MunkiLord

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Not everyone that is "exploiting" AE is PLing others, most of them are farming for tickets to roll and flood the market.


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How about no?

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*** You are ignoring this user ***

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This - more helpful than any B_I hints or rants can really be anyways.

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You fail at being witty.

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While the title is obviously going to spark many one-liner replies, please hear me out.

Defenders currently have a secondary devoted completely to damaging yet it is my opinion that they fall behind both Tankers and Controllers in terms of damage. (Unless you compare the best damage of defenders, say Dark/Sonic with the worst of controllers, say Earth/Empathy)

Personally I view this as a gross imbalance of the game, Defenders should have much more power and ability in soloing. They are still heroes afterall! They should not be treated like the clerics or priests of the game by people who know no better - if anything that title is more fitting of controllers anyway.

It is just a big shame that Defenders start with a good ability to solo and it just goes down hill rapidly from there. By the time they hit level 20 and their real numbers, their abilities to solo have diminished by a large amount.

I realise Defender damage has been buffed a long time ago once before, and their attacks reduced in cost as well but I think it is time for another look. Reading the changes to Dominators, I would not be asking for a huge overhaul like that as I realise the amount of Dev time needed. However, it is also a good time to perhaps ask a similar look is given to Defenders as well?

Which leaves me thinking about a simple way of improving Defenders, apart from an across the board increase in damage, a simple way in which Defenders could be improved is through their inherent ability - an abiity which many will agree is among the worst of any archtype. Now, that alone is not a good reason for it to be changed however consider the following:

- The ability has zero use outside of a team, an area which defenders could actually use more help with.

- For many powersets, the ability is counter productive. As a forcefield defender who's job it is to *prevent* damage, ideally hardly anyone will get hurt and the ability wont be in effect.

- The ability largely depends on the abilities of your team mates and their sets. If you team with a good tank or controller, again it will have minimal use.

When you compare Viligance to something like Containment, an inherent which gives controllers very respectful damage early on if they slot accordingly (My Mind Controller breezed through the early levels) and becomes even more poweruful with double damage EPP AoE's.

Overall I think Defenders need a boost in damage because they are lacking and when they have a secondary devoted to damage, the benefits seem lost when Controllers, who have no damage powerset and are blessed with Controls, Buffs/Debuffs and pets and more damage.

My suggestion to the devs that a quick and simple way of making a change to Defenders would be to target their inherent, Viligance, which is currently underpeforming. If changed to something that would really boost Defenders and make them feel more Heroic, its ramificaitons would be across all powersets and be a universal buff of goodness.

Thanks for reading

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Step 1: Make a rad/sonic defender
Step 2: shut your pie hole
Step 3: Profit

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Nice worthless comment.

Storm/Sonic Defender. It's a lot of fun.

Here is a concept build I've been working on for a while.
Has soft capped Ranged and AoE defense, 23% Melee, 25% Smash/Lethal, and near soft capped En/Neg/Fire/Cold. The resist are really good too.

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edit: I haven't actually played that build, I'm not sure if it would be very playable. But I made it to show the insane numbers you can get with Storm.

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This ties in to something I've been noticing on my /SR. I don't faceplant very often, but when I do it's not the slow draining of HP down to zero. No, it's the migrating goose hit by the 747. The little baby meets the eighteen wheeler. Flak jacket vs. H-bomb. Try evading that Dodgy McDodgypants.

I just don't remember any specific instances where any reasonably attainable regen would help me.

[/ QUOTE ] I've only noticed the regen helping me stay alive a couple times. It is usually when taking on a large mob with several bosses. A few days ago I was in the red then regenerated enough so the next time I got hit it took me down to 2 hit points.

Just because I don't notice, doesn't mean it doesn't help more often though. It's a quiet helper. But I also agree that when I face plant, it usually happens really really fast.

I usually just delete them.

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Well, i think, the IO system and WW are two different things. I love the IO system but i don't like my IO'ing dependant on WW and other peoples greed. As i've said before. When asked if WW keeps people here, and the answer is "i love io'ing my build", i feel like those are 2 different beasts. imo.

[/ QUOTE ] I disagree. Without a market I think getting all the IOs I want would be almost impossible.

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without the innovations of I9 the game would have lost me.

[/ QUOTE ] This is exactly how I feel.

The more I play the game, the more I prefer to solo and work on better builds. Without the market, I don't think I would be able to get all the IOs that I want.

I have two slotted in MunkiLord and I would be willing to sell you one for your price, but I don't have any respecs available.

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I love threads like this.
It makes it really easy to ignore players that I never want to hear from again.

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I love it because it draws all the holier-than-thou Purity Police out of their monestary cells to lecture everyone else about the "right" way to play.

There's nothing more hilarious than a snob on a soapbox.

[/ QUOTE ] It's even better when they have their fingers in their ears.

Can I farm post counts too?

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And yes, Shields is Expensive, very much so, learn to play the market, my best advice for that is pick one character and use them to get the "Field Crafter" Accolade, you should learn everything you need to know about the market and crafting while trying to get the accolade.
(ie don't grind it, but work at it sensibly)

[/ QUOTE ] Good call, Squez has a good guide for the field crafter accolade and Paragon Wiki also has a good article on Gaining the Field Crafter Badge.

What the other two said.

Since you're gonna need a [censored] ton of influence to get a high end build, I suggest reading some of the guides and threads from The Market Forum.

And welcome to the game! You picked a fun AT(most fun IMO) to play.

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But in the light of upcoming MMO competition which boast of their Power Customization features I think it would be very unwise for CoX not to at least try to overcome that limitation relatively soon.

[/ QUOTE ] Even if power customization doesn't happen here, it is thinking like this that will make Champions Online and DCUO two of the best things to happen to City Of Heroes players. Competition is a great thing for consumers.

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It doesn't matter if a player like me -actually- thinks this about those other games or not.
What would be good for us is if our Devs BELIEVE we think it's an important enticement to lead us astray.
Here's for doing my civic duty adding to the propaganda.

I know it sounds harsh but I'd rather our Devs be manipulated by us into thinking those games are going to be the best things since sliced bread and react to them as such even if they actually aren't...

[/ QUOTE ] I couldn't agree more. If they see the two upcoming MMOs as serious competition then our game will only improve. I personally hope both of the games are good, it will force the devs to come out with better content.*

*I'm not saying they do a bad job now, I think this is a great game. But serious competition is in our best interest.

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But in the light of upcoming MMO competition which boast of their Power Customization features I think it would be very unwise for CoX not to at least try to overcome that limitation relatively soon.

[/ QUOTE ] Even if power customization doesn't happen here, it is thinking like this that will make Champions Online and DCUO two of the best things to happen to City Of Heroes players. Competition is a great thing for consumers.

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My guess would be stalkers.

Heroes.... kinda balanced but if I had to pick, it'd be blaster.

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Actually blasters are either one or two I believe, with Scrappers being the other one.

Tears. Sweet, delicious tears. They are extra tasty if they come from the elderly, young, sick, or injured.

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I wouldn't mind if they changed all powers that did knockback to knockdown, except for Nova. That power only makes sense to have it.

[/ QUOTE ] I would. There is no reason to make a major change like that. Especially since it would alter so many peoples established characters, significantly.

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I don't think AV soloing is about following any particular rules or guidlines. To me, it is a personal challenge to push my build to its limits. I try to find my limit, then exceed it. To me, that is all that is important.

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the Story is what the Devs designed the game for. If you don't read 'em; you may as well play Nintendo (unless you are really only playing PvE in order to PvP, of course).

[/ QUOTE ] That's a load of crap.

When I'm bartending I'm not getting tipped based on the amount of time one of my bar guests sits there. I'm making money off the service and drink prices.

Freedom and Virute are the most active, but teaming is alive and well on all of them.

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How are people reaching such high ranged defense values? I'm looking at a few set bonuses and a few unique def io's and I might hit 20% ranged. Is it mainly power picks that are pushing them that much higher?

[/ QUOTE ] Thunderstrike, combat jumping, thunderstrike, thunderstrike, blessing of the zypher, and more thunderstrike.

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At the moment, rewards are significantly better in AE than in regular content

[/ QUOTE ] I'm not so sure about that. A good task force team is tough to beat.

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What server are you on? I'll show you a thing or two ...

[/ QUOTE ] There is a good chance you're right. Every farm I've joined since the big nerf has been really [censored].