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I think someone needs to update their archetypical example material from D&D 1st Edition. Things have came a long way since then, wizards can even carry swords now States

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But, better to start at "too weak" and buff as needed, rather than "too strong" and nerf it, right?

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Bingo.

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Then buff the too-weak TA and Archery sets, already.

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Costs for a 10-slot inspiration bin? 1million!

Cost for a 10-slot enhancement container? 500K!




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Just so you all realize, the prices Lektrik wrote are completely made up.

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I'd note how easy it would have been for Positron to strengthen his position simply by *listing* the low costs of these items to refute Lektrik's suspicions, but that wasn't done here.

Conclusion - the costs really will be in that ballpark, even Posi couldn't make the claim of "reasonably priced" with a straight-enuf face to avoid putting it in quotes. Kinda like back when the 4th SO's drop-off was described as "moderate"

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IF we were to ever add a way to get Isolator post-Tutorial, it would most likely be incredibly hard to get. Annoyingly hard. Irritatingly hard. There-would-be-a-zillion-people-asking-to-make-it-easier hard.

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My main CoH hero lacks the Isolator badge and I simply don't care, not enough of a rabid badge collector to get worked up over this. If Isolator is never made available to my main I won't lose any sleep over it. But... if the powers that be decide to make it obtainable for those characters rolled before badges were introduced in the game, what in the world is the rationale for making it "irritatingly hard" to acquire?

I suspect the reason is nothing else but spite, Positron's way at getting even for all those folks who requested this. Another big win for Customer Service there, Pos.

Best part of the video....

Fire in the hole!

Woohoo, States doesn't post anything for a week then finally shows up... to pimp his strat guide

Don't like the things, won't be buying. Can't help but see them as an inherent conflict of interest.

The classic Hans Moleman's quote applies to this entire thread.

/not the "I was saying 'Boo-urns'" one, either.

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So, I increased the sleep chance to a 'better' value. It's still not 100% of the time, but you should get between 50% and 66% of minions when it lands.

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Appreciate the time and effort, Castle!

Unfortunately, trick arrow is not going to become a balanced set simply by tweaking some numerical values. The overall manner in which the set works needs to be revisited.

My rad/rad says this alot...

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Trick Arrow as a set needs a bit of work. There are a few issues with making the desired changes at this time, but at some point in the future, we will be revisiting this set.

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"Revisiting" is a poor option when it was supposedly under ongoing monitoring as a new powerset. Please, in the future take the time to balance powersets *as released* before moving on to other powersets (possibly unbalanced themselves). Fix these old problems!

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Why is the badge list so screwed up?

Well, it's not. At least to me.

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The ease-of-life of the devs needs to come secondary to customer service. Devs should keep up with the badges some other way while making them display to us in a orderly fashion.

That this even needs to be said kinda surprises me.

Recently took Whirlwind on a villain as a "theme" power, the knockback didn't even register. Its been a *long* time since I'd had a character with Whirlwind, and even then it was on Test for just long enuf to realize it wasn't too great of a choice Don't team regularly with anyone else who has it. I remember it being Knock Up now that its mentioned, guess I should be annoyed? Eh, personally the knock up effect looked goofy to me, I like the scattering effect moreso.

Still, missing patch notes is a Bad Thing and once again looks like an attempt at sneaking a nerf by everyone. This is not acceptable, devs. Get your change tracking processes down to a fine science before something really big comes along and bites you.

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Of course, this is all speculation and probably a waste of time.

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Idle speculation? Welcome to the internet! Don't click on anything with the word "******" in it

Schwartz

Vorpal Bunny

Hmm... not a big 'Clix fan so I only scanned over that content, but there were 7 figures in the set. Dunno if I have any instances of doubling-up on one and missing another, will hafta check tonite. Pretty sure I remember seeing Ghost Widow, tho.

For all of you who are missing figures, I hope this problem is corrected without too much pain to the consumer...

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Yes, SR really needs some love. But turning it into yet another DEF/RES secondary is the wrong idea. As stated before, it bleaches the flavor right out of the secondary.

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I've seen this argument made multiple times now and I honestly don't understand where its coming from. SR is currently *flavorless*. Its just bald game mechanics, +DEF posing as a powerset. Dark Armor is flavor. Ninjitsu is flavor. "Nothing but DEF" is not flavor.

Don't get me wrong, I like SR but its currently a *theme* set which is a different thing than flavor. While it would be nice to keep SR all-DEF (and return Invuln to mostly-RES), such focused sets are easier to min/max and abuse. I think we'll see more and more of defensive sets being combination def/res/healing damage mitigators and less of this "very good at one single thing".

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Archery has the highest Accuracy in the game. ... So that like getting 1 free ACC DO in all Archery powers.

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Which, in essence, means next to nothing specifically for that reason: you can duplicate the Archery advantage by putting one extra accuracy DO in your attack powers.

Which, I will point out, nobody does, and I've seen the numbers to show why: once you get to where you can use SO's, the optimum damage per minute happens with only one accuracy SO in your attack powers. A second accuracy enhancement is wasted.

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All of you who keep arguing that "SOs make this bonus worthless" are missing a very simple point...

Once SOs are nerfed you'll be happy for that free DO's worth of ACC

\you *know* its coming, right?

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First off we don't have necromancers in CoH.

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But we get 'em in CoV, and I for one welcome our new Mastermind overlords!

I love zombie threads

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I can tell you one thing for sure, Stefan Richter (aka Lord Recluse) was referring to his sister Monica in that line from the comic.

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Love triangle, here we come...

yeah, its his sister, like that stops a supervillain

Oh, I wish I would have saw this thread earlier, guess I'll just hafta be satisfied with being the zillionth person to point out what is NC now wasn't NC back then

/and whats this *west* virginia i keep hearing about?

591 entries and counting as of 10am EST thursday morning!

The contest gallery is currently up-to-date, if you'd like to easily look through all the contestants there is a link in my sig to the site.

I'm kinda surprised at the large turnout so far, I show as of 9:45am EST there are 430 entries! I'm still collecting screenshots and displaying them in the contest gallery as listed in my sig, if you're interested in quickly looking thru all the submitted heroes its probably quicker than working your way thru this thread.

Best of luck to everyone!

I'm in the process of copying each of the entries into a website gallery for easy viewing, you can see the results at my CoH Female Model Contest page. I've taken the first pic from each entry, if you had multiple pics sorry I couldn't post them all.

I've just finished copying over the first 4 pages, still have 5 pages to go (I show more posts per page than the default setting). Will work on getting it current and keeping it updated.

EDIT: up-to-date with all current entries, 225 contestants so far!

Umber of Triumph