Necrotron_RO
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The Vet rewards have always been like that, with 'ooo' 'ahhh' powers/rewards at certain tiers and 'meh' rewards at others.
Be thankful the IO license didn't get put at tier 8. -
Either, both Brute and Scrapper for Street Justice work great. I personally prefer Brutes for the inherent taunt, greater HP cap, and greater resist cap. Just more upward potential.
I say, pick a concept, and roll with it. A strong character concept I can feel like I'm playing it what sells a powerset combo for me. -
Quote:You can achieve a +1 level shift by slotting the Alpha slot, earning shards by running regular content, and a weekly strike target once to earn your Notice of the Well.Originally Posted by Bad_Influence
me: "How are people supposed to get level shifts without running trials?"
It's generally a good idea to do so before running iTrials, as at -4 to the minions, you contribute significantly less damage, and have a hard time defeating enemies before they escape during the escapee phase.
That said, usually it isn't a problem, as usually there are enough +1, +2, and +3s to pick up the slack, and some powersets contribute damage multiplication (e.g. Kinetics, etc.) to more than make up for their -4 level to the enemy personal damage penalty. -
I'd offer my two cents, but not sure they'd help much. The design scheme of the end fight is just a little too chaotic for my tastes, so I just largely avoid the trial, along with Keyes, unless I'm really looking for something different.
Everything up until the final fight is fun. I just don't see the incentive to run this when the rewards/time investment are so out of whack, esp. considering the large chance of failure. -
Yeah, that has been a minor annoyance of mine for awhile. It makes me want to run tips that I haven't done before at -1/1 difficulty, so I can just stand there ignoring the ambush and finish reading the text.
But...that doesn't result in a very exciting mission. -
I'd rather run a mini any day.
Full BAFs lag waay too much, and it scales down anyways, so I don't seem the purpose behind wanting a full 24.
Mini LAMs are just fun. -
Since it's been on my mind lately, I thought I'd just chime in again to say I detest walking into PvP zones since the i13 changes.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Zombie Man
/windowscale costume .6
Try it, you'll like it.
Also, if you're on a iTrial, replace 'costume' with 'scriptui'
Cf:
Scaling the UI, or, Make Windows Big or Small! Zombie_Man [I12]
paragonwiki.com/wiki/Window_names_(Slash_Command)
Costume Change Emote Popmenu SnowGlobe [I20.5]
I do! I do!
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Quote:Didn't it used to be that heroes could push NPCs around until they changed it because of some 'exploit'? I really never could figure out what exploit they might have referred to.Originally Posted by Shadowe
Because all the "regular Joes" are immune to damage and can push aside a granite-form tank by walking into them.
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Quote:Escort missions have never been fun. Not on the NES, not on the PS2, and not now. Especially when the league might request you stand back and do nothing for the hour and half duration of the trial if you get saddled with escort duty.Originally Posted by Snow Globe
IProblem 1 for me - Escort mission:
Desdemona. The Underground Trial is, at its heart, a huge escort mission. Yes, one of the most player-hated mechanics in the gaming industry. Even developers hate this mechanic. Yet we are subjected to one that is the basis of the longest Incarnate Trial to date.
Worse, the players that should be least responsible for caring for this dead weight (melee) are stuck with her until they die (often self-inflicted by means of Self-Destruct, something I don't think the developers meant by using "unused" powers) or the team tries tricks like teleporting the handler far enough away from Desdemona to get her to latch on to another player. -
Quote:All of the costume pieces being able to be used at level 1 instead of requiring level based unlocks. It's hard to create a theme for a character only to have a not quite fitting costume for 35 levels until you can unlock the pieces you need.Originally Posted by Zwillinger
I do agree. Time saving items such as this have made my costume creation and playtime a bit more enjoyable
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Glad to see you're enjoying it as well.
As long as we're talking about it, are there any other time vs. convenience options like the cape and aura unlock service you could see being a desirable Market offering? -
Due to the way Brutes self generate +Dmg and have low damage mods, the -Damage penalty affects them less than Tanks.
I prefer Stone Armor on my Brute. -
Quote:The zerg rush where the 'weak' (aka the Corr/Def who likely just shielded you) fall behind is not very fun for up and coming players.Originally Posted by AmazingMOO
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Zerging an Objective isn't fun.
All the trials suffer from this to some degree by including so much unresistable damage and insta-kill effects. The single worst offender is the glowie hunt in Lambda. When a player is defeated and has to run back into the maze after going to the hospital, chances are the enemies left behind in the mad rush are going to zap him again before he catches back up to his team. -
I would fully support reverting all PvP changes to pre issue 13. Beyond that, PvP is dead to me.
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$6 is not a very appealing price for an NPC costume, to me, at least.
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480 points still!?
Oh well, at least I know I can save points on this week. -
No, it's highly useful, but on the same coin can be used in unnecessary and counterproductive ways.
If the tank has herded everything into a nice tight bunch and then someone lays a Tar Patch under them, it might be a good time to stow the knockback powers for a minute.
But if your blaster friend is about to be hacked by a Tank Swiper, knockback ahoy!
The only major issues I see are with powersets that have no choice between using their AoE attacks and not knockbacking (e.g. Energy Blast/Peacebringers), and then issues like knocking off of Tar Patches or knocking things away from a Scrappers taunt aura ensue because the choice is either attack 'and' knockback or don't attack. -
I was there, I saw it!
Congratulations, Quasar! -
Quote:Originally Posted by Dr_MechanoEU
I am incredibly curious as to why they're locking the powers behind the 15 emp merit gate when none of the powers are worth it.
The new Alphas are Endmod (not really that useful to be frank, sure it boosts stamina but you might as well go the EndReduction if thats your conscern and reducing an NPCs end to zero does exactly nothing), Hold (largely useless in the Itrials since everything seems ridiculously resistant to behind held), Healing Boost (which will be useful in later Itrials since apparently they want to go the MMO standard and make healing more useful than simply buffing/debuffing) and Resistance (which will probably be like the Defence boost Alpha and only provide around 3% additional resistance, it'd need to provide atleast a +20% resistance, like bumping Invulns 30% resistance to energy etc up to 50% to be remotely useful).
None of those are very good compared to the straight out damage, endredux, Defense, Recharge or tohit (lets be honest...does anyone actually take tohit, it seems to be the least picked Alpha).
The Destiny one is a league teleport and a heal...wow...compared to every other Destiny power...that is some major suckage.
The only good one out of the bunch is the new Judgement power, useful for Martial arts characters...and it's locked behind 15 emp merits because...?
The Inteface slots are...eh..they're not as crappy as the Alpha or the Destiny but chance for endurance drain, chance for imobilize, Maximum HP debuff seems ok but will probably be tiny debuff that doesn't really add much and Chance to confuse which is damn near useless in the ITrials anyway. Compared to the near always useful -regen and -resistance debuffs...they're unfortunately just not upto snuff.
So yeah...why are they locking powers that are essentially WORSE than the ones you can unlock freely behind a 15 emp merit gate...it just makes no damn sense.
That unlock makes no sense. I figure they just want something you can earn, but really? No way I am going to unlock these powers with 15 now harder to obtain emp merits when the other 'equal' or possibly better powers require no unlock.
Okay...well, I might for concept, but I'd be frustrated at the silly pointless unlock requirement the whole way. -
Quote:Ooo, that's cool! I wonder what zone map that is underneath.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
There's a couple places but giving away the locations spoils the fun of finding them. I will give you two hints. There's one in Faultline and another in Grandville.
I don't think it's possible to get to the original Arena Matrix room anymore.
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They do get stuff for free, via their point stipend.
They can even eventually unlock components from previous 'pay extra' only booster packs via their stipend.
The goal of the free-to-play model change is to have more things available than you can get for free as a VIP, so you can either pick and choose what you want as 'free content' and/or pay extra to 'have it all'. The extra income they are generating is allowing them to create the more content than would've been available previously under the monthly pay system. -
More more MORE!
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Quote:Visual of it since it's a cool idea!Originally Posted by Canadian_Medbot
Well you'd have to use a female body for this one. An empty jar with the shoulder-cat to explain the lack of fish in the tank.
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Quote:Yes.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Let me queue for a TF or a Trial while inside of an instance and let me be teleported away from my instance when the Trial starts.
I don't want to stand around doing nothing while I wait for an event to start.
Hyperbole. Of course, I can street hunt or something, but still. -
You sell it so well.
That's cool! ...oh wait, he's telling me it's not very good. :P
I like it. *thumbs up*