macskull

Yeah, because you're the person everyone should listen to regarding this game. (lol)

It's because the mag from the knockdown proc will stack with the mag from the built-in knockdown, turning it into knockback. Same thing happens if you slot, say, the Ragnarok proc into something like Freezing Rain or Fissure.

Think I've dug up a few from late 2004. It's fun to see completely odd thread titles suddenly pop up (like "X sucks" or "Nerf Y" when it's obviously not true) and watch the first few reactions before people realize it's a necro.

Question: do you actively avoid raids and other "high-traffic" things like zone events? Not wanting to be confrontational, just curious. There are "high-traffic" areas in almost every MMO, and CoH is not the only one where lots of people in one area can cause a decrease in performance, especially if those characters have lots of graphical effects. I take a performance hit when I use the market, just like most other players, but I deal with it because I know I'm only going to be there long enough to buy/sell and then I'll be on my way. If power suppression was enabled I'd end up having to retoggle every time I went by the market, even if I only stopped to check if my bid had filled on the way to my mission. Remembering to turn toggles back on isn't exactly a minor annoyance, and forgetting your toggles are off will get your character killed, while a lower framerate in a non-combat area will not.


I understand both points of view quite well - I, too, believe that a compromise is the only reasonable choice aside from leaving things how they are now. Maybe I'm more tolerant to minor annoyances than some people, but I don't feel having a higher framerate in a high-traffic area is worth the annoyance of moving at the speed of molasses in January (if I wanted to move at a snail's pace I'd fight Vahzilok or Knives of Artemis) or having to retoggle every time I visit the market.

Right now, there are some people that get annoyed by the status quo, basically. That's understandable, and I can sympathize with them. The question is whether more people would be annoyed with slow movement speeds and having to retoggle than people are currently annoyed by a certain few powers running. My gut tells me no, and I've seen very few people even in-game in favor of power suppression, even those who routinely detoggle before they go into a market. The simple solution here is the "Studio B" solution, because it results in a grand total of no one getting screwed, but I have this feeling that the devs would probably just slap up a suppression field around the whole market instead, which would result in someone getting screwed. Obviously, no one getting screwed is preferable to someone getting screwed.

Oddly enough, duping IOs means you'll probably find someone on your team who has the IO you need and can copy it to test multiple times for multiple people to use, thus making a really crazy expensive build easy to obtain, yet you think this is a bad thing, gg.

When you go up against someone running the same powersets as you (I am guessing you play a Regen Scrapper based on your posts and general attitude toward PvP) and with the same relative skill level, it's the person whose build is better that will win. Likewise if you go up against someone running the same powersets and the same build, it's the person who's more skilled that will win. Your argument is simply your way of saying that build is everything. There are two reasons why the "high-end" ladders have always been, and always will be, held on test:

1. People from any server can participate, even when there aren't free transfers
2. People can build their characters any way they like without having to spend billions upon billions of inf or hours upon hours farming for the stuff they want

In short, the ladders are held on test because it's a convenient way to eliminate the "haves and have-nots" problem that's been around since the introduction of IOs (and exacerbated by the addition of purples and then PvP IOs). It means you don't have to worry about whether you'll be able to afford to build your character, because everyone has exactly the same opportunity to obtain stuff.

Welcome to CoH, where the people who play and build smart are routinely screwed for the "benefit" of the rest of the players.

I believe you are thinking of zone PvP, and

I believe you are thinking of fiteklubbers.

120 feet, if they're percep-capped.

The only thing that's OP about Therm is that you can't simply bring a tray of greens and still win against one. Since inspiration management and finding a good balance between aggressive and defensive are skills that most people still playing this game don't have, people cry about Therms being too good, but it's amazing how a Therm will QQ if you bring the right inspires and play to their weaknesses.

Actually if you'd look back most of the complaints were about Energy Melee going from a good single-target set to a good-at-nothing set, and years later that still hasn't been rectified.

No matter which way you slice it, having most of your damage locked up in 3-second-ish animations doesn't make a set interesting, especially with ET's horrid animation.