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Fire/Psi Dom or Plant/Psi Dom will give you tons of AoE and if you have access to inventions they will become especially absurd.
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Quote:I c wut u did thar, knockback hatah!Originally Posted by EvilGeko
One of the things I like about this community so much is that we can have knock-down drag out fights here, but leave the drama at the door when we're actually playing the game.
Freitag, we know you're just saying that.
CoH Trivia: Zwillinger had a full head of hair before he joined our PvP Leagues.
He also was an optimist.
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Well if we're throwing requests out there:
A Base rent payment via the SG interface would be swell;
An inspiration vendor in Perez Park at the hospital would be keen;
Team-up teleporter extended to Giant Monsters would be peachy;
HP Accolades, account-wide for PvP zones at the Paragon Market would be fantastic.
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I take it this is on Protector?
Or Freedom?
You should probably ban Incandescence, since five people stacking it will make Respites cast for something like 750.
Also, what about stuff like map picks, prizes, meta-shenanigans concerning lineups etc.
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Mostly we don't take ourselves seriously and are pretty casual.
Even the hardcore min-maxers are pretty easygoing so... -
My Mind/Cold Controller, Illusion/Storm Controller or Kat/Regen Scrapper generally make mincemeat out of all trial action.
Can't really go wrong with Cold Domination. -
I sent DevilTiger a tell ingame but basically I have a Hero (MA/INV Scrapper) that I can flip to red if that's required. Looking for a group that RPs so I can get re-acquainted with the concept and so on.
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Quote:There may have been a previous Luminary and the title got passed down to a female-form energy being. More or less how Malak has Scirocco's mantle but likely wasn't the original one.Originally Posted by Mister Rik
Also I just ran across a place where Luminary is referred to as "he".
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Quote:Well not to put too fine a point on this, but the problem with these stories is that Harry is basically a walking Godmode. He can never truly be harmed and even when he faces Voldemort (Sp?) you know he is going to win. At that point you basically just need to put your brain into park and wait for Mr. Invincible to do silly things and go on with his life.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
One thing I think JK Rowling definitely got generally correct: she's said in interviews that she spent five years thinking about how magic worked in the Harry Potter universe *before* starting to write The Philosopher's Stone. That sounds just about right. Because if magic can do anything, there's no such thing as a problem, no such thing as conflict, and no such thing as drama. There's no story.
I much prefer the magic from say, Excalibur, where it's drawn from the earth and can be turned against you. When an iconic figure like Merlin bites it you know someone means business. Of course Morgana got hers too, as did pretty much everyone, but that's a good ending. Of course, I may be severely jaded from playing/running far too many near-munchkin RPG games, which is likely why I'm still waiting for the Paranoia F2P. How much for an extra six-pack of clones? Only three dollars? Ok, time to moon Violet Sector.
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Task Forces: ITF
Mission Arcs: Oh, Wretched Man! or Hammer of the World
Trials: Keyes, Dillemma Diabolique or Lambda are good starting points.
XP Gain: Mitos or Arachno-Bombs in AE.
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Four or six slotted IO sets give nice Defense to Melee/Smash-Lethal so yes, I do take it on builds. The power itself is nice to "Reset" combat and has a substantial -Range debuff too, nothing wrong with that at all.
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Quote:This.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
I don't think that the player base is big enough to support 2 versions of the same game.
They could try making a console COH but I personally would not play CoH2 unless I got to "uplift" all my current characters/bases/everything into tne new game.
They are better off just adding to this game and working toward a new, different genre of game with their current staff. -
Quote:This. Takes 45 seconds or so but will get the job done.Originally Posted by Chyron HR
My scheme was to stand by the spawn point and grab the Heavy, then log out, and by the time you've logged back in it will have usually respawned.
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Quote:Heh this is a GREAT idea (the dedicated server) and I'll have to use it whenever there are kids around, thanks!Originally Posted by peterpeter
I have a server dedicated to characters my kids create. If you haven't already, you'll want to remove the store icon from your UI. There's an option for that somewhere.
Great reading as always Goat and yes, converters are quite awesome.
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I magic it by saying that I am holding my punches so I can fight on level with my teammates.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Tenzhi
The thing about consumables is that they get consumed.This isn't really an issue if you can access the email system.Quote:Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Specifically, that they're intentionally designed to be consumed faster than they're replenished, meaning that they're not something you can rely on for baseline performance but rather for performance spikes in unusual circumstances. If this weren't true, then they wouldn't be consumables in the first place.
Just email yourself a handful of whatever your weakness is and go to town.
As for the wall, it's always going to be accolading, especially heroside with the mindnumbing task forces. -
Quote:Nope.Originally Posted by Starsman
I have a more interesting question:
Would you play a Dominator Illusion Dom that has phantom Army, but his army:
Can be hurt and killed.
Have Minion level HP.
Have Minion level damage.
They still taunt but are no tanks.
I would not play this on a Dominator UNLESS PA had near instant recharge.
The only reason I want Phantom Army on my Dominators is because it would be ridiculously overpowered for me to have perma-pets plus blasts, not to mention I really want to see what Dom will do to Spectral Terror.
I suspect we'd need to have the dev team run over by a bus for Doms to get Illusion Control as is. Now, I'd be willing to pitch in for a bus rental myself, but there we are. -
Sadly will have to give up spot as we are having the start of movie night around same time. Many thanks for putting this together.
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The writing in this game is ok. Not great, not terrible, but ok.
Here are some things I would love addressed:
i)Overabundance of FOTM Mary Sues or Wesley Crushers, as you have it, that pop up for an issue or two then go poof, never to be heard from again.
Dream Doctor is a perfect example. He was cool when he was mysterious and grandiose...then he showed up and started being intensely too obtrusive; he suddenly had the Artefacts of Jocas which are an I Win Button. That's fine, we have Invention Origins and our wits for I Win Buttons but at some point you kind of wish the old Head of Vecna gag would resurface (TLDR: There was a Hand and Eye of Vecna that were artefacts in the old D&D games...they gave untold power but were quite evil. A running gag started that the mummified head existed, and hapless gamers decapitated themselves for ulimate power that never came, as it was a fraud.) so that we can be rid of Dream Doctor or Statesman's current iteration. Howard Phillips Lovecraft's writing may have been quite overwrought at times, but he did some nice stories with vague hints of what lies beyond the veil. Sometimes, less is a lot more.
ii)In my somewhat shortened career as an editor (TLDR Aside: My charges dreaded coming to my office because I'd just sit behind my desk with their copy in front of me and I would smile and they would get nervous. Eventually I'd point out the extra period at the end of a sentence, get the red ink over their copy and send them off. Eventually their texts got a lot better as they tightened up their writing.) I learned some things were just unforgiveable. Missing punctuation, improper gender attribution, sloppy dating (not that kind, get your head out of the gutter!) and so on. Basic stuff like then/than, its/it's, there/their will not get caught by spellcheck and should never see live servers. PLEASE have someone give mission text a quick reading before it hits live.
iii) It's ok for the story to be light at times. We don't ALWAYS need to be fighting Nebulon X the Blighted from Fomulhaut in an Incarnate Trial. Gradation of tasks and challenges has worked splendidly in the past. Rikti War Zone is a perfect example, as you have some decent to good story, side rewards in Vanguard Merits and some references to older lore. There really should be some respite from world-altering threats...zone revamps maybe? -
PvP, but they aren't going there.
Quote:Set this up so we have access only to Alpha, Interface and Judgment along with all IOs to that point and you'll have at least one grateful customer.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
3. PvP needs to be fixed by allocating a server to PvP that is never patched again, ever. -
Cannot express how happy this makes me. Making glowie hands and patron insignia disappear finally...JOY!
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Quote:If only one of our debuffs was a patch.Originally Posted by Master0fCeremony
Its like not putting out freezing rain on a stromie -.-
The Debuff reloads so fast, u could debuff a hole x8 spawn.
In team u dont need it debuff the boss and ur fine...
I dont see any why why poison should be buffe, played it right and u will have fun.
(Maybe im also the only one who doesnt see it necessary to buff blaster or trick arrow. I have 50 Poison AV solo MM and a blast at lvl my water/poison corr)
Here's my usual mission:
See a few minions, Tidal Forces Blast Blast AoE AoE patch dead.
See a LT, hit it with Envenom, Blast Blast dead.
If I'm lucky the mobs will last a bit longer and I can hit them with Weaken too.
It's the usual dilemma that the single-target nature makes them redundant against minions (which are essentially paper bags), useful against LTs and Boss class (but you interrupt your chain) and great against AVs/EBs.
I've had to bump to +2 just so I could use the damned things more consistently.
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Quote:We burned our bridges with them when we relentlessly argued with Castle in the day, sometimes extremely vehemently and basically lost 90% of the ladders and players. In other words, the flame wars + lost subs + forum explosions didn't really help anything. Paragon Studios has washed its hands of us for the most part, though credit to Zwlllinger in joining a few leagues and providing some prizes.Originally Posted by Sentry4
Anyo
It makes me wonder why it hasn't been done already.
Z mentioned changes to PvP would be similar to opening Pandora's box, but the solution to PvP seems extremely simple. The above 3 changes should fix the majority of arena PvP.
Not to mention the Pandora's Box may be with PvErs that unsub if PvP gets any attention.
It was fun trying to get them to set things back in time, but at the moment they will fix bugs, misplaced decimals but they aren't allocating resources to PvP for the foreseeable future. Macskull tried to get stuff done forever and it was like wrestling the wind. WYSIWYG. -
Quote:1. Close to 10. Mind/Bubbles, Mind/Cold, Mind/Fire, Ill/Storm, Kat/Regen, WP/EM Tanker, Nin/Nin Stalker, DP/Traps Corr, Widow VEAT and Kin/Sonic Defender. Might be 15-20 if I really checked.Originally Posted by Bronze Knight
Aphrase to refer to a character with one T4 in each available incarnate slot Alpha/Judgment/Lore/Destiny/Hybrid
- Incarnated: I use this to refer to a character with Alpha/Judgment/Destiny unlocked and has something slotted in them.
- How many characters have you fully incarnated?
- How many characters have you incarnated?
- How many characters have you rolled with the intention of making them Full Incarnates?
- Do you have any characters that you, for whatever reason, are not going to make Incarnates?
2.Nearly all my active roster is at least Tier 3.
3.All new alts are getting T3.
4.Old legacy toons like my Ill/Rad, Fire/Axe Tanker, Dark/Dark Defender, Emp/Psy Defender, Rad/Psy Defender... -
What's the deal with Dream Doctor? He was a mysterious letter-writer and now he's a Deus Ex Machina that shows up to trump all the endgame villains and is going to throw Ouroboros into the ocean. Who watches the Dream Doctor, and are his statements about the Menders even close to being true?