be an issue. Inv has it's Psi hole, which is somewhat common in the late game. WP has burst damage. Stone has. . . levels 1-31 or a Psi hole after that. SD has lower defense in exchange for higher damage.

Cover those holes and each set get's overpowered — big problem.

Now, FA and DA have KB holes. KB is around for the whole game. Almost every villain group has someone ready to hand it out. What does FA have in return that SD doesn't also get (if not better since its damage bonus goes to ALL damage types). DA and ELA are very similar, only it has two mez aura's and smaller res numbers. But ELA can drain most foes before the fight is over, so they both offer secondary mitigation methods. I'd argue that the recharge res available in ELA would be helpful in DA, because a lot of DA players do rely on a fast recharging heal. But I think that's a suitable hole for DA.

Now, if you cover the KB holes . . . the sets wouldn't be overpowered — no big deal.

I think a stronger argument is needed to keep the KB hole in. Would FA and DA suddenly tromp other sets if they had KB protection? Their other holes aren't enough? Would they not still play differently from other sets, as most of they're mitigation tools are different?

Originally Posted by ShoeTattoo

I have three related suggestions.

1. Allow players the option to decline a given contact, when they pop up. Thus, for example, if somebody doesn't want the AE contact in their list, they can press the "decline" button and that contact will no longer appear in their contacts list.
2. Turn PvP contacts into "Unlockable" contacts that appear when players reach a certain level. Allow players to decline to accept PvP contacts as being part of their list (see recommendation 1)
3. Drop the "Fed Ex" style PvP solicitation missions that players get with every alt they make.

The first two suggestions are about cleaning up contact lists further, and giving players choices about shaping their contacts list.

The second and third suggestions may require a change in thinking on the part of the devs, but hopefully they'll be open to doing it.

There's a line between promoting PvP and badgering people about it. When every alt a player makes is given more than one "Fed Ex" style PvP solicitation mission, it feels like badgering. As well, by now every player knows about PvP and the overwhelming majority decline to participate; being badgered multiple times about PvP zones with every character made may irritate players, but it isn't going to change their minds about PvP.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

What you are suggesting is that they add enemies which specifically target these weaknesses and yet avoid having any sort of knockback and you consider that to be a good idea in the slightest? How do you think people would react if, suddenly, the entire expansion were chock-full of enemies that made their entire defence sets obsolete? I rather doubt it would be with cheers and applause. The thing about crucial weaknesses that makes them interesting from a game perspective is that they are serious, but they are also RARE. The solution is not to make other weaknesses more common, like in some crappy story where Kryptonite is everywhere, it's to either reduce the needless quantity of enemy knockback to only enemies which would be expected to deal it (e.i. larger or stronger ones) or to give people protection from it. Ideally, protection IN their own self-protection sets.



That's called a "straw man," and I'd advise you to avoid using it. It convinces no-one and it looks really bad from a distance.



Yeah, except you keep forgetting that Dull Pain increases your total hit points pool by about 1000, which gives you effective resistance by a lot, significantly increases regeneration AND it heals you for even more than that. It's not only insincere to ignore that, but it borders on hypocrisy, and I don't throw that claim around lightly. You act like Fiery Arua gets a hideously superior heal and that's why it lacks knockback protection, but in actual fact the heals are just about balanced with each other, which DOES NOT call for further balancing. In fact, Fiery Aura's heal is somewhat better than Reconstruction, but that is a change which was done to it AFTER the set was shown to underperform (once the developers got over the old days of farming, of course).

If you want to go ahead and claim that Fiery Aura is more survivable than, say, Invulnerability or Willpower and THAT is why it has to suffer elsewhere, then by all means, do so. That wouldn't be a very strong argument. But if you don't want to commit to that, your argument boils down to "but they get a comparatively balanced heal, so they must suffer drawbacks!" never you mind that both Dark Armour and Fiery Aura already suffer PLENTY of other drawbacks as it is.





I'm not sure if you're honestly clueless about this or if you're just making ludicrous assertions just to make an unfounded point, but let me put it like this: Dull Pain is a significantly larger heal AND a significant hit points increase, whereas Healing Flames is a comparatively smaller heal with no hit points increase. Are you SERIOUSLY suggesting that if you were able to make Dull Pain recharge as fast as Healing Flames, that would be anything short of absurdly unbalanced?

And again - if you're trying to balance around inventions, you lose by default because the official standpoint is that they will not balance sets and powers with the expectation that people will indulge in inventions. And even then, the knockback hole is hardly the only way Fiery Aura and Dark Armour fall behind.



Yeah, by this point, I'm calling this pure hypocrisy and I'm done dealing with it. You're obviously convinced that recharge is the only thing that matters and only if a vastly more potent power recharges as fast as a vastly inferior one will the sets ever be in competition. That is, to put it bluntly, false on its face.

Originally Posted by Moiread

How many people used the free transfer only because it was free? That's not lost revenue because those people wouldn't have paid for it in the first place.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

Yeah... Would you like those heals to also lose their max hit points buff and cost 40 endurance points, too? Don't act like these sets get powers for free.

Originally Posted by Miss_Freeze_NA

Who said "No one should have a travel power"? Whining about vehicles for no other reason that "I waaaaaaaaaaaan it" isn't selfish? Whining about wanting vehicles even after the Developers themselves have said "No" and provided valid reasons why vehicles won't work isn't ignorant?



It's a valid point, one which the Devs brought up.

You want a car? Go play Grand Theft Auto or something else.

Originally Posted by Shard_Warrior

And some of the standard answers will get repeated once more...

How does your car/plane/motorcycle/motorboat/helicoptor work indoors? In caves? How does your car/motorcylce travel over water? How will it navigate the Shadowshard? How does your car fit through a door? Go up an elevator?

If I can fly, why would I go somewhere in my car?

Originally Posted by lmt1979

Was thinking that having an OPTION to possibly even instantly queue up even via a menu a PVP with Heroes protecting the bank after the Villains start robbing it could be fun.

It would play out much the same was as it currently does, though would function like an arena instance. You could drop down a menu and choose to join a PVP or whatever they'd call it Mayhem/Safeguard.

Villains would trigger the spawning of the Heroes (real players) and they would try to stop the Villains from stealing the money. Just in this case it would be much more interesting and difficult. There would have to be some adjustments to the timer and such but I wouldn't think this would be a very difficult thing to implement.

Let me know what you think. Good idea? Bad idea? Not really worth the time? Not interested?

Originally Posted by Slax

Lolz a set that only works if your opponent stands still and lets you beat on and combo him.

Originally Posted by Antoinette

Dahjee is one of the best and the most innovative vet pvp'r I have met since CoV released. Still now i'm amazed to watch him pvp with a non FoTM and destroy FoTM's jumping around. He is a unique player with wide range of ideas! He is one of the vet Dom pvpr left before perma dom was invented and after the nerf. Still now he stands tall.

He actually makes sense though, if we all let our "pride" down and annalize. PvP (zone) has come to a state where everything is about soloing, where every AT has to be a blaster or a dmg dealer (FoTM)... Where is the fun? This is why I still love Virtue RPvP.

...and it is true, PvP forum is a joke come on now. All I read is "I'm the best and you're not", yet we complain about fixing pvp when you guys seem to do well... What is there to fix? Hahaha... it just puzzles me... Atleast the Devs now know what AT's to nerf LAWL...

...and to be honest any blaster even if it is ice can kill sh**. AR? dude AR is fire........ >.> <.< Fire is fire. You do not need IO's to get a kill. AIM and BU alone can kill without enhancements! Please.......... if you are proud to play AR blaster we are NOT SURPRISE..... The Devs made every blaster sets equal and playable.

Originally Posted by Tokyo

I would participate. But not under these match options. If the Devs ARE using arena options menu for data mining for future PvP changes; all three of those options need to be turned off.

Originally Posted by Ironblade

My first thought was Peter Finch.