Phantastik
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I really try to interfere with Arena duels, but whenever I zone in I'm just this little robot with no attacks. I can't even smack talk in broadcast!
So I have to go do it in PvP zones instead.
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Quote:My very first toon was a MA/SR scrapper, and one of the first things I did was add slots to brawl... mind you, this was in i5, when there was no "IO reason" to do such a thing. Also, as some others mentioned, I used to run all the way back to the exit after a mission success... learning about "exit" certainly improved my QoL!Originally Posted by GreenFIame
Lets change the subject a bit,When you guys where a noob what did you do that was so crazy or so bad and gimpy,you have regreted today .
As to n00bs: I can get exasperated with them at times, but on balance I like them - I always try to be helpful, and I can think of a few folks who I mentored a bit as "n00bs" who are far more advanced than I am now... CoH/V is complex enough that effective play is non-obvious, so NO one starts as any kind of "expert". And you never know what someone will become. Actually the SG I founded - Blazing Justice Squad - was pretty much a n00b haven when I started it, a tradition that continues to this day... we love the tabula rasas
The best place to find n00bs used to be The Hollows, and I used to love to go there with my high level defenders and sort of descend from the heavens to help out beleaguered toons by debuffing big mobs or throwing out heals, or even just standing at the Atlas gate broadcasting the availability of resurrections and teleports to pre-travel toons stuck out in the Gulch or something.
I will admit that I'm probably more impatient, nowadays, with some of the AE "n00bs" - somehow the fact that it's clueless level 50s bugs me in a way that a clueless level 6 doesn't, but the fact is they are only playing the game in what they assume is the conventional way. I have noticed a trend lately of AE 50s deciding to spread their wings and try other avenues of play, so I *try* to patiently explain how to get to PI, and so on.... and I resist the temptation to invite them to rated arena matches...
So I guess I'm nice
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Quote:So... pardon my renoob-ness, but how does this work, exactly?Originally Posted by Southern_Comfort
Why not just transfer with yourself via the markets? Liquidate the Justice assets and do a whole kit-n-kaboodle trans via a lowie so or something?
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I actually usually listen to either news radio (NPR basically) or have CNN headline news on in the background when I play - kind of keeps me informed, plus I can sort of tune it in and out.
When I do listen to music, nowadays it's mostly older jazz/blues (like Duke Ellington, Count Basie, etc) because that's sort of my latest kick - I pretty much like almost all music, but I flow in and out of moods. -
Quote:+1Originally Posted by Baalat
This is the most interesting statement I've read in months.
I'm picturing a "dwarf raver" character from some David Lynch film
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Quote:Please say "hi" to Gnome for me!Originally Posted by Talia_Rayvyn
But that is evened out with the fact that out of the 10ish people in the guild, 8 of them have 80s, so if there's something you need assistance with you always have someone to help ya out... Unless you ask Gnome. Never do that. Ever. -
I will add that were I not vegan, I would hold that cold, leftover pizza is the perfect snack.
It's nutritionally comprehensive, so it satisfies the survival requirements of marathon gaming fare.
Because it's cold, it's rigid, so it's easy to eat one-handed. Also, spilled condiments are easier to clean up because they're gelled, not liquid - no dire spillage of sauce into keyboards, etc.
It required minimal preparation outside of simple extraction from an refrigerator, so you can type "brb snack" and you really will be... rb.
It's sort of at once repulsive and delicious, which appeals to the average gamer's over-developed sense of irony.
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Well I'm vegan so mostly I snack on something like almonds (for the oil) or sunflower seeds.
I've lately been addicted to Stacy's Naked Pita chips, so that works too.
Drink? In summer, usually mugicha (roasted barley tea) or maybe iced coffee... well, not anymore, because yesterday I spilled a glass of coffee on the WHITE (formerly) carpet in my home office
Really, though, I'm not a marathon gamer any more - It's an hour here, and hour there - so the survival aspect of snacking is removed from the scenario
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Predictably:
100% Killer
40% Explorer
Less Predictably:
33% Social
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It would certainly be popular with the AE crowd!
Call it "Paragon HMO"; maybe you could charge AE tickets for runs, make some bank
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I'm a renoob myself (after two years) with no IO builds - or money for them yet - to speak of so I'm up for some old-fashioned dueling.
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Quote:+1!Originally Posted by ConFlict
I gave the best advice in the thread with the first reply in the thread. And mine is fact not opinion. Made up rules and codes of honor in a video game mean about as much as the tooth fairy. The only rule in pvp zones is the one you get while the timer is going off, prepare to be attacked by other players. Adding anything else is just made up stuff in your head that I could give a **** less about.
The one upside to zone pvp rules is that it allows me to cheat, which is always good fun!
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Sadly my first suggestion is reroll with a better pvp primary
No toon of mine got hit harder by i13 than my ice/cold. Ice blast is pretty much the worst of it thanks to the dpa changes. And the stacked slows got gutted pretty bad as well. You can still pretty much kill a squishies recharge but it will still take a while to whittle them down. You can still get the same slows from just /cold and add a lot more offense with son/ rad/ or fire/ for a primary.
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My ice/cold used to be my preferred dueling toon - now it's reduced to hunting badgers or solo toons doing missile runs in WB. Sad.
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It's amazing that this is still subject to argument.
Are blasters overpowered in PvP? Yes, of course, and they SHOULD be - they're damage machines, that's their role.
If an empathy defender can perform as well, then why even have blasters in the first place? Every AT has it's role, and it so happens blasters are DESIGNED to blow **** up... it's what they do.
A good way to destroy a game is to overbalance it, to say "okay, everyone is as good at everything, on average, as everyone else" (as an example, look at 4E D&D, which is so overbalanced that it's become totally mechanical and tedious).
It's silly to complain that stalkers are too stealthy, blasters do too much damage, tanks are too hard to kill, ad infinitum. That's why there are teams - to allow different specialties and strengths to synergize and compensate for collective weaknesses.
The day an emp can hold his own 1v1 against a blaster is the day the gates of Hell will disgorge its army of carebears into RV; me, I don't want to be there
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It'll all bounce around after Dec 10 anyway.
Blazing Justice, for example, is not padding the roster with alts or recruits - it's always had a strict "member referral only" policy we're not going to change just for a handful of prestige... so I anticipate a drop from #10 to wherever (20-something probably). -
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This is a great guide and I respec'd my lvl 39 into this build and used it for the first time last night. It works, so I can endorse it completly.
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Hey, thanks
I may regret it on my corr in Justice though
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This guide is a great read.
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Thanks!
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Yes IOs in general throw a huge twist in all of this (well, all pre-I10 guides).
More is always better though, so certainly any slotting that improves the benefits conferred by Leadership toggles is a good thing. It would be more of a factor in arena PvP, since in zones teams tend to spread out enough that Leadership toggles aren't always affecting teammates. -
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The most insane stop-action evar!
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That was freaking cool as hell.
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It took them four months to shoot all the footage... and all that jumping. Crazy
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Well not "funny" so much as "cool":
The most insane stop-action evar!
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I must admit without PvP I'm not sure I'd still be in the game.
I'm a latecomer to it myself, having "discovered" it maybe a year and 3 50s into the game. The first year I was occupied with PvE teaming and building a Top Ten SG on Justice.
I never "hated" PvP, though it was sometimes frustrating with PvE spec toons... I researched PvP builds, however, and asked advice of all the good PvPers I did know, and rather than [censored] about it I practiced and respeced and went from there.
Now I'm mostly rockin' the Heat Loss with my ice/cold/mace corruptor (my first from-the-get-go pvp toon) and PvP is a (bitter ice) blast
Why is PvP fun?
- it's competitive
- it's social
- it's unpredictable
It just never gets old unlike, say, grinding newspaper missions. In fact, other than the RSF, I don't think I've actually done a mission in maybe 2 months
Best of all there is a bigger learning curve than in PvE. I've been a "pvper" now for about 6 months, and I'd say I'm an "advanced intermediate" in terms of skill. So there's a long way to go and lots to learn (just figured out how to escape TK the other day for example) so it's all good. -
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150+ times we've done it
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150 times and you dont know why people are going to warburg?!
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Well, if it's not for nukes, then yes I'm asking for a second time now, why are you going to warburg AFTER you complete the RSF?
I'm thinking you're leaving the reward window up... and if so, why warburg? won't sirens or bloody bay work too?
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One of the nice features of CoH/V is the variety of things people can do... we don't all have to follow the same regimented styles.
Me? I'm a "powergamer" and I like the extra 0.2% that a 52 HO gives over a 50 HO. Also, I like pvp so for me a trip to Warburg is a nice treat. And nukes may not be "necessary" but I LIKE the big boom and the over-the-top debuffs.
Some people can't stand what I like, but those same people are willing to kill 100 contaminated or grind hundreds of pillboxes for badges - activities that would have me teariing my hair out for sheer boredom. But people love that stuff.'
I can't stand missions anymore, but I have friends who can't stand missing even a line of content.
I will never criticize another's approach to the game, unless it involves ruining others' fun (eg. griefing.)
Nukes may be unnecessary and 52 HOs may seem silly, but I like them
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Oh dear, I hope this doesn't turn into a battle between the Carebears and the Carebear Cousins. Anyone who's seen Robot Chicken knows how that ends!
*dodges upcoming flames*
(I would've posted a linkie to the YouTube video, but I'm quite confident that it would've been mod-smacked.)
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I just want a temp power that is an cone placate called CB stare. I think it would be hilarious, the FX could be a rainbow affect in the area of the cone.
Personally, I dislike temp powers being more useful than your primary and secondary. Nukes and shivans are over powered to me. Although, summoning temp powers are cool, making them repeatable and the easiest way to beat EBs solo is kinda sad.
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Well, for the record the Nuclear Blast nuke, used on a tight grouping of PC heroes in PvP, is remarkably dissapointing.
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...because now you need nukes anyway
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Why do you need them now? (Sorry, I haven't been to test.)
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Well they aren't "needed" but in the last mission of the RSF prepping the team + shivans with a bio nuke or two before engaging the sig heroes and dropping a chem nuke or two on them after the aggro brute has gathered them lets you defeat the lot of them in under maybe 90 seconds.
Since it takes all of ten minutes to get a Warburg nuke, and you are going to Warburg after the RSF, then may as well use that trip you make anyway to grab more nukes.
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yep the days of going to warburg right after a RSF are over now.. :-(
exploits are fun.
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That they are.
Plus there's just the efficiency of ending the RSF in Warburg because now you need nukes anyway
Meddling Devs