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Fire/ice = yay!

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haha and I simply chose my Thugs/Dark for RP/concept reasons

Old Dirty Bast##d from da Wu Tang Clan! Natural so no travel powers(I use the Jet pack)

all his DArk ness powers come from puffin on da chiba chiba.. Fluffy is really his cousin Tito that smokes too damn much! Fearsome Stare works because he yells "BROOKLYN ZOO STAND STILL OR ELSE" at mobs and they cower in fright!

hah

MM's in general are one of the best classes COH has to offer no doubt

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Something tells me that Tito isn't the only one who is smoking too damn much...

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make love not war I say.. unless you're playing an MMO!

haha and I simply chose my Thugs/Dark for RP/concept reasons

Old Dirty Bast##d from da Wu Tang Clan! Natural so no travel powers(I use the Jet pack)

all his DArk ness powers come from puffin on da chiba chiba.. Fluffy is really his cousin Tito that smokes too damn much! Fearsome Stare works because he yells "BROOKLYN ZOO STAND STILL OR ELSE" at mobs and they cower in fright!

hah

MM's in general are one of the best classes COH has to offer no doubt

lifetime! I can;t even play this game for more than 2 months at a time!

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I am lucky enough to run with a friend who has the /pain secondary so I have sloted mine for damage.For some odd reason it feels good to finsh a CoT ghost off with it now :P

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ahah I was thinking the same thing last night on a COt mission

For the record I have one level 50 and you can tell by my forum date I played basically when the game came out..

The game was never about work.. considering I work 50+ hours a week and play, ~10. nice try

I just got my first 50 last month so no power gamer here

the issue is there is nothing todo once you're Super Hero(lvl 50).. PVP is a joke... killing hammy.. been there done that... so this leaves running crappy AE farms or starting another toon. while fun, after a few dozen times there is nothing new to do..RP is out of window even on Viture were few of the early Rps aren't around.

Helping lowbies I love doing that but AE's have killed that, lowbies now want to join AE groups @ lvl1

I have stealth on my fire/ice but is concept... it does help setting up prior to laying down the pain though...

I find that after my initial 4-6 or perhaps a year run of the game... I can only handle this title for no more than 2 months at a time now... Actually I wanted to cancel prior to my 2nd month being charged, alas was late by one day....

I mean /farm @ 50? /boggle WHY I did it last night on 50- Brute and it was painful..just to gain influence for some IO's or drops? nahh

I usually upon resubbing, I try to play brand new classes combos to try and get a “new car smell” feeling to the game and everything that may have changed since I last played. After a while though there isn’t enough to hold me interest I think the Devs knew this when the game was released they just figured other things would fall into place for them…

The game has great qualities, great graphics, nifty powers and solid PVE, GREAT character customization. Also it did have an overall very nice, solid tight nit community. I'm not going to go into an AE rant GOD knows there are enough of those but I think by acquiescing to the power gamers the title lost its identity.

It use to be a really an MMO light, perfect for Casual gamers or even “Carebears”; you log in spend your time playing with your costume then go out and group. I believe it was equally fun to get into a group in game like minded people and run missions or TF’s-die horribly laugh about it and try again The game was an altaholics dream, as most players easily lots of different Heroes/Villains(later). Now most groups if there is one wipe most log or solo or play alts..

I believe that Cryptic really thought that Marvel and/or TR would take off and that COH was just a building block for future MMOS from the company. It was a controlled experiment I believe. Doing all this kind of pushed the casual gamers away and left the game open for the l33t crowed that during the first few years-while there were some-it wasn’t as prevalent as it is now.

I think that the devs really didn't foresee the game lasting this long, so when Marvel MMO fell through and TR tanked. So to make cake and to cater to the typical mmo player, they added Arena matches, then PVP (horrid implementation never add PVP to a PVE MMO game, always ends bad) and to please the min/maxers the first drops "Drops" (Hammis) then finally IO's and /farming just to keep said crowed interested and $$ flowing.

I PVP did so in AC and was/am a DaOC vet . I never played WOW but based upon what I’ve read PVP added to the game took away from lots of classes.

Perhaps CO will be balanced around PVP from the outset, at least that allows you to pick and choose powers. While I’m sure the l33t d00ds will find the best set ups, at least you can still be an original in that upcoming title.-not that I’m putting much faith into CO but it does look promising. Hopefully the DEvs learned a lot from their experiment and moving forward apply this knowledge to future titles.

not to nit pick but


The Burning Vamp kind of goes entirely against Vampire lore as Fire=bane of just about all undead.

Not even Cane (supposed 1st Vampire) can survive an attack from Fire

Your friend probably got the concept from Ann Rice’s character Lestat...in one of the later books Menmoch the Devil I believe; he tried to kill himself by flying really high when the sun had risen and found out that he can only get a really "Sexy tan" from the sun

on Red side its City of Brutes...

so welcome to City of Scruters!

I rolled a DM/Invul Brute.. the DM heal gives Invul what it lacks-although Dull pain helps. At this point (lvl 15) it is non stop only waiting for endurance regen if I don't have blues on me... bascially from spawn to spawn... much faster, killer than my lvl 19 elec/invul.

I can;t wait until 28+ with the DM/Invul

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"But the worst thing I ever done - I mixed a pot of fake puke at home and then I went to this movie theater, hid the puke in my jacket, climbed up to the balcony and then, t-t-then, I made a noise like this: hua-hua-hua-huaaaaaaa - and then I dumped it over the side, all over the people in the audience. And then, this was horrible, all the people started getting sick and throwing up all over each other. I never felt so bad in my entire life."

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Wow that’s both fantastically sophomorically great and really really wrong...

Even better-when I was about 12ish... we picked up some hair conditioner... put it in cheap water guns...added some warm water...then went up on the balcony of this small movie theater in the village..(NYC Its not there anymore ) and made 'sounds' all the while *cough* squirting our guns....

I know we got this idea from a movie or show at the time(mid 80's I forgot the name)

Least to say it was great-at the time

I have a Dm/Regen Scrapper that I RP as one ..I'm going to create a DM/Invul Brute I think for this..

I figure since, when on a team or soloing you'll be fighting at least 2+ extra ACC is always helpful.. Now I'm attacking things 3-4+ over my level and the pets, fluffy hardly miss.

Great class though, sorta like Brute , you really can't mess this class up unless you decide to pick up all the attack powers and not any of your pet buffs

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well tactics is a waste a big waste sorry but ur wrong the enforcers have tactics and if u slot them just once for +to hit and a single acc in ur minions thell never ever miss..and manuvers is a must cuz ur minons reliy and humm manuvers from your enforcers again and guess what it stacks yay..also assult sucks enless ur on a team, wait ur an mm your your own team so its so worth it and vengance it pet crack uve never lived till u seen vengance on all minons and ur gang war... my thugs was a dark so hes all about the def...and the gun powers are usless in my opinon i tried each and dont have a 1 now the pets do such a better job and i dont have to waste end...lastly i never took a travle power only cuz i had so many pool powers but find what works its a good set.. have fun

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If you can't understand any of that... don't worry. He's not saying anything useful. If you can read through the lack of punctuation and intelligence, just ignore it anyway.

The slotted to-hit buff from enforcers is about 1/3 the bonus that an unslotted tactics gives. Granted, there will be two of them, but still, the to-hit bonus from enforcers is not enough on its own if you intend to fight anything +2 or more.

Maneuvers is kind of useless. It's actually the reverse of the tactics case. Fully slotted maneuvers gives you ~5% defense, but each enforcer slotted will give you about ~10% from each.

Assault is the more worthwhile power to unlock tactics as it adds 10% damage to all of your minions, and you won't need to sink slots into it. You can put those slots somewhere else useful.

Mids doesn't have all the info from pets, these are the numbers I remember from right clicking on the powers in game.

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and neither are you, no need to be nasty...
Actually everything he said is useful..


You don't need a travel power, get the mahem jump pack and/or the raptor pack. Like that you can pick up other powers earlier

You don't need the attack powers, per say but leveling up they will help level faster you until you can respec out of them later. I do agree they aren't needed once you hit 32 have all your pets and the last buff. I still may pick one up for RP purposes/fluff.

Leadership pool. I took Manuvers, then all except for vengence, they do stack with your enforcers leadership for pets. And when you're on a team with other leadership classes(particularly VEATS you'll notice that your teams overall defense skyrockets.)

I grouped with 4 VEATs, another leadership MM not too long ago they/we hardly got hit it was crasy.

for all pets 1 acc ,3 damage is fine, for enforcers you can add a to hit and defensive buff in there.

For the Bruiser I added a knock back, will probably add a stun.

I actually added a knock back on my Thugs. Again this is a personal preference, I simply like seeing mofos dropped like that

Gang War 3 recharges, 2 ACC as they miss lots

If your */Dark I can help out with slotting for Dark powers ..all I gotta say once you hit 38 and get "fluffy" the game got really fun man MM's are Op'd. Which is saying lots because MM's are fun/op'd out the box.

AE MM no doubt.... I bet he never played the class to that level from lvl 1... picking up stamina @ 24...

/sigh..

yeah now it makes sence.. too bad there's not jump pack offer..(after the mayhem missions that is) 'cause I tend to like that one better than the Raptor pack

but yeah my Natural MM doesn't have a travel power.. it gives me the ability to at 39, basically have all the powers I need at that point..everything else moving forward is filler, fluff and/or epic pools

ha! the funny part is last night I was finding an EM Brute killing things faster than my Elec/Inv.. then again I was still in Dos and they had SO's and more levels on me..(I was lackied to mid 20s from 18)

I like the look of EM but on my Tank damage is crap; I was considering making an EM/Invul but instead rolled a Elec/Invul

FYI the unless this Cold d00d guy has more than one account(which I can bet he does)... your account born on date is the same date as the date you start on the boards.. so whats even worse is that homeboy has been playing for just over a year and has that many lvl 50's...

wow if you make it to S.florida send me a PM; I'll get you laid but we may need to lather on the sun block 'caue I bet you are as alabaster as a corpes

nothing new... the sad part is these type of players, the l33t d00ds were never part of COH when it came out... there was no, PVP d0pe l00t to be had so it didn't cater to the PVP, farming, L33t crowed.

now its full of them

For the record I'm not a "Carebear; been playing DaOC since it came out.. thats a PVP game.. this is a PVE game that has PvP added to it, and badly I might add

/hyjack off

Thugs/Dark...

I just got "fluffy" and MAN the class/combo is soooo damn easy its not even funny..

I thought */Brutes were easy mode..not-even-close

Edit- My MM is a "Wu Tang Clan" theme

His name Ole Diry BAsT$$$d and all his Thugs are members of DA Wu Tang Clan Rap group. MY Rp (natural origin) is all his Dark Powas are result of him hitting da Mary Jane and he uses Jump pack/10k Jetpack to get around

ha!
making me want to try this IO craze

I personally don’t mind the ability to create your own missions...having played lots of MMO's its clear that the players are on average fairly bright and good at finding exploits or 'game mechanics' and exploiting them (in this case AE's, but you can mention Smoke as well)

I still truly think that they were added to add some longevity to this title; you figure without them the subs would be far less.

Moving forward the ability to create your own content is a fine, fine idea. Let’s hope that COH devs and future MMO's that consider using this implement it better.

I feel that the advent of "loot" attracted the L33t players that-in the first year or two- tended to stay away from this game.

COX has changed from a light easy fresh out-of-the-box MMO to a typical MMO; just instead of Rangers/Fighters and Mages we have Heroes

note-long winded
I firmly believe that the game has/is running longer than the devs thought it would. They released two crappy games that at the time were given lots of attention/advertising. They started working on Champions around that time of TR and the other crappy game.. This is out, how long now 5 years? How long did they think this pve game would last?

This game was-at inception a great PVE game that was simple, you didn’t have to be a l33t gamer to get the game and play well. Sure those early Vahlik or Perez Park teams were a wipe waiting to happen, but they were fun they kept you on your toes and typically you got to learn lots about not only you’re AT but others as well.
A few things prior to AE started slowly killing the game. Various in game nerfs and the player base crying for loot and PVP started killing the game.
Whenever an MMO that is initially designed for PVE add PvP it typically changes the dynamic of certain powers and how they are used. Then the Devs have to scramble to redesign powers, timers, abilities and mobs to accordance.
I mean normal punches dropping toggles but I can shoot you with fire from my hands and they don’t drop? Why even add that feature?

Loot, or rather lack thereof at the beginning-the BEST part of the COH- was great; unlike most MMos(this one is now included) it wasn’t loot driven. Everyone could get the same powers/SO/TO’s or Hammys if they ran those. Now everyone in their mother is farming/has a farming toon to farm for IO crap and drops. AE’s have driven up the need to farm and ease of it.

it’s also lessened the VEATS as well, granted over time you’d imagine they’d be lots of 50s but simply how this game is soo “altaholistic” only the really driven and/or leet d00ds got to 50 first-and I was ok with that. Then VEATS are released and those that got to 50 first were rewarded. As you can see by my join date I joined the game just about when it started and just got my first 50-yep on AE teams.

Yup I fell to the Dark Side, I dusted off my level 20 fire/Fire Brute and just leveled him in record time. At first I was like "dope XP Why even run missions' as most of the AE's I was in were glorified PL's until my Brute at least got to a respectable level and had enough survivability and attacks to help on the AE's. Then it got boring/bland and down right painful sometimes. The past few nights surprisingly I've been in low level pugs, but as soon as I log on to anything above 25 its:

/t want in on an AE farm?
/t lv l54 boss farm want in?
/t all I need are bodies its free Xp/inf I'm pling my alt or what ever..

you guys get the idea

Granted I'm an altaholic and took time off my "main" is still level 46. I'd imagine that eventually I would have gotten to 50 the normal way. I just feel those that rushed through the game clamored about getting something for their trouble-BOOM VEATS released. Then the PVE part of the game got boring for some of those same, they want PVP I want Loot I was housing QQQ etc
The Devs have given the populace what they demanded; they changed this MMO into every other MMO.

Boxing has a chance to disorient, the kick is knockback

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I'm not looking for total invulnerability; it looks as if Stone grants just that-invulnerability.

And based upon all the /Stone /Shield /Wp Tanks and Brutes, it seems as if most other sets are worthless.

And this is even paramount 40+ where everyone is looking for a stone tank/brute/

Does Stone grant the same defensive bonuses? Not trying to start an "OMG nerf Stone" Hijack but it seems as if it’s performing better than a set, that simply by name alone should perform better.

Again I have a Fire/Fire Tank and Brute so I haven’t played any other Tank Brute set that high(27 Invul/Em tank and various low teen Brutes) so I wouldn't know the differences in either.

This is simply a demographic observation upon returning to the game that before, was prevalent with Invu tanks for those "OMG we need a Tank for this mission"

Granted I know that other STs and added powers/debuffs have lessen the need for the typical tank/mage/DPS set up and I'm rambling at the end of the day

@ the OP "Stoned is the way of the Walk'