KingSnake

99% of all player made content is just so BAD it's, IMO of course, hardly worth counting. The generl masses of people are NOT creative enough to pull it off, that's why we all aren't writers and game designers. (i enclude myself most promonently in the, not creative catogary.)

It got drove into the ground because it was a bad idea. having to go through poorly scripted (I know, god knows i'm the last person alive to pick on spelling and gramer, but some of that stuff makes ME look like an english teacher...LOL) unfunny, unengaging, just generally unfun stories, hords and hords of them, to find the small handfull of really really godo ones just was never appealing to ME. And others i'd wager, so they used it instead for powerleveling and thus, the feasico that was AE has been brough to a compleation. Now, since PLing outside the AE building is easer and much more rewarding, and AE has to stand on it's own merits as a story telling device, so far as i can tell, it's dead in that place... even after the guest story archs they published.

that to me, is just more proof they dev's royally wasted there time on that project. But, that's ok. It's out of the way now and i hope the dev's focus on stuff the majority of gamers want, instead of pet projects.

as for the original suggestion, for much the same reasons everyone else has said, i don't like it. Easy mode to 50, then switch into the epic classes, and trick them out? I think not. Not to mention it's a fairly rare thing, as far as i can tell, for comic book heros to fundomently change there powers, in the long term. Alot will have a story or two showing them gaining different powers for a time, but in the long run, they always go back to there original powers. To me, it'd be emersion breaking to constently see people jumping between powersets. *shrug*

That's my 2 cents on it.

Flooring a mobs recharge speed is powerful midigation. But i'm pretty sure a few progs and quills won't get there, so i wouldn't bother. I'd rather up the damage and just kill the mob faster.

But if you ever want to see the power of epic slowing in action, go find a good Ice/Storm controller. Its a sight to behold.

Lost my BullMastiff about 2 years ago to bone cancer. He was 9. Not bad, i've been told for a 160 Lb Bull. *shrug* I felt very similarly when it came time to put him down... not wanting to wait to long so that he suffered, yet, not wanting to go too eairly if he still had some good days ahead.

Right after i wondered if i waited a day or 2 longer then i should have... It's never an easy dessission.

My condolences on your alls losses. I understand the pain.

I find, so far, on my new Spine/Elec that stuff dies so darn fast with my opening alpha strike that enhancing the slow would be pointless. Only things left standing are bosses and they don't run, ususally. And even if they did, i can keep up. lol.

Sides, to make quills really really shine, you want to max the damage and acc, and have some good endurance reduction in there, and that, will take most if not all your slots.

Not worth it IMO.

Over the Dbl Xp weekend, I hit 31 on my lvl 50 hero/villian tally. 21 heros and 10 villians. If they upped the level to 60... I'd prolly become crippled with indecession and unable to level anyone.

That's not to say i'm AGAINST it... but... eh. I have no idea where i'd start...

Heh. Teleport over here in CoH land SUCKS. (IMO of course) I have binds. I use binds. I can make teleport WORK and HAVE, out of shear stuberness. (it was a concept build with concept powers.) But it's a pain to use in mission for travel, or for short distince hoping around the world map for kill missions... basically if your not traveling a long distince in a stright line... teleport is prolly the LEAST effective travel power. (again, IMO)

Unlike in champions... where it is a godly travelpower of pure awsome and win... >.> come on devs... make ours work that way... PLEASE!!

Anyways, teleport rant aside. Besides TP, all the other Travel powers are pretty nice. Fly has an epic, hero feel, has the best manuverablity, but is slow.

Speed is the fastest(besides teleport, in long distinces race in a stright line that is. Plop buildings in the way, or make it a short distince, and superspeed is as fast, or mabye faster. also, have to take lag into account... it really can hinder tp..) but has no vertial movement. Not a big deal now a days with safeguard jet and jump packs.

Jumping skirts the middle of the two. Good to great vertial movement, and fast. IMO, the best over all travel in the game. whenever my concept doesn't call for a specific travel, i go with superjump UNLESS i'm short on powerpools and need hasten. at which point it's superspeed.

Prolly alot easer to softcap your energy d then ranged. *shrug*

I deal with them by kicking there @$$ first and moving on to the rest of the mob. I haven't had an overly hard time with them that i can remember, GRANTED, it's also been a while since i've ran malt missions on my lvl 50 tanks, because, i mainly TF on them and there are no malta TF's that i'm aware of. Do they show up in the shard tf's? I forget...

If your WP is build like mine, you should have 30 something defence to energy right? (34ish IIRC with weave/CJ/steadfast) a small purple should near soft cap yah. and that should be easy enough to scroung up before jumping into a group with a sapper in it.

Well, I've got both an Invlun/SS and a WP/BA tank. My only 2 tanks as a matter of fact. (at 50, that is. got a baby Fire/Dark just into SO's.)

I'd say defensively, they are about equal... if not slightly slanted in willpowers favor. Willpower, has no defensive hole to fill, like invlun does in Psy. Willpower also has near endless endurance, so adding tough/weave is no problem. (and you SHOULD add tough/weave.) Capping HP is pretty easy IMO, and very helpful. 9.5 times out of 10 i just jump into mobs without fear. And only a few AV's give me pause. (mainly STF AV's.)

Invlun, is tougher against S/L enemies, and alittle weaker against all other damage types. It'll take some slotting to get it's endurance under control, especially if you train tough/weave, which you SHOULD. You can soft cap defenses, with some work, and once you do, it's prolly the second toughest tank in the game, save granite. My invlun isn't softcapped YET. (i keep making plans to, but tank pretty well as is... so i'm saving my money for my alts) I jump into most mobs without fear, i'd say 8 out of 10. Groups with extream energy damage, like the crystal spawns in the ITF, can give me problems some times, and a few more av's are worrysomewith an invlun.. anyone with good psy damage, ect.

So defensively, it's a toss up. Will power may be alittle stronger, but not overly so. To ME, the deciding factor is argo control. and Invlun, wins that hands down. I have a heck of a time keeping argo on my WP/BA. (argo as in spawn argo. AV argo is easy to keep with any tank.) Rise to the challenge is a joke argo aura, so you have to rely completely on taunt, meaning you HAVE to train it, and aoe attacks/gauntlet. Invlun's argo aura works MUCH better. You'll have an easer time keeping argo on an invlun.

So the question is, how importent is group argo control to you? Most teams are compitent enough to stay alive with you holding MOST of the argo, not all of it. If most is good enough, (and usually it is) then a willpower is slightly tougher and easer to use. But if you want to hold ALL the argo, you won't do that with a willpower. So you'd need an invlun.

Either way, GL to you and your tanking advanture!

i'm talking about the Gazillion Deal, which if i understand correctly, puts the marvel MMO back on the table. *shrug* At least that's what i've heard.

What i got from the artical is, CoH is getting old, and ncsoft needs to start planing a sequal NOW if they want it ready in a few years, like the end of 2011 into 2012, when city will really be showing it age and up against some STIFF compatation.

And i agree. When this game is up agains DC online, Marvel online(maybe), and Champions (maybe, if it's still around) being the old dog on the block with dated graphics and a (more then likely) dwindleing comunity, then is not the time to start planing a sequeal. it's to late. do it now.

thats my take on the artical. and man of man, did reading about Asheron Call bring back a FLOOD of found memories... i had ALOT of fun in that old game.

Good. I haven't been around much the last 2 to 3 months. I could have easily missed an announcment of some kind. *shrug*

Good to know.

It WAS? Or it IS? Did they change it on us? I'd be kind of annoyed if they did...

Wasn't having the 60 month badge the tier ONE requirment, and the preorder 3, with the new loyalty badges being 2?

More lvl 50 stuff would be nice, but in all honestly, i'd like some new content in the lower levels too. Mid levels as well... ok ok, just a bunch of new content to make leveling new heros/villians even more appealing. WIth the new exemping/sking system in game, you add new content ANYWHERE in the game, and it's new content of all really. You get xp. you get extra powers. Sking and exemping is easy. It's all good.

And besides new content i want new powersets. and i mean NEW. not just plofiliration, which i want too. (i want it all darn it!!)

New content, new powers. That'd make me a happy gamer.

SR is also much easier and cheaper to softcap IME then Ninja, and once you hit the soft cap, the self heal IMO is more a luxigery then a nessissity. All i pack in my inspreation trays on my 2 softcapped SR's (scrapper/brute. stalker in the works.) are greens...

I have a nin stalker, and he's NOT softcapped because... i couldn't do it and keep the powers i wanted slotted the way i want them. I endded up with.. i think 36 or 38 active defence, in combat. Between that much defence, and a good selfheal, it plays really well for me, and i split the difference in my inspreation trays between greens and purples. A small purple softcapps him. So, if the going gets rough, i eat a green/purp and, well, the going gets easy. lol

And that, IMO, is why you should leave each set alone. They both proform very well, just differently. Why make SR a nin clone when there's a good chance Nin is going to be ported to scrapper in the near to distent future? I'd rather have the verity of choices myself.

Slotting def IOs in hide incresses that 1.88 correct? Like, 2 IO's will incresse it to like, 2.4 or something IIRC. That extra def can come in handy when your trying to soft cap.