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Are you teaching me how to suck an egg? When everyone else probably understands I have been talking about survivability you go and talk about taunt control.

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When comparing tanker sets one has to consider both suvivability and aggro control together. Both are important to how well a tanker can do it's job.

Self Destuct doesn't leave a targetable body, so you can't use Fallout or Vengence from it. RotP should work though.

I intend to use it on my PB. 10 seconds left on Light Form? Activate Self Destruct. Then I have a handy self rez.

The costume parts seem to be the weakest part of the package. Jay would have appeared to have been aiming for an "external muscules" look, but to have run foul of the maximum number of polygons, and had to make the muscules rectangular in cross section. I like the wheel joints and the shoulder pieces though, so I will probably use some parts.

The aura and power look excellent though.

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Only if you dont use taunt. Between reasonable use of taunt and gauntlet there is hardly a noticeable difference.

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Given that any tanker can equally use taunt and gauntlet (with stone at a disadvantage there), but WP basically has no effective taunt aura, it is inevitably behind. It may have enough, it may do well with skilled play, but there is no escaping that it is numerically behind in that area. This is most noticable on a large team, since most tankers will be able to grab a 16 mob spawn with the use of one power, ready for a blaster nuke, but the WP tanker can only grab 5 at a time with taunt, and 5 at a time with gauntlet. This won't get the team killed as long as they allow for that, but it will slow them down a few seconds.

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if there should be one tankimng primary that is superior, it should be invulnerability

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No tanking primary should be superior. This is a MMO, not a comic book. If one powerset is clearly superior to others, 90% of players will play that set.

Intersting question. Normal auras are available.

As Ivanova says, Boom tomorrow.

Oh yeah, and:

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Hey gang. Here's the deal. The packs were up on the PlayNC store for a short time yesterday, but that wasn't in sync with the game version. Now that the new game version is up today, we should have the cyborg pack and temp jetpack available for purchase tomorrow.

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-Lighthouse

Oh, and the power is CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION LEAK DETECTED...

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For the same reason as Corruptors didn't get psi blast at first release: the defender version would be overpowered on the corruptor damage scale (especially in PvP).

One of the reasons for this is the defender version, because it doesn't have Aim, all the attacks do overscale damage to compensate.

The biggest problem with something like the PPD Hrdsuit costume is the pieces are not designed to work with anything else in the costume editor. The only way to do it like the VEAT cosumes, which is has a completly seperate costume editor and options in a costume slot. Which would mean a PPD Hardsuit costume slot could only be used for PPD hardsuit costumes, and nothing else.

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1) I think that if a customer is paying real-world money for the Jetpack piece It should be permanent.

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If the Jet Pack had been made for the perpose of selling on the NCSoft store, then yes. However, that is not why it was made. It was made as a "free gift" to acompany a retail version of the game. People said "we want to be able to buy that to, even though it only lasts 30 days". So NCSoft said "OK we will put it in the store".

It would be blaster psi blast.

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When I heard Cyborg bits I expected (as I'm sure many of us did) and have posted for repeatedly in suggestions EU.side and Stateside that we were after new costumes, not re-skins, not stripping down Exo-proto, Vanguard, stealth or rikti armour and swapping bits around and adding to it, but new content. This kind of influence and a jetpack that was suggested many a time was a Delta-Wing with animated fold-out wings on take-off! - not a reskinned Goldbrickers!.

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Given that these have been asked for since day one, the devs can't not know they are wanted (and could probably charge big bucks for them). Thus, the reason why they have not been done can only be that they are far more difficult to do than you imagine.

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That said there is plenty of -def in game that can actually have an Invuln at 0 def at times making them a resist set with a long recharge heal.


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Quite true. I'm reasonably confident that one of the things they are getting is -def resistance.

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for an exact no net benefit to what shouldn't have a net benefit.

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There will be a net benefit if you have fewer than 10 mobs in the aoe, which is most of the time in my experience. Also against Psi and untyped damage. Also useful if you aint running Invince (more likely for a scrapper).

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WP is said to be better than Invuln.

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when you give, do not let your left hand know what yor right hand is doing

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-Jesus Christ

The thing that I'm curious about: what does the guy at the back have on his face?

Costume piece? the translucency makes it look more like FX.

Aura? It has two colours, auras are limited to one player selectable colour.

Power?

Some of them have extra restictions which make them a bit of a pain. E.g. Glacier is pbaoe, and requires you to be on the ground. ranged aoe holds are much more convenient.

Nope.

Ok, I'll give.

The eye rays are auras, like the Laser sights on some weapon models.

The power is [choke].

The jetpack was a bonus item that accompanied a retail version of CoX. Many players in the US complained that they couldn't get it, so they are making it available to buy in the same way as the GvE stuff was made available.

Good value? No. But the players asked for it and it costs NCSoft nothing to make it available.

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Do correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that Advert created by a player?


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Given that it is on the official website (just not linked to yet), I doubt it.

Advert

Temp rocket pack

Thread on US forums: here

I've had a /Trick Arrow controller since issue 5.

I always try to leave a mission or the team if I have to go AFK for more than a few minutes.

However, sometimes things crop up that are too urgent for that (like rescuing the cat from the pond). If that does happen, I think it is quite reasonable to kick me from the team.

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Yup... Cyrus is meant to be dead. If you did by some accident manage to save him then we would have rewrite a part of CoH background.

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Not to mention cart away his statue outside Kings Row station.

It wouldn't wear off if you where still in the AoE of the pet generating the -fly, because it would keep applying a new one. It would wear off quicker once you where out of the aoe.