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PSW was only broke and overpowered if you paid attention to numbers. Fortunately, I doubt that's something that has ever been a problem for you.

BTW, note that I am not saying I'm in favor or against a PSW nerf because I don't have a dog in that race. Really, I could care less. I'm just saying that the numbers actually do back up a nerf of some kind. Whether the current nerf is too much or not isn't something I can determine because I haven't tested it which is also something no one else has done since it's still not even working right on Test.

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It always kills me when people list the one nerf to a powerset (psi shockwave) but don't list the buffs that are going along with it....

Psionic Dart: Increased this power’s damage scale from .6 to 1.32, increased its recharge from 1.5 seconds to 6 seconds and increased its endurance cost from 3.12 to 6.86.

Mind Probe: Increased this power’s damage scale from 1.64 to 1.96, increased its recharge from 8 to 10.

Telekinetic Thrust: Increased this power’s damage scale from .8 to 1.64, increased its recharge from 6 to 8 and decreased its endurance cost from 10.2 to 8.53.

Mental Blast: Increased this power’s damage scale from 1 to 1.64, increased its recharge from 4 to 8 seconds and increased its endurance cost from 5.2 to 8.528.

Psychic Scream: Increased this power’s damage scale from 1.04 to 1.3, increased its recharge from 12 to 16 seconds and increased its endurance cost from 11.9 to 15.18.

Psionic Lance: Increased this power’s damage scale from 2.76 to 3.56, increased its recharge from 12 to 20 seconds and increased its endurance cost from 14.4 to 18.51.

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Are you looking at those recharge and end nerfs?
This post doesn't exactly help the argument against leaving due to the Psi Nerf. It actually fuels it.
The increases to the Damage don't off-set the recharge and end nerfs.
In fact, If you crunch the numbers, I'm pretty sure with the recharge increases, you are still down on Damage Per Minute. Just going by a quick scan of the numbers off the top of my head.

So, basically, all of Psi is being Nerfed, but the Shockwave got the biggest hit.

If this was my Main that was taking this hit, I might be prompted to consider my account status too. I might not completely leave, but I surely would feel slighted and less likely to sacrifice other hobbies to make sure my monthly CoH bill got paid.

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There are a couple more things he didn't mention.

1) Damage outside of Domination is being buffed substantially. This works out to an across-the-board damage buff to Dominators (outside of double Domination).

2) PSW has violated the AoE rules since its inception, and not by a little, by a ton. Castle is currently discussing the changes, so you can check out the Dev Notes to learn more, but PSW was actually broken AND overpowered, so part of this is a fix to the bugged portion of the power while the other is bringing it closer to in line with the AoE rules (it's actually going to still be overpowered, if I remember correctly, just not by a massive margin). It's actually still broken on Test in its current inception (wrong modifier, it will be getting a higher modifier in the next build), and all the Dev changes are still being reviewed on Test (Castle responded to someone who said the End changes were wiping out their lower level Doms by thanking them for the input, so I'd be surprised if some End costs don't get adjusted some). Doms are being reworked so that they will be more effective at lower levels and not require permaDom to be as useful. This translates to an across-the-board damage buff, so it's perfectly understandable that this is the perfect time to adjust the RIDICULOUSLY overpowered AoE instead of actually making it even more overpowered.

I don't have the AoE Rules post saved, so I'll have to get some help in finding it, but once I do, I'll link it here so you can see the numbers that PSW has.

I know someone made a big post that analyzed the numbers for AoEs, including PSW. Anyone know where it is? I can't seem to find it anywhere.

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Beautiful argument.

Unfortunately, since your suggestion is in regards to farming within the MA, it belongs in the official farming in the MA thread, just like all the other farming in the MA threads. Thus, while you've explained why it's in this forum, it's actually disregarding the specific requests of the moderators of this forum, which is against Rule 13. To rectify this situation, all you need to do is contact the moderators and let them know you would like this thread deleted. Once deleted, you can repost your suggestion in the appropriate thread.

Have a nice day.

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Having had Mod8 visit this thread twice, it would appear he disagrees with your conclusions.

Have a nice day.

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Or as the kids say these days, " Selective enforcement FTL."

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Straighten your arguments out. You don't get it both ways. You're either for enforcement of the rules or against it. Your post is a direct violation of the rules. If you're for enforcement of the rules, then you should be campaigning to have it deleted.

I'd hate for you to turn out to be a hypocrite.

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Also, you get what you give. A presumptive, bait and switch style post will definitely garner a negative response. If only you'd done the right thing and separated your opinion about farming and your 'idea', posted it in the form OF an idea instead of a "news report", and put it in the right forum.

It was nicely written. That's why you're getting others angry at your idea, since normally such 'thoughts' are coupled with leetspeak and atrocious spelling and grammar. An elite troll, but a troll none the less.

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I understand what you are saying but disagree that posting an idea in a provocative manner equals trolling.

As to "posting in the right forum," why isn't "What is your drink?" or "what happened to Malta? posts not in the question forums? The answer is obvious, traffic. If you want more eyes on your thread, you go to where the eyes are. The descritption of what each Forum covers is flexible enough to allow a poster to decide where they want to present their ideas. This coupled with the fact that one cannot double post, leaves the clear choice to write in the more populated forum.

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Beautiful argument.

Unfortunately, since your suggestion is in regards to farming within the MA, it belongs in the official farming in the MA thread, just like all the other farming in the MA threads. Thus, while you've explained why it's in this forum, it's actually disregarding the specific requests of the moderators of this forum, which is against Rule 13. To rectify this situation, all you need to do is contact the moderators and let them know you would like this thread deleted. Once deleted, you can repost your suggestion in the appropriate thread.

Have a nice day.

I want them to make it be /e makeitrain

...what?

You got the buzz? WTF, are you a Yahoo nerd now?

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If Shay called shennigans on this one already,

Then I get to call poppycock

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What a shock.

Protector of Neverland talking about [censored].

I need help because I'm a terrible player. I've done nothing but get PLed to 50 and am now a nub that doesn't know how to play his characters. What are enhancements? Are they like steroids? I don't want to get banned for 50 missions.

Pingu is slang for penguin and is also apparently Spanish for [censored]. This is a fitting name for me due to the fact that I am commonly called a giant [censored] who [censored] [censored] [censored] goats. It has also been described as a [censored] penguin. That now gives me the mental image of a penguin dancing to mariachi music swinging his [censored] around. I'm betting that wasn't the intended mental image.

Felecia's done the most for this server out of anyone. She's the most helpful and giving person ever, and she never says unintelligent things that make her look like the most self-centered, ignorant, and oblivious person on the planet.

Jester has a typo in his sig. It makes a whole sentence not make sense.

3 of these statements are true (including this one).

BTW, WTF are all these SGs and the where did all the drama between them come from?!?

Congratulations! Welcome to the big time.

Usually piggybacking on someone else's thread will limit the response.

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I really doubt they were trying to lowball down to 24 million, but they could have started there getting ready to bid-creep when typo disaster struck. At any rate, congrats on your good luck.

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I think you read it wrong, the bid as 245 million, so they would have been bidding 45 million not 24 million. I only got 224 million because of the transaction fee.

And thank you.

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Could have been shooting for 24500000.

I apologize for disappearing, I got pulled away from the game (yay for forums access, boo for no game access) for a couple days. I'm back now, and I'll be on each evening (and some afternoons maybe) until I get everyone paid.

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Welcome to the loony server, you've obviously met some of our forumers who keep Champion on top of the other forum servers (Besides alphabetical order ) and I've heard if you catch a penguin, snap it's neck immediately and you get a gold coin.

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But that's just a legend.



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Who knows?














*Runs off to find a penguin*

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Feel free to visit me for a snapped neck.

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Can I just spank ya instead?

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Who's getting spanked?

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I like spanking penguins... *looks around for the next victim*

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*trips ping*

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[censored].

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one of the most successful speakers of all time

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You saying that about Rush is the funniest thing Ive read in weeks, if not months. Thank you.

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I'm a Republican and I find it humorous.

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Way off topic but the man has an audience of between 20-30 million people on a daily basis, and a net worth in the high hundreds of millions.

What do you call that ? Fail ?

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I hereby declare Godwin's Law.

Beware the penguins.

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Do I still get money if I flirt with you throughout the year? Because I can

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Heh, I would become wise to your antics all too quickly.

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Is that even possible? That was the funnest player made, hmm actually it was the funnest event period I've been too.

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I'm glad. Our goal is to get bigger and better each year, so I'll have to think about how we could step it up next year.

Thanks to all who came out for the party!

We had a blast going broke, and we hope everyone enjoyed themselves thoroughly.

If ya didn't have fun, [censored] off.

Hmm, next year will be our 5th year. That means it's supposed to be bigger than this year was. Damn, I better start saving up already...

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Welcome to the loony server, you've obviously met some of our forumers who keep Champion on top of the other forum servers (Besides alphabetical order ) and I've heard if you catch a penguin, snap it's neck immediately and you get a gold coin.

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But that's just a legend.



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Who knows?














*Runs off to find a penguin*

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Feel free to visit me for a snapped neck.

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Learn to play.

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This is quite simply one of the most incompetent and bull-headed remarks I've ever read.

Learn to not only recognize that the OP obviously knows how to play the game, but also learn to think before you post.

That is all.

"The One"

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There's a large difference between knowing how to play and knowing how to play well.

They really mean Learn to play well.

And in this case, it's the correct sentiment.

Sheesh, everybody stealin' my thunder...

Beware the penguins.

It's time to announce the winners (and winnars! [explanation follows])!

As my honorable mentions, I chose the following two:

Bubblegum Bomb

and

Celestial Lad (mostly because he was the only person to put penguins in the upper-left corner )

You both receive 50 million influence, hit up my globals in-game to collect.

For my girlfriend's honorable mentions, THE WINNARS, she chose the following two:

Betsy McBash

and

PUMPKIN HEAD! (she was quite impressed in the pumpkin head )

You receive 77.7 million influence (Betsy) and 66.6 million influence (Bad Wonka), contact me by way of my globals.

Now, for the top 3:

In third place, winning 200 million influence, is Ohnoes!

In second place, winning 300 million influence, is The Dreameater!

And finally, the winner is, for a whopping 500 million influence, Sakitumi!

Contact me in-game to claim your prizes.

Congratulations to the winners, and thank you all for entering! Hope everyone had fun!

Well, my anniversary party's today, so it's time to give away all my money. Final tally is:

10,088,000,000 influence

In an hour, it's time to start making some instant millionaires.