HobGoblin_

I agree with katana, electric brute is weak, even after slotting. lvl 40 minon, thunder strike, high damage, 4 damage SO's, barely does 1/4 hp on them. Animations look great, damage could use some work over.

Rescuing Skyraider, says "I hate to tell you this, but I have no weapons, besides, I can't fight good anyway."

Many many people have made these same comments, including myself. You can only solo so much of the game, and nothing is more discourging than finding out you have to have ask for help. Some argue a Hero shouldn't need help, others argue a Hero should know when to ask for help. I disagree with the forced team missions, especially when running into an AV when you had no clue it was an AV mission. But, I seriously doubt it will be resolved, in any case, because, if you haven't noticed by now, the game devs cater to the power gamers and they usually want team play.

Getting a timed mission without notice is very annoying I agree. It's 2 am, I'm tired, should go to bed, convince myself to do so...........complete the mission, exit, get a timed mission right away, office complex, defeat everything, and I'm on invinc diff. Yeah, I went to bed.

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why am I hearing about all this "after the fact"??? why are we (the players) not informed of changes before they are instituted???? is there not a place to test things out before you implement changes?? oh and when will you update the ingame help file??

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Ever heard of the test server? Everything implemented on the live servers is first tested on the test server.

As for solo play for blasters, I solo'd all the way to lvl 38, with little or no problems. Only time I needed assistance was with AV or multiple bomb defuses.

However, and I have addressed this before, now, at lvl 38, I have no new contacts, at all, and everyone is telling me that I won't be able to get any until lvl 40, which is what, only, 2,800,00 xp away. And thats if I can figure out who they are, and where they are. Yay, I am really looking forward to that. So, I am supposed to streetsweep or team up with other players for almost 3 million xp worth? At least, thats what they told me in the email when I sent in a petition about this. That'll take what, 3 or 4 weeks or more, if I play a few hours every night? Oh, but I can spend my time looking for badges,etc. Except I have every badge I can earn at my level, including all history and exploration badges. In one word, FRUSTRATION. Oh, I almost forgot, I don't have the Rikti Monkey badge, but hey, I only need another , say, 8,000 of those. Talk about a ridiculous amount of kills for a badge. This is turning into a grind, which is why I quit EQ in the first place. Alot of people have complained about the lack of solo availability at post 38, but the devs seem really unconcerned about it. Some say that Issue #4 will have lvl 30-40 content added, but at lvl 38, I will only be able to do a bit of that. My lvl 27 tanker could only do 3 missions in striga when it came out in #3, before he out leveled that area. I hit level 16 with one of my other blasters in the hollows, and all of a sudden the contact said I was too powerful to complete his missions. And I started in the hollows when I was level 6. In my opinion,........on second thought, I'll keep that to myself. Moma always said, if you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything.

I agree, bosses were fine before, when I saw one, I was like, oh man here we go. Now I am like, crap, more debt. The slider should have been more than enough, after all, it increased the overall difficulty of the mission if you wished, so why even pump the bosses up at all? Oh yeah, I forgot, it was too easy for the power leveled 50's.

I think you are missing my point.........I do NOT want to team up, expecially for 2.5 million xp'w worth. I can hardly stand my own company for long, let alone someone else. And with all the people recently power leveled thanx to our wonderful winter lord event...I saw a lvl 50 who was bragging about lvling her whole group to lvl 32 in half a day...no thankyou.
Striga I can't do, too high a lvl...........as for the difficulty slider, I am not quite sure what that has to do with my current situation. If I was lvl 10 or 20, even 30, I'd have no problem with this, but at this lvl, its ridiculous. I guess the answer is there is no answer, and since I seem to be the only person who plays COH that thinks its totally screwed,obviously it won't be changed. Had I known this before I bought the game, I never would have bought it.

I thought all the comments were well thought out and well stated. I, on the other hand, did not see something addressed that is currently ruing my gaming experience on COH. Just made lvl 38, my contacts are finished with me, and I am informed by more "experienced" players that I will not recieve any additional contacts until I hit lvl 40, over 2 million xp away. So basically I am forced to team up, or go do the sewer trial, or lumina tf, the former being one I can attempt to do on my own, but have no chance in hell of completing, the latter one where I have to team up. I would really love to see the "contact void" filled. Unless you feel like dropping the xp climb to something resembling other games on the market, where it doesn't take 700 hours to reach lvl 50. 446 hours logged with this lvl 38 hero, doing missions, along with tf's, not sitting around having contests or dancing in clubs. Alot of work that now seems like wasted effort.