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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Hyperstrike View Post
    doom!
    doom!
    doomdoom! Doomdoom!
    Doomdoomdoomdoom! doom!
    doomdoom! Doomdoom!
    Time for the Doom Song?
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by thgebull0425 View Post
    Can you only pretty much have two Incarnate powers and use one at at time?
    You can have as many as you want but only one can be slotted at any given time. (One for each Incarnate slot, of course.)

    Once of my characters has 3 of the Destiny powers. I couldn't decided which I wanted without 'test driving' each for a while.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Spectral_Ent View Post
    My post on the "bugs me" thread covers my objections, so I'll just say this:

    I guess we know who died now
    Really? Who?
    Alexis is irrelevant to the 'Who Will Die?' title. They can kill 10 other background characters if they want. One of the 'big name' heroes will die.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by LastLeprechaun View Post
    Last question - can I pick up these missions from some nice central locale like FOrt Trident by chance?
    Nope. Each arc is accessible only by visiting the single contact for that arc.


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    Last comment (yeah right) - Is it me or is information on these things a little scattered and scarce?
    <.<
    >.>
    It's just you.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Baler View Post
    Actually, you have to run it again to reinforce your Hero or Villian alignment if you haven't done the Morality mission since October 19th. That's the date of the patch notes I was directed to by support when I enquired about not being able to select Hero Merit as a reward.
    Wrong. If you had confirmed your Hero or Villain alignment in the past, it still counts. You did not have to confirm your alignment again after that patch. What the patch changed was that you could no longer earn A-Merits if you had NEVER confirmed your alignment. If you started as a Hero and never changed, you were able to get A-Merit from the Signature arcs *UNTIL* the patch. BUT, if you did confirm your alignment at some point in the past, you did not need to do it again after the patch.


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    Originally Posted by The_Augur View Post
    No, you just had to have run a morality mission EVER. Once you run a hero/villain morality mission, you have forever unlocked your ability to get alignment merits from all the SSAs (assuming you remain a hero/villain).
    um.. no? Not clear from your phrasing what you're saying here.
    Running a single Morality mission is enough *ONLY* if it is the same alignment as your current alignment. So if you started as a hero and ran one Hero Morality mission, you're good to go. If you started a different alignment, you need one Morality to CHANGE to your final alignment, then ANOTHER to CONFIRM (or 're-affirm', 'reinforce', whatever) your alignment.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    Does anyone know if the helicopters, tanks and mobile anti-aircraft guns used by Longbow and the Vanguard are copies of real ones, based on real ones, or just made up?
    As a general guide, the older ones are a mish-mash of what some artist thought might look good. The more recent additions (Admiral Sutter's ship, the helicopters flying over Atlas Park) look much more realistic and accurate.
  7. Ironblade

    armors question

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect View Post
    Invuln is absolutely godly in that TF, it gets decent DDR and it resists 90% of the damage in the TF anyway, so the rare hit that gets through is barely going to tickle you.
    It's mostly the resistance. Any good-sized crowd of those guys had my invuln down to -100% defense in seconds. Not that it helped them.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Robotech_Master View Post
    And I thought that you get 1 token per paid month, no matter how you get that month. Any box set purchase ought to count, at least as far as the month you get from it goes.
    Right, but you get the Tokens at the rate of one per month.


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    Originally Posted by Doctor_Gemini View Post
    If you can raise $100 to spend all at once, then you might wait until the end of Dec and see if they offer the subscription deals they have for the last 2 years around Christmas. You could get an 8-month subscription (which would net 8 tokens) for around $75, IIRC.
    But you have to wait 8 months for those Tokens. A purchase of points gets you the Tokens immediately.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Hy-Beams View Post
    What if you have never done the TF before but are already 50? Would you get the Notice?
    You could. Or you could do like I did and keep the power. I'd rather have the temp power than the Notice, even if the power does nothing.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood View Post
    In this case, I'd really have to ask why was their brain placed into a jar?
    The Great White shark body met with an unfortunate accident.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Wing_Leader View Post
    When you say "global accuracy bonus" from IO sets, do you mean Set Bonuses to Accuracy that "apply to all powers"?
    Yes. I was using 'global' as a general term, like we have server channels and global channels.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by UnicyclePeon View Post
    I think my altitus and lack of attention span are going to screw me then. It will take 2 nights to qualify. 1night to earn the bonus ones (which would give me 4?). It could take me a week to do that, if I even stick with it past 1 night. But even if I did, I could only get 1 merit a week since they share a timer.
    Day 1
    Run 5 tips.

    Day 2
    Run 5 tips and Morality mission.
    Run 1st arc for an Alignment Merit.
    Run 2nd arc for an A-Merit.
    Run 3rd arc for an A-Merit.
    Run any one of the arcs AGAIN for an A-Merit.

    Since you haven't run any yet, you can get FOUR A-Merits in 2 days on any character that you feel like doing this with (level 30+ for the 3rd arc). After this 4 Merit bonanza, THEN it's one per week.

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    Maybe I need to alter my spreadsheet to track whether a character has confirmed or not.
    That's what I'm doing. I also use it to track the timer.


    Quote:
    Originally Posted by 80sBaby View Post
    So, you have to run a Morality/Alignment mission just before doing SSA 3, no matter how many times you did so prior?
    No, you just have to have done it once ever to confirm your alignment as heroic or villain.


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    Originally Posted by LastLeprechaun View Post
    #1) Is there any benefit to running these if you could care less about merits (of any sort)? Good XP/Drops? New characters to see? New rooms?
    Lots of bosses for XP/drops.
    Aside from the A-Merit, you can also pick Reward Merits, Incarnate Threads or Astral Merits.
    New maps, like the Hollows engulfed in lava.

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    #2) I'm gathering you can solo or duo these now, but I'm getting mixed responses in-game as to what level you need to be to run these. Anyone?
    Well, not positive. It's either 10 for the 1st, 20 for the 2nd and 30 for the 3rd... OR it's 11, 21 and 31.
    They exemp you to 20, 30 and 40 respectively.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by dugfromthearth View Post
    The characters are interesting (especially in Twinshot's arcs),
    Hoorb?
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by SilverAgeFan View Post
    Agreed. Though the aura is *very* concept specific, it's a very solid implementation of it.
    Conveniently, I have a plant/cold controller named Al Pine, who is a manifestation of Nature.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
    The German Shepard has the same idle animations as the Wolf in the Haunted House event. It is a toggle power that is exclusive to the other non-combat pets and the combat-buff Vet Pet.
    Oh noes! You mean I can't have the dog and the MVAS battle it out?
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by BenRGamer View Post
    In the villain version at least you fight the Shining Stars, would have been a great place to add some custom dialogue
    "Hoorb."


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    Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
    Especially since they introduced a character who had no appeared in the game prior to this, showed her for all of one mission, and then killed her pretty much as suddenly as they introduced her. I guess you can't waste a character who would have to show up in missions or hand out missions,
    Actually, according to Positron, that is EXACTLY what is going to happen. He said they will kill a member of the Freedom Phalanx, which Alexis is NOT. The content in which the soon-to-be-dead hero appears has already been re-written.
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironblade View Post
    hmm.... You must be one of them dev apologists, daring to try to forestall a rant by using facts.
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    Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim View Post
    And you must be one of them doomsayers who's constantly stating how poor the game's health is without being able to prove it.
    I have eyes! Do I have to 'prove' that bananas are yellow (or green) when we can all plainly see it?
    BTW, my first post was sarcasm also.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Maudy View Post
    If I get 11 more tokens (about $100-$110 over the next year or so),
    May I suggest that, if you really are planning to spend $100, spend it all in one shot. That will get you 9600 points instead of 8000 - i.e. 8 Paragon Reward tokens, instead of 6. The tokens are based on how many points you get, rather than dollars spent, and the bonus points count toward the total.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Wing_Leader View Post
    My main has 5x full Crushing Impact sets, a full Multi-Strike set, a full Detonation set, and Combat Readiness three-slotted with Adjusted Targeting, and I still have trouble hitting those Drones when they're bubbled. What's your secret?
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by GavinRuneblade View Post
    I'm guessing tohit bonuses rather than just accuracy.
    Good guess.
    My main has approximately 60% accuracy in each attack.
    He has 57% global accuracy bonus from IO sets.
    He has the Kismet +to hit IO.
    He has Tactics.
    He has Focused Accuracy.

    Me miss? Oh, I don't think so.

    P.S. I normally leave Focused Accuracy turned off since it's serious overkill 95% of the time. I always run Tactics, since it helps the whole team.

    P.P.S. With all that stuff running, I can hit just about anything even with the vet powers. That really freaks people out.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Myddie View Post
    I get a popup box warning me that porting into the VIP lounge will reset my alignment to the baseline and was I OK with that, Yes or No.
    That prompt was apparently written by a nimrod.
    Your alignment can only be changed by running a Morality mission. Maybe they meant that it resets your progress toward changing alignment. If so, it's still wrong. It doesn't change anything. It doesn't reset anything.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect View Post
    There's a timer on it. Had you done it recently before you didn't get the option?
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    Originally Posted by MAD UMLAUTS View Post
    Nope.
    To clarify, the timer applies across ALL the arcs.
    Had you done *ANY* of the signature arcs on that character within the past week?
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Twilightdusk View Post
    Even if you can't tell us about the correspondence itself, you should be able to tell us about the issue you're having right?
    Yes, unless an exploit is involved.
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by CactusBrawler View Post
    Of course the Dev defense force will leap to the defense of the status quo even if the game starts to hemorage customers again.
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    Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
    Oh you must mean Champions which was forced to go F2P just 2 years after it launched from the loss of subscribers. CoH was never hemorrhaging customers. Sure we had a slow decline over the years but nothing that put the game in any jeopardy. NCSoft is notorious for cutting it's losses on games that can't retain it's customers. Just look at what happened to Dungeon Runners, Exteel, Tabula Rossa, Auto Assault, and Lineage.
    hmm.... You must be one of them dev apologists, daring to try to forestall a rant by using facts.
  24. I would not expect Manticore or Sister Psyche to die since it would be too tragic.

    In fact, I have come up with factors that would appear to rule out everyone except Synapse. Bye-bye, speedy.
  25. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Infernus_Hades View Post
    Not even 2 nights the first trial takes 20 minutes.
    The "2 nights" was referring to the alignment missions, which you MUST do first in order to be eligible to get A-Merits from the arcs.