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Ouro works to get around in the Shard?

Who knew...

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it doesnt cross zone boundaries.

[/ QUOTE ]So you have tried the new power already? I didnt know it was out yet, I thought it was going to come with the mac version right when it launches.

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No tp power currently crosses zone boundries. Thats a lot of track record to guage by.

edit: and no pocket d and oro are no different that using a tram. they are not tp powers.

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Ouro works to get around in the Shard?

Who knew...

[/ QUOTE ]Pretty soon we will have the temp power for sale that tps you directly to the mission then we will see 1 hour dr. q's.

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it doesnt cross zone boundaries.

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I'm sorry, but will you guys ever discuss the disparity? I'm hearing Dr Q is down to under an hour now.

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travel time is more than that.

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With Oroboros and other teleportation powers? I think not.

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What tp power gets you back into the shadow shard form founders?just loading screen time will eat up a decent portion of 1 hour.

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So you'll get your 100 merits, but miss other content along the way including the awesome Faultline arcs.

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So I'll get 100 merits and 9-10 levels of exp, at the cost of skipping arcs that I can go back and do for merits later and dealing with CoT, Vahz, and Clockwork - all of which are really fun to confuse?

I'm not seeing how gaining even more levels is a problem, here.

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Or You could run Posi, go to Faultline, then run Synapse.

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A: We will be monitoring this. We want to make sure that a villain doing missions from 1 to 50 will be earning roughly the same amount of merits a hero can earn. If we find a serious imbalance between heroes and villains in the number of earnable merits, we’ll look at ways of improving this.

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Yo Synapse, no need to monitor. Heroes have a HUGE advantage.

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The villains need more sf's and the heroes need more short, quick arcs to equal the villains.

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Since other reward choices are removed, can we at least have a reward window open with 2 choices:

- merits
- choose nothing

And the merit choice can show a warning that the reward will be diminished if it's chosen at that time. That way if you complete another ITF 23 hours and 15 minutes after the one the day before you're not penalized by diminished returns.

Why have diminished returns anyway? Who cares if people run 15 ITFs in a row. They're playing the game. You're already basing the # of merits on the results of whatever datamining you've done.

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We were told diminishing returns would not affect pve. obviously that statement was in error.

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I'm sorry, but will you guys ever discuss the disparity? I'm hearing Dr Q is down to under an hour now.

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travel time is more than that.

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A: You can earn an infinite number of merits through Ouroboros by running your favorite story arcs over again.

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Will these arcs get "nerfed" if it is determined later that people are just running the same arcs over and over for the non-diminishing merits?? Basically... will we get punished if we're operating within the current rules even if its not what you all intended for the system?

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Yes.

See: KHTF, Eden Trial, Tarikoss SF.

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and oh yes, I really want to do the same arcs over and over and over again because the devs have decided that debugging existing content is not something they want to do. They set the schedule, yet some unknown force prevents them from actually scheduling work to fix old content.

any idea as to how they do empowerment buffs? what is required?

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Its a hero trope, just like the praetorians.

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Yeah, especially if the trope happens to be dressed in a slinky, revealing outfit that ... what? no not... Augh! BABs! Not the speedo! Geeze dude, I wasn't talking about you, just take that thing off right now and ... NO NOT RIGHT NOW! AUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!

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1 quart of brain bleach please....

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I'm probably in the minority here, but I like the low spawn rate for spirits -- it means it takes some effort to get that badge.

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Ohhh ya, its a real brain squeezer to click all those extra doors. I feel so much more Uber.

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Cheers Lighthouse, I was one who wondered about the tier 3 inspirations thing. As long as there is a reasonable rationale im cool with it.

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But what was the rational for keeping it secret? If it was WAI then they could have saved us all time by saying so up front. Did they think we wouldnt notice?

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did the devs listen to any input about griefing? obviously not. Pi was hell on a level 41 and there is no where else to go.

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Tried Founder's?

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cant tot there if you are over 40.

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If you take an Flashback mission that exemps you to 40, you can ToT in Founders (or even Crey's or Bricks) and be at the top level of the zone and not worry about city spawns hurting you nor someone knocking at your door and giving you spawns higher than you can handle.

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and get zero xp. All because the devs chose 2 hours in the middle of an afternoon to test it. I dont expect to see any fixes for the problems this year, next year they will do the same testing scheme and create all new bugs to live with. If you are on a toon that puts out AOE debuffs or has an agro aura, you can expect to be cleaning up other peoples spawns. Oh, and controllers with pets. You know, the ones you cant put on "safe".

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The only thing that I see that has changed from Test to Live is that Trick Mobs now are set to ambush the clicker (and invisibility doesn't help take away aggro).

On Test, they saw through Stealth, but not invisibility. And they didn't chase the clicker unless the clicker stuck around to be 'seen.'

The ones on Live chase the door-clicker and are pretty persistent, so, that's good. They ignore other players unless they get aggro'd by an attack power. I was standing next to a whole bunch of +6 spawns and they pretty much ignored me while they were chasing their door-clicker. Now, when I had an ice patch out, and they walked through it, then they noticed me.

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My stone kin was standing in front of a door with quicksand and earthquake running. Grabbed aggro every time. Not to mention stoney attacking every 53 spawn that runs by. I cant use half of my powers without fighting a lot of other peoples spawns. I guess I will join them in click and run.

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did the devs listen to any input about griefing? obviously not. Pi was hell on a level 41 and there is no where else to go.

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Tried Founder's?

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cant tot there if you are over 40.

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I'm loving everything about this event except that the new ToT timers allow griefers on Invincible to click multiple doors quickly and then tow giant crowds of 52s and 53s through everyone else trying to ToT.

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did the devs listen to any input about griefing? obviously not. Pi was hell on a level 41 and there is no where else to go.

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1 + 1 is 2. It's FACT.

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Don't be silly. 1+1=10.

I think the only APP powers I care about are the single target holds for scrappers and tankers. I could be wrong, but I don't expect those to go away. It would be nice to see brutes and stalkers get access to a decent single target ranged hold, but it would also be nice if villains didn't have to go through a story arc with a non-droppable elite boss fight to unlock their patron pools.

Currently, I don't use patron powers at all.

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no, 1+1=11=3

binary rules

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Before going completely over the edge on this issue, everyone, why don't we just wait for the beta to start so we can see exactly what's being changed, determine the effects of those changes and present validated, justified concerns to Castle. I'm no more excited about losing some of my favorite APP/EPP powers than anyone else, but until I actually know which powers are being removed, and what the replacements are, there's no point getting upset over it.

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I don't need to wait till beta to know that outright replacement of chosen powers is bad design. I'm really hoping Castle mis-spoke, but he seemed pretty sure about his statement about logging in and finding the replacement where your chosen power was.

I can learn and adapt to a change in any of my chosen epics, but I firmly believe that altering characters in that dramatic a fashion should be avoided at all costs.

I'm not in any way against the replacement of powers in the epics/PPPs, I'm against logging in and finding the change forced on characters. Let the player keep them till they respec, that's all I'm asking of the developers.

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They changed my ET without asking, without grandfathering it,why cant you do the same with the nerf of your powers? learn to live with it.

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great architectural endeavors, taking on a life of its own (really, we mean it!)

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You heard it here first, transforming buildings!!! <_<

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I had a sudden vision of one of those Steel Canyon skyscrapers turning into a giant robot and trudging around.

It's... glorious...

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That would rock.

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10 second count-down, and you die every time you use it...

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Yes, gameplay advantage. If you play a tank, it's trivially easy to go into a large group, pop a red or two and maybe a yellow, and dole out a sweet purchased Nova to your enemies, probably defeating most of them, and making it really easy for the rest of the team to mop up. Pop a wakie, or even better, have someone with Resuscitate or Resurrect on hand, and you're good to go.

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Please do post a YouTube video showing us all the awesome game-breaking, PLing power of this uber combo. Let us all know how quickly you were able to clear out a map full of demons, or family, or... just about anything. Be sure to show yourself standing around waiting for it to recharge.


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PHEAR MY L33T CYBORG POWERS, ALL YOU WARBERG CRETINS!!!

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Yes, we're all impressed by your sarcasm, but I don't think it will be quite as funny when $15 a month just plain isn't enough to play any more.

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And when exactly will that be? I'm gonna throw a dollar into the office pool on "never."

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Has an hour recharge..thats gonna be a long mission.

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Do you guys know when it going on Test yet? lol sorry to be a bug I just can't wait! I love I13.

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On a Tuesday.

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:O is that Tusesday close to us?

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Geologicly speaking, yes. within the next 1000 years.

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Ugh. I can't see the point in giving "Ice anything" to Stalkers, unless the Devs find a way to limit it strictly to the PvE side.

As it stands now, Stalkers in PvP are absurdly overpowered; Ice sets would just give them yet another palette of hold/slow abilities to augment their already ridiculous (and yet, recently improved!) Stealth/Hide abilities.

Stalkers in PvP are silly enough as it is.

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Yea ok!! Sorry I play a Stalker in PvP and Run Several forms of Stealth and am Constantly seen by Blasters at Sniper range because of their perception... You may want to add Blasters to that "Overpowered in PvP List"


You know the Furryfiance they now have and being able to attack while Mezzed... with all their Stackable damage buffs... not overpowered in the least

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If the stalker is at -per cap and the blaster is at +per cap, the max range he can be seen is 10 ft. Hardly sniper range.

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I think it's time to dust this one off and do another mass dump of names on accounts that no longer have current subscriptions running.

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I think it's time for people to dust off their thesaurus.

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I think it's time for people who don't pay for something to stop expecting it's theirs forever and ever.

Also, I do quite fine with names thank you very much. But I also don't want to feel like I have to come up with 10 alternative names for a character I'm trying to create each and every time. The worst is having to play a character with a name like "Khamel0en" because the proper and correct spelling has been taken by someone who hasn't had an active account in a year or longer.

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How do you know it isnt active? maybe I have that name on a toon I just dont log on? I havent stopped paying in 2 years, so tough luck on that.

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We're talking about inactive accounts, not inactive toons on an active account. Gosh, your "Loc:" really is "State of confusion". Shocking!

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You dont actually know diddly squat. you are just bleating that all the good names are gone. they arent. If the devs want to deal with a non existant problem. You cant tell if the name you want is on an active account, inactive accout, or was taken by those guys at marvel comics. You are deluding yourself to think that them running their name policy script will give you the name you want.

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I think it's time to dust this one off and do another mass dump of names on accounts that no longer have current subscriptions running.

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I think it's time for people to dust off their thesaurus.

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I think it's time for people who don't pay for something to stop expecting it's theirs forever and ever.

Also, I do quite fine with names thank you very much. But I also don't want to feel like I have to come up with 10 alternative names for a character I'm trying to create each and every time. The worst is having to play a character with a name like "Khamel0en" because the proper and correct spelling has been taken by someone who hasn't had an active account in a year or longer.

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How do you know it isnt active? maybe I have that name on a toon I just dont log on? I havent stopped paying in 2 years, so tough luck on that.

Its just the name thieves warming up their whines again about how they must have that vital name. Rather than using their head for something other than a hat rack. The same lame crying. There is a policy in place to clear out old data. We have not run out of names. I made a toon tonight and got the name I wanted on my first try.Not a crisis in any way. if the devs want to change their policy, It is all their property.

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CoX already has the "have and have nots." just take a look at the market forums. this is a good step in my opinion. it allows the "casual" (and i use the term loosely) player to just drop a couple bucks to get a respec, instead of playing the market for a couple of hours or so. it's more options, and i welcome our new financial overlords.

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why would you do that though. why pay 2/3rds of a monthly fee for something you could earn the cash for in less than a week? (less than a day if you want to)


I understand why they'll make this option available but still, why do this when you can earn it easily in the game?

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Or, what I feel is much more likely, when billy needs a respec, he will spend his $10 with a rmt and have inf left over.(depending on the going rate).

I can see them adding respecs to their list of services.