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Is Heroic really that hard for some people?

Honest question.

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In some cases? Yes. Not in teams, normally. But solo, yes, at times.
Certain groups as well, such as Malta, Carnies, certain others, are tough in general, and, depending on the team make-up and lvl gaps, can be quite hard.

Woo, cohegent thought late at night XD

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I thought you were only interested in playing Fortunas?

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Tbh, the only backpack I like is the Zero-G one. Looks like a more conventional jetpack. The purchaseable one and hits lurid colours are horrible, Goldbrick one looks like a toy, and the 'wings' on the raptor get annoying after a while.
Something a bit more conventional would be nice, and backdetails in general, too.

Controllers. Never get the hang of them. They dont have the crunch factor Dominators do, nor are they tough. Not a winner for me.

I dont play tanks much either, or brutes. I cant master riding the fury bar, tanks I like the two I have but they do need teams.

I get drawn to high damage a lot. Also re-descovered my Tri-form PB Oh dear, that was a cackle moment...

Drake grinned, thumbing back the hammer with a click that sounded loud in the dark.
"Alright, guv'ness...just you 'n me now, eh? Let's dance..."

-Pointlaff-

Some sort of feature to allow people to transfer characters in the methods stated would be nice. I know exactly what HH is on about, and even if it was a temporary feature, or rather specific, then it would still be good.
Me? Im cheap, I ain't even bought all the slots on my one account, altaholic though I am XD

Primal rage, although nicely different from the normal tier 9s, which are nearlly all the same (the ones in the uber def/damage and -end camp, that is) it does look a tad OP. Although 45 secs...thats not ages. Actually quite tasty.

Id change the Brutish rage to a simple cone 'swipe'. Flurry/Sands of Mu is not a nice attack it misses far too often, and the animation for it is monstrously long (pun not intended )
Only other thing is Chilling Call. Maybe a PbAoE fear, or a -something power. KB doesnt fit the bill, is all. Charge being a bit like Shield charge sounds good, although maybe only single target.

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I like it. Something a bit different.

Yes, Rommy is a godawesome swine. I actively want to trap those Nicti minions of his in a really, really bright place and burn them for the rest of eternity.

That said, its one of the cooler TFs, and is fine as is. Well, except for the lag

On ALL TFs, please dear GOD cut out some of the Hunt missions! Hunt missions are boring! People do not WANT to go and find x number of so and so. A prime example is the Leviathan SF on Villains. The middle chunk of the SF is HORRIBLE. Three Longbow hunt missions in a row, adding up to 50 longbow. This is usually on a malafactored team, so the Longbow that you HAVE to hunt are higher level. As in, red minion style higher level. And fifty of them. Which is so irrevocably DULL.
Oh, and give Villains a lvl 40-45 SF. Please?

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It's what he's building in Grandville. Do the Statesman Task Force some time to find out more.

It's pretty dangerous >.>

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No, I just meant...nevermind -shuffles back to his corner-
Actually, need to do both of the lvl 45-50 Hero/Villain TFs

Question. WHY is it just Jay having to do all the work? Surely they have a larger team than just him? And, ergo, if they have a larger team, surely they could work on stuffthat players REALLY want? Or is the game going to devolve from one that pleases its players to one solely driven by profit? Down that road is a dark, dark abyss

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Recluse has also got his hands on WMD's. The Web wasn't a new form of internet!

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What do you mean 'the Web'? Recluse is a walking Nuke in hiw own right, and coupled with the four patrons, (IC strength and least) a nuke looks rather cheap in comaprison.

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I do think thats daft. They already exist as a costume for the NPC Widows, and I see no logic in not giving them to PC Widows....le strange.
/Signed for Wanting

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And I suppose the Moon Base was a scaling issue to?

Sorry, but blanket comments always get to me. TRENCHCOATS work alright, and whats that if not near identical to the Widow capes?

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AFAIK, the US does not recognize the government in the Etoile Islands.
Longbow are a private mercenary force. They're neither a federal organization or military.

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"The strength of their ideological conviction, coupled with the advanced training and munitions provided by NATO, render the Longbow soldiers a force to be reckoned with."

Gotta wonder why NATO continues to supply and train them if they're committing a very public, very blatant international crime.

Probably because they're not and the war on Arachnos is actually supported on the international stage. Because Recluse is a crazy person and his removal is key to the Defence of its members.

They are a member of Freedom Corps but they seem to also be be working for, or at least very closely with NATO.

It's just silly to think Longbow is committing a hugely illegal and fairly public war and no one calls them on it. You think at least one person would mention it in the game at some point. But it's never brought up in CoV, not once. Now sure because it's never explicitly stated what the politicians decision was you could pretend that it's all hugely illegal. But that's so out of character for Ms. Liberty and Longbow itself! That's why I pointed out the Vanguard thing, because it was trying to incorrectly paint them as people who break the law just to be petty.

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I think, in open field, its a standoff when it comes to Arachnos vS Longbow. If Recluse were to say 'They are invading me' Longbow would simply slam down a wad of evidence against him. In turn, Longbow cant claim that evidence first as, under UN (I think) rules, etc, they are breaking the law.

Everyone KNOWS Recluse is evil (mostly) and everonye KNOWS Longbow is in the Isels (again, mostly), certainly in and around Paragon and that side of the US. Its one of things that people keep mum about.

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AFAIK, the US does not recognize the government in the Etoile Islands.
Longbow are a private mercenary force. They're neither a federal organization or military.

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However, the Etoiles ARE UN Recognised. reading up on Recluse and Arachnos, its only from our in-game PoV that we see what Arachnos is really like. From the outside Recluse is just a political leader (albeit a stupidly powerful one) and the Spiders are the Islands military force.

And since when does the US agree with anyone, anyway? If it was the Heroes living on the Isles, out of the Goverments reach, you can bet the situation would still be similar.

The thrown table dissintergrated into splinters, the rifles bayonet sliding neatly back out of sight as Drake hefted it.
"A'ight...big Dog, check. Crazy lady, check. Bad odds? Check."
He took the course of action that seemed fairly logical to him, and possibly unexpected to everyone else. A well aimed shot turned the fuse box behind the bar into so much steaming scrap. The lights snapped out, plunging the bar into darkness.
"Game on..."

What CB said
The Candies might have started out with good intentions, but they now seem to think they are the be-all and end-all of the law. Vanguard is a UN sanctioned force, funded and armed specifically to kick as much Rikti backside as possible. And the boys and girls in red and white are trying to STOP them?
Meh.

What level was that then? Because we were running the mission on basic difficulty, IIRC, the EB was only a level higher than us, in both cases. And we DID fight them one at a time. They still had the AV style resistances, though, due to the purple triangle aura of theres being present.
I dunno. it did just seem exceptionally hard. A point to note is, my frined had already run the mission a few times. I got roped in to help him, so they were set to solo difficulty only. I just dont get why it was so obnoxiously hard.

Aye, rewarding badges is one thing, shear impossibly frustrating and ludicrous is quite another!
Like those flipping Rikti EBs in Invasions! -rage- They NEVER spawn! We had about four teams, killing SO many Rikti, and NO EBs spawned! And this happnes every time. This is redside, but still! Why do villain badges seem so horribly horribly hard? The troll one? Near impossible. The Crey Infiltrator one? REALLY hard (for an MM, which is the only one that unlocks anything). The Family one? Nuff said...
As bad as hunt missions, only not droppable

No one should tar ANY set unless parts of it are actually broken in anyway.
Or unless it is the Old ladies MM set or Carp Melee, which are both made of pure win and are fail protected

"Oh damn..."
A gunsight was trained on the figure through the snarling forcefield, but its owner knew better than to try anything.
It was shear luck that had had X21 Ice Wolf on the City outskirts, tracking down some Rikti scouting parties that were on the Vanguard Kill-list. And now, here he was, caught without backup against the one they had been looking for.
"Chief, I think I've got him. Grab Fox, maybe Vix too. This is one tough customer, and he's already got blood on his hands," he murmured into his comms. Despite being close to half a mile away, Wolf was still whispering. "We've got to hit him fast and hard. Before he kills anymore of these poor kids...Oh, and we've got one hour until the kill count goes up by one..."

Even as the gun thudded from a full burst and fired frag, Drake heard a feral snarl behind him, then a panicked scream.
"Oh, crimmany..." he muttured, ceasing fire and diving behind the bar as fast as possible. Drake might be loud, brash and in all a Commando, but he was also a professional, despite the swagger. He didn't plan on going mano-el-mano with a creature like that.

Going to maybe try rolling an SS/Wp brute. Ive never really got on with Brutes. I preffer eaither constant damage (scrapper/stalker/VEAT) or ranged annihilation (blaster/corr/MM/Crab)

Also, I switched off as soon as I saw the Farming point.
Who CARES if something is slightly better IF THEIR ON YOUR TEAM?!
Utter, utter tripe. If your on there team, you are still getting the exp rewards anyway, for less stress. Nothing bad. if your there for RP, nothing bad ANYWAY. If your farming, then why you are complaining about having an 'Uber' build on your team is so far beyond my horizon I cant even BEGIN to imagine it.

This just seems like a personal little rant at some imagined problem. Devs? Kindly ignore this
-goes to off to play and enjoy the game-

Chief Centurion Z1 and the Feral Twins (X21 Ice Wolf and Z22 Pyre Fox) will be after him now, after the 'a lot of us Troll march' and the pre-events to that.
Plenty of firepower to tote around

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Btw if you rolled Db/Wp as soon as it came out and now its only 26 you either dont like playing it and theres no reason to be upset about changes or you dont play much at all.
Either way 26 lvls since DB/Wp was introduced really means you didnt spent much time at all playing that toon :-)


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Or...
Maybe he has the odd alt.
Maybe he only gets limited playing time.
Maybe he plays at a leisurely pace (and so doesn't PL to 50 in 20 hrs).

Funnily enough I rolled a db/wp on the day they came out - up until last week they were level 27. Now got them to 42 (still pushing for the Titan spawn event) and noticed last night that they've logged about 87 hrs.

So taking off what I've played in the past week, I'm guessing that it took that character just over 50 hours to get to level 28.

Only hitting 27/28 in 50 hours may not be up to your great standards, Moghedian, but for most people it is still playing a fair bit and plenty of time to become attached to a character! Your comments about not liking the character or not having a reason to be upset at your proposed changes are just wrong.

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^ THIS
Took me 15 *months* to get my first 50, Invul/EM tanker. Time spent on a character is no indication of anything, really, unless you know the context.
Think this thread is utter, utter tripe, tbh. You say deal and adapat? I say the same to you. Go and enjoy the game. If you dont like Brutes being 'Uber' go play something else! Its always an option!