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I really am not happy about having to burn through 2 earned respecs just to get one. It would be nice if they added rather than lose what you have.

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You're new as hell obviously. There is a difference between the free respecs and the earned respecs. Those are two seperate pools.

Will this debt wipe count as debt paid? I am trying to get my badge but don't want to have to die a few times over again just to get it, if I don't already pay off what I need by then.

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Does this mean that there will be a bigger development team working on COX or a smaller one? The presants are cool and all but are we losing anything in this deal?

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Everything Ex and LH have said lead me to believe that they're planning to expand the team. It looks like NCSoft is renewing it's commitment to this game, and planning to nurture it's further growth.

Edit: Plus, just look at NCsoft's job page, and how many programming openings they have at the Mountain View location. (CoX's new home) Definately a good sign, as far as I'm concerned.

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That is them either expanding the team or filling the positions of the people who do not want to move to NorCal?!?! Unless their current studio is already around that area...

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Full Access to City of Heroes and City of Villains®
All players with City of Heroes retail* accounts will now have access to City of Villains, and all City of Villains retail* accounts will now have access to City of Heroes. Players that didn't previously have access to "the other side" will find that they do now. Just log in to check it out!

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Evey thing sounds great but kinda feel a little shammed on this part since I paid for both games and now players who just paid for one will get both. IMO they should do something to also thank those who purchased the two games. Some ideas should include more Char slots per server for those who own both games. Just my two cents but over all, Keep up the great work!!

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How about free server transfers for those people who already have both games?

. . . .Can I have my money back for purchasing either CoH or CoV since you're in such a giving mood. . .

I think Fire Control's animations for Char and Cinders should make you say God Damn. Maybe they should add fire to it, or increase the smoke or give a lighter color of smoke.

My natural toons are amazingly born with their skills. And they're still human!!

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otherwise please tell me how you are helping out (pre-SO) and saving the team, or really the Anchor man taking down Infernal

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Froreon - Ice/Ice Domintator. . .on top of my attacks slowing my first job was to ensure my team had the edge over our opponents. I used AA and Shiver, as well as my Hold and AoE Immob to keep the mobs in Check. My second job was to keep my teammates safe and mesh with any other players that I could using my controls and damage. In order of priority I kept Corrs, MMs, Brutes safe through Control and my attacks like Ice Bolt, Ice Sword and Air Sup. I targetted holds through stalkers for the Critical.

Agallah - Fire/Fire Dominator. My primary job as a fire/fire was keeping my team safe and able to do their job. I used my st immob, st hold and hot feet to do it. I killed melee fighters from the squishy targets by using my immob and ranged attacks, with great supplemental damage and slows with hot feet. I was able to either control or eliminate the threats to my team through my control and damage. Which greatly improved as I got my AoE Disorient and AoE Hold.

Hibiru - Grav/Energy Dominator - I use my assault and control to take out the strongest targets. . ST Hold, ST Immob, Propel. . .Power Push. . .I protect my team using my control and damage in much of the same way but with knockback.

If you want more damage then load your tray up with Reds.

SO, you like other people are looking to do damage. You believe that if you are doing high damage or have a lot of numbers over the heads of your enemies you are pulling your weight. You like others want to "pull your weight" by doing High Damage, while on a Medium Damage AT. You obviously believe that if you are not doing a boatload of damage or defending the team with heals/debuffs then you are not contributing. All of this stuff is fine, but for you, like many other people. . Dominators are not for you.

Big Damage, Big Control, Big AoE, Big Heal, Big Debuff, Big Buff. . .

This is all showing that there is nothing wrong with the AT, This is showing what you and many other people equate with making a difference. Perhaps that Answer to the question "Do dominators suck like people say they do?" - Is actually NO . Except to people who have Bi-Chromatic vision where they only see in two colours. . . Orange and Green. Damage and Heals.

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I've been on teams and Ive run teams and pre-SO, its easy to notice that I am not pulling my weight ...and since I play them and have read guides on them I know they are not, its not just assumng since I've seen them from the inside out...

and that seems unfair on an AT that I need to team to reach 22

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There are plenty even people who do not post on the board that have different experience. We have so many that think there is something wrong with an AT because of their own shortcomings. . .and that really is not the case. And as far as pulling their weight or contributing to the team. . .what weight are you people not pulling? What are you people not contributing?

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I just don't understand the whole issue. A) Why they would make the Dominators so dependent on teams early (pre-SO) yet not really that helpful to teams pre-SO...haven't we already seen that with controllers pre containment?

B) Why the Devs didn't 'Smoke Test' the development of Dominators thru all three levels of play (Pre SO/SO/fighting AVs) so they didn't get this whole drama fest fixed before it rolled out of Beta smelling so badly

If you don't want to give them more control, you give them more damage.

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For A, I think that is your own personal experience, and does not reflect most of the people playing dominators.

For B, I do think that the problem is that people do not understand Medium damage and what they expect out of a medium damage AT. When it comes down to it, everyone's problem is with damage. The heart of the issue is not the control, it is not the assault secondary. It is the damage. If this was a high damage AT, we would not have as many complaints coming from people, xcept for their greedy and stupid [censored] saying that they thing they should have control just like a Controller. .

If the Devs do believe in the ease of use of the different ATs, I think they should show that some ATs are more difficult than others to use. But even then, many people are able to gauge what they are to xpect as the level progress.

Most of the drama that comes from this board, comes from morons. . lazy morons who couldn't dominate their way out of a wet paper bag. There are good people who earnestly seek help, and receive it from the good men of this board. But there are others who are obviously never going to learn how to play their toon well, or are never going to get the kinds of changes they want.

Demand is something that depends on the server itself and the people playing on it. For Pinnacle it appears to be that server where people who know each other play together the most, and if you do not know anyone then you are more than likely not getting picked. Almost all of my teaming on the hero and villain sides are from people i am used to playing with.

I don't think someone being offered a spot on a pick up group is something that defines the worth of an AT. Especially since everyone has the power to create their own team. . .when we have people dropping out of teams because a Dom is leading and that person that dropped does not feel that the Dominator is doing something, then we should talk. But for now, it is obvious people who search for players either go with what they know, who they know, and judge based on their prior experience with other PLAYERS.

What do you get when you throw in some intelligent and vocal players who really know how to play the game With people who are earnestly trying to learn the AT With some lazy incompetent noobs who try at every turn to down toe AT and it's fanbase to get the AT molded in their own image and likeness?

You get. . .the Dominator forum aka the Jungle. Cavemen, Monsters, Gods roam the land. Rednames fear the dense jungle and only the bravest of men dare walk in these parts.

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Just be adult and give some constructive criticism

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Man where the heck did you come from. Have you ever even posted anything positive or negative here.

The childish thing is to try to change or dream of changing things so that they conform to your own personal view of something should be. Especially when you did not have a hand in creating it.

There is plenty of pissing and moaning about what should be done to the AT that has something wrong with it because YOU cannot Dominate.

There are plenty of things we can change with the AT to make it easier for YOU.

High Hit Points. High Damage Tier instead of Medium. Higher BI. Access to High and Superior damage powers before Tier 7. Lets change Domination to Fury.

Sound like we also have many people saying "I don't know what Dominators need, but they need something" How about you as a Dominator. . .try figuring out W.T.H. you need to do personally.

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The bottom line is that Dom's still need help. No one can agree on what that might be or to what degree its necessary, but at least most of us seem to have accepted that there is am underlying problem.

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OK. . Lets see, we need to give Doms shields. . .mez protection. . .a brute's 100% fury bar damage with a pre I5 damage enhancement assault build. . . more hit points. . . .well we basically just want a Dom to be a Brute but with Holds and an array of ranged attacks. Yeah. . .that would fix them. Oh yeah. We all also want the 1st tier attack changed to an Extreme damage fast recharge attack with a minimal activation time just to be sure everyone can play em.

P.S. Magnitude 10 holds would be great btw.

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Why couldn't there have been an option for mez protection like controllers get, or a buff of some sort. Those are things that would really help round out alot of dominators.

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Devs still should have released Patrons for CoH and APPs and PPPs for CoV in I7. We should have gotten a Heal, Shield, Endurance Recov, Rain, Mez, or Extra Attack in our APPs, something that goes with our damn set.

That crap is one of the reasons why I am having problems leveling my 40. I wanted Frozen Armor so bad, Hoarfrost. . .Ice Storm. . .Frozen Fists. . .Icicles. . .whatever. I don't really have any reason to play em except to get to 50. And if they will be introducin some APPs soon I do not want to get to 50 without em. Plus i developed alt-itis because of having to wait for I7.

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Here are my 3 thoughts.

1 the patron power selection is weak. I would rather have mez protection and NO defense or resistance then a weak resistance toggle running. I would stay exactly as I am and have status protection then have any resistance for my toon. I dont see how this would be a balance issue if you make this swap.

2 why on earth give us another attack? we have an entire secondary with way better powers that dont cost 20 endo or recharge in 30 sec. I intent to skip them when taking my secondary.

3. why are we getting endo buffs when 2 secondaries already grant endo buffs, and domination gives an endo buff? If we cant work our endo woes with 1 or both of these you have a problem with the AT design. too little damage or too high endo cost.

Sorry but I am seriously dissapointed with the direction of the PPP. I will take the shield and maybe the endo recovery because the AT is soo goofy, but I can think of about a dozen alternatives to the ones given that I would delete high level heros for. I really hoped that the PPP would open a new door for the DOminators not dwarf them into oblivion by granting us the same damndable powers that the others get.

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That about sums it up. And really guys, the Patron Powers are fine, but they really screwed up by not offering us any alternative. . .we probably really should have gotten a shield or two, and self heal/buff/endurance recovery or two. They pretty much should have hooked every AT up with APPs or PPPs and not introduced this crap. Or hell, they should have introduced the APPs first. ..ESPECIALLY since we have Master P, saying that issue 8 will be in a nother few months. . perhaps 3 or 4. . .so hell, we would have the chance to have some APPs, and give them a chance to release them for heroes and villains at the same time with us being able to respec out of them at will, and perhaps not to another Patron, but to some APPs. . .perhaps we will have this option anyway, and the only thing you cannot switch is your patron.

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OK, finally got to level 32. Found one problem, one concern, one question, and one art critique.

The problem: If you apply the second upgrade while the first upgrade is still playing, the thug will "flicker" back and forth between the two models until dismissed. The only way to prevent this, someone was kind enough to tell me, is to wait until the 1st upgrade is done before applying the 2nd.

The concern: Is the rate of fire on MM/Thugs/Bruiser/Hurl right? Part of me hopes that it is, but for an attack with that much damage it seems to have an awfully high rate of fire. I can almost justify it, because when the Bruiser gets stuck in the pack (which he seems to do about half the time) he has that ranged attack to fall back on. On the other hand, wow is that a lot of ranged damage for what is basically a brute.

The question: Does the MM/Thugs/Enforcer/Assault buff include +Res(Confuse)? Why or why not?

The art critique: The fully upgraded Enforcer wears a necktie? And the fully upgraded Bruiser wears a pastel blue and purple batik disco shirt with a butterfly collar, open to the waist? That's not the kind of menacing thug I had in mind.


Oh, yeah, and one possibly unrelated question for the developers: Did you do something to the pet/minion AI regarding "follow" mode and Oranbegan portals? I just did a mission that was filthy with them, and not once did one of my thugs fail to follow me through the portal. Even on the one with a random destination, they all showed up where I was. That boggled my mind! If you fixed that, it should make it into the final patch notes before people use their freespec (assuming there will be one), because that's one of the big reasons why nearly all MMs take Pool/Teleport/Recall Friend.

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LOL@finally got to level 32 took you a couple of weeks when it takes others months.

You know that disco shirt and everything would be p[retty tight. . .they should give everyone big afros. LOL. I sure do wish you could customize ur henchmen's look.

Did you have a real Dominator on your team?

Man if I didnt already have a Rad Defender and Rad Corr on Pinn I would love to join that. . .damn. . just imagine. . .All the AM. . . RI, EF, LR, and hell, even CC would be good, slot it up for ACC and Hold Time, you would have infinite endurance and enemies that if they are not perma held then they are slowed to hell. . .I would hate to be the AV/Hero/PvP'er that has to deal with that team. . .damn. ..and with tactics and assault too. . lol. With tactics running and you guys forming a pattern like a star or a circle with a dot in the middle, anyone that tried to get within melee would probabaly end up held.

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Every AT thinks it is getting short shrift. 3/5 have to be wrong about that.

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It reminds me of the WoW boards--every damn class thinks that they're the worst. Shamans hate being shamans, hunters hate being hunters, mages....you get the point. I think it comes down to 2 basic things:
1. People take these game WAY TOO SERIOUSLY!
2. Everyone wants to feel like the underdog so that, if they do succeed, they can say "I got to 50 as a soloing Empahy/Psy Blast who only took Mental Blast and my only power pool is Leadership and I played with my nose because my hands got bitten off by ferrets."

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Yeah it seems that they are a bunch of nooblers, wanting the game to be easy on relentless. . lol. You see a lot of that crap on the Dominator boards.

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Either we choose the Patron route to Epic powers OR we choose the generic route (which I define as the choices Heroes have). Doable?

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Indeed . . I am beggining for Epic pools instead of patron.. .I don't want the mark of one of those noob generals on my toon. . .I would love an Ice epic. . .gimme the shield, hibernate, hoarfrost and ice storm plz. . .I beg!@@11!!

OMG, this is great bud. I was hoping I could find something like this the other day. I had a problem with dark colours. . .thank you so much!!111!!!