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To answer the question of the post - no. It might be to late for this character but honestly don't buy or slot trainings. Get lvl 15 common IO's at level 12. Don't buy another thing till 22. Stick with that till 32. Then look into sets if you want to hassle with them.

In response to the rant. Honestly, even before the Auction House outfitting your character isn't that difficult. Yes you had to do every 4 or 5 levels but there was no need to do it all at once and could be done gradually. Since the auction house now there is no reason not to keep a character properly outfitted. My low level characters have more INF than ever. Not because I know how to work the system just because that is how the system is.

Dual-pistols Scrappers - never going to happen

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In case you got this far (or only found this through the Dev Tracker)...

Visual Sounds are NOT going into the game. We are NOT deleting all your sounds off your hard drive. This was NCNorCal's internet prank for April 1st, 2008.

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Bummer - since I play with sound off anyway I thought this was a good idea.

Yes I figured out it was joke but still liked the idea.

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I've won fights with .9 health left.

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I've gotten down to .2. Just can't do that with anything else (well and be able to see it)

I just realized I made the same basic suggestion about this thread on this thread twice.

Somehow this ought to be collected and preserve on a website somewhere. Make sure it gets into the WayBack Machine.

This type of thread pops up every month or two. Someone should collate this stuff on ParagonWiki or some such.

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Issue:
Certain characters are over-optimal with respect to soloing material designed to be difficult enough to challange a team.

Solution:
The primary/secondary combinations that can solo the team content will be adjusted down, until they can no longer do so.

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That is what we call a bad solution.

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Multi-Year storyline?

Count me in on that.

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Me too. The idea of an evolving storyline is perhaps the greatest weakness in MMO's that I know of and is perhaps the thing I want most in a game. One of the big things that attracted me to CoH was an evolving storyline (particularly when they are suggesting that the servers would be different based on what the players as a collective did). So, far it has been kinda disappointing I hope this means a big change.

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Yeah - I've never understood why there is so much debate call them whatever ya want...........I think I'll just start call chartoonters, or toonacters, or maybe just feags. Does it really matter.

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I've never understood why someone would post, "I don't know what the big deal is" when an entire thread exists preceding their post that explains why.

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Because this is an old topic that like many other old and pointless topics never dies. I've read several threads concearning this topic. For the most part I've stopped reading threads on this topic. The only reason I read anything in this one is because Castle commented on it.

Everybody feels free (as they should) to post why they are for or against the word toon. So, I feel free to say I don't get it because to me it is a trivial topic that changes nothing except to reveal some silly intolerances in some.

But as I say - if it makes you happy call you character a toon, if it doesn't then don't. I would say don't look down on people if they do but hey its your life and if you want to be silly go right ahead. And if you want to spend your time debating the subject go right ahead............I'll feel free to throw in my 2 cents as well.

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Honestly, I use 'toon', 'char', 'character', etc. pretty much interchangably. Why does anyone care so much?

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Yeah - I've never understood why there is so much debate call them whatever ya want...........I think I'll just start call chartoonters, or toonacters, or maybe just feags. Does it really matter.

I think the guide in general looks good. Every one should adjust to suit to taste of course. Here is a question for ya's though..........I play with a group of friends (depending on who we get 4 or 5 people on team) with characters (all regen scrappers with either Kat or MA or brutes depending on the group) that we run only when the group of us play. Our plan is for all of our characters to take Leadership specifically Assault and Tactics. What adjustments (if any) might you make to account for this type of configuration?

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so how about those claw fixes, eh?

what kinda cookies do ya like?

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As I said...Claws changes are in early planning stages. Might not be for a while, so...be patient! (Yeah, I know...I always hated hearing that around Christmas as a kid!)

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Claw changes? What Claw changes? Claws are perfect as is (I don't care what you all think, I love them as is). Please no more changing - I don't think I can take anymore.

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Working on it...

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Could you expand the end game (like you've been promising for about 8 months now) before going back the early game again.

Plus how about some supergroup content across the board while we are at it.

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So could anyone who's been paying attention to this this stuff tell me what the deal is with Blue King's then, if it's going to continue or its getting dropped?

Because for the first time I just saw something involving the Keldian/Nictus + Council and it was actually interesting what was happening, and it was in Blue King's comic. ...the Council needs a back story more like that in the Actual game here!

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The Blue King group is being retired after issue 12.

A) Highly Doubtful - although might see crossovers in the comic (still pretty doubtful though)

B) Most Likely

I remember when we had Supergroup Vaults in City Hall.

PvE content and events that require having a SG to do it.

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There would be NO complaining from me if a contact would warn me BEFORE I accept a mission that I will not be able to do it alone. THAT is the beef I have with the current state of this game. Accepting a mission and THEN find out I'll need a team just plain stinks of FORCED GROUPING.

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It has been stated previously by the DEV's that contacts should let you know when a group will be necessary for a mission. If you get on a mission where it does not it is a bug and should be reported as such. It is not an attempt at force grouping just something slipping through the cracks.

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Anyway, with this new change, I think even tanks and scrappers may have a hard time soloing Bosses... that's a bit too extreme.

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Personally I hope they make it that scraps and tanks have a hard time soloing bosses..................as it is right now I can and have taken on 3 Fake Nemesis that are 4 levels above me - and win by myself (with some rest brakes while being beat upon). Something is wrong with that.

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BS...Unless you can show me

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I could but it isn't worth the time and energy involved setting it up. You can choose to believe, or you can choose not too. I know what I say is the truth and whether you believe it or not doesn't matter.

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Main problem is that fake Nemesis are extremely gimpy and do hardly any damage. One slow attack = easy recovery. I can tank them with my defender if I put down Rad infection and enervating field and heal every once in a while.

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You'd think though between the 3 of them that are effectively 7 levels above me (21 levels combined).............that I'd at least be popping inspirations. In another case I retreated from a solo battle with the Envoy of Shadows. Did I retreat because he was kicking my [censored]. Nope - not even close, I retreated cause the battle was dull and would of taken too long to beat him (suppose I oughta go and actually do it just for the point of doing so).

Here is the thing about solo'ing - this is an MMORPG the focus isn't soloing. It is in fact trying to get people to work together for a goal. Now then that said Cryptic didn't EQ it and left solo'ing in. However not every AT can or should be able to do it to the same degree. I would say the order for easiest solo'er to most difficult is as follows:

Scrapper
Blaster
Tank
Defender
Controller
(this a general order, mileage will very with powersets)

I'm sorry (ok, actually I'm not) if your a controller and the best you can manage is a couple white minions - but that is the design of the game, has been that way since the AT design was adopted (2002 - I think). If toughing up the game makes it more interesting and fun at the sacrifice of weaker solo classes..............I say go for it. Right now I don't think it lives up to the challenge it should.

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Anyway, with this new change, I think even tanks and scrappers may have a hard time soloing Bosses... that's a bit too extreme.

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Personally I hope they make it that scraps and tanks have a hard time soloing bosses..................as it is right now I can and have taken on 3 Fake Nemesis that are 4 levels above me - and win by myself (with some rest brakes while being beat upon). Something is wrong with that.

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About a month ago I made a thread that asked if anyone else saw a trend in the game to get people to group more and solo less to the point of it eventually becoming forced grouping. Some people said yes and some people said no. On test and a few other forums people have talked about changes that make them feel that the game is forcing them to group.

Just recently we get this quote from Statesman.

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I never, never, never said that. Many missions ARE solo-able. Many aren't. Bosses, Elite Bosses and AV's usually require help. So if you see any of those on a mission, get help!

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So with the previous Statement of Statesman saying that 3 white minions should be equal to one Hero we have the above statement.

Now that Bosses usually require help does anyone see a trend in the game towards forced grouping?

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Ok - I've followed the development of this game since nearly day 1 way back in 2000. Statesman has been and is consistent about solo'ing. It is possible to take a character from level 1 to 50 without ever grouping, however not all content will be solo'able.

To that effect the following has also remained consistent:

- Not all AT's will be able to solo effectively
- Not all mission will be solo'able
- Task Forces will not be solo'able (although I've heard it being done they are not suppose to be)
- Trials will not be solo'able
- Archvillians will not be solo'able
- Bosses are suppose to be extremely difficult if not impossible to solo
- Lt are suppose to be difficult to solo
- Minions are solo'able (at least supposably up to 3)
- Purple anything are suppose to be extremely difficult to impossible to solo
- Red's are suppose to be extremely difficult to solo
- Orange are suppose to be very difficult to solo
- Yellows are suppose to be difficult to solo
- Whites are an even fight

Depending on your AT your mileage here will very. If your a Regen Scapper you might not need to group at all if avoid certain content. If you choose to play a controller - better expect to group - as I recall in the AT description it says as much.

Nothing that has been said so far equates to forced grouping. If anything it is trying to bring it in line with original intentions.

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Supergroups will not get larger...

We will have some stuff for high level groups...not Hamidon class (not even close) but tough. That's a planned tweak for Rikti Crash Site and Shadow Shard.

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Well I'm glad to hear there will at least be a little more for higher-levels - but that isn't going to keep people happy. Why no plans for Supergroups though? What is the plan for them? What is the point of Supergroup if there isn't content for them? I mean yeah my SG makes a nice place to find groupmates but that is what my friends list is for.

Supergroups want to do things together - I seem to recall plans for this at one time.........what has happened?

Statesman,

Eager players want to know will there soon be more high level content..........specifically Supergroup encounters requiring 20+ players.

The Supergroup content in this game is sorely lacking and the one SG encounter is broke - when will this be fixed?