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Great. I've wondered since the beginning why they didn't have this refill-upon-level-up feature. I loved it from my Diablo 2 days.

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It's funny I was thinking the same thing. Only this level up is even crazier because it also gives you a tier 3 red, yellow, purple, orange, and breakfree. I'll actually be sad now when I level at the end of a mission rather than in the middle.

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"I get snacks for the design team, and don't understand english real good."

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You think they got an opening for that position? I'm a natural in the field of snacks and miscommunication.

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While it will be nice to see a few new things in The Hollows, I'm forced to wonder (like so many others) why priority was given to this zone instead of Boomtown.

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Probably because hollows is one of the most common low level zones done, and one of the most complained about. And when you are trying to bring in new players, you don't wanna be frustrating them at level 6.

You probably don't need to have all 8 trays out at once. The devs were probably just like, "Screw it, we'll give them so many trays that there is no way they could possibly complain."

I know I'm planning on having 4ish on most of my characters, and 5-6 on certain characters. I'll probably have trays dedicated to all the temp powers I get.

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I hope "another kind" means "I don't need blues, so let me cash these in for a purple" and not "I don't need blues, let me cash these in for a larger blue I still don't need."

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There is no up teiring, its 3 of the same inspiration for another in the same tier. Also, you cannot make non-
standard insps like Ambrosia.

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Does this mean that one can go to a store now and completely fill their tray with larges? (well except for the last 2 slots)

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Nevermind, somehow I managed to quote your post without actually reading it.

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As mayor of Champions.... What happen to a ICE Brute? or Stalker with cold shileds and etc....maybe Fire/Stalker..... hmmm a Earth Dom... axe brute going be lame like a axe tanker......

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I totally forgot about Ice Armor Brutes and as someone mentioned up above, Illusion Doms. I hope those sets made it.

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HOLY CRAP.

Axe brutes! Plant controllers!

THERE HAD BETTER BE STORM CORRUPTORS.

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/Storm Corruptors... done.

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The next best thing! Are there any storm masterminds?

I'm looking forward to rolling one or the other. Funnily enough, I have a level 50 villain and not a level 50 hero, and that'll actually mean something now. Costumes look awesome too. Not sure what I wanna roll yet though. Depends on what my power options are. Super Bane Spider or Fortuana Mistress sounds pretty awesome.

Could be worse. I spent $40 to commission some art from this guy.

When? April of 2007. Not only have I not gotten my artwork, but in October he posted that he was not going to do the commissions after all and that he'd transfer money back to the people who paid. As of now, I still haven't gotten my money back and I even sent him a pm asking him about this.

I'm making enough money right now that I don't care enough to hound him, but it does PO me sometimes, especially since outwardly he seemed a cool enough guy.

So during normal gameplay (or even extreme gameplay), do you actually make heavy use of both consume and transference along with stamina and all those +end and +recovery set bonuses? Or are they (especially consume) pretty much there for slotting the sets?

Regardless of anything else, Ultimus still soloed an AV version of the MM killer Calystix, which is pretty impressive. I was barely able to solo the EB version with my thugs/dark and my friend's necro/traps had to use a shivan, and even then he had to try a couple of times.

EDIT: Didn't realize it was a top 10 kind of thing. I've narrowed down my picks to the top 10 I want (in no particular order).

1. Fury does not build as intended.

I suggest giving attacks a fury bonus if they hit, similar to dom domination secondary powers.

2. Not being able to use accolades while exemping favors power gamers at the expense of casual players who got their accolades later. Let accolades be used in PvP zones regardless of what level they're earned at.

3. Brutes, tanks, and scrappers are entirely absent from high end team PvP. Consider adding resistance or protection to Cage to some of the sets that aren’t as good in PvP (invuln, stone, ea) and make taunt less easy to shake.

4. There aren’t any meaningful rewards to encourage participation in PvP. Add zone rewards that are for PvPing, not for doing PvE activities in PvP zones.

5. The difficulty of leveling and equipping toons decreases the number of people who can get involved in competitive PvP. Make a paid PvP expansion where you can auto level to 50 and get unlimited loot for a toon, but can only play in the arena and PvP zones.

6. A good PvP build can be very different from a good PvE build. Allow players to toggle between build so they can use the same toon to be good at both PvE and PvP.

7. There are no options in arena matches that aren’t just “kill the most people on the other team.” Add objective based instanced PvP like capture the flag and king of the hill.

8. Observers have trouble following the action in PvP matches. Greatly increase the flight speed of the arena bots. Consider adding an option to grant them +perception.

9. People often have to reset matches multiple times to get an acceptable map. Add selectable maps, as well as the ability to eliminate maps from the selection while still having a random pick.

10. Current level ranges are clunky, and put lower level players at a disadvantage. Allow players to set matches to a specific level and allow players to get auto sk’d to that level as well as auto expemlared.

How much control do the current devs (namely Positron) have over CoH with the new management?

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I just wish the devs would let us rechoose patrons.

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Personally, I'm hoping this time travel/flashback stuff will let you do exactly that. You go back in time and stop yourself from picking patron X and pick Y instead. Then, you lose your accolade badge for your old patron, and gain one for your new patron, and your arcs are considered 'completed', and you can flashback and do them if you really want to.

Reposting my question into the official thread

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So, now that I've calmed down, I don't suppose I could get one of you nice devs to explain how the very rare enhancements work? How do you get them? What is special about them (like values we can get, set bonuses, ect).


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I'd also be very curious as to how the combo system works

Something tells me I'm not going to get answers to either question till Open Beta though.

I've /signed this kind of thing before and I'll /sign it again, then /sigh as the devs /ignore it.

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As an explaination, I don't like how IOs encourage me to not level and not play the game. Right now, when I log in with my Rad/Sonic defender, I've got about 4 TFs I need to do... I feel like I _have_ to get those done ASAP or I'll miss out on 5% health I 'need' to have by level 37. For the longest while, I was sitting at level 30 trying to get the eye of the magus and that +10% health accolade. Rather than have fun with the game, I felt obligated to sit there and do nothing until I could hop on a team that was farming said enemies and get my accolades, especially since my character is for pvp.

In short, anything that encourages me to stop playing the game in order to get ahead is a bad mechanic and it should be changed, somehow.

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Cripes...

We're still on this?

Look, the decision has been made. The votes were tallied.



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This argument has been already been de-bunked in this very thread by Back Ally Brawler himself. There was no "vote", just a "poll". The devs took the poll into consideration, but also "other factors", which where not mentioned by name.

BTW: Shields won that poll, but was left out.

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It wasn't debunked, it was stated dual blades won the poll. All the informal player run polls to see unofficially what the general populous voted for also ended up with dual blades as the winner.

People want dual blades. I want dual blades.

Yes the fact that it was just a poll means that maybe if DB had gotten second, it might still have been picked, but in this case, it was the #1 favorite and the devs choice. Good mix.

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I seriously doubt they would do anything like that. As cool as forming different psychic weapons would be, it would essentially cause you to redraw you weapon for nearly every attack.

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It somewhat reminds me of a character from the game Xenogears, Emeralda Kasim. She'd morph her limbs/body into weapons with every attack. Her roundhouse kick would turn her foot into a sickle shaped blade, a palm strike would turn her forearm into a drill, a headbut would grow spikes out of her forehead, and you know, things like that.

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You don't even have to do that. Fire Melee, for example, just summons the weapon as part of the animation, but there's no draw time, it just appears. And it doesn't disappear at the end of the attack unless you do another attack that makes you lose the sword. You can even do the attack without a target and just 'draw' the sword. Fire Melee also has 2 types of swords.

Psi Melee could be like that.

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You guys are still kicking and screaming that your choice on the poll did not win.

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The power sets I wanted weren't even on the polls.

-Super speed melee
-Street fighting
-Super Stretching
-Staves

All of these have way more presence with super heroes and comics than some of the options that were trotted out with that poll and that's just looking at the ones that start with 'S'.

Dual Blades won because WoW players want to port their Rogues into Stalkers. Period.

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This is a valid argument. The list of powers on the poll was pretty lame. Ball and chain? This clearly (like dual blades) is a villain only power. Electric hammer? Clearly a rip off of Thor's hammer, and gawd know we have a enough "single hero rip off powers" in CoH already.

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I wanted staff/polearm melee so bad. Still do. Even mentioned in my poll. With luck, maybe enough other people mentioned it that maybe we'll still get it come I11 Or who knows... maybe they were already planning to make it and was just looking for a set to round off with.

I should take a look at those powersets that Positron would make if he could wave a wand again.

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To save me time, can we combine this thread with the one about sexuality I'm posting on in Player Questions? We could call it "CoH Needs More Gay Blades..."

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How about we combine both threads with the post I'm making in the Suggestions Forums dealing with a new Mastermind Summons-based Set, "CoH Needs More Bey Blades..."

Whoa, I'm totally late to this party. Awesome stealth shots Ex!

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Q: Is there any plans to take power animations into account when balancing powers against each other?

Castle: Future powersets will have animation times taken into consideration.


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Awesome. And he also said as time permits he'd revamp animation times in other sets. Hopefully that means Archery can get a buff.

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And the Passport badge (If you have it like I do) allows you to server hop...

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Is that the accolode you get for soloing at least 5 AVs without shivans or nukes?

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Ultimus wouldn't have it if it meant "soloing" them without Shivans or nukes...

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Did you miss his latest rash of threads where he solos AVs without shivans and nukes (using an EM/Elec brute)?

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And the Passport badge (If you have it like I do) allows you to server hop...

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Is that the accolode you get for soloing at least 5 AVs without shivans or nukes?

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Once yellows are down, we should have the brutes be ready to taunt Hami. I know they're not tanks, but they're the best we've got.


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Theory- MMs in bodyguard mode with the Presence Pool.
Brutes aren't tanks any more than scrappers are. But finding a MM with the Presence Pool I fear may not be possible.

Hmm. Time to level a MM then.

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How big are Hami's aoes? You just have to be within 60 feet of your pets for bodyguard, so if the aoes are smaller than that, you could survive the aoes. Have a thermal sit near the pets and spam an aura heal or something.