je_saist

Now go run Incarnate Content where you'll need ~60% defense to be soft-capped.

Tankers are by no means obsolete, even more so after the substantial buffs received for Issue 18: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Patch_No...-08-16#Tankers

The first buff was an increase to the Tanker's Hit Point Cap, allowing tankers to take more hits, and regenerate more health, than any other archtype.

The second buff was a resistance debuff added to the first attack on the tanker's secondary. In terms of soloing the resistance debuff closes the damage gap between Scrappers and Tankers. In terms of working with a team against hardened targets such as a Giant Monster, Arch Villain, or Hero, a Tanker can provide a valuable consistent debuff.

Something else to consider is that, in terms of player population, we know that the vast majority of players are not IO'd to the gills. Relatively few Blaster's, non force-field Defenders, Corruptors, non force-field Masterminds, and Dominators have defensive soft-caps.

My suspicion is that you probably get your task-forces from a badge or task force global channel, where players are more likely to have tweaked or optimized builds.

Nope. A: check the time stamp.

B: check the status of Reactor 1.

anyways, update on the fire at Daiichi

So Daini is under control now.

I don't think there has been an update on Daiichi yet.

That is a potential possibility depending on what software is loaded. However most scanners that I'm aware of don't trip on cookies / downloads through the NCSoft launcher.

I am, however, aware of several exploits on the malware market that are not caught by most common scanners, and do exploit loopholes in .NET software that are making Internet Connections.

Love and Peace?

That's a pretty clear definition of what Build Up does.

To answer your question: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Gaussian...e_for_Build_Up

The proc gives a chance for Self +Damage, +To-Hit to occur on the player.

If my memory serves, the effect is equivalent to an unslotted Blaster Build up effect.

Correction: You are not.

You are allowed to side with Marchand's side through the Responsibility Arc, which opposes that which Cole is trying to do.

Marchand Ultimately sends you to Paragon City to prove that not all Praetorians are Evil, and to seek help to stop Cole.

You are allowed to side with your own side through the Power Arc, which opposes Cole as you want to take his place for your own glory and fame.

The natural course for the Power Loyalist is to go to the Rogue Aisles and build your strength so that you can come back and kick Cole's rear-end.

At no point in either of the Going Rogue Loyalist Storyline are you allowed to side with Cole for the sake of siding with Cole.

So, sorry, but Golden Girl's point stands. Yours and Jophiel's does not.

Not surprising. Like the Huffington Post, The Daily Kos is best read with a keg of beer on hand to dull the abject stupidity.

There isn't any. Even Positron went on record as saying that all of the "new" Praetorian Content was written explicitly to keep the old Praetorian Content / Lore intact.

The only "official" ret-con of the Praetorian content is that Dominatrix does not "service" her grandfather "in all capacities"...

I hope not. Cryptic hasn't been involved with this game for several years now.

I'm sure the developers remember the casual theme. However, the developers have also been clear that the Incarnate Content is not for the Casual Theme.

The developers have been very explicit that incarnate content is going to be harder, and not just every P.U.G. that gets together will be able to do it.

If the developers had said this in regards to sub or regular level 50 content, I'd agree with you. But since this is for Incarnate Content... well... those ground rules... they be changed.

I got the impression from the news feed that Nate regretted saying that as soon as he said it.

Out-of-context take here Bill. Nate said this in regards to more content IN Praetoria. The too good to leave behind line was given to a player who, through the vaguest way possible, seemed to ask if they could skip becoming a Hero / Villain and just stay in Praetorian. It was probably the best way Nate could get away with saying, No, you are going to have become a Hero or a Villain, Get over it.

I was confused on this too... since I'm still lost on the difference between a Personal Lair and a Supergroup Base... which to me... ARE THE SAME THING

Apparently the term Personal Lair was being used to describe something else OTHER than a Supergroup Base meant for one person. Rather, it seems to be a reference to this thread: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?p=3446599

Where I THINK Nate was going with the response was that creating a personal lair for every single player would indeed be... well... it definitely would require a large amount of resources.

I think he meant to say, Doing Shadow Shard Right would be a huge undertaking. I can't say I'm going to argue that. I love the Shard... but the Task Forces and maps weren't exactly designed with player convenience in mind.

Agreed. I think there's a misconception that revamping the Shard would require rebuilding the zones.

I think it's more... Epic AT's are hard to create. The biggest problem is that the original E.A.T. design was to add gameplay and/or costume concepts into the game that just didn't fit into the original archtypes. The developers largely made the Villain Epic Archtypes to balance out the differences between Hero and Villain side, not because they had a burning desire to create a new gameplay experience.

The result is that the E.A.T.'s have some awkward power combinations. For example, Kheldians get shields in their human forms so they can survive in Melee range... but no Mez protection... soo... what was the point of the shields?

Arachnos can get high defenses, and with IO's and pool powers can easily soft-cap to regular content. However, Arachnos get no defense debuff protection... so um... what happens when they encounter an enemy with increased accuracy and a defense debuff whose job is to knock out IO based soft-caps on non-defensive armor players?

I think that balancing awkwardness is what Nate meant by maintenance. The Epic Archtypes, by and large, don't fit into traditional team roles as effectively as archtypes built for those roles.

No. Mad is when I start repeating things I just typed, only increasing the font size and bolding it in bright orange so it stands out against both the hero and villain color schemes, and then start asking whether or not the player actually got the point that was being communicated.

Am I mad at Aura and Eva for their We're martyrs for the cause of Too Much Praetoria in the game thing that they are doing? No.

They have a right to their opinion.

That does not grant them the right to say things like:

And not get called on just how STUPID the line was.

Issue 6: along came a Spider: http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/gam..._a_spider.html

Issue 7: Destiny Manifest: http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/gam...anifest_1.html

Issue 9: Breakthrough: http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/gam...akthrough.html

Unprecendented?

Um. No. Excepting Issue 8 which was mostly filler to bring City of Heroes inline with City of Villains adding Police Band / Safeguards, and the revamped Faultine...

For two years after the CoV expansion, major storyline updates focused on NOTHING but the Arachnos. Leaving people who don't care for that enemy or storyline out in the cold for a very very long time, with no end in sight.

So why don't you dial that self-martyrdom of yours back a couple of levels. So you don't like the Praetorians. Big. Flipping. Deal.

Get over yourself and run any of the other countless story arcs, missions, task forces, that have nothing to do with Praetoria. Or better yet, make your OWN story arcs in Architect Entertainment, and write the content YOU want to play.

Common sense. You've got it.

I think Anti-Matter and the Hamidon show-down will both be I21, and that Tyrant will be I22.

What storylines do you feel are not wrapped up within the game?

... wait.

Let me get this straight. You are lumping power-set proliferation, with is a technical task, in with Praetorian Story Content?

... I'll be straight Aura. That is a really messed up point of view.

You need to go read my post here: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...77&postcount=5

The developers tasked with writing and implementing Praetorian Raids, and events, are not likely to be the same developers that handle power animations.

Thing is, very few new enemies will be likely be implemented in the future raids. Most of the enemies we know we'll be facing off against that aren't in the game yet with their full power-sets are the Praetorian Goatee Brigade.

Yes. Some of them will be getting new animations to go along with their new costumes. That does not mean that the animators will ONLY be working on a handful of new animations.

On that same token, the developers that handle the User Interface work for the game are not likely to be needed for the Raids. Yes, they might need to take a moment to create a new window with text and link the output of the window to input from NPC events, such as the window showing the health of Her Majesty Queen Bobcat and Neuron in Tin Mage Task Force.

The focus on Incarnate Raids, more than likely, will free UP the development resources to pull OFF power-set proliferation and other technical improvements which require development skills that the Incarnate Raids most likely won't be needing.

I really don't think you'll see anything on that front until Issue 22 at the earliest.

Cross-server teaming was already mentioned last year as one of the development goals, so no speculation, wild or otherwise, is needed.

Good question. If you'll give me a few hundred years, I might have a good answer.

Freedom does a right old job of slurring itself without the need of anybody's help.

I suspect this is a correct analysis. Now, if Paragon Studios announced a cross-over event where the clothes of street heroes like Cole from Sucker Punch's Infamous or Alex from Radical Entertainment's Prototype were made available for players in this game to wear... that might work.

We have a padded room and straight jacket ready for you.

I suspect that the developers would not have confirmed backpacks if they didn't already have a few models working with the character scaling system.

I think at this stage of it's life, Champions Online is a complete non-factor for City of Heroes.

Anyways, as to the full panel... nothing really earth-shattering outside of the Global Server Lists being merged.

I think Nate did a good job of dancing around some of the questions, such as handing off the question on Vehicles, and the dancing around the "Buy something to respec power choices"

I'll lay odds that if Matt had been there whoever asked that question would have been promptly told they would be given Fusionette as a permanent side-kick.