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Originally Posted by White Hot Flash

I don't think you understand how marketing works.

Originally Posted by Fiftycalsniper

I'm really hoping that's a realistic winky-face on the end, and not a sarcastic one...'cuz I'm designated in one of the early rounds due to my 5+ years of vet time. And I, too, wanna see what's in the black box ASAP. Getting impatient, even though I know it does no good for anything.

Originally Posted by Leandro

This has been happening for a long time but I always forget to post about it. The last room of the LGTF's final map has tons of graphical glitches, both in my previous NVIDIA card and in my current Radeon; both in Windows 7 and in Windows XP.

As you enter the final room and look around, huge parts of the geometry disappear and reapper; the mothership bottom, the catwalks, the portal, everything. From several angles you can't see any of the geometry at all, just the Rikti in the room. Here are a few example screenshots:

This has been broken for a very long time. Also, the cutscenes are missing all the emotes; they just say their text while standing there.

Originally Posted by Redd Rumm

Does any one know why there is no psy primary for corrs?

Originally Posted by New Dawn

My TA is very welcome around some people but not everyone. I'd be right in saying that some of what is the best that you can offer will only be there if what you are offered is ideal. A help me to help you scenario. I specifically said though that I wouldn't always be comfortable tanking for a team with just a TA. This can mean that 99% of the time I would love it. People behind a toon matter and the game keeps fresh when you vary your team make ups and the people behind the characters. I'll always try to man up to powersets rather than pick holes in them.

Originally Posted by Katie V

It's nice to see that yet another person doesn't understand the NCSoft security problem. What's been happening is that you log in to the NCSoft Master Account site with your own username and password, and the server gives you access to somebody else's account. Having one of these keyfobs wouldn't change a thing.

Originally Posted by PerfectStorm

I JUST had my WoW account hacked last weekend. They (the hackers) somehow got my password (and just to clarify, I work in IT, and I'm quite aware of the most common methods by which passwords are stolen, however, my computer is CLEAN - I've just spent the last three evenings running scan after scan for viruses, malware, worms, keyloggers and rootkits and there is nothing there) and once they got into my account, they associated one of the authenticator devices to it in order to lock me out. It is more difficult for them to retain access to an account now, as there is a secret question/answer for password changes, so they are associating authenticators with stolen accounts (there is a software app version for iphone, so it is easily downloadable) so the legitimate account holder is locked out of the account until she is able to spend 4 hours on hold and on the phone with account support to get the situation cleared up.

Unfortunately, Blizzard has not seen fit to require confirmation from the account holder before associating an authenticator with an account for the first time, nor is anything emailed to the account holder notifying her that a modification has been made to her account details. I find that a to be a very bad omission on Blizzard's part and will be making it a priority to do my best to see that they change that. If they had required confirmation from me, nobody would have been able to lock me out of my account at all... granted, they still would have gotten into it, but they would have had less time with it than they got.

I do, however, have an authenticator on the way to my house. I know that it is only a game, only virtual stuff and that I will likely be able to get most, if not all of it restored, but the experience has made me stressed out and made me feel a little bit ... well ... violated. I would really rather not go through this again.

Hacking WoW accounts generate big money for gold-seller/hackers - they strip your characters, personal storage and guild storage of anything of value, sell it off at the auction house, sell the gold that they get from that and what was on your character, then use your stolen account to farm and/or hawk their gold sales and power leveling services. Then they sell the personal information from those people stupid enough to buy gold with their credit cards ...

Ugh.

Edited to add: I read a WoW forum post which suggested that Blizzard should include the device in the game box. I think that's a great idea.

Storm

Originally Posted by AmazingMOO

I seem to recall posting a suggestion that a good way to increase interest in Hamidon was to create an accolade power that allowed you to summon minor buff pets similar to the DE emanators.

Originally Posted by Dispari

This is my take on TA, to a T.

There's nothing wrong with a debuff heavy or even debuff exclusive set. Rad, Traps, Dark, Storm, and Cold are all really close. They aren't pure since each one has at least a couple buff/heal powers, but the debuffs they offer are very strong.

TA is pure debuff; not a bad thing per se. There's nothing wrong with this, except that it's not good enough at it that you can actually rely on it. It has very little in the way of actual damage mitigation. Mostly just a small bit of -DMG, a small bit of -ToHit, non-consistent knockdown (which Storm and Cold get), and a few mezzes which are either long recharge, unreliable, or single target.

As it is, I don't consider a TA toon to be "support." If I'm seeking support toons and I wind up with a TA, I continue to seek out another support toon. Because while the debuff contributions of TA are nice, they aren't going to keep the team alive to any decent degree. TA is fine for the -RES and other various things it provides, but it's n ot going to reliably keep the team alive.

Originally Posted by Rodion

I've seen this over and over. When a team with a decent TA breaks up everyone says "AWESOME team! We rule!" What they don't realize is how much the TA had to do with it.

The real problem with TA is that it has so many different debuffs and you have to get them all out there to make that difference: one debuffs damage resistance, another debuffs defense and damage resistance, another slows, another debuffs enemy damage, another debuffs to-hit, another does knockdown and damage (which often requires a second roll to ignite).

When you add up the activation times for all those powers, it takes 10 or more seconds to get all of them out there. Except for EMP Arrow, no single power in TA is obviously dominant; but taken all together, they shut down an enemy, leaving them unable to move, hit, damage, or defend themselves, while burning in flaming oil.

Perhaps the best way to buff TA would be to combine debuffs from some of the powers into fewer powers (Poison Gas and Acid Arrow are the obvious ones), and then add some kind of new utility power. The other alternative would be to speed up the animations for all the debuffs, but some of them are already only 1.16 sec.

Originally Posted by ShoeTattoo

Today I ran a 10 hour, 20 minute Posi task force. I would say it was “successful”, but it was soooooooo slow that I'm not certain it was. The “success” (ie: finishing it) was really a matter of being extremely stubborn, mixed together with an initial misunderstanding about how spawns are set and poor luck in PUG teammates.

We began with a full team for Posi in the morning. Four teammates quit fairly soon into the task force, for different reasons. Two who left were fairly skilled, but they eventually gave up because of problems caused by our two unskilled soloists. The two soloists also eventually logged out. But, ... some or perhaps all of those who logged out didn't quit the task force first.

For a while we were down to four of us. Still, having the two soloists leave was so helpful that the larger spawn size couldn't prevent us from progressing more quickly than before. Missions went quite smoothly with the four of us, even if a bit slowly overall because of the oversized spawns. We continued that way for a while, until two of the four remaining players needed to leave.

For the last several hours, there were two of us; my ice/fire blaster and a new person playing a claws / super reflexes scrapper. He seemed like an experienced gamer, but brand new to COH. His build was that of a newer player (no stamina), although he had a good eye for picking a balance of offense and defense in his powers. He had either no enhancements at all, or very few. He did, thankfully, have practiced brawler. Even more helpful, he was willing to listen.

And so, we worked our way through the last several missions one oversized spawn at a time; 2 bosses, 3 lieutenants, and many minions were the norm. There were also, of course, special spawns with other combinations. The good news is that my partner went from level 11 to 21 during the task force, and I made it from 15 to 22. The bad news is, well, you read the threat title already.

QOL suggestion ...

If the devs would put a 'Task Force Members” splashscreen into the GUI, usable for task forces, so that team leaders could access the list whether somebody was online or offline, and kick whoever had left, it would *really* be a nice QOL feature for task forces.

Originally Posted by New Dawn

If you can not need a controller or defender at all for hard stuff then you know your game. What defenders and controllers contribute or should contribute is an easier game. I'd of been much better off with any defender than without in a team of Scrappers.

Originally Posted by New Dawn

Most likely the entire team is "Doing It Wrong". How about doing things right from the get go? I prefer proactive players who can create a set up "to begin with" and hold it.

Without a single doubt in my mind and you are talking to someone who has tanked the entire STF with just a Scrapper for a team of Scrappers and no one with aid other, give me a break here, plus I know how to do them all without getting defeated (excuse my Sig a moment). Trust me I'd do it with a Trick Archer as any Tank.

I am not here to butter peoples bread for them I am here to simply root out the common mistake where people have the gall to believe that if they can't do something then no one can. Start thinking, start achieving.

Originally Posted by New Dawn

There are team tactics that never ever get thought about with Trick Archery. That's all I am saying. It can in some instances blow other defenders right out of the water in terms of helping to create survivability.

Originally Posted by Malkizid

Hi there, I´ve recently come back to CoV. My prior game experience was not a long one, played about two weeks top, quited because of studies. So i decided to come back and continue where i left. I was making a SS/Inv Brute, i love the almost perma knockdown of the guy. Thing is right now i was inclined into trying some kind of ranged/spellweaving guy. So tried out a Dominator. I know the AT´s have nothing to do with each other, nothing to compare. But my issue is the following. I understand SS/Inv is more of a tanking AT and that a Dominator is supposed to be more of a nuker, but the difference in low levels is huge, while with my brute i have a no so hard time, with the Dom i just soar through the game. It´s like, Mezmerize one, Dominate another and burn the hell out of the rest, i dont receive a scratch and the fight is over before the creeps can have a say. With the brute on the other hand, i smash the hell out of the guys, have a blast seeing them get knockeddown over and over, but, to my dismay, i´ve died a couple of times.

I don´t know the escalation of the Brute and neither of the Dominator, but it seems to me that brutes have a rougher time than Dom has.

So my real questions are. Brutes, fare quite well in middle, end-game content? Which set of powers would you recommend me? Due to time issues and playstyle i´m more of a solo guys.

For thoose of you who played both, Dom and Brutes, whats you´re experience?

Thx for reading this, and any info you might add would be great

Originally Posted by Grey Pilgrim

Wait, what? Barrage is a 1.33 second animation, which is plenty fast for this game... whether that's slow for the real world or not isn't much of a consideration... this is a video game, and it's fast for an attack animation. Having Barrage's damage get upped made the length of the animation even better... you're doing much more damage in the same activation.

If you're going to complain about animation times, you had better just be complaining about Energy Transfer and Total Focus (and even then there can be some debate, depending on the DPA, etc.), because the first three attacks for Energy Melee are pretty fast-activating and brawlerish.



Ummm, so? Are we supposed to be suing our big hitters more than once on a big team (it would be good to remember that your example would only apply to a steamrolling team, which you won't always be on)? Other than EBs or AVs, of course. I don't see this as an issue. If your lower tier attacks were like this, sure, that could be an issue, but not for a big attack like ET or TF.

This is getting into the trouble of perception, rather than an issue with the set, per se. If your target is mostly dead, it's your fault you used a big attack like TF and had your target die before you used it (and if you're solo, it's your fault for wasting all that extra endurance instead of using a smaller attack). I was on my Peacebringer the other and had a few mobs die while Incandescent Strike was animating (same animation as Total Focus)... but that was my fault... it was way too big of a power for how much health was on the mob, and most of my team was shooting at them.

Frankly, these comments make looking at Energy Melee correctly rather difficult. People got used to things like ET being a one second "I win" button and refused to adjust tactics after the change (2-3 seconds is NOT that long, you can determine if you can generally determine if ET or TF are justified before firing them). Adjust your tactics to the way the set plays NOW, and see what needs adjusting.

Originally Posted by Dispari

I seriously don't get this. Who keeps insisting this? Why do people think it's still true?

Villain accolades require less GMs, less AVs, less task forces, and less kills. CoH requires 7 task forces, 13 AVs, 3 GMs (or more, I forget, but it's at least 3), and more kills. Not only that, the kills are on insanely irritating things like Sorcerers and decoys.

I've earned every single villain accolade at least twice. All the HP/end ones can be earned in just a few hours (I have the full set of HP/end on 5 toons). I've never once earned Eye of the Magus or Task Force Commander, and Portal Jockey only once. You'd be hard-pressed to earn Task Force Commander in any reasonable amount of time. And enjoy doing 6 TFs that are just 10+ kill-alls of the same gang in a row. On every character.

The only annoying one redside is Force of Nature since it requires so many kills of Longbow and PPD, and the arson badge is buggy. But considering the blueside equivalent is Geas which requires over 1600 kills on enemies that only exist in one zone, a TF, and 2 GMs, I'd say that's about even. And the only one I'd say is easier or faster on a hero is Atlas Medallion. And only because you have to get a team of 8 to do half of the LRSF to get Marshall.

If GR lets me mix-and-match for accolades, I'll be getting EVERY accolade except Atlas redside.