Sureshot_Liberty

You know, I didn't even find that out until recently.

Try Bionic Shielding.

ETA: Also, Support Drones, if you don't mind a couple of drones following you around. They constantly emit healing beams that hit you and your party. If you don't need their heals, you can flip them to DPS mode and they turn into flying beam weapons. Or you can turn one to damage and one to heal mode.

I'm the same way. I went gold on CO because the timecards are so cheap on Amazon.

CO runs great for me on a Radeon 6850, which is pretty close to the same spec as your card. This may be a driver-related issue. I've read that sometimes older drivers may work better with the game. So, if updating drivers doesn't help, rolling back to an older driver might.

I'll add to this Combo powers. You get one power, but you get a series of animations that change as you repeatedly attack with it. I don't know if Power Armor has any of these, but some of the other sets do.

I think you can buy a full respec token in the cash shop, but you don't have to. You can go to the Power House and remove powers in the reverse order that you bought them in. Each one costs in game currency, so if you want to swap out a power you picked up at level 4, it's going to cost you more than swapping out a power you picked up at level 14. (Note, I don't know if you actually get powers at those levels, the numbers were just picked out of the air for the example.)

One exception is the magic block. (Eldritch Shield) You hold both hands in front of you and a cool-looking magic shield pops up. A lot of the arcane and other magic powers have pretty cool effects.

Justiciar isn't part of the Champions, who'd pretty much be the signature heroes of the setting. What you need to remember, though, is that the Champions in the PnP game are nothing more than the sample characters. They're built in the rulebooks at the same starting power level as PCs, and updated as experienced PCs in later supplements.

This is somewhat reflected in game as well. In the tutorial, (last time I played, it's been a while) you are partnered with Defender, and he goes down in the boss fight, leaving you to finish the bad guy off.

In the Millennium City questline, you eventually have to fight a room full of thugs with Defender. With him. He doesn't come in like some Mary Sue character and mop everything up, and if you can't keep up on beating up thugs with him, it's your build and not a game design choice to make you second fiddle.

In the Desert, Witchcraft gives you quests after you do a bunch of quests for generic Until quest givers, you know, like the ones you prefer in CoH. That's a small section of the quests.

Does it make you feel more super because you're doing quests for non-super NPCs?

Back at you, champ.

I don't think it's sliding toward trinity, but the Archetypes are locked into a single role and tweaked toward that kind of game play. It's simply that trinity play works in the game, if you chose to play that way.

I haven't had any groups yet (not that I play it a ton, though) that consciously go with a trinity set up. Basically, if there's a tank in the group, they'll usually grab aggro, but they'll also usually be self sufficient. Likewise, if someone has heals, they'll usually drop them on anyone who's low on health, tank or not.

On the third hand, I've seen some of the Alerts (particularly timed ones) fail when everyone in them was an AT and none of them had heals. IMO, every AT should be built with a little self-sufficiency, or at least be able to change roles based on the two roles their slotted passive supports. That way the ATs stuck with offensive roles could go Balanced to be able to take more damage when needed. (And it does make a bit of a difference, even with an all offensive build.)

I know. I never run into the big name signature heroes in CoH at all. They certainly never give me things to do like missions or task forces....

Oh, wait.

Actually, the first GW launched with the buy the box and play free model, with paid expansion packs. They didn't add a cash shop until later.

I think you need to look up Ponzi scheme.

They may have gone about the closing of the game in the worse possible way. (I can't really describe that properly without profanity. Feel free to spice it up in your head.) But they haven't committed a crime. At all. We all knew the game would close its doors at some point.

I won't be investing in any NCSoft games beyond GW2, which I received as a gift. I won't invest anything but a bit of time in that. I won't participate in the community, as it will be the third or fourth most played MMO on a list of six or seven I play. I'll pretty much solo in GW2 until I get bored of it, and play with my wife and father-in-law from time to time. I'd advise others not to invest too heavily (emotionally or financially) in any other NCSoft title.

While all this may be true, this is the "boost morale" thread, after all.

And that's why I won't be giving them any of my cash.

To be honest, it may not hold my interest for that long anyway.

Thanks, already knew that. What I meant is they aren't getting any money injected into the system from my bank account. (I'm also unlikely to grind gold to convert to cash shop currency, so effectively I won't be using the store. Nothing in there is vital anyway, afaik.)

Good to point out for other folks, though. They can play guilt free if they're willing to grind out the gold to convert to cash shop currency (diamonds?) when they want to buy something from the store.

Kind of a drama queen, here. I think it's fine not to give a company money once it's shown bad faith, but this is over the top nonsense.

People who spend money on GW2 or any other NCSoft product aren't stabbing anyone in the back. Get over it.

As if NCSoft is even listening.

If people want to play GW2, that's fine by me, personally. If it's a game they enjoy, the death of this game shouldn't prevent them from enjoying it.

I got it as a gift, and I'm going to play it, because it's a solid game. However, I won't be buying anything in the cash shop, which is something I may have done otherwise, just to support the game. But I don't have any illusions that NCSoft cares one way or another about my lack of support, and I'm not doing it to send a message. I'm doing it because NCSoft's piss poor customer relations haven't earned my money.

In beta, they had an ability that was either one of their Function key abilities or a mace attack that said it generated extra threat. Looks like they changed it. Seems like they've changed a lot of abilities from the last beta I was in. (I miss the Necro horn ability with the swarm of life draining bugs, but it was probably a little too strong.)

Last time I checked (Beta), Guardians had some abilities with increased threat. So, there's a minor bit of aggro abilities, but in the case of the Guardian, it's overall more of a support-leaning class than a true tank class.

Yeah, I think it's weird to call Elementalists weak in PVE. In beta, they did suffer from having one weapon (Staff) be better than the other weapon sets, but I think they balanced this out somewhat to make the other weapon combos more appealing. They do require you to stay on your toes and do some "stance dancing" between attunements to get the most out of them. In beta, I had no troubles beating most of the skills test elite NPCs. The female raven shaman in the Norn area was a pain, but after I got down the strategy for her, was very doable.

This is sound advice.

That whole page, and the entry about Mr. A, makes it sound like the Korean gaming industry is in trouble in general.