GavinRuneblade

Then that was a bug and not marty. Marty is timed, not location-based.

What you are missing is that in other games recipes are part of the crafting sub-system. In City they are the loot. In a fantasy MMO you might get a magic sword from an enemy you defeat. In City you will get a recipe instead. No fantasy MMO gives you infinite magic swords. You have to earn them each time. If you can craft them, you have to earn the materials and those are typically hard to come by or only drop from certian enemies.

In City all of our materials drop from basically any enemy. there are low-level, mid-level and high level, and tech or arcane. But that's it. No Farm this specific enemy with .002% chance to drop uber-leet item or uber-special material. You just do anything you want. Kill a random peon from the council and you might get any piece of salvage at all. Or even the most powerful purple recipies. That recipe is the limited resource. The materials are all pretty common. Even the ones called "rare" drop very often.

Well that is correct except the impossible bit. When you get a fame point you get credit in your progress bar. The fame point expires, the progress doesn't. And you DO need 10 fame points. Heh. But I agree it can be confusing.

4 different concepts. There are alignment merits, reward merits, astral merits and empyrean merits.

The idea is that being able to play both hero and villain content is a huge benefit to any character. So there needed to be something to reward people for staying true to one side or the other. those are alignment merits. Also the hero and villain powers are very good, while the rogue and vigilante powers suck.

You got it. The morality missions are a tiny bit tougher in some cases. "One Good Spider" the hero mission is a bit tough for some people with lots of spawns close together and 4 unique enemies coming in ambush waves. Mostly, I find they are not harder but longer than the tip missions. If you can do tips you can do the morality.

also as a bonus if you team and the group does a morality mission before you are ready, you get credit for it as if it were a tip. So it's not wasted.

Doms aren't buffer/debuffers. They're really not close to a /rad of any type except maybe a blaster rad/. Dominators have control powers, but really, it is best to think of a dom as a weird cross between a blaster and a scrapper with the primary being your "ranged armor".

Also, PSI is no longer low damage.

Pretty much all mez and special effects. Not damage. But all buffs/debuffs/mez. Duration only not magnitude. On carrion creeepers it buffs the initial slow but none of the pet's attacks. Creepers are a funky power. Possibly in the top 5 powers among all dominator sets (right up there with volcanic gas and drain psyche).

No damage pets are survivable. The closest you get are "poopy" the stone pet and Jack from ice.

Then there is Singy from gravity. He is almost indestructible. He stays by your side NO MATTER WHAT. He is what all pets should be. Except he is crap for damage. Excellent protection and secondary source of controls though. He chucks people around like they are toys in a toddler's hands during a temper tantrum. Total rockstar that one.

Electric's gremlins are nice and there are two of them for decent damage. If you are incarnated with reactive (or one of the soon to be released alternates) they do spectacular damage. Imps with reactive (or one of the net alternatives) do over 95dps as measured on rikti pylons. That is, half the damage output of a decent scrapper. Gremlins are #2. Keep in mind that the pylon is a funky thing to test on and far from ideal so take the damage with a HUUGE pile of salt not just one grain.

I am very fond of my plant. It takes the -res proc and deals pretty substantial damage. It can solo +1 cim lieuts albeit not fast.

All pets are coded to attack un-mezzed enemies by preference. This is why they are famous for aggro issues. I love them and would never skip any of them.

Earth: best hard controls.
Fire/Plant: best mix of control plus damage
Mind: most utility, very cheap to permadom, able to solo LRSF
Gravity: lowest damage, middle of the road controls, lots of unique powers. Has a bad rep it doesn't deserve. Not easy to play, but rewarding.
Ice: hardest to play. Fewest hard controls. Loads of utility. Has a sleep = good vs AVs.


Earth = most mitigation, most melee
Fire = most damage
Psi = drain psyche is totally broken if you go that route
Thorns = crap damage but lots of AoE
All the rest are just flavoring.

Not really a significant difference in my opinion. Doms are AoE damage.

I agree 100% that it will be a while. But I disagree that there is nothing planned. I think they have talked about it but not assigned developer hours to it. And I don't think they plan to devote developer hours to it for a few more months.

My understanding is that you can but the echo only has a 5 minute timer. Never tried though, so I can't confirm or deny from experience

I for one would way prefer they buffed the crashing nukes rather than convert them to crashless. I love blizzard and inferno and they wouldn't be the same after.

Fame points are just a way to track how fast you can do tips. You can never have more than 5 at a time. Fame points can be of any of the 4 alignments, you don't get 5 of each, it is 5 total. They go away after 20 hours. this is how the game limits your tip missions.

Please note that the halloween tip, the tip to unlock mortimer kal's strike force, and the morality tips do not count against fame points and you can have all of those at once.

In my mind, the mind set of the good tanker players and the mechanics of gauntlet means that tankers will never be obsolete. Or at the very least, I will always have a spot for one on my teams.

Brutes are great and Tanks are great, and they both overlap some and they both have a place in the game.

This bums me out to no end for many outfits, not just the steampunk stuff. =(

Regen requiring skill comes down to knowing to anticipate incomming damage. Sometimes you use dull pain for the big heal. Sometimes you need it before diving into the spawn so you have the extra hitpoints to survive dual crits from a Cim boss. Sometimes you use IH and sometimes you look at the big room just past your current spawn and realize that if you use it now, it will drop half way through that room, so save it. Sometimes you just mog and dive into the middle of a spawn. Sometimes the spawn is spread out and has very wimpy ranged attacks so you hit dull pain for a HP boost and rush one dude on the side, then pop MOG right before his buddies surround you.

The two most common ways people die with regens is that they use every click too fast. Or they die and have a bunch they didn't use but should have. Finding that balance in-between is a lot harder than any other secondary I've played. It really, really rewards getting hours on your character and knowing what you can and can't survive with each combination of powers. And knowing which enemies deal the spike damage and how it impacts you.

WP, is literally toggle up and go kill. regen will never be that. Even the build I have which is about as close as you can get to that.

they are actually very very much alike. They are not defense sets, they are not resist sets. both function via replenishing hit points directly not by preventing damage.

In the same way that fire and elec are alike so too are regen and will power.

If they were the same there would be no reason for them to exist. Will power is pasive, regen is active and valuur gives a great breakdown of how that impacts experience.

But the point is that if you want a secondary that lets you recover hp and endurance fast, you have two options: regen and will. and will will do a better job of it. regen, you may or may not find more fun.

Not meaning to be rude, but complete waste of time and a bad idea. Do it at most once for each reward. The reward lasts to level 20 and doesn't stack. You get no drops in the sewer but some SOs. If instead, you run AE, you get tickets. I've had most of my characters do the tutorial, do sewer once for Accuracy, then rune AE until 12, then go do story arcs and real taskforces. I average 20 million inf by level 15. My record is 280 million @ level 17 on a character who pulled dual low-level stealth IOs.

The right AE mission will be faster exp, more inf, you can slot some of those IOs in addition to selling them so you won't have to worry about DOs/SOs expiring, and you don't have to stand around doing nothing while waiting.

You can farm, you can team, you can make yourself a custom mission. I have one I made for myself that lets me fight level 1 bosses that gives about 1 level per run up through level 7, then 1.5 runs per level to hit 12. And that one is considered bad experience.

earth is the strongest hard controls (where the enemy cannot do anything at all) with holds and stuns. Mind has early confuse and is very low-cost. Elec is it's own thing, unique. It works with a great aoe pulsing sleep to stop alphas and end sapping. I don't think there is a bad choice among them for a new dom.

Earth will be the easiest, but really those will all work.

Assault, fire is the most damage. Earth is the most melee and it has stuns, knock, etc for more mitigation and defense. Ice is very solid, but I recommend you skip frostbreath. Psi is a bit late blooming but it gets powerful melee attacks, some long-range blasts, and later on a fantastic heal/end recover plus debuff. It does do a LOT of melee though.

Personally I recommend either earth/fire or mind/fire or earth/earth.

And for this game, months is nothing. By their track record, "soon" means "hopefully before this time next year, but don't quote us on that".

Months is nothing. We know whatever it is will not be in i21.5. I'm not expecting it in i22. I'm not expecting it to be announced until i22 is mostly done being tested if not live. That means, I'm not expecting anything, not even a heads up until something like March 2012.

On average two boosted IOs give more end over time than the proc. But I'll still use the proc. I do have an addition to crashing nukes and T9s so. There is never a bad time to use blizzard or inferno or Wail or, well you get the idea.

Honestly, I don't see any of the powersets as godly.

In Xmen, when buried alive Storm once craeted a hurrican stretching across the atlantic big enough to hit both europe and the USA at the same time. Our storm controllers can make one cloud. At ground level. For less than a minute. It does shoot lightning, but far far weaker than natural lightning. they can create wind able to blow people around. But nothing like Katrina or Ike.

Superman altered the orbit of the earth and survived nuclear missiles. Our SS/Invulns can be killed with enough machine gun fire (though it does take a LOT it can be done) and they can't knock down buildings, at best they can make cars and trucks explode. Lifting 2 or 3 tons is beyond anything any of the characters in CoH can accomplish.

In myth, Thor drank so much that he reduced sea level worldwide. Jehovah caused the plagues of egypt and the great flood. Krishna lifted a mountain with one finger. Hell, Arjuna, just a human, was firing off arrows capable of destroying the entire universe (see his duel with Ashwathamma when the latter murdered his children). No power held by any player in CoH can impact areas farther than "around the corner" or "down the hall". with enough range enhancements a few can get "almost the whole room".

Godly, we definitely are not.

Which always makes me laugh when people try to RP like they are godly. Or even like they are specific deities.

regen is clicky and it causes redraw which is an issue for both claws and DB.

/wp is higher performance by every metric. more survivability, more reliable, more passive healing, easier to plan a build, etc. Even has some DDR. consumes a bit more endurance but thanks to quick recovery that's not an issue. /WP is reliably counted as among the top 3 or 4 secondaries for melee classes by the best munchkins/minmaxers on the forums and by the numbers both Werner and Arcannaville have calculated purely objectively. On stalkers though, it is, I think if not the worst performing secondary, then the second worst despite being quite good for scrappers and brutes.

Regen relies upon the player to have the skill to anticipate need and use the powers proactively and intelligently. If you just click them all, you'll die alot. /WP is just toggle up and go kill things.

Regen also benefits strongly on scrappers and brutes, from the +hp in dull pain. On my scrappper that takes me from a base of 58 hp/sec into the 80s along with giving me capped HP, enough to absorb a whole extra crit from a cim boss or a vicky. for stalkers, you get functionally zero +hp, so no +hps either, and all it is good for is a big heal on a really crappy timer. As this represents more than 30% of the power of /regen's clicks (only IH is more important to long-term survival, MOG is just an alpha absorber and reconstruction is basically a reusable medium green) the loss of dull pain for stalkers is pretty crippling to performance of the set.

Now, Some people like the clicky nature of regen and the reliance upon skill. The better you play the better it performs. It rewards smart power decisions and that is what attracts a lot of people to stalkers in the first place. For them, regen is a great power. It is strong enough, even if inferior to other options. Combined with the IO right sets and primary it can do almost anything. /regen scrappers have solod the ITF and I'm pretty sure a regen stalker could too. Only the autohit aoe nictus would be a pain.

But unless the person is deliberately looking for a challenge, wp is always the way to go. And in particular, for weapon sets, the redraw is a huge reason to go wp.

No it is their suicide explosion that stuns. They don't attack as such.