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Originally Posted by LSK

Between getting ready for my mothers funeral, and her funeral I got 2 toons out of the gold side and another one close to getting out. Plus on one I got 4 extra lvls from doing a posi.

Originally Posted by Nihilii

I've crunched the numbers and played extensively KM multiple times on either AT to 50, including mirror combos so I can have direct comparisons, as well as detailed my reasoning regarding damage buffs working comparatively worse on brutes than scrappers due to the way the AT itself work, having lower base damage + Fury rather than higher base damage, a thought that seems shared by most if not all knowledgeable folks, but hey, mister random person, I'm glad you can put everyone's concerns about KM's performance at rest with such rock solid arguments as "it does TONS of damage and can basically do alot of things that Invul/Stone/Willpower can do" (which seems like a self-defeating argument to me, as if you're arguing it can do a lot of things, as opposed to all the things, and hasn't anything extra, then it only follows that it is not as good).

I could also go on about /fire vs /mu, if going for AoE, or /soul, if going for ST + almost as good AoE + survivability, but it's late and I want to wrap up this run on rant by deploring once again the annoying trend for people to see everything in black and white and confuse relative statements with absolutes.

There is a best and there is a worst, that doesn't mean the worst is unplayable ; the worst active NBA player could probably make a fool out of anyone who's reading these forums at basketball.

Sure, you can dress it up by claiming everyone is a winner and is awesome, but who does that help?

Maybe the feelings of people who care about the performance of their characters, but then wouldn't we be more helpful to these players by giving them the correct information rather than sugarcoated affirments, assertions that are if you ask me quite condescending as really that's the kind of stuff you feed children, and I feel it's safe to assume the vast majority of people on the boards, especially those who are likely to visit the archetype forums, are at least teens and most likely grown men or women...

Then comes the second annoying trend, player compares himself with random people on PUGs, sees himself perform better, concludes powerset combo is better.

Holy logical leap Batman, have you stopped and considered that this game takes a bit of skill to play? As little as it might be to some people - again, people who treat everything as an absolute, which is especially silly when discussing skill in a MMO as there are, always, a significant amount of the playerbase who plays at a level that is, let's just say, far below what would be required to have any kind of enjoyable experience in most other video games ; as little as it might seem, the point is there is still much room in this game for personal skill to supplement build differences to a point, and comparing oneself to random players just doesn't make sense.

Just yesterday I've seen a blaster taking the alpha against Marauder and his cronies in a Lambda while all the brutes and tankers were sitting on their pancakes, twiddling their thumbs.

All melee powersets suck! Let's all reroll blasters!

Thankfully it doesn't work this way, and thankfully there is room for something beyond just picking up the power build and closing your eyes, although it can feel that way at times after hours, dozens of hours, hundreds of hours playing the game, which is the kind of time during which you could learn a whole new language or professional activity really, so it should come at no surprise that certain things that are not as obvious to more casual players become child's play for some.

Bottomline, you can push absolutely every combo in this game to do pretty cool stuff, far above what is actually required for regular play, but some will have an easier time at it, some will be faster, some will be able to push it even further.

Hiding that fact behind happy-go-lucky rhetoric doesn't seem to serve much purpose to me, sure there are people who consider anything but the absolute best to be broken and useless and might then try it, but most likely they'll find out at some point that particular combo isn't the thing it was hyped up to be and will end up feeling disappointed. So the lesson here is you can't change people, but you can rant at them and that makes you feel better for a little while, up until facebook and google finally manage to push for our real identity to be tied to our online personas all the time, and the angry masses come to your home and burn your house for daring to say that guys, it could be that, open parenthesis, two plus one point fifty, close parenthesis, times one point fifteen might just be bigger than, open parenthesis, two plus one point sixty plus one point twenty-five, close parenthesis, times zero point seventy-five, and no home means limited internet access, means the end of the world as we know it.

Originally Posted by CoyoteShaman

It's now 24min past the end of the scheduled maintenance for today and all the servers are showing UP in the server status window, but I'm still unable to log in. Is it just me? When attempting to I get the following error message:

The game client was unable to connect to the login server. This may be due to a local network issue such as a firewall block, or may be because the login server is down for maintenance. Please check your network settings and try again, or check http://www.cityofheroes.com/servers/index.html for current server status.

Note that since I'm posting this and seeing the server status I'm not having connection issues and since I was just playing last night I have no firewall problems. Is anyone else having this problem?

Thanks.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

It wasn't a joke

Originally Posted by Oakster

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images...faultline.jpg/

Here's hoping Imageshack works better for you, my friend.

Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man

T4 (and T5, for the Travel Pools that have it) Power Pool options will still require 2 previous powers from the set, but I think they may all unlock before level 20 now.

Afterburner, the only one I really played with while at Comic Con, required level 14 and 2 previous Flight selections. Now I just need to figure out what can be dropped for Afterburner, so I can add +20ish Max Fly Speed to my Scrapper... :3

Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison

Sing it with me!

We're Thorns, we're Thorns in tights.
We roam around Perez Park looking for fights.
We're Thorns, we're Thorns in tights.
We'll steal your body and kick out your soul, that's right!
We may look like sissies, but watch what you say or else we'll put out your lights!
We're Thorns, we're Thorns in tights,
Always on guard, reciting demonic rites.

[Dance number, chorus line style, complete with ghosts]

We're Thorns, MANLY Thorns, we're Thorns in tights. Yeah!
We roam around Perez Park looking for fights.
We're Thorns, we're Thorns in tights.
We'll steal your body and kick out your soul, that's right!
We may look like pansies, but don't get us wrong or else we'll put out your lights.
We're Thorns, we're Thorns in tights (tight tights),
Always on guard, reciting demonic rites.
When you need XP, just come find the Thorns in tights!

We're butch.

Originally Posted by BeastMan

You know Lisa, you seem to be bothered by this as much as I've been stewing about it. Yeah folks state that they don't have to offer double xp but also is the case we don't have to sub either.

Heck I just stopped my twin brother from re-subbing for six months each on two accounts. He's been gone for two years and I've went month to month on his accounts. I'm considering cancelling both of mine and just saying "thanks" and be done with. Whats $308 to this company?

Maybe this is a good enough reason for me to quit defending the game to my gaming buddies and admit defeat. Since talking them into trying out the game during the double xp event just blew up in my face.

Originally Posted by Flitz

To the people who took time off work just for the DXP weekend: get a life.
Levelling in CoH is already ridiculously easy and the end-game consists of grinding the same missions for iXP. Use your unexpected free time to go outside, take your significant other out for dinner, etc.

For those of us, including myself, who can now attend the DXP weekend. WOOOHOOO!!!!

Originally Posted by OminousVoice

Ha! All is not lost, at least in my case. I just noticed that the 11th falls on a thursday. I don't leave for my weekend away until the friday. I get a day of DXP!

Well, that's cheered me up a bit.

Originally Posted by Negate

I have an electric/ice dom as well...he's a bit painful during the lower levels but later on he shines. Team up as much as you can and hang out near arachnos bases so you can get as much xp as possible. Hang in there.

Originally Posted by Feycat

I'm confused... why don't you just team with her then? I've never had trouble soloing a Dom, but they work like gangbusters on a team, and there's people running scanners and tips at all hours usually.

Originally Posted by Taiyanna

The thing is that when they announce and then reschedule, they get a lot MORE people that can't join in- because they could only make it by rescheduling in the first place, and now they have no opportunity to schedule for it. It's not a case of "not everyone can make every time period", it's a case of "a whole bunch of people could make any time period, but suddenly can't because of the change". Of course there's a fuss. People went to specific effort to make it, and they can't do it again at the drop of a hat.

Originally Posted by MrHassenpheffer

...makes me kinda wish that double xp would have been a redeemable thing like tokens and such.

That way people could get their double xp at their leisure, even if issues arose that prevented double xp from being activated, they would still have the tokens.

Originally Posted by StarCrusader

Wow this is great, i took the weekend off and traded my working hours with a co-worker for the 28-31 xp fest....i have missed the previous two.....screwed again GIGANTIC sad face !!

Originally Posted by DJ_Shecky

The now I can't play group due to working on the weekends, do you work 24 hours a day? I doubt it, so use what time you don't have to work to play. side.

Originally Posted by Electric-Knight

Awww, Lisa, don't worry. Maybe you can do your prison time in a place that has mmorpg farming as the labor...

Okay, that was a tasteless joke in hopes of making you laugh.

Seriously though, I think the least Paragon Studios could do is to give you all notes to give to your employers, explaining why you need the weekend off!

Okay, seriously, seriously... I'm sorry some people got a bit screwed by this. All in all, it's not that bad (you've still got your... well, whatever you've got). That doesn't mean it doesn't stink and all, but it's just stink... it'll wash off.


Also, Lisa, I'm sure you'll be A-Okay with the jury thing, hehe. They probably never even noticed you didn't reply, haha. Call and it'll be fine.
Also... maybe they'll reschedule your jury duty for a special case during the new double xp weekend...


The good news is... I wasn't going to be around this weekend. So, everyone can just be happy for me, right? All I wanted to do was get some double prestige for my villain base so I could do some more designing!


I will say this... I thought that the initial announcement was a bit too short of notice for a double xp weekend. I mean, I don't really care, as the only thing I ever like about them is double prestige, but that's just me. Others seem to love double xp and I'd think a bit more notice would help them forge more of those doctor notes for excusing them out of work.

Originally Posted by Rockinghorse

YES!

Two band gigs this weekend and I wasn't going to be able to take advantage of DXP, but now I can!

/e happydance

Originally Posted by Xzero45

Eh. Double XP just ain't that big a deal anymore with all the ways the devs have made leveling so much easier.