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If it included an account-wide unrestricted alignment PPP unlock I'd buy it.
But then I wouldn't be buying it for the customization. -
Considering the approach from the low side again, the DA EBs' (except for Blue Steel) immunity to hard or soft controls and hard hitting range attacks makes for quite the challenge for (non-purpled) mezzers, kiters, or sets with location powers that mobs don't want to stand in.
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Quote:There's no team in MMO either.Originally Posted by Ronin_Edge
In my own slightly deluded opinion, I think the reason that the drop rates are so low is two-fold. 1) There's no Solo in MMO
Massively Multiplayer just means there are a lot of cats in the same box. There is nothing said about the presence, or lack, of a cat herder. -
Quote:Unless you're counting leveling to 50, you don't have to do one single mission to fully IO out, just walk into Wentwoth's and walk out in full purple.Originally Posted by ryu_planeswalker
Except that the beta testing Proved you can get to +3 without doing a single Trial in about a month. As I stated before that is *faster* than you can get fully IOed just doing solo missions, and that is only one test case by one person who seemed to have some really bad luck I honestly think that the overall speed of DA will be faster than that.
22 hours for +3 (Coulomb2) vs 18 hours in iTrials for all T4 (MCM), which requires another full set of T3 and also Very Rare components, that's not slow, that's insulting. -
Speaking of DA being the new iTrial hub, can you be in a pre-form while flashbacking the arcs (since they function(ed) like TFs) or is the "incarnate" activity limited to street sweeping and Ephram?
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Quote:Yes, those ebil ebil unsocial soloists, they must be punished. However did CoH survive before the clusterhugs of iTrials?Originally Posted by Rodion
Moral of the story: soloists need lots of people to subscribe to the game in order for it to be profitable enough to survive. Even if you hate teaming, you should go out and join an iTrial once in a while when a league needs members to make it happen. You'll be doing the game a service, and also speed up your incarnate process by a factor of 10.
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Quote:They were told, rather decisively, during the beta that the rewards were disastrously low. What was the point of all the people grinding through DA for no other point than generating data points if the devs disregard the data points?Originally Posted by Grendar
They're just being cautious, by starting the numbers out low any changes they have to make are positive, which is very important considering they're trying to use this as a system to convince the F2P crowd to subscribe. Like I said, it's a little sick but not illogical.
And yes, it is better for appearances to start low and increase, but start too low and you poison the well. -
Quote:Apparently a very long term goal in the iTrials means 18 hours.Originally Posted by Coulomb2
EDIT: And getting anything to Tier 4 using DA is something you should consider a very long term goal. It's doable, but you need to be prepared for it to take a while.
And then there's all those friendly EBs that make DA soooooo nice for some powersets that are fresh incarnates and not setted out. I know, I know, there are powersets that aren't allowed reward tables in the iTrials but ...wait, what? really? anyone? Devs, you got some 'splaining to do. -
Quote:If only they would have beta tested it then they wouldn't have to toy with it while it was live.Originally Posted by Grendar
I suspect they set it intentionally low so they could increase it to where they want it later.
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Put Wade's skull next to Tommy's.
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Quote:When in this post WWD world have the FP been either successful or competent?Originally Posted by Scythus
Sure there is; they thought they could save the day... and were wrong.
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Quote:http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=283564Originally Posted by Agent White
The component drops seem a -lil- too heavily weighted toward common again. I won't be surprised if a few folks do some drop testing. Of my run through DA I got 3 common drops, 4 astrals, and 1 emp. Obviously too small a sample size but I'm hearing a lot of others getting mostly commons. Though getting a free choice for every arc the first time through is very nice.
Coulomb2's most recent summary:
75 Commons (79.8%)
12 Uncommons (12.8%)
5 Rares (5.3%)
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Quote:I did and it didn't.Originally Posted by Zombie Man
If you collect the 3 Malta, it does.
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Quote:Don't put him off DA right off the bat, let him "enjoy" the reward tables a few times.Originally Posted by bpphantom
If you want to and can get to it I'd recommend reading Columb2's "A Month in Dark Astoria Take 2" thread for his results.
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Did I22 change Numina to BABs in the Long Bow Helicopter part of the tutorial?
The optimist would say good news for BABs as they probably won't off him in SSA#2 (or WWD#7), the realist would say it's a set up to the sucker punch death of BABs in WWD#7 or SSA#2.
Wade most likely already re-killed Numina in #2, she just doesn't know it yet. -
Quote:Locked leagues/teams or leagues/teams above the minimum size to start the trial should either not be counted in the timer or should have their own timer separate from the actual PUG timer.Originally Posted by Aura_Familia
The LFG Queue system (STILL) needs work. I'll be polite and leave it at that.
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Quote:The LFG tool created the problem it was supposed to solve.Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker
The more I think about this I believe that the LFG function is trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist... or at least if it does exist, it's not an effective solution.
Concept of LFG, queue up, system assembles team, go.
How players (ab)use LFG, assemble team, queue up, go. -
They decided they'd give a freespec if they got above a common on a DA reward table.
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When there's a choice in the mission each mission holder has to complete their "own" mission. Cooling's save the rogue PPD from the fire mission does this since you can choose not to save the last guy. Team of 4? Got to run/complete it 4 times.
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Nemesis is just making sure that Wade's (read Nemesis') plan continues on so that Silos gets his Rularuu for the Battalion invasion.
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The new DA looks nice, at least when I'm standing still. Much like the new warehouse maps if I want to move I better be sure to be looking down at the floor, died a few times during super leaps and didn't know (either that I was under attack or defeated) until my computer stopped choking on the graphics.
Done two arcs so far. The +1 EB at the end of #2 wasn't a welcome encounter as it basically stalled progress there for most of the night on my freshly Ramiel unlocked no-purples frankenslotted defender.
Other than that I like the arcs I've done so far. Not going to get started on the glacial incarnate xp or the apparent weighting of the reward tables. -
Quote:If so there better be a DXP weekend in April after it goes live.Originally Posted by Angelxman81
Hope they are keeping the set till April to do another pass on sounds and to ad a Weapon pack like they did with TW.
Staff and beasts are likely to miss this DXP, did darkness control/affinity/assault/whatever make it in? -
Quote:Ya... losing a C list and an A list hero, and the numero uno hero under our watch just screams competence.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Maybe we're just that good that we make them look incompetent?
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The best part of the WWD arcs is after every hero you kill off they give a cookie (alignment merit) and a "good job hero". And that's on the blueside.
And the excuse, "oh, but Wade is afraid of you". Well, if he was actually afraid he'd send *competent* assassins. -
Quote:4% chance for one (1) member of the raid to receive a (1) recipe IIRC.Originally Posted by MrHassenpheffer
Would a buff encourage more people to make dual pistol builds?
Would that increase the value of the sought after Maelstroms pistols costume recipe?
What is the drop rate of that anyway?
I don't really get why his pistols should be going for a billion+ when I've been wiping the floor with him and his device since level 20.