GavinRuneblade

On my elec/elec brute I sometimes lose grounded's bonus while standing on small rocks inside cave maps, or while running downhill. 2-3 feet sounds about what I experience, you have to be REALLY close to the ground.

I outlevel arcs in every zone. My record for progress toward this badge is 2 and that's off of 5 praetorian characters. Only one has ever been in a team and that was for a whopping 2 missions. And I've never yet run one of the newspaper/radio/equivalent missions. I really wish the arcs were shorter. I do have permanently maxed patrol experience though, since I rotate through my alts I rarely play any one of them regularly.

If you need a challenge on a MO run, swing by virtue on some saturday and I'll let you try to keep some of my characters alive. I swear sometimes it feels like there's a baked in secret self-destruct proc attached to a few of my powers.

One you forgot is Dark/Invuln. It's a classic pairing and very solid.

There's also the spines/fire that are trendy. Dunno if they really count as all-time popular though.

My recommendation: Sell for a while just to get used to it. Lots of money to be made easily.

Just watch out and don't craft everything, as Fulmens mentioned lots of prices have crashed and so I find a lot of things you can buy cheaper crafted than the 1-2m you need for the rare salvage that goes into it.

Posi only gives it's bonuses to one of the attacks. Two have no benefit from it. Better to go with the Hami-o or common IOs for that reason. They benefit all.

Well, there has been code to allow free-specs to stack for a while, but as far as I know it only applied to the bonus free-spec from the villain-side patron arcs. No other free-specs stack, but it is theoretically possible to re-purpose the patron-spec code.

I've always assumed they just didn't want to. Not that they couldn't.

I'd love carnie costume pieces (especially the mask, the back posts ring mistresses wear, and the tight blouse with the bow), ghost widow's hair, Hro Dt'oz's armor (especially the shoulders), longbow and wyvern's jet packs (plus a permanent version or at least renewable version of the goldbricker one), and the "fat civilian" body type.

Because that is the fault of the player with knockback, not the fault of the knockback property.

I have played with a few excellent /stormies. When they are good, they can take two spawns, and trap all 20+ of the mobs into one small corner faster than a tank can herd them. This is knockback used well, and making a team more efficient.

Knock is like a car, drive to the store and it is great. Drive over your neighbor and it is murder. If you personally can't use knock, or you play with people who can't, then it is the lack of skill that is the problem. This is why blind people are not allowed to drive. Car's aren't bad, but not all people should be allowed to drive. Knock isn't bad, but not everyone should be using it.

I'll come right out and say I would prefer if knock was removed from 90% or more of the powers that have it. But when I team with someone who knows what they are doing, I really appreciate it.

Knockback isn't broken, therefore it can never be "fixed".

While you might prefer knockdown, that would not be a "fix" or an "improvement". That would be a "rebalancing" of the power. A nerf in some people's minds, a buff in others (you and me both).

just because some of us don't like an effect, doesn't mean it is broken. Or that we are right. Or that it needs to be, or should be, or would be better if, changed.

I have this same problem. I'll get the red notice of salvage full and then think "how did that happen, I haven't had a single salvage drop the past three missions." And I know I miss the shard notice very often.

This is the important bit. Just ahving burn recharge fast enough isn't the criteria. The criteria is: Do you click it every 10 seconds or every 12 seconds or every 15 seconds? Whether it is recharged or not, that is the important bit.

For instance, on my fire/fire scrapper I use it once every third spawn. Only when there are enough bosses to matter because fireswordcircle-fireball and all the minions are dead, half the lieut's at least and the one or two lieuts still standing are faster to kill with cremate than burn because they're not clumped up.

I did run a lamda this morning with 9 tanks 2 brutes 1 scrapper and 1 thugs/traps MM. I joined (plant/ice dom) and they were trying to convince the leader they needed heals. Thankfully the leader was ignoring them and asking for either support or Damage. That was a pretty legitimate request for damage. But yes, nearly every other time, its as you say: a ton of support being led by a person who doesn't understand that the team is already steamroller just waiting to get moving.

The sad thing is that I do understand it. I have found that it is nearly always one of two types of people:
1. the people from other games who have only played CoH using the rules they learned elsewhere and have therefore never (and probably will never) learned that this one is totally different.

2. min maxxers who think that if they just get the exact right group, they will finish the taskforce/mission/trial fast enough to make back the 2 hours they spent recruiting.

Those are who I bump into the most.

Snag the temp power "envenomed Dagger" and see how much difference that makes for you. Massive -regen plus decent damage. If you were stalemated, then I suspect they would be enough to take you over the edge against him.

It may be a bit strong, but here're what's behind that thought. (note: shortened short version: I think they don't understand badgers, I don't think they have anything against badgers, that's all)

It took how long for them to fix empath after admitting it was bugged?

There are still how many bugs with badges?

Glad to see that it is possible to find out which 1 of the 13 praetorians you're missing... finally. But did they take the oft-mentioned suggestion and update the badge tool to give you the info? No you have to go character by character to talk to an NPC each time you want to check. And all those other badges with multiple tasks you still have no way to figure out which task you haven't done short of manually checking for each component.

So, how're the charges on that Mission Architect Day Job Accolade working out for ya? Oh that's right, you never get any charges on the self-rez, it's still borked. Any plans to fix it? Not that I have heard of.

Were you one of the badgers that earned all the early mission architect badges only to have them taken away?

They have recently said in one of the interviews that gladiator badges didn't work out the way they hoped, but no plans to fix the situation, they'll just let 'em die.

Treating the Oroboros pseudo-taskforces to a badge? Not likely to happen.

Etc.

The new devs may have a different attitude, but I believe it was Posi who said that badging is a "journey" that measures what you have done, not a goal in itself, and that they will continue to base their designs and badge requirements on that theory.

Compare that to the way they really do try hard on the game text, new challenges and new content being more fun and having new mechanics. The new costumes, or hell ,just look at Jay's costume thread. Power Proliferation. Etc. Many other areas of the game get a lot more enthusiastic support from the devs than badging. And the Devs pretty clearly understand those areas of the game. I don't think they understand badging besides an intellectual grasp on the idea that some players want all of the badges. The motive and the experience of badging seems outside their "ken". I don't think (and didn't mean to imply) they screw over badgers in any way shape or form, and it is clear they are adding more badges with clever names because they know badgers care about new badges, and like the badge titles. So they do try with the badgers. but I also don't feel they understand badgers. And I don't think badge issues have very high priority.

And I feel that we are in the same boat. I don't think the devs really understand stalkers. And I don't think we have very high priority.