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Sounds perfect like that... edit: as long as your difficulty settings would still effect their lvl... my tank can easily take on +0/+8 like it's nothing whereas my blaster might have issues.

Now we just have to wait for the devs to realize how awesome of an idea it is and make it happen.

Couldn't agree with this more... the whole post really but specifically what I've quoted. Not to mention that of the options that are there... caves of any variety (with exception to the one with extremely high ceilings) are a PITA to navigate and maintain a good view of.

I do kinda miss open world missions from time to time (came from WoW). It kinda adds to the randomness of everything with other players running around, so even if you're playing solo it still feels like an MMO, soloing instanced missions makes CoX feel like a single player game sometimes.

The downside of course is that the missions (quests, whatever) got to be monotonous. "Go bring me 10 apples" at lvl 1 turns into "Go find me 10 stupidly named herbs" at lvl 60 and plenty of other "variations" the 58 lvls in between.

Anyway, welcome back!

See, having played less than a year I have no idea what any of that stuff is hence my WoW comparison... ewww I feel dirty.

Being relatively new to the game I can only assume Jay is the one responsible for costume design. If so, I can respect his dislike for certain things but isn't his job to give us the options we want? I'm sorry but that's what a job is sometimes especially when dealing with customers... sometimes doing things you don't want to do. This is clearly something that enough people want that it should at least be given consideration and if he can't handle it because of his personal distaste then I agree, perhaps he should be replaced.

How nice to have the freedom to say "I don't want to do that so I'm not going to" and still collect a paycheck.

No. For plenty of reasons but the one I will lean on remains the fact that it's a kick in the junk for those that have been playing for 60+ months since they had to wait to get that as a vet reward I'm not even one of those players and have over 4 years before I can be and I know if I wait that long and then it gets changed I'ma be all kinds of pissed off.

It's not a bad idea... but it's beyond unnecessary. I would understand moving it back to say lvl 10 or so... but even then like I stated in a previous post getting to lvl 14 takes 3 hours 4 tops of solid teaming. That's nothing.

Because Blizz never (and still hasn't) realized that people want different styles of play. But it's still at a point where you are expected to play a cookie cutter spec and playing different classes in the same vein (i.e. warrior vs bear tank) don't offer that different of an experience, whereas playing a WP/SS tank and moving to a SH/WM tank in CoX is entirely different.

I might (doubt it) check it out after the new xpac but everything I've read just makes it sound like more of the same. Blizzard's too busy placating the masses (as they should from a business perspective) to make the kind of changes that would bring me back... but I'm sure the billions they make off those masses makes that ok by them lol.

16 hours a week radiing I can see why you got bored though lol... at most I did two nights a week 3 hours each not counting the random Vault of Archavon or Obsidian Sanctum each of which took a half hour tops if your team was good enough.

Sorry for the minor derail... back to the topic at hand... I hope GR does something to change the maps in pre-existing instances too, we'll see.

I'll agree that WoW is also guilty of repetition, however... it's on a different scale. I'm not saying either is better they're just two extremely different games both with flaws and repetition is one of them.

After hitting 80 and running the same heroics over and over to get geared up to run the same raids over and over... however, each one is drastically different, especially the boss battles. Also the grind in WoW is only a grind if you make it that way. Leveling up in the instances is fun as long as you don't run the same one over and over to try to get a piece of gear you'll replace in a week anyway. It gets boring because fighting the same big dragon (or whatever) only gives you a rush the first, second and MAYBE the third time you do it on a toon after that it's boring and if running with the same people it's so routine the challenge is taken out of it entirely. It's one of the reasons I quit, that and to try Aion... not horrible but not for me.

In CoX it's fairly repetative from the beginning, especially the mapping. I was running radio missions last night to get to 50 (YAY) and one was in the same warehouse I saw when I was lvl 2 and at least once every lvl after that. The maps are extremely repetative and let's be honest the "bosses" you fight for some missions are nothing but a different skin and name from the last one. Different yes, but there's nothing so drastic that sets one apart from the other.

So in WoW yes you have to run some instances over and over... but there are VERY distinct differences between each, so while leveling up and gearing up after hitting the level cap it's pretty varied, unless you choose to just grind grind grind. In CoX the content is all extremely similar but with all the powerset combinations each time you lvl a toon up it's an entirely different experience.

Also while the original poster has posted similar threads repeatedly (isn't it ironic, don't you think?) it's for good reason. The problem is there's no good argument for it... as already stated all MMOs are repetative it's just a matter of what specifically is repeated and how long it can hold your interest. My average is about 4 years per MMO lol that's how long I played FFXI and WoW and I can honestly see myself playing CoX for that long (if the new Star Wars MMO sucks).

I don't consider marketing boring per se... I just don't have the patience or attention span for it whereas farming is just mindless destruction of baddies lol.

lmao same

Thanks!

Jade I believe you're right, I was playing with my gf when I dinged and the inf I was getting was roughly equal to her xp + inf (she's only 48 atm).

Sleep with Andie MacDowell DER.

Not to mention that it was an overhyped piece of garbage at release. Not sure if it has improved at all sense though.

It did look admittedly good... but graphics do not make the game. Hell I've run around CoX with the option (forget what it's called) that makes the lines look like old school 3D graphics (think the original Doom) and it's still a ton of fun because of the content, plus those graphics just make me giggle for some reason.