Memphis_Bill

Obviously you don't.

/releasepets is NOT the same as dismiss. As MULTIPLE people have told you.

How about dropping the attitude and trying it yourself? Everyone who's told you this USES it and KNOWS it from experience. The UI even behaves somewhat differently, as do the pets, as I explained earlier.

Either that or you can keep your panties in a twist and keep ignoring the workaround people who DO know better are giving you.

Edit:

Now, if they were the SAME command, you'd expect them to behave the same way, yes? Same animation and everything?

Watch this. Done with a bots mastermind because the difference is VERY obvious.

Er... wait.

So, I get my SG-small-team together, little core of (say) 4 people that work well together and can pretty much rocket anyone else through whatever. We decide to do this trial thing.

We then get randomly rearranged if the league leader feels like it?

Is the league leader going to be able to *boot* people from individual teams (or from the league/trial overall?) Or is that specific power being held for the team leader? Or both?

Tristat? I miss those massive die rolls...

Suspicion:Alpha's fingers:needs more. Purpose: count higher.

That said, I have to put in the reminder that the "Epic" in "Epic AT" indicates that it's tied to a storyline. The Kheldians go through the Kheldian war and the attempted Nictus takeover of Earth. The VEATs... need rewriting, and that horrible metagame-speach cutscene removed, taken out behind the shed, shot and burned.

I still want to see the Coralax. There's a good bit that can be done with them. And if they *ever* get around to the Blood of the Black Stream, I'll be thrilled. (What am I talking about? See EAT at WW's in the sig.) And, of course, Alpha's push for a Rikti EAT - I believe he's had a solid path on it in the past.

Now, if we wanted Praetorian... I'm still not completely sold on Syndicate. They do come off as "Widow rehash" when I think of their powers. DE doesn't really make sense to me, either. But getting the elite TEST squads - that might. You'd end up with more powers, of course (including your orb, some nice AOEing missiles, etc,) and a potential storyline that goes from "fiercely loyal" (more than we see in the current one - you're part of the system, after all) to making a choice, breaking free or going undercover (hero/villain.) Think Huntsman build with Traps powers included.

Yes, you will get that if you *dismiss* them.

/releasepets (put in the underscore if you want,/release_pets) does something totally different. It forcibly "kills" them and wipes them from the server listing, as well. In fact, if you're a /traps MM and have any other "pets" out (such as your FFG, Acid Mortar or Seeker Drones - anything that shows up in the "pets" window) it will "kill" them as well. So don't be in combat when you use it - back off. (Yes, a release does this as well, I know.)

(Visibly telling the difference - if the pets immediately disappear from the pet window, you've dismissed and your resummons will be bugged. If the pets "die" - you have a list of black-named dead pets that take a few seconds to vanish - you've used /releasepets and your new summons will work.)

Yes, it's irritating. Yes, it needs to be fixed, as I doubt most MMs know about this command. But /releasepets does work to wipe the slate clean and let you resummon pets under your control.


A little insecure are we? While I don't play one, there *are* experienced MMs that will play it just for a challenge or "something different." It was also popular to do before we got Dual Pistols for corruptors, and I'm sure there are a few Demon MMs running it for whips only. I don't think the one you were talking about falls in that category - he was probably told about them and told about how tough MMs were with bodyguard at some point and missed the distinction, as a more experienced MM player is going to be far more cautious if playing this style and certainly isn't going to want to take them into a PVP match. But some will play it just for the challenge.

I'd be a little more confident in things like following the directions you were given and knowing the difference between dismiss and /releasepets before I went around calling other players "noobs."

Excuse me?

There are valid objections being brought up. If you don't like that, too damn bad. That does NOT give you the right to just dismiss them, or the people bringing them up, as "whiners." If that's the only way you can argue, just stop.

And that would be sooooo easy, right? You've seen the code for the game?

We've been told there are four things that *cannot* be respeced out of. AT, Primary, Secondary.... and Origin.

It's highly likely that it's baked into the basis of a character *so* deeply that changing origin would break things badly.

Are YOU ready to piss off every player, possibly break millions of characters, just so you can "respec" your origin? (Dont' think it happens? Look what happens far too often when they just add *costume parts.* Look at what happened when they made Fitness inherent in beta - Kheldians and Dominators were broken.)

Go follow the link in my signature to the early COH trailer guide. Follow the dev diaries. The argument was not "players are stupid."

Here's the issue -

For seven years, people have picked origin *specifically* because of flavor. It hasn't mattered one way or the other. Adding any sort of benefit *now* is just bad. You're telling them a choice they made (or ignored, just clicking something and moving on) now has a consequence, years after they did it, and it's not something that can be adjusted.

If the devs were looking for suggestions for COH 2, I'd say "Hey, go ahead," as players could make an informed decision from day one. But right now you're saying "If you own a Chevy, you can use only even-numbered interstates. Fords, odd-numbered. Chrysler, only the bypasses. Foreign cars aren't allowed on at all."

Adding arcs that address it? I don't see an issue - it doesn't affect a character's powers or abilities. Past that, though, yes, I do have an issue with it.

I'll also point out that "Origins meaning something" was originally part of the game (determining how many powers you could take and how far you could progress in them,) and it was yanked before beta.

I really wish people would QUIT making this stupid, shortsighted comment.

Definite statement. Thank you.

Well, that's too bad, because that IS my answer. "Are you interested?" *gets PM* *sends invite*

If all you want is people arguing over their spreadsheets, well, you argue. I'll be playing the game.

I haven't seen one of those in ages. I rarely see multi PLAYER PVP zone battles. (As in, the last time I ran across someone to actually *fight* - or actually in the zone besides me - was a month ago by now.) Last time I've seen full teams in a PVP zone was... eh, IO farmers. Last time I saw them actually fighting, it had to be pre-I13.

I miss those.

Right. Because stating concerns about anything is "whining." And I've mentioned small-teams from the beginning. Glad you can so casually dismiss anyone who doesn't share precisely YOUR likes and POV as "whiners."

You are, again, incorrect. I tended to make it a point to say "Solo and small team" when posting in the soloability/end game threads, which I've walked out of precisely because of attitudes like yours here. So, no, it's not those who "absolutely refuse to play in teams." I prefer a team that sits at 3-5 people, and have argued from the point of small team as well as solo players.

That said,
This, I'm glad to hear as a definite statement instead of the wishy-washy, no-real-meaning "investigating" line. As long as I can get to the same tiers, I don't care if it takes me longer doing what *I* want instead of random-team large-raid stuff.

I've done raids, both COH-raids and in other games. I don't tend to *like* raids. I don't care to be stuck in the middle of a ton of other people, trying to spot the leader again, finding out what we're actually supposed to be attacking/protecting/doing in a mass of other people who may or may not be paying attention. And given game performance (not system, I'm talking things like recharging of powers not syncing between client and server and NPCs not drawing in because there's "too much" going on, such as in Rikti and Zombie invasions) it's not something I'm not really primed to jump up and down about. It's been a longstanding issue with COH.

I'll probably pop into a raid or two for the heck of it, but don't see myself joining particularly often from the description of what's in store.

Back when the invention system was introduced, costume pieces were *rare.* Very. Wings, for instance, ran $14-25 million. And this was before we had purples, PVP IOs, etc, things going for *really* insane amounts of INF, so that was a rather high priced item.

I'd rather not see that happen to costume pieces again, even if they were just a few.

Similarly, I'm not particularly fond of the idea of enhancements tied to origin, even if they're swappable. If one's particularly better than the other, (a) it will be insane on the market, and (b) it will be farmed (likely through Ouro.)

The only thing I wouldn't mind seeing - and it's something that would need to find a way to be worked in Red and Gold-side, as Blueside already has "departments of (origin)" - would be the occasional Origin-related arc. For instance, it would make sense the COT might be interested in Magic-based characters, regardless of if the character's "magic" is an item, something native to them, training, etc. But "origin specific rewards/difficulty/XP," I just can't get behind.

This, 100% (including the "illusion, pfft" bit.)

No. Scrappers get Ninjas. Swing a ninja around to hit people, swing a ninja around with his blade out to cut people, throw a ninja, throw a ninja throwing shurikens, do a double-ninja spin for a PBAOE...

The animation-intensive part is the ninja armor. You think DA is bad at hiding your costume? Try showing off with a bunch of ninjas clinging to you. Each armor tier just adds more ninjas.

If I have to add a KB enhancement (including your alpha there) to return to where I was (useful KB,) then yes, it does change my slotting.

/unsigned, as always.

Plenty of answers for that, depending on what you're asking (which is a few different things.)

Defender specific answer:
Empathy is the only set which gives you three reliable heals (IE, no "tohit" component.) If reliability is your measurement of "best healer," then yes.

If you're looking for "size of heal," Kinetics or Dark is better, BUT can miss or be positioned badly (Kinetics centers around target, Dark around caster.)

Support specific answer:
Empathy has three reliable heals, and some buffs - Clear Mind comes early enough to be very useful before melee classes get their mez protection, for instance. However, staying with defenders, other classes have more tools available to them that can be used proactively to reduce incoming damage or prevent it all together. For instance, Radiation has only a PBAOE heal, but plenty of tools to keep you from getting hit in the first place.

All depends on what kind of "support" you want to do.

/makes note to send demorecord post-pack.

/this.