NumberCruncher

I am literally excited.

Lame

Seethe : This is a topic concerning PvP

Heroes are way overpowered in PvP. I am sorry you didn't make the connection between my post and the topic of the post. This really is accepted by most of the PvP community, as far as base damage numbers go.

For the record, I love playing my villains in PvP. Corruptors are the shining example of things the dev's got "Right" for the Villian AT's. I love playing my Corruptors in PvE. I have 3 50 villains, they are all Corruptors. I have still yet to lvl a brute past 42. I'll probably get a MM to 50 before either of my brutes (42 and 38).

Please take things in context. Because you don't like to PvP (Understandable), puts a big impass in any future discussions. Sorry bud.

Ball, you are being degrading. Sorry bud, but that'd how it comes across in reading this thread.

On topic :

I play villains about 90% of the time. I'll bring my Ice/Dark or Ice/Sonic Corruptor into SC with the War Council team just about anytime. I don't care how stacked the hero team is. Cage the emps, kill the blasters...kill the emps. Push them back to their base. Hold them there. Have the */Kins keep applying ID so we don't get TP'ed into caltrops/trip mines....or droned. It's just what winds up happening.

But it takes a very buffcentric team to do this. This is possible with Corruptors.

My Ice/Dark has two single target holds that he can chain together constantly (with hasten and a SB) to eventually get through any status protection.

Now having extolled the strength of an all corruptor Villain team...

Heroes are way overpowered.

I'll take my fire/NRG blaster in there, and have it buffed at the base (Fort, CM, RA's) and go on a killing spree. The buffs are just that much better. If the emp can follow you around and AP/Heal Other you, then you are gold. I think one of my SG mates commented on how every Ice/NRG blaster all the sudden becomes an SR blaster when the emps roll in. Your only worry is if your Empath gets permacaged.

There is an obvious imbalance between the Hero/Villains. Main cause?

No Villain Empath. Sure, thermal's great. But it's just not an empath.

Next up?

Hero base damage is higher. Villains have a higher damage potential, but never have the chance to build up to that in open zone PvP.

Heroes spike damage better.
Heroes also get unresistable debuffs, that somewhat imbalance things as well. But there has been plenty written about this. If your search-fu is strong, you can find it.

The guide was funny though. I can't imagine how bad it must be for a solo villain to do anything in SC. I'll only go in with a team.

Much Thanks BZB.

Cleaned up the gaming computer. Biggest help was the complete scrub of the vid drivers. Now I have both monitors working properly, and can run 2 instances from the same machine on 2 screens. I could never get the 2nd monitor to display right, but now all is well in dual (single?) box land.

Now I am off to SB my EM/Stone brute personally.

Rock.

Nice work Imp.

The Avatar rules. Thank god there's lots of time to spell out words on the insanely huge mission map for Black Scorp, while you're waiting for the GM to show up.

The "Help" worked. But the Eric did not.

Falcon Resistor (Avatar) Hit 50 a day after Broad Side. Now trying to help all the SG mates up. That and trying to pop a million Prestige soon.

I'm more pumped about potentially hitting 1 mil prestige than hitting 50.

@NumberCruncher

Nurse Paleos - 50 Fire/Rad (OG)
Paleosness - 50 Inv/SS (Should see in Siren's Call)
Punching Paleos - 50 DM/Regen (Hopefully IH becomes a toggle again)
Iziko Ischura - 45 Fire/Nrg Blast (Faces punched while you wait)
Doorslammer - 37 Nrg/Nrg Blast (Self buff monster)

Smash a Lacka - 40 Stone/Fire Brute (Awesome)
Falcon Resistor - 40 Nrg/Kin (Awesome)
Knock Down Drag Out - 32 Grav/Nrg (Awesome)
Octavia Mae - 17 Claws/Regen (Is okay)

Most likely on w/ Octavia over the next couple weeks, as WC CoV Champ runs it's toons hard. As usual.

Thank god. I doubt my INV can survive anymore than that.

Now.

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Sorry if I interject like this, but I really wanted to point out that I agree with Vixen's and Liquid's opinions. As I stated often elsewhere in the forums, Invulnerability's feel is gone, and our Tankers are less fun to play.
We were the tough ones from the comics. We are not now. "Anarca SMASH!" was fun, "Anarca DODGES!" is not.
If I5 was aiming for more fun through more challenge and balance, it missed the mark for me.
People are leaving the game. I miss my buddies!

Bye all.

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Same on all counts. Good post.

I5 has caused some friends of mine to stop playing, and diminished some of the fun factor I had with my characters.

The latest patch to live made yet another friend decide that CoH isn't for them (Q fly changes after using the I5 freespec). Absolutely horrible. For shame.

My enjoyment came from playing with friends gained while being part of CoH. I'm just sick to my stomach at times when I log on to play, thinking of the grief caused to others.

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Nobody likes escort missions... in any game.

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Agreed. It's just boring. You do it once, the newness is gone and it gets frustrating.

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As an FYI I'll no longer be fielding questions. As soon as I finish collecting some badges (TF badges) I will be retiring from CoH.

I want to thank all those who helped put this thread together and thank all those who helped answer questions when I wasn't around.

It has been a real pleasure being a part of this community.

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Thanks for being a mainstay of CoH. I really liked using your guide, and was a big inspiration. Whatever you wind up playing, I'm sure you'll be a value to that community also.

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I know what your saying, I'm just poking at you, infact I'm kind of agreeing with you.

Porshe, pshh. Give me this.

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Corbin Sparrow When you're a king, you must know such things.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y29...gdave26/Me.jpg

29 now, Motorcycle engineer by trade. Engineering degree, for education.

I've done band thing in the past with Jett Blonde, who is local also.

I'm a big motorcycle nut. It's my job, and I just seem to keep collecting motorcycles beyond the space that I really have to store them. I also have to much musical equipment (that's not getting used, due to CoH :P )

Cool deal. I'm supposed to know such things I engineer/design engineer V-twin american motorcycles. Start at about 28k and go up to 35k. 1916cc engines...etc

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Another canuck to add to the list here .. heh.

I'm 29, live in Calgary, AB, Canada (born & raised). I'm an IT specialist at a software company.

What else can I say? Not married. Hobbies .. Non Geek - My Bike, camping, beer (see pic 2). Geek - computing, COH, collecting comics. Also like to play alot of board games .. mostly strategy type stuff.

I can't believe I'm including this but ..
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Oh my. A monster 1000 D/S Sena edition? At least I'm guessing on the 1000 D/S side of it, kinda easy to tell. It's got a spark plug wire going into the other side of the head