Lord Mayhem

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They get thermal though, which has just as good -regen as rad.

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Oh yeah, I completely forgot about Heat Exhaustion - maybe because it's new on controllers, or more likely because it's tucked after all those shields/heals so my brain doesn't register Thermal as a debuff set (which is where my interest lies when picking corr/troller/mm secondaries).

That's probably also the reason a dedicated AV-killer build would still want /rad instead - the illu pets don't need the shields/heals so /rad's extra debuffs would be far more useful.

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I can't think of any zero damage immobilises (or stuns, for that matter).


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Ahh yes. I should have thought of web grenade, seeing as I have it on one of my characters. Tbh I must have been in a daft mood because there's an AE immobilise that does no damage that I've got on one of my L50s and could have taken on another - the Black Scorpion patron power Web Envelope.

Any idea if any of those break Mass Hypnosis? (Or any sleep for that matter). I figure it's probably just damage that wakes mobs from sleep/fear, but I'm not positive if anything else is flagged to do it as well.

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You say it would be in keeping with comic books...but I'm having a hard time thinking of a character who has changed that significantly.

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Off the top of my head I can only think of Ms Marvel (pre-Binary, Binary, post-Binary) - I'm sure there are several more, but I'm somewhat wary of giving any ammunition to the OP to support his suggestion

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Also, I couldn't give a [censored] about the community.

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Well that's nice then - I'm sure a lot of the community would be happy to return the sentiment

The US forums have a lot more trolls and whiners too - is that the reason you find them more interesting?

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Surely, Broadway?

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No clue. I do recall someone saying that Synapse is quite "theatrical", but I think they meant it as a euphemism...

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Just to verify, CoH do plays in Mexico City right?

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I don't think the game puts on theatrical productions in any cities.

22 months (admittedly with a break in the middle - damn, if I'd kept my sub going I'd have my 33 month vet reward now ) and in terms of in-game content I've never done:

- Captain Mako's patron arc - will start this sometime this week
- Indigo or Crimson's story arcs
- Sunstorm's arcs - never played a Peacebringer
- any of the Freedom Phalanx TFs, except Positron - it probably put me off doing the others
- Statesman TF - keep meaning to, but never see teams for it at weekend
- Moonfire or Katie Hannon TFs - no, really
- any of the 4 Shadow Shard TFs
- Mender Silos TF - hope to do it this weekend (if not LGTFing or ITFing)
- Twilight's Son TF
- Sewer or Eden Trials
- Terra Volta respec trial
- several GMs - never defeated Caleb redside and most blueside GMs
- a Hamidon raid

Wow it looks like a lot listed like that - I better get moving. Admittedly most of those can be blamed on the fact I spend most of my time redside.

In terms of powersets, there are loads I've never played (plenty more I've never played to max level), and from my sig its obvious I haven't even taken half of the ATs in both games to L50 yet (but working on the rest ).

Still I'd rather have lots yet to experience than nothing.

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I don't want to merge.

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I don't want forums to merge either, or the EU community WELL BE GONE TO THE AMERICANS!!!!!!!

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if they could, don't you think they would already have it implanted?

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If you mean "implemented" then you could say that for any new feature, like inventions before I9.

Pretty much anything is possible - it's just a matter of time, money, priorities and having devs actually capable of doing it - when the devs say no to something it's pretty much because it would require either a major code rewrite (cost too much, take too long, create too many bugs), or they don't consider it a priority over other things that are easier/faster to do or that would have an impact on a greater number of subscribers.

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Acually, I believe Castle said something like:
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Could we do it: yes

Would we do it: Never

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Yeah I seem to recall him saying that.

Oh, and hallelujah to that too!

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Actually, at least two MM powersets could be derived from other existing sets, though it would NOT be as trivial as simple "proliferation". But the concepts are here, as well as pet designs: illusions and elementals. I could add something about "primal forces" too, with gravitic, storm and dark pets.

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Using controller/dominator pets as the basis for an MM pet would probably take the same amount of work as just using any of the NPCs in the game (such as behemoths, or carnies, or whatever) - the Devs would still have to write/copy the AI code, create the upgrades and create/copy the pet powers, create the other powers in the set, and then balance it all. A new MM pet set would involve a lot more work than just borrowing graphics/animations from existing stuff.

I just want backpacks - they're taking a heck of a time to get put into the game to say they have less animation issues than wings and crab spider backpacks, the jet exhaust graphics for flight-packs already exist on rocket boots, and graphics for several backpacks already exist in the game (Sky Raider flight/raptor & TP packs, Goldbricker packs, Zero-G pack, GvE jump pack, Jingle Jet).

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ok plz tell everyone what youd most like to see on COH or COV plz dont say less mean ppl or anything wot may hurt anyone elses feeling in the end we all have some thing in common and thats COH or COV ty look forward to ur replies

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less mean ppl

Wot?

Seriously, and in proper English , the main things I want are more of the same: more powersets, more archetypes, more story arcs, more new zones, more TFs, more costume pieces, and more dynamic content (akin to the Rikti zone raids, fires in Steel canyon, etc. - I want to see banks being robbed (or able to be robbed) in outdoor zones at the very least). More variety and more things to do, basically.

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This is overpowered and no longer relevant to the games of today.

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Source/proof for this?

(btw you being pwned by a controller/dominator will not suffice as proof)

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but the idea of "Bowling" as a power set could be interesting

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Hmm bowling as a superhero power - you know, that just might work!

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But what form of bowling? Personally I prefer carpet bowls or crown green bowling both of which I'm actually quite good at.

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I guess you'd have to wait for power customisation to be able to change what kind of ball you bowled and how you throw/bowl it - cricket ball, carpet bowls, crown green bowls, a baseball to please our counterparts across the pond, and a steel boule for our friends on Vigilance

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Hmm with sleep hold and fear sleep does seem to be the overriding animation.

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I assume the sleep is applied last, otherwise applying the other controls would probably break it IF they count as aggro-causing effects/attacks (mainly if they have a damage component). You could just be seeing the graphical effect from the last control applied.

I know my Mind/ dom can confuse a slept enemy without waking them up, because the confuse doesn't cause aggro or damage, but Terrify would wake them up because it does damage. Similarly my /Dark MM can drop a Tar Patch or Darkest Night on a feared spawn without "waking" them, because they don't do damage either, but his cone immobilise wakes them up as it does damage.

Admittedly what I've never tried is dropping a no-damage hold on a slept mob, as my Mind/ dom doesn't have his AE hold - I don't know if it would break the sleep. Then again, unless the hold is shorter duration than the sleep (in which case why would you bother unless as insurance against waking with an AE?), it would never be an issue - and I can't think of any zero damage immobilises (or stuns, for that matter).

I know the confuses and mass sleep from Mind/ don't cause aggro anyway, in any situation (even when they wear off, the spawn won't aggro, if that is all you used on them), because they're tagged for being zero aggro - whereas other no-damage debuffs/controls WILL aggro an unengaged spawn (like all the above-mentioned /dark ones and the cone sleep from plant/).

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Wow, there sure seems to be a lot of power combinations that solo AVs easily! I must be making the wrong choices...some of my toons have trouble with EBs... :-(

Do you need to IO your toons out to take on AVs? Use a lot of Temp powers like Shivans? Any tips would be appreciated.

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I was certainly under the impression that the OP just wanted to know good soloing combinations, i.e. that would be fast/efficient/survivable and wouldn't run into any missions they couldn't ever do on any difficulty. I thought it was common knowledge that Ill/Rad is pretty much the only choice blueside if you want to solo AVs reliably (some other combos can do it with certain AVs with varying success).

To solo AVs you really need -regen debuffing (hence /rad, because trollers don't get /dark or /poison or /cold or /traps, and /kin's -regen is fairly minor albeit spammable), something to absorb the punishment and hold the AV's attention (illu/'s phantom army) and some decent damage on top (/rad's -res debuffing helps, and the damage from illu/ and EPPs). I mean sure, a granite tanker can probably weather AV damage unsupported, but even with /EM I doubt they could outpace the crazy regen on most AVs, even if they were IO'd up to the hilt (I may be wrong - I have no plans to ever play a granite, let alone purple one up).

If you struggle with EBs solo, Ghostwind, then sure a shivan can help, but I rarely use them solo - overloading with insps can be a bigger help - that gets some of my characters through specific EB fights they would otherwise struggle with - usually a few purple Lucks is enough to keep my character safe, but with my stalkers/blasters I might go for red insps instead (kill them before they kill me). Depends on the character, the EB, and the strengths/weaknesses of both.

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Yeah. The holodisplay. Pretty in a control room, but pointless against an Advanced Database. Go figure.

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Yeah that holodisplay looks cool - I stuck one of those in our villain base purely because of the way it looks. The stats on it are pretty rubbish though (par for the course with most of the aux control items you can make, tbh).

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Other than selecting which power to replace with AS (out of Frost, Freezing Touch or Frozen Aura) I don't see Ice Melee needing any more work to convert than BS. Stalkers can have holds and sleeps now, since they no longer give crits.

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It was more the presence of two PBAEs that I was thinking of - I can't see the Devs letting both Ice Patch and Frozen Aura make it onto Stalkers - though both Lightning Rod and Thunder Strike made it onto Elec/ stalkers so I guess anything is possible.

Frost is very short ranged, despite being a cone, so I see no problems with that. Freezing Touch is probably ok as well - other stalker sets have single-target mag3 controls (Touch of Fear, Total Focus), though admittedly the 1sec cast time might make it "too good" in the hands of a stalker.

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I'm suffering a lot of pain from a badly twisted knee. I'm allowed to be pernickety!

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What do you need knees for when you can float?

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i find it irritating in a bank robery, i try to target the cops but all the damned civies get in the way, why can we target them anyway? we cant actUally hurt them! ><

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Yeah that is annoying - and it only happens in mayhems, not in safeguards.

The Devs could perhaps change it so we can't target civilians, but I'd prefer it if they let us attack and "defeat" civilians instead - just make civilians a "1-hit-wonder" like Sally in Croatoa

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but the idea of "Bowling" as a power set could be interesting

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Hmm bowling as a superhero power - you know, that just might work!

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It's not a very long task force, and it's co-op, 35+, and excellent fun.

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I have to echo this - it's probably my fave TF in the game now.

I've done the ITF at least once per weekend since I12 - sometimes with non-optimal teams (my fire/fire brute played main tank on one - that's how non-optimal we were!) and once with a team of 6 instead of the full 8 - and it has almost always taken between 1hr 45mins to 2hrs to complete - that's without rushing or taking shortcuts. True, one attempt did drag on to around 2hrs 15mins iirc, but that's still shorter than my quickest LGTF was (2hrs 30mins without shortcuts).

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Technically, he doesn't count as you can only encounter him during the task force. Besides, Issue 10 came out July 24th, 2007. I would say 1 month shy of a year qualifies as "Quite some time".

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Technically you're being pernickety

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It also buggers up their 3 issues a year thing too!

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New staff hires or not, I can't see any way they're going to be able to stick to that this year (whether they count it on a calendar year or 12-month period basis) - so I'd consider that totally buggered up anyway

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I use repel.

Knockback protection IO = 15,000,000 plus.

Four slots of Kinetic Crash give a mag 3 knockback resistance, the above mentioned IO only gives four. What is more it can be fun in the right situation and never needs to be switched on for the knockback protection. What is more all four slots can be filled for less than a million.

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Yeah, but I can put a KBprot IO into CJ or any other def power at a cost of only one slot (and the only other things I tend to stick in CJ are Kismet:ToHit and/or occasionally UnbLeap:+Stealth, so its not like I'll notice the lack of that slot towards % boosts) - your way uses an extra power pick (something a lot of people wouldn't take) and 3 extra slots, which can be very hard to find on some builds.

Besides if you're patient you can get a KBprot IO for 6-7million - I've got two at that price-point in the last two weeks, and 3-4 in the month before that for under 10mill, and that was all redside - blueside must be cheaper (or at least easier to get bargains with the extra trading traffic).