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I like the Keyes trial, but there are a few things that miff me. Dealing with those would be rather encouraging and I think would make the raid more popular:
~Reduce the number of gimmicks. I like the Obliteration Beam, so that's welcome to stay. Same with the computer/recharge bit. His debuff aura and/or Entanglement is probably the best nomination for getting cut. I'm not even sure what those are supposed to do precisely.
~Disintegration needs some sort of change. Right now, it seems entirely too easy for one or two bad players to completely screw the rest of the League over, generally by accident. Either (a)make the recharge on the power longer, (b)reduce the number of ticks, so there's one little "warning" one and one big one that's the main point, or (c)make it so stopping the Disintegration has a benefit to the fight.
~Fix the wonky badge requirements. Loves a Challenge has the "oh, and don't die" requirement that doesn't have anything to do with letting Anti-Matter heal (which is thematic and makes sense). Bunker Buster is like Synchronized, but many times more punishing. Either set it up so it only needs to be done once, or let the three times be spread over multiple trials. And either way award the damn badge when the objective is completed! Don't make it necessary to play all the way to the end to know if you got it or not. The other two badges are fine the way they are, but these two need to be fixed. -
Just started Elvis Has Not Left the Building by J.R. Rain not too long ago. For a mystery novel, there hasn't been much mysteryin' going on, but I like the premise and its written in a way that seems very natural, so it's entertaining me despite not really being the genre I thought it would be.
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Quote:It's amusing to think of Prometheus in that situation, though, at least.Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
All Dean said was that the person who gave him the letter was male. Since the letter writer is actively recruiting people (including Protean and Ajax) he (or she) clearly has minions he (or she) could ask to deliver a letter.
"Hmm, let's see, guy was definitely a man...something else struck me about him, though? Was he blue? Nah, nobody's blue. If there's one thing D-Mac knows, it's what colors people come in, and blue ain't one of 'em..." -
I'm gonna run counter to some and say that I like the recoil on the Beam Rifle. Sure it may not be realistic. But it's cool.
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I will note (sort of in response to your rather nice elaboration, Riptide), that the Letter Writer does really need to be someone we know and have met and interacted with, and not, to quote Tami Baker, "something boring, like, 'Oh, it was random person A who was the leader all along'. That would be very unfortunate." When you have a good mystery story, all your valid suspects need to be around before the mystery part begins.
Hence, why I like the Vanguard folks, am rather less keen on Prometheus (he's shown up before the reveal, but is way later than the actual letters started appearing), and, to be frank, think the idea of some Nemesis clone we don't know or a time-traveler from the future would both be sorta anti-climactic. -
Quote:Hmmm...more like this?Originally Posted by Golden Girl
The style of the writing is also very un-feminine - women don't write in that way
Quote:I warn you: do not openly question Ouroboros. That would be foolish. I simply ask that you search for more of my letters and seek me in the pillar. When the time is right, I will make myself known. 
You will either be at my side, tearing down the enclave or you will be buried under its ruins as it falls into the sea. The choice is yours.
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Quote:This is my favorite theory in terms of what I think would be the coolest reveal. However, I think it's much more likely it'll turn out to be Prometheus, buzzkill though that may be.Originally Posted by EvilGeko
I'm sticking with the Lady Grey and/or the Dark Watcher. Everything that has happened so far makes it appear that Vanguard is the group looking to fight ALL threats external to our world and dimension. I-21 shows that Vanguard is again going to be on the front lines against the Battalion, which is certainly the Coming Storm.
Finally, Serpent Drummers arc shows that the Lady Grey and Mender Silos may have had a long animosity in the old days.
The only thing that concerns me about Lady Grey is that Dean MacArthur's bit about the person being male. But I could see Dark Watcher or another agent handling that bit. -
I could go for this. I made a single-alt SG at one point, and gave it an appropriate name...but then I added several other characters on the same server, and now it's...less appropriate. I'd love to be able to change the name now, even if it costs me a bit.
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Quote:I had forgotten about that one. Plan was Power Mastery, for the delightful Build-Up, but this is worth considering.Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
However, I'll add that for APPs Electric Mastery has a quite nice single target immobilize (and a nice single target hold).
Thanks all for the tips and tricks. I ended up putting off Ignite for now, but, it sounds like it's definitely worth it on the right setup, so once I get a few more levels under my belt (especially with APPs coming in at 35 soon), I'll probably be adding both to my build. -
I had two main goals this weekend: get my Peacebringer from 45 to 50 so I could finally call it done and retire him, and get my rather sizable stable of lowbie alts all up to 22 for SOs. I didn't make either one, but I got pretty darn close. The PB's at 49 and some change, enough that doing a speed Lady Grey once it becomes the WTF this week should top it off, and there's only one alt still below 22, who should be easy enough to take the slower path over the next week or so.
Of course, every time double XP rolls around, there's always one surprise "winner", and this time, that was my AR/Sonic Corruptor...poor guy has been built, deleted, and rebuilt more times than I have fingers to count on since the very start of CoV, never making it past the early teens. Well, this time, he made it from that normal "no further" spot all the way up to 30! Finally safe and sound and just as fun as I always imagined he would get to be! -
I'm playing an AR/Sonic and trying to decide between Ignite and Beanbag. It seems like the former can dish out some pretty nice damage, but I'm not sure how practical given that it induces panic and there's nothing to keep enemies from scattering in my secondary (and I'm going heroside, so no real help from APPs, either).
How about on AVs? Will they scare out of the patch as well or will it be handier there? -
Quote:On the contrary, I just got an idea for a new character concept!Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
... Great, the eternal battle between good and evil is actually just a really elaborate version of The Truman Show. I'm going to have a hard time getting that image out of my head now. I hate you, Milkman Dan.
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I'm not planning to "re-roll" anyone. The only one in my stable that I have any eyes on for such is my Ice/Ice Dominator, who I'll be changing to a Stalker whenever they get Ice Melee. When i21 hits, I'll be cranking out several new characters, though. Currently planning:
~Beam Rifle/Devices Blaster
~Plant/Poison Controller
~Psi/Time Corruptor
Post i21, whenever the powersets hit, I'm also looking at:
~Street Justice/Electric Scrapper
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Quote:I think, and mind you, think is the operative word here, but I think that it's basically a situation where the well is...intelligent, but not really sentient. It has a goal, and it is able to take complex steps to reach that goal, but it can't really think critically about those steps, evaluate, or really learn from its mistakes. It's probably better to think of the Well less as a character and more as a force of nature.Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
So the Well's trying to play both ends against each other, then throwing Primal Earth into the mix, even as The Coming Storm approaches and the Battalion threatens to, I don't know, turn it into a jacuzzi? For a deus ex machina, the Well doesn't work particularly effectively or efficiently. Doesn't this strike anyone as an overcomplicated narrative, dramatically?
Moreover, since players are unable to affect the developments of these clumsily overlapping plots anyway, why would making them harder to justify be more interesting to observe from the sidelines?
In short, I don't think the Well's actions are really supposed to be very sensible, which is probably why Prometheus wants things done his way.
Of course, again, this is really just what sense I can make out of what is indeed not the most sensible of storylines. -
Quote:Presumably because Hami has the whole KILL ALL HUMANS thing going on, and the Well probably likes humans, given they have greater ambition, greater skill, and greater desire for power than, say, deer. It's a pretty good setup for the Well, though. It can keep re-making Hami into being just powerful enough to pose a threat, meaning Tyrant has to draw more power from it to counter that, allowing it augment and control Tyrant as much as it wants.Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
If the well wants a champion to fight the Battalion, and Hamidon is already an Incarnate, why doesn't the well just use the Devouring Earth as its champion? It's basically the entire biosphere, sentient, and pissed off.
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Quote:So far, trainer issues aside, they've done a pretty good job of keeping storylines potentially in-line with all the choices that can be made. Of course, that also means that potentially-dead characters (Cleo or Aria, for example) aren't likely to show up. It's probably safe to assume that while the Devs will simply acknowledge all the arcs as having happened, points where there may be contradiction will simply be dropped.Originally Posted by BrandX
That's actually why I wonder which story arcs in Praetoria the devs are going with. Having the choices is an awesome option, but in the end, you know only one story path (or combo of them of course...Katie rescued on this path, but Cleo died on this one instead of saved by this arc...ect...ect).
I do wonder slightly about characters like *Spoiler-name-omitted*, who would be alive regardless, though that wouldn't readily be known to all players who were there and saw him "die". -
Quote:Given that you can already deliver Vanessa to Mother Mayhem, and doing so doesn't disappear her, and that you can do similar to BV with Chimera, and that both are in the game as trainers rather than contacts...I'm guessing the disappearing contact tech doesn't actually work on them, though it'd be nice, mind you.Originally Posted by Zyphoid
They could remove Vanessa for the character who completed the UG, much in the same way Cleo is gone in Pretoria if you choose to kill her. If offered in feedback they may can do it before this issue goes live, I have no clue.
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Quote:As I understand it from the patch notes and whatnot, it actually removes the buffs, not just the visual effects. So, yeah, you can turn off Hasten, but doing it, y'know, turns off Hasten.Originally Posted by Angelxman81
How are we suppose to be able to do that?
I mean, for real? Will I be able to get hasten and turn off the fiery pom poms of dead? How? And even more important, can I do the same for fly, superjump or super speed? -
Quote:This, here. I like-a this.Originally Posted by Von Krieger
He doesn't have a problem with Masterminds getting Empathy and Defenders getting Pain Mastery now that they've blurred the lines between the sides.
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Quote:Hence the crack about their next meeting. If Tyrant manages to reinstate himself as the biggest bad on Praetorian Earth as a result of all this...well, that'll be much more satisfying.Originally Posted by SpyralPegacyon
Or perhaps he was aiming to lull Hami into complacency while building up for round 2?
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Well, it's not precisely what was expected, I'd say. It completely ruins Tyrant as a villain, though. After all that "he's a threat to the multiverse!" crap, and playing him up as a big guy who's apparently even more evil than Recluse and his ilk...he's just letting himself get pushed around by Hamidon? C'mon, Cole, you better have a decent twist coming. I damn well hope that the next time those two meet, Hami tries some more pushing, and Tyrant's all, like, "Neuron...go ahead and fire the sonic cannon now." And then Tyrant's back in business is villain numero uno again.
I realize that a lot of people don't like the prevalence of evil Coles scattered around the multiverse and whatnot, but I'll take "Tyrant" over "Hamidon's *****" any day. -
Finally got the store to appear, but when I tried buying the new powersets, it took my Monopoly money, but didn't actually unlock the sets.
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Quote:Check out Twilight Guardian, by CoH-favorite Troy Hickman. Four issue series, quite good. I believe it's gonna be out as a trade in another month or two.Originally Posted by Captain-Electric
Would make a cool comic book.
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Quote:I dunno, given how excited people seem to be getting about this...Originally Posted by RadDidIt
Surely you mean "peek." :P
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I suppose it'll depend on the costume of items. I freely admit I'm not in this to do much "testing", rather to browse, so to speak. As such, there's not a whole lot of reason to "buy" costume sets, since those can be tested in the creator anyway. I'll probably take a look at the new powersets (even Beam Gun) and anything else that just catches my eye as something that might be interesting.