EvilRyu

Whats your favorite arcs to earn merits heroside and villainside. Do Not respond in the thread, please send as a pm because I dont want the merits nerfed on the arc. It seems like every time we post something we like to do they "fix" it. I am trying to earn a bit of cash on a few servers I started some new toons on.

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I didnt stop my debit card from drawing on my account because I can't do math, Ryu. I stopped it because I no longer want to pay in 6 month increments. I want a gamecard so I dont have to worry about being charged for a service I may decide not to use.

Thank s all for the info on what stores are carrying! I found one at Best Buy. I had to drive 50 minutes but was shopping to outfit the children for camp so its all good!

[/ QUOTE ]You act like there is no option to pay month to month, which is what I do. I still dont see the point of game cards. Most of us here are adults and practically any adult can get a debit card. Hell even kids can get the pre-paid debit cards. There is no reason what so ever to needing game cards unless your country has some funky laws against debit cards.

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I can remember how much money I am spending. That is not the issue, the issue would be running out and canceling my game account to not bounce a check, thus interrupting both my game time and playing whack a mole with my account.

[/ QUOTE ] That to me still means you dont know how much you are spending. Knowing how much you are spending means keeping a positive balance in a bank account and knowing how much it is. If you are worring about stuff bouncing then you dont know how to spend its as simple as that. Dont spend money you dont have yet. If the person giving you the check has the check drawn on a bank thats local then take it to their bank instead of depositing it into your account that way you dont have to worry about the funds because you will know right away if its going to clear or not.

Something has changed at least for the jounin. Now the swords a perma-stuck to their hands. They even fire the dart with the sword out now. While deals with the redraw problem they still dont always to melee like they should. I think the final fix for them needs to be this. Pretty much all melee critters do one thing if too many of the critters are too close to the same target they tend to spread out or just attack from range. My guess this was done because back in the day we used to be able to aoe an entire map with one nuke, so now critters know to stay the hell back if you dont want to die fast to aoes. For mastermind pet AI this part needs to be changed, this would definately get rid of the melee shyness issue. Overall this is an improvement but I still have to use bids and macros just to get them into melee and not use their darts. Also I am still getting the issue where the jounin only wants to do soaring dragon or just golden dragonfly but none of the other attacks.

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Particularly the +regen aura if you're a mastermind, but periodic heal if you're a corruptor. Is there a good reason for this difference?

Is one supposed to be more powerful/useful than the other?

I'd imagine it has to do with the pets somehow. Is +regen more beneficial to pets, thus the change? Or is it a case of periodic heal would be too powerful, thus the change?

[/ QUOTE ]Its done because of the pets. Alot of changes we had recently were done because of masterminds. PD was nerfed out of the box due to that. Noticed how the last power in the set gives + damage instead of recharge like its hero counterpart? All this was done because they knew they were going to gut pet recharge at some point. Notice how the enforce morale has to be stacked like 5 times to get the full recharge benefit? Again this was done so recharge would have a minimal effect on pets. Now that pets dont accept recharge isnt it time this power at least got changed to be more inline with powers like speed boost or AM? Now about your question +regen helps more for brutes and tankers where as +heal works better for the low hp ATs. Each has its own benefits.

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Now that my level 45 brute is slowly closing in on hitting 50, I'm thinking about what character to make next. I have always wanted to try stalkers, and I'm not too experienced with defensive sets, so I figured i'd try something new and make a /nin for PvE. recently in-game though, i heard some high level /nin stalkers complaining that they aren't nearly as good as their SR characters, and nin only gets good in late levels when you heavily IO it out.

Is this the case? I don't play my characters a whole lot once they hit 50, so I'd like a character that plays well the whole way through, not just after I get him to 50 and all IO'd out.

[/ QUOTE ]What you heard were lies. Nin is just as good if not better than SR. You basically get all the defense early instead of getting eaten alive by aoes for 35 levels when hide surpresses like you would on a SR. You have a heal to fall back on when defense fails. You got caltrops to slow down the incoming damage to give the heal time to recharge. Nin is basically what SR should have been from the start. With IOs it gets even better. It may take a bit more work to soft cap the defense on a nin than SR but the results are better. Stalkers dont get the full benefit of SR, they only get 2/3 of the scaling resistance, basically worthless on a low hp AT, and they dont get the full defense debuff resistance that scrappers and brutes get. Only thing they get is quickness and with IOs you can pretty much recreated that on a nin. Nin only lacks knockback protection which is easily fixed with IOs.

For me its been like this. Psi is fine, no longer is my attack chain psw, psw, psw, psw. I can use the other powers in the set and dont feel like they are a waste of time. Nrg is great now especially power push, to me thats the jewel of the set. Ice is the only set thats lacking. They didnt do much as for as increasing the end costs during the changes but that set has already had stupidly high end costs which is kind of why I had stopped playing so many of my ice toons. The added damage makes the set a little bit better but it still hard to play. I might just pl that ice toon to 32 so I have pet damage helping me so I dont burn so much endurance. Sorry I dont play thorns because its fugly, and while fire is good I am not a fan of firey embrace because build up on a 3 minute timer is not good to me. I do have an elec but I prefered elec before they changed it. It doesnt feel like it hits as hard as it used to.

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why buy from a store and pay tax needlessly? unless you live wherever nc is based.

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Because for some people it is easier to live within their means by buying game time cards. Also people like me who work commission often go through boom bust cycles, so one month I could by like ten cards and put them in my file cabinet but the next month NC Soft hitting my bank account means me going into the negatives.

[/ QUOTE ]Its the same amount of cash. I dont see how its helping you. Just about every bank has a free debit card that you can get. If you cant remember how much money you are spending then maybe you dont need to be playing in the first place.

Let me just end the poison debate by saying this. Its a great debuffing set but only for avs/ebs. Its not great for teams. Teams is where this set falls short. If the final power was a toggle or easily perma and had a bigger range it would fix all the problems, if they allowed the power to placed on allies too.

You are definately doing something wrong. Earth control has excellent control. I can say without a doubt its the only set that keep groups delt with in hard control more than any otherset. I know for my controllers its pretty much the no one is dying on my watch set. I can see it being even better for doms when domination is up so you can stretch the duration of stalagmites even more.

I doubt anything has changed. I can check it tonight. I too have encounter the jounin only wanting to spam soaring dragon even when the other attacks are ready.

For respec recipes you would need to time it perfectly. Usually people want to respec at the start of an issue or if there is some earth shattering nerf to their favorite toon or a huge buff. I say watch the patch notes and on the day said patch goes live dump all the respec recipes on the market then. You might get more people to buy them up than normal.

The only advantage I can see with making a CoX 2 is that they could get off this crappy game engine that is holding back what they can do in terms of coding and what not. Possibly move the whole game off of opengl and on to direct x so we dont have as many compatibility issues.

How about this instead? A discounted or free server transfer off of freedom and/or virtue to another less crowded server? I can totally see getting a few toons off there that I dont play that would get play time if they were in my sgs on other servers.

If it does happen I see it as a way for many people to salvage character that were nerfed into the ground from the previous issues. I would definately respec into something else for my namesake character. I would respec my storm defender, all of my trollers who had empathy that werent mind control, all my trollers who were kinetics werent mind control. Even if they didnt give a full respec I would be glad if I could start over at level 1 but still keep all my badges but allow me to pick another primary/secondary.

So far for me its been wonderful. Even with the increased end costs its not so bad. I just use domination when that happens. I am actually thinking of using my dom as a merit farming toon, I just have to see how this works out. Right now I am looking for good AE arcs so that I can invite more lowbie doms to my teams to help them level.

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In addition, Windows 7 will have a virtual XP mode I am currently testing. It runs a virtual XP sp3 in a windowed or full screen session and you can install any program that works on xp only and use it there.

[/ QUOTE ] Only certain cpus will be able to do this feature. Just be sure to look up virtualization with your proccessor's name on a search engine.

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To be fair to manufacturers, with Vista came a whole new way to wrote drivers and access parts of the OS that hadn't existed with previous versions of Windows.

I learned about some of it from a friend I used to work with. He said the best thing about it was it forced the engineers to clean up their code in writing drivers.

[/ QUOTE ]Lets not forget these same manufactueres had forever and a day to beta vista and they still didnt have drivers ready. I still blame them not the OS.

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(1) I've been trying to find a way to use the monitor window (powers -> combat attributes) to monitor the Domination bar, but I'm unable to locate the attribute in the monitor window. Is it not possible to do so?


[/ QUOTE ] No need to, its right below your endurance bar.

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(2) I assume yes, but before I make plans to take the power pool I just need to verify. Does the Hasten power under the Speed power pool affect the global cooldown of the Domination power, and does if so, is it a recommended?


[/ QUOTE ] Yes as does set bonuses that increase recharge and outside buffs for recharge.
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(3) Once Domination is activated when you reach 50% on the domination bar, is there any further benifit to having a full domination bar or is it just window dressing at that point?


[/ QUOTE ] Domination can be activated only at 90% or higher when you click the domination button. Not trying to be smart here but there is a domination button. I have teamed with a few doms in the past that didnt know about the button.

I am looking for some arcs to do while leveling up a few new toons. Basically what I am looking at is getting something that has a minimum level of 15 and goes up from there. I know with issue 15 many authors are now setting a minimum mission level so that it always auto sks. Part of the biggest issue with the AE is the non-sking some missions do but since this is taken care of to a point in issue 15 I can start doing arcs with big groups and not have to worry about reforming. In addition to the level requirement can you recommend some that are missions which are friendly to control ATs? I have been recruiting doms for this, I want to make sure they dont get left out because controls dont work on some custom critters.

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I definitely feel like the changes are a big advantage for any lover of dominators as permadom is no longer vital to having a great dom build. I am still focusing all my dom builds toward permadom however. You still get a full endurance bar, mez protection, and your mez duration and magnitude (I think?) are boosted while in domination. I still think it's worth it without being necessary anymore.

[/ QUOTE ]This is how I see the changes as well. I think of it in terms of how some of the melee sets are. For instance WP is a good set but you become godly with IOs. Now doms are great and become godly with IOs. Its not like sucking for so many levels just to get what you are supposed to be getting in the first place.

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You obviously have not been reading what most of us were complaining about... it was the higher endurance and slower recharge in most of our secondaries that we feel nerfed us. The damage is liveable.

And I don't know about your server but on mine doms were prefered to have a couple on a team. That was never a problem.

[/ QUOTE ]Yeah I have read it and I complained about the end costs too but in all cases I finished missions alot faster than I could have on live now. If you arent going to contribute anything to this to help the noobs, then dont post.

I am making this request because in a few days issue 15 will be going live soon. Due to the revamp we are going to have a buttload of new doms created and played. While what I am about to ask isnt your responsibility but I think in order for this revamp to have maximum effect it will need the help of the veteran players.

First off if you see any players saying doms got nerfed because domination doesnt boost damage anymore, please correct them and let them know the domination damage is on all the time now. If you see new doms asking whether to take the aoe immobilize and they arent gravity please enlighten them on why its a bad idea at the early levels. For those that still end up taking the aoe immobilize please tell them about how it cant be used well with powers like ice slick and earthquake. Too many times I see doms kill themselves doing ice slick followed by aoe immobilize. Be sure to let them know that domination refills their endurance. There are a few doms I have played with in the past that never knew this.

While this does seem like alot of hand holding for the noobs, I do think its a neccessary evil that should be done to help this revamp change the overall perception of the AT that the playerbase has right now. I look at how long stalkers were hated on teams. Even I got the "lol stalkers" from time to time when I asked to join a TF/SF. After their change it was like night and day and see this happening with doms. So many more people play stalkers now and doms will do just the same. If you got any AE arcs specifically made for doms try to invite more lowbie doms to your teams to let them see the level of pwnage doms will have in the upper levels.

Thank you for your time.

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It's one of the best powers available to Doms. Definitely pick it up!

[/ QUOTE ]I totally agree here. Most of the other power pools have garbage. I always pick mu mastery on doms. Its got the only pet worth a damn, resistance to one of the hardest hitting damage types in the end game NRG and a mini-unstoppable for when things go wrong. I dont think it get any better than this. Many folks hate the -end aspect of it at the end. But seriously which would you rather have, your hp dropped to zero because you die or just all your endurance gone but you survive the encounter?

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Ah, see, I noticed it mentioned 32-bit and 64-bit in the hardware requirements, but I wasn't sure if that meant it would work for either or not. I didn't want to just assume, but this all clears it up. Thanks, all. I'm probably going with the Home Premium as I don't really have anything that would need to run XP (unless I have some old PC games that won't run otherwise, but I'm not sure if that will be worth it). I don't really remote desktop, either. Not to mention spending $50 less is a good idea for me right now.

[/ QUOTE ]Most likely the edition they are selling has both since its retail. If it had said oem you only get one or the other.