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Quote:It's obviously easier to change the game mechanics than alter concept, build or tactics..Originally Posted by Reptlbrain
I don't know why anybody bothers to respond. Time and again the OP gets told better building strategies and better combat tactics and he refuses to heed any advice. -
Quote:There have been plenty of them in the market forum. A little searching should find them easily.Originally Posted by Ghost_Ripper
Can anyone point me in the direction of a GREAT or REALLY GOOD thread on playing the market?
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Quote:Sadly, this simple fact continues to elude the OP's grasp...Originally Posted by TRTerror
Your defender is not your scrapper.
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Quote:I was wondering why this whole thread seemed familiar. It's essentially just a rehash of this thread from four months ago where Ultimo goes on a rant about his poorly built Defender not being able to solo as well as a Scrapper, and then ignores everyone trying to offer advice. I seem to recall that thread being filled with the same type of exaggeration and misrepresentation of how various powers function from Ultimo as well.Originally Posted by Fulmens
The farther I go in this thread, the more I remember you, Ultimo. I know. This is a personal attack. Because a year ago I attacked your positions. Two years ago I attacked your positions. I gave you several chances, and you gave clear and specific examples that were wrong. People called your bluff and you admitted you were wrong. There's no explanation for that except "you made numbers up" or "you lied."
And once a year or thereabouts, you hope that people like me, people like Westley, have gone away and you can lie in public and get away with it. Several FF experts have gone away- BurningChick comes to mind- but some of us are still here. You make "mistakes" that couldn't possibly be mistakes.
Ultimo, just because another person tells you that you are wrong, does not make it a "rant". Further, I would suggest that if you often find yourself in situations where a vast majority of people are telling you that you're wrong, that you may, in fact, actually BE wrong.Quote:Originally Posted by Ultimo_
We started off that way, but we're starting to diverge into the usual "you don't know what youre talking about" rant.
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Quote:It's always worked on AV's since I've been using it. However, it does not have enough mag to overcome the resistances of +3 and above AV's. Detention Field will not affect them in its normal configuration. The trick to getting around that limitation is to slot it with Endoplasm HO's which will increase the magnitude of Detention Field, not the duration.Originally Posted by Fulmens
General: At one point they fixed Detention Field to cease working on AV's; did they change it back?
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Quote:Detention Field is an amazingly useful power. Granted, it is very situational, but for those situations, it is great. I use it often on Mary during Katie TF's. It allows the team to defeat her spawn quickly with no interference. It can also be used to neutralize one of the towers on the final STF mission to make things a little easier on whoever is tanking Lord Recluse, as well as dealing with any pesky adds while defeating the patrons. Black Scorpion decides to stick his nose in while everyone is beating down Ghost Widow? HA! Detention Field for you!Originally Posted by Ultimo_
Detention Field: I've never seen a Defender actually take this.
For some reason, I get the impression (right or wrong) from your posts here, that you don't team a whole lot on your Defenders. You certainly only seem to look at them through the lens of a solo player, and really seem to miss the point of their ability to act as a force multiplier for teams. -
Quote:Grant Cover sure looks like it is enhanceable to me. I just checked in-game and my enhancement screen shows Grant Cover as 15.50% (13.84%) resistance to defense on target, with one level 25 LotG +recharge slotted in it.Originally Posted by Cyber_naut
Maybe mids is wrong about grant cover not enhancing, or more likely, I should have worn a helmet as a kid?...
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Quote:I think this is the key here to avoid faceplanting due to defense failure. My FM/SD is only lvl 45 right now, and I'm in the midst of running through Tina's Praetorian arc. I'm running the arc at 0/x6 and even though my defense goes into the red with all the defense debuffs from Antimatter's little robots, they're dead so fast, it doesn't make much difference. If I took more than a few seconds to kill them though, things went downhill fast. Interestingly enough, I found that I took less damage by herding them up with AAO rather than letting them stay spread out.Originally Posted by Fury Flechette
If a group of Romans are packed around me, they're usually dead either by AAO fueled shield charge or by FSC + Fireball and a few finishing attacks. The ranged attacks don't do enough to hurt me. I play very offensively and am not a herder, but kill the Romans where they stand.
Also, just checked, and running Battle Agility, Active Defense (no membrane HO's) and Grant Cover with nothing but a LotG +rech in it, I'm at 52% debuff resistance. -
This certainly seems to be a weakness for Shield Defense. I don't have membrane HO's slotted on my FM/SD yet, but I do run Grant Cover and can go from soft-capped to negative defense in a matter of seconds against certain groups.
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Quote:Sounds to me like you pretty much farmed your way up to 50, running a lolhealer, and leeching xp. No wonder you see a lack of challenge...Originally Posted by Judgebanks
TL;DR The game starts off at a fair difficulty and the becomes way to easy end game, due to OP stats and skills.
Quick backstory before I get started.
I just purchased the game about 10 days ago, rolled a few classes to figure out what I wanted to play. Ended up rolling an Emp/energy(Yay for useless energy) Defender. As soon as I logged on I get ninja invited to a sewers group, so I roll with it. Being the healer for a group of level 2's fighting against level 5's was interesting. Later on I ended up doing the Positron TF at 3am, constantly asking can we sleep yet? Nearing the last few quests it ended up being a 3 man TF
, but none the less at least I had to actually pay attention.
Upon hitting 32 I started getting no whisper invites to PI runs. At first I was skeptical, but I learned to not question it soon enough. Possibly the least interesting aspect of this game is when you near 50. As an emp I hardly bothered to heal 50's that would run around mowing down 54's. I found that my job is just to spam RA's when they're up and figure out who's the best dps and keep AR up on him. You really do notice a lack of challenge endgame, it seems that most enemy npc's really don't know what to do when they can't hit a tank or can't get out of controllers cc.
Which brings me to my question. Does anyone else feel like the difficulty of the game drops off, due to an inability to incorporate powerful skills such as Thunderstrike, Chain induction, and Lightning rod creatively so that they're necessary and not just a harder hitting skill?
So far it looks like the only worth wild pve fight is Hamidon. Even that I heard was nerfed.
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Quote:As am I.. I get plenty of drops solo at +1/x8 on my fire/rad troller.Originally Posted by Dispari
Which I'm pretty certain isn't true.
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Quote:I think you missed this part of my post:Originally Posted by Dispari
But you're still irrelevant to that person. Because you're on hide and are only forming with friends and globals, you're inaccessible to them. Someone looking to form a group with strangers still can't team with you. You may as well be offline to that person.
That means just using search and broadcast. No globals. No friends.Quote:as well as form random PUG teams
But beyond that, I can't see how you can equate forming and joining teams using server global channels as equivalent to being 'offline' as far as other players are concerned. Any player can join one of their server's global channels. I make it a point to tell as many players about global channels as possible, whether they are new players or vets. It's one of the best way to have ready access to teaming opportunities. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Panzerwaffen
Consider me poked..
Hmmm... Perhaps I should have phrased that differently.Quote:Originally Posted by Westley
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Quote:Consider me poked..Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
If anything, the line you were quoting was a jestful poke at Panzer.
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Quote:What is there to shoot down on a topic that's been beaten to death over and over and over again on these forums since the day I registered here? Sure, I could type out a lengthy and informative post addressing each of the OP's points in a logical and orderly fashion, as others have already done, and others will continue to do. And like most of the other threads like this, the OP will likely ignore all of that, because they've already made up their mind on the topic, while calling those who disagree flamers, trolls, and punks. Oh wait.. That's already happened.Originally Posted by Lemur Lad
Shoot someone down for the words they use, but don't shoot them down because they have or haven't been part of the club. That's grade school.
And just as I expected, the OP is not interested in any actual debate or discussion of their topic:
Quote:I think I've had enough of this, I've gotten enough positive responses and plenty of different opinions. Have fun, kids. -
Quote:Recent join date: CheckOriginally Posted by JadeTora
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a CoH hater, I love CoH. That's why I'm so concerned for it. Running for almost six years now, CoH is pretty dated. It's graphics aren't that great ( But we're hoping Going Rogue fixes that ), it's engine is dated and it's combat may be a little dated as well.. I also notice many of the servers ( Guardian for instance ) are nearly dead ( Almost empty ) and the most populated servers don't seem to have that many people on them in the great scheme of things.
Recently I had read that CoH released their subscriber numbers for 2009 and it rounded nearly 130,000 people ( Not quite reaching 130,000 - Something more like in the 128's or something, I think. ) and I notice quite a lot of talk.. Well, everywhere.. From CoH players, haters and lovers alike.. Frankly I'm worried for the game..
It'd be nice if NCSoft staff could answer this, but I don't hold my breath for that.. My question is.. How much is actually riding on the release of Going Rogue being successful? If it's unsuccessful, is that it? Are we looking at dealing with another Dungeon Runner or Tabula Rasa? I hope the game will be okay, but.. At the moment from looking at subscription numbers, discussion and the facts.. It looks kind of grim.
Low post count: Check
'OMG! The game is dying!' doom post: Check
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Quote:QFT. I can't imagine trying 50 different names and finding them all taken. I think the worst streak of taken names I've ever run into was maybe 4 or 5 before I was able to come up with something original.Originally Posted by Justaris
The solution is creativity. You don't need to resort to spaces, hyphens, periods or intentional mispellings, you just need to get more creative. Break out a thesaurus, maybe check out Wikipedia.
Use a thesaurus & dictionary. Play with foreign languages. Heck, try wikipedia. Think outside the box. -
Quote:You are aware you can look at the actual numbers by clicking on the Show Detailed Info tab when looking at powers, right?Originally Posted by Stormfront_NA
Hi:
When I buy my combat powers, I can read descriptions to their damage potential such as light, moderate, high, etc.
Can someone tell me what are the damage categories from lowest to strongest damage and also tell me how much more each damage is above the previous category? I.E. Moderate is how much more damage over light.
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Quote:Recharge debuffs are murder on Dark Armor. Dark Regen is the lynchpin of DA survivability. Not having that heal up when you need it generally results in a pretty rapid faceplant. The only times I ever went down on my DA tank were after being hit by heavy -recharge.Originally Posted by Lucky666
I would go with a Spines/dark for the shard
Dark has alot of the res you need in there to the damage types they do. Since the eyeballs hit threw def like it isn't even there. The shard creatures have recharge debuffs which is nasty for a regen so that may be why you regen is havng trouble. Dark has a heal in it's aresenal which is good.
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Quote:I disagree. I am nearly always on hide, yet regularly join or form teams on my server's global channels, as well as form random PUG teams. Just because someone is on hide does not automatically make them into an anti-social misfit that only wants to solo.Originally Posted by Nihilii
As you said yourself, the only people you see are people who want to be seen. For someone who's looking for other players to play with, anyone on /hide might not even be playing, it makes no difference.
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Quote:Fire melee has the advantage of being able to run good attack chains without a lot of recharge. Hasten is very optional on fire melee, in my opinion. As an example, you can run Incinerate-GFS-Cremate-FS with only about 45% global recharge if you slot correctly.Originally Posted by Black_Aftermath
Awesome. Thanks for the help. I really like how the build is looking.
Only thing I'm still kind of torn on is Hasten vs. RotP.
RotP really fits the them of my Character and unless not having Hasten is going to really hurt the build, I think I'm leaning towards RotP.
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Quote:There is plenty of population and activity on Protector, especially when it comes to TF's. Are you using any of the global channels, such as Protector Watch or Jello Shooters?Originally Posted by Phantasum
I recently reactivated and made a character on a server differnt than my main (who is on Justice) and i found the server to be... well dead. I believe it was protector? but anyways, my question is... Are there any servers with a high population? I know it's not like it used to be, but I really don't like lvling and would love to get my blaster to 50 and group with people doing TF and all the new stuff. (i have found a particular liking for the architect stuff) Any help would be appreciated.
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Quote:No. On a scrapper or brute it is a fixed 3.75% defense that cannot be enhanced. On a tank it is 5%.Originally Posted by Ultimo_
So, to be clear, it's 0 Def when solo?
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Did you have patrol XP banked? If so, debt comes immediately out of that.
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Quote:Or try DM/Elec. With 90% resistance to energy damage, you'll be laughing as he's pounding on you with all those energy based PB attacks.Originally Posted by JWatt
DM/WP. You'll have loads of endurance, a heal, solid ST attacks, and great protection from your enemy attacks.