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Or you could be one of the people that recognizes Positron is just being polite, and that the old PVP was so terrible that if every active PVPer quit over than changes and 15% of the non-pvp players played 2 more months than they would have otherwise just because they are fiddling around with the new system and giving it a chance, it would still probably be a win for the finacial health and longevity of the game. "Burn it to the ground and start over" is a valid response to some circumstances, and and I think evidence is strong that those circumstances had been achieved.

My perception is the basic goal is your build will not help you anymore. Your influence poured into your build will not help you much any more. Your skill - acquired in the past and in the new environement will. And even with skill on your side, you're still gonna get beat sometimes. Those are necessary goals if you want casual PvP players, and they look very much like the principles underlying the changes we are seeing. Implementaiton will call for more polish, but that was pretty clear in Positron's text. To me anyway.

Step 1: assume the Devs aren't crazy.
Step 2: deduce what they must see in their data mining from their actions.
Step 3: compare with their statements to observed behavior(recognizing there are some things they have to ommit because player desires and Dev needs do not particularly coincide).
Step 4: formulate suggestions that are within the range of their needs, where those needs have their closest approach our wants

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I must say...after doing RV for an hour and watching a 50 WP/NRG tanker fight a 50 Shield/Dark go at it for 6 minutes for one fight...I LOVE PVP 2.0

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Important note: Every major set in the game was designed with one major weakness, that was a part of NCSoft's design philosophy. Force Fields' major weakness is Sleep. None of your powers provide you with ANY resistence to Sleep effects. However, remember that Sleep only affects you if it actually hits you, so your only defense against sleep aside from pool powers is, well, more Defense!

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Just FYI... The Controller's Ancillary pool Psionic Mastery includes Indomitable Will and that provides sleep protection. It can be made perma fairly easily.

[/ QUOTE ]Fairly easily? Well, assuming that slotting it can get you +100% recharge rate, you'd need another +200% to get the recharge down to 90 seconds.

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Actually, that would be nice to be able to do... how do you do it easily?

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with Hasten and some IO set bonuses?

I want really long hair.
I want loin cloths.
There will never be enough costume choices.

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Did they fix the text on the IO that used to be 30% Mez Resistance and is now 7.5%? It's not the Aegis Unique, it's another one [not unique as it happens.]

I think they deliberately use different spelling or phrasing in the recipe and the crafted IO in an attempt to keep people from mistakenly searching for and buying the wrong one. I know, there are like six different "flags" separating them. But I've misbought.

An absolutely tiny annoyance: the Chance for Build Up IO recipe is not correctly capitalized.

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Impervious Skin

why have the dust cloud on the fancy sprints at all? Isn't the aura supposed to be the dust coming off the ground?

If you double toggle on your sprint in the air, the dust cloud won't appear. It isn't perfect, but it works.

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“WHY NO EMP FOR CORR?” – ELF_STALKER

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Defenders have dark, not very hero like.

Scrappers have dark melee, not very hero like.

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But it is anti-heroic

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Drain Psyche...wow.


Scare...double wow.


Omgwthdunnoboutit factor...wow.


Poor poor villains...

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Really.
Now willpower will be the fotm armor, it still won't really matter.
The villains are going to get PWNED in Siren's Call.

<------------ Love it...
Been waiting all this time to make a fire/thermal controller woo hoo! They'll go great with a fire/kin on a BM farm.

yawn

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Jay, having said that we are only allowed to have one cape, has ruled out us having things like loincloths, tabards, Mu capes, and flowing hair.

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Couldn't we have a loincloth that wasn't a cape? It wouldn't have to flow...although that would be nice.

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A. If a target is nearly terminated and it would be a waste of both time and endurance to finish the target, it is permissible to finish the target of a scrapper. In many cases, this tendency will around the scrappers paternal or maternal nature; it is not uncommon for scrappers to come to an informal agreement, sometimes unspoken agreement, with a defender for the purposes of terminating nearly-defeated targets. The defender feels that he is contributing to the team, while the scrapper spends more time taking care of the important targets.

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Great Post...very well written.

On my blaster and defender toons...I like to play a game called 'make the scrapper change targets'. It's where a scrapper has a target down to a sliver of health...I'll shoot the target and 'make' him find another full bag of HPs to pound on...it saves him endurance and an attack recharge cycle for the next victim. Heck...he'd prolly do more damage than the hurt target has...thus that extra damage goes nowhere at all.

My 50 MA/Reflexes is a Scrappus Domesticus.
I haven't made my Scrappus Devastatus yet...

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Add rare recipe rewards to Siren's Call and Recluse's Victory minigames. (#1 with a bullet, not enough ingame reward for PVP in this game)
Siren's Call style bounty system throughout the zones (with rare recipe reward)
Fix map holes (Arena and zone)
Cross-server PVP
New Arena rewards and content (eg CTF, Battlegrounds, Onslaught).. not just new maps
True PVP missions, for example Hero vs Villain Safeguard/Mayhem

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I told ya they would do weapon customiztion first...I'm right AGAIN.

Great Post Orodreth you nailed it.

Great post.
I use defiance accordingly on my blaster.
It's also one of the reasons my empaths always take absorb pain. It's to allow that blaster that '1 HP shot' and then immediately zoom them back to full health.

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The only thing I didn't like about Issue 9? Costume drops are too low, and I think it should be a new NCSoft policy to include at least one new power set in each issue.

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I agree with the costume comment.

I would like a way to get the costume pieces directly...like maybe go to the tailor and pick a specific costume mission.

I have a blaster that needs tech wings and jet boots, I would like to run a mission in order to get the tech wings or jet boots directly from the mish, like a cape or extra costume slot. The IO recipes and salvage should be the big economic stimulus, costume items should not have to farmed to tedium to achieve.

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Maybe I need glasses, but I did not see the word "sorry" appearing even once on this post, or any of the half dozen announcements pertaining to the screw up. To all the people who have lost stuff and are inconvenienced, isn't an apology the professional thing to include right next to your promise to fix the errors?

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I apologize for you not getting an apology from the devs because they did not do it to personally insult you.

Great guide...I love my doms, they are so fun to play.
I try to improv and freeform dominate as well...now I actually have a name to describe how a play.
Bravo!

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any bi friendly supergroups?

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If you're bi and you love to PvP...join the Enforcers of Paragon. We take PvP'ers regardless of orientation. If you can PvP...you're in!!!

* Supergroup Name: The Enforcers of Paragon.
* Location: Freedom Server.
* Website: We got one, I don't care for websites...takes too much time out of game to work on.
* Leader/Recruiters: SSR, REACTOR., Power Thief, Enforcer Ares, Enforcer Topaz, Queen 0f Spades, Soni' Care, Slashknight, Modern Pilgrim, Pyrocaustica, Smokeknight, and pretty much anyone you see in the SG anywhere.
* Preferred method of contact: in-game or e-mail any of the above names.
* Group Description: Very easy-going laid back SG. No uniforms, no SG colors, no 'stay-in-SG-mode-or DIE' threats. We LOVE PvP, however, we do PvE as well. We are very close to having the autodoc.
* Membership: Open to anyone that loves PvP or wants to help us build our SG up.
* Promotions are at 50K influence, 100K influence, and 200K influence + aura, top rank promotion is decided by committee of other top-ranks.
* Motto: Peace through strength, strength through peace of mind.

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Just because I have the need to say this...

Please ditch the suppression on movement powers...
PleasePleasePlease.

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NO!
I totally disagree...KEEP travel suppression.

I like this idea very much.
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Players can come up with awesome ideas.
Great Job Ultimus.

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"We are what we pretend to be."

That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Last time I checked, pretend was PRETEND.

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/QFT

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We are we we DECIDE to be...pretend is fantasy...but since neocons think fantasy is reality and reality is a 'slogan' to bandy about...there's no wonder America went to war against a country that did not attack us...instead of going after the murderer of 3000+ New Yorkers.

I NEVER forget fantasy is fantasy and a game is NOT reality.

In order for these "moral warriors" message to 'stick', their underlying assertions must be accepted. Reject the underlying assertions and the entire argument falls apart.

Violence is not a vice. Violence is evil. Parents should educate their children about violence being wrong and how to avoid it.

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I'm extremely disappointed that an image of Statesman would be used in such a way. I know that we designed City of Heroes to appeal to "children of all ages." My proudest accomplishment with the game is that many parents (including my brother) play with their children...sharing, I hope, the same joy for the comic book world that I've had ever since I was 8. I cannot express the shock that I felt seeing that a character created by Cryptic would be used in the same sentence as Columbine.

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But of couse, States...neocons and theocons are like that.

"We are what we pretend to be, therefore, we need to be careful what we pretend to be" - An opinion asserted as fact and then a moral position based on the opinion asserted as fact. What a complete load of crap.

That sounds just like "Dad's against D&D" to me. Same people, just back in 1988. Notice only 25% of America supports George Bush now. Guess What? THAT IS THESE VERY FOLKS RIGHT HERE pounding out this drivel.

Showing Joe "Self-Censore yourself...OR WE WILL" Lieberman means instant discredibility in my book. Or in other words, "Do what we think is right or we will make you do what we think is right" Lieberman is evil and capricious and has no integrity. He's just as dishonest as Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell.

It's all about the domination politics. Undermine free will and people will stop standing up for themselves. If they stop standing up for themselves...then no one complains about warrantless wiretapping, lack of habeus corpus, signing statements, torture, using Jesus to justify bigotry and hatred against gays, minorities, women, and anyone that doesn't fit in "the plantation" plan.

It's also the reason all the Gingrichian neocon republicans got their butts tossed out of power in Congress in November of 2006. To use Stateman's iconic image as a tool for neocon oppression is downright dishonest and disengenuos.

It's also the same argument that "Adult Videos increase assaults on the opposite sex..." garbage argument. The video had no facts only assertions and vague inuendos and all flash and no substance. But that is what rightwingers do, they have no argument, all they have is whining and harping: they are harpies and ghouls. Reaganites don't buy this crap...morons do.

I reject the entire argument and the entire video and EVERY LAST ONE OF THE PEOPLE THAT STAND BEHIND THIS KINDA DISHONEST MEDIA. I'm not buying and the neocons can shove it up their aperature.

Supergroup Name: The Enforcers Of Paragon

* Website: There is a website...but its still under development...nothing to see here.

* Leaders: REACTOR., Enforcer Ares, SSR, The Deed.

* Recruiting Officers: bluesting, REACTOR., Enforcer Ares, Power Thief, SSR, The Deed, Pyrocaustica

* Preferred Method of contact: Siren's Call PvP Zone.

* SG Description: The Enforcers is a PvP-based supergoup. We are relaxed on Supergroup mode, uniforms, SG colors, and all of that. Come as you are and help us defeat the Villains of Arachnos.