NordBlast
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27:40 is pretty fast... for now
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Quote:Apex and Tin Mage.Originally Posted by mutagon
ok with the potential of shards, purple drops, 20 merits and a respec all within an hour or so, I think the 3rd respec trial may be the perfect trial for the 50s toon looking for a leg up. Anyone think of another arc or TF that comes close?
Both give 40 merits + 2 shards reward.
There is the potential of additional shards and purple drops.
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Quote:I'd rather have ability to leave all temp, inherent, vet and accolade powers in the trays than to rearrange them again and again.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
/cleartray then set the powers the way you like.
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Tin Mage
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There is level slider on selection screen, by default it set to your level. If you are level 50, so it set to level 50 as well.
Touch of Death is maxed at level 40. That's why you don't see it.
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Quote:It is 20'' flat monitor with native resolution 1600x1200.Originally Posted by Ukaserex
I am even more amazed at how you have your screen set up. What size is that monitor? 23"?
In the lower right, the FPS display, and the graph along the bottom ... do those help you play better or just keep you mindful of when not to rush in to battle?
That is one busy screen!
As Gad said, there is no such time when not to rush into battle.
"Rush In" is the mindset of players I'm playing with on regular basis.
Netgraph and FPS just help me to see whether there is any problem with connectivity, lag, etc. It doesn't help me play better though. -
Quote:Dream OnOriginally Posted by Johnny_Butane
Just for fun I went around to several servers last night during "prime time"; Freedom, Triumph, Virtue and Infinity.
Apex and Tin Mage sat alone while Lady Grey and Imperious had plenty of company with people lined up to do their TFs.
I think that speaks volumes on what the average player thinks about Apex and Tin Mage, as opposed to the vocal minority of Muchkin power gamers on these forums who've propped up these two disasters.
May the i19 TFs and the devs "new development direction" be swiftly ignored, fall into obscurity and forgotten like the Shard TFs and other wastes of development resources.
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Don't forget vengeance stacked nemesis.
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Quote:I had problem with this mission from its introduction. It seems some mobs are spawned inside geometry hole. I tried that mission 3 times and only 1 was sucessful. I used "abandon" on this tip since then.Originally Posted by Sailboat
Amyone else having trouble with this mission? I've done it successfully in the past, I think, but for the last 3 days I haven't been able to complete it. The first objective is to free the hostage, then defeat the leader of the ambush. Well, after freeing the hostage, the mission objective changes to 'defeat the leader...' and I am attacked by Commander Pike. I defeat Pike...then everyone in the room...then clear the entire multi-floor mission...but still no reward, no end of mission, nothing.
Am I doing something wrong?
Hero alignment, 9 other tips completed, trying to reinforce my alignment. -
IIRC, I saw him only in one hero tip mission that was called something like "Unstable triggers".
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Another thing is to try to stay in the middle of the slope. When you hitting the sides of the slope it slows you down, rather significantly.
Make sure you have very good control response time. When I tried it couple years ago, I had keyboard lag about 0.2-0.4 seconds. So, I changed 3D scaling from 1600x1200 to 800x600. It made the computer much more responsive to controls at expense of resolution. -
Quote:LOL.Originally Posted by cursedsorcerer
Did I see that right? None of you had your Alpha Slotted!? Now THAT is impressive!
I just disabled passive buffs in team window. Everyone is with Alpha slotted.
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Recharge debuffs is another classic example where Real Numbers are wrong. It might show your recharge is debuffed by more than -1000%, but recharge is capped at -75%
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Quote:Mines are laid even in demarcated corner areas. I saw mines at the map door on few occaions.Originally Posted by UberGuy
I'm not really clear, though, on what the "right" strategy on Director 11 is. The mines have a 30' detection and blast radius. He lays them everywhere except actually inside the demarcated corner areas, which aren't 30' "deep". To the points up-thread, not knowing some strategy that actually helps mitigate being hit by the mines, that leaves it up to luck - at fairly crappy base odds if the Director's mines have a base 75% chance to hit, like most summoned pets do (even when NPCs summon them).
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Quote:My point was that "Master of APEX" itself (the way it is awarded right now) is too easy. You can get it by accident without even trying for it.Originally Posted by DreadShinobi
I am well aware of your run, I'm not sure what your point of posting it was though. Also notice how I said "Nukes, while not necessary to get the badge by some players are still pretty much needed by the average player to earn this badge."
I am sure my group of regulars could do the same as you with little difficulty, the point of my post was for the average player, not myself. The badge isn't reasonable for them imho.
On multiple runs many players were like "What?! Master of APEX? But I have died few times on last mission, how is it possible?"
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I think there is a trend to get player off of fiteklub/tru warrir mentality. I don't know whether it was intentional or accidental. I hope it was intentional though.
This trend started with Protean arcs and his orbital strikes.
It continued with new Siege mission from Maria Jenkins.
Next was APEX (warwalkers orbital strikes and BM's patches of death) and Tin Mage (Director's 11 proximity mines and warwalkers again).
Last so far is Lady Winter and her auto-hit aura.
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Quote:I'd rather to see option that preserves temp powers in the trays and only clears up primary/secondary/poolsOriginally Posted by Nericus
Here's an idea: now that I and many others have respec'd our alts and cleaned up and rebuilt our power trays........would it be at all possible to tune up the respec system so that temp powers do NOT go back into the trays first? It would be more efficient I would think if the primary and secondary powers returned to the trays first. It would make reorganization a bit more efficient.
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Quote:I thought that level 59 shouldn't have any issuesOriginally Posted by Mirai
L59 Katana/SR/Dark Scrapper
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Quote:Like that? http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=247401Originally Posted by DreadShinobi
This. It almost doesn't even fit in, as in the difficulty of the badge doesn't feel right for the TF.
Both Tin Mage and Apex as TFs are NOT hard, but theyre not mind-numbingly boring either. I've run Tin Mage and Apex about 10 times each on live give or take. Every single Apex run has been a master run, getting master on every single run without even trying is... unsatisfying. On the other hand is Tin Mage where I have gotten master twice out of about 10 runs (the other times we weren't actually trying for the badge though because it's a pain to get). The first time using the aoe immobilize strategy with my troller(which doesnt work anymore) the other time being a nuke run. Nukes, while not necessary to get the badge by some players are still pretty much needed by the average player to earn this badge. The badge shouldn't be set at a difficulty where average players are forced into using temps to earn something.
Basically the problems I see are:
Master of Apex is FAR too easy to get. It needs another challenge that can't be earned easily on every run.
My friends and I think that new type of "Master of" badges cheapens "Master of" STF and RSF. We would rather have new badges renamed to "Specialist of" or something like that.Quote:Master of Tin Mage is too hard to get because of Midnight Dodger.
Nukes/Temp pets shouldnt be needed to earn badges by the average player.
Melee are near useless in the director 11 fight if the team is going for the badge without the use of nukes/temp pets.
The actual TFs themselves are perfect (outside of some possible reward tweaking). The issue is when it comes to masters. Apex needs to have more of a challenge to get masters and Tin Mage needs to lower the difficulty on achieving midnight dodger without the use of lame strategies. -
It is extremely hard
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It was the same last year
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I looked at combat logs. Hit rolls for proc aren't there.
I have this proc slotted into flashfire on my controller, and combat log shows only regular (95%) hit rolls and hit rolls for "Overpower" (20%). That's it. -
Quote:Thanks.Originally Posted by all_hell
I set up an AE mission with a custom AV who had no attacks nor defenses.
I used the power analyzer temp power to observe the AV's status. Then I set the power that has that proc in it on auto.
Additionally, I also used two other powers that also have -to hit. The effects of the other powers DID show up, but the effects from the proc never did. -
Quote:How did you test it?Originally Posted by all_hell
Absolute Amazement proc is broken and never fires. Since it does nothing it is a worthless waste of space. Do not buy the Absolute Amazement proc. If the Absolute Amazement proc drops, do not craft it. If you have an Absolute Amazement proc crafted, do not slot it, it's a waste of your slot (unless you want the 5% toxic resistance set bonus for six-slotting Absolute Amazement).
I have tested it three times, (with >100 chances each time), and filed a bug report. There is no information available as to when it will be fixed. So, in the mean time be warned that the Absolute Amazement proc is non-functional and worthless. -
Quote:My bad... I guess, reading comprehension deficiencyOriginally Posted by Roderick
Not sure what that has to do with anything. I asked if Black Swan was required for completion of the mission she's in, not for the badge.
Black Swan was't required to complete mission in old arc, but IIRC, required in new arc. I also remember doing standalone mission from Maria Jenkins with Black Swan. It was on the same Shadow Shard map, but Black Swan wasn't in Chantry, but rather near mission entrance.
