Kelenar
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I'd be willing to come along for one on one of my many defenders, assuming it was at a time when I could actually dedicate hours and hours and hours to the game. Seems like any time people arrange TFs, they start about 45 minutes before I have to be in bed.
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Quote:This. I pulled my Brute out to test her difficulty settings last night. ... next thing I knew, it was three hours later and I was in a pile of Rikti up to the aggro cap, cackling. From i1-i15, I probably spent about 40 hours playing every 50 I have combined. This number will probably double within the next month.Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
Gaining inf and drops (YES, DEVS, THE RECIPE DROP RATES ARE BROKEN) is secondary to why the increased difficulties are so wonderful. Playing my main hero was boring solo before I-16. Now? I'm getting my but kicked.
2 +4 Master Illusionists in one spawn followed up by 2 +4 Ring Mistresses in the next make for a VERY bad day for an SR scrapper. I actually got angry at how quickly they tear through Bill Z with their non-positional psi attacks.
And yet I kept going back until the mission was done. Masochism? Maybe. A challenge that before was simply not present? Definitely. -
Quote:To even the score:Originally Posted by SentaiLavender
Myth: Any of the ATs in CoV are fun to play.
Myth: Somebody once soloed a hero to 50 doing normal, non-zone contact missions without doing 100 pointless, nigh-plotless street hunts.
Fact: He'd forgotten to count ones given in the form of 'Talk to the Security Chief' missions. Counting those, he'd actually done 127 of them. -
Quote:Some of my favorite moments in the game have been those times. "Everybody stand back! I'm going to drop a tornado, knock them on their butts, and then push the other half into a pit!"Originally Posted by Moderator 08
Storm on teams lives for the "Oh Shoot!" moments. It shines in the moments when things go wrong and it can unload 2 barrels of chaos loaded for bear. When those moments happen, and that master run is in danger you'll appreciate that stormy sitting in the back of the team that hasn't yet shown just what they can do.
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I really think debt is about where it needs to be right now. As far as XP gain, one death is almost meaningless. If you play poorly/on a higher difficulty than you can take/recklessly, getting multiple deaths in a single mission will slow down your levelling rate noticeably--it doesn't take that many to get up to half a bubble, which is enough to actually be meaningful at most levels without turning into a slog. Die 3 times a bubble at level 49 and that last level is taking about 50% longer.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Speaking of which, listening to recordings of my own voice speaking English, I have to say I sound almost exactly like the most stereotypical Russian guy in movies you can imagine, but with proper grammar and sentence structure.
Stereotypically Russian? So you say 'Comrade' every other word? -
Hero Slayer. Holy crap. I'd thought this badge was just a myth to scare us types who hate grinding badges.
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My MA/ scrapper now has punches! She's supposed to be more of a street fighter type than a super kung fu type, so they fit her a lot better. I'd been expecting for years that I'd need to reroll her when they finally got around to making a street fighting set, so I'm kinda glad it was handled like this. (On the other hand, I also fear that other long-requested sets might become no more than new animations for existing ones.) I also made the flashes when she hits people dark grey, which makes them a dim white in practice. It makes it look a lot more natural to me.
My Energy/Energy blaster is getting pure white attacks in both pools. No longer must I be envious of the Legacy Chain's ability to shoot white energy! -
Another thing: Thanks to the badge number reductions, one of my villains now has Hero Slayer. I didn't think I'd ever get that if I played this game for three decades.
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Quote:This has always been my big problem. I generally enjoyed my triform Warshade in theory, but...Originally Posted by Sarrate
A Blaster can never stop and say "I need status protection now" like a Kheldian does, but the necessity to form change to do almost anything other than blast / tank (status protection) is very annoying. Want to use BU? Drop form, BU, form change. Need some extra control? Drop form, use control, shape change again. Need some utility? Drop form, use utility, shape change. In my (albeit limited) experience, that adds a lot of extra cast time, which can really bog down fights. There is absolutely no fluidity to me.
HUMAN! Gravitic Emanation. DWARF! Sunless Mire. HUMAN! Sunless Mire. NOVA! Some blasts. HUMAN! Stygian Circle.
Got REALLY REALLY old. It's like the redraw effect on weapon sets times twenty. -
Quote:This. I use it for a 'Get out of debt free! NOW WITH EXPLOSIONS.' button. It's a rare day indeed that you can't find three of anything to make an Awaken out of.Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn
if I'm going to die anyways in the upper levels.
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Quote:Defenders can, as long as they have some way of dealing energy or fire damage. This means that they have to be:Originally Posted by Lordsteelwolf
I told a friend once that the TA set wouldnt reach its full potential untill the defender can light his own oil slick. Defenders still cant, but corrupters can!
Magic Origin (Apprentice Charm)
Tech Origin (Taser Dart)
/Archery (Flaming Arrow)
/Radiation (Anything)
/Electric (Anything)
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Quote:Who is zone?Originally Posted by Blue_Wave
Maybe it was supposed to be a contraction for " Pet is Now Zone ?!"
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Quote:RedTomax says it ignores enhancements and buffs.Originally Posted by Combat
Would a Golgi (Heal/End) HO affect the regeneration rate in Howling Twilight? If so, then Howling Twilight would be a great -regen debuffer. I think the only major debuff Dark Miasma lacks is -defense.
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Quote:This, and the game really isn't so complicated that you need complex instructions to keep a team working together, which is really the one big argument I've seen for it in other games. I don't want to hear you, and you probably don't wanna hear my stammering Woody Allen-esque attempts to talk.Originally Posted by fembot
This. If we have it in game, then teams will expect you to use it. I really could do without hearing any more adolescents trying out their shiny new swear words.
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Set up my new fire/rad corruptor just to get her name reserved, since her concept required green fire.
... and then started smashing things. I was trying to find the sweet spot for my characters on the difficulty slider. Findings:
Earth/Fire/Mace Dominator: Haven't quite figured out where she should be yet. She can handle x5/+1/bosses of most enemy groups fairly easily, but Arachnos on that setting kills her about every other mob. I blame Fortunatas and their stupid mezz resistance. The one problem I've run into on other enemy groups is getting Domination up for the first time. It can be a bit touch and go against huge spawns. I expect I'll be going x6-x8 on her for most groups and something half as hard against Arachnos.
Dark/Elec/Mu Brute: ... is actually far more powerful than I thought. I did a few test runs with her versus x4/+0/bosses missions to see how the attack chain I planned for her to use after getting Energize would work, and she was tearing the place up. Her respec just took it to a whole new level (although ironically, her new attack chain helped more than Energize did.) I turned it up to x5/+1/bosses and still didn't run into any problems except a mission of nothing but Bane Spiders, and even that didn't trouble me much once I started tagging the lieutenants with Touch of Fear and remembered to use purple inspirations versus the bosses lest I end up as a toxin-filled red paste. I ended up just sort of smashing things for a few hours straight while cackling. I'll probably crank her difficulty a bit tonight to see just what she can handle.
Dual Blade/Fire Scrapper: Is the opposite. She can't really handle as much as I thought, as a mission of x4/+0/bosses Rikti showed me very quickly. I suspect that just turning off bosses would help a ton, so more testing is called for.
Tonight will be my Rad/Rad Defender, Ice/Psi Dominator, and Thugs/Poison MM.
Once I've adjusted to everything, I might just slaughter repeatable Rikti missions on my brute for a few days at x8 or something. I do enjoy smashing giant mobs of things. -
It's problematic, but they're looking at it. See:
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Quote:My caffeine is overdosed with all those useless red blood cells in my bloodstream.Originally Posted by Prof_Backfire
Die from caffiene overdose.
Just kidding. I could never overdose on caffiene. -
Whoo! Just last night, I was pining for this...
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Fire/Rad corruptor with dark green + brown blasts. Makes for great pollution.
But mostly, playing 'just how big of groups can I fight?' on my Earth/Fire permadom and DB/Fire scrapper.. -
Quote:Hence the 23?Originally Posted by MaHaBone23
More of a Subgenius Discordian, really.
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Quote:Make people still get experience when exemplared.Originally Posted by American_Angel
What would you do to help improve Ouroboros?
... oh, hey!
Once i16's up and running, I actually might look at Ouroboros once in a while. -
Quote:CHEWBACCAAAAAAAAA!Originally Posted by The_Chosen_One
I throw on a trench coat and ball cap. Then I go out and loiter outside my local convenience store playing weird music while my buddy harasses the customers.
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I've been heavily considering a Fire/Earth. Seems like the melee focus of the secondary would go well with Hot Feet + Fire Imps.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Celidya
When adding to the equation player skill, incompatibility with other playstyles, etc... that's a lot of hassle for an effect that will at best help to survive.I'm basically seeing 'Storm and Dark aren't very useful on the teams my friends and I run.' If your tank is tough and competent enough to handle the alpha and keep the aggro and you only need +offense and some spot healing, you're basically wasting your time with anything but a kin/ to begin with.Quote:
Just take Cimerora as an exemple. Usual method (for the teams i like to run) is to have one or two tank/scrapper (buffed if he's not good enough) herding as much romans as they can then just blow up the pile and superspeed to the next one. If the tank needs the survivability, will he survive enough for the /dark to debuff/come and heal at the risk of getting himself killed/fear/whatever ? Not really. That's even worse with a storm, by the time he's done casting debuffs, summoning pets, etc, either half the team will be dead or already in the next room.
For herding, yeah, I wouldn't say either set brings a ton to the table... but I haven't seen herding as a widespread tactic in about four years. For a standard 'me and seven guys that I just met for the first time ever when I invited them to this task force and the tank doesn't have very good resistance to the damage type these guys do and we have four suicidal blasters and oh god there's a patrol heading our way' team, both pull their weight pretty well. As do Forcefield, Cold, Trick Arrow, Sonic, Empathy, Radiation, and Kinetics.
If everybody's smart and has the tactics down and your tank can herd everything and keep almost all of the aggro, take the tank, a FFer, a Kin, and five blasters. For everything else, we have the other defender sets.