Infernus_Hades

1. Make an AE version of PvP - allow players to build maps, balance powers, set power effects and all of the usual AE powers already in place.

2. remove some of the mezzing in the game so that it is effect when it is used and add armor and resistance to mobs with also AT specific mobs similar to Voids but for all AT's.

3. Steampunk

4. Remove XP from the AE and add badges and merits instead for time played.

5. add email SG invites so I can put my own account toons in my own SG if I like.

Please stop going to the old - you do more damage so it's a trade off.......no it's not.

In a good team your damage is NOTHING on a fire tank. Don't believe me? Try this next time you are rolling along on an ITF don't use Burn - just use Blazing Aura to hold aggro and taunt.

I absolutely guarantee you won't add more than 5-10 seconds on the defeat time of the group. How long does it take you to solo a Roman Boss?

Yeah the blasters and scrappers can tear him apart in seconds.

You damage is always helpful but compared to the rest of the team you are not relevant. Fire tankers are tanks. If I wanted a scrapepr or a brute I would roll one. I want to be able to survive as a TANK.

Obviously some of you are godlike as fire tanks - or read to many of your own press releases while team with cold or FF buffs. I have heard the old I farm the wall thing a million times - guess what? I will absolutely guarantee my Fire/Dark corr can out tank and out damage you on any ITF you care to run. I also can farm the wall and I herd with a twist that lets you overcome the aggro caps and slaughter 3 or more groups at once in absolute safety.

I can pull both AV's and do the computer all at once - with no trouble. You see that is my problem I KNOW what my fire/dark corr can do and it far outstrips my Fire tank and that is silly.

Trying to tank the ITF has shown me that fire tanks are still paying for the halcyon years of Issue 1-4.

I was slaughtered - repeatedly - on my Fire/Kinetics tank. I made 2 runs the last 2 days and was killed a total of 9 times. I had to be saved by Scrappers.

I wasn't herding or doing anything extra-ordinary just taunt, fight and die.

Why? Because while I can add Defense to my tank and I have now spent nearly a BILLION to try and make her durable - I don't have Resistance to Defense De-buffs. Future content - does it have MORE or LESS Defense De-buffs?

I ask that since Temperature Protection is such a weak power lets throw in a debuffs resistance. I mean how long do we have to pay for 4 Issues of godliness?

I use a couple of binds that correct this somewhat.

/bind f1 "unloadgfx"
/bind f2 "sync"

So now when I am out of whack I punch the f1 and f2 combination and it usually corrects for a while.

Normally on those maps I hit f2 every couple of minutes to resync to the server.

Let's not measure how much instead measure how willing.

They looked, saw a need and helped - what more can you ask?

AE farming is still there but with a twist.

You can still go from 1-50 in a day if you like.

The current way is tailored enemies. You take a attack set that your character most resists and build enemies that cater to it.

It isn't any different from the old Drek or Wolves Farms.

The server is active but you need to be more active than just leaving your LFT button on, most days. Personally I run 2 things nearly daily - I do my 5 Hero tips and then I run an Ouro Positron it's worth 40 merits and you can solo it in about 60-90 minutes.

Since you now have 3 builds one of my builds is a Positron build, kitted out with defense and attacks that specifically help me with that TF.

At that point I run a TF or get some missions rolling.

More heroes arise when they are needed most.

When you are jaded by a world that has grown cold and heartless - recognize shows of true heart when they are made.

I congratulate the Developers for their good fortune in working with this company.

I think honoring a hero - is never out of place.

I was reading of one of the workers friends and his friend was told he was already likely past the safe limit. He replied - whether I die or not doesn't matter - can we stop this is what counts.

We have a group of 50 to 70 people who already know they will die from radiation poisoning.

They have decided that since they have already written the check and it was cashed to pay with their lives - they will continue to work and ignore further radiation to try and save others from radiation damage.

These are the Heroes.

We as humans should remember these people as examples of honor and duty. I personally find these workers to be amazing.

I actually only have mine at about 18% defense.

He is near the cap on resistance though.

I have about 10% mez resistance/defense so if I am held I literally count to 3 hit my heal and keep rolling. Keeping darkest night up and using Howling twilight + my heal if basically using -to hit as armor. I keep spamming fearsome stare and all my -to hits and once I get things under control I try to bring in the Fire!

You may have noticed what I do is also "let" the team take some aggro and move to where they are so I can heal or debuff whoever is hitting them. That blaster got too far infront and I could not get to him in time. After that I watched him closer and left faster to the next group so that when they got there he wasn't what they were the maddest at lol.

It was a fun group. We had more deaths doing silly things fooling around with the romans but once we all were fighting it was very easy.

Thanks for allowing me to show you what a Fire/Dark can do! I have had a few folks pick at my build but really the way I use him works for me and I really would hate to respec him. I still have the old Stamina setup but switching IO's would really suck.

Oh my, "healing" a lost for Montie in the Midnighters arc and watching that poor person get the snot knocked out of him by the Kracken in Perez Park makes me literally laugh out loud.

For more fun move so they have to pass through some Vahz and Skulls and now you have a Giant Monster, some lost and both other groups beating the snot out of the poor healed guy - I bet he thanks you for "healing" him!

Last night I logged in to run an ITF on my Fire/Dark corr.

I was the 7th player and we had 2 scrappers, a controller, dark/arch def, a PB and a blaster. They were discussing that they needed a tank to finish out - I said well, I can tank if you like?

Silence for a second - well what about the AV's? I said how do you want to do them computer, AV's all at once or seperately? If all at once I will need 2 purples. Silence again, then - how about Rom at the end?

I said ah he's easy just dogpile him.

They said ok! We picked up a Bots/Bubs MM and off we went - 1 death in the Tf and it was a blaster who got a bit too froggy. After we were done the team said well that was wild!


Are you willing to take a chance? I thanked all of the players for the risk they took in trying something new and they said it was great fun to watch! Yes, I do have taunt on my Corr!

No - its HOW you play the tank that needs to change.

The days of walkup taunt a group wait for them to gather and then yell - Ready! and the group attacks is GONE - long GONE.

You must be fluid and MOVE. I assume by the time I am in the late 30's that players can handle a small amount of aggro or know how to shed it - I therefore tank forward constantly.

I will leave the last 2 or 3 in a group to head off and start on the next one. Be more aggressive and far less timid. If you die - so what? Rez and start again. I see these threads pop up every year or so and people say tanks aren't needed - don't do enough damage - walk with a limp or whatever.

Tanks are a chewie lump of hit points and may be wrapped in either a hard candy shell - Stone tanks or a caramel soft outer coating - Fire tanks.

You can't just stand and spam taunt and expect to hold aggro now. People have fully kitted and IO'd toons that are capable in some cases of solo'ing an AV. So your job? Plan ahead and keep moving - you do one thing better than most take an alpha strike - if one comes and so you need to make your team a more efficient and safer place to work.

In a BIG group if I see we are going to die - I jump into the middle pop self-destruct and then Rise to Battle! Now a BUNCH of the bad guys are dead. This has repeatedly saved the teams I am on. They then see I am paying attention and if I log my tank on I can bet on an invite within 30 minutes of play (usually doing my 5 Tips - solo).

Oh, I did the original Positron on day 2 of the game beginning - it was AWFUL! I was broken with spawns being at +6 or better at times and after 4 hours we gave up because we had only done 4 missions!

I like the new ones far better!

We used to run this TF DAILY for 66 merits and if you have a Plants controller with seeds you can do it in 45 minutes. Embalmed go BOOM.

They dropped it because it is SLOW.

I may have to start running it again - we had a 4 man team who did it every day, Plant controller, 2 scrappers and a blaster can do this in a ridiculously fast time.

On a team with my Fire/Fire blaster and I was tanking - yeah tanking.

So a tank joins the team and he says what the.........???? I say join in or get out of the way I am going in - Offense is the best form of defense!

Behold the power of CHEESE!

After 2 mission he quit - said I made him nervous.

At a time like this the words of our forefathers are good to remember!

"this what happened in the last game i played hackers ruined it for everyone dupin rares and gold and just anything to cheat there no extened maintenance there trying to catch the hacker and we pay for it so unless people don't let GM'S know of wrong doing's in the game it we ruin it and there we not be a COH IT WELL BE GONE TO THE AMERICANS!!!!!!! "

The servers Well be gone to the Americans now.

I am one of the rare people who actually use Boomtown (Baumtown) to level.

People there are HUNDREDS of Council in Boomtown. If the front groups off to the left are dead or being hunted - go straight back nearly to the wall and turn slightly to the right and before you.......HUNDREDS OF COUNCIL!

The Incarnate stuff is NEW.

You don't expect people to play NEW stuff? Yes, the TF's are old but the reward is great especially if you want to run a new character thru. I have a 50 I wanted to get started on his alpha - however Apex meant he was -8 to the bad guys.

We did this TF in 1:05 last night and just tore thru it.

My only complaint is non-50 TF's until the shards drop fix for sub-50 content is in place.
It is an easy TF and you can just send 4 people to Faultline and it's quick.

Nothing.

The current state of PvP? Ignored.

You started with Arena PvP and it is only defeat opponents. You have no escort, capture the flag, destroy item, etc. Open zone PvP is a waste of time and effort. Your powers do not work as they do in the rest of the game.

You could have an AE style setup for US to create and balance PvP, then we choose the maps, power limits and effects.

Running the ITF almost everyday for the last 2 weeks does anyone else get Toga Lock?

It's where you keep aggroing more Togas until either they kill you or your team screams - PLEASE NO MORE!

Was doing a steamroller shard ITF last night and on the last platform we had the big group from there and I decided ROMULOUS COME OUT TO PLAAAY! I dropped Darkest Night on him slapped him in the face with a fireball and here he came!

One of the Brutes on the team screams NO!!!!!! I give the Muah hahahaa and in he comes into the glorious chaos and as we roll so do his ambushes! Now it's fun! Huge stacks of Togas and strangely enough no one dies! Just huge clouds of orange numbers and still Rom went down 4 times and we got the complete.

Death wish? Nope Toga lock!

Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?

I randomly give people Purple Recipes if I like their costumes

If you want to encourage PvP - you make all level 50 PvP IO's COMMON drops.

They should drop in NORMAL play.

Also returning the game back to where your powers actually work like they do the rest of the game would be good.