Grouchybeast

A crusade to help the flippers of the world fight inflation!

I think I know that one. It uses a new map with a large room with a lot of shelves on is, and some people have been reporting a horrendous amount of lag, even when they aren't actually in the room but just facing towards it.

I seem to remember some people reporting improvements by turning down some graphics options. I'll see if I can find the thread where it was mentioned. I would also /bug it in game, and maybe by PM, because there does seem to be something screwy with the map, and the more people who register that they're having an issue with it the better the prospect of getting someone to take a look at it.

ETA: I found the old thread, but sadly no one had any solutions for the problem.

Hey, I like the look of CoX!

I'm now genuinely curious -- do you deliberately make this stuff up because of your obsession with turning all support classes into tanks, or do you think support characters need to be made into tanks because you honestly don't understand how they work right now? Because if it's the latter, you'd probably be a lot happier with control classes if you took some time to actually look at their mechanics.

Now I want a Ninja Pony travel power.

You also need to remember that just as there are people who enjoy video games, and people who enjoy bowling, and people who enjoy going out and getting drunk and starting a fight, there are people who get their fun from throwing themselves onto their fainting couch, stapling a hand to their forehead, and complaining bitterly on the internet about how unfair everything is and how much the devs/the playerbase/the world hate(s) them.

You'll find people like that everywhere on the net. I don't understand them, but I accept that they're enjoying themselves in their own way, and the best thing is to leave them to it.

Well, it depends how much of the set you're planning to use. If I'm using 5 parts of a purple set, I'll usually skip the 'pure' IO, because it loses so much to ED it's pretty much a waste of a slot.

Putting an IO of any kind, purple or otherwise, into a slot with an existing IO or SO simply replaces the old enhancement. It is overwritten, destroyed, and all its effects vanish.

E.g. You have a slot with a level 50 Common Damage IO in it. This gives you a damage bonus of 42.40% to that power. You drop an Apocalypse Damage into the slot. This give you a damage bonus of 53.00%. This is EXACTLY the same as if you dropped the Apocalypse Damage IO into an empty slot.

If, instead, you dropped in an Apocalypse Acc/Rech over the Common Damage IO, then that slot would give the power bonuses of 33.13% to Accuracy, 33.13% to Recharge, and no bonus to Damage. The Common Damage IO would once again be lost, and its effects completely replaced by the Apoc Acc/Rech.

Does that help?

ETA: Of your options above it is D. Purples behave exactly the same as other IOs.

I'm not 100% sure what you're asking here, but I'll have a go.

Purple sets have higher base enhancement values that most other enhancements (see the tables of relative enhancement values on Paragonwiki). So, for example, using only 5 slots and dropping the pure Damage IO because it's really overkill, Apocalypse will give you just in enhancement values to that specific power:

Accuracy: 59.62%
Damage: 89.82%
End Reduction: 33.13%
Recharge: 89.92%

(Note that you're actually getting more damage than that, because 33% of the time, the proc goes off to give you 107 points of negative energy damage, which ignores ED.)

Now, you might decide that isn't enough End Reduction, or you want to add extra Range, in which case, compared to your original six-slotted layout, you still have a spare slot which you could use to add more. Or, that might be good enough for you as it is, in which case you have a slot to use in another power.

Now, because you put the five pieces of Apocalypse in the same power, you also get the following set bonuses, which apply globally to you character:

16% Regeneration
3% HP bonus
4% damage - this applies to all your powers, and ignores ED.
10% recharge - this applies to all your powers, and ignores ED.

How much you'll benefit from this obviously depends on your character. Purple sets generally have Accuracy and Recharge as their biggest bonuses (the Apocalypse 4% damage buff is unusual), and so they're especially popular with people who are trying to perma something, or cycle big attacks faster, or save slots on other powers in tight builds. If you don't actually need buckets of global recharge and acc, then you can just sell the purple to people who do, and use the inf to buy more advantageous sets.


At the moment, I have 5 pieces of Apocalypse slotted in Blaze on a fire blaster. It gives nice enhancement and bonuses, and I use the extra slot for...something insanely overkill, actually. I think I have an HO in it. I have a few more purple sets slotted in her (my favourite, hands down, is Ragnarok in Fireball -- tons of Dam and Rech, plus the Knockdown proc :-) Overall, I certainly wouldn't say that they make the game too easy, though. They're just a slight tweak upwards in power over other set IOs, of much more benefit to some characters than other.

No, I wanted XP, so I could get new shiny powers. And then as soon as the drops started, I wanted drops.

I love drops. When you're a lowbie, they're all fun because, ooh, a Luck Charm, I'm rich! Or even better, a -KB global! AWESOME! And then at higher levels, there are even more cool recipes, and purples, and now shards.

My favourite game of all time had a constant flow of equipment drops, each one holding out the tempting possibility that it might make my character a *tiny* bit better. (Also, it had fireballs, which is the other reason CoX is brilliant, of course. Fireballs at level 2.)

For me, the possibility has to exist for something nifty to drop from each mob. I want to know that the next minion I fireball might give me a purple. I don't think I'd like the kind of game where the really good stuff only ever drops out of the boss's pocket at the end. I like shards more than component drops because shards have that anticipation to them, while I know what I'm getting at the end of the TF.

Basically, I'm a great target for a certain style of game. If the pellets are shiny and the rewards intermittent, I will keep subscribing to press that lever until the end of time.

This is so true. Imagine if some of the pins split open when you hit them and had cool stuff inside!

If the patient is allergic to peanuts, but insists on eating PBJ sandwiches, then yes.

I think it works so long as at least two players are left in the team. So all you need is one other player willing to park a toon as part of the TF team for as long as it takes you to solo it -- they can still log off and play with another toon, of course.

(Although regardless, players being able to finess the mechanics to allow them to solo TFs is utterly irrelevant to whether TFs are gated content in the first place.)

I'm wondering if they're traditional lyrics or copyrighted.

Before I19, there were already 32 TFs, SFs and Trials with minimum requirements for team size and levels.

I19 added 2 TFs, one level 50 story arc, two mid-20s story arcs, a repeatable mission contact in Praetoria, the old Calvin Scott arc in Ouroboros, a number of new Tips and Morality missions spanning levels 20-50, and three soloable zone events accessable to all levels.

It seems to me that CoX has always had a proportion of gated, team-limited content, and that the latest content has been spread over a full range of levels and primarily open to solo play. As someone who mostly solos myself, I'm not worried.

I think everyone above is being pretty tongue-in-cheek about the idea of people actually cheating at this. At least, I assume so.

In any case, I'm sure that plenty of people would just report their earn/burn figures to you if you asked, especially if it was For Science!

Awesome! I'm glad I could bring some fun to your day :-)