Peacemoon

Put the fitness slots in Rest, seems to be a good work around for me. Just don't look at end recovery, because it is much lower then it usually is ;-)

Try replying to my previous post, I thought it was quite reasonable and I even tried to be a tad constructive.

You need to have a valid opinion yourself before you can discount Sam's valid opinion.

Basic IO's and salvage are quite cheap. No where near "millions of inluence."

There are a few very powerful IO's that are in high demand by even high level folk. Yes, these are worth millions. No they are not required to play. No you cannot compare a simple damage IO to a Miracle +Recovery.

For people who aren't great at making money, all these IO's (except epic) are available for purchase for merits.

Compared to what?

Every RPG game has a variation of "upgrade and enchant your equipment." CoH's enhancement system is simplistic and not time consuming. TO/DO/SO's are all quick and easy to buy from a store and slot up your character. IO's take a bit longer, but then they never degrade.

So really you have no argument here, especially compared to other games and the amount of time it takes to upgrade, enchant and gem every piece of your armour and weapon.

This is subjective. Also inventory space gets bigger as you level, and can also be increased through achieving certain badges and goals. In my inventory I have space for 80 salvage and 29 recipes.

Would I be against front-loading the inventory space so you earn 80% of it by level 20? No, but you aren't here making reasonable criticisms or suggestions.

Subjective and you are entitled to your opinion. There is quite a bit of variation in my view. Plus this is an old game, it very much depends on what "era" the missions you are trying to do are from. Classic missions from when CoH launched are very boring. There is a clear improvement however. CoH has improved a lot from those days and the more recent the mission - the better it is generally. Take the Going Rogue missions which are lightyears apart from what CoH released with.

Now criticisms about repetitive mission maps is something you will get quite a bit of support for, but unfortunately you do not pick and choose your criticisms wisely. People will not respond kindly to just blanket whines about everything.

Its true that CoH is not a very PvP focused game and again that is a criticism that could stick if you decided to word it appropriately.

Subjective but something some people would agree with you on. However do games need an endgame to be good games? Can a game be good without it? CoH is very much about the journey not the destination, an approach I take with all my games. If you are inclined to rush through levels to get the 'peak', you will be disapointed in CoH that is true.

Its worth noting however that end game content is in the works. So we will see how that turns out.

This is subjective again, I actually like the boss fights in CoH. Sure the AV/GM fights are a bit naff and that would be a valid target for criticism, but for solo and small group play they are fun and interesting.

And what is your point? If you look to other games, the developers actively encourage this through such things as talents. This is not unique to CoH, why pretend that it is? Almost every RPG I have played has pre-requisites to abilities. If you don't like the pre-requisites, then that is just too bad.


Well like I advise all naughty children, you should probably go away and think about what you've done.

You've created a highly critical video of a game which has a very devoted fanbase, and then posted it on their general forum. What were you hoping to achieve? This is not a critical analysis of a game, it is a pure whinefest which is embarressing to watch. I feel really sorry for people who view this and then believe this is what the game is actually like. Then again, anyone with sense wouldn't take a word of seriously considering how unprofessional it is. :-)

If I didn't know better, I would say you are deliberately trying to cause a flamewar. I look forward to seeing responses to your future work; when you post such videos on the corrosponding general forum for the game you just shamelessly and cluelessly bad mouthed.

I think it brings out my competitive nature and suddenly I feel in competition. Of course it depends what set I'm playing. My FF/AR Defender used to give me a huge complex over this. My other characters not so much for some reason.

Basically in i19 the Fitness pool will be inherent and available from level 2. So you will get 3 new power choices between 6 - 20 which is pretty amazing. But we wont be getting anymore slots so people who already have a tight build might struggle to find a useful addition. There are a lot of powers out there which are good with just the base slot though, just depends what direction you want to go. I feel like the game will give us many more options for us to individualize our characters, so really looking forward to it.

One thing I haven't seen commented on so much is that with Stamina as inherent, you will be able to get some of the better powers sooner. I know I always put off things like steamy mist and ennervating field until after 20.

First, welcome back to the game :-)

Second, there hasn't been any major changes to either Fire Control or Kinetics since you last played Firewasp. Your character should be as powerful as he was then. If you are finding a difference in your peformance it must be due to other factors. Maybe you are fighting some new villain groups or perhaps you just haven't quite settled back into the character yet.

I'm sure some fire/kin experts will take a look at how to spruce up your build, which will definitly make your character more powerful.

A very short sighted view Airhammer, many powers are fully functional with just 1 slot. I suppose it comes down to what your primary and secondary is. Powers that I expect to see more often:

Ressurect, Mutation, Power of the Phoenix, Fallout, Group Invisibility, Inertial Reduction, Smoke, all the single target immobilizes, Some of the non Mind Control/Elec Control sleeps.

All those "nice to have but no room for" powers.

I wonder what hidden gems people are going to discover now that they have the space to try new powers.

I think you are grasping at straws with that comparison to Stamina.

You keep repeating the same line but aren't reading the counterpoints offered. I have stated twice already that one of the main reasons is obviously to help new players who don't realise they will most likely need stamina. I ain't going to rewrite my whole post for you though.

Well the reason I think its necessary is:

• New players don't know they will need to take stamina and don't have veteren respecs either.
• Fitness powers, especially swift and health are extremely boring and while Vets might be used to it, its not good for the game to have such choices. Every choice a player makes should be exciting.

Don't know what AT's you are playing but on my Controllers there are PLENTY of interesting powers I could take instead of Fitness. Most of my characters tend to end up being backloaded, and not really fleshing out until their 20's.

[quote]Second, I predict Stamina will inherently unlock at 20, which won't do anything to speed up gameplay in the early levels of the game. [quote]

This isn't known yet, if they are making it inherent they could easily add it at 10, or 15. If I was advising them, I would advise them to just that.

I'm willing to bet like brawl and rest, they will be slotted. Also reducing their effectiveness goes against the whole reason to make them inherent in the first place, so its highly unlikely. Also the devs aren't dumb, they know people slot up their fitness powers with Miracle's, Performance Shifter's, etc.

Don't panic! :-)

Only the ones who are purposely using this bug to claim badges they aren't entitled to. Do we have different definitions of the word? I'm not for one minute saying this is some kind of game breaking issue which must result in bannings, but people who are deliberately abusing this are exploiting it. Although according to your sig, exploits are the fault of the devs for being imperfect, and players must bear no responsibility for such things. That logic will get you far in life.

I am reading what you are saying Local Man but I can't honestly say I can agree with you. My experiences just seem to differ dramatically. Mind's tri-combo properly slotted never really gets old, it only gets better. Once you get into your 30's you can easily have the recharge down enough so that you can constantly chain attacks without stopping. And they are all direct damage strikes, no DoTs, unlike a lot of the other sets who have single target immobilize's which damage is spread out over 9s. Terrify is another gem that doesn't get the credit it deserves, giving Mind Control a lot of front loaded AoE damage which is especially useful in fast moving teams. This is the kind of AoE damage most other control sets never get and it only gets better when you tag it with an APP.

I just don't see any of the pets apart from Imps and Illusions really matching a Mind Controller who is going all out and focusing on attacks. My experience of pets has taught me they tend to be slow, unreliable and watching them doing the "dirty work" for you is painful in itself. Now I will admit that because Mind is petless, you have to be actively attacking to get its damage. On teams my damage can go down at the beginning of the fight if im focused more on control then killing things, but it really depends on the capabilities of the team which determines what I am spending my time on.

So my experiences with Mind for is just totally different. Maybe you could try giving it a second chance? ;-)