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What about all of us Regens you've finally driven the nail through our hearts for uh.. What is it.. The 4-5th time? Please say you're going to make IH back into a toggle and not the bad clickie...

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Silly. Regeneration is the set that's going to get a tweak every issue.

Why? Because you'll just regenerate again and be good as new!

This is the balance vision!

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All these nerfs have made me evil... See CoV.

Excellent post Darth. My Regen, the toon I started out with in prerelease and played and played and played cause I loved him so much is basically retired now too. He hit 50 two summers ago and I was playing him up until I4 all the time. When I4 came about, I left CoH for about a month and half after the previous times I was on daily. I4 put a bad taste in my mouth.

Then came I5.... Let's just say I've never spent so much time yelling at people in messages as I have on here about so many of the nerfs. Being constantly lied to, over and over and being given lines of BS was just done in very bad taste. I think anyone can see the community pretty much has lost a lot of faith in the devs after I5.

I don't like being lied to. I don't like being treated like I have no idea what I'm talking about, and I definately don't like having someone tell me what is fun, and what isn't fun contrary to what I've said is fun for me and what is not fun for me. My SG pretty much has disappeared. We're talking about a bunch of 50s who said "enough is enough". Doesn't seem important to the devs that the long paying customers leave because they think they'll just attract more with freebie offers all the time. Maybe the devs just can't think of any good end game content for 50s, so they figure they might as well make us miserable so we leave so they don't have to create any.

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We didn't see any response to the Phase Shift change (which is now considered a worthless power).

Any responses to all the suggestions on the dev thread?

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I doubt it. Sorta like the ignored the thousands of Regen posts cause once again.. The players who play the game and use the powers have NO idea what fun is. We wouldn't know fun if we thought we were having fun. Only Statesman knows what fun is, and if he says something is not fun even when we think it is, it must not be fun so he'll tell us how to start having fun even if to us it seems like less fun. Makes sense, right?

What about all of us Regens you've finally driven the nail through our hearts for uh.. What is it.. The 4-5th time? Please say you're going to make IH back into a toggle and not the bad clickie... Otherwise, please rename Regen to Degen to make it more appropriate.

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We apologize for not having this out with the rest of the patch notes.

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This was first reported on July 17th on the test server, and there were continual denials from the devs from then until now that there was any change, not very confidence inspiring.

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We're continuously played for naive and clueless fools repeatedly it seems. Only thing we can feel good about all the nerfs at this point is that due to repeated lies and half truths we have enough "proof" to show that we the players are not the naive and clueless ones and have enough messages and past references in the forums to prove it how on top of things we are.. So sad.. Sigh... Wish the devs would stop treating us like 5 yrs old who have no clue what we're talking about... I'm wondering if the head guy at FEMA is trying to follow in the Devs footsteps or something..

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Now go back to your poorly spelt manifestos against the devs.

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No such word as spelt in the context you meant it, even it u were refering to a sub species of common wheat. Perhaps u meant spelled. Glad to have helped.

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http://dict.die.net/spelt/

Spelt \Spelt\,
imp. & p. p. of Spell. Spelled.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Spelt

A past tense and a past participle of spell

http://www.freesearch.co.uk/dictiona...8form+words%29
spell (FORM WORDS)
verb {I or T} spelled or UK AND AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH ALSO spelt, spelled or UK AND AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH ALSO spelt

http://wordwebonline.com/en/SPELL
Verb: spell (spelt, also spelled) spel
Derived forms: spelt, spells, spelling

http://www.allwords.com/word-spelling.html
spell1
verb spelt, spelled, spelling

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache...pelt&hl=en

There are fewer strong verbs and irregular verbs in modern English than there were in Old English. Slowly over time the number of irregular verbs is decreasing. The force of analogy tends to reduce the number of irregular verbs over time. This fact explains why irregular verbs tend to be the most commonly used ones, verbs that are more rarely heard are more likely to switch to being regular. For instance, a verb like ablate was once irregular but today ablated is the standard usage. Today irregular and standard forms often coexist, a sign that the irregular form may be on the wane. For instance, seeing spelled instead of spelt or strived instead of strove is common.


Getting the right answers, like data mining, can be more complicated than it appears.

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Obviously if we do searches a little longer we can get places that list spelt. I'm not old english though or from the UK, Australia, etc. So in the case of typing "u" as opposed to "you" and telling me I don't know how to spell when many people type it that way in informal online chat or msg boards... U get my point... Proper isn't always current, and current isn't always proper but accepted. So I'll spell however I feel is currently properly current. So u, 2, b, c00l, y0, etc forever! Taser always [censored] about spelling.. What trollers do to try to make u mad... But I'm not really the one complaining about spelling so I guess it makes him mad more to feel the need to correct me to make himself feel superior or something. If only I cared.

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There's a difference between having to datamine 18 months of data for a handful of badges that people can earn by redoing a TF and just making badges ACTIVE and ABLE TO BE EARNED instead of just sitting there in their bugged state. Maybe then, with the badges working correctly, more people would actually use the arena.

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Given the fact so many people did Shards TFs without badges and lousy souvies, and many people clearly just don't play in the Arena period cause they don't like it, I don't think badges for the Arena will encourage people to play in it more.

As for Datamining for 18 months... Shards hasn't been around for 18 months.. So that's a poor excuse to say they have to go back since day 1 of the game when that game content didn't even exist back then to have it be data mined. Considering those who did the Shards TF and got Souvies for it and also have to b a certain level to get into the Shards, this doesn't seem like some outrageous 18 month in the making request that will require as much effort as a year for a supposed small amount of players that are high level players considering the entire CoH community. This excuse sorta is in the lines of many of the other ones Statesman has comically shelled out the last few updates.

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Now go back to your poorly spelt manifestos against the devs.

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No such word as spelt in the context you meant it, even it u were refering to a sub species of common wheat. Perhaps u meant spelled. Glad to have helped.

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Positron, they aren't TF badges, but can you let us know when Arena Tournament badges will actually work? Are tournaments fixed in issue 5? Is this is priority?

Seems like it's been a while with only 1 new badge in an update (Issue 4 only had Kill Skuls).

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Arena tournament badges? HA. U gotta b kidding. I think they should work on gettin the badges for those that did the Shards TFs or other TFs. Never mind for half dozen or so people who play in the Arena...

Maybe if u guys weren't working so hard to nerf everyone and cause mass uproar only to brush it off with inconsistent bogus "vision" reasons, then u'd have time to data mine.... Grrr..

So u mean I have to do the Shards TFs AGAIN?!? Not only do some of them take like 6-8 hrs, but if all the regen nerfs go live, I will stand no chance against Ruludak because I'll be a melee blaster. Well. If we can't get datamined for badges, can we at LEAST have the Regen changes and Phase Shift changes NOT happen? Otherwise Statesman can keep his stupid badges.

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First point: all time playing an MMO is wasted time so let's throw out that idea. You were having fun, right? Because if you were spending hours doing something that wasn't fun of your own free will then you should be asking yourself some serious questions.


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Key words are "were having fun".

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You got to 10K. You had your moment of "Whoopie!". That's it. that's what you wanted, right?


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Actually, I could care less about killing 10K of monkeys. All I wanted was the Accolade boost that required that badge. Otherwise I definately would not have done it.
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Look, just put "I killed 10, 000 monkeys" in your sig file and we'll all go 'ooh' and 'awww' and ponder how wonderful a human being you are and think the appropriately good things about you.

That's what you want, right?


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No. What I want is for the devs to realize that people play this game to have fun. They put a lot of work(most) into making their toons and need to realize their are other ways to make the game still PvE like it was to begin with, then tryin to make everything switched over to PvP. In the process they neglect the identities that many toons have built up with their long time in the game and more or less [censored] them of their powers to become more PvPable when a majority of the people that play CoH has more or less ignored PvP. Sure, more will play it when CoV comes out, but then again it's a choice. Some will stay PvE for the most part. They need to stop doing this waffling things with uping and downing things in the game. Making the villains harder would have created more of a fun challenge for us other then having the challenge of having to figure out how to play our toons all over again.

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Same goes for Hami-Os. If you were farming Hami-Os and doing it while not enjoying it then I say 'shake your head' and if you did enjoy it then nothing can take those memories away from you. Check pace and carry on.

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Hami-Os were what there was to do due to the lack of 50 content. Many of us did it to pass the time in hopes that new content would come out for the highers to be challenged in. Not the same content rehashed.

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Why? I would, as an empath/rad defender, go to Monkey Island or Crey's Folly when I had 5 or 10 spare minutes, waiting for people, that sort of thing. I got up to 90%, then an earth/storm troller friend of mine finished up the last 10% in a big herd. But I was never, NEVER forced to herd them. They set the level, we have the choice of putting the effort in for it. I've spent hours, upon hours, getting rid of all the fog of war in all the maps. Even FBZ, or as much as is possible. Still have the other 3 shard zones to go. Should I 'demand' something that recoginzes 'all the time and effort' I've put into that task as well?

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You're missing the point. I already wasted enough time on 10K monkeys and got the badge for now what will be 1K monkeys to get the badge. I mean I could whine and say "what about my badge for 10K of monkeys!?" but with the way the game has been "progressing" if some would even call it that. It's of no surprise and really not a "priority whine" as opposed to some of the other things that have gone on since I3 with the game that I've spent much more time on and in a sense "wasted" time on for them being nerfed or completely altered in the game that they really should be called something else all together or removed from the game.

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First, there's now a raid or two a week still on Virtue. Server took him down yesterday, in fact. Not twice daily, but a lot of newer folk are getting up to 50 and enjoying the Hive for the first time. Don't know how it is on your server, but you may want to qualify your "Hive is a dead zon[sic]" blanket statement to at least reflect just your personal server.


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Given the amount of times we did Hami on Justice, daily, nevermind weekly, it is more or less a dead zone now. Yes, people still "bother" to go into the Hive and do raids, but not many people care to at this point because the reward is no longer worth the risk and even more so the time spent doing a raid.

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No, it's a fix for those after the changes so that they can still spend in theory about the same about of time and effort to get this badge.

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No No. What I'm sayin is those of us that have had to take out 10K of monkeys getting something is fine, but now that's it's been reduced to 1K, 9K of our effort in time was wasted. It would be nice to recognize the time and effort spent b4 nerfs. Like with all the Hami-Os that were nerfed and all the hours people spent on getting them. The Hive is now a dead zone.

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Since the number of monkeys has been reduced on test, will there be epic defeat badges?

So, those that have the 10K for Zookeeper would have 2 badges (1K and 10K)


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There was talk of adding one... but it would be beyond reason for anyone to attain the 10,000 Monkey badge at this point. The reason the badge was lowered in the first place was to compensate for the increased difficulty in getting to 10,000.

If we made a 10,000 badge now, we'd have the same problem all over again.

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Ahh. So this is a sorta nerf in a way for those who spent countless hours on the monkeys to achieve something, only to have wasted all that time in the end. Like so many did with Hamidon and Hami-Os. Bangs head against wall.

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Just a quick note since this is a hot topic. Regarding the issue of Earth Thorn Casters stacking multiple Quicksands (and such).
Without getting into details, ALL CoT Thorn Casters have been reworked. The amount of control powers these minions have will be severely reduced or outright removed. Expect other related changes with all Thorn Casters.

This change will come in Expansion 5.

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I bet the Thorn Casters will get pissed you're nerfing them too. Nerfs for everyone!!!

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If you were so happy with the state of the game, why did you solicit feedback in the first place?

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Since the devs don't seem to pay any attention to thousands of messages with negative feedback about ongoing nerfs, one can only wonder why they would ask. How they could continue nerfing everything when they get all this negative feedback, on top of the simple FACT hardly anyone uses the Arena anyway... One can only wonder. Maybe the devs have Guildwars and CoH teams mixing up feedback or something.

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Why atleast they get new powers. There is nothing for Scrappers or tanker. I love the way they have been left out in the cold.
Later,

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Us Scrappers got a lot of updates in I4. Look at all the nerfs we got. I guess we should be falsey pleased with all of them. All hail Devs. We bring sacrifices to you as poor peasant worshippers. NOOOOOT!

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The most balanced AT in te game right now is the Defender. Since Controller and Blasters share there powers already they are the only ones safe to get new powers.

If they gave new stuff to you Scrappers they would have to nerf them when they finaly nail down where tey want you guy. It wuld be easier to just make new power sets once they hit the sweet spot.

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That sweet spot supposedly happens in each update with each new nerf. Devs got a sweet tooth I think.

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Why atleast they get new powers. There is nothing for Scrappers or tanker. I love the way they have been left out in the cold.
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Us Scrappers got a lot of updates in I4. Look at all the nerfs we got. I guess we should be falsey pleased with all of them. All hail Devs. We bring sacrifices to you as poor peasant worshippers. NOOOOOT!

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Croatoa. It’s a name that conjures up images both mysterious and fantastical. In Issue 5, be prepared to enter a new enchanted realm of supernatural danger, where myth becomes reality and ancient legends walk the earth. Croatoa is a place steeped in old magic, ruled and contested by witches, Red Caps, Fir Bolgs and the Tuatha de Dannan. Any hero who faces these creatures in the wooded depths of Croatoa will know the true meaning behind the title, “Forest of Dread.”

For complete details on what Issue 5 will bring to City of Heroes, including a new Croatoa Task Force, new power sets, mission customization, new zone events and much more, please visit our Issue 5 Preview Page.

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I see no mention of the new temporary power Un-Nerf Bat. Where is it?!?!

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Greetings all,

I just wanted to take a minute to let you all know that your voices are being heard.

We wanted to start the re-launch of the comic with a bang. Mark, Jack and I came up with the no mediport plotline together. We didn't force it on him and he didn't force it on us. Rest assured that the heroes will come through this test unified and changed. Issue #3 will end this arc. In Issue #4 Troy Hickman (of Common Grounds fame) will be telling a more classic super-team story. Starting in Issue #7 Dan Jurgens will write a story-arc that features the Back Alley Brawler as the main character. It will also introduce an upcoming gameplay feature.

We plan on showing a lot of different sides of Paragon City and the characters in it. Some of it will be dark, some of it less so, just like the stories we tell in the game.

As always, thanks for your interest and passion.

~M

PS More about Statesman's origin will be found...you know the rest!

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I think it's interesting how in the comic the heroes are nerfed as they are in the game now. Hopefully when they get their powers back in the comic, we get them back in the game.

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We will not be changing the recharge times for any powers because of the changes to the Hamidon Enhancements; those recharge times are still where we want them to be right now. We might giving out more respecs in the future, though I can’t make any definitive comment on that. And Hamidon Enhancements will eventually be combinable.



Just wanted to clear some things up. Sorry – I was gone for the weekend and didn’t have time to hit the boards before now.

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God no! Please don't make them combineable. Just make them be 53s. The idea that since I have nothing else to work towards in the game with my 50 toons having only to do Hami Raids to +, nevermind ++ the Hami-Os I have which I can't choose the drops. Do you know how long it took to even slot with single Hami-Os?!?! Pleeaaaase! Make all the ones we have now and further drops be 53s so we don't all lose our minds. You've already knocked them down from 50% to 33%, just don't throw all our hard work away and make them 53 drops and switch over the ones we have now that are slotted at 50 to 53s. Pleaaaaase! I beg you!

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Synapse is not dead, he is still in the game and will be around to take a beating in the comic too.

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See! This is what is supposed to happen to blasters, but not scrappers because of nerfs! :-)

Or you could join Beyond Justice. :-)

SG Name: Beyond Justice (formerly Lethal Protectors)
SG Leaders: (Leaders)Imbalmer, KidQwik (Captains) Benediction, White Magic
SG Website (if any): (in the works)
SG Recruiters: Imbalmer, Coffin Feeder, Ungodly Hunger, KidQwik, Kheldian Kid, Teeny Weenie, Benediction, Doom Squid, White Magic
Teamspeak/Ventrillo Server: Teamspeak every so often
SG Peak Hours: Seems mostly evening hours but some of us are on at at various parts of the day.

Other Info:
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We started off as Lethal Protectors but made far too many people Leaders and couldn't clean house when we needed to because people didn't log in like a year because of their unkickable leader status. We started again from scratch and formed Beyond Justice with our active members. Most of us have numerous alts of various levels so we can team up with most of our members and be on level for even the lower ones. We plan Task Forces on occasion when everyone is within level range of them and do missions together. All in all we're a group with a good sense of humor and like to joke around while we play. We're looking for more members who will be play often and like to help each other out and have a good time. If interested, send a tell/email to any of the above names.

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FYI - I'm a HUGE kaiju fan (giant monsters).

I collect all the figs, the theatrical posters, etc.

I've got Godzillas from the past two movies all around my office. And a Godzilla: Final Wars mousepad (theatre only).

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I think what you should add is villains that swoop down and abduct heroes or people. Then other heroes have to try to save these heroes or people in the air or at some secret hideout. It would be a nice sorta added mission to some story arcs. I mean, sorta like an ambush, but they basically stun u, grab you, and take off with you. Other heroes could actually try to chase the abductor's carrying you away and then if they don't save you in air, they have to get into the hideout and break you out of some cage, etc. Just an idea.