Scarlet Shocker
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Quote:Originally Posted by Prof_Backfire
Sometimes the Veteran badges take a few days to kick in. Be patient. In the meantime there's more than one way to get wings.
Just stay away from Paul McCartney and Denny Lane -
Quote:Originally Posted by SingStar
Just FYI! A few weeks back I finished of every bit of content there is on one of my villains, of course not counting the MA (although that villain HAS done a lot of that as well). Yup, every single arc, SF, TF, Treespec, GM etc including but not really counting MoRSF. It's not really that much compared to most modern (last 5 years) MMOs I've tried. CoX is a very small game still, after 5 years. It's a good game, but it's very, very small.
Ok, so I might've missed a few paper kidnap missions, but I hardly count that as content. Agreed, heroes have more contacts and arcs, but missions are even more repetitive and mundane on that side since it's older. New stuff definitely scores way higher, like the faultline arcs, but I'm just not a hero player (yet I've still ploughed through most of the content there as well).
Imho the story content pretty much need to be at least doubled, especially villain side. You may consider that whining, I call it love. I want more! Still! After 5 years!
Sing you're a nice guy but if you call that love I sincerely hope you never marry. It'll end badly
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Is it one freespec per build or one per character?
and aer the servers down right now? -
Quote:Speak for yourself.Originally Posted by MrPlayskool
Well, this is how I feel.
There is stagnation. There are things in the game that nobody is willing to endure, like a majority of the TFs. T -
Quote:"See that... that code. That code what you wrote? That's right. That lumpy excresence of noisome fecal matter. That's what's wrong with this whole thing. And it's your fault because you're rubbish!"
achieve the ability to tell developers that their baby is ugly through objective bug descriptions, sans having your nose broken.
I could do that job -
Quote:Originally Posted by Demobot
so mad rite nao
Mostly because I16 has me spoiled to the point where I can't play on the live servers. I'm really hoping it goes live next week, bugs be damned.
I coulnd't disagree more if I tried.
Whatever the benefits of I16, I want it to launch when it's ready, not because of fan pressure. -
Just a slightly tangental thought, but I sincerely hope that DCUO decide to announce they've got some super hot stuff coming soon too.
When CO announced their launch it really made Paragon Studios look to their product and they've delivered a lot in the first 3 quarters of 09. With GR due to land before end of 09 you can't help but feel the additonal content will be almost as much as CO has on day one... so who knows what a swift kick up the jaxie from DC will encourage Posi and his pals to deliver.
I've been critical of a lot of what they've done over the last year but we don't have too many grounds for complaint. The sub is cheaper than many MMOs, we get regular free content and Power Spectrum is exactly what the fans asked for... as is Going Rogue.
I15 was a lash up in terms of the way it was presented. The whole 5th year anniversary fell flat on its face, largely because I think the devs forgot to look outside their box that day but MA and the "anniversary patch" did add a lot.
Some of you might be griping about new content - or perceieved lack therof. But there's a shed load out there and I bet even many of you vets who complain haven't done all of it. -
I used to RP a lot and I'm almost exclusively on Defiant. With other projects I've let my SG dwindle but I do miss it.
If you wanna get something going either side of the tracks hit me up -
Quote:ClassOriginally Posted by Carnifax
> Prove to me you are a Villain fan!
I'm definitely the Villains #1 Fan!!
I have all of Mako's albums. Even that spoken word one from the 70s (what were you thinking Mako).
Ghost Widow has a restraining order against me. I'm not allowed to approach within 500m of her tower or call her any more.
I've got the largest collection of signed photos & memoriablia from Lord Recluse, including a rare letter to Statesman where he calls him a "Poo-poo head".
And I've still got Weaver One chained up in my cabin in the woods, Misery style, working on new Tarantula designs for me (I'll never forgive him for what he did to Becky, now he's gonna put it right).
AND I'm the chief organiser of Paragon Citys Villcon 2009 in the Bricktown Expo Centre-which-looks-a-bit-like-a-warehouse in October. This year we have Wretch, who's doing some poetry readings for us, Scicerro is signing his new book, "Woe is being an angsty anti-villain" and the Carnie Dancers will be performing their new show for us ("Mind Alteringly good" : NY Times) -
I just wanna know what the hamsters were doing out of their cages. They don't have time to play the game they are meant to be powering the European servers
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Quote:Originally Posted by Finduilas
But why "experiment" with an expensive IO that is completely redundant; i.e. duplicates a power that you already get in one of your sets?
Put it on another toon; sell it for lots of infamy, but it's just a complete waste for a set that already has KB protection.
As I've already said and has been pointed out, I already had the FF IOs and the BoZ actually gives some good AoE defence when slotted twice or more - it was free from a reward roll so worked well.
This is my first high level melee toon. It's brand new territory for me and I'm experimenting because a) I can and b) I'm learning as I go c) it's quite fun.
I'm sure I'm not making the "perfect" build but I'm enjoying having fun and once he's haflway decent I am sure I'll make more of him. Once GR comes out I might try and have him walk that thin grey line and do all content possible.
I may not be doing it the "right" way but with you guys giving me good advice it's proving to be fun -
Thanks to all for your advice.
I've got some additional info for you if you want to take it a stage further.
I mostly followed Kidengineer's basic power pattern, with a few tweaks on slotting. I'm now looking at slotting. I got a BoZ KB prot that I've used and I already had 4 Force Feebacks that I've slotted in Pulverise -
Can someone please clarify a point?
I have an underscore in my name... it's "Scarlet_Shocker"
I'd love to lose that but... all names seem to have a line under them so... is there any kind of point? If I could I would be "Scarlet Shocker" because, frankly, that's one of the best alliterative names on the boards and the devil is in the detail but who the hell would know? -
Thanks for the advice so far.
I don't have a mass of infamy to spend on this guy initially but I am enjoying playing him, so I guess I will get him to where he's good and then work on making him uber.
Finduilas, can you explain your thoughts behind dropping Taunt? (it's one of teh few powers I've got with IOs in, 4 Mocking Beratements IIRC)
*(edited to add I went here to browse some possible builds and neither set seems to be available... so I'm guessing it's not terribly up to date.) -
Quote:Originally Posted by Blue Rabbit
They'll have to be EXTREMELY careful.
Oooh.... lvl 1 Death Race around the Pylons then!!!
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If I increase diff on a smallish team will that increase my chance?
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Quote:Originally Posted by Positron
You bet!
Will the mobs of Hazard zones adjust somehow, or will the lowbies have to either be SK'd or VERY careful? -
I've played this game a long time now and I've only ever had a handful of purple recipes.
What am I doing wrong? It seems plenty of others get them, and I do a lot of TFs and such so what can I do to increase the rate of Purply Goodness landing on my head? -
Quote:Originally Posted by MOUT__
And remember... old geometry teachers never die, they just go off on a tangent.
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After three and a half years I've finally gotten myself a melee toon to 50 and it was the above build. It took me a few incarnations, but none of those worked for me. (I even tried WM/EnA but it was too strong and pretty for me to cope with)
I've enjoyed the survivability - my CoX career thus far has been squishy to say the least, mostly blasters and trollers - but I'm not sure I'm getting the best out of it.
I've not taken an patron powers, I haven't done the arc and do not intend to and my initial build was all the Mace set, all the SR, 3 of the Leaping and three from Fitness.
I'm not hugely kitted out with IOs or sets, but following on from a couple of conversations it was suggested I drop Acrobatics in place of Weave, and possibly lose Elude.
I can see the point of losing acrobatics - I've already got 10pts of KB protection and I need to reduce my End consumption but not sure I'm ready to junk Elude.
I've tried using Mids but frankly I've never really gotten my head around that so I'll be glad to know what you guys think.
Cheers -
Zomgrofl!
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This would make a really good community event... "Search for the Hidden Places"
Done right it could be made to work across all time zones and all servers... -
Quote:Works for me.Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
Personally, I'd rather they just get rid of mob levels altogether. Apply the invasion mob conning code to all mobs, so that they're always SOME kind of a threat.
Just because you're 10 levels higher than a mob does not mean that suddenly his bullets don't hurt, and that arresting him won't earn you some gratitude from the city.
This is the downfall of every "level" based RPG. It's very artificial but RPGs that have tried to enhance the player without giving him a massive amount of hit points etc has never historically done very well. -
Quote:Originally Posted by SilverAgeFan
Several people are agreeing it would make Ouroboros pointless, but I disagree.
Ouroboros allows you to re-run content. It also streamlines canon content down to major story arcs, story arc zone arcs and badge missions. There is value in both. And this feature would probably go a long way toward reducing any request that ALL content be made accessible via the pillar of ice and flame.
This makes a lot more sense. Open all the available content via Ouroboros... Ouroboros is a very good way of visiting outlevelled arcs - so if there's anything missing from that, much better to add it in than to produce another "new" system.
Another point is that if you allow people to "self-exemplar" they could potentially stick at a certain level ad-infinitum and that makes me uneasy.