LunarSai

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So what is exactly the problem with MA farming and PL?

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PLd players who have no idea how to play the game, resulting in a need to avoid PuGs, reducing the amount of spontaneous teaming on the server - which a EU server really cant afford.

Edit: If there is one thing that i miss from when i started the game it was that post-35 took a long time. You had no mission difficulty slider, no paper missions and frankly not enough missions to level to 50 if you only did your own. At the time i thought it was horrible, but what it did was increase teaming and ensure that people knew their toon inside out by 50.

This is my only problem with PL. I dont care what other players do until it affects me. Since i like to team and be social, at times i will be relying on another player to not suck.

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Since i rarely team with others unless it's for a Strike Force and there are alot of other players who do the same pl'ing my second account does not effect you and i'm not the only player who does that. Because maybe someones messaged me and i say so solo team they might think it effects them but i've always soloed always will . i do not agree with how some go about with needing a powerlevel mind you. if someone asks me to powerlevel them the answer is no and those who go about shouting farm simple solution mentioned ignore or generally rant in broadcast like i do. i rant only because it's becoming like spam otherwise i'm fine with the odd farm shout but not every 5 seconds

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Oh i forgot to mention only friends are allowed to join me farming

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Ok yes Energy Aura does seem broken, though if you pick Dark Melee it would do just as good as my Dark/Shield brute.

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Sorry to be picky, but as somebody with a shield brute i find that hard to believe. Shield Charge changes everything and i dont think energy can ever compensate for being able to pop +2s for 450 AOE damage without any fury...

Also, your DM/Shield should be doing insane amounts of damage given the +dmg aura and soul drain - how is energy gonna keep up with that?

Na, i think energy is definitely the gimp. Might roll one when servers go back up :P

[/ QUOTE ]I do not rely on shield charge with my Dark/Shield Brute i rely on Soul Drain. So a Dark/Energy Brute still has 3 Aoe's one being a cone and if you learn to move around arcing the mobs to get as many as possible in it's degree firing line you wouldnt need Shield Charge and the recharge of that is very quick

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But it's like any AT/powersets - there are no really bad ones, just people who can't play them well...

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Cheers without needing to say what powersets require purples you mentioned on of them

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Stone doesn't need purples. They help it, but it doesn't need them.

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For recharge purposes yes it does, and dont tell me people dont try and get as much recharge from purples to counter negative effects.

And allthough derailed i'm still on topic near enough everything i've spoken about all goes back to farming.
to get the negative recharge effects out of a Granite Farm
while i'm making that Dark/Energy Brute i'll be farming on my main account for my domi and lvling my Dark/Energy (effectively powerleveling myself)

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Thread is well derailed now, so I may as well:
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Changing Granite from toggle to a clicky is not going to break the game but encourage players to play Smarter staying in Granite isnt needed you nerf your own damage and recharge when in Granite(would also stop the need for Speed Boost would'nt it and the need for teleport power??). So without thinking of the positives you knock them back automatically thinking its completely negative, yet there a tons of players wanting granites or have them and dont want Teleport.

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Rooted tends to like teleport as well.

Without purples my granite (who never PL'd and has been kicking about for 3 years) has +40% recharge speed... before it's boosted with hasten. Swift and (if playing at 49/50) assault take the sting out of GAs run and damage debuffs.

Of course, they also mean that I've a decent dmg buff and recharge when out of GA as well...

It may be argued that stone tanks aren't as good as other tanks in many situations, but it's ridiculous to call them useless (as another poster did).

I picked a stoney after playing (In my 1st months in CoX) with a couple of excellent stone tanks, and I'm still convinced that they make great tanks. But it's like any AT/powersets - there are no really bad ones, just people who can't play them well...

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Cheers without needing to say what powersets require purples you mentioned on of them

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Now take Energy Aura. THAT, as numerous people have said, is broken. Its still vaguely playable, but the ammount of adaption and plugging required tilts it too far.

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Ok yes Energy Aura does seem broken, though if you pick Dark Melee it would do just as good as my Dark/Shield brute.Build it the same way the -to hit would start to make energy shine in ways you thought uninmaginable and the meager heal on energy plus Siphon Life and you've got a very good Brute. Ok now i'm gunna make one of those now. Now all i need is the servers back up.

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In a sense i kinda agree Granite shouldnt be a toggle it should be on par with other defensive sets and used once every 3-6 minutes draining the stone brute/tanker of all end and health as such a feat would hurt anyone .

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I have ten brutes and i rarely need to use tier 9 powers on them, Why use and waste tier 9 power when a single good luck can take its place (and save it for when you get swamped). Thats what i had in mind for granite you dont have to be in granite as a stone brute/tanker to be good but they just seem to keep it on , though i have only ever seen one person switching between the armors for the situation. oh wait thats just me

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So?
I've seen an Invul tanker with nothing but Resist Physical Damage and Invulnerability. At level 26.
Its NOTHING to do with the powers, its the players that play them.
Play smarter, dont break the game.

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Changing Granite from toggle to a clicky is not going to break the game but encourage players to play Smarter staying in Granite isnt needed you nerf your own damage and recharge when in Granite(would also stop the need for Speed Boost would'nt it and the need for teleport power??). So without thinking of the positives you knock them back automatically thinking its completely negative, yet there a tons of players wanting granites or have them and dont want Teleport.

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In a sense i kinda agree Granite shouldnt be a toggle it should be on par with other defensive sets and used once every 3-6 minutes draining the stone brute/tanker of all end and health as such a feat would hurt anyone .

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I have ten brutes and i rarely need to use tier 9 powers on them, Why use and waste tier 9 power when a single good luck can take its place (and save it for when you get swamped). Thats what i had in mind for granite you dont have to be in granite as a stone brute/tanker to be good but they just seem to keep it on , though i have only ever seen one person switching between the armors for the situation. oh wait thats just me

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Too much farming hang on how many of you have played mmorpgs since they were releashed . I know i have and Farming has been around since the start moaning about it is not going to stop it happening .We/they find a way and to be honest i hate doing something over and over .But thats the way these games are to get anything you want or need , for your characters you are going to have to farm yourself .Otherwise you wont obtain anything

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Obtain what? Shiny purples? And then what? Phat Lewt? And then what? For chrissakes if the attitude of 'I need to be on God Mode 24/7 - or else I can't play the game' is the real reason for farming then go play 'Barbie Race and Ride'. I hear there isn't the faintest possibility of failing that game...

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My dear your getting very tetchy as the years progress how about improving the rarely used powersets which i use to make them better and yes they do need purples .
Though that statement was for ALL MMORPG's and it remains true to this date

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when I see a granite tank

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You implying all granite tanks are from PL/farming?

[/ QUOTE ]No, I'm implying they're useless compared to other tanks in the majority of the game.

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As much as it pains me i have to agree with this stone armour is a badly thought out power set all the armours pre teir 9 pale in comparison to granite even the one that gives def to psy pales in comparison to granite because there are so few mobs that do purely psy damage that its far easier to run granite and just heal back any psy damage.

all stones pre granite armours need buffing and granite needs nerfing its sad but true

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In a sense i kinda agree Granite shouldnt be a toggle it should be on par with other defensive sets and used once every 3-6 minutes draining the stone brute/tanker of all end and health as such a feat would hurt anyone .

Too much farming hang on how many of you have played mmorpgs since they were releashed . I know i have and Farming has been around since the start moaning about it is not going to stop it happening .We/they find a way and to be honest i hate doing something over and over .But thats the way these games are to get anything you want or need , for your characters you are going to have to farm yourself .Otherwise you wont obtain anything . MMORPG's have been going for more than 12 years.

To address someones concern about overpriced salvage farming tickets is your answer you can obtain exactly what uncommon and rare slavage you need via MA and through luck obtain Common salvage cost's are as follows:-
Rare:- 540
Uncommon:- 80
Random Common :- 8
since MA was launched i've been farming MA to get tickets so i dont have to pay ridiculous prices on Black market
i change the mission content so it doesnt become monogomous.
So far i have fully slotted one toon with decent IO's and saved a something like 50-100m

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The only thing which comes from moaning about such trivial things is a game nerf and everyone will be affected .

Still on topic really . Hmm shiny whats that button do??

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Just do what I do when the servers are down - go eat some chocolate

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Finished the Chocolate then went on to bacon sandwhichs all gone now housework done and my pre work work finished nothing better to do now than wait wait wait

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Welcome to the forums Confuser!

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Confuser joined the forums in 2006 first post better late than never to welcome i guess i joined in 2005 and still have only 39 post's and that mainly due to big CoX up's

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Its all a nemesis plot

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They got clever and attacked the servers :O
We're all doomed!

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Not everything is a Nemesis plot, some things are a Golden Girl Plan

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And we think we have it bad. Imagine the servers going down at 10pm on a Friday night



Really NCSoft seem to adopted a "whatever suits us best" approach with little thought gone into how it affects non-US based accounts.

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But thats slightly different. thats a demographic of players choosing to play on a server in a foreign country that operates in different time zones.

we are a demongraphic of players that chose to play on servers which were operated in our time zone.

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Indeed. Except the MA server is cross-region. I really wouldn't like to see what happens to peoples in progress MA arcs if we could log on without the MA Server being active. At a guess I'd say it'd be "crossing the streams" bad.

It makes sense that if the MA server goes down so does the EU

It doesn't make sense that no-one from NCSoft (not even Techman) is capable of making a post saying "Oh the servers will be down today from 1pm BST"

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Ahhh but the market runs on a seperate server and is cross-server yet we were stil lable to have our seperate maintenance windows (when that wasnt involved)

presumuably, and its a big assumption, but to be cross-region MA must run on a similar seperate server to the market, you would hope it could be taken down for maintenance without affecting the main game.

But i think the point still stands that they should elect to have their maintenance window at a time suitable to players accross all regions if they have to affect everyone at once.

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Here's what we do rant at the scientist to make a second sunin a stationary orbit on the other side of Earth all places adopt one timezone generally GMT as thats the birth of time(i say that not because i live in this zone but it's only logical to adopt the zone where time was born)then for night time turn off the suns to save energy like you do with your house lights *chuckle* imagination is great

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i agree on that about wow.

also dc allowing you to model your character after the famous ones, how many superman are gonna be running round

servers still not up

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Superman allready running around in Atlas Park not to mention Doom has been spotted in Mercy Island nothing will deter me from CoX unless the lack of communication keeps up for another full year

We all know these things happen and on unexpected times no matter which timezone (once i experienced a whole day of no gaming due to 14 hour patch which was only meant to be 6 hours or was it 4). What is annoying everyone is the lack of communication the US boards didnt even get a notice even the maintenaince on Tuesday got a mention on the boards but was a bit late . I can't see the problem why Paragon Studios can't seem to communicate with us their customers before hand whats wrong even if it's an emergency someone is there at the office and it's like they cant be sugared to tell players . if they told me i wouldnt be moaning on the boards i would simply go oh ok it needs that i'll go do some housework or get some work done for my job earlier

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they used to mention on the forums well im sure Bridger /Rockjaw used to announce when server down time was gonna happen., maybe give us some notice.

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If it's being run from the US can we even be sure that GR is being told about downtime? ANd if my clockwatching is correct it's still pretty early in the US, so it's possible that Avatea (or any other community people with access to EU boards) may not be in work yet or may only just be being told...

It's bad that we're getting 30min ingame but it's not certain that it's GR/Avatea failing us on this score.

(And, IIRC, GR is leaving around the end of the month - so they may be trying to organise communications without relying on his role anymore)


EDIT: Also this may well be temporary - I14 launched too early and the MA service is very possibly being thrashed harder than the devs ever thought... so plenty of bugs/problems/improvements to make that probably need dev attendance - so are pretty much bound to US time.

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There really is no excuse for not informing us really not in work yet that bites the biscuit. I run my own company i have my own customers, if i ever did what these guys do to my customers i wouldnt be earning money .It's a fact of life customers want information can they give it out before sugar hits the fan for 2 years apparently not

Please Devs or Board Monitors do not wait to the last 30 minutes to let us your players who basically pay your wages go without information , i'm totally aware patches are required and fixes etc . But what get's me since i joined this game like over 3-4 years ago ,is the lack of communication which we diserve . I have to hunt for information why the maintenance is required what is being fixed and even when you give us information what has been fixed it's almost cryptic.

Yes we're playing your game and you have the right to do what you please but if you think logically for a second not telling us whats going on in advanced is only going to get us annoyed and potentially leave the game and then you will have to make cut backs and go through the circle again making more players leave. Just give us more advanced warning of whats going on and why ,and most of us will be happy

Not to mention this is our prime time and the usual excuse is always the same "Just incase something goes wrong the US dev's can be awake to fix it" not your exact words but close enoungh is starting to lose it's touch on me now

Firstly what secondry do you have Repair bots is either a waste depending on secondry power my bots mm has FF and medicine i find was a better choice to add in a self heal aswell

Well it's about time i opened the doors to the public , i think , yes you should. Let me start by introducing myself i am Lunar Sai top dog of this brand spanking new villainous group, well not totally brand new .

Omega Twilight is a themed villainous group who tend to operate in the twilight hours robbing banks and the usual stuff . Based on a fraternaty who have a disliking to normal people believing their superior , that said normal origin villains are most welcome to join our ranks as slaves, and techology origin their pretty normal in my books dont you think, yes i do think .

Our base is small but has everything a small villainous group would need from teleporters to torture chambers commonally known as medical facilities to normal's.

You do not have to be a full on roleplayer to join but a liking to the occassional banter is most definately a must, to contact me in game please contact me on @Lunar Sai or @Wild Sprout and i shall fill out the painful needed papperwork.

Currently in Progress:-
Recruiting
Web page
More coalitions(have one in progress)

well i don't know who you are but have fun on US servers but i would like to point out pvp is the same on any mmorpg and most servers full or quiet in defiants case depends on the population if they make events

I'm looking to start up my heroes but i have used up all my character slots on Union with villains. I am interested in seeking heroes on Defiant interested in trading their Influence for my Villain Infamy on Union . Thanks

Yeah i figured i need to make a new folder or alter Program Files date some hoe so i made new folder Game Files with correct date and presto no more Visual C++ fault , lol shortly after though i had a problem with my graphics card which i thought was wierd because it is geforce fx 5500 just a smidgen under cov recommended and above cox miniumum . its sorted now i found out was causing the graphics error in the end it was my drivers (i used this fancy Driver Detective which downloaded the most uptodate drivers which caused the error , had to uninstall them to get an old driver)

This appears to be the reason i just checked the parent folder to coh and it was created in 2099 nice gross error trying a manual fix as i dont fancy 9 hour downloading the game again for my partner