MrCaptainMan

Originally Posted by Winterminal

An increasingly popular way to run the trial (due to its simplicity and speed) is to completely ignore the telepathists. In doing so, the entire league takes out the buildings faster in Phases 3 and 4, and you end up building Public Opinion faster than it decreases, even with converted citizens and Maelstrom hanging around.

Originally Posted by Eva Destruction

She is depraved by BDSM standards. The kind of BDSM practiced by fictional villains is generally only superficially similar to anything practiced by real people in real life.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

She's a villain - she's supposed to be depraved.

Originally Posted by MisterD

Because, genius move, the filter isn’t on by default.

Originally Posted by Wing_Leader

It makes me wonder if there is a perception at Paragon Studios that lots of CoX players are former WoW players who willingly spend 6 hours running a single raid instance in the hopes of getting that one piece of armor to drop, where one false mouse click and the whole team gets wiped in short order, goes off to spend hundreds in gold for gear repair, and then goes back in for another try. I mean, by the standards of WoW raids, 60-minute UGTs that fail, leaving no component rewards for anyone, are hardly worth even a squeak of protest.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

And those pieces don't appear to include any corsets - probably to avoid more corset-rage

Originally Posted by Nyx

Mine is not as nearly epic as all the ones mentioned, and while I was thinking first of my grav/ff controller saving a team, or my Psi/Psi Dom soloing Dominatrix when my party wiped, I would have to actually go with Hexsing, my Blaster.

So we were doing the AV arc. Hexsing is my Dark/Mental/Electric Blaster, and we were taking out infernal and and Diabolique. Someone aggrod both of Av's at the same time, and we were swamped and completely covered in both AV's and demons.

My team wipes, save for me and the tank. The tank is dropping in HP fast, and Im sustaining myself purely on my drain life ability, and drain psyche. Finally the tank takes down Infernal with my help, and then dies.

So I am alone...and the rest of the team is at the hospital heading back. Alone, and a blaster is never good. So Im firing my blasts at Diabolique, and since Im more a blasttroller than a blaster, when my team arrived they found her with half life, and held completely still (Until she phases out) but still, she was half dead, and had full life before.

The tank praised me for 1 being not dead, 2 for being not dead and not having lore pet available.

I know it's not as epic as others saving the day, but to me it was epic because I actually felt like I fended off something impossible. And it made me a hero!

Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven

Maybe I got spoiled by playing certain types of RPGs (Fallout, ahem!), but I really miss being able to talk my way past certain bosses, and actually getting rewarded by the game for taking that option.

But then again, CoH never really had anything like that. So... I dunno.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

More specifically, people waiting for Leagueville can always decide to leave for Solotown, but the reverse is never true. So there is an asymmetry in terms of which activity can steal players from the other that is independent of preference.

Originally Posted by Wing_Leader

Well, I think there are many ways to approach the idea of "more difficult"; essentially we are talking about the very heart of game design itself. The devs have taken one particular approach, one consistent with the approach taken by devs of other MMOs, and it is proving to be fun for some and highly frustrating and unappealing by others. Where that split falls for COH players overall I don't know, but that seems besides the point to me. A better goal, I think, is to find a design that appeals to everyone.

Part of the problem, I think, is that the trials make you win only on its terms. So, the first part of the so-called challenge is figuring out what those terms are. Then the second part is arriving at a plan that, when executed more or less perfectly, manages to navigate the narrow path of success provided by all the constraints placed on the situation by the trial's gimmicks. It's not like there is a whole lot of room for thinking "outside the box" because the box itself is impenetrable from within.

You can't, for instance, prevent the Avatar of Hamidon from firing off its Confusion; you can only hope to protect yourself against it. You can't turn Mother Mayhem's Suffer In Silence against her. There's only one way to shut down each Keyes reactor, meaning there is no room for different approaches to solving that problem (in essence, shutting down the reactors isn't an obstacle to be dealt with, it is a fixed objective you are required to complete, and in a particular order, no matter what else your brilliant strategic mind may come up with). There are simply too few vectors for solutions--in fact there is usually only one.

The huge advantage that tabletop RPGs have in this regard is that the adaptability of the human GM means that there are potentially infinite solution vectors available. But rather than think of ways to make objectives have multiple approaches, and have more things be obstacles rather than requirements, these trials will always feel gimmicky and one-dimensional. We aren't really encouraged, or even allowed to do any creative problem solving, we are merely required to figure out the tricks to the solution and, like a computer program, simply execute each trick in sequence like so many CPU instructions.

Originally Posted by rsclark

Of everything except account-wide things. So far, the only account wide things that have been listed are the costumes.

Originally Posted by Leese

That's his Teleport Kicks. It's WAI.

Fortunately there is a countermeasure, it's even the same countermeasure you've been using for the last 50 levels - get a tank. A single player in melee range of him can shut down his ability to teleport. He won't teleport to kick anyone while in melee range of anyone else. (that's why he has an ability to KB everyone in the final battle - to get people out of melee range so he can use his kicks)

Originally Posted by Jagged

I thought you said they were fun?

I like the way your posts acknowledge the fact that its the rewards that keep these alive but cannot bring yourself to admit it.

ps:

Originally Posted by Ironblade

I'm well aware of that. I wasn't talking about the phase where he has the Marked For Death affect. I was talking about later where the special effects suggest he is just teleporting around one-shotting people. You have ZERO chance to react or defend yourself. And, as I noted, it's particularly cheesy because he bypasses the one-shot code.

Originally Posted by Lazarillo

It's a lotto-draw being set for purchase on the Paragon Market. Each $1 purchase will get 6/205 different items of set rarities. These items include consumables like inspirations and temp powers, as well as unique costume pieces, AT enhancements, and Enhancement Catalysts.

Originally Posted by Zwillinger

Once it's in the game, it's an already happened.

Now, it's something that's going to happen. But how will it happen? What could possibly lead to the demise of Primal Earth's Champion of the Well?

This approach is something that's been planned for awhile now, taking a cue from other famous, or infamous, comic book deaths.