HeadlessHorseman

"During testing, we realized that Energize came too late in the lifetime of a character to truly be useful, so for the new versions of the powerset, we swapped the progression of Lightning Reflexes and Energize (Brutes and Stalkers do not get this advantage, unfortunately)."

anyone know why villains didn't get this advantage too?

Headless Horseman of course

On Saturday I suggested in the broadcast channel that the servers might have been upgraded and I was cussed out by a few people. There was alot of "How dare you suggest something was ever wrong with the servers before!"

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Was exp and inf given back to the rikti summoned by the comm officer, or are they now minions who summon a bunch of friends you have no reason to fight? After all, risk vs reward, right? Where's the reward for fighting something that has no reward?

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I bet ya the summoned minions won't give squat. So nobody will want to fight the comm officers, just like nobody wants to fight the family since the xp nerf.

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As far as I know, the XP change was to architect critters only. Rikti Comm Officers in groups of actual real non-virtual Rikti probably still give normal EXP.
Checking that right now.

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I wasn't taking about the xp/inf change for MA vs non-MA.

I was saying that the minions summoned by rikti comm officers probably "won't give squat".

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Was exp and inf given back to the rikti summoned by the comm officer, or are they now minions who summon a bunch of friends you have no reason to fight? After all, risk vs reward, right? Where's the reward for fighting something that has no reward?

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I bet ya the summoned minions won't give squat. So nobody will want to fight the comm officers, just like nobody wants to fight the family since the xp nerf.

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I belive Black Swan is also a MARVEL character..
Yet i dont see COH Black Swan getting turned into a generic hero/villian..



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it's always been "do as I say, not as I do" with MMOs.

could we get these to appear on the "hero/villain zone event messages"?

yeah saying that they are canceling the maintenance for Friday makes me think it'll just be pushed to another day next week.

so when is all this frequent downtime/maintenance going to end? three out of four days this week I haven't been able to play due to servers being down.

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For a long time, we didn't notice, but then we introduced the Recharge Intensive Pet IO Sets and suddenly HUGE amounts of Recharge were available to certain pets.

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so are you saying you guys didn't notice the pets were receiving the recharge bonus until the Recharge Intensive Pet IO Sets were out?

what are the odds that we can get the office belt again? I miss it

thanks Castle!

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BUG ALERT!

Bruiser's Hand Clap was not changed to knockdown. It still does knockback. Toying around with the real numbers for the power shows that the mag scales by level, from 0.7 at level 1 to 1.74 at level 50. This means that, effectively, at all levels at which the Bruiser has access to Hand Clap, it will still cause knockback. The mag should be changed to a static 0.67 across all levels.

This behavior is noticeable in game as well as in the real numbers readout.

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I've noticed this too. what a shame, this was the one thing in this patch that I was looking forward to.

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Patron and Epic Power Pools:
First off, we’ve made some changes to the Villain Patron and Hero Epic Power Pools. We know that these have been out of balance for a while, so in bringing Patron pools up to the same level as Hero pools, we’ve made a lot of changes to both side’s high level powers. We did extensive datamining on power choices, how they were being utilized, and damage outputs. In the end we tweaked several powers and removed some, replacing them with (what we think) are far more useful ones. We were very cautious in removing powers; it’s not something we ever do lightly. We only do it where there was a huge disparity in how often it is chosen over another power. That to us points to severe problems with that power even being in that pool to begin with.

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so this change was to bring PPPs closer to EPPs, replace powers with (what you think) are far more useful ones, and switch ones that are not popular?

I see quite a few powers being removed/changed that don't fit with any of this reasonings. ie: how is dark blast better than gloom for brutes?

I spent over two hours killing Eochais before Jack finally spawned, and I thought that was excessive. five hours? jeez....

*edit* and since this is "Halloween Issues" the pumpkin head costume piece is too big