gilmandor

I haven't been around for awhile, probably six mionths or so, but it is nice to see that nothing has changed on the forums, just a bunch of whiners drowning out the occasional good idea.

Bless you all, for not changing

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The video says they locked up Rularuu but in fact shows video of Ruladak the Strong, one of the 7 split up components of Rularuu.



http://cityofheroes.wikia.com/wiki/Soldiers_of_Rularuu

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They say the Devil is in the details,



I say Details, Scmetails

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MMMMMMM CUSTOM FARM MISSIONS.

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QFT

Yeah Moon zone, Yeah

Its official I need to win the Lottery, with a possibility of almost 400 alts now, how am I supposed to go to work. I need to start playing full time now. Or I can marry a rich old woman. I am sure my wife wouldn't mind

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All this military talk has got my juices flowing.

Full disclosure: I did 26 years in the military; started out in communications and ended up Commanding Officer of a computer support organization. Now I'm retired and have mostly played CoX all day for the past 3 years (I admit I'm hooked and have no other real life). This is only my second post (I've been content reading the forum action from the sidelines but recently decided I needed to post in the forum to attempt to be a change agent for the game I love).

I also wanted to mention I attended the last dev meet and greet gathering and to a person they are friendly, intelligent, and dedicated individuals that most certainly rate our courtesy, admiration and respect. But forgive me if I fail to see the need to coddle them in order to have my point of view considered. To me that is as bad... or perhaps worse than being too blunt.

I agree with 95+% of the proposed guide. But before political correctness and the self appointed forum sheriff's posse completes the lynching of those that are upset or perhaps a little rough around the edges (I'm not talking about those who grossly violate the forums posting rules) may I respectfully make a one small point about this guide?

I take issue with much of the section on patience and bug fixes. As some of the games problems approach their 2nd year anniversary without resolution, I believe many of the player's complaints in this area are fully justified (albeit that some of these complaints were inappropriately expressed). The premise that the devs would fix everything if they could in an instant is more than a bit misleading.

My view is conscious decisions have been made to pursue new features over taking corrective action to have the game more effectively perform as advertised. I am opposed to these decisions. If it were my organization, I'd call a good old fashion military standdown from new stuff development and go on a massive bug fix effort. This is certainly not without its own pain/risk. But I believe it would be worth it.

This post is already a bit too long already but let me make one other quick point. Just because a task (mission) is hard or complex is not really a justification to leave it's accomplishment ignored or open ended. But as a military man, you already know that and I acknowledge that was not what you were implying. But unfortuately, in my opinion, that has been precisely the case here in some instances.

Congratulations on a nice guide that appears to be very well received.

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This is a perfect example of the guide on the OP. YOu disagreed with some of it, and that is fine, and you displayed it in a well formatted non-flamitory way. You post is well taken and leads to more thought on the topic. WHere as if you would have said "Go [censored] yourself, you sissy [censored], this post is [censored], [censored], [censored], [censored]

You wouldn't have gotten that much across. Thanks for the great post


Also all those censoreds are not real bad words, I just typed them in

I just had an Idea. When ever someone sets up an account, they are forced to read this several times, before they can ever post, and after every one hundred post, you are forced to read it again as a reminder. It would never happen, but it might help

Great post, so true, so true.

I wrote a post very similar to this in a thread, and I was called a jackhoffe for it.

The problem is that the only people that will read this and understand it are the ones that don't really need to read it in the first place. The ones that need to read it call you a jackhoffe.

But the comment on drawing a circle around your feet is priceless.

I was thinking about this and I deliver pizzas at night, and on a friday or Saturday night, we will have 15 or more people in the store working, and we are a medium volume store, heavy volume can get over 20, and we still can't consistantly get you all pizzas in under 30 minutes. NCNC gets us a very good game, updated regularly. Next time you are in the OC let me know, the pizza is on me. And yes my store carries anchovies

Dude, that is crazy, more power to ya for doing it in 2 weeks. I have nothing against you, like some of the other posters here, I say hey it is your life and time, do what you want with it. But I personally can't play for more than 2 maybe 3 hours in a day. Once on a double weekend I played 5 hours, and it killed me. I guess that is why it took almost two years to get my 50

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can we get spines for brutes and tanks plz, i wanna do a ice/spine tank real real bad.

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Dude totally, I want a dark/spines or a fire/spines tank so bad. I love AoE tanks, may not be as deadly as a spines/dark scrapper, but will last forever

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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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I knew this was a prank, but I seriously thought it was cool. I love the old batman series, and this would be great. But alas, I am left alone with my noises

Oh my dear lord I want this, yes it is a april fool's joke but as god as my witness if you are older and have ever enjoyed the simplistic beauty of watching Adam West and Cesar Romero duke it out, then this is a better feature than a power custimazation. And to you nay says I say Biff, Bam, pew, Pow

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How does empathy not work as a concept for a villain. If you want to get techincal empath, the hellion in the Marvel comics was a villian...The conceptual abilities do not drive good an evil. AB turns doms into perma dom killing machines. How is absorb pain not a villain concept. Perhaps an evil empath would love to absorb the pain of others...Empath buffs are hands down the best buffs in the game - change the color, change the name but give them to the red side.

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They did, it is called Thermal Radiation, but the blue side just got that too

The Villains didn' get it so bad
Corruptor
New Primary - Electrical Blast - Will be fun to see in red, but altogether not that great, I will give you that.
New Secondary - Storm Summoning - This is a money maker for villains, I think you got something great here.

Dominator
New Primary - Earth Control - This is only going to make the red side that much better, and add a gang load of control to it.
New Secondary - Electricity Manipulation - Until we see what it is, hard to say, but not life changing, but good for concepts.

Mastermind:
New Secondary - Storm Summoning - mix this with ranged Minions, and you are unstoppable, pull your bots in close fire off hurricane, and watch the carnage. This is Uber

Brute:

New Primary - Battle Axe & War Mace - Here are the weapon based attacks that brutes have been wanting, and they are good sets.
New Secondary - Super Reflexes - This is a great Brute set, with the massive def to everything, and the follow up resistance, plus the +recharge will be great for fury building, you got an auto mini hasten

Stalker:
New Primary - Electric Melee - Ok for both of these I will have to see what the powers are, because this is a AoE multi target set, which could be crappy for villains, so this is a wait and see
New Secondary - Electric Armor


So the red side, did pretty well, it is just that you lost the monopoly on some great sets. You got some really good ones though, so you didn't get screwed on what you got, you got screwed on what went to the blue side. WHich you already knew was going to happen, so you really didn't get screwed at all, well except for stalkers, but hey, from what I read on your forums, you are used to it

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Why on earth would they be unlocked without a 50?
Only if you could unlock Khelds without one!

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I remember reading something that Emmert said about lvl 50 epic unlocks was a mistake, and I assume that most of the devs feel the same way.

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We had to do it this way for the first Villain EAT... parity in unlocking the EATs across both games and all that.

Future EATs (if we dare go in that direction) will have different methods of unlocking (obviously, since the "get to 50" is already done).

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Does that mean a MM based VEAT?

Poison Pill

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What is to say these VEATs don't have MM influence, they are after all ultimately under a MM Lord Recluse. They could have a couple of pets, instead of just one or none

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*sigh* Way to screw villains YET AGAIN.

*HIGHLY disappointed with the "epic" archetype*

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Dude, drink haterade much?

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Well, to be honest, the late-game enemy groups are mostly resistant to everything. The Carnies are not especially lethal resistant, as I recall. Nemesis Warhulks are FUN with an Axer. I used to hunt +5's on a regular basis. But maybe I'm crazy.

Rularuu Wisps are notably lethal-weak, although since they do heavy Psi damage (and are in the scary outer dimensions) fewer tankers get out there after them. I'm currently working up a new willpower/ax with the intention of prowling the upper outers.

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I see what you are saying, but it is well known that Smashing and Lethal is the most commonly resisted damage type in the game. So what I am saying, is not that Axe sucks or anything, there are a lot of things I love about it. I just think that some of the powers need to be upgraded. Especially Cleave, this is your Uber attack, its BI is about 7.6, where most of the other tanker secondaries have their uber attack around 9.8. Fire's GFS is 9.8 and it is fire damage which is rarely resisted. Ice's GIS is only 5.5, but it is ice which almost no NPC reists, so in essensces it could do better than CLeave.

Also Whirling Axe IMO underperforms, it should be brought on par with Footstomp, bring the BI to about 3.9 and it would make this Set shine even more.

But as holes in a set goes, these are really small. Axe is a great set, and you did a great job on the guide, keep it up




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As a side note, I just gave my guy the rikti axe. It looks so freakin cool on Whirling axe.

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Yeah, I wish they'd make a few more cooler axes. Some beaked/hooked designs that are non-Rikti would be nice.

Heck, I wish they'd make a new Tanker secondary called "Two Hander", based off the Rikti/Lost animations just so I could roll up a toon using a GIGANTIC Final Fantasy style two hander. Put both axes and swords in it, along witht he big alien choppers, etc. Would be COOL.

That'd be fun, and easy. Here's hoping for it someday!

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I just asked for a similar thing in the Weapons suggestion thread. I want a giant sword with a very large tip for Axe, or a large beaked sword, because it is choppy choppy like an axe.

Axe definitley needs some love in the weapons department

I love my Fire/Axe, but I find that axe is deceiving, you get Beheader so early, and it gives massive damage. But as you go on, later and later in the game, everyone and their mom resists lethal damage. So you are a killing machine in the beginning, but it starts to take longer and longer to kill towards the end. But the KB/KD helps with survivability, so you never die, but it can take awhile to kill post 35.

As a side note, I just gave my guy the rikti axe. It looks so freakin cool on Whirling axe.

I love my Rikti Axe

I got my accolade, I all I need was one Bomb, I have been waiting since issue10 for one bomb, one. I will say it again one

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I have a big paper due next week so if figures there would be something cool going on this weekend. Oh Devs, why do you distract me so?

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Remember, recent studies show that it is very important to take an one hour break for every 20 minutes of studying...Or is it the other way? Oh well, just play, papers write themselves

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OH Rikti...!

You're so fine...you're so fine you blow my mind!

Hey Rikti...hey, hey, hey-RIKTI!

(Sorry...because I had to...couldn't stop myself. The 80s just live on and on in me...)

~ Jonathan

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I hated the 80s

To everyone that keeps complaining, this is what I say to you




I used the older version, cause I thought it was really nifty

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, and also believe that Storm's arrogance is disproportionatley large when compared to it's level of ability. (That's right, I said it. Fight me!).



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I won't fight you I will agree and support you. I can't stand storm people most of the time, I like my melee ATs, and they are always knocking them around out of my reach. Especially when I use my fire tank, totally ruins the effectiveness of my AoEs. Although I have teamed with a few stormies that knew how to work their build, and the team was very successful.