Profit

Wow, Grudge. Nice work. I only got to 60% or so when I tried. And no, you don't have a movement power, unless you call perma-SB a movement power.

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They learned from the last Event. They camped the hospitals for I think it was Cuppa's party, or one of the prior anniversary shindigs

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Not true. I was playing as Manticore during the Cuppa-thon and was responsible for spawning all of the critters during that event. None of the devs ever camped the hospitals. I spawned the RV versions of the Freedom Phalanx and Arachnos AVs at one point and I believe what happened was some crafty player managed to train some of them up into the rez stations. I was babysitting everything I spawned and killing off the things that were wreaking too much destruction. In the chaos, I lost track of a few of the AVs and just assumed that all of the players had taken them out. As soon as I heard over broadcast that they AVs had gotten up there I went up and killed them off. It was never us griefing you. At least not directly.

I suspect that this is what happened this time. Ghost Widow was actually the only dev who had permission to spawn anything during this event. I don't believe anyone working at Cryptic or NCSoft attacked another player. We actually have very strict guidelines about what we can or can't do while logged into a signature characters. So if you were attacked by Lord Recluse it was undoubtedly one of the AI critters spawned by GW.

We took a lot of extra steps to make sure everyone was aware of what was going on this time so everyone could avoid it if they wanted too. We had 8 or 9 instances of Pocket D open during the event and things were only being spawned in 1 instance at a time, with plenty of fair warning beforehand.

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You guys camped the hospitals during the Rikti invasion at the end of beta! And don't try to tell me you didn't, when you awaken at a hospital and Rikti suddenly materialize. Well......

Nice job Zombie Man.

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Momemt of Glory needs to be changed. This power depends on the mobs being at 5% final to-hit. The defense bonus was formerly high enough to make that so. Now with the changes this is much less likely to happen. Only even conned minions can be capped at 5%. Every other rank of mob will be higher.

Since MoG is rarely needed fighting even cons this is a significant downgrade. Any additional damage is meaningful to MoG since the power does not allow healing or regeneration.

I recommend one of the following:

1. Remove the HP drop

2. Remove the -heal, but keep the -regen

3. Throw the power out and replace it with Overload

4. Throw the power out and make it an actual regen power

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1. Don't use MoG.

2. Use Reconstruction, a fast charging heal power.

3. Get Drunk.

4. Profit.

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Profit is a little miffed right now, as the INV passives were left to flounder in mediocrity.

(The above post cares nothing for PvP, the above post is only concerned with PvE.)

Shouldn't our battle cry be Hotties Assemble or something?

I nominate Moonmist.

Prof

Have you guys looked at the dev digest?

I figure this is the thread to put this in, I am going to recommend the Bewtiched soundtrack, yes the movie was bad....but just go look at the songs in the listing. This thing is pure gold.

Prof

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3) Concrete Blonde -- Joey


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Someone else who listens to Conrete Blond?? You need an office boy or something?

Prof

Woohoo...I go tthe next post.

(Sorry, never actually got the next post after Statesman. )

Prof

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You DO realize that it was States himself that stated (paraphrasing here), "Tank Power +RES limits in Issue 5 exist so that Sonic Defenders have a job"?

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Why should a def have to protect a tank? Tanks and Defs do the same job. If anything, the sonics should say "Hey, we don't want to have to bubble those guys, its saves us end and allows to focus on the ones who need it and allows us to blast without having to worry saving everyone.

Prof

The stuff of heroes is within us all
It is the ability to go beyond the normal routine and to lend help to those who need it.
Give food to the hungry,
Freedom to the oppressed,
Safety to the victim
and peace to the survivors of war.

We may remember as a child, the so-called golden rule:
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
To be ahero is to live by those words.
It is as simple as that.


Prof

Tom, I know already told you I was in, just don't want you to foget to put me on the list, I can get my hands on a 41 fire/fire tank if you want. A real life buddy of mine has one that he will let me copy.

Also, I have a lvl 16 ff def, kin/elec def, ill/ff troller, ice/ice blaster. Say the word and I will run them up the levels. I also have a lvl 24 ish fire/nrg tank.

And Myr, pm that poem to Statesman.

Prof

We should probably put a global channel on test as well. Would make finding us all easier when we get there. I know this is for fact finding and all that to get us fixed, but, it kinda feels like the first tank night I ever attended. Hmmm....I may have a treat for you guys, won't know till I get home and hook my 120 gig storage drvie and find out.

Prof

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That wasn't constructive.

Statesman, I'm gonna apologize for this knucklehead in advance. Also, if you've looked over the test we are setting up, your invited to join us on those dates. Get with Da5id, Tom, or Circeus on it.

*The views of the poster do not reflect the views of the entire community, especially the pompous [censored] part.*

Prof

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Actually, joining us would be good for States. Then maybe he can actually see a Tanker in action and learn something.


Oh and Proft, wipe your nose and chin. That brownish color looks terrible on you, not to mention the....oder...

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Oh cmon Myr, you know we finally get a dev in here after many months, no sense running him off with some angry new guy raving at him. Its ok, I know you were joking about the last part.

That wasn't constructive.

Statesman, I'm gonna apologize for this knucklehead in advance. Also, if you've looked over the test we are setting up, your invited to join us on those dates. Get with Da5id, Tom, or Circeus on it.

*The views of the poster do not reflect the views of the entire community, especially the pompous [censored] part.*

Prof

What about Weave and a 3 slotted tough hide, would that give the same numbers as if INVINC were going at 1.5% per mob?

Prof

Well, my tank, right now is about as defensive as I can get him. Should the test require an INV just give a yell. I'll mention this to a friend of mine with a lvl 40 fire/fire and see if he can help if you guys want.

Prof

Would INVINC be less bugged with no def and to hit buff enhancements in it?

Prof

What was the dates for this again? I will be on Vacation from the 17th to the 28th. I will be glad to help, and I have a 20 something verison of Guardian on the test server already plus I can copy Guardian now and I expect him to hit lvl 38 or 39 before the vacation. I can post my build right now if any wants to see if it will be beneficial.

And if anyone does want to see it, and I don't see the request for it, just PM me.

Also, my style of tanking is to grab as much aggro as I can. From whatever is there. Bosses, AV's, lts, whatever. And then let the team take care of them once I have them stickied. It will not be unusual to see me with a full 17 mobs stuck to me.

Prof

p.s. I can also still get the Mark IV store mission.

Scorus, you bring up some good points, but, if the most dangerous mob in the group, say for a 6 man team, is the boss, then were does that leave the scrapper? They are the boss killers, not us. Yes, we could taunt the boss and the scrapper could take them, but, if we can hold the boss for a while, then wouldn't the scrapper become more useful whittling the spawn down? Course, if that happens then the scrappers are no longer the boss killers. I like the idea of a tank wading through lots of minions, being able to whip through them fairly quickly. I also like the idea that a tank should be able to stand up to, and kill a boss eventually . I just had the idea while typing this, if we are to be able to stand up to 17 mobs, mostly made of minions, what does that say about how powerful minions are? We give up a lot to be tanks, damage for one thing. Speed of leveling for another. In exchange we get to be able to take the most beating in the game. Right now, we have give up alot and are not able to get our reward, and for me, being a tank, my reward is making sure my teams live and that I live. My teams will tell you, If I'm going down, I'll faceplant, I'm not scared of debt, but I let them know it so they can run. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying we should be able to do what we used to. We were to overpowered, but now, we are to underpowered. A happy medium has to be found.

Prof

Your right Porkchop, I was a bit angry in the reply. Statesman, I apologize. I will say this though, the line about, I taunted the carnie strongmen first cause I knew I coudl take their damage best, raised the hair on the back of a bunch of tankers necks. Let me try and say this nicely, Most tanks don't think that way. We would like a chance to show you how we tank. With you maybe playing a blaster. Maybe you could PM Ivy or Da5id. Get them to tank for you. I'll even do it, granted I'm not that good of a tank, but I get the job done. Again, thank you for the results, and I do apologize for the angry comments.

Prof

{edited- the bulk of this reply was in anger and without merit, please disregard}

This is a wonderful quote.

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" - Vincent van Gogh

{edited to say -- This is what tankers do. Attempt anything.}

Prof

I see I typed 6-slotted flight, please read that as 6-slotted hover

Prof

And the aggro. Good save Havok

Prof

I didn't get tough hide because I'm about dodging hits, the name is a little misleading. I want to get hit, I want the little 1 to float over my head signifying to everyone that even if it is +7 and purple, it can't hurt me. And then, I want the mob to keep trying I want to be the only line of defense my team needs. If it added some resistance, I might have considered it, only reason I really have invinc is for the acc buff.

Prof