Ms. Mesmer
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Quote:Funny. I couldn't get into Claws until recently, either. It was the metal rake scraping the cement sound effects that always put me off of the set. The funny part is that you don't play VEATs, but it was my Widow that made me reconsider Claws. After playing her up to the 30s, I rolled a rough hero analogue, a Claws/Willpower Scrapper, and have loved playing her.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Only thing I didn't play until "recently" was Claws on a Scrapper. I've been playing Scrappers for the past five years and have many combinations of everything, but Claws somehow fell through until I gave them to a new character sort of as a chance concept evolution. That was a few months ago.
Beyond that, Stalkers. Didn't play them until they were fixed to be actually worth playing. Right now I have two, but with plans for more.
I DID play Blasters, but before the Defiance changes, I only had one and even that one wasn't worth playing. Since then, I've gotten two to 50 and one into the 40s and there are a few I'm forgetting.
Beyond that, what I don't play, I never will. I don't play Tankers, because they don't do enough damage. I don't play Defenders, Controllers and Corrupers and I never will. I tried plying a Kheldian, but that didn't work. I tried playing a Dominator, but that failed. I haven't tried a villain Epic, and I likely never will. No real reason to, as I don't enjoy Arachnos powers to begin with. -
Quote:Fixed that for you.Originally Posted by Altoholic_Monkey
Gah,(or possibly Gah!) it's driving me crazy!
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Quote:You get a whole bunch of badges. That's it. The Nemesis Staff is a mission temp power for heroes and one of the choices for the 33 month vet reward. The other choice is the Blackwand, which is probably the other staff that you're thinking of.Originally Posted by Fusion_7
This got me thinking on what you get if you accomplish all of your defeats. I think it is some kind of Nemesis Staff or another Staff of some kind. Can anyone else elaborate on this?
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Quote:I wouldn't.Originally Posted by Amanita
The thing I've been wondering- I've got characters based on iconic landmarks, like Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty. Would I be able to do George Washington Bridge as well? Of course my bio would make it clear that the character was based off the actual bridge, not a character whose name happens to be similar. That and his looks would be waaay different.
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Quote:They had a different server entirely.Originally Posted by Dispari
What did they do for CoV?
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Quote:If that's how they get lost, it's a transient bug. I know that I earned all of the beacons for my hero SG on my main. That hero was accidentally kicked by a twitchy-fingered SG leader sometime after and reinvited within a minute, and we didn't lose a single beacon. This was a couple of years ago, mind you, so things may have changed in the interim.Originally Posted by Red Valkyrja
I've had this happen in my VG before. The only thing that came to mind at that time was that a friend left the game (taking their character with them) and one of their characters was the one that had 'earned' that beacon exploration badge.
I realize that the beacon badges are SG-wide, and it doesn't matter who gets the exploration badges for a zone to get the beacon badge.
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Quote:In the 1990s, Image was notorious for delayed books. The disease has spread to both Marvel and DC in the last decade. Just about every year, you will find at least one big ticket project that has a delay of at least a couple of months from each of them. The most notorious example that comes to mind is Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk, which had a three year delay between issues in the middle, no joke.Originally Posted by EnigmaBlack
These updates are supposed to be like comic book issues, I can not recall every hearing of a comic book issue being substantially delayed.
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They came in with the Longbow in the mini-revamp of Issue 8.
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Quote:I still find it unlikely that any decline in CoH/V subscriptions would have caused NCSoft to stop publishing those numbers for all of their games. We were never in the same ballpark as Lineage in terms of subscriptions, after all.Originally Posted by Ironblade
It's worth noting that giving actual subscriber numbers was not a common practice (and still is not). Maybe the numbers got so bad they felt they had to hide them. Or maybe they felt that giving such detailed information wasn't a good idea and they changed their policy to conform with the market.
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Just noticed that. Better go grab a Lost Curing Wand.
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Quote:Ah, time dilation. I really need to let my boss know that he owes me three extra paychecks, being that October 24-January 7 is 4 months now.Originally Posted by Coldmed
(hero con was 4 months ago..nothing since then)
CoV was announced officially right when CoH launched, so it was a year and a half lead time for that.Quote:Originally Posted by TonyV
I remember saying when Going Rogue was first announced that my prediction for release was mid-June 2010, based on how long recent issues were taking, the year lead time between announcement and release of City of Villains, the opinion that they weren't really that far into its development, and the industry's tendency to barely meet or push back releases. -
Quote:The untimely announcement that they had a fully-designed webpage and a trailer up for within 12 hours? Do you really think they're just sitting on professional trailers with CGI and that decent-looking webpages can be ready in mere hours? That announcement was about a year before expected release, a shorter time by about 6 months than there was between announcement and release of CoV. It was early, but probably only by about a half a day.Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker
The problem's exacerbated by the incredibly long wait we've had already given the untimely and mistaken announcement of GR, so soon after the 5th anniversary. (Ironically so very soon after Positron had spoken about "Stuff I can't talk about" too)
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Quote:I thought about this while getting some candy canes to unlock a few things on some characters, so I looked at a character that I made right after Issue 11 and Ouroboros. She had full contact bars for everyone in the Hollows, which you don't get to keep when you do them through Ouroboros. I then checked her Souvenirs, and found the ones for Wincott and Flux after the ones for Bonefire, the Clockwork Captive and the Vahzilok Plague, meaning she did them sometime after hitting level 10 naturally. That means that, at least by Issue 11, they no longer had a level 9 or 10 cap. Unfortunately, the individual arcs didn't give Souvenirs before Issue 11 that I'm aware of, so I can't be as certain about earlier characters.Originally Posted by Ms. Mesmer
I'm not so sure about that. I was level 14 on my Katana/Regen alt when Issue 2 hit and was able to do Wincott. I remember clearly because at least one of his missions was bugged, a largish spawn of Outcasts would all run off and fall into the geometry of the map somehow, making that mission, a defeat all, require a GM to complete.
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These days, 2 even-level Flight SOs in Fly plus Swift with no Flight enhancements in it at all will cap you. That's ~66.7% enhancement value, if you have Swift, to get past the cap. It doesn't matter what the source is, SOs, HOs or IOs. Be warned, the Fly speed cap is still only 58.6 mph.
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It also leads me to ask if it's even possible for a Deadly Apocalypse to occur at all on villain side during this event. I haven't played villains near as often as heroes during this event, and I don't have the zone events channels monitored on a lot of the lesser-played characters that I've been playing catch up with old Winter badges on, so I couldn't really say, but if what Zombie Man says is true, it probably can't happen at all in the Rogue Isles right now.
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Quote:It isn't the presents, or even the chance of a Winter Lord, that's stopping it. I saw a Zombie Apocalypse while there were presents on the ground in Mercy Island last week, and I know that Winter Lords can spawn there. Perhaps it's the chance of the Lord Winter's Realm present that is keeping it from happening in city zones, since those don't seem to spawn in Mercy.Originally Posted by White Hot Flash
There won't be any Supernatural events going on in regular City zones while the winter stuff is on. There can't be two events simulaneously, and since there's always presents on the ground, WL or not, it will cancel the Supernatural stuff. Therefore, it will skip to a zone it can go to, like the Hollows. Once the winter event is done, it should resume it's normal randomness.
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Quote:Combining those two and averaging is really close to the ~1 in 6 average that I came up with during my two longest cycles of runs of the mission, both defeating 60 Minion + Lieutenant pairs. I didn't get into the statistical detail that you did, but your numbers corroborate mine nicely.Originally Posted by Catwhoorg
after 42 additional runs (*my eyes bleed*) today, defeat all the snowmen.
Changes:
WL/WG Lt 22.8% (18.7, 26.8)
Minion 10.0% (7.8, 12.1)
Firmed up the Lt WL/WG numbers nicely.
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If they're on my present-hunting routes (always in low-population zones) they die in a Police or Arbiter Drone disintegration beam.
Merry Christmas to all, or whatever else you may happen to celebrate at this time of year. -
Quote:This part is key for the advanced slope. The original one is so short that I've gotten it easily on level 12s, so long as they had the Zero-G Pack or Inertial Reduction. That advanced one is so long that the lower speed caps for lower levels make a lot of difference. I essentially had to re-learn the course for every 5 or so levels lower that I got. It took a long time and a lot of luck for me to get the Gold on the advanced course on a level 25 last year, due to the lower speed cap and some combination of my reflexes, slow dial-up connection and computer, so I gave up on getting it on anything lower than that. If I could count on a 50 to team with them for SSK, I'd be all over it on my lowbies, but I've resigned myself to a level 25 minimum to attempt it without that kind of aid.Originally Posted by Nurvus
Oh, another tip for lowbies is grouping with a 50 so you're SKed to 49. It's not necessarily needed, but it can help shave off a second or two. Sometimes that's all that's needed.
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They get replaced 7 days after you use each. I used 2 the first day, 2 on Wednesday, and the other 2 on the weekend last week, I got 2 back Tuesday afternoon, 2 more early yesterday evening, and will get the other 2 back this weekend, it looks like, for example.
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Quote:I'm not so sure about that. I was level 14 on my Katana/Regen alt when Issue 2 hit and was able to do Wincott. I remember clearly because at least one of his missions was bugged, a largish spawn of Outcasts would all run off and fall into the geometry of the map somehow, making that mission, a defeat all, require a GM to complete.Originally Posted by Zombie Man
It used to be that Wincott and Flux of the Hollows were most definitely level 5-9 contacts. If you hit them at level 10 or higher, they wouldn't give you their arcs and pass you on to the next contact in the Hollows' progression (Wincott > Flux > Julius > Talshak).
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Quote:That's actually a matter of debate. Tradition and early proclamations make the case as you stated, but later acts of Parliament use language stating that "...the Union Jack should be regarded as the national flag."Originally Posted by The_Fish
Actually ...
*puts "Nerd" hat on*
It's the "Union Flag"
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Quote:Mine generally runs for 8 hours before it drops. In an ideal world, that's about 150 MB of download, but the updater can be fickle, gradually slowing down over a long update so that I only get maybe 100 MB before a reset. I can immediately reconnect, though. Sometimes a reconnect is fast enough that I don't get booted to the login screen when it happens while I'm playing.Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Only problem with dial-up and test is the size and frequency of the patches. I don't know about other dial-up users but I've found that the one I use will auto boot you after four hours and really doesn't like it if you try to reconnect immediately. This caps a session download to roughly 55-70MB per session. As it is right now, an Issue major patch takes me several days to fetch and a normal routine patch takes anywhere from 30 minutes to two hours to get.
The only way I was able to participate with the CoV beta (last wave) was because friends who played back then (but not anymore) gave me a DVD with a copy of their test directory since the initial patch was over a GB in size.
The real problem is the fixing files process. Since that doesn't give a cumulative lock on the individual files the way that a patch does, it means that any file greater than 100 MB in size is doubtful to ever be fixed, and any file greater than 150 MB is definitely not ever going to be fixed. This is why I try to keep up on patches to Test. -
The wailing over robots and several other mob types that really heavily resist Toxic damage would be immense. Like Psi, Toxic is little-resisted by players, but there are a whole bunch of mobs out there that resist it, some very heavily.
Edit: Upon further review of Culex' resists spreadsheet, most robots don't actually resist Toxic. Snakes, Banished Pantheon zombies, pretty much all Tsoo, just about every Devouring Earth, Arachnoids, a few types of Arachnos and any kind of Ghost are the main resisters, with a few other things thrown in for good measure. -
We have full ground coverage now in Michigan, but still only around 2 inches deep, thanks to a snow shower overnight. We've been denied appreciable snow on the ground here for two of the last three Christmases, so I hope it doesn't melt away in the next few days.