Ice_Storm

hey guys. I started a fire/earth dom and I'm looking for a villain group. I like the ones that are very active and I'm totally cool with getting kicked if I don't log for more than 10 days or something like that. Name's Aeroclasm. I'll be online now for an hour or two so if you see me please invite me.

If not maybe we could arrange a meet in game some time?

Hey,
So I'm just now getting into mids and as a result I'm also getting into the invention system. My question is, is there a way to see what the recharge of my powers will be with the recharge bonus from IO sets factored in? thanks

Also, this is unrelated but I don't feel like making another topic, how do you guys typically keep a good constant flow of cash coming in? Lately I've been doing ouroboros arcs for the merits and then cashing them in for rare salvage and selling it. This hasn't been too bad. What do you do?

-Ice_Storm

Hey guys,
So I was thinking the other day about something that I think this game is missing that used to be a staple for MMOs: a theif class. Sure, we have stalkers which play a lot like rogues with the stealth and the assassin's strike but I was thinking about one class that kinda centered around money. But then I got to thinking about it and I thought it might be better done as a stalker secondary. The concept I was going for here was a character that wouldn't have quite as good defenses as the other sets but they would have more utility powers to help make up for it. So without further ado here's my (kinda unfinished) idea for a new Stalker secondary.

Thievery

HIDE: standard stalker hide

MELEE REFLEXES: (obviously not a cool enough name) a lot like the melee defense power from ninjitsu but slightly worse.

STEAL: The trademark power from the set. I had a lot of trouble thinking of what to steal. Basic Inf seems the most obvious but it kinda doesn't make sense RPwise. But I guess I'd go with that. Also I was thinking Lts would have about a 10% chance (maybe less) to steal an enhancement much like they would drop upon death. And bosses would have the same percent chance to steal a common IO recipe.
To help balance things I think this power should have about a 10% chance to break your hide (the baddie noticed you rummaging around in his pockets) and if you used it out of hide it would cost more endurance (harder to steal something when they're paying attention.
The recharge should be enough that after SOs it would be used maybe once every spawn. So maybe a base recharge of 1-1.5 min?

RANGED REFLEXES: same as the ninjitsu defense for ranged powers but slightly less effective

THIEVE DEXTERITY or BRIBE: Ok I wasn't too sure how bribe would be taken by the community so I'm offering a more common power too. THIEVE DEXTERITY would basically be the recharge reduction power offered in electric defense and Super Reflexes.
BRIBE would be a mag 3 confuse power that uses some of your inf to bribe an enemy into assisting you. I'm not sure what prices would be fair but I was thinking something like 300 inf to bribe a minion and 800 inf to bribe a LT. Not sure if that's good enough to make it actually a penalty though. Has a recharge of about 1 minute base. This gives you enough to confuse a minion of LT but not enough to confuse a boss.
*Just to be clear* this isn't two powers for the player to choose from while leveling up. This is moreso if the developers didn't like the idea of bribe then they could make the set with the recharge reduction power instead*

Payoff: PBAOE -damage power. You quickly doll out money to all enemies in your immediate vicinity in an attempt to convince them to pull their punches. Amount of inf used per enemy would follow the same guidelines as bribe

*I couldn't think of a tier 7 or tier 8 power*

Tier 9
MASTER THEIF: The same duration and recharge and crash as other stalker tier 9s. This will be a much smaller defense boost, probably just 10% to all. However it also doubles the amount of inf earned during the duration of the power. That includes from steals and kills.





So what do you guys think? I know that I personally always like the powersets that are very different from the rest and have utility powers so I was trying to create something like that. I may have gone a bit overboard though and I'm sure my balancing isn't perfect.

Also, if you have any ideas for the other two powers I'd love to hear about it

-Ice_storm

I understand that the market is undergoing some rennovations with going rogue so maybe this'll happen anyways but I've been thinking for a while of something that would help me a lot.

It would be nice to be able to place a single bid on a recipe over a range of levels. By this I mean, if I want Positron's blast: Damage/Range but I don't necessarily care about what the level is since a lot of the percentages are so close, I would like to be able to place a bid for one recipe from say levels 31-35.

The way it is now you either gotta place several bids in order to cover whatever level someone will end up getting and putting up for auction or you have to get really lucky and pick the right level.

Not sure if I explained this adequately. Anyone else think this could help?

-Ice_Storm

Hopefully we'll eventually get this. I've heard of a lot of stuff like this that's requested (quivers, scabbards, etc.) and I strongly support any awesome additions to the costume creator. I understand it could be troublesome but it'd be worth it if we got it somewhere down the line.

Hey guys. So I just hit 21 on my DP/NRG blaster and I'm having fun. I'm now starting to get into the levels though when soling as a low defense character can be a bit harder. I don't solo 100% of the time with this guy. I'd say it's something like a 50/50 split between soloing and teaming, I just like to have to option open to me. There's a few questions I had though.

Acrobatics - should I take this power to help with the knockback and mezzers? is there a better way to take care of those? Obviously I'll be targeting mezzers first and now that we can fire off some attacks while mezzed is it even that important?

heals - should I just stay stocked up on insps or should I go for aidself? I know it's interuptable and hard to use in the midst of a battle but still. Oh and what about the chance to heal IOs. I don't plan on buying most IOs but if these are really really helpful I don't mind using my 50 to finance them.

thanks for the help,
Ice_Storm

No they haven't added anything like that and I don't think they ever will. They have however made a lot of the leveling experience more friendly.

There's Missions that you can create yourself so you can make enemies weak to you.

There's patrol xp. for every hour a character is logged off you can some credit on your xp bar and will earn 1.5X xp until it wears off.

There's temporary travel powers that can be gotten early on and more zones linking to multiple zones and SG base teleports so you can get to your missions much much faster.

And most of the powersets are much more balanced. The ones that used to be Uber may not be as good anymore but the ones that used to be the suxxors can at least hold their own for a little bit solo now.

So I've been having a blast with my dual pistols blaster lately and it got me thinking about the other weapon based blasting set that I've never been able to get into: Assault Rifle.

I've tried many times to start up an AR toon and just have never been able to follow through on it and I'm starting to notice why, in my opinion the animations are just plain boring. Pretty much every power goes, point gun forward, pull trigger. Sometimes bullets come out, sometimes a grenade comes out, sometimes flames come out but it still feels the same every time for me. Now if we could have fancy alternate animations that'd be great and I'd be happy but there's another thing that could do it for me: being able to edit the projectiles and such.

Shooting bullets over and over again can be boring. Shooting bullets on most powers and having one power that shoots lasers could be awesome. I'm not asking for a change to the damage. Much like /shields can get a fire shield or ice shield that still does the same thing. That's all I really want.

I also want to be able to change my flamethrower color.

From what I remember about when the devs were getting ready to give us power color customization this may be too much of a commitment for just one powerset but I'd certainly love to be able to make some of these changes. Maybe I'd finally get into an Assault Rifle character.

Thanks for listening,
-Ice_Storm

nobody has any numbers on this yet? I'm really surprised haha

I went with DP/energy. Main reason was for the early build up and for the power push power. I just love being able to shove guys outta melee range.

hey can anyone give me the numbers for the secondary effects of swap ammo? How much damage does incendiary averagely tack on? How much is the -dmg from toxic? and What's the -recharge from cryo?


I was also wondering how often you guys usually swap your ammo? When solo I typically start off the fight with an aoe with toxic rounds, then I get another shot or two off before switching to cryo rounds for another aoe. I only go incendiary whenever I feel completely safe and feel like taking stuff down faster. What do you guys do?

Thanks