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Originally Posted by TwoHeadedBoy

I love how this happens. Someone does something awesome, and people start whining for nerfs because they can't do it. Dominators get Drain Psyche too, and it's a stronger version. Does that need to be nerfed too? How about individual under-performing sets get buffed and Mental gets left alone? It's not this powerful until you invest tons of time and infamy into it.

Originally Posted by Wavicle

Yes, they are cleverly forcing any customers with OCD to buy more stuff.


I'm trying to figure out what marketing ploy could be devised to exploit the paranoid next.

Originally Posted by Ghost Falcon

The IOs are only available for the Black Friday sale and are scheduled to be removed on Monday, 11/28 at 11:59:59 PM Pacific.

Originally Posted by CaptainMoodswing

Er, no. We all use exactly one of the LotG enhancements out of the six. [The LotG set] offers no defense bonuses.

Originally Posted by Infernus_Hades

This one absolutely cracks me up. So slowly pecking away at PvE enemies by kiting was exploitive?

LMAO.

Instead you could pop 3 purples and trash the entire group in 10 seconds while the one guy was kiting for 60? They can spin it how they want but stacking multiple inspirations of the same type is FAR more exploitive than kiting ever was.

Originally Posted by TeChameleon

Speaking as one who couldn't really care less if you farm 'til you're blue in the face and fall off your computer chair, I'd still like to see the AE cleaned up somewhat. Get rid of all the broken, unplayable arcs owned by people who don't have an active sub/access to the AE building, for starters.

Maybe put a system into place where, if your arc hits the one star mark after five votes, it gets booted out of the system. Not necessarily locked out, or anything, just cleared out for the time being so that the already creaky search engine isn't so hideously clogged. Or at least let us flag arcs so that the devs can sit an intern down to give them a look-see and check if they're worth the disk space they're occupying.

Originally Posted by Crysys

Agreed. The devs have created hundreds of stories and dozens of arcs. Amateur efforts are a waste of server time. Farms serve a real purpose that is unaddressed by the devs.

AE Story arcs have no value in this game.

Originally Posted by Megajoule

IMO, RMTers (and their customers) and farmers are both symptoms of the same problem: too many people want the rewards of playing this game without actually playing it. They're lazy and greedy even/especially in their spare time. So they'll pay real money to some RMT, or inf to a farm leader, who promises to give them those rewards; or they find a cheap, easy way to get the rewards without the time, effort, or risk the Developers designed and intended.

As someone who actually plays the game the way we're supposed to, I wish all of the above would just go away.

Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill

CEBR ("Claws/Electric Brutes Rule") - check the thread, if it still exists, in the brute forum.

Formerly:
Get your AOEs (damage aura and spin)
Load on insps
Trigger ambushes on bosses
Go to town on ambushes and rezzers.

The rezzing got hit a patch or two ago. The bosses (I don't think minions/lts did anything) would spawn ambushes - I *believe* at each quarter-health increment. (I've honestly not looked.) There would also be destructable items that spawned ambushes. (Or it's an either/or thing.)

So, yeah. They did rely on the mechanic, just to get a horde of enemies in range for AOEs.

What I find sadly amusing about this is, as I write that description, I think of Praetorian ambushes (and, recently, one in SSA #2 heroside) that piled several ambushes worth of enemies on me at once, when I was at a level and on an AT that certainly couldn't handle it.

I'd *really* love to see some patch notes about things actually fixed in AE. Or see some old arc cleanup. Or UI updates. Something other than nerfs.

Originally Posted by EvilGeko

They changed several things. Total Focus used to be a guaranteed stun versus bosses (MAG 4). It was reduced. Given the glacial animation of that attack, it's now much less useful. The Energy Transfer change was necessary, but with the other powers in the set, it just makes it run too slow.

Originally Posted by Rodion

I created a character on a trial account that has just been reactivated (the first level of the reward tree filled in), and ran into a serious problem.

I had just finished a mission and I was about to log out when someone sent me a tell asking if I was interested in doing a TF. I tried to respond with a polite tell saying I was logging, instead of just blowing them off.

But I couldn't respond, and instead I got a message telling me that I had to unlock reward level 2.

I logged on with my VIP account in a second instance of the client to test how the interaction appears to the VIP, and there was no indication that the F2P is incapable of responding.

I agree that we don't want F2P players to be able to badger random people with tells. But if a VIP initiates a tell to an F2P player, the F2P player should be able to respond.

The inability to respond to tells will put F2P players at a huge disadvantage. Following the rules of common courtesy in the game, I never send blind invites, and always send a tell first before inviting. If someone doesn't respond to me I assume they're AFK or not interested and will therefore not invite them.

But the inability to respond to polite tells will mean F2P players will never get invited to a team that knows what it's doing. That means they'll probably never get any kind of sense of community, and they'll be very unlikely to actually want to pay for a game that apparently has a major design flaw. It's also very inconvenient for VIP players who want to make a team: they can't easily tell why the person isn't responding.

I hope that a fix is in the works for this: F2P players should be able to respond to tells initiated by VIP players. Otherwise I and thousands of other VIPs will never invite them. That will make CoH seem like a very unfriendly place.

Originally Posted by Issen

...Then those people obviously aren't the kind of people who appreciate a good story. As someone who intensively roleplays (and thus, find my calling on the Virtue server), I guarantee you none of my stories would see dropped ratings because a tough boss got back up again.

Again, if anything, it's part of the STORY, and therefore it should only matter as part of the STORY.


I am actually a bit bitter about the farms because no one actually cares enough to want to run actual story arcs because people either click too fast or don't read the briefings or the clues. I'd really the devs to divide MA arcs into 'Actual Story Content' and 'Farms', with some form of quality control to make sure that the farms DON'T clutter up the list. It's hard to get people to play my stories when no one can find them.

Originally Posted by LISAR

I'm concerned about your heart, all the buttery crisp goodness you are going to eat in here is going to kill you.

If I cared about such a thing this would have made sense. But if AE farming was non-exploitative it wouldn't have boomed.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

PLing to 50 in less than a day is a obvious exploit and against the spirit of the game.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

I have no arcs

Originally Posted by Issen

Am I? The only reason people would be upset about not getting a reward for a boss getting up the second time is if they care about the reward for beating them. Again, I'm making stories for the sake of making good stories, not because I'm making something for folks to use to suppliment their Inf and XP gains with.

Again, I have several arcs where the major villain self-rezzes. Heck in one arc I have a string of bosses Megaman-style who all get back up again (part of the story!) and I can guarantee no one would legitimately complain if they didn't get a reward the second time.

The only people who would complain about a lack of reward are the folks who probably only care about the reward.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

I don't RP, and I don't have any arcs - I just want the AE to be used properly, to let players express their creativity - the PLers can go back to Peregrine Island

Originally Posted by Commander

So in order for people to stop doing it requires them to completely remove it from game?

If that was the case, then the only thing we'd have is a costume creator and a chat box. No mission, no items... nothing.

The game isn't "your" creation, it's theirs. If they see someone taking advantage of something, rather than remove it from the people that aren't taking advantage, they fix it.

Remember the old CoP? They removed it. It was gone for, what, 6 years just because people figured out how to exploit it. They shelved it because it wasn't a priority. I don't think they will ever do something like that again.

It's easier to take an pain reliever for a headache instead of chopping off your head.

Originally Posted by Commander

And in a few days MARTy will have all the data needed and a patch will be forthcoming. I find it funny that in a few months, AE will most likely be limited to no XP, no inf, and only 250 ticket per completion :P

Originally Posted by Commander

Risk vs Reward

nuff said.

Originally Posted by mangagirl

I think it might be more of a direct comparison to look at the portals Rikti Communication Officers put up. At one time, the mobs spawned from the portals would give experience. Now they do not, because some were farming them to get extra mobs on the same map, and an incentive to kill the portal itself (xp/inf) was added.

While I like farming (long before AE), I am unsurprised by this change and grateful it does not effect the game at large. Though I hope, like the portal xp, there is a reward added for the lack of experience for killing an enemy twice.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Is there a female version of the ghost pirates?

Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master

the article says that praetorian duray went behind cole's back to do this

why cole is making 2 copies of duray with the last couple months of his memory gone i have no idea lol

Originally Posted by Noetic

I demand taquitos.