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Quote:Yup you can. Do mind, you have to do the alignment twice, once to become a villigant (or so), then a 2nd time to become a true villian. To return, again do it twice (villain -> rogue -> hero).Originally Posted by PBAtty
Just getting back into the game recently after being gone for awhile. Planning on dusting off some of my 50's. I'm wondering if I run tips and alignment missions and switch a lvl 50 hero to the red side, will I be able to do the arc to unlock patron powers and then run a respec to substitute patron powers in place of my ancillary powers even though I'm already at lvl 50?
After that, it doesnt mather what side you are, when you respec, you have acces to patron and epic pool.
(as a bonus, old days you could only unlock the patron for the NPC you were doing the mission for, now once you done the missions, you will unlock all 4 patron pools). -
Oddly, Freedom, Defiant and Union just went down.
Freedom i could understand (busy one), Union as the crowded EU one too.. but Defiant? Ghosttown server went down?
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Quote:Less then earning now? Very very unlikely. Respecs, slots, powers, hell even entire IO sets can be bought from the store, additional to the VIP players continue to pay their monthly sub.Originally Posted by Sailboat
Even in the event NC Soft calculates they will make substantially less money by allowing it?
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Quote:Kinda like Sonic, wich has resist bubbles along with the mez bubble, but also gives a few other gimmicks to make the set more active.Originally Posted by Draeth Darkstar
No, what most people asking for FF revamps want is a support set that can do more than one thing. Raw defense is great... if your targets are below the soft cap, but there are many, many ways to boost defenses on a team, and most of them come from sets that can do way more than Force Fields, such as Cold Domination, which basically invalidates the entire existence of Force Fields. The only other mechanic of any use in FF is the small mez protection on Dispersion, and now everyone can provide better mez protection by going Clarion Destiny.
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Quote:I wish i could use steam, after my new upgrade my account got locked and i never recieved an email for the activationcode. Everytime i contact support, wait a few days bla bla, check your spam bla bla, no steam for me.Originally Posted by Grouchybeast
It looks like you can still pick up GR from Steam.
Edit i checked the store, but it only has GR Complete collection. Im not gonna pay 25 euro for some stupid flaw of NCsoft. -
Quote:Yup, that leaping pool seems to have quite a nice 'opening' for several sets.Originally Posted by Auroxis
The new leaping pool power, Spring Attack, has the same recharge as Hail of Bullets and Drain Psyche, and can teleport you into Melee range. BU+Spring Attack+Drain Psyche+Hail of Bullets+Psychic Shockwave anyone?
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Quote:Let me point out a minor aspect of 'free player' of CoH Freedom:Originally Posted by Ukaserex
What new player doesn't have access to IOs? I guess I can understand that if you're new, you're not necessarily swimming in funds - but surely when you come across such a player you give them the ways to afford one - i.e. Buy low, sell high. Crafting recipes, etc.
Free Players:
Free players are automatically Reward level 1 which is unlocked by creating an account or already having an account.
Cannot use Invention Origin enhancements
Limited Drops (Only small inspirations, no salvage, no recipes)
No Trading
Influence Cap (25,000,000)
No access to the Auction House
So not untill they unlocked these features (premium points) or go VIP (sub), they wont have acces to such. I believe the majority of new players will be free players, examples are enough to be found from all previous MMO's that went freemium. -
Quote:Totaly agree, it only fixed parts of the AI of MM pets.Originally Posted by Rebel_Scum
To my knowledge, mastermind pets will still do that on occasion. Not being affected by recharge might've made it happen less often but there's still something wonky with pet AI in this game.
Sometimes i believe the custom mobs in AE seem to work better then the various MM pets. -
Quote:And how much $/ is 1 pp? I got a feeling that magic pack is serious serious expensive.Originally Posted by Dal
Okay, I found the list.
Remember the prices are not final. They will likely be cheaper at launch, but this should still give an idea of their relative costs in comparison to each other. Luckily I already got the most expensive ones.
Anyway, when do we get this stuff back? The day they removed it (actualy it was a day to early), i ran into the problem my 4th account doesnt have GR thus cant do alligment mission.
The popup still directs you to the store, yet the product is gone. I believe all VIP will get GR for free, but im not really happy waiting days maybe weeks to continue my character. -
Quote:There is quite a difference between calling out for a healer and claiming you need softcap for Trials.Originally Posted by PBAtty
You getting asked that question tells me the League Leader was probably planning for the team to play poorly and wanted as much of a safety net as possible. He's probably the same guy who puts together PUGs and think they can't complete missions without a "healer" there. Sometimes people just want a crutch for their own reckless play.
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For my mercs, thats good. Retarted AI still thinks a rifle should be used at melee ranged.
Bright side, Oil Slick can also ignite by itself, not sure if this is WAI but happened to me quite often. -
Out of the box there are a few sets that can perform with plain IO's without any intensive need of inspirations.
Inv tanker gets softcap without problem (weave and CJ 3slot added) and has near cap SL resist. In such, SL farm maps are easy (pop a green once in a while). Brute version lacks about 10% defense, 1 purple should work that out, maybe add a extra orange to get hit less hard.
WP tank needs 1purple/1orange along with the basic defense powers to do +2 without any problem.
Shield can hit softcap, but the lack of decent resist can be tricky against +2 bosses, green and orange adviced. However, with /elec, can do quite alot of damage.
Yeah, they dont kill as fast as SS or claw/fire brutes, but then again, they wont die that easy if you run out of inspirations.
(inspiriations based on +1 and +2 x 8 ambush). -
Quote:But the 6seconds cast remains, why not bring it par with any other pet summon, instant cast? (it will be interupted when mezzed/knockbacked).Originally Posted by Aggelakis
Hehe, speaking of things that "will never be looked into" - I21 removes interruption from Gun Drone. Additionally, the defiance bonus from it will be increased.
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I still put 10 bucks on the fact when freedom hits, someday, you can change your primairy/secondairy, people are willing to pay for this, NCsoft wants the money.
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There are still many powers they need to look into, but they probably never will. Epic pool for blaster has such gimped powers in it (EM Pulse, repulsion field, repulsion bomb). Then again, Frozen aura for blaster never got the damage as Tanker's version (it wont really break the damage-balance, since /ice is one of the weakest already), /TA since the day they released it has still issues (floating mobs and the ignite power combined with pets), while other powers became somewhat obsolete or their counterpart has a way better version (timebomb versus MM's detonate), or the gun drown with a retarted 6 sec interuption timer. I can continue, MM merc heal, it even interupts when he is hit by a non-dmg ability, while they did change that non-dmg wont interupt such anymore.
Maybe in time, some day, they would give old sets or outdated powers some attention, for now.. they just focus on new sets, new stuff, more money.
(like fire shield, how to explain a new player with no acces to IO's that he has to use combat jumping and acrobatics to not being tossed around as a tank against knockdown/back/up and immobilise?) -
They have a extended maintaince today again, so hopefully they will fix some of this.
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Quote:With 75% resist you should be quite ok 90% of the time, as long you dont push the lvl+ too much and keep your defense softcaped (or nearly). I gave it a go earlier on my Archery/mind, redraw is very annoying and Archery has little to no good AoE (except tier9 nuke), still i could go around for 3-4 minutes untill i ran out of inspirations.Originally Posted by B_Nix
Fire/MM excels at lvl 50 farms (well level 40 farms since you're getting PS) because of DP. You can have an AoE chain many of which cap at 16 not at 10, near capped regen, no endurance issues, World of Confusion actually is useful with the proc, and for under 200 million you can cap s/l. The ONLY issue is bosses hitting hard enough then another getting a lucky shot in. Which I'm creating a build to solve this since I have 3 build slots and most of my time is spent on it (although I tend to farm warriors as the purple drops more than make up for the loss in influence and ticket drops.)
On second thought s/l capped would work on those farms too... Off to create some magic.
Could redo my build and get more base defense (weave/CJ/manu), then i could jump around with just 3purple and 1 orange (hitting 62% resist atm). But then i would pick my elec/mind, better AoE and end-drain is good to stop them once in a while with attacking.
Only problem is the base 120sec with 30sec duration, with 3slot recharge i still need 30secs to overcome the downtime, as i didnt take hasten
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I basicly moved entirely to US servers, mostly Freedom. At evenings in Pocket D there are multiple trials running and recruiting, tons of teams going around (apart from AE offcourse) and several TF's at any given time. Also, my favorite, tip-teams.
Nothing fancy with special channels to join, just the help channel for the majority of getting a team together. -
Quote:The main problem was actualy Mastermind pets, as they (with upgrades) would get more abilities, many of the pets would get stuck at 1 power and never cast a different one.Originally Posted by Phyrex
It was done to prevent certain pets (earth and ice? I think) from getting stuck in their AI script where they would only do certain attacks over and over again (typically the ones you'd rather them not do over and over.). So instead of firing off their range attack and then moving into range and using their hard hitting melee attacks, they'd just sit there plinking away at ranged.
The decrease in damage for a fire/kin troller from this is minimal.
Graveknights only spamming shadow power at range, lich stuck at fear, mercs only casting melee brawl or the commando stuck on buckshot and ninja's only trowing stars. -
Quote:That was not a specific FF boost, all shield powers have gotting this ability, wich comes from the MM upgrade chance (old days u had to upgrade your pets 1 by 1, now its 1 cast, all pets upgrade).Originally Posted by Psylenz
This is quite true. This is a major upgrade, especially for masterminds /FF that can now buff the entire team and all pets in two quick clicks.
Forcefields indeed did get a BIG boost. -
Quote:All nice that knockback is great for solo and survivability, in big teams its bad. Quite some tanks rely on having mobs in melee, willpower for regen, inv for defense, shield/ice for defense/damage-debuff, soon energy for recharge.Originally Posted by Psycho_Sarah
I love knockback. I have been on so many teams with people that have no idea how to really use it effectivly that I just go with the flow. If it takes more time to get through missions, so be it.
On my Energy/Energy blaster, I slot for knockback. I also have energy torrent and explosive blast slotted with Air Burst. Makes me giggle like a school girl to throw whole mobs around. Of course I also know how to use that knockback for the benifet of the team.
On my Ninja/Storm MM, which I never team with anymore, I have hurricane running all the time, and 2 tornados chasing mobs everywhere. I revel in the chaos I can create running missions set for 8 people.
Unless someone is a very very accurate knockbacker, the chance someone will knock away a mob from tank's melee is far worse then keeping down a few mobs (wich most tanks can do also with a nice knockdown - or earth trollers).
A good knockback player will pick up the mobs that might hurt the tank most (psi mobs, debuffers) and will take it down. It will keep the mobs busy that the tank cant get in time. -
The recharge/inspiration issue, thats the server at the moment. Seems like this since the latests 'hotfix', today there will be another major upgrade, hopefully they fix this.
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Quote:Last night i was in Galaxy City afk for quite a while, never a crash. Same in atlas, crash within 20 minutes. Would imply it is depending on what it has to draw on the screen, more effects and goodies, more likely to crash (like the trials have a 100% chance here to crash at least once).Originally Posted by Mephisto_Kur
Some extra info:
When in game, if I turn off all ultra mode settings, set world detail to lowest, particle effects to lowest, I can play almost indefinitely. At these settings, my only crashes are at the load screens.
Also, no other game (and I am a hardcore gamer) crash on this system.
However, it only affect 64bit, no mather how i stress my 32bit windows (Ati 4870), it wont crash. -
Zone teleport isnt really that much, it is a huge recharge clicky that allows you to travel from 1 zone to another. A temp mission-teleporter (instant cast now) is more of use.
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Necro filled up with thermal does pretty nice too, final upgrade gives them a self heal (not that super), but combined with the lich fear and hold, graveknight knockdown, they wont die that easy.
If they die, you can resummon a ghost from it, they even have phasechange.
But without secondairy, i go for bots. A heal, very nice def bubble and pretty good AI (unlike mercs who randomly run melee and the retarted medic with interuptable heal).