Nyx

I would tell them that....

"True power is not with your powersets...but the power of friendships you will make throughout your game time, with each unique individual! That deep inside we all remember that we were new once, and should be treated like unique and beautiful butterflies, reaching for the heavens, arms outstretched towards the sun".

Thats what I would say!

I actually think the issue is not with the blind invite, not with the scrappers and not with the defenders....or controller.

I think it was everyones fault. I get blind invited all the time on Virtue and maybe for the last year and a bit I have been lucky all the time. But considdering I do not think that is even possible, I would say it boils down to communication.

Expecting people to know what you will be doing and what they will be doing (Especially if there are new players playing a new powerset) needs to be addressed.

We know our relative roles and the game does a good job explaining those roles, however if a pack of defenders are hanging out, and you were the last to join the team, perhaps their tactic was always just hanging back, pulling and then debuffing. Perhaps if you needed the buffs and these people were inexperienced, you should have asked?

I usually do not mind taking charge in these situations, and many times it's on my Corr or my Dom, and many people have the the concept that the melee will take point, and then some of the brunt of the leadership....which I feel your team may have been lacking greatly.

Again I could chalk it up to the innexperience of the players you ran with, and their inexperience using Time Manipulation (which is new), but I also think some ownership of communicating what "you" need is also important.

If Im on my Poison Corr, and I know we are fighting mezzers, and things are busy, Ill let people know right before the battle.

"ZZZZ me if stunned"

Took me 2.1 seconds to write that. Thats less time than a load screen and less time to get back to where the battle went seriously wrong.

Oddly

"Buff me"
"Need Buffs"
"Holy freaking hell..I need buffs"
"BUFFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Heal Me"
"Keeps your heals on me"
"Need Heals"

Those all sort of took the same time to type

Lastly Etiquette!!!

"Please Sir...May I have a Heal/Buff etc"
Or
"Hey guys...I know you are all swirling and massed in a corner being all time like...but I need some more support"

I dunno. Maybe Im not lucky with blind invites, I just don't have an issue telling people what I need.

Oh...

Not to make a huge leap here...but remember how dark scrappers and tanks used to complain about endurance!

Poison...maybe the new dark armor!

To answer the question.

I have The Achillis Heal and Im pretty sure it's proccing. Although it's hard to tell, except I know sometimes I do a ton of damage and sometimes Im doing less. So I assume it is working
I also have the other level 20 debuff with a - to recover and the touch of lady gray chance for negative and I know it procs, just not often. But it does.

I also switched my Psychic Mastry to electric mastry. I figure if I am going to debuff things, I should debuff all things. So Electric reduces endurance and my other procs and debuffs prevent it from recovering.

Thats my theory.

Even though, only I know I am doing it.

Cuz it's a secret!

Venomous Gas should be at least colourable! It's not easy being green!

Ok. Update on the funness of poison.

So I took poison trap. Poison trap was unfun! I know it was doing something. I mean...swirling toxic vapour! Neat little gadet thing! 2-6 damage over time per tick...

But thats all I could get it to do. So, it not contributing to my success or survival, I dropped it. Cuz now at 35 I get epic power pools. So, I took Dominate.

Dominate is reliable and keeps me alive better. It's hard to resist, it holds, and stacks with Paralytic Poison. It cant be blown up or accidently set off, and envenom...or weaken...one of em, boosts the hold! Yay!

Just hit level 42!

Just got Venomous Gas.

So...oddly It accepts SO's for -to hit, and - defense, but it says it ignores buffs! When you go to your manage screen you will see what it takes. Endurance Reduction, Recharge and the ones I mentioned before.

The little numbers that tell you the info of what the power does only shows Endurance cost, meaning you A) really don't need more than one slot in it? B) You can put sets in it! c) Or just put endurance reduction enhancers in it to keep it low endy

But the numbers just stay the same from what I can see. But it's still usefull. I put Achillis heal in it. Something that gives a chance for - res and a touch of Lady G chance for negative energy damage.

Overall Venomous gas is nifty. Although I wish I could color it.

Ack!

Ok. People. I didn't say controllers should be free! (Although I think they should) I didn't say things should not be bought or paid for.

What I am saying is that the points system stating that during the VIP head start you had the option to buy things, unlock things with the points you had, but there was no functionality that actually allowed this in case someone wished to go premium.

For example. I bought Beam Rifle. I can, now if I go back into the store purchase beam rifle again...and again, and again, and again.

I could not purchase the unlock for the controller. Regardless of being on sale or not, the functionality did not allow for the purchase because It technically was unlocked because of VIP status. Which can be misleading to people.

To clarify, Im stating that the points system is reliant on the functionality of being able to unlock things through a buy option, but said option is either not there, or is there even for things you already have purchased.

Yes I would have unlocked the controller. No I would not have paid for the MM, Rocket Board and other said items because I don't find them appealing to me.

But I am mostly concerned about functionality, and for people stating that I am complaining about locked content, I am most certainly not.

Im saying that the VIP head start offered frill, powers etc, with buy option functionality. Which got people to spend their points. Market changes and the magical appearence of the now "Buy Button" irks me because I did not have the options I wanted before available to unlock.

So Im sad.

Im not angry, but Im sad, and I feel sort of duped. I am a VIP for now...and although that is super, and I have made the point od stating that I will be VIP whenever I can be...I still feel jilted...just a little...and here is why!!!!

I had points. I bought beam rifle. I bought some lovely costume chunks, but I thought I made the right choice of keeping my point spending to the min so I could unlock my controller...in case of unplanned down time.

Controller and MM's were advertized as 600 points (If I recall) So I saved my points. Only to find that it has been moved to 1200 points.

The issue I have is that before hand I was not allow to buy them just put them in my wish list, which means not being able to unlock 2 toons becausue I might not have the money.

Veats and Epic Khelds ok

But controller were around from day one, as were MM's when city of villains went live.

I guess my concern is that...(I know the arguments) it feels like when another game offered points, went free to play (eventually) but offered their sotrefron filled with frill.

You really could not buy more than "Action Figures" or glorfied un-battle pet. Then when they went to F2P, people who had been loyal spent their points on frill only to then have products appear, and then change in the market. This then resulted in people having to put more money into their account to buy the things that came with the game, or they needed to access their older toons.

So what I am saying is not as friendly as I think it should be, but I feel as though bait and switch are the words I want to use. I feel like I was given a price...no buy option (Only wishlist) told what I could get, and told what was available, and once the rush was done...the frill rush...the cost changed, the prices exploded, and nothing was there to indicate that this was going to happen.

I feel walmarted....only cheaper

On a wierd note...it's funny that because I am deaf and not always able to communicate with people, that someone wishes to play a mute character that would go through the same experience that I have been through.

I guess perhaps I appreciate the dialogue because it allows me to speak? Or maybe it's just the reverse. Im so used to not being able to communicate face to face with many people, that I could not imagine playing a character that can't communicate in a game.

I guess it really is fantasy

(Side note) I am not negative about my condition at all...I just enjoy concepts that focus on the inability to interact with others. For instance I liked Monet St. Croix in the X-Books for the same reason

Sadly Negate...We could start a cult, build a compound and make some koolaid and no one would pay attention to what would benefit the power...especially to make it on par with others.

Oh...by the way. If you PVP...Poison is pretty darn good. I tested it...and well, it pretty special.

On a side note...My toon was just given 45 mill for looking hot!

Has nothing to do with poison, but I spent some of my points to get neat new stipper like things and well...now Im a toxic harlot! AWESOME!!!

Yay Poison!

Hmmmm. So...Im sort of confused.

I know from reading your postings that you are a conept ninja. I appreciate this muchly.

However you say you speak OOC with your teammates when you are on missions. You also state that you are RP lite, or that emoting or using the ; funtions to display your communication for this toon could possibly be effective.

So my issue is:

If you are mostly OOC when in teams (Because of game mechanics etc.) then the concept you have created would be sort of be game breaing to your concept!

If you are RP lite, creating this type of concept seems trivial because no one will know but you. Unless you are interacting with others the concept fails because well..."If a tree falls" (Know what I mean)

If you played on virtue in an RP group or team this would be appreciated!

However, I guess what my concern is, that you want to create something that is not being used for RP, other than lite RP, that speaks OCC in team chats, that will easily lose it's conctept to the things I mentioned before. Lastly it demands that pre-programed NPC's will respond to you the same as RPers would. Which would require to much AI to really allow, thus limiting you to the contacts and content that the game provides.

This is an amazing concept, and I see others playing mutes or deaf people. I as a deaf person completely understand communication barriers, but the thing is, that in general you also have to keep in mind that a lot of what I feel for each toon I play will always be subject to the topic, when it comes to how they would respond.

None of my characters are the same! Each would not respond based on the text I have been provided, but I realize that the goal of the toon would prolly fit the general mission that I agreed to perform.

Im essentially saying is that Sam...your imagination needs to allow you to fudge things.

If you have the patients for Ghost in the Shell...Im 100% sure you can suspend disbelief...even if just to allow your unique creation to fly...or get hover at least/

I would use the ; to emote what I was trying to say by useing desciptions, genstures and so on.

If you play with a constant group it could be also noises she makes, sound effects, and or a combinations of things that are bolded, or cap locked to gesture of emote different levels of frustration...joy, sadness or WTF type things.

If you plan on seriously role playing this it would work the issue will be in arcs where you need to speak with people and make responces, which may break the level of depth you put into it.

Depending on her power sets she could be telepathic or an empath which would allow for communication either mentally by convaying emotions as opposed to actual words.

If using sonics, vibrations can also be used to describe things.

Pheremones could emit (as insects do) feelings, emotions, and fear, more geared to survival.

Again, where it breaks is the actual game text however if you need to pretend to speak to somone maybe the suggestions I made above are valid options to overcome this.

Ok...so here goes

My cell phone died. Phone company saw it was under warrenty and I am a loyal customer. Gave me a new phone, 2 months of free features and extra time! WOW...now Im super loyal!

My appartment broke...yes...thats right, it broke. Power went off on my floor for 3 days. Food was thrown out. Appartment manager asked for an estimate. I said 50 dollars. Note sent the mail stating 50 dollars was deducted from my rent.

Computer Store. I buy lots of games. Game I got and was recommended to buy for some reason did not work. Returned game got money back. Store manager pulled up file and gave me 10 bucks off my next purchase. Thanks game store...Ill be coming back.

Ipod...ok so I dropped it in the toilet (Don't ask)...but it dried out...but stopped working. Ipod replaced. The woman was so upset that this "New" product died in just 30 days (No..Mentioned nothing about toilets) that I got a new Ipod...and because she was so shocked 10 dollars off Itunes!

Wow!

Im saying customer service is important. Companies need to know about issues and how customers feel. I am sure the CoX folks know this. I mean, it is obvious.

However if I dropped CoX in the toilet, I would not ask for anything. Felt guilty the first time...I don't want toilet guilt on my mind for the rest of my existance.

My main money maker is a Grav/FF/Psi Controller. Controllers benifit a lot from FF. People giggle when I tell them this.

The thing about FF is not how the set works, it's essentially what you need from it, and what you need from it is minimal and paired with Gravity which also has wonderfully skippable powers, I had more freedom to slot what I did use and pools which made me a defensive monster.

FF depends on what you pair it with and how you plan on actually using the powers.

Personal Forcefield alone has saved me and my team many times, because I can make the escape and then TP people to a safer location during team wipes. Aid other ensures that, and I am generally unhittable.

The powers you need in FF are simple

Personal FF
The two Team shields
Dispersion Bubble
And Force Bubble

Thats it...nothing more. Thats all I use. Force Bolt is not needed. Repulsion bomb is not worth it. Repulsion field is not worth it.

I know I am not helping the idea that FF is not better than Time, what I am saying is that it has skippables...which frees up slots and power picks. Which in some ways makes it quite desirable.