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I wonder if they will be first pick, 1 power required or even 2 powers required. Based on that they go from stupid, better, great.
Actualy i wanted to see weapon-matching powers. Nothing is worse then whielding a weapon and having redraw-issues because of your epic. -
It aint that bad on the beer! We got good stuff
Just remember, although Schiphol people may think its next to Amsterdam, its not. Its very normal taking a cab, but those are fairly expensive in Netherlands. -
The biggest flaw of CoH developing.. making a server language based. There are a trashload of games out there that have multi-language clients, they have everything client side.
The mistakes in the past, we pay up now. Defiant is empty, as normal 'pug' people just wont find anyone online to play with. New players will see a near empty atlas or mercy and that is NOT advertising the game. All the excuses 'join a SG' and 'join xx channel', new players wont do this. New players start the trial, log in.. probably 1 hour later log out because they havent met a single soul yet.
On the US, you have choice. You can choose to go to a filled up server with trashload of AE farming, you can choose to go a very quit server equaly to EU perhaps. Thats the key.. you have choice. We dont, never.
They already failed pathetic to even make some advertising of this game, something that is kinda needed in the euro zones to get your game known. Aion and CO will snatch probably some people away, and non-CoH players wont even know.. let alone care for issue 16 or Going Rogue.
Note that i not gonna mention the pathetic exchange rate of USD, EUR and GPB, should i remember people again that its only 1 FREAKING ISLAND that has GPB, basicly the rest of EUROPE is using EURO. Why on earth people gonna spend 13 euro to play on a ghost-town server, while for only 10 euro (13 USD) you can play on a big server?
The irony kicks in that on avarage, europe players even have MORE lag on their own servers then being on the US servers.
If you would ask me, what would be your biggest mistake ever made in CoH history? Easy: moving from US servers to EU servers, i should have known better. Sure, go back US servers, sure start all over. But will i get my boosterpacks? My CE? My GvE? My double 54 month vet? My characters? No, i wont. So i have no choice, while US people do. -
Well that wouldnt be that big problem? A brute (and soon tank) can alpha attack with rod and shield charge, causing trashloads of damage, no other set can do it.
Then again, i can survive a few months and go demon summoning, can ditch my merc totaly (its my only non 50 MM yet). -
That brimstone, i cant remember it looked so 'body covering'?
At first i saw this title, i thought costumizable granite armor.
*wets his pants for the 5th time*
But since issue 16 aint here yet, it may still come, costumizable granite armor
*wets his pants for the 6th time*
This gets annoying.. -
Playable Until: 04 Nov 2009
Oh bugger, short of 12 days
My other accounts on auto, so dont have to worry
But, imho its still lame that the tier 1 is set to 60months, as EU did start later this imho aint really super fair. -
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I wonder at what 'requirement' the 5th power will be. Like the last added were '2 others required', hopefully these will be first pickable. (i dont like static discharge, its stupid).
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I'd say bots.
Few randoms:
-Protector bots both got heal, ranged, non interuptable.
-The extra defense from the bubbles stacks extremely well with secondairy/epic pool
-Tier3 pet does WAY more damage AoE.
-The looks, easy one.
What they have in common:
-they are full ranged, so basicly any set will work (poison lesser, due being ST).
-they both have dreaded long summon/upgrade castingtime.
I have 2 bots, /poison and /dark, along with 1 merc. Mu epic has a nice mini-AoE immobilize making the tier 3 bot burn effect a gift of god. /dark fear and hold work great to compensate the bit of lack of mezz (while merc mezz abilities have pathetic long recharge). -
I got 5 accounts, 2 US and 3 EU. It indeed is really easy to 'powerlevel' yourself and transfering stuff is very nice. Downside, transfering from US<->EU.. plain nightmare.
But its funny how used i am to the veteran rewards, when i go on my 15months, i suddenly miss stuffAlso the addon packs (mac, GvE, boosters) is a quite expensive stuff to get them on all accounts. The mission teleporter, or even that jumppack from GvE, always soooo handy.
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Quote:Broken, yet can post hereWhat is wet bottom pie?
I have no idea... and my internet is broken.
I gues its the Wet Bottom Shoo-fly Pie, checked it up.
Originally a recipe from the Pennsylvania Dutch and Amish, the Shoo-fly Pie (named because of the flies that it tends to attract that need to be shooed away) is a molasses pie with a delicious crumble topping.
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Quote:That is fire.. it has no tricks. Its damage, only damage. Pure solo is part of the whole balance, just like a tanker is crap solo (crap dmg), they can be master in parties. They all will do just fine, some better.. some worse. There is no other secondairy that can do better in AoE then fire does. Balance of powers is based on everything, just like the loading screen says, specific powers are very usefull situational, others great for solo. (whats the freaking use for a buff defender, if he has 4 powers he cant use on himself?).You should never base your opinions on a situation where you have backup. Im talking solo, or when you have no tank, or no scrapper, or no meatshields on the team. Im talking making each and every blaster as soloable and awesome as every dom, every troler, every properly built defender.
Blasters are great, no argument there, but the problem lies in the lack of variety and options to make them unique and fun. Ive been playing my fire blaster faithfully since beta, and I can tell you that in terms of having tricks and staying alive in really hairy situations, it holds NO candle to MM, Ice, Dev, NRG etc.
I think all the seconaries need looked at, with the acception of NRG, and MM.
And a big I AGREE! to the aoe buff/bubble thing. At start of the mission everyone is buffing, halfway u only do when u notice.. near the end, nobody ever buffs. (except SB :P). -
Quote:But, with today sets (and upcomming elec) and temp powers, does it still justify being a tier9 power? Since u only need 3 toggles (2 shields and tough) i more often pop rez, breakfree, blue, green and purple, off i go.Also, Rise of the Phoenix is a very useful power. If worst comes to worst and you find yourself faceplanted with your teammates unprotected, you can just pop it and stun a few of the mobs in the process, giving you time to get shields back up. It also protects against debt so there's no reason not to use it whenever you die. Think of it as having a second health bar, another useful tool in the tanking toolbox if you will.
And debt is a joke of 3 years ago maybe, today its only for the badge. -
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Agree on a few points already, with side marks.
PvP is never, and should never be, a reason for balance of a set. PvP is gimped, period.
Agree'd that if you need IO's to get your out of the box (SO/normal IO) tanker viable for tanking, something is wrong. What they can do with IO's, others can thus do better.
My 2nd tanker ever was a fire/EM, later i got a fire/fire and fire/ice. After ED they were hit hard, from cap SL they went down to a rough 71% resist, although still decent resist on the other elements (cap fire) and recently the -slow resist on that passive power, i still say they are 'ok'.
Afaik they are not much different then dark tankers, and soon the elec tankers, all 3 will hit SL on about 70% (toggle and tough).
Using burn to increase your tank abilities is gimp, fear and current mechanics are still gimped making mobs run off and worse case even agro'ing another group (rad toggle etc). They nerfed burn into oblivion, it still is now the first power i skip. Healing flames did get some love, if you can keep away from -slow (wich is very very hard since u are resist based, thus all powers will basicly hit you), you should be ok most of the time.
However, the lack of protection. Knockback and immobilize, only counterable by taking the leaping pool or using burn for the protection and use the IO against KB. Strange enough elec was changed to get grounded, you had protection as long u stayed on the ground, while fire never got such fix. But i dont see the 'offensive' part of fire set anymore, burn is nothing anymore, fiery embrace has serious long recharge and the FA aint doing that much more dmg then icicles or mudpots. Selfrez dark and WP also have, consume still needs a to-hit (unlike elec) and with the new energyse power i believe elec even surpass fire armor. Added that icicles/mudpots/elec have secondair effects, slow, recharge or even drain.
Recent Shield is imho way more offensive (it got a great dmg attack and a +dmg aura), due the defense system they even can be more viable (no interupt of aid self) and due the IO system of defense and resist they can hit softcap in a blink.
Why i still use my fire tankers? Farming. They are not the best at it, but they are cap resisted against fire out of the box. As fire dmg has no secondair effect (like ice slow or elec drain), its only about taking damage and heal yourself.
We have no imba tier9 power (selfrez..), no dullpain style, no base for additional armor (inv, WP). Specialy against energy i have problems, but ice aint easy either (worse, since your healing flames slows down). My main group i basicly never tank is arachnos, the psi recharge, immobilize, energy damage, acc debuffs (our aura, consume). -
You are really sure there were no 'secret ingredients' in that pie u had?
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The grey thingie around avatar i still have, added that suddenly everything scrolls less smooth. Or that might be because some is using a 2MB avatar again
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Quote:I just found my archvillain.This is why I sometimes wish I'd been on the US servers instead. Imagine how many characters I could have had with all those servers to choose from... (Incidentally, I do believe, from previous similar threads on the old EU forums and the general in-game response to "I have 83 alts", that I may be one of the worst EU altoholics.)
Im kinda too lazy to count them all, but i think most created would be tanker. Shortly followed by blaster and mastermind (i think i got 12 of em). Having total of 5 accounts not always active, i never took the time to check them all (or at servers i hardly played).
The least i have, defender. I actualy only have 1, my 2nd character ever created. I used to have a second, kin/elec (whoever snatched that name, may your manhood shrink to the size of a peanut) wich i apperenty deleted at some point. From Kheldians i only have 1 PB and 1 WS, i never liked them really so they stuck in the 20ish.
Villainwise, i only have 1 corrupter, the others i dont really know. Same story, i had to delete toons to make place for new ones, i used to have alot AR/ based corrupters (sonic, traps, dark and kin). Well SoA i have 1 bane and 1 widow. Again, i dont really like the class. Most played MM is ninja, i have 5 of them (PD, dark, trap, FF and storm), least used is merc (only 1). Secondairy i only have 1 poison, rest is all mixed.
Added that on EU you basicly have only 2 servers (the others have german/french UI) so i eventualy had to start cleaning the lowbies to make place for new sets (shields, WP etc).
Originaly all my toons were science, suited the story. Yet when they added the power to the origens i moved to magic (the -res thingie), unless they are locked to a set (kheldian and SoA). Quite sad i cant change it, since my /TA toons dont have the nrg power to light the stupid Oil slick, so my MM was forced to go Mu.
And funny fact, my nrg/ice blaster (3rd character ever) hasnt logged in for 1213 days -
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Although we only met a few times (i'm a defiant), it couldnt be a goodbye, but a happy Cya soon
Dont get too hooked up on CO ok! :P -
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Golden Girl aint #1 poster yet, give it some time.
I and still see waaaaaaay too little derailing of topics. -
So then instead it goes: WHAHAHA u dont even have a tanker/whwha u only lvl10
it will be: MWHHHAHAHA not even 1 purple?!!?
Personaly, based on someone's post its often pretty clear if he knowns/plays the AT or just seen one passing by at the atlas metro. train.. metro.. railthingie. -
Quote:Didnt we agree we would announce this _AFTER_ we took over the entire forum?Can I just welcome those N.A posters to the newly merged boards with the EU?
I don't know why it's not obvious that happened to many of you, but it's clear for us EU posters that you lot got lumped in with us, not the other way around.
Why else would we get our own special section?
Oh well, i still can go undercover with my secret NA account, who would think i'm the same person as SinergyX_NA?