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I love MMs but here are a few reasons why I tend to avoid MMs on my team:
1) I like to run Speed SFs/ITfs and MMs have a tendency to slow down my team.
2) Lag. MMs especially bots tend to create a significant amount of lag (ITFs especially)
3) Crowding map. Maps in this game are too small. I hate caves and even though you can get around pets now they create visbility issues since many of the maps were created without MMs in mind.
4) pet buffers. Many MMs have a solo mentality and thus tend to buff pets instead of teammates. This is beyond irritating.
5) Pet aggro. Many MMs don't know how to control their pets and create unnecessary aggro.
6) AVs that use pets to buff. Some AVs such as romulus on the last ITf mission use pets to heal and buff. This becomes increasingly irritating after having to tell a MM to please either move their pets into range or dismiss them and the MM ignores you or starts to fight with you. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Silverado
The photographer.
Too vague. who are they? What is their name? -
Quote:Alright Mr., how bout this one:Originally Posted by theOcho
theocho, player, war witch, empulse, positron
Who's taking the picture? -
Quote:lrnwin2quit?Originally Posted by PC_guy
lrn2pvp?
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Quote:Please don't give the devs anymore ideas on what to nerf for future updates.Originally Posted by Frosticus
MM's exploit this "no target" issue in both aggressive and defensive mode. Aggressive because pets can still target things and defensive because these npc's aren't bound to the same no targeting rules as we are so they will attack you immediately.
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Quote:Well, welcome back to this ****-hole of a PvP system. d;DOriginally Posted by Sterling
Hmm may have to level up a toon on one or both of those servers. I'm probably somewhere between wanting to be competitive and being a "baddo" :-) PVP is something I like to do in other games on occasion, as a change of pace. Never have been a primarily PVP focused kind of guy.
If you decide to roll a toon for virtue, head on over to the virtue server thread. We are hosting weekend Role-Play picnics in RV heroside (They have benches scattered all around RV which make it a great area to role-play a picnic). If you are into ERP, Xanatos will be hosting some erotic scenes in Arena for an orgy of six to eight, events are always BYOKY (Bring Your Own KY). I do believe there's also an official ERPvP channel you can join as well.
Remember when considering a concept to RolePlay, Futa and Cat-girls are always well recieved and will most likely get you the most arena invites.
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Quote:Go to freedom if you are looking to learn and become a competitive PvPer.Originally Posted by Sterling
I wish I could have an opinion on this. I wanted to see how PVP was in this game now...I ran a baby Fire/Dark Corruptor into BB on Justice server just to see what was up. I expected to get my butt handed to me, no big deal. But I saw no one at all to mess around with. It was just completely dead. It's hard to find out how PvP in a game is if no one on your server is actually PvP'ing. Might have to give it a try again later.
If you're more of a casual PvP baddo, jump on the shortbus to virtue. We're all bad here. -
Quote:Why is eugenics such a bad idea again?Originally Posted by Xanatos
Dahje's are natives of Virtue. We sure do know how to breed them!
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Quote:That would have been my second guess.Originally Posted by ConFlict
funnily he is from yours.
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Quote:Mac, is this guy(Dahjee) from your home server? He's a winner. d;DOriginally Posted by macskull
You still haven't answered any of Optical Illusion's questions from upthread. I think we're all interested in how you'll answer them.
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Quote:*face-palm.* ^_^!Originally Posted by Arcanaville
My back of the envelope estimate is that there are about six or seven hundred of them, out of about twelve thousand different powers in the game. Of course, only a fraction of those powers (probably about half) can ever show up in an AE mission, but I have no real way to automatically eliminate the impossibles from contention.
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Quote:Bots/TAOriginally Posted by treydawg
I've been playin some in RV on my peacebringer, yes thats right, a peacebringer and I've had some trouble getting at some MM's so i thought about rolling one. Whats a good combo for it?
it will **** the face of any other primary secondary MM combo with the exception of FF and storm. -
I'm loving all this vitriol towards this patch coming from the storytelling community. We have some really bright and insightful individuals who know where the blame should be placed when it comes to this patch.
(hint for the devs: They aren't blaming the farmers and exploiters for the implementation of this patch.)
You were warned by your own community the reward system would be exploited. You chose not to listen.
Fix the reward system for AE so that it rewards the creators for creating legitimate stories. This system of rewarding individuals MORE for playing player created content rather than creating content is STUPID. There are smarter ways for rewarding people for playing player created content.
You are not punishing farmers or exploiters with these nerfs. You are hurting the storytellers that produce legitimate content. -
Quote:It's a spoof of a famous manifesto, for the enjoyment of us nerds.Originally Posted by Rabid_Metroid
That's really lovely and well written, but more than a bit one sided.
An exploit using/abusing farmer is someone who may explore and search for a rare and precous thing, like a person walking along a hard to access stretch of sea shore. And they may find the occasional sea shell of rare beauty.
But their first thought isn't to put it on display for all to see, or to leave it where it is for others to joyfully discover as they have. No. They smash it with a rock, string the bits onto a necklace, and sell it for a quick profit.
I'll find my heroes elsewhere, thanks. And I'm glad this change has gone in. It's annoying to me, but I think it was needed to keep things fair. The sea shell's gone, time to wander on.
Devs, stop wasting time and resources on AE. Why are we rewarding people for running player created content when we should be rewarding the creators of said content? -
The Farmers Manifesto
Another one got caught today, it's all over the forums. "Teenagers Account Banned Today in Farming Exploit Scandal", "Farmer banned after exploit Tampering"...
Damn Farmer. They're all alike.
But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the Farmer? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him?
I am a Framer, enter my world...
Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me...
Damn underachiever. They're all alike.
I'm in junior high or high school. I've listened to teachers explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. "No, Ms. Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it in my head..."
Damn kid. Probably copied it. They're all alike.
I made a discovery today. I found a bug. Wait a second, this is cool...
Damn kid. All he does is play games. They're all alike.
You bet your *** we're all alike... we've been spoon-fed baby food on MMOs when we hungered for steak... the bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us willing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert.
This is our world now... the world of the bugs and the glitches, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing that could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals.
Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for.
I am a farmer, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike.
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you really believe "IF" paragon studios gets the green light and funding to update their franchise they wouldn't be considering a coH2 with a new gaming engine and updated middleware with their logo and not cryptics on it?
As critical and vocally opinionated as I am about the development team and the rest of paragon studios staff, they have something awesome here and I want nothing but success for them and for the future of this game.
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Quote:My list has no team PvP, zone PvP or 1v1 focus other than the sets themselves. I was asked to offer some examples of powers that come across as broken or bugged, so I compiled a list off the top of my head of powers/sets that seem to be working oddly or outside the norm; yet weren't candidates for the ban hammer.Originally Posted by IcyKiri
Honestly I think your list is much more focused on 1v1's and Zone PvP than it is focused on 8v8 Team Style PvP where TS and HD are turned off. COH is not a game that is balanced around 1v1's. In fact, although it is pretty balanced in a large scale team environment, it really isnt that balanced as can be seen by the prevalence of the "Standard Jump Team" 5 Psi EM, 2 Emp, 1 Rad.
Anyways, just my .02 inf...
-Kiri
I've been critical of the LR ban because the league has made some rather fiteclub kid rulings before (Leaving TS on was one, although that was repealed. Thank you.) I remember the response I recieved from a league rep that the reason they are looking past proc in psi was because too many people play psi blasters and it wouldn't be fair, seemed like a cop-out.
Dueling is for fiteklub kids and you don't need to tell me zone pvp is for kids with downs. I'm the hellen keller of zone pvp. you'd have to get a downs kid pregnant, name the placenta "fail' and abort it to amount to the levels of fail i've achieved. i'm a horrible pvper, most likely the worst. However, I rather be a downs kid than a fiteclub kid that thinks they are gud.
I understand why LR is bugged and I appreciate the explanation; either way i'm disappointed at any ban of any power instead of limiting it. I have a feeling there are quite a few powers that are using the wrong modifiers that the devs aren't aware of or aren't telling us about. Not going to appologies for being skeptical of a dev when they say something is 'working as intended.' After all, TS is working as intended as are the PvP inherent shields and heal decay. -
Quote:Run a rad some time and proc Neutrino bolt out with 4 damage procs (Lady Grey, Shield breaker, glad jav, Apoc and two Nucleolus). Now throw in assault and Accelerated Metabolism. I'm rounding AMs (20-13%=17.4) damage bonus and assault damage (15-30%= 13.9) bonus down to compensate for DR and you're easily dishing out 185-200 damage a second and that's without AIM up or scourge.Originally Posted by Xury2
Last I heard Lady Grey one wasn't resisted. Of course that was some time ago... And neither is the placate proc, as obscure as that is. And I don't mean how it fires off all the time, I mean when you have placate resist to reduce the duration in Leadership/Assault.
And about the purple procs being resisted besides the placate one, well that's fine and dandy.
Edit: Did some research, Lady Grey IS in fact resisted, and Touch of Death is unresistable. And I'm not 100% on the placate duration one.
Want insane damage? Spirit shark, proced out and slotted for damage hitting on a target that's below 40% base health. -
Quote:Sorry, i'm just bitter yellow. d;DOriginally Posted by Xury2
Hey come on now. I didn't say I approved either, I'm just reiterating what they said.
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Quote:I think if we looked at how the mez's and ranged epic powers for melee ATs worked in PvP their damage values wouldn't make any numerical sense. But that's just my opinion without any real evidence to back it up.Originally Posted by Supermax
If we really decided to ban everything that was broken in a sense of "doesn't make sense" instead of numerically broken like barrier described....we would have to ban the entire game.
But I never disagreed with you and barrier. I just disagree with banning any power. I don' get to make the calls though as addressed. I don't have to agree with them either. -
[QUOTE=Psyrene;2756699]Quote:Originally Posted by Tokyo
I know LR is borked. I'm just butt hurt that it was banned completely. Wouldn't mind limiting the ATs with the secondary, but banned was a bit harsh.
I'm aware. please read.Quote:The Secondary is not banned or limited to how many you can run. The power is banned. So you could have played your /Rad corr but you just couldn't use LR in a match.
What does this have to do with Corrs LR being banned?Quote:And someone already said and I will say it again Rad/ Defenders are much better to run in team matches just based on its debuff numbers, almost double the corr version. -
Quote:I know LR is borked. I'm just butt hurt that it was banned completely. Wouldn't mind limiting the ATs with the secondary, but banned was a bit harsh.Originally Posted by black_barrier
it's ok man, when tokyo/chart starts captain-ing a team, he/she/it can start voting on what's op, broken or not broken.
'til then, go zone pvp solo.
leaders are picked/allowed to lead and decide on the rules of the ladder for a reason.
I'll just go back to failing at zone PvP untill its changed or continue failing at zone pvp if it's not. -
Quote:Since when do we agree with the devs when they say something is "working as intended?"Originally Posted by Xury2
Max and Barrier already talked about the ones you mentioned, but I'll cover the rest.
Reconstruction and similar self healing powers ARE effected, only minimally, this is by design and working as intended. This was specific in a post of Castle's.
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When it's convenient to us...I see.
Anyway, i'm beating a dead horse. Enjoy your "fair and balanced" league PvP. d;D -
Quote:Originally Posted by black_barrier
no.
the AT limit on stalkers has already limited certain legit line-ups from happening.
what else is broken that hasn't been banned?
make case, don't just trow virtue-style empty talk at the boards.
Epic pool Mez's for melee toons are doing inordinate amount of damage in PvP VS their PvE counterpart. I have a feeling the devs took the lazy route and calculated using melee percentiles.
Epic pool ranged powers for melee ATs (scrappers, tankers) are doing blaster numbers of damage. Again I believe they are using the formula for melee attacks for ranged attacks.
Placate proc in powers such as Will Domination go off every time. This is broken.
Spirit Shark for stalkers are OP yet the AT has been limited, not out-right banned.
Reconstruction on regen scrappers doesn't seem to be significantly impacted by DR like most other AT heals (Not being DRed correctly?)
((I could be wrong about reconstruction, however it does seem as if it is being impacted much differently. Regen set for scrappers needs to be looked at.))
Hold procs are allowing ranged powers to hold longer than actual powers meant to hold.
Also I don't believe inertial reduction is being affected by TS like similar travel powers. (has this changed recently? Haven't PvPed in a few months.)
Those are a few things that come across as broken off the top of my head. I can't show numbers because the numbers available to us for PvP are wrong.
instead of out-right banning a power in a secondary or limiting an entire AT, why not simply limit the amount of ATs that can have that primary, secondary, epic, patron? -
Quote:Originally Posted by IcyKiri
They banned Corruptor LR because it does not supress properly in PvP (its like having perma travel supression on).
Corruptor Rad is ghetto compaired to Defender Rad.
Basically there are two reasons to play a Def over a Corr right now:
1) Radiation/* - Defender EF is much much better then Corruptor EF.
2) Empathy/* - Pain is a great set dont get me wrong, however in teams Empathy is in a completely different league when compaired to Pain. This is mainly due to the fact that Empathy has its own self (Recovery Aura) end buff that is able to nullify Heat Exhaust. The core buff (Fortitude) is a targeted buff. The one great buff that Pain has is its +damage however, with diminishing returns DR cuts damage buffs extremely hardcore basically neutering what little the Pain corr has to offer to a team.
-Kiri
yes, I know the reasoning for banning corr LR. Doesn't make it any less retarded banning LR and not other obviously broken powers.
Makes more sense limiting how many ATs have the same secondary on any given team than it does out right banning a crucial power in someones secondary.