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Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex

Unfortunately this was predicted months ago. IMO the lockdown on freemium talking is a pretty serious disconnect with common sense. Of course they are are going to talk in the Help channel. That is if they bother continuing with the game after discovering they can't talk (I wouldn't if it had happened to me in the games I've free-played).

Anyway for some reason there actually is a filter for a LFG channel but no actual mechanic for chatting on it that I know of.

Originally Posted by Bob_the_Imp

This build is meant to achieve high defense values, recharge and status protection. There are items I could tweak and powers I could replace, but this is built for my gaming style, so modify to best fit your gaming style.

Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.95
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Level 50 Magic Controller
Primary Power Set: Fire Control
Secondary Power Set: Time Manipulation
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Leadership
Power Pool: Fighting
Ancillary Pool: Psionic Mastery

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Char -- BasGaze-Acc/Hold(A), BasGaze-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(3), BasGaze-EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(3), BasGaze-Acc/Rchg(5)
Level 1: Time Crawl -- TmpRdns-Acc/Slow(A), TmpRdns-EndRdx/Rchg/Slow(46)
Level 2: Fire Cages -- Enf'dOp-Acc/Immob/Rchg(A), Enf'dOp-Acc/Rchg(43), Enf'dOp-EndRdx/Immob(43), Enf'dOp-Acc/EndRdx(43), Enf'dOp-Acc/Immob(45), Enf'dOp-Immob/Rng(50)
Level 4: Time's Juncture -- DarkWD-ToHitDeb/EndRdx(A), DarkWD-ToHitdeb/Rchg/EndRdx(5), DarkWD-Rchg/EndRdx(7), DarkWD-ToHitDeb(7)
Level 6: Combat Jumping -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def(9)
Level 8: Temporal Mending -- Dct'dW-Heal/EndRdx(A), Dct'dW-EndRdx/Rchg(9), Dct'dW-Heal/Rchg(11), Dct'dW-Heal/EndRdx/Rchg(11), Dct'dW-Rchg(13)
Level 10: Temporal Selection -- Mrcl-Heal/EndRdx(A), Mrcl-Heal/EndRdx/Rchg(46), Mrcl-Heal/Rchg(46)
Level 12: Flashfire -- Stpfy-Acc/Rchg(A), Stpfy-EndRdx/Stun(13), Stpfy-Acc/EndRdx(15), Stpfy-Stun/Rng(15), Stpfy-Acc/Stun/Rchg(17)
Level 14: Super Jump -- Jump-I(A)
Level 16: Hot Feet -- Sciroc-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(A), Sciroc-Acc/Dmg(21), Sciroc-Dmg/EndRdx(21), Sciroc-Dam%(23), Sciroc-Dmg/Rchg(23), EndRdx-I(50)
Level 18: Cinders -- BasGaze-Acc/Hold(A), BasGaze-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(25), BasGaze-EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(25), BasGaze-Acc/Rchg(27)
Level 20: Hasten -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(27), RechRdx-I(29)
Level 22: Time Stop -- BasGaze-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(A), BasGaze-EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(29), BasGaze-Acc/Hold(31), BasGaze-Rchg/Hold(31)
Level 24: Maneuvers -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def(31), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(33), EndRdx-I(33)
Level 26: Boxing -- Stpfy-Acc/Rchg(A), Stpfy-EndRdx/Stun(39), Stpfy-Acc/EndRdx(40), Stpfy-Stun/Rng(40), Stpfy-Acc/Stun/Rchg(40)
Level 28: Farsight -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(33), LkGmblr-Def/Rchg(34), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(34)
Level 30: Tough -- GA-3defTpProc(A), S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+(48), S'fstPrt-ResKB(48)
Level 32: Fire Imps -- BldM'dt-Acc/Dmg(A), BldM'dt-Dmg/EndRdx(34), BldM'dt-Acc/EndRdx(36), BldM'dt-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(36), BldM'dt-Acc(36), BldM'dt-Dmg(37)
Level 35: Slowed Response -- LdyGrey-DefDeb/Rchg/EndRdx(A), LdyGrey-DefDeb/Rchg(37), LdyGrey-Rchg/EndRdx(37)
Level 38: Chrono Shift -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(39), RechRdx-I(39)
Level 41: Weave -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def(42), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(42), EndRdx-I(42)
Level 44: Indomitable Will -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), RechRdx-I(45), RechRdx-I(45), RechRdx-I(48)
Level 47: Super Speed -- Clrty-Stlth(A)
Level 49: Burnout -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(50)
Level 50: Spiritual Radial Paragon
Level 0: Portal Jockey
Level 0: The Atlas Medallion
Level 0: Freedom Phalanx Reserve
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Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Containment
Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 4: Ninja Run
Level 2: Swift -- Run-I(A)
Level 2: Health -- Numna-Regen/Rcvry+(A), Mrcl-Rcvry+(19)
Level 2: Hurdle -- Jump-I(A)
Level 2: Stamina -- EndMod-I(A), EndMod-I(17), EndMod-I(19)
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Set Bonus Totals:

• 10.06% Defense(Smashing)
• 10.06% Defense(Lethal)
• 11.31% Defense(Fire)
• 11.31% Defense(Cold)
• 15.38% Defense(Energy)
• 15.38% Defense(Negative)
• 6% Defense(Psionic)
• 10.38% Defense(Melee)
• 13.5% Defense(Ranged)
• 13.81% Defense(AoE)
• 6% Enhancement(Stun)
• 3% Enhancement(Immobilize)
• 4% Enhancement(Heal)
• 18% Enhancement(Accuracy)
• 86.25% Enhancement(RechargeTime)
• 122.1 HP (12%) HitPoints
• Knockback (Mag -4)
• Knockup (Mag -4)
• MezResist(Stun) 1.65%
• MezResist(Terrorized) 2.2%
• 23% (0.38 End/sec) Recovery
• 50% (2.12 HP/sec) Regeneration
• 1.26% Resistance(Fire)
• 1.26% Resistance(Cold)
• 5% Resistance(Negative)

Originally Posted by Cannonball

From my reading of Time, stealth shouldn't be necessary for good defences at all. The set has a pair of very strong defensive options in Time's Juncture and Farsight. With either Power Boost from Primal Mastery or one of the defence shields from another epic pool, I don't think it'll be too difficult to slot enough ranged defence to cap yourself.

Originally Posted by Ad Astra

Chiming in here to agree with Arcanaville. The number of storylines that have been mangled or abandoned because the original writers moved on is a tragedy. And she makes a very valid point that allowing retconning in story while not allowing breaking the cottage rule is arbitrary, making no sense when analyzed from that perspective.

Great stories are always welcome. Great stories that don't change what we the players "know" (at least without some heart-searching) would be better X 1000.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

That's semi-correct - Going Rogue was officialy announced around the middle of May 2009, and near the end of October 2009 we got the first major info on the Praetorian content at Hero Con - that's where we first heard about the 1-20 content range, the Resisatnce vs loyalist dynamic, the Seers, the PPD and so on - and a few days after, Positron had thes clarifications about the info given out at Hero Con:



So that's basically what we got in August 2010 when GR went live - but the key bit there is the loyalist = Villain and Resistance = Hero - because in an interview in the run-up to the launch of GR, War Witch said that the devs had been overwhelmed by the enthusiastic player response to the loyalist vs Resistance set-up, and that they'd really worked hard to try and meet player expectations, and had even expanded the original Resistance vs loyalists dynamic - which does make it sound like the original idea was for Warden and Power, with Responsibility and Crusader added a bit later - which would expalin why in the early GR beta builds all Resistance missions had the Hero completion music, and all loyalist missions had the Villain mission completion music, and why loyalists could only choose Villain titles, and Resistance could only choose Hero titles.

And as they work on several Issues at once, they would already be working on I19 and planning I20 while still completing GR - as can be seen with places like the BAF, Lambda Sector and the Keyes' Island reactors already being built into the 1-20 zones - so while the original set-up and meta-story was still focused everyone helping the Resistance to defeat Tyrant in the standard CoH style of heroic co-op content, the "late arrival" content like the Responsibility path was more for flavor rather than any long-term content plan - everyone was still going to have to fight agaisnt Tyrant and the loyalists - which is possibly why the responsibilty path has so many big cues for players to turn agaisnt Tyrant - from Inetrrogator Kang and the Seer network, through Mother Mayhem, discovering the invaison plans and finally meeting Tyrant himself and getting to hear just how insane he is.

Also, as an intersting follow-up for all the development process detectives, the Incarnate Trials were originally called "zone events" - which makes it sound like the idea was to run them like the Mothership raid, with players triggering them by doing something in the actual Praetorian zones - for example, taking down the Lambda sector turrets might have been the way to trigger the Lambda event - with possibly something similar for the BAF and its turrets.
At some point though, the devs decided to make them instanced events - possibly because there were issues with rewards/participiation if there weren't any fixed barriers to the area of the event, or that 50+ content in zones inteneded for 1-20s could cause problems for lower levels caught up in the events, or that there were simply lag issues similar to the ones that used to hit the RWZ zone event.
By keeping the locations and the stories, but putting them on instanced zone maps instead of in the actual zones, the devs would be able to help the 50s stay in the right place, give them more story-telling and info options with cut-scenes and captions, and avoid disrupting the players doing the non-Incanrate cotnent in the actual zones.

Originally Posted by DarkGob

I don't know where you get certainty from "it seems the devs will be neglecting the free servers", Squiggy. All I did was make a suggestion based on an observation, Lenny.

Crap, now I'm out of names. Wait, didn't Mork first appear on Happy Days? Yeah, take THAT, Mork! Nanu nanu!

Originally Posted by Zortel

A year on, Going Rogue is missing these things for me:

1: Rogue content in Paragon City + the Rogue Isles outside of tip/morality missions (conducting deals, making money, smuggling, keeping the law off your back as you chase the almighty dollar.)

2: Vigilante content in the Rogue Isles + Paragon City outside of tip/morality missions (Taking down crooks who the Zig is too good for, going to the Rogue Isles to hunt down someone who's crossed the line, fending off people wanting to bring you in for your brand of justice.)

3: An expansion to the selection of tip and morality missions across the level ranges they occur in. (We had some vigilante and rogue tips added, and 1 new 40-50 Morality mission to each side, but that's it.)

4: Praetorian content on Primal Earth (Primal-fled Resistance trying to take action on an ex-Loyalist, possibly suspecting espionage, Loyalists tracking down Crusader Resistance members for heinous crimes they committed, persecution from Primal residents, a Praetorian-on-Primal subculture, or even Primals wanting to go to Praetoria, thinking it a 'better way'.)

5: Incorporating morality choices and points into story arcs (the arc where you get a warrant put out against you by Crey would make a great point to go Vigilante, or maybe the heat of Arachnos convinces a villain that Paragon might be a safer place to operate.)

6: A chance for heroism in the isles/villainy in the city. More chances to do evil on your own terms, or go to the isles to try and do some good. Especially lacking on the latter.

Originally Posted by DarkGob

That's right Fonzie, they're doing everything they can to entice VIPs to pack up and move over to Exalted. Discounted transfer tokens, special Exalted-only events. This may be all that's needed to start a mass exodus off the smaller servers (Freedom and Virtue will, undoubtedly, be "fine", such as they are). And face it Potsie, there's just not as much incentive to entice free players as there is to entice paying players. Want to get access to the exclusive dev events, free player? Better sub up so you can get onto Exalted. There's literally no financial reason to care whether or not free players are happy.

No, Ralph Malph, I don't have "background info", and yes, I certainly am guessing based on the available facts, and yes I may be wrong. I definitely hope I'm wrong, but I've lost quite a bit of confidence in this game in the past year or two, so I reserve the right to be more than a little worried.

Originally Posted by Smersh

I'd just like to point out that the phrase 'civil rights' is being grossly misapplied here.

Originally Posted by Westley

...and this is why.

This is a gross violation of my privacy and civil rights, and I will not subject myself to this. I will be unsubscribing permanently as soon as I send this message. I'm posting this so that whoever in NCSoft may see it that may change this. If you take this out, I may continue to subscribe in the future. But as it stands, I'm done. I've been paying for the past seven years almost, and for the last two or three without even playing most of the time. No more.

Originally Posted by DarkGob

Exalted (the new VIP server). It seems the devs will be neglecting the "free" servers.

Although if you ever intend to play as a Premium then you should absolutely not do this, obviously.

Originally Posted by TrueMetal

I'll bother, because it's fun to play there. I really don't get comments like this. :S People who like Praetoria will make characters in Praetoria.



Meh. You have a bit of a point here. Making tilesets is rather resource intensive though, and personally I'd rather they spend their art resources on other stuff than maps.



This is the basic gameplay of the game. I really don't see how they can change it without, well, turning it into another game.



I'd like to have seen a TF of sorts to round off the Praetorian content. I was rather disappointed to learn that there wasn't one, since I really expected it.

They added the zone events (which are rather fun imo and woefully underused). I really don't see what more they would add? You outlevel stuff as it is. You can run 4 characters through Praetoria and not repeat a single mission. (except Marauder) There's more stuff in Praetoria than in Coh and CoV lvl 1-20 combined. Asking more Praet content also clashes a bit with your next point.



I like Praetoria and certainly wouldn't call it weak and I'm sure many others feel the same. Not sure about the Well of the Furies bit, but we'll see where that goes.



This has me miffed. I can understand that some stuff (or a lot of stuff) that we've gotten over the past year(s) wasn't for you. But I really don't see how you can look at all the changes, the fulfilment of player requests, the future plans, and the obvious enthusiasm of our devs and then conclude that they've 'become complacent and lost their zeal'. Looking at your post (especially the bits about gameplay) I can't shake the impression that it is you who has lost his zeal for this game. (Not an accusation, it happens.)

Originally Posted by Triomphe

1. What if I want to make names with the word

2. Anyone who would be offended by the word should, by now, know that its meaning is rather different from what it was many years ago. Thus any attempted offense would just be foolish.