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War-Nugget

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  1. War-Nugget
    Keyes I agree is challenging at first. But when you know what to do it is quite easy.

    I see myself picking up Teleport on my Fire/Time corruptor when i21 launches - it fits /Time thematically and is by far the most useful travel power on Keyes.
    If you know how to time it correctly, you can actually beat Dr. Keyes to his Regeneration Terminals. Also, if you are tanking Dr. Keyes you can easily TP through the reactor. If you hit one of the "bridges" you fall on the "bridge" below it, easily bypassing the stairs. Although if you do mess up, you usually fall down to ground level. But it is quite fun.
    Heck, if you have it bound to Shift+Lclick you can quickly teleport out of The Green Ring .. you may still get held (the feet dangling portion of it) but you shouldn't get hit.

    Having atleast one Emp/Pain/Thermal (something with a ST heal) seems needed for the tank. Yes, you can stockpile on Greens / have a self health [Earth's Embrace for example] and veen have [Rebirth Radial Epiphany]. If not, I find the Dr. Keyes tank to die a heck of a lot. :-P

    But like Chad said, having Rebirth T3 seems like a good idea for this trial if you are to be attempting badges. Even further, for Bunker Buster I suggest most of the team be on a vent server / actually read League chat and not attack until prepared.
  2. War-Nugget
    UltraTroll, as per the interview found on http://www.onrpg.com/MMO/City-of-Her...rview--Freedom :
    Quote:
    Meta: Will we still have access to Galaxy City outside the tutorial? If we do will Galaxy City look messed up or will it look as we know it to be now?
    Quote:


    Brian: You can access the original Galaxy City by travelling back in time through Ouroboros. But the new and devastated Galaxy City is far too dangerous for players to go back to. It’s a no man’s land that even the Freedom Phalanx is having troubles with.



    So, sadly GC is gone for good. Other then when you do Oro flashbacks to do the missions in the 1 - 10 range. )=


    I started most of my blueside toons in GC, just because I liked the missions better. Least Atlas is being revamped, so maybe the 1 - 10 missions will be different?

    Looking forward to the newstuff though. i21 keeps sounding better and better
  3. War-Nugget
    You got one SS/FA you like - roll another.
    Then you can swap between the two and never feel like you are playing a different character
  4. War-Nugget
    No recoloring the pets Xanatos which sucks.

    I went with Romans for thematic reasons and they kick serious butt. I will be sad when they get nerfed for being too awesome. Do the other pets hit for 1200 points of damage occasionally? I don't believe so. I'll be sad when they get the nerfbat.
  5. War-Nugget

    Corruptor duos

    POST-ACTION

    Two fire/colds - Why?
    You get
    • Twice the huge ST debuffing
    • Awesome defense buffs for each other
    • Plenty of -res
    • Double Arctic Fog for stealthy goodness
    • Heat Loss to bring back your endurance from constant AoE fireballs (and rains) of D00M!

    Also you could have your characters be related.. I don't know how into role playing you are though ;-)

    Or even
    Fire/Cold and Fire/Dark
    You get
    • All the benefits from a Fire/Cold !
    • Plenty of to hit debuffs from /Dark
    • An awesome -slow and -res AoE patch!
    • Fluffy - The pet which does lots of stuff!
    •The Dark has a ally-revive
    • Heat Loss to bring back your endurance from the Fire/ attacks

    Probably more benefits from the Fire/Cold and Fire/Dark , but still both those are awesome choices.

    Oh and the reason for both options including 2 Fire/ is because Fire is quite high damage, it is pretty, and it works nicely with everything
  6. War-Nugget
    Ultra, show your Ele/FA softcapped build. Still note - I said the build was crappy, and you are saying the build is crappy. Can't our craps get together and you know, get back to the original posters question?

    Anyways - Sorry Dark Farmer. Ultra and I murdered your thread :-P

    Not knowing what you ended up doing, I wish you well on your Ele/FA plunders.
  7. War-Nugget
    Awesome video.
    The vocals are what made the music creepy I find, but it suited the video awesomely
    /thumbs up
  8. War-Nugget
    Having GR access is not going to grant Incarnates in the future, much like how Architect Edition and City of Villains are not the ones granting access to those aspects of the game. Incarnates will be accessed when one comes to have VIP status, much like how AE is also locked behind VIP status.

    I actually asked Zwillinger in-game about this, more so about AE edition as I currently have one physical copy of it, one digital copy, and a digital copy I have used. If I use AE edition on a second toon come freedom, it will not have access to AE when he is down at premium level. I assume this will be the case for Going Rogue=>Access to Incarnates aswell when FREEdom hits.
  9. War-Nugget
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by ultrawatt View Post
    Ok, thats simply not true...it actually takes quite some time before -def can be applied when you are soft capped. Infact, on an /FA the mob will likely be dead before you get hit even once.

    Oh, and the build you posted showing how s/l soft capped makes you gimped is simply a crappy build.
    It doesn't take that long for you to get hit by massive DD when you only have 30% DDR. Heck, even on my softcapped shield tank with very high DDR still gets his defense lowered to nothingness when facing Romans. True, Shield doesn't have the aura or Burn, but even with Softcapping and higher DDR than FA the defense is lowered. Although, Romans are just a pain to fight on any defense-based character so I suppose if you were facing enemies who were not that reliant on -def powers you would be fine.

    The build I showed is capped, and that capping makes it crappy. Notice how I said "if you wanted to play a build with gimped attacks", that means the build sucks. :-P
  10. War-Nugget
    What is the theme, O Great One ?
  11. War-Nugget
    That Elec/Fire build I posted works perfectly fine outside of AE, and I do not find the damage to be lacking.
    The heal isn't just a heal, it is also for Toxic damage resistance .. and really, a 50% heal is nothing to joke about - especially if it is up in 11 seconds. :-P

    Lightning Rod currently has enough recharge to be used as such (With t4 Spirit):
    Fiery Embrace, Lightning Rod (wait 20 seconds) repeat.
    LR will be dealing 420 damage on use like this (with capped damage)

    Heck you can do this : BU, HE, LR , [Burn, Fence, Ball, Thunderstrike]x3 , BU, HE, LR
    -using BU whenever really
    That would murder most spawns.

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    I find S/L capping (or even pushing it to 32.5%) gimps most of the powers on a */FA
    To show you, here is a S/L softcapped Ele/FA .

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    Would I ever play it? No. Should you play it? Possibly if you wish to have gimped powers and such .

    High recharge means that the heal is up, if you are getting hit hard that 50% heal on a 11 second cooldown is really handy to top you back up. Having all your AoEs on quick recharges means you can choose to only use AoE attacks. But, if you do feel the need to softcap your S/L (which will be gone in a matter of seconds by anything that has -def powers, as of course you do not have much defense debuff resistance.)

    Of course, with this S/L capped build you can use Darkest Night to apply -tohit to your foes, reducing their chances of hitting you. But, again just ideas of how you could go about making your own Ele/FA .
  12. War-Nugget
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Grey Pilgrim View Post
    They have a couple of price comparison points out for Paragon Points... sounds like you should be able to get a reasonable amount of stuff with 400 points a month. Things are looking good there, but I'm not happy with the news that Incarnate powers are grayed out for Premium people that bought Going Rogue, even though, yes, I know you're playing for free.
    My search-fu is lacking, provide links .. I wanna see
    AND NO!
    I am not going to the front page and looking for myself <.<

    o.o they are now paying us to play their game? Interesting..
    We earn Server Transfer ($10 value) and access to new stuff .. and those arcs ($5 value)
    So, it is $10 per month earned .. and that one time of $5 all include for VIP .
    Nifty
  13. War-Nugget
    It looks okay. Wouldn't bother with the PvP IOs (unless if you currently own them)
    You want recharge, recharge, more recharge, and did I mention some recharge?

    Kind of a "Dream Build" but this is what I would do for Elec/Fire (I am using quite an adapted version of this.. but you should get the idea from the slotting how it probably looks)

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  14. War-Nugget

    Time Manipulation

    POST-ACTION

    I doubt it would affect animation speed. That would be way too nice
  15. War-Nugget
    Even if they can not use Invention Origin enhancements, I do not believe they should be excluded from PvP.
    Like fur said, the problem is a lack of PvP Population. If the new players are never introduced to it, it will never become big.
    Heck who knows, maybe they will over-haul this current system before FREEdom hits, so people who come from other PvP-centric games may be familiar with the system. (doubtful but hopeful nonetheless)
  16. War-Nugget

    Time Manipulation

    POST-ACTION

    So from the sounds of it - This set should be very interesting and will not have skippable powers.
    Of the three I heard mentioned (Time Crawl , Temporal Selection , Chrono Shift) the last two sound like your "shields" , and Crawl sounds like a child from Infrigidate-Twilight Grab (without heal). I'm looking forward to hearing more about this!
  17. War-Nugget

    Time Manipulation

    POST-ACTION

    Really really wanting to know what the set will do.

    I wouldn't mind a self-phase, not an enemy phase. Would save me some pool picks .. and well it would be awesome.

    Hmmm ..
  18. War-Nugget
    Huh.. so if I am understanding this correctly ..
    Seeing as I have an extra copy of Architect Edition, when i21 launches I could make myself a second account and give it AE access?
    ::finger pyramid:: Excellent.

    Oh well, this shall be very interesting stuff!
    (watch them now lock Fiery Aura behind bars because of how awesome it is .. or re-fearify Burn!)
  19. War-Nugget

    Awesome Victory

    POST-ACTION

    Nice hanging with you Penny! Hope your live in the non-virtual reality suits you well!
  20. War-Nugget

    Time Manipulation

    POST-ACTION

    Aging your target .. turning them into dinosaurs. Earth/Time .. The Paleontologist ? :-P

    RE:Haggard
    IF the set does have an Ally-Revive, maybe it will revive them with all their toggles/buffs back on? That'd be cool.


    RE:OB
    I don't think we will have a character clone as the summonable pet. That would be too overpowered. This is why we don't have that option as a lore pet. But.. it would be so flipping cool if we could!
  21. War-Nugget
    Ryxx , gosh you only notice the gramatical junk .. I feel sorry for Hamidon being called HAMMADON . LOL!

    Elegost .. the thingies are "Giant Shivans"
    http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2011/..._shivan_01.jpg
    !!! zomg I like paragons naming schemes.

    OMG two new trials ..
    Diabloique Tower
    http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2011/...e_tower_02.jpg

    and Mother Mercy Hospital
    http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2011/...y_hospital.jpg

    Who is Sorceress Serene? Looks like a gorgon.
    http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2011/...ess_serene.jpg

    From that PCgamer link ..
    -an enhancement unslotter
    -you can’t do one power at a time, we’re going to give players the ability to basically do respecs a la carte
    -other consumables such as double xp boosts, ability summons, temporary pets and a lot more than that.

    Cthulu has made an appearance ..
    http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2011/...02-590x368.jpg

    oh and Carnival of Light look alright, not the best I like the original carnies better.
    http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2011/...l_of_light.jpg
  22. War-Nugget

    Time Manipulation

    POST-ACTION

    Discuss.

    -What do you think it will be?

    With it only being mentioned as to come in i21, I am wondering what the playerbase will think it will be like!

    I think the set will be all about slowing things down and speeding stuff up. Might have a heal power based around moving the bar back to where it was, as if damage never hit. Possibly even the buffing powers will grant +Recovery +Regenration +Recharge

    Wonder how many Gravity/Time controllers we will see ! :O


    POWERS

    • Temporal Selection - Buff to Ally , other powers in this set enhanced attributes.
    • Chrono Shift - some type of buff, apparently does healing
    • Distortion Field - ?
    • Time Crawl- slow, reduce accuracy of enemies
    The powers in the set all work together, so if you were to use Temporal Selection and then Chrono Shift it would be improved and do more buffing. (In other words, and something currently in the game, Power Siphon-style stuff!)
  23. War-Nugget
    I WANT DEVOURING EARTH PETS...
    Do you see those Igneous in the pictures?
    Or are they DE?
    THEY LOOK FLIPPING COOL!
  24. War-Nugget
    We need more information.

    It appears for Paragon Points.. they are only purchasable.

    Hope nobody really quits before this happens.. FREEdom players will be glorified trial accounts, unable to communicate with people unless if they all arrange at X amount of time to all hook-up with one another. I do not think that is the proper choice, they should atleast have access to Broadcast.

    Cross-Server teaming would be cool, I agree. But from what I've read by redname posts .. we gain "Global Server Slots" , so does that mean I could play HERO and VILLAIN on all servers.. but that makes no sense since we get free transfer tokens. Hmm...
  25. War-Nugget

    SS/Fire.. :)

    POST-ACTION

    Minor tweaks .. kept Fire Mastery
    Just moved around couple of slots, improved your recharge slightly .. still hard-capped to Fire Resistance.

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