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The one neat thing about energy is the ability to slot the knockback IO set damage proc in every attack.

The ST damage on my E^3 scrapper is now much MUCH better with the addition of the musculative alpha, reactive interface proc, and Mako's bite damage procs. I would almost go as far as saying the ST damage surpasses other sets now. The attacks are very fast activating and have low cooldowns which yields more chances for damage procs to go off. Its also easy to stack the reactive proc's DoT and -res. Charged brawl-> chain induction -> charged brawl -> havok punch and repeat. Thunderstrike I only use for AoE.

Musculative alpha is also nice for the +end mod.

Teach me, I absolutly hate the market and the greedy people twisting it.

Game difficulty++


Im down.

This idea is AWESOME. It reminds me of Rikimaru's Blink Strike ability in Warcraft 3's Defense of the Ancients. Teleport sucks as a combat oriented travel power. I have ALWAYS thought the pool needs to be reworked a bit.

My opinion elaborates on your idea. It would look something like this:

Recall Friend (same)
Teleport Foe (same)
Teleport (same)
Instead of Team Teleport (which I think is worthless), you'd get Tactical Teleport which is described above.

Melee would certianly fair a bit better in PvP from this.

Good point. However the persons like me who have played for a long time with little reward kind of get shafted. Sure random is random, but I feel like I should at least get something. Two purple recipies since they have become available is not cool. Having played the game as long as I have without using real currency to obtain massive amounts of inf, I feel like the "very rare" items should at least be more accessable.


Freedom has pvp activity most of the time. And i13 was a STEP in the right direction, but needs work. As I said that is another arguement entirely.


There is a solution to that, a drop timer. Same solution the devs have implemented for sf/tf merit farming.

Hero and Villian Merits

See above figures.

What was the purpose of designing this system if it's going to take me and OVERKILL amount of PvE content over a LONG period of time to gain enough reward merits to get even just ONE set of purple or PvP IO's? I consider myself a casual gamer. I have a full time job and like to play City of Heroes in the evenings and on weekends. I do not have the time to grind out what it takes to make use of this reward system as is. I also do not have billions of influence to spend on the ridiculous market prices for select purple IO's. I feel like I should be entitled to have some of the damage purple sets after 5 years of playing this game.

Suggestion:

Make the requirements for these merits not so intense. Perhaps run event's like double merit weekends or increased drop rate week? Just an idea.




Purple IOs

I have run one to two incarnate trials every night since the release of i20. I have not recieved one single purple drop, and I know I am not the only one. Even before i20 in the last 5 months of playing I have also not recieved a single purple recipie drop. I should not be discouraged for obtaining game rewards is how I feel. The incarnate very rare drops are still hard to get but much better than purple IOs.

Suggestion:

Increase the drop rate on these. It doesn't even have to be a lot. After all they are supposed to be "very rare" drops, but at the current rate they are seemingly impossible for some of us to obtain without spending a fortune on the market.




PvP rewards and reputation

I understand I am in the minority here, but I do like PvP and am active in PvP zones a lot. I also realize the developers have limited resources and have to cater to the majority population (PvE). However, it has been years since there have been any real updates to PvP. I believe i13 was a step in the right direction along with the addition of PvP IO's. There still needs to be work done, but that is a seperate issue entirely.

What I am talking about here is incintive. What is the purpose of reputation? The means of aquiring it are fair and fine but what do you do once you cap at 400? I get a badge.. okay.. that isn't really a useful reward. The addition of PvP IO's gave me much more of a reason to play so that was a good thing.

Suggestion:

Make reputation useful. What would be so bad about trading in 400 rep for a random PvP io drop and then resetting rep back to 0? Even if one character combination is not as good as the other, if people are on teams there is a consistent way of obtaining rep. I don't believe this would be very hard from a development standpoint unless someone can prove otherwise.






Thanks for your time

With everyone having health and +res(sleep) as an inherent how... sleeps are kind of useless. I HAVE seen large groups of players get slept for ~3 seconds in a static field though. That is always amusing.

I kind of agree with you about mez duration though. Doms/controllers should get a longer sleep duration in pvp to counter health. Not overpowered, but they should at least make them useful! Too bad pvp hasn't had really anything done to it in the past 7 issues though. This game has such a potential for more fun pvp. If they had a dedicated PvP dev who regularly would release balances with patches that would be awesome.

I'm going to have to agree here. I've tried brutes before and while they can be an annoyance and semi effective.. they are not very rewarding.

Aaahhhh I see, only resistance components that are enhanceable aren't affected by Power Boost. That makes sense.. I need to read more carefully next time thanks

But I believe the -run speed portion is.

Also, powerboost DOES affect personal force field from the Mace mastery PPP even though it has a resistance component. I run this on my mind/energy dom and when looking at the in game numbers the defense portion of these powers are boosted when I use power boost.


I'm curious about scorpion shield though. Anyone know if this is boosted? Thanks

Exactly this. I would not call ice/ice gimp as I have an ice/fire as my main. I have really enjoyed the years of ice/fire but I am transitioning into mind/nrg now because I feel like ice lacks that alpha control outside of Glacier that was mentioned.

The problem IS Flash freeze.. it's such a useless power outside the cheap purple set to slot. If they improved this power a bit and maybe added a few effects to make it more useful... I would revisit my ice/fire again in PvE.