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I hope not. The combos are what ultimately makes me drop my DB characters, even my level 50. I don't like feeling confined.

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I don't see how that is confining. You don't have to do the combos.

I think it is a great idea to a similar combo system inserted into pistols. And I hope they give them to the Corruptor as well and not just the Blaster.

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you don't have to do the combos, but if you don't do them, you're effectively gimping yourself.

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No your not. The combos aren't huge. You can still do great without using any combos at all. Deciding which ones you like and using them just adds some flavor to the set. I only use the Vitals combo on my main and I am in no way gimped.

I hope Dual Pistols is very fast. Super fast redraw, fast cast times, moderate range and damage with knockback and defense debuffs. I'm on board with it being "the ranged claws" set. Vey fast moderate damage that adds up quickly. Throw in combos for flavor and it sounds like a blast.

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everyday that passes makes me feel like we're going to end up paying 50 bucks for two powersets and one zone...

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There's no we. I sure as hell won't being paying $50 for anything less than a real expansion.

Just thought of something. Will we be able to choose between Epic power pools or Patron power pools now? Seems like you'll be able to switch to whichever side you want in the early 40s and take what you want....which is good stuff. Wonder how this will work?

Played my petless Dual Pistol Mastermind for a bit today. If you fight enemies like 10-15 levels below you....you almost feel powerful :P

Positional would be really hard to build up. I say typed is the way to go. My main has around 30% defense to all typed except Sm/Le....but I have over 50% resist to Sm/Le, so it's all good. Don't forget Steadfast 3% defense to all types. It is your friend. Also, 3 Aegis gives 3.13% defense to fire and cold.

Good Luck!

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Anniversary doesn't need to mean CoH Anniversary. It also applies to the Anniversary of burying Hero1's time Caspule, which is a plot point of the new TF/SF.

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Except Posi straight up said it would coincide with CoH's 5th year anniversary....but nice loophole.

I'm mainly just bored and dreaming cause I'm like 90% sure Dual Pistols will be a power set for Corruptors, Blasters, and Defenders....but IF it was to be a Rogue Agent epic AT instead, this is what I'd like it to look like.


Rogue Primary

1. Single Shot - Quick Single shot from one pistol. Minor Smashing DoT. 60ft range

2. Dual Shot - One shot from each pistol. Moderate Smashing DoT 40ft range

3. Sweep - Animation from Dragon tail from martial arts. Low spinning kick that does moderate damage in an AoE with knockdown. 10ft radius

4. Empty Clips - Wide cone where you empty both clips. Does moderate smashing DoT to upto 10 targets. Range is only 30ft.

Rogue Secondary

1. Quickdraw - you have a passive boost to your run speed and recharge. Also naturally resists slows.

2. Eagle Eye - This click power boosts your damage and accuracy for 15 seconds.

3. Decimattion - Just by watching an opponent you can see thier weaknesses. This power lowers the resistance and Defense of a single target for a short time.



That's it at first. Seven total powers, all offensive. At level 20 you will need to pick a specialty. Much like choosing
a pth for VEATs. You can become a Rogue Spy or a Rogue Assassin.








Spy Primary

1. Web Grenade - this grenade can completely hold a single target rendering him helpless.

2. Flash Bang - This grenade explodes into a bright burst of light blinding as you throw it to your feet. All targets within 50 ft radius will have a large debuff to accuracy and perception for a brief time. They will also be disoriented for a few moments or untill attacked.

3. Sliver - You aim specificly at your enemie's legs. This attack is much like empty clips but does minor DoT in the cone and has a slow affect on all tagets hit.

4. Absolute - This power would be like a hybrid of assasin's strike and sniper shot. You'd kneel down and take a few moments like sniper shot, but if the target was still unaware of you (not aggroed) the shot would do double damage. High damage, or Extreme. Range is 120 ft.

5. Blaze of Glory - Animation from Typhoon's Edge (jump and spin with arms fully extebded) with both guns unloading on full auto. 40 ft radius AoE moderate lethal damage.


Spy Secondary

1. Cloak - This power allows you to use a device that cloaks you. It acts as an AoE placate, and you are completely invisible for 30 seconds.

2. Spontaneus - Your reactions are so fast in combat you are hard to hit. This toggle provides 12% defense to Melee and Ranged atatcks.

3. Sphere of Weakness - This toggle acts a a strong defense debuff. Any enemy that gets within 8ft of you loses alot of defense due to your ability to immediatly spot his weaknesses and strike them, or even shout them out to comrades.

4 & 5. Honestly I can't think of 2 more powers for this AT, but basicly this route should have some more self and team buffs with minimal mitigation help. Survivability should be about the same as a Corruptor/Blaster.









Assassin Primary

1. Spinning Backhand - Anyone who has ever seen a UFC match knows this move. You stay on your feet but spin around striking with the backside of your hand.This would be a small radius AoE with a max of 5 enemies. Moderate smashing damage.

2. Uppercut - A fast upper cut, nothing like Knock out Blow from super strength. This quick but powerful strike would do high smashing damage with knockdown.

3. Blaze of Glory - Animation from Typhoon's Edge (jump and spin with arms fully extebded) with both guns unloading on full auto. 25 ft radius AoE moderate lethal damage.

4. Point Blank - This attack is melee ranged but you kneel down slightly and fire a single shot from both guns
simultaneously at your enemy's face. Extreme damage and knocback.


Assassin Secondary

1. Tough as Nails - This epic AT would start with HP around that of a Stalker, but this passive power grants roughly 10% bonus HP and 8% resistance to all.

2. Hardened - This Toggle provides 15% resistance to Smashing and lethal, as well as strong resists to holds and other status affect powers.

3. Evasive Maneuvers - This toggle grants 12% defense to ranged, melee, and AoE attacks.

4. Quicksilver - This passive power gives a slight buff to accuracy and protection against accuracy debuffs.

5. Bullet Proof - This click power gives you high resists to all damage types for 90 seconds. When it crashes you are left with 1/4 health and endurance. 5 minute recharge.





Few notes. These EATs would need to have very fast redraw to not be annoying. I didn't work out the combos, but my idea is to have 10 -12 combos that provide everything from extra damage to the enemy, to extra defense for the caster. This is important becuase it would allow the player to truly customize thier Rogue agent. Also, I think a good inherent power would be highly boosted regen between fights. Basicly, after 20 seconds of not attacking or being attacked, your regen would be
about as high as when you use "Rest" As soon as you start fighting again it would go back to normal, but it would allow you to recover between skirmishes very quickly. Thats's about all I got. It's a rough idea but I think it would be great fun. I do realize it is HIGHLY unlikely, but I can dream :P

I think they announced it prematurely because they are worried about losing people to DC and Champs. They are trying to give us something BIG to get people to stick around. Unfortunetly I don't think i16 will be out for 4-6 months.

Love to be wrong though.

I believe it is suppose to be open to everyone with an account, just not trial accounts. It is still closed in the sense that your not suppose to post pics or videos of it anywhere.

My main that is all IO'd out is Willpower. He has 53% resist to Smashing and Lethal and only 17% defense to Sm and Le. Most the time I am a complete badass, but when I fight large mobs of -defense critters like Cimeroa I have to constantly pop Strength of Will and Inspirations. That 17% defense on top of 53% resist is great, but 53% resist alone is not very good at all.

I'd say you need about 80% resists if you dont have a decent amount of layers of other mitigation like regen, heals, or defense. That is why I don't play anything/Elec.

60% resists all by itself is poor.

Brute.

Also, the demon summoning thing could be a new epic AT as well. I thinking like two small flying demons and later one big demon. With only 3 pets to control you could have more offensive attacks and better defense. Some sort of Mastermind hybrid. If this was the case though, I'd hope they would make several different demons to choose from for the set. Maybe even have them be customizable.

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There are Power Sets that are missing but AT wise there isn't a lot of ATs that can be done and are balanced. You won't ever be getting a Dual Pistols with Armor AT for example.



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VEATS allow you to be all ranged or all melee, or any combination in between...yet you still get armor and good to great survivability. So I think this statement is false. A new Spy or Rogue AT could have a mix of Dual Pistols/Martial Arts/Gadgets as a primary, and still have good armor/defense. This would be just as balanced as Night Widows or Bane Spiders, just using Guns and Martial Arts instead of a blastingMace or shooting Claws.

I hadn't even thought about new ATs. That would be the best thing ever! What would be really cool is if the Dual Pistols and Demon Summoning ended up being a new Epic AT instead of a power set (: I'd love to play a dual pistols EAT that was as tough and durable as the VEATs are!

If they did this, they could call these two new Epic ATs Rogues, and they would have no moral compass, but instead be able to become hero or villain at will and travel to either side!

Just for the record, I don't think my opinion is fact or anything. I've been playing for over four years, I've quit a couple times, but always come back. I'm just stating how I feel about the game at this point. To me the most exciting things to come out in the past year (since i12) is the booster packs. I've just been extremely bored with most everything else. That's why I'll probably quit if issue 15 is crap. I'm not saying I won't come back later after i16 comes out, but I've only logged in like once a month in the last 6 months and can't really justify paying the monthly fee if I'm this bored with the game.

Again, this is just my take on the game right now. For a relatively new player I would thing the game is more exciting than ever.

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Isn't it also the return of the 5th Column?

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The 5th column is the TF/SF part. Then there is the 20 new faces, which is cool and long over due....but if that is the best part of the issue....c'mon, seriously? Hope there is some more snuck in there that hasn't been announced yet. Atleast give claws to Brutes or something

Honestly though, issue 12 was cool. We got an awesome new zone, new enemies, and a great TF/SF. We also got VEATs, power proliferation, and other game play improvements. It was a great issue for just about everyone. That was exactly one year ago.

Since then we got a small issue 13 that gave us a bunch of garbage like Merits and dayjobs. Two new powersets that are ok, but nothing special IMO. Dual builds....meh. Alot of little things that improve over all gameplay, but pretty damn boring.

Then we get issue 14 which is basicly just the MA. Now if you love farming, the MA is bees knees, but for me it has not so far been what I had hoped. I can never find teams to run quality missions anyways. Everyone just uses it to farm, so I end up doing the same ol' TF/SF and Trials just like I have for the last 2 years.

All I'm saying is while I enjoy and appreciate all the QoL improvments, the last year has been really freakin boring to me. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I just want new zones, new enemies, new events, new power sets, and more proliferation. Going Rogue sounds like it will make me happy, but the more I read about issue 15, the more it sounds like more of the same.

Hmmm....so dual pistol proliferation is part of the issue 16 expansion? So issue 15 is a TF/SF and some new faces? I have been so [censored] bored of this game for the last six months.....this is it for me. If nothing in issue 15 interests me i'm gonna call it quits.

.....and yes, you can have my stuff.

So Praetoria might be a new starting "grey" area, or it might be a whole new city? If this is a paid expansion, I would think it will be an entire world. My bet is Praetoria is treated like a whole new world with 5-10 cities that are totally different from the ones we know. Imagine a Mercy Island that wasn't run down, but rather nice like a tourist destination....or a Skyway City completely run down and decrepid, overrun with Arachnoids.

If this is the case, you'll probably be able to enter Praetoria from either side, and do content to change your moral meter to switch sides....then head back to the real world. I'm thinking everything in Praetoria will be CoOp. Just my $.02

So is this issue 15? or is issue 15 going to be really tiny and then this is issue 16 3-4 months from now?

I have my fingers crossed for a "Point Blank" extreme damage melee ranged attack.

Thanks for the link, hadn't seen that. Haven't been paying much attention lately. Haven't even logged in for 2-3 months. Dual Pistols might just be what gets me to come back! Good stuff. Just wish it would be a new EAT instead of just a powerset.

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There's one of these in the Blaster and even Defender forum, I didn't see one here so I'd better damn make one.

Sooo... Dual Pistols. It's pretty much announced. We know Scrappers aren't getting it. Discuss.

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How are they pretty much annouced? link?

The video made the event look like alot of fun. Too bad in reality the event was a lagged out waste of time.

So what ranged attacks do Broadsword, Katana, and Dual Blades have?

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If the lag hadn't rendered me completely useless, this might have been fun. Why have these huge events and spawn multiple random GMs and AVs if the servers can't handle it?

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sounds more like your pc.

I have friends who were running on max graphical settings with a teched out computer and still getting 10-20 frames

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10-20 frames? Your saying that's good? Look, my rig is awesome, my connection is super fast. I run on max settings always and never experirnce lag.....except when there is any kind of special event or release. When you start rubber banding and your powers won't work even though they are recharged, it's server side. It's not like this is new. Freedom is thier most popular server, and yet 5 years in every special occasion is a lagfest. It's just old and lame.