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Quote:I really dislike this MM 'I buff only my pets mentality', up to the point where I'm tempted to kick MM's off my team if I see the team struggling and the MM failing to apply his buffs to the team. (I don't, but I'm tempted.) For example that one time on an ITF, when a demons/pain MM kept exclusively healing his pets while our tank kept being killed by Romulus and the huge swarm of roman ambushes, which in turn caused some squishies to go under. The only reason I didn't kick then, was because it wasn't a very strong team, and we needed his damage.Originally Posted by PennyPA
Very interesting read there Sam, kudos...
I have never seen MM's play support first to the team, but rather offense first, then help if needed. Of the 3 MM's I have, only one would be considered supportish (/PD vs. /storm & /dark). My pets come first and I just feel that an MM without pets is not an MM. On a side note, I have a large number of buffing toons too and support the team, but never the MM pets since that is the MM's job. Interesting to see the differences.
If the team is sailing through I don't care what you do, but if the team is struggling a MM better switch his buffing priorities to the teammates otherwise he's only half as useful as he could be imo. It's the same as a corruptor or a controller completely neglecting his secondary while teaming.
Also, out of curiosity, how do consider /dark and /storm not support? It's basicly all they do. Maybe we just have different definitions of 'support'. -
Quote:What it will solve, is that I can kick players who are glowing but completely unresponsive to any sort of advice/directions/commands in any form of chat for whatever reason. I can also add them to my blacklist and make sure they don't get on my trial runs again.Originally Posted by Lothic
Technically speaking the game isn't really forcing a league to stand around wasting time shuffling (or not shuffling) temp powers around. You don't have to dump all the temps on one person to succeed in a MoLambda attempt. Not sure what making people glow like this is going to solve here. Besides there are so many aura/temp powers being thrown around these days how is a new aura for this even really going to reliably serve its purpose?
There will always be naive/idiot players who choose to not listen to requests made by other players on trials like these. I understand your frustration with these players not playing well with others. I just don't see your suggestion as something that would be helpful enough to be worthwhile. *shrugs*
I give a lot of leaway to new and inexperienced players, in all parts of the game. I actually enjoy playing with new people quite a lot. But if you're failing to respond to basic instructions even after having everything explained in league chat before we start, and then at least once more in league, broadcast and team chat each, while in the trial, I can only conclude that you're doing it on purpose. Playing without any chat windows open, while on a group oriented effort like the trials, is the same as 'doing it on purpose' imo. -
Quote:Objectivly it isn't much, it just 10% of the actual thread cost of the salvage piece. What's really the issue, imo, is the pittiful return you get on turning stuff into threads.Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
Whether it's phrased badly or not, I find that the number of threads you have to burn to do a sidegrade REALLY irritating; especially as they gave the impression that it wouldn't need many.
I don't call 150 threads, some; I call 150 threads a LOT. Quite a few of us don't have the time to spend hours doing the same 2 sodding trials again and again and again, to get enough threads to sidegrade, you know. Quit turning CoH into WoW! -
Quote:Don't think so. Nope. Nope. But that's hardly relevant. There's hasn't been a sidegrade recipe before either.Originally Posted by Obitus
Is there any other example in CoH crafting of a recipe that offers as its target the components required to build it? Are other conversion recipes presented in that format? Is there any precedent for having multiple outcomes for a given recipe?
Ooh, I like those clever word games where you can insult a person and then in the same stroke pretend you didn't really, because you never would do something like that. Moral highground, yo!Quote:If you wanna tell me that your on-first-glance reaction to that window was to read it exactly as intended, then that's one thing. If you want to tell me that anyone who reads it incorrectly, given years of contrary precedent, is an illiterate moron, then I am perfectly justified in telling you that you're an arrogant jerk.
But I wouldn't do that, because it's irrelevant even if it is true -- just as most of your contributions to this thread have been. All I'm saying is that if I didn't have forum-derived confirmation that the blurbs in those recipes are accurate, I'd have a hard time committing a Very Rare to what looks like it could be a mistake in the design.
I didn't call anyone an 'illiterate moron'. I just said you failed at reading comprehension. Which you did. But that's not the main issue. I read stuff wrong from time to time too.
What really bugs me (and this is a pet peave of mine, not just here but everywhere) is that people read something and then interpret something in a way so that it clearly, obviously doesn't make any sense. As you apparently did. But instead of thinking things through and going, "hmm, that doesn't make any sense, where did I go wrong?" they immediatly fly off to start whining (on the forums in this case) that stuff doesn't make sense. Instead of using their brain for a bit.
That's the issue I have. I'm not saying people don't have any brains, I'm complaining that people always fail to use it.
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Quote:No, it doesn't. That's some powerfull basic reading comprehension fail right there.Originally Posted by Obitus
Look closer.
Hint: The game is telling him that the recipe for, say, a Living Relic, requires a Living Relic.
Living Relic Sidegrade -- Converts a very rare Incarnate Component into another very rare Incarnate Component of your choice. It requires some additional Incarnate Threads to catalyze the information.
Needs: 1 Living Relic and 150 Threads
The text plainly says that it converts a very rare incarnate component (in this case the Living Relic, since you know, it says "Living Relic Sidegrade" at the start and "Needs: 1 Living Relic" quite clearly there at the bottom) into another of your choice. That last bit indicating that you'll get to choose which other piece of salvage you'll convert your Living Relic into.
There really isn't a lot of mental gymnastics involved here. -
Quote:I'm starting to think, that if there's something wrong, that it is related to specific characters or even players and not necessarily ATs/power sets.Originally Posted by Nihilii
Second 8 man Lambda, again 3 of us got the 10 threads table and... hint hint... They were the same players, playing the same toons.
Namely :
Cold/Sonic defender
Fire/Rad corruptor
Fire/SS tanker
(The other person who got the 10 threads table in the first run logged out after the first trial. He was also a fire/rad corr)
The Cold/Son and Fire/Rad took out eight crates, the cold/son kept everyone buffed as well as using Sleet everytime it's up and attacking...
Something is definitely off for these results to happen. These guys ARE participating.
One of my brothers plays a Fire/SS tanker, and my other a SS/Fire brute and they both get plenty of high end salvage (and a lot more low stuff as well), and never the 10 threads.
I now enough people playing mostly support characters (myself included, corruptors mostly) and none of them are really lacking in usefull reward drops either. -
Quote:I'm going to do it from now on.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
I wouldn't have the stomach to do it, but I've thought it. Many, many times.
Great Idea. I'm there. The devs can go ahead and add this. It's been a long while since I failed a Lambda, even though there are always at least 1 or 2 portals left open, but the stubborn refusal of people to listen to basic instructions in a group effort really rubs me the wrong way.Quote:I am very close to suggesting that the devs basically out the players with the grenades and acids: when they drop, combat spam will say "Violet Rumble recieved Molecular Acid" and when its used combat spam will say "Violet Rumble has destroyed a reinforcement portal." I think this is the sort of thing you should be wary of doing, and the only reason I'm not personally there yet is because even with the apparently amazingly high illiteracy rate among MMO players my overall success rate is still pretty high running trials.
I don't care if you're shy, or that you don't feel like talking about stuff in group. You don't have too. Most of the time I'm not much of a talker myself. I can be perfectly silent for hours on end, in game and in real life even in a room full of people, and enjoy myself perfectly fine.Quote:I know some people are shy, some don't really want to talk in team or league, and some honestly don't really know all that much about the game except what they needed to know to play it however they decided to play it. You don't need to know about temp powers or the temp power listing to play the game to 50. So whether I'm leading the trial or not, I always say in league "Everyone check your temp power listing for acids. It might not have dropped in your tray" unless the league looks like they are wiping the portals out fast. I usually repeat and emphasize if a portal or two doesn't magically snuff itself within a few seconds. I think the important thing to mention is that it might not be in their tray: they might have gotten more than one drop, they might not have had space, whatever. And its important to tell everyone to check, because sometimes someone goes the wrong way and can cause drops to cross to the other team.
But in a group effort you NEED to at the least LISTEN to basic instructions and ACT ON THEM. That has nothing to do with being shy or whatever.
And if you don't know what to do, JUST ASK. At the very worst you might be ridiculed by some random retard on the internet, something which I see rarely happen in this game, and at best you have a bunch of people falling over themselves to explain it to you in varying degrees of detail, something that happens quite often in this game. -
Quote:Are you for real? What destroys your immersion is your completely ridiculous expectations.Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
See, this is what I hate about all the new content we've been getting lately since GR. Skyway is NOT destroyed, I assure you, it's perfectly fine. I just took a flight around there and it's looking just like it always does. Same for Kings and Steel. All places wrecked by this "war" we're apparently in with the Praetorians.
Until such time as we SEE all of this happeing in the world zones, it isn't happening. It's completely ridiculous to go in to a mission, see a large area of a game zone totally wrecked, and then when you come out it's all perfectly fine.
It utterly destroys any kind of immersion or continuity, and tears the 4th wall down whilst mooning the players. -
I looked for about 2 minutes at the screenshot in the OP thinking that I was being especially dense for not seeing the goof/funny in it. Then I read a good part of the thread only to come to the conclusion that there wasn't actually anything wrong with the screenshot, and that I wasn't the one being dense...
Quote:Yes. Or no. It was simple the very first time I saw it too. You pick 1 of 4(or 8) items of a list and match it to the one you need, I fail to see how pen and paper are needed in that.Originally Posted by Dispari
The system is very simple to you and I, because we already know the answer and are familiar with it. But just glancing at it without a guide or any prior knowledge and it can be confusing.
The only thing confusing about this whole incarnate crafting system is seeing how many people are being confused by something so simple ...
I agree the interface could've been a bit more fluid, but I really fail to see how the basic crafting system is to much for anyone to grasp. -
Quote:Ok, socializing was the wrong word to use, but the point still stands.Originally Posted by Steel_Shaman
Sam does socialize. He said in this thread that he chats with friends while playing missions solo. Chatting with someone is being social. One does not have to be on a team with someone to interact with them. I help out folks asking questions in the Help channel all the time. Am I being anti-social because I'm not grouped with them? Nope.
Edit: And for some reason when I my made my earlier post, only a handfull of other posts showed up. So I missed the 50 something other posts of this discussion.
Zombie Man's post sums it up nicely though. -
Quote:I'm just saying that nothing changed. Everything from the previous issues is still around. So you can still go on enjoy doing what you enjoyed before.Originally Posted by Steel_Shaman
Honestly what are you trying to say here?
Right now, the vast majority of people are doing content I actively avoid (the Incarnate Trials). The number of folks leveling new characters is (on my server, at least), lower than I've ever seen it. Hence my statement.
Only suddenly a number of people are complaining that simply because the end game as is, or end game in general doesn't appeal to them that there is nothing for them to do anymore. All the old stuff hasn't gone away. If you feel that the game is dull, well that's not really a problem with the game. It's just what it is, you've gotten bored of the game. It happens.
If all the old stuff doesn't appeal to you anymore or you find that even the new stuff "After a while [] becomes as tiresome as trudging through a warehouse full of guys standing around pounding their fists", despite it being the most varied content to date, then nothing the devs reasonably can come up with in this game is going to satisfy you. The game isn't going to radically change into another game. If the basic gameplay doesn't appeal to you (anymore) nothing is going to fix that. -
Quote:Not duller than the previous 19 issue I imagine.Originally Posted by Steel_Shaman
It's a good thing I like making new characters and leveling them up. Otherwise CoH would be pretty dull for me right now. -
Quote:Reading stuff like this makes me wonder what people are expecting, exactly. We're playing a MMO, you know? An old MMO. People need to remember that. What you're complaining about is the basic gameplay this game is built around. That's not going to change.Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
Sutter is overdesigned and Kal has too much TL;DR for team content. The design of Kal is ok though, except for that unnecessary Odysseus mission and the final cutscene. It has enough unique encounters to keep it from being boring, but not so many that the entire TF is nothing but unique encounters. Sutter though...every fight is scripted. After a while it becomes as tiresome as trudging through a warehouse full of guys standing around pounding their fists.
Everyone seems to be expecting some in depth next gen gaming experience that revolutionises how this game works and then are surprised when they end up dissapointed. -
Quote:You can reinforce him as a villain with the tip missions.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Serious question here. I like the character, I want to play him, but I can't bring myself to sinking down what will end up being an entire day fixing his sorry *** if all I have to look forward is "repeatable content." Because beyond that, I'm out of ideas, and it seriously sucks. I like this character.
Did you do all the unlockable characters? Television is a blast.
Go through Ouroborous and do the arcs you skipped.
Use AE. This is exactly what it is intended for.
This is a MMO. Half of that is running stuff you already did with a group of friends. That's where the fun lies. If you're not into socialising, you're going to run out of things to do at a certain point, that's just how it is. -
Quote:Originally Posted by TheJazMan
Anyway, it just seems like a lot of the creativity is lost lately and these new things seem to be almost an afterthought (especially the Sutter and Kal).
The two new TFs are among the best stuff this game has to offer imo. They're varied, well constructed gameplay wise and internally consistent storywise. I like how they flow from one mission into another, with each mission being clearly different from the previous.
And how is fighting on a battle ship fleet and taking on a giant floating fortress or making a powerfull mage your b**** while competing with various villain groups and taking on one of the most powerful heroes alive on his own turf and completely annihilating the lot of them not epic? -
1. Do something about the lag in large scale encounters. Though I seem to have less trouble with it than most, it's still annoying. Not being able to fire of powers while they show as recharged, but actually aren't, gets old FAST.
2. Pet peeve: Make the names of recipes and their respective crafted enhancements match 100%. There is no line in it whatsoever and it's really freaking annoying when trying to use the search function on the market. If the recipe says dam/acc the crafted enhancement can be anything from dam/acc, damage/accuracy, accuracy/damage, or there's an extra space in there somewhere, or there's just a damn typo in one version or the other or ...
3.a. Make the memorized recipes tab closed by default instead of open in your recipes window.
3.b. Make memorized recipes exempt from the "usefull salvage" warning.
4. Find a way to make Mayhem (and Safeguard) missions available through Ouroborous. Or don't tie accolade badges that give powers to them. With the current leveling speed and the slew of things to do it's easy to skip one or two, especially in the lower levels. And Praetorians miss two no matter what you do.
5. Make me move contacts out of my active list or even delete from my list altogether. Or do away with the automatic introductions. Having a whole slew of contacts that don't interest me on any particular character clog up my contact list irks me. -
In no particular order.
Stalagmites: stomp -> spikes -> whole spawn walking around groggy
Soulstorm: Coolest looking hold in the game. It's just beautiful.
Wormhole: Most fun on outdoor maps, where you can make it rain badguys.
Fearsome stare: My favourite power in my favourite support set. -
Quote:I like taking a long, relaxing shower when I get home from work. They usually take 15-20 minutes, sometimes longer on the days I have to wash my hair twice to get the chemical smell out. Still not as bad as cigarette smoke after a night out at the pub though...Originally Posted by Chaos Creator
Time needed increases proportionally with length and thickness of hair.
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Quote:I got it on a MoBAF run.Originally Posted by GuyPerfect
This is incorrect. My league achieved Master of Lambda Sector last night and, since I'd already done Lambda Sector in a 20-hour period, I did not receive an Empyrean Merit.
I had already done a BAF in the 20 hour period and I already had the Mo badge at the time. We got all the badges (well, not me, since I already had them) in that run.
I have heard from other people who claim the same.
Might be a bug then, all I know is that I did get that emp merit under those circumstances, and I'm not the only one. -
Quote:Good thing the Incarnate system is not complex then.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
"Complexity" is not a positive trait in any system, and should never be regarded as such.
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Quote:Like, yeah Bob, I know. How about maybe they only finalized the build late last night or even this morning, hmm?Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
^ Actually, yes.. It almost certainly WAS ready yesterday or they wouldn't have posted that they'd be patching today, as they wouldn't have known it would BE ready. These things have to be tested and passed by QA before released, you know.
from zwillinger:Quote:So yeah, they COULD have done the patch first thing this morning, IMO. But they probably thought that might not be enough notice, so end up doing it in prime time. Genius.
But anyway, apparently they took the servers down two hours early in order to bring them back up earlier. So yey, everyone wins.Quote:If we could wait for this maintenance we would. The fixes that are going in are actually very important fixes to several mapserver crash issues which we felt to be important enough to get to live before the weekend. Obviously the time slot isn't ideal for the EU Community, and we did everything we could to get it earlier in the day (ideal would have been during our normal maintenance window starting at 5 AM PDT).
Of course people are going to complain about that now ... -
Quote:Maybe, but then what does that have to do with the various types of salvage? All the set bonuses would still be there even if there was only 1 type of salvage per rank.Originally Posted by Gaspard
I don't think he means the actual crafting, dat stuff is ez, yo. But messing about with IO's and set bonuses is probably a little bit complicated, at least according to my casual player friends.
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Quote:If 'plan' means 'check the Incarnate power create tab before clicking accept' then yes I guess you have to plan a bit more ...Originally Posted by gec72
The only thing with this vs invention salvage though is that you have to plan better. If I get a Hamidon Goo from a drop and later I happen to find out that I need a Pangean Soil, no big deal - I go to the market and sell one and buy the other. If I get a very rare reward table and happen to pick the wrong piece of incarnate salvage, I've lost a good deal of value - I now have a piece of purple salvage I may not be able to use which would make little sense to break down, AND I still need another bit of purple salvage that I either have to get lucky (again) to roll or have to build.
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Quote:I'm not calling you dumb, because I know from reading you're post that you're not, but really? Where's the complication? You match names of 'ingredients' to a list and you click create ... how's that complicated?Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
"I find Inventions too complicated to bother with."
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Quote:You did 3 runs, you got 2 rares and you're complaining? Seriously?Originally Posted by EvilRyu
I just want to add my 2 inf to the discussion. I did baf 3 times. One attempt I put everything I had into doing as much aoe damage as possible on my scrapper. I got a rare, second attempt I wasnt able to do much aoe due to dieing alot because our tanks sucked at the time. I got uncommon on that run. 3rd run we had better tanks and controllers so I was able to get alot of damage in. I got a rare this run. So now I have all the new stuff to tier 3 and a tier 4 only on the alpha. It looks as if I am gonna have to get like retardedly lucky to get this done.