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I tried one Master-of run and it was fairly evident that I didn't like it. It forced a different mindset on how to play: overly cautious on a full team. Which is completely opposite of what makes full teams fun: being able to cut loose on massive spawns. Heck, I felt that I might as well have just door-sat.
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Yes. Luckily, I'm a hoarder and don't have a strong case of altitis. A couple of years ago, I settled on a few sets that I liked (2 range Sets and 1 melee Set) and had some of the characters that I didn't play much low-ball bid on stacks of them. Email attachments has made it easier to pass them around to my newer alts.
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For powers picked up before level 35, I slot level mid-30s Set IOs (between 32->37, whatever I can pick up).
For powers picked up after level 35, I slot level appropriate Set IOs.
For things like the Stealth and Knockback IO, I try to slot the lowest level one I can find so I can have use it of as I level up. If necessary, I'll use Merits to buy one. Inevitably, I will pick up a high level one over the course of play. I'll craft it an store in in my Base. When my character is in their high-40s and I'm doing its final respec to adjust powers selections, I'll take the opportunity to pop out the low Stealth/Knockback level IO and put in one of the high level ones because it doesn't matter at that point. This way, the low level IO is available for a new character. -
The sugary breakfast pastries do nothing for me, but salt perks me up.
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I have Taunt on my Tanks and use it like another ranged AOE. Although, I don't pick it up until the the late 20s. I like to get all my armors and several attacks first.
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The -speed penalty in Stealth is a real drag.
If you do anything that is regarded as an attack, even if non-aggro like casting Smoke or tossing a Smoke Grenade, you'll be subjected to 10 secs of stealth suppression. -
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Quote:I do this everytime I prepare for using a respec. Screenshot, image editor so everything fits and to remove the background colors, print out, then pencil in what every Set IO piece does. Of course with the recent enhancements display resizing, it's a bit more cramped now.You must not use IO sets then, if you can just take a screenshot and transcribe from that. Before IO sets, it wasn't any trouble to just write "3dam/2acc/1rech" when noting how a power was slotted. It's much more complicated now, as you have to hover over every set IO to get the tooltips, and when you have a high level character, it's just a pain in the butt.
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Just an FYI: when you log a character in, a bunch of green System chat messages appear in your chat window. One of these green lines reminds you what your global name is. You can just highlight it and do a copy and paste with it (Ctrl-c, Ctrl-v). This way, even if you have some funky spelling, you can't make a mistake.
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Quote:Did you pick up Stealth from the Concealment power pool recently? It includes a -speed (slow) penalty.It feels like Ninja Run is a bit slower after the last patch. Am I imagining this, or did it get slowed down a bit?
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Quote:1) Except for soloing, which I don't do that often anymore, I only play with PUGs. [100%]In an average gaming week:
1) How often do you PuG instead of grouping within your SG or friends?
2) How often do you group with friends and fill the rest of the group with PuGs?
3) How often do your PuG members do what you feel needs to be done without being told to do so?
4) How often do you find yourself telling PuG members what you feel they should be doing (for the good of the current team/session)?
5) How often do you find yourself adding PuG members to your friends/global friends, and if those lists are full, using other methods of remembering them?
6) How often do you group with complete jerks in a PuG?
2) I don't make an effort to get chummy with anyone in game. In fact, if the team holds together for more than a couple of hours (other than a TF/SF), I get antsy and will probably take a break. There are a few people I've made a good impression with, so they might ask me to join a TF/SF or whatnot. But generally, I don't go out of my way to only play with a set group of people. [n/a or 0%]
3) Well, this varies the levels of the players. < 35, I'll see more people who don't play with the same focused efficiency that I would. [30%]
4) It depends. If they have less than a year of Vet badges, I'll ask if they want advice. If I don't feel like going into lecture mode, I'll make some off tangent remarks in hopes that they'll pick up the subtle hints and maybe make the connections for a self revelation. Still, if the character is already 40+, they probably aren't interested in learning. [25%]
5) I haven't maintained a Friends list since I started playing multiple alts and especially once I set up colonies at other servers. The most I do nowadays is star someone in Player Notes who I felt played well, particularly on difficult or long TFs like the Shadow Shards'. I'll also note the dud players too, of course. [5%]
6) I haven't met up with a lot real jerks. Perhaps only half a dozen have crossed the threshold of my usual blase attitude and had seriously pissed me off in the past 6 years. [<1%] -
Up until I got this Vet Award, all my characters picked up Air Superiority. I always take Fly too. The Fire/Eng Blaster I was playing at the time was the first character that I concluded could get by without Air Superiority because Energy Melee included a decent "get off my face" punch. So while the Vet Award opens up options, I haven't made much use of it overall.
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Well depending on how long your old account was active, you probably accummulated some time to count towards Veteran Rewards.
And you can harvest any Inf you had on your old characters. The in-game email system can now have attachments. -
Common IO recipes sell for way more at a regular store than at the Market. They're listed on the left side of the store window, under your list of inspirations.
Named Set IO recipes sell for peanuts at a regular store. However, depending on how desirable it is by players, certain Set IO pieces (recipe and/or crafted) will sell for millions at the Market. Until you get familiarized with what's popular, you may want to check the Market for all your Set IO recipe drops. Note: if the Set IO piece is desirable, a crafted one usually sells for significantly more than the recipe itself. Part of this may be due to an expensive Salvage requirement. Remember to take that into account when you sell so you don't short change yourself. -
Sonic Blasts - it was with great effort that I got my character to 50. Overall, the sonic attack graphics are ok with me. What peeved me was the constant "pigeon head bobbing" when firing off the attacks. I get a headache from just watching my character bounce his head around. I've been avoiding the Psionic Blast set because it's a head shot type too.
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The one thing that has bothered me all these years is the Electric Blast set. The blast animations just don't look "powerful". With Electric blast, all you do is raise your arm, cast a squiggly beam with a very mild zizt sound effect and cause an orgasmic shiver on your target. Compare that to Energy blasts, where you hunker down a bit to brace yourself, release a Boosh-Blam on your target who is knocked down or back. Even Ice blast which while it doesn't have a significant impact animation, does have a nice baseball windup and throw. I'd like to see the Electric animations perked up some.
One a similar note, the early Radiation blasts are also pretty anemic. Neutrino Bolt is like pushing cotton candy and X-Ray Beam doens't seem to have any noticible impact effect. -
For me, the Hazard Zones' click areas has always been right at the guards' crotches. This must be some sort of Dev in-joke that I haven't been able to figure out.
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If you've got some starting Inf to use, I would suggest you start crafting Common IOs to use. If you don't have some starting Inf, there are ways to make some fairly quickly other than winning a Costume Contest. By the time, you've made enough to outfit yourself, you will pretty much have the Common IOs memorized as a side effect. And once you have that under your belt, you can make more for cheap, and without the need for a recipe in hand, to sell and fund the next level range you'll be working on.
Of the low level Common IO salvage requirements, I think Luck Charms are the only persistently expensive ones you'll need. Although, just recently Spell Scrolls have become pretty pricey. The mid-level salvage prices bob around a bit, so it's hard to predict. Still buy what you need to fulfill the memorization requirements and you'll have it in your repertoire when the salvages become affordable for you again. I find the mid-level crafted Common IOs sell pretty readily and for more than what I'd personally pay for them. When considering the salvage drops you pick up, save and use any that are craftable. Selling a crafted IO will earn more than selling the salvage (well, other than things like Luck Charms).
While you may be replacing the level 15s and 20s Common IOs you've slotted earlier in the week or so of gaming, once you've upgraded to the level 25 Common IOs, those enhancement slots are pretty much set. IOs don't expire and level 25s are equivalent to a still very usable -1 yellowed SO. Any new enhancement slot you add from then on, you'll be filling with your current level Common IOs. By this time, you'll probably have extras from memorization crafting which you can sell to recapture their cost.
Working in this progression, you should be able to keep yourself slotted and still maintain a decent bank account. It's only if you decide to upgrade to level 50 Common IOs that it will be a very expensive as they cost half a million to craft, assuming you can buy the recipe cheap. You can put this off indefinitely though. I would suggest you use a Free Respec to cash out your slotted IOs to get some of you Inf back. -
Out in the middle of nowhere in the Shard Shard. Back in the day, I spent a lot of time trying to clear the fog of war on several characters. The flowing orange, yellow, and reds push my buttons. It took a conscious force of will to stop myself from taking so many screenshots to try capture every color pattern.
I also find the Shadow Shard wormhole interiors one of the prettiest things this game. I'm sure it's a fairly simple construct to set up being that it's only a spiral, but I like staring at it. -
Quote:In the past, I've only done the Villain side Respec with archetypes that didn't have mez protection. It was tough for these characters because the Tree AV has a massive kill zone in front of it that I couldn't do anything about. If I strayed into it, I'd be immobolized or held and then watched my hitpoints DOT away in big chunks. If there wasn't a very aware team mate who could heal and cast an anti-mez on me immediately, I was pretty much dead.I have never run a villain respec but I've heard some horror stories and I think that is sad. If true then someone lost sight of the purpose.
In addition, once the Vines are cleared and I could attack the AV, it was almost guaranteed that I'd be held at least twice during the beat down (or more if the beat down took longer). I saved my Break Frees just for these moments and chose to accept the accidental defeats out in the kill zone earlier. This was because, aside from the Tree AV's DOT, the overlapping COT ambush waves were right behind us adding to the incoming damage. The practice then was to ignore the ambush to try to take out the Tree AV first so I really couldn't just try to ride out a hold.
Now recently, I did the "Treespec" as a Brute and what a difference! I could saunter up to the Vines directly in front of the Tree AV without missing a beat. That said, overall I got the impression that it seemed easier. Of course, I'll have to try it again as a squishie. The timing of the COT ambush seemed to have been changed. They weren't occuring during the AV fight, but showed up after it was defeated. Also, the "heroes doing the STF" that used to be in the previous chamber before Tree AV's were missing. They were used to be pretty tough (before the speed runs just skipped them). -
Go to the The Markets board = http://boards.cityofheroes.com/forumdisplay.php?f=584 for the guides on how to make your own piles of Influence and Infamy. It takes a little bit of effort, but it's not hard.