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Originally Posted by B_Witched

Arena pvp is dead...gone and buried.You can delete this forum.

Originally Posted by PC_guy

No.



i think implementing a system that is understandable, implemented with player feedback, and uses logic and common sense would entice current pvpers to pvp more often. really anything other than what we do know, hence everyone suggesting a reversion to i12 since, you're right, the devs will likely not visit pvp again and a reversion would make everyone alot happier. pre i13 wasn't perfect, but atleast it was the same as pve and made alot more sense than this system does.

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

Agreed. The devs have known for years that only a small percentage of the playerbase was ever interested in PvP. If they do something with it I'm sure it will make 10 or 20 people happy but it won't affect the game for the majority of players.

Originally Posted by Silas

Um, I was talking about pvp in the first place.

Scrappers don't need phase/Hiber in pve. Or pvp, for that matter. Shadowmeld is much better.

You can't go from Hibernate into Phase. That's what the no-phase timer I mentioned does. IIRC the numbers are: you can only phase for a maximum of 30seconds then cannot be phased again for 90 seconds after that (total 2min nophase duration). If you go into phase/Hibernate, you cannot do so again or go into the other until the timer runs out.

Whatever though, this is fairly off-topic and I have a sneaking suspicion that this isn't going to be a particularly productive avenue of discussion with you.

Sorry for the derail StoneJaguar. So uh, how 'bout that Inherent Fitness pool huh?

Originally Posted by Silas

Only idiot squishies take Hibernate and Phase because of the no-phase timer.

Originally Posted by Silas

If you want to crow about how you succeeded at something actually difficult, go play old SNES/arcade games.

Originally Posted by Silas

Melee characters without god modes can already take Shadowmeld which is far better than Phase.

Only idiot squishies take Hibernate and Phase because of the no-phase timer.

Regens are silly enough with Shadowmeld and pvp is boned anyway.

The only possible argument about this change (and others of its ilk) I could possibly get behind would be that its indicative of a general dumbing-down or making the game more easy.

So I suppose there is difficulty in terms of knowing and understanding the complexity of the game. Just not in terms of reflexes/how punitive it is, which are the common offenders for difficult games.

Which is silly, since if you're finding the game too easy crank your difficulty up and/or fight some Romans/Arachnos/Longbow/Vanguard/Knives/Malta/Rularuu/any other tough group.

I've seen some people in other threads complaining because this will make the game even easier, which somehow offends their old school elitist self.

Spoiler Alert: this game was never hard. More difficult, certainly. But never that difficult. If you want to crow about how you succeeded at something actually difficult, go play old SNES/arcade games.

You know, the ones designed to beat the crap out of you because the more you died and failed the more money you put into them.

CoH is just not a very difficult game.

Edit: It is true that the game can be said to be complex, since it's a MMO which tend to have a fair amount of mechanical depth. That and it's got 5 years of Stuff Added. So I get that it can be overwhelming for new players since everything has different mechanics and there's like four currencies and sometimes you don't get drops from stuff under your level and sometimes you do and whatttttttt

Originally Posted by Silas

Yeah seriously. Almost all of my builds have a few powers which would be Nice To Have but couldn't fit them in.

Now I can. This is fantastic in my book.

People who didn't take Fitness before: You get free powers.

People who took Fitness before but didn't slot them: You get free powers.

People who took and slotted Fitness: You get free powers.

The City Traveller is also a very good point. Free SJ to go with my SS? Don't mind if I do

But yeah, all the ******** about this blows my mind. It reminds me of some dude on the forums sig. I forget who it is, but basically saying that this game could print money and people would still complain that they weren't sequential or whatever.

Sad but true. I wonder if these people are like that in RL. All their girlfriend decides to go down on them just because and they sit there scowling because it's not full-on sex.

Edit: Quality post, Demo. A+, would read again. And man, the more I think about this the more I like it. My SS/FA gets to take Temp Prot and RotP, may even redo his build more and take Acrobatics and do something else with all the slots with -KB IOs. My Cold Corr can take Snowstorm and Aim, my Therm can take Recall Friend, etc.

Do want.

Oh and Kahlan? If you're reading this, take RoF on your Fire/Cold. I know it won't be slotted beyond the base slot, but would you? For me? Please?

Originally Posted by Mercury_Down

February 30th? Why so late? Can't we go on September 31st instead? No one will be around by Feb 30

Originally Posted by Slax

Team All MM Stormies registers.

Originally Posted by Manofmanychars

One Piece is the best-written of all the currently active long-running anime series. Bleach is bogged down by filler and a plot that gets worse every second (did anyone even see Aizen's new form?!), while Naruto is bogged down by filler and a plot that gets worse every second ("Whoops, sorry for killing everyone, lemme pop a group rez.").

One Piece actually improves with every new arc. Alabasta dragged on quite a bit, and Skypeia had some problems, but Enies Lobby, Thriller Bark, and especially Impel Down (and the ongoing Marineford arc) are absolutely amazing. Not only is the writing impeccable, the art and voice acting are perfect for the over-the-top storybook-meets-TTGL antics that are the show's mainstay. Also, One Piece is known for having the least drawn-out fights in anime, with the fewest whole-episode monologues during said fights, and basically Oda-sensei knows how to cut to the ****in' chase, something the other guys could take notes on.

Originally Posted by NinjaPirate

I just found it amusing.

The 80s were full of great things, but website design trends of the time were not one of them.

Black backgrounds on EVERYTHING, animated GIFs all over the place, blinky letters, etc.

And of course it's not me in my avatar. I'm a marmoset. The warden at the Bronx Zoo sometimes leaves his computer on at night.

This, by the way, was an off-topic post.


-np

Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake

I hate when people cannot take the time to spell out the word you.

besides, i was just having some fun, no need for the rage. I wonder if i'm one of ninja's serious people, between bobob, flcl, excel saga/puni puni puemi, elf princess rane and dragon half being among my favorites, it seems unlikely.

Originally Posted by NinjaPirate

Huh.

Is the OP a refugee from the 80s?

He appears to have gotten his animated GIF avatar and flaming signature image from an amateur 80's era web page.

Black background even!

Hint: There's a lot of anime geeks here that consider anything DBZ or One Piece or the like to be garbage, fit only for young children. They're Serious People.



-np

Originally Posted by Mr. DJ

calm down buddy, besides we have a anime thread already ;p even though it's called Naruto, Again

though I disagree with rian ;p One Piece is probably the best adventure series done by a writer who can effectively handle a huge cast of characters.

Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake

dbz was the worst anime ever made, i was humbled. as a consolation, they both are better than betterman at least.

Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill

Yep.

And I can't stand One Piece. Five minutes of the animation style they use makes me want to claw my eyes out.