MasTa_X

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I get concerned because the more farming goes on the less teams there are for "ordinary players" and a vicious circle will form (maybe has formed) that would be very hard to break.

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Well said. This is exactly the problem that the game faces.

Farming has always been around, and even if MA was completely removed from the game, farming would still continue as it used to.

As I've said before, apart from getting blind invites to PI farm teams in the past, I had no real issue with farmers. If they want to farm then let them get on with it.

The problem isn't the farming aspect. It's the hyper levelling and specifically the ease that it can be done with MA now.

When that becomes the normal thing to do, this is where the longevity of the game starts to get into real trouble.

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I have now been playing this game for 51months and farming has been going on as far back as i can remember. One of the first chars to be nerfed to hell the old Fire / Fire Tanker; which now is as end heavy as a sledge hammer and as strong as a glass slipper. Youre saying people will find it hard to find teams due to all the farming going on, Well i dont know about Union as i dont go on there but on Defiant its dead and has been for a long time. PvP on Defiant dead, now like a ghost town, and the amount of people i see screaming for farm teams on there is unreal.

The vicious circle you face is if you stop farming as you have all tried to do for years and eventualy succeed; then get ready for even more people to leave this game. As from the majority i see on the server farming is what makes them happy and makes them pay their subscription each month. Take their fun away from them and you loose their custom and you loose an even bigger chance of finding a team as there is no bugger left on the servers.

What i suggest is you get new contacts to do new story arcs to do and some new powersets in the game. Make the game more enjoyable as for me after 51months i cant face Frostfire or any of the others im sick to the back teeth of them. Get the Devs to get PvP back into action sort out the Market and the prices of IO sets. For a normal person who plays the game say 2hours a night for him to save up 300Million for 1 of the new PvP IOs would probably take him 2 months; to buy the whole set would take him 6 month thats a real insentive for a new player to game not to farm. How else are they supposed to get that sort of money to buy their IOs playing the normal Arcs. Salvage 1 fortune (white) going for 300k lmao, you cant just say no more farming without sorting out the other aspects of the game that are just so stupid.

Sort all the basics out first and farming will take care of itself in dying out as there would be no need for it and wouldnt be a temptation for new players if there is a real chance of them getting to 50 and IO setting out there chars that wont cost them 2Billion +.

You should'nt be moaning at the farmers, their doing what they love to make the game fun for themselves. NOT everyone loves doing the same old story arc's. You should divert youre chritism at the Dev's and make them get some fresh blood in the story lines and get PvP back they are their to give the game a breath of life so all new players are not tempted to farm.

OR you can just ban farming and watch people leave in droves again and then try and find a team thats the vicious circle you face nothing more.

THE COURT REST's

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very well said, i totally agree.

Good idea, i'm all for it, bring zone pvp back

Get Tough and Weave as soon as possible, i got a 50 Warmace/Shields brute(Fully IO Slotted tho), but with Weave you should be ok.

maybe get Combat Jumping also if its needed, it should buff your defense by almost by 10% (3 slotted Weave for Defense) bringing your total Defense to 34% ( combined with the SHield Defense Armors)

Hi, Anyone know if Mids is still around and working on Designer for i14?

Hi,
Maybe this should have gone in player questions i'm not sure,
but why can't we save/store more Enhancements/IO's in our tray after a respec?. we can only keep 10 or 12 Enhancements/IO's.

i got several toons with good/expensive Sets slotted and if i wanna get em out and use em on another toon, i have to respec several times to get em all out.

so back to my question, why cant we store/keep more Enhancements/IO's after a respec or just the ability to get em out without a respec

Hi, i came on this idea a while back.

How about a Training/Practise Test Room, where we can test our powers/build or whatever needed testing.

in that room should be some NPC's where we can test our powers/build on, the npc's could be something like in the CoH Tutorial( you get to use a power on some drone's)
I would really like such a feature.

and maybe in future expand that feature so you can go in that room with a buddy/mate and fight eachother, without losing Health or the Health will regen after a few seconds.
i mean something like you see in StreetFigther games the Practise mode, can bash on your enemy without killiing them(Regen kicks in after a few seconds when hit)

Edit: this is for live server not testserver.
Edit2: could even make mini game(s) of this, see how much damage output someone can do or take( get my point?)
what you all think?

I like that idea, but what i also wanted to add is something about certain sets missing Attribute's

For example: the End Mod sets, they do not have Endurance Reduction in them, i noticed when i was doing a build for my Elec blaster, could slot em in the Elec AoE's (Ball Lighting, Short Circuit, etc etc), but if i would slot em in those powers, then these powers will have zero(0) Endurance Reduction in it and they use lots of end.

I would love to see Ice Armor and Ice Melee for Brute's, 2 great sets.
Now Ice Armor i see no problem porting it to Brute's except for Chilling EMbrace's slow effect( Change the Slow into -Resistance or keep as is, but remove the -Recharge of it).

Now with Ice Melee, what if they change all the -Recharge into -Slow or -Resistance(SOmething whats frozen will break quicker, theme wise).
that way Brute''s can get Ice Melee to.

Saying that Ice is only for tankers specific i find that nonsense, look at Corrupters we had Thermal and Cold Domination, that where specific Corrupters only powers, but then they ported it over to Defenders and Controllers.
Dominators had Plant Control for their AT, but then ported over to Controllers also, and there a few more example's but get my point.

Please give us Brute's Ice Armor and Melee.

And YES to Katana Brute's or Broadsword , hence we even have Dual Blades, so no reason to not give us BS or Katana :P

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Remove Conserve Power from Electric Armor. Replace it with a new power that increases Regeneration based on how much Endurance the character has - the more endurance, the better the regeneration*. Swap this power to tier 8 and Power Sink to tier 7.

Remove Conserve Power from Energy Aura. Replace it with a taunt aura toggle that increases Resistance to all but Psionic for each enemy in the radius - first enemy grants the highest bonus*. Give the set more Toxic resistance and Endurance Drain resistance to match Force Fields.

Add Conserve Power to Mu Mastery as a 5th power option for Brutes.

Port both powersets over to Tankers and Scrappers.


*(Ideas adapted from those of other people, not taking credit)

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I like this idea, Elec Armor needs it, and my EA brute would be happy to

Hi, i got a question about Knockback IO Sets.
I noticed on Mids Hero Designer, that Knockback IO Set's do not increase Knockup/Knockdown effects, is this a Mids bug or working as intended(ingame) ?

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Frozen Aura from the Blasters Ice Manipulation power set, does it do damage like the Tanker version(Ice Melee) ?

Yeah i would like to know this to it seems to use lots of endurence and has the most resisted dmg type(lethal), and powers seem on longer recharge than Warmace.
the end and recharge could be fixed with slotting, just the damage seems low.

Any specific reason its not higher damage?

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They will give up funplay because they are doing it to improve another part of the game, character development, which they will actually use for funplay. See?

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Actually, not really. Does it actually improve the game having a more powerful character?. Cant see it myself. All cotent can be done on an average one. Character development? I cant see anything behind that.

Is a more powerful character more fun? Funnily enough, I find it marginally more dull.

Im not knocking farming here, im just trying to understand something I cannot empathise with.

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i do not agree here, having played SO/IO'd Characters(lvl 50's), and playing those characters fully slotted with Set IO's, there is a major difference( atleast on my builds), it also depends what you investing in, are you going for +Defense stats, +Recharge, +Regen or whatever +.., it makes a big difference, i would for no gold go back to playing my Characters with just normal IO's after i saw what a fully slotted with sets can do.
i have much more fun with me SHields/ice tanker, WM/Shields ,FIre/Wp brute , the difference is imense

Greetz Sha

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Prices -do- drop during the night, often significantly; I suspect it has something to do with the whole US-EU market sharing thing.

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Are you sure of this EU/US Sharing the market?.

cuase i been looking at some specific IO sets somewhile back, and on my home server( Defiant ) they where very expensive, then i hoped over to Union and i noticed the prices where way lower on there( both done with Villians and Hero's).

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Theres a mission (35 - 40) which has JUST PP inside them, part of the revenant project iirc? Can be accessed via ouroboros.

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I can not find the mission in the list, nothing like revenant project.
you sure its named like that ?, i would luv to do that mission

Ah i totally forgot to mention what side lol, villians in my case.

Thanks all i will go try the Fab in grandville or the ouroboros one

lo, i wanted to know where is the best spot to hunt Crey Paragon Protectors(bosses)? , i need em for the Badge(kill 200 PP).
someone told me on Monster Island but i cant find any there, only Rikti's in that zone

Hi, i wanted to know if there is any Freakshow Contact on CoV( Level 50 missions) ?
I miss doing freakshow missions, and the newspaper will not give me any Freakshow Missions, no matter how many times i zone to reset the paper.

So anyone know a Contact that gives Freakshow missions?

I was able to run CoV on Xandros OS and Suse , with Transgaming/Cedega/Wine software, but thats been a while back now(atleast 1,5 year)
and i was able to play it quite good, except for some font issues, i guess by this time they fixed that.

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If you spent a lot of time getting to level 50 then surely a little bit more of a grind wouldnt be gamebreaking. If anything IOs are a lot easier because you dont need to spend ages at once getting all 6 slots in one go, you can get them one at a time whilst your doing the PvE stuff.

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a little bit??, have you ever calculated what it cost/takes to fully purple out a toon with sets.
iguess not and if you do then explain to me how to get those sets/inf without grinding endless hours?
is there some illigal store or what, as i dont get the little bit part .

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i´ve rolled about 25 brutes and not liked anyone so i was wondering if someone had any experience with em/sr or db/sr?

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what do you not like about it?, the damage/resistance ?
i myself luv brutes , once fury is up and you use BU and ya heavy hitter attacks, you almost half health a purple boss(depends on melee set also)
on a note: Duel Blade is more a AoE beast, i myself not like the single target dmg of it(could be the Lethal dmg also), but with EM you should kill bosses real fast
Brute's FTW

I must agree with Hammerfall , tho i like IO set's its something to work to and have a awesome character for pve or pvp.
Just the thing is like Hammerfall said, its grind grind grind for the cost of what good IO sets(rare's, purple's) cost, becuase lets be honest not everyone has around 1500 mil(if not more)to maximize 1 toon, to afford these Sets, thats just stupid, and those how have no problem with these prices seriosly have no life other than Grinding endless hours to get the infamy/inf/drops.(55+ mil for 1 bloody IO, [censored] ?), i will have to hire chineese farmers if i ever want more than 1 toon maximized with sets, and i dont think that is what the devs want or is it ?.
IMO i think they market should have a cap for max price or make those good sets drop more often from pools.

How it stands now, only thing that keeps me in this game is the few mate's i met here and playing with them, but with this "grinding" i might be better off to play other games/mmo's, if i have to grind then i better do it on a diff game that i didt explore yet.

Thats my 2 cents
Greetz Sha

Gratz, welldone

I was wondering, Why are there are no Resistance Debuff, Damage Debuff, Recharge Debuff Enhancements ?
(and Recharge Increase Inspirations)

ey mate
Welcome back, longtime no see :P