Lodestar_EU

Damn had my name on that

What no Clear Mind Spam buff?

I know there are plans and builds for this type already but I am wanting to start from scratch. Thos of you who read my thread a few days ago about how hard I find respecs will appreciate I need this advice as I have two characters to do. One a mid 30 which isnt so bad and the other Lodestar himself a MA/Regen at 50.

Its such a nightmare now I avoid even starting and quitting for another day. Sechs gave me a good build to look at but I wanted more opinion before I disect and rebuild that plan. Im going for a PvE/PvP hybrid as I want to PvP more with SG but I do like my PvE a great deal.

Any help would be appreciated as a few changes seem to have been made to moves I respeced out and so on. For example is thuder Kick a load of pish now? It seems to be. Also I am trying to keep Super Jump and Im toying with ditching hasten as it takes up room. Though I admit I really like it. And also while we are here I thought the best slots for attacks would be

3 damage/ 1 accuracy/1 reduce recharge/1 endurance reduction

or 3 dam/1acuu/2 end redux (hatsten helping with recharge when its up)

or since PvP drops base accuracy 3 dam/2accu and 1 end redux.

But Im just floating ideas here. Proof that I at least TRY

Ok so Im planning to respec my Empathy defender who has his Psi Blast as secondary.

Im ok with the emapthy really. Maybe a pointer or two. But my knowledge of Psi blast is very poor. For one being a dedicated Empath on my hands I havent delved into it much.

So anyone out there with a good knowledge post ED able to help me?

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Edit: The term scabby is expressing my disapointment at the blance of 6 regens to 2 SRs with no DA or Inv represented and is not to imply any disrespect to regens as a whole. But the rest of you scrappers who aren't regen............ Where were you??!

[/ QUOTE ]We also had only one MA, I really wonder why they are so rare in the EU while so popular (or at least were, not familiar with current situation) in the US...

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Sorry maybe I am asking a silly question with the hour being what it is. But did you say Martial Arts is rare? Or did you mean something else?

[/ QUOTE ]Yup, MA=Martial Arts. I've seen more of every other primary, even claws and BS.

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Wow. Its just that I have seen a few MAs and Lodestar is one. First power I picked as soon as I saw scrapper AT and jumped in. I changed my secondary at level 8 but Looks and MA stayed. Im quote supprised by that.

Just closing down and spotted the cake. Have a great day and stay away from work type stuff. Laziness rules

Happy Birthday Cynic.

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I prefer the Arena too, actually. I rarely step into PvP zones myself but they deserve more credit than 'kill X of Y in base' which is so routine for some people they can do them blind-folded.

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It's funny I find the arena deathly dull. I wouldn't bother with PvP at all if it wasn't for the zones. For people that want to match toon with toon team with team I've no objection to them moving wholesale to the arena, for an actual game I'm hoping I7 gives us more than we have now.

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I think we all do want a bit more to play around with. But since I4 and I5 have been so thin on bringing us new stuff and an urge to get us to PvP is not enough. I accpet what we have. Id like so much more but I cant see it happening. No where near the expecaions I once had. Ill give upwhen I feel Im no longer able to get anything out of this game.

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Edit: The term scabby is expressing my disapointment at the blance of 6 regens to 2 SRs with no DA or Inv represented and is not to imply any disrespect to regens as a whole. But the rest of you scrappers who aren't regen............ Where were you??!

[/ QUOTE ]We also had only one MA, I really wonder why they are so rare in the EU while so popular (or at least were, not familiar with current situation) in the US...

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Sorry maybe I am asking a silly question with the hour being what it is. But did you say Martial Arts is rare? Or did you mean something else?

Oh sorry. I had to do a tf on my empath and then needed to get some RL stuff done. Hope you all enjoyed it. I meant to send word I couldnt do it. Ill try be there for another one.

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PvP:

You kill me.

etc...

At lest PvE has a story and a sense of progress.

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PvE is-

You kill him
Kill next
Kill next
Kill next
So on, and so on, and so on.

There is more thought to PvP than you give it credit for, you need to be on your toes because the thing that you are fighting does not have the exact same routine as the million things you've kill before does. I like to be challenged, PvE doesn't provide that at all.

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Like I say each to their own. I dont feel that way about PvE and I know many who dont either. I guess this may be an interesting point to see where the dividing line is between those who bought the game for creative aspects and thise who got it to go for more mechanical side of things. Maybe a hypothesis to check if no one has anything better to do one given day.

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Thing is when you step into a PvP zone you don't have a clue what you're going to be fighting, whereas when you step into a 'defeat all Malta in base' mission, depending on Teamsize and difficulty you know exactly what you need to do and roughly what you're up against.

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I hear what you are saying. But I know when go in I actually know half the players and toons. This is no supprise at at all when you know x time a player is playing with their friends on their fave PvP toon. Even if I go in blind after 20 or 30 mins. I can find it rather petetative. Oddly enough organised things are more fun to me with regard to PvP.

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I said it before.To bring masses in PvP zones the solutions are simple and i am curious why the Devs not implement them.

Ranking System

Remove PvP rep cap

PvP character Slots that will remove the need for PvP builds
and will allow to create a PvP character on the go and simply enter straight away the PvP zone. Without the option to exit from it.

Special PvP rewards that do not interfere with PvE (ranked emotes,Ranked auras,Ranked animations,Ranked temp powers_

PvP in game Hall of Fame

Remove debt from pvp zones

Link the EU PvP zones to each other

Create an international PvP server where Korea,USA,Europe players battle it out giving the opportunity for worldwide CoH events

Solve asap major PvP issues such as toggle dropping

Allow Villains and Heroes teaming in warburg

Lower base item prices so that smaller SG's can participate in Base Raiding.

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Unlike most other people I think these things would make PvP far worse not better. A ranking system is a dreadful idea, Rep is already a bad mechanism, encouraging PvP specific builds and gearing the system to a few archetypes is a way to reduce PvP involvement with the playerbase not increase it.

What is needed is a way to encourage more casual players (and player teams) to get involved, I would like to see more RP SG teams come into the zones since a decent team of people who know each other is going to be effective regardless of build. Teams with a bit of character might make the experience much more entertaining, for whatever reason you don't see groups like this in zones, certainly not in Siren's which is a great place for villain vs hero conflict.

I'm tired of being one Dominator in a team of seven Stalkers Vs a bunch of ice/en blappers and a few scrappers. The whole 'pvp build' / character slot notion is bogus, most people don't have time to do something like that and wouldn't want to.

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I agree with much of this. Casual players need encouraging and we cant see it all from the point of thise who already PvP what they would like to see. They are already there and dont need to be enticed. Nor do they really know being of a pro PvP mindset just what not so avid PvPers want.

Please PvPers dont take this the wrong way.

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I've been there. Ice Armour may be FOTM at the moment, but when I took it back at the start of I3 everyone looked at me as if I was some kind of mental case.

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I like Ice armour. Ok its the weakest set and ha been broken since. But Not many people take it which makes me think its all the more special and its like turning up the diff. Plus I just like the sets look. I kinda regret deleteing my level 8 pre I5 knowing the next nerf bathces would spoil it. I know someday I will make him again if Im around long enough.

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It is a learning curve, but it makes the game better as a whole if people understand the other powersets better.

The other day I met a nice blaster who said "I dunno what other powers do, I just blast things till they stop twitching"

Now how much better would that char be in PvE and PvP if he understood what his teammates/enemies powers were and how they worked.

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And how much less fun might he have if it's not something he enjoys doing? People shouldn't be required to delve into the numbers and mechanics of the game just to have a functional PvP character, which they do as it stands (certain powersets excluded). Hell, even PvE is going that way with all the power nerfs and changes of recent issues.

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This is one of the things that puts me off. But if you read a thread 2 days ago that I started on respecs you know my take on such things. It is a bit too mechanical really. This is why I have a casual attitude to it. I will one day not the next.

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I know the powersets pretty well, but I'm still not a big fan of PvP. It's just dull really.

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This is something I hear a lot but never can understand.

How can people have a blast in the completely 100% predictable PvE part of this game and find the actual only challenging part of it - the PvP - boring?

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Because they beleive the opposite Jackahobo. I can see thir point. I will only PvP with friends or a prearranged thing. I tend to find PvP is as predictable as anything. Its too much like rock, paper, scissors. That power beats that power. Not neccessarily a bad thing. But PvP is far from unpredicatable. And PvE isnt as predictable in my experiance as perhaps has been in your view.

Boils down to personal pref really as Im sure you know so forgive my stating the obvious.

Well thanks alot for that guys. Was done in a speedy time. I even had chance to run my Season pass renewal in straight after.

Hey after reading your posts I finally met you on last weeks Hammi raid. So gratz to you and hope you enjoy 50 lifestyle.

3rd 50 for Zane. Well done keep it up. Ill have to team with you again sometime actually. Been too long.

I have focus chi whh is similar on 3 slot rec red. And with hasten its very nice.

Ill do it. Got a level 32 emapth/psi defender that needs this.

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The problem with the zones is that if they are full of people everyone wants to go. If you go in by chance and there is no one there you leave. I think they need to turn the zones into mini events that last an hour. Say at 20:00 everyone who has arena chat on gets a Dev message saying Zone event starting or something like that. Heros then fight villains for an hour teaming or solo it wouldnt matter. Then whoever gets the most kills in the hour period(heros or villains) gets an award. the award could last till the next mini event say an hour or two later. The award would need to be something worth while to get people taking part. you would also need to be in the zone for an hour without leaving and out of the safe zone for say 50mins of your time there. An idea for the award could be an increase in xp(not to much) till the next event starts.
I dont see this as a big advantage to people who like PvP as they would have to spend an hour in the zones in the 1st place getting little to no xp(and they might not even get an award if on the losing side) Just an idea of the top of my head im sure there is a lot better ideas for awards. When theres alot of people there the zones are great fun and i think this is a way to get alot of people there at once making it fun.

Sry if i got a bit of subject

Oh and the Three Lions SG will be useing the new PvP zone as long as there is someone to battle with

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Sorry but an increasing amount of people are remeoving Arena chat. I know some are popping uit back on. But I have had it disabled for months. Actually I only had it on for 2 or so moths then it went off. I dont know what its like on Union but on Defiant arena chat I have had more than enough bad experiances. And I seem to only ever hear of continuing chat abuse.

PvP in this game for me is a break not my primary aim. I dont think the PvP is that great to be honest. Its good fun as I said before but I cant ever conceive me doing it day in day out. Its better fun with firends and an SG but I know for a fact I would never go to the extent of making a PvP build toon like a few have.

So how will I7 change it? Well I do hope a nice high end PvP area will be a real winner. But as so many of you have said Sirens call always seems to be the favourite and you regular PvPers would know better than me. Id also have to say while some of my friends have been PvP converts and some to the extreme its an aspect of the game which doesnt seem to be taking off hugely.

I know as new players come they might like it. I even spoke to one player new to the game who was well up for it and good for him. But being new he could only qualify for Bloody Bay. And we cme back to that Sirens Call being populated more. It did seems to put him off a bit no one was there in BB much. Thought for bedtime maybe?

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Yeah, we're sorry
Someone forgot to put Tyl back on her leash this morning and she got to the medicine cabinet.
We all know you love her really

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Hey that was MY stash I was holding it fir the next PDP event. All my best drugs were in there ... oh er I mean. I know nothing about it. I just erm heard about it from... some skulls yeah thats it.

Well after all her hard work one of my longest stanind and best CoH friends got herself to 50 in the early hours this morning. Big gratz to the hippest illusion controller on defiant.

You really earned this so well done.

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Hey why don't we have one of these threads!

Ok, I got a heal/end redux I'd like to swap to resistance/end redux

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I started one ages ago dude. Oh well I have now two dam / ranges I dont use.

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Also because the last time we beat hammi, computers where made out of wood and we all lived in caves

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Nah. Hes just jealous coz no one bothered to use forum search and use HE'S thread

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Actually not quite correct. There was a thread about swapping salvage and I added in it we should have a HO exchange also as it was just after a hammi raid. So I didnt actually start one. I merely mentioned it and there were remarks of good idea but nothing was done about it. Not even me which is kinda lazy as it was my idea. Well better late than never. Well done to the OP And er pardon the inaccuracy of my earlier post I was generalising.