Ogre_Smod

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First, a big thank you to everyone who played on the Training Room server and helped I5 to be one of our best launches ever!

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Second, we’re still scouring the boards for bugs and other issues, but we’ve finished making large changes to the power sets .

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Why do I suddenly feel like I just wasted two respecs for my characters? Oh I know, cause I mistook this post to mean.
NO there wont be a patch changing things again in the next week.
Was this patch planned more than a week ago? Why post this tripe?
Acrobactics was one of the things I lost because I thought it was nerfed and left unmentioned. The knockback issue was something you introduced with patch COH V 6.20050817.4t.

A minor tweak patch that went undocumented.

Im sick of not knowing when its "safe" to use my respec. Im sick of tweaking that comes down with only days of testing.
Im sick of having to re-examine everything I think I know about this game. Im sick of haveing to "adjust" to a unstable game enviorment.
Im sick of the whole "Its not for PVP/CoV we do this" spin doctoring.
Im sick of the now perpetual "Beta Test" feel of the game.
And quite frankly im sick of playing now.
Goodbye, Doom on you

From my testing and playing, it seems Stealth is more a liabilty and aggro generator. Its not simple suppression its aggrssion now.
My test was with Smoke grenade. A power that, when successfull on all targets, lowers perception and Acc to some degree. This power is still non aggro when used by itself.
Net effect is stealth for you and teamates. The bounus was with stealth running it made me nearly invis. This allowed my Eng/Dev blaster to "ghost" past unessisary encounters, or get into ideal positions for attacking.

NOW if im running stealth, a power that requires a higher perception value by mobs to detect me, and throw a Smoker, a power that lowers mobs given perception value.
INSTANT aggro and sometimes chain aggro of other mob groups.
How is it I have higher aggro useing safe range and two stealth powers vs, useing just one???
It seems Stealth and ANY power used is sending an aggro signal now. So im not just losing stealth and some DEF, im sending out an AOE taunt!
I have to say BROKEN ! FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT.

Well I need to update my last post. I didn't know that Vahz had a level cap, But the Dr. Vahzilok mission did offer me a choice of DOs after I talked to the contact to clear the mission off my 3 choices on the Nav bar tabs.

It was nice that the game reconized the level of each participant, and gave a reward befitting the capped difficulty.

Ok so last night I was a L21 tanker, and I had just selected the Dr. Vahzilok mission. I did not sit on this mission and wait to outlevel it, I recived it at L21.
I took two people wit me to see the famous Archvillan, A scrapper L16 who I sidekicked and his wife a defender also L16.
Dr. V conned red to me. He was Level 19 even tho there were plenty of L20 mobs on this mission. Why were there no 21s? After this was the level of the mission taker, me.
Well I was happy to hear that they both got SOs for helping me complete this mission. There was no way with my damage output and Dr. V's healing factor I would have won this fight solo.
Why did I not get a SO? The challenge was clearly there. And those who helped me got theirs.