Memphis_Bill

See, though, this was generally the *reasoning* for most of the I13 changes. Evening things out. Both in ATs/Powersets and builds (IOing out vs newbie/PVE/SOs/etc.)

I don't disagree that the major changes going between PVE and PVP are jarring. They are. Your tank *will* be held - for less time than that blaster there, but they will be held. Your heals will do progressively less good, and so forth. But some sets - and I'm talking individually - will always "just suck" compared to others in PVP. (I think my Earth/FF has one solo PVP kill. That took a long time.)

The answer, as mentioned before - and stated, really, from I6 (if not I4 - Colosseum) is... *team.*

... touching on the next reply...

/true.

I have a Fire/Rad Corruptor. OK solo (pre-I13 PVP.) Teamed, though - I teamed (a PVP PUG) with two other Corruptors - or it may have been a Corr and a Dom. (Don't recall right now what they were.) The three of us pretty much held Siren's Call ourselves for a good hour, 'til we were just overwhelmed with numbers. *Massive* difference from any of us solo.

COH PVP has, honestly, always been team based. Yes, I've had some great solo fights and experiences (love my En/En brute being called "that (*#&$# Stalker!") but the only real "balance" we can get short of forcing everyone to use Brawl is teaming.

Yeah. I seem to have 1-2 bases it will always happen to, and others that are perfectly fine if I forget about them even longer. Really irritating.

All I can say is "COnsider the source" (of what you're replying to.) Now, if that came from, say, Macskull? I'd give it far more weight.

/this. Many times over.

Well, several things here:

1. Controllers have containment. Double damage on anything held, immob'd, etc. (not *all* controls but quite a bit will set up containment.) Land that first hold, you're doubling damage.

2. Dominators had a problem with - using the devs description, which was very fitting - of being "jeckyl and hyde." They had lousy damage, no containment, etc. until Domination was ready, then *bam* they were godly... until it dropped, which was a driving force behind people trying for perma-dom. Adjusting the damage lessened that *greatly.* You've now got formerly-Dom level damage at all times.

3. Dominators are control/damage ATs to begin with. Controllers are not. Dominators got a damage buff because they were not fitting their role as well as they could - and they are now.

So, yeah, an overall damage buff for controllers? I wouldn't expect to see it, frankly. Individual power adjustments like Propel? Sure. (Edit: And I'm saying that as someone who's gotten two decidedly non-high-damage combos to 50 - Ice/Emp and Earth/FF.)

/This

I sell at 5-10 inf because (a) I'm not interested in "market PVP," (b) I probably had everything drop and made it to sell to clear up room, not to make "da phat lewtz," and (c) you smell funny so why would I listen to you?

If someone gets it at 15 inf? Great! If someone gets it at 15,000,000? Great!

The problem with saying "Nobody" or "Everybody" does something is that... you're making an incorrect assumption, most times.

For instance, this:
... is not something I would say if I didn't, y'know, USE it.

*nitpick* Arenas don't give awakens, so they don't get the *full* set.
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You currently get a badge, a popup, and they show up in the "Memorized" section - which never goes away, and seems to like staying open. Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're asking.

*nod*

/these.

I'm all behind the intent of the nerf (those farms were just flat out stupid, you want to be unkillable, go find an FPS with cheat codes,) but some clarification would be nice.

Specifically, I have two arcs (older) that I'm wondering how they'll be hit by this - "Hero Corpse" and "Out of your Mind (pt II.)" Both of them have allies for one or more missions - not *many* mind you, and they are targetable and killable - but they serve a purpose in the missions they're used in (one are people you're freeing who help you out, the other are representatives of groups helping your "rebellion" - 4 or so allies at most, given that version of LR summons a small army, it helps.)

I have no problems with the devs doing this, it was certainly needed - but if anyone wants a good example of why I tend to not like farms/farmers (exploitive ones, specifically,) this is a perfect example. I'll put it along with dreck and war wolf timers, portal minions giving no XP and the like.

One thing I will say is they're *not* impressing me ATM. Yeah, historical COH issues aside (compatible cursors, enhancement jumps, etc.) the grey stripes of death are hitting me in other games often enough to be *really* irritating.

Yes, using current drivers, yes, uninstalled the old ones, etc.

I'm rather at the point of hunting *someplace* down that has a Geforce 260.

How is Energize "breaking the cottage rule?" The basic purpose of the power was not changed. Other abilities were added *to* it. It was originally conserve power. now it's conserve power with a heal.

Unyielding only had -def removed from it. The basic purpose of the power, again, was unchanged.

The cottage rule is basically that a power won't be completely replaced with something else. The only - *only* - time this has been broken was back in Issue 1 (or was it 0...) when Fold Space was removed. They nearly broke it when the PPPs were revamped - replacing powers with others - and the reaction they got made them realize how *bad* of an idea outright replacement is. Thus, PPPs and APPs have five powers in them now.

... and armors used to be exclusive. However, allowing them - finally - to stack is not breaking the basic purpose of the power, which is - to be an armor. Movement didn't enter into it. The values may be changed as a result, but if a power gives you "+Def to Vanilla Ice Cream," that power will *always* give you "+Def to Vanilla Ice Cream" - they can change how much, or add spumoni to it if they want, but that basis won't change.

/this.

I've used the G15 in several MMOs - and currently use the G110. No issues - as long as it's not abused (or overly automated.)

Yeah, we'd basically need some dev input here.

We do have a few situations to consider, though -
- PVP, if I recall properly, decided to set it so phased players can attack each other - basically sacrificing theme for playability, because:
- PVE, the devs had said previously that just because you're phased doesn't mean you're "phased the same way" (technologically going to another dimension, putting yourself out of phase with this dimension, etc.) and they wanted to maintain that.
- Current Hami, IIRC, *can* attack through phase.

What to get from all that - some of which is solely from patch-note memory? I don't know. I don't know the mechanics behind any of it or if it'd be dev-acceptable in a PVE situation (I really, *REALLY* hoped we'd be attacking illusionaists....)

... except, of course, that they *do* everywhere we'd see it in game. They don't just do the Rikti-speak bit when they see your character or your team, but even when "talking" amongst themselves (for instance, RWZ, when you're sent to the Rogue Isles to save some civilians and disarm four bombs, they're talking to each other in the exact same way.)

Which, of course, goes against them having their psychic friends network in the first place, but still.

*trying to decide if it's worth $15 for me to try to remember to let an account go inactive, then reactivate it 60+ days later for no reason other than to see if items vanish or not.*

... yes, I think I have an unused COV (original!) box around here somewhere, thus only $15, but still.

One other thing you can look at is barebones kits. (Or combos, often they work out much the same.) Sometimes it's as little as CPU-MB-RAM, sometimes it's everything but a monitor and a copy of Windows.

Expect, generally, to have to add at least a hard drive and DVD drive, often a video card (and copy of Windows) to these. But you'll know the basic parts will work together. In theory.

Of course, I ended up piecing this together for under your budget - kept my monitor, picked up an OEM Win7x64 (add another $100 to the price.) Ended up picking up a new keyboard (Logitech G110) later. It's what I'm currently running.

Expect them to be similar. I've got a 5770, two slots, rectangular, shrouded - I wouldn't try to put it on that board. However, some versions are out without a shround, IIRC... such as this one. I don't know of a 260 or (edit - nvidia based) equivalent that's unshrouded.

See, my question over that, though, would be how long ago did they leave? The change went through in April of last year - did they leave by December of 08, in which case their accounts would have been stuck under the old rule in any case? Or did they leave for 60+ days after that took effect?

That's why I asked, when was the testing done?