Pep_Rally

I actually feel the exact opposite is true.

The main thing I remember from when I played DCUO at launch was mashing my mouse buttons, and hoping the combo I wanted to fire actually fired because the difference between a "Hold Mouse Button", and "Tap Mouse Button" seemed to be 1/100th of a second.
If I wanted to use the simple TAP+HOLD attack twice, it would fire the TAP+HOLD+TAP+HOLD attack once, or vice versa.

That along with the non-chat system, no-cursor to interact with the environment, and the limited costume, and power options made me stop playing after the free month.
My main is an invulnerable super strength tank. Why am I forced to take ice powers?

CO is miles better IMO. Yes, it is like COH-lite, or COH for kids, but it is a nice change of pace from CoH, and I would play it when I got burnt out from playing CoH too much.

I actually like the bold outlines. It makes it look more like a comic book. The game does have a more cartoony feel than CoH, though.

I will say that I still like CoH's graphics better even if it's an old engine. I've been paying much more attention to the details since Aug. 31st, and realized I took alot of this game for granted, especially after taking some time off to play other games like DDO, CO, STO, DCUO, WoW, AoC, and GW2 for a week.

I also like how you can tap, or charge up powers in CO, pick up stuff and throw them, and lunge attacks are great. Having almost no cooldown on attacks is nice, but it also means you really only need 1 single target, and 1 AoE attack, which can be a bit boring.

I will miss the toggles in CoH. Being able to select an attack, and have it queued to fire when it recharges is great. This is more directed at WoW, since I find I spend way too much time staring at my power bar, waiting to see which attack is ready, or if one of them procs. Luckily, you don't have to move around too much in combat there.

There always seems to be a trade-off for design decisions. Like being able to choose any Role(Tank,support,damage), and the free-form system in CO is nice because it gives you freedom of options, but it also may be one of the reasons teaming isn't as robust as in CoH. Most people will gravitate to a jack-of-all trades build, and cover any weaknesses they have, so teaming isn't as desirable, and when a team is formed there is no real synergy. I'm not for a strict Holy Trinity-type game, but somewhere in the middle like CoH really balanced it well.

Another factor that seems to hurt teaming in the other MMOs I've played is Open world vs. Instanced.
I've never had much luck getting teams to do open world stuff. Instances seem to be custom made for teams, and most games only use instances for major dungeons/lairs. Having most missions instanced really promoted teaming in CoH IMO, although it would be nice if there was more diversity of maps. Adding new zones would be great for CoH, but I think I'd rather have them make tons of different maps for instances.

Anyways, everybody has there own opinion. I'll be dividing my time between CO, WoW, and maybe STO when the apocalypse happens. If I see ya, I see ya. If not, god speed.

Most Definitely. A big shout out to the Justice Tanks who are a huge part of keeping the TTTour running week in, week out, and for helping out in KR2 last night, along with all the other TT vets, since alot of us were at our aggro limit last night with the festivities in KR1.

Alot of TT's success, and longevity is due to the community spirit where everyone gets involved to create their own fun, and not just following the lead, and rules of the people running the events. Their is only one rule in Tanker Tuesday, and that is you do not talk about, er..wait, that's not it, it's that you play a tank.



I had a blast last night, but trying to keep up with 4 channels, plus broadcast while trying to read, and judge bios quickly is not my forte. I even won some influence(woot! I was totally broke) as part of the Posi race, and got the badge(proves I'm no ringer since I hadn't run the new Posi yet).

Thanks to everyone that helped out, which includes everyone that came out to have fun, and to the devs for sending 10 Mother Mayhems to murder me while I was typing in chat. Did it have to be Psi? Thanks alot.

Yeah, my mistake. I meant to just say Dual Blades since I was trying to think how Broad Sword could be faster than Mace.

The only thing I can think of is if you use Parry as a filler.

Looking at the sets, these powers are basically the same:

Hack=Pulverize - 8s recharge, 1.33 cast

Slash=Bash - 4s rech, 1.33 cast

Whirling Sword= W. Mace - 14s rech, 2.67 cast

Disembowel = Jawbreaker - 10s rech, 1.8 cast


Then we have some with the same cast times, but different rech, and damage:

Headsplitter = Shatter - 2.33 cast, but 14s/108 to 12s/95 recharge/damage

Slice = Crowd Control - 2s cast, but 8s/51 to 12s/67


All that's left is Parry, and Clobber.

Parry - 1.33s cast, 3s rech, 35 dmg

Clobber- 1.23s cast, 16s rech, 122 dmg


They are really almost identical in casting times, with just minor differences in the 2 cone attacks, and 1 major one in Parry->Clobber.


I guess having that huge damage/long recharge attack(clobber) instead of the fast recharging defense buff power(Parry) can make a difference in feel early on, but once you get more recharge, and more attacks to fill out an attack chain Mace should end up with more DPS.

Yeah. Possibly a scrapper, or SD/dual blades?

...and the SNORKS, Dungeons and Dragons, Galaxy High, Voltron, Battle of the Planets, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Talespin, Gummi Bears, The real Ghostbusters, ROBOTECH, Star Blazers, Gobots, Inspector Gadget, TMNT, Herculoids, ...



Good times.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzAQu23t19A

If you're starting from scratch, I'd go with either Champion(home of TT for 82 months, 7 year anniversary in Oct!), or Justice(2nd longest continuous TT, and home to many tank enthusiasts), because they have TT every month.


As for this past TT:Champion, I had lots of fun on my elec/elec on the ITF. I got to level 47, so it won't be long before she joins my Inv/SS, Stone/stone, Fire/Fire, and Shield/mace at 50. Sorry, I didn't get to say goodnight on TankHQ because my computer froze right after the TF ended.

JUST A CHEERLEADER?!! Hmmpphh





I enjoyed HP7, although I would have liked some parts to be more like the book, but I understand it would have made it like 4 hours long. I never read the books. Books on Tape FTW.

As for 3D, I'm not impressed. I went to see Captain America today, and it turned out it was in 3D. Still looks like a few layers of 2D image cutouts like with the blue, and red glasses my parents used when they were kids.
BTW, Cap was awesome! I can't wait for the Avengers movie.

The first Tanker Tuesday Tour on Freedom(2 years ago?) was coordinated with an all Tank SG named "Tanks Alot" so most touring tanks joined them.

If anybody would like to make a TankHQ SG on Freedom, go for it!

I wish I could make the first TTT:European Vacation, but I'm gonna be helping re-roof my parents' cottage in Maine. Fun. I guess it'll be mine eventually, but hopefully not for a long time.

Tank ON!

update: I just checked, and I'm now leader of Tank Alot due to inactivity!