evertheskeptic

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Yep. And why didn't people believe the Devs when they said that ED would diversify things?

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Obviously, having all players being unquestionably faithful to the devs for 1.5 years after "drastic changes" were made to their favorite characters is a reasonable expectation.

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Shame on a scrapper that comes to the STF w/o FA.

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I hit just fine in that TF w/o Focused Accuracy. Just because you had a hard time hitting doesn't reflect on other scrappers, and team builds. I don't like having FA or the body mastery pool in general. I like the Dark Mastery pool more.

Relen OUT!

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Well then, let me bring you back IN; to tell you that you did a marvelous job at jumping to a wrong conclusion.

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Then scrappers without FA should be ashamed because... they don't get to experience the wonderful end costs of running it?

Zand: awesomely hilarious

Cookie Girl:

For I7, they pretty much admitted that they do a free respec with every issue (no matter what reason they gave originally for the free respecs from I3-I6), so I'd put money on a free respec in I8.

Great guide, lots of good info. Here's my planned build so far:

[/b]01) --> Entangling Arrow==> Acc(1)
01) --> Snap Shot==> Acc(1)
02) --> Aimed Shot==> Acc(2)Dmg(3)Dmg(3)Dmg(7)Rechg(9)EndRdx(9)
04) --> Glue Arrow==> Rechg(4)Rechg(5)Rechg(5)Slow(7)
06) --> Fistful of Arrows==> Acc(6)Dmg(17)Dmg(19)Dmg(19)Rechg(21)Range(21)
08) --> Poison Gas Arrow==> Rechg(8)Rechg(15)Rechg(17)
10) --> Blazing Arrow==> Acc(10)Dmg(11)Dmg(11)Dmg(13)Rechg(13)EndRdx(15)
12) --> Hover==> Fly(12)Fly(23)Fly(23)
14) --> Fly==> Fly(14)Fly(25)Fly(25)EndRdx(27)
16) --> Acid Arrow==> Acc(16)Acc(27)Rechg(29)Rechg(29)DefDeBuf(31)DefDeBuf(31)
18) --> Disruption Arrow==> Rechg(18)Rechg(34)Rechg(34)
20) --> Aim==> Rechg(20)
22) --> Aid Other==> Heal(22)
24) --> Aid Self==> Heal(24)Heal(43)Rechg(43)Rechg(43)IntRdx(45)IntRdx(45)
26) --> Oil Slick Arrow==> Rechg(26)Rechg(31)Rechg(33)Dmg(33)Dmg(33)Dmg(34)
28) --> Ranged Shot==> Acc(28)Dmg(37)Dmg(40)Dmg(42)Rechg(42)EndRdx(42)
30) --> Resuscitate==> Rechg(30)
32) --> EMP Arrow==> Acc(32)Acc(36)Hold(36)Hold(36)Rechg(37)Rechg(37)
35) --> Stunning Shot==> Acc(35)Acc(45)Rechg(46)Rechg(46)DisDur(46)DisDur(48)
38) --> Rain of Arrows==> Acc(38)Dmg(39)Dmg(39)Dmg(39)Rechg(40)EndRdx(40)
41) --> Power Build Up==> Rechg(41)
44) --> Temp Invulnerability==> DmgRes(44)DmgRes(48)DmgRes(48)EndRdx(50)
47) --> Hasten==> Rechg(47)
49) --> Super Speed==> Run(49)

I wasn't really sure what to take for the last 2 powers, considering that this current build has only 2 slots left to place. I thought about the fitness powers, but I don't think I'd really need them with a travel power, and I'm counting on not needing stamina. I also thought about the leadership powers, but then I'd want to fit in stamina. Would Hasten be worthwhile?

Should I drop Temp Invul?

Do you use Aid Other/Self during battle? I'm curious if it would be worth it considering that it forces the redraw...

Does it still spawn at level 1?

IIRC, this used to be the Arena forum before PvP zones and Gladiators were introduced, and was changed to include Gladiators when I6 hit. The Arena aspect of the forum wasn't exactly active, and not too long ago the forum was renamed and moved to discuss badges.

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4. Will you folks ever do what you did in 2004 and sketch out roughly the year ahead what we players can be looking forward to, either via convention panels or 'State of the Game' forum post?

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Yes, answer this one, please.

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Since you said please...

Yes.

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(Also, thanks for answering.)

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Something tells me that it's on the same time table as getting AT reps and improving the patch notes.

Good thing I hit 50 the night before... I loved that bug/feature

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Yes, of course, because someone was given the task by the team lead in design to concentrate on stalker issues in beta, that somehow makes him predisposed to only considering or caring about Stalker problems or issues now that the position is no longer valid...

Spare me the blatant drama-mongering. The comment is uncalled for, and it was a troll, plain and simple. The poster of that comment can feel free to be as biased as he likes; that doesn't mean the rest of us have to give any credance to it.

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Your blatant drama-mongering aside, I was merely answering your question "why [would anyone] claim castle to be a stalker representative," not "why would anyone claim castle to be biased towards stalkers."

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I just got to thinking, why anyone would claim castle to be a stalker representative, then it clicked...of course...So typical.

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Besides the fact that he was the stalker representative in CoV beta?

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You should not get caught up in the emotion of victory or defeat. You may be thinking, "How is it possible to not celebrate victory or mourn defeat?". You can, but don't let the opponents know it. If you openly boast, you will be alpha-target number one. If you openly cry foul, you will be alpha-target number one. Never say anything to the opponent in local chat, private chat, or global chat; especially, global chat. Resist the temptation to do so. If you have a fit of rage, count to ten, go get a drink of water, or just go watch some television. Never say anything to the opponents, ever.

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This is the approach I take, I only wish more people did the same. If I had a nickel for each line of crap spouted on broadcast, I'd... well, I'd probably PvP even more

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He used to be able to spawn in PvP zones, but the devs fixed that right before a big player event on Victory (we had 8 people get the Kronos mission up and we were going to spawn them all in Bloody Bay at the same time, but the devs thwarted our event! As a side note, the police drones in Skyway now have the Kronos titan badge).

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1. He is still spawn-able in Siren's Call... it was just done on Triumph the other day (unless yesterday's patch fixed that and it wasn't listed in the patch notes).

2. Are you serious about the police drones with the badge? Or is that just a joke that Kronos got zapped?

Positron: any word on whether or not there'll be "generic" ancillary powers for villains?

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And it's not because they want it that way - it because they didn't take it into account when designing the content.

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I'm sure it was taken into account... what I want to know is why they decided to go the "permanent" route.

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As long as permanent means, "Unchangeable through any means besides a respec" then I'm fine with it.

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I don't see why he'd even need to mention anything about a permanent status, if you could respec (seems like a "duh" situation); he was just answering a general question about Patron pools, and added that your choice would be permanent. I'd be glad to be wrong, though.

edit: Here's the most recent interview about it:
"In Issue 7: Destiny Manifest, you gain the ability to choose one of four Arachnos Patrons, Ghost Widow, Black Scorpion, Captain Mako, or Scirocco. Each of those has a powerset suited to your Archetype, in theme with the Patron, so Scirocco will have a bunch of Mu Lightning powers, while Captain Mako has Coralax related abilities. Your choice here is a permanent part of your character, and unlocks content specific to that choice." - Positron

Scirocco's name is misspelled...

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So getting a Patron Pool involves doing an arc? What happens if I decide that I don't like that patron and want to respec into a different patron pool later?

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I thought I read in an interview that you can't change patrons after you've picked one.

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Positron has mentioned twice (in different interviews) that the Patron you choose is permanent.

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Any hero that has the one year anniversary badge and logs in during the next anniversary event will receive a special gladiator badge.

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Wait, so there's only a reward if you were around last year? Or will newer characters at least get a badge similar to Celebrant for the 2nd anniversary?

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I think he was asking if they'd only put this into PvP zones or if this was going to be in both modes of gameplay.

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Yeah, that's what I meant.

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either way the same people who complained about 1 shotting will continue to complain about 2 shotting.

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That's actually one of the first things I thought of (but didn't post about it), especially with only 1% HP left.

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1. We're looking into the tweak to Endurance for mobs that's affected Endurance Drain abilities. Sorry about that!

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*remembers the regen "tweak"*

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2. We'll be putting in a check that prevents "one shotting"; if anything occurs within a fraction of second that brings a player from 100% Hit Points down to 0, we instead give the player 1% Hit Points.

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Just to make sure, PvE and PvP?

edit: and is this to be expected at I7 or a patch before then?

From a strictly CoH point of view, it's I6 (although I7 might be the new "winner"). At least I4 had the Kheldian arcs...

How were these values determined?

I always thought this was a feature, because of the "heroes camping the villain base" issue...

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Invisible badges are just database markers to indicate some condition has been met so that you can get access to something else later. No badge appears on your character info, hence invisible.

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Are they still counting towards the the Visitor/Native/etc badges? I've noticed some characters (even mine) have those badges even though total badge count (according to /info) is less than 10/25/etc...

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Would it then be possible to give one of those nifty invisible badges (like the one people are reporting for the Valentine's Day missions)

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What's this about invisible badges?

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Issue 3.

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It was Issue 2, 100% sure.