SpaceJew

Congrats? I don't see what that has to do with anything. If you must know, I suppose I didn't buy it just to play ultra mode but rather to also play new release video games that require a lot more than a single core anything. Also, it hardly cost $2000, building it myself it ran me $650.

Sooo, you would rather be locked out of the game you pay a monthly fee for rather than have some freeloader that's contributing nothing be kicked off the server? I dunno, I pay 15$ a month for the 'privilege' of playing City of Heroes. I've done so for four years. I'd like to think I'm worth more than some freebooter. And without F2P people Virtue currently hits the red-bar of doom pretty often, such as almost every evening. It doesn't take a huge stretch of the imagination to think that lock-outs will be a daily occurance without some serious upgrades. I'm really hoping voodoo was right about those upgrades...anyone know something specific? I didn't get anything from a forum search...

Fair enough, a good attitude will go far I imagine ^_^

The only real concern's I have are latency related in the immediate future, hopefully Voodoo was right about the server upgrades. Even if I have priority over F2P I could still get locked out, unless of course a F2P gets booted every time a VIP wants on ^_-

I was also already aware of this, I was simply hoping they might do a bit more since they're completely changing the game. If there was a 'paying customers only' server when I started, perhaps I'd have put all my characters there. If I get *one* character a month moved onto that server, that's as good a time as any to put this game behind me because I've got dozens of level 50 characters that I would just as soon not re-level to 50 or pay over a 100 dollars to transfer to get away from the deluge of people that don't know the first thing about a seven year old game. Call me elitist, but you'll come over to VIP as well after the 6000th character that day asks you how to turn off the pop-up hints. I don't hate new players, I just want those new players to stick around for longer than the five minutes it will take them to realize this isn't WoW. We're sheltered here in CoH from the WoW kiddies, more than you realize. That's about to change forever.

No, you're right. This is what makes me wonder why a change over to a F2P system is necessary or desirable at this point. What do we stand to gain? Added income to NCSoft to make more content? Maybe. Blatant money grab? Perhaps. Only time will tell.

I suppose this is all the proof I need that you're simply trolling, eh?

Lets see what my system spec's are then:
AMD 3.2ghz x4
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
4 Gigs RAM
Terrabyte of harddisk

It's not top of the line I suppose, but it doesn't have even a hiccup running the game on ultra mode. Additionally, since I get zero lag and the game runs like glass on Pinnacle than I suppose it *must* therefore be my computer, and not the subpar servers, that are causing the problem. Especially since *everyone* I've played with on Virtue complains about the lag *nonstop*. I suppose that's my computer too. Additionally, I know the difference between server lag and computer lag. It's not obvious in every situation, but when but I mapserve and log back in and hear twelve people asking if everyone else just mapserved it's not rocket science. Now imagine the same situation, only with a hundred more instances of the same running. It's going to be redline city without some major upgrades. I really *hope* they upgrade, because even as it stands now it is unplayable at peak hours. I refer to unplayable as around the 3 fps range, which is where it's at for me. Last note on this issue, I've tried setting my settings to the lowest possible quality and the game still lags my power tray, and there should be no argument that it should run like a gazelle from a lion at those settings.

Is it? Is it really being upgraded? I hope you're right, can't say I've been super active on the forums of late since I've been playing other games so maybe I just haven't heard. I'm not saying this F2P is going to be a horrible, horrible failure. I'm just saying that it's probably going to bring a lot of bad along with it, seeing as how every game I've played that's gone F2P has changed for the worse. Maybe they'll get it right, but I'm not going to hold my breath. Remember how awesome the AE was going to be? And while I'm sure there are good maps under all the farming maps, there's also a thousand farming maps.

Me either, I still use it. I must admit dark does have a pretty bad one, requires an enemy to be in range to even use it right? Electric has a run for the money on crappy as well, and I guess fire too although at least it does damage and requires no target...

Too bad we aren't talking about your willpower brute, huh? Did you even read the topic description?

Such as, perhaps, having no psy resistance or defense whatsoever to the add mobs, even while under T9? Specifically though, what I was talking about was the T9 crash. Otherwise yes, it is very durable. Again, read the topic description.

Again, good thing we aren't talking about your willpower brute. Or the overall durability of the set. However it doesn't mitigate the fact that Marauder can and does hit directly through the T9 making it even less useful than usual.

That's the exact story we're talking about. I've been killed by Marauder through my T9 unstoppable several times when I'm on a team that allows the mobs to pile up on top of him before finishing the acid grenade cycle, or when doing a master run. Again, the psy hole will ruin your day since there is zero mitigation to that damage type other than HP and regen. (Which is what my invul is built for.) Again, making unstoppable next to useless.

Congrats I guess, it's not hard to keep his aggro in the slightest. Especially on an invul/energy as my ET hits for about 1600+ damage with an average fulcrum.

What would you take instead that would out-perform rebirth on an invul? Barrier's 5%? Clarior's mez protection? The only other realistic option is the +end +debuff protection, which is arguable but you never even made that point. Did you even actually read my post? I only ask because you made the same points, only you claimed that you disagreed with me. If your only point, which reading your post seems to indicate, is that you really like your Willpower brute that's fine. I have one too, Elec/WP/Elec built at level 50. That's how I know the things I know, because I've played both for quite some time at level 50. You, however, seem to have never played invul at all. Interesting you'd make comments about it.

Yeah, rage is +Tohit I had a brain fart there myself. He still doesn't have that power however given that he's invul/fire.

Most bonuses are going to go away at level 44-45 anyway.

You're right about invul being durable, if built correctly, which is the topic of conversation.

Invincibility still buffs his ToHit per enemy, so again I dont think it's an issue. However, the energy/elemental resists and defense are lacking. 3 or 4 slotting those powers and putting in a reactive armor would help on that front. He's definately closer to soft-cap than I thought, thanks for the mids shot.

As to multi-strike, it does have defense buff's at around the five slot mark and I tend to five slot AoE powers if not 6 slotting them as AoE powers generally do more 'dps' given that they hit multiple targets at once thereby getting more 'bang for my buck' so to speak.

The 4-5 slotting inherent resists, and the kinetic combat comments, were both meant to illustrate other options to look into. They aren't neccessarily economical, sane, or recommended simply something to consider. As to what you mean by kinetic combat not working with natural bonuses, I'm not sure what you mean. I was simply stating that's what I had done on an invul/energy to achieve soft cap defenses to typed damage. It's obviously impossible here with kinetic combat since he doesn't have the single target melee attacks to put them in.

He doesn't have rage, therefore he doesn't get the base acc. bonus from rage. I don't think that he'll have any problems with accuracy what-so-ever with a 24% boost. Invul suffers the most from durability issues, invincibility buff's his to-hit's so it should be a non-issue. (Which I'm guessing is what you meant...)

This is the exact problem, and the Dev's should pay attention.

It's not that you're wrong, it's that you're selective. Buff/debuff is awesome, but a buff/debuff defender is not a blaster and it's the best when paired with a DPS class. (Such as the Blaster.) There are always outliers, but most of the ones I can think of are, shockingly, corruptors such as a fire/dark for instance. You even say as much here...

Yes, scrappers sure are easier to get that buff with and debuffing makes defender damage almost ok as opposed to terrible or awful. (outside of archery/dual pistols/AR, which starts at ok.) I'm not talking about ease of play though since Blaster is an advanced class as most glass cannons are. Saying a buff/debuff team doesn't need blasters is stupid. What they don't need are scrappers. I'm talking about effectiveness when you know what you're doing. (Especially since I think we all agree that City of Heroes is, by definition, easy mode.) Also, saying that the increase causes blasters to become superfluous isn't true either. As you point out, buff/debuff increases the output of the whole team, including the top end damage dealer. That being the blaster. Yeah, anyone can wipe a load of minions off the map. They're friggin' minions. A blaster can wipe the mob period.

Blasters are superb for teaming, and I completely disagree with you on this point. In a team situation they are ideal as ALL their holes are plugged by a team (or should be) while still maintaining their higher damage limits. A scrapper just gets more of the same junk they already have. So they may start off as being more durable than a blaster but in a team situation that concern is removed, put on a shelf, and forgotten unless you are consistantly playing with terrible teams. If anything the scrapper is more of a head scratcher as to why they keep getting invited to teams. I'm guessing it's a lack of bubble/sonics, but either of those sets turns a blaster into a better version of a scrapper.

It's not that it's less impressive, it's that it doesn't matter either way. It's a non-issue to me. Getting up close and personal on a blaster is modus operandi for me. So is juking either up, down, or side-to-side and switching to build up+aim and throwing some AoE death. Or staying in the middle and doing the same. I won't argue that blasters can solo, you're right there. I'm sure there are some outlier blaster sets that I haven't played yet that can kind of solo but I wouldn't expect them to be scrapper-good at solo play.

I think the disagreement comes from the fact that there isn't anything HARD enough in the game to warrant taking a Blaster, who has better damage, over a scrapper. That and every mouth-breathing retard has a regen scrapper. If anything I'd take a blaster because there's at least a chance they know how to play. I just assume a scrapper is an AE n00b unless they have a laundry list of sets in their description. Either way, it's going to be dead in under two minutes.