Magellen

Originally Posted by Magellen

I just thought I would throw my $.02 in after reading nearly all the pages of comments.
One....
me personally I think Trapdoor is a pretty tuff cookie.
But the funny thing is this for me;

My tankers (1: Fire/Fire/Pyre, 2: WP/Mace/Body Mastery, 3: WP/Super Strength/Body Mastery)
all had "some" trouble with him.
Beating on the clones when they came up and just trying to outlast him with the DPS and not being able to knock into the lava.

My "weak" toons; or atleast the ones I rarely ever solo'd with in the past 4 years;
(1: Earth/Emp/Stone Mastery Troller, 2: Ninjas/Storms/Electrical Mastery Mastermind, 3: Empathy/Dark Blasts/Dark Mastery Defender) ALL had no problems with Trapdoor to my surprise.

I have yet to try with my 1: Katana/Dark Armor/Body Mastery Scrapper, 2: Fire/Fire/Pyre Blaster, 3: Nrg/Nrg Blaster, or my 4: Elec/Elec/Mu Brute
I am trying to conjure up some strategy for them, LOL

Seems like the only "constant" I noticed was this:
If you can HOLD Trapdoor..... you will have an ez time with him LOL

Originally Posted by _Force_

@Patrick Magellen
Infinity & Freedom Servers!


I uh... wrong server bud.

Originally Posted by PSLAnimal

Because they needed a name for a special place, a dark place, a place containing all manner of unspeakable evil; a twisted shadow of a city, polluted, steeped in treachery and deceit...

...and "Detroit" was already taken.

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

If the devs decided to give everyone solid gold bricks the OP would be here complaining that they didn't give him a wheelbarrow to carry them in.

Originally Posted by Jade_Dragon

I'm guessing that a lot of the problem is that because respecs are so tedious to perform, most people either put them off or just don't ever do them. When a change comes along that essentially makes a respec imperative, they decide to make all the changes they've been putting off because they didn't want to do a respec.

I think it's a rather vocal minority myself. I don't really see as how I will be changing any of the ENHANCEMENTS in my build, just respec'ing, where necessary, to include a few additional powers I couldn't fit into the build before.

Originally Posted by Airhammer

I will not reslot ANY of my builds around the Alpha Slot. They will be used to shore up other areas of my builds.

Originally Posted by Mr_Mac

Originally Posted by stellar

Saw full page GR spread in superboy #1

Originally Posted by Obitus

How small CoH is in proportion to other NCSoft properties is almost irrelevant. What's pertinent is whether CoH is profitable. As long as it's profitable, it'll probably survive -- either at NCSoft or somewhere else. Businesses generally don't randomly shutdown profitable enterprises just because they're small.

$5 million is far from chicken feed, anyway. The fact that NCSoft's other properties dwarf that number is a good thing for CoH, unless of course those gross revenue numbers hide truly immense offsetting costs.

Which seems doubtful.

Seems CoH is holding its own in the recession. Always good to hear.

Originally Posted by Eisenzahn

This doesn't feel like Twilight fallout to me, but Dark Knight fallout. It feels like they're still not quite getting that B:tDK kicked *** because of an intelligent script that was true to the characters and generally masterfully constructed. All they see is "Man, that story was hella dark! Let's make everything else so dark, oh my crap! That'll rule! The kids'll eat it up!"

But they can't even do that right. I can think of about a dozen Superman Is Dark As Hell stories, for screen or print, that would work just fine. Most of them involve him being the single point of contrast to a world that's otherwise lost its mind. He does that magnificently - the straight man to an entire universe of lunatics.

Instead, we get handed this 20ish nitwit who needs someone to slap the Big Boys Don't Cry look off of his face and tell him to get a haircut! GET OFF MY LAWN, YOUNG WHINY HIPSTER SUPERMAN! YOU GO OFF AND LOSE A LEG IN VIETNAM AND THEN TELL ME HOW HARD YOUR MAGICAL LASERBEAM-EYES FLYING AROUND THE SUN LIFE IS! I WILL NOW DO MY SAM KINISON IMPERSONATION AT YOU, EMO SUPERMAN!

AHHH!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!

*cough, hack, wheeze*

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Ok, glad I got that out.

Originally Posted by Doctor Vivian

The best thing about Sets are Set Bonuses. While individually small, these bonuses add up to be truly significant when all your powers are properly and carefully Setted. The difference between a Fully-Setted toon and one stocked simply with all Common IOs can be seen and felt beyond the mere fact of "To Hit" or "Damage" bonuses being capped.

The Fully Setted toon will have a wide array of Recharge bonuses, Regen, Defense, Resistance, Accuracy, Mez Resist, Knockback Resist -- the list goes on and on -- not to mention the secondary attributes given to powers that normally don't have them -- like Knockdowns, Holds, extra Damage of different types and more. The add-up to all of this means your toon will fight harder without running out of END, give out more damage-per-second and be able to take more damage.

So before going down the Frankenslotting Route on all your powers (Frankenslotting being, in my opinion, only useful on certain powers, such as Health, where you would Frankenslot one Numina +Rec/+Regen, one Miracle +Rec, and one Regen Tissue +Reg, etc), be sure to consider your other options.

After all, prices in the post-merge market have plummeted, and so you could employ your 400 million to good effect.

However -- and I cannot stress this strongly enough -- you can very easily make mistakes. Many respecs later you may realize you wasted a lot of INF.

How to avoid this? Use an offline character and enhancement build planner, such as MIDS. Used properly and with a lot of careful thought and tweaking, you can make sure you get the most bonuses across all your sets before actually buying a single one -- not to mention make sure that your build's powers are taken in the order best suited to being Exemplared down for various Task Forces and Flashbacks, so that you'll still have everything you need at Level 15, 20 or 30.

You can download MIDS for free at: http://www.cohplanner.com/

With all that being said, you may also want to wait until the next Issue is released before diving in and making all your purchases, as in it, Fitness becomes an inherent power. But by all means, experiment with MIDS for now. It's a great resource in helping you to understand Sets and Set Bonuses.

Last but not least, remember that you don't get bonuses for IO's of any type that are of a Level that is higher than your Exemplared level. So, if you're in a Level 40 Zone or on a Task Force, Trial, Flashback, etc., all of your Level 50 IOs will not be giving you any Enhancement or Set Bonuses (Purple/Unique Sets are an exception to this, and they will still give their Set Bonuses).

This is why it is often better to get lower level IOs than 50 -- the difference in enhancement bonus of a Level 40 IO vs a Level 50 IO is not that great, and the Level 40 IO will keep on working in a wider range of scenarios.

-- Vivian

Originally Posted by ebon3

How's that saying go? "Numbers dont lie, but liars make the number"

Originally Posted by ebon3

How's that saying go? "Numbers dont lie, but liars make the number"

Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect

I actually was being realistic, it does not take that long to acquire Kinetic Combats with Hero merits. And Eradication and Scirocco's were actually pretty cheap last I looked.

Also, I kinda doubt the guy is a new player. A registry date of 2007 doesn't say "new player" to me. I was under the assumption that the OP at least has a working knowledge of how to go about acquiring things in this game. For a casual player right now, Hero merits are probably the most efficient way of getting the high dollar items. Use merits for the more expensive items, and you can buy the cheaper stuff with the 400 mil you have stashed.

I look at a stated budget as a starting point. It is highly unlikely that anyone is going to say "Well, I have 400 million here, I'll just build a character with that and never do anything that earns influence, merits, or recipe drops again." If he continues to play the character, he can work on the stuff he can't afford right now. That's how I IOed out every one of my characters that is, I just played them and gradually put together the build one set at a time.

I'm not trying to be rude in my response, but my post was a lot more realistic than you gave it credit for.