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Originally Posted by darkcrabs

Originally Posted by fox1

Also, i have a VisionTek Radeon X1300 is this a outdated video card?

Originally Posted by Jack_NoMind

is just so much hot air.

This will increase the effectiveness of Snipe on every Blaster who doesn't obstinately refuse to allow that to happen. Nearly all of the ways I've listed are actually better than Power Boost or Aim/BU bouncing because they don't have the severe cast time penalties, and those are already a direct improvement to most Blasters.

Originally Posted by Father Xmas

Due to the ever present video driver saga from AMD, I swapped over to the GTX 560Ti last August and that recommendation still stands. AMD announced that they are stopping the monthly driver release schedule so hopefully once they get it to work with CoH, that whatever fixes they did won't be "forgotten" in the next.

Originally Posted by DJ_Shecky

Oh, I know that the specs have changed, because I haven't changed anything in my PC hardware wise, and the game is running like crap. Yes, I've gone through the disabling of things, clean up of other things, etc... But I'm not even able to run Ultramode anymore and I was before I21.5.

I just was thinking with what we see in this forum, if some of the expert builders could come up with a few different specs that we could recommend out to people who want to know what type of system to get, it could help people not have as many problems.

Originally Posted by Red_Raccoon

That has been my suspicion, unfortunately. I've had this computer for 3.5 years and I've already had to replace a dying video card once--is it normal for video cards to have such a short life?


Thanks, I'll try that and see if it helps.

Originally Posted by Pretense

Edit: Lightning Clap - you can see how much I've used the power - though Thunder would sure make more sense IMO. All of this would also apply to 'Hand Clap' in the super strength brute/tank power, which is effectively the same power - if not exactly.

I've pretty much never seen an electric melee character take lightning clap - I took it, once, mostly for entertainment purposes - but while knockback is (rarely) a useful panic button, it's a very poor option for the aoe monster that is electric melee, or most any melee character.

Since these claps do no damage at all, I'm to understand they can't accept the overwhelming force kb to kd proc, which would be about the only way I could realistically see these powers being useful to me (and other scrappers/brutes/tanks). Are there other ways to cause kb to become kd? AFAIK immobilize prevent kb and kd, as do 'web' grenade type powers.

Attractive options would be to either remove the requirement that a power does damage from the overwhelming force proc (which might cause balance issues for things like hurricane), or change the claps to do a *tiny* amount of damage, or - I suppose - just mark them that they can accept universal damage IOs.

One remaining option, of course, is to do nothing and leave it where it is, always an option. I wonder, though - if lightning/hand clap has remained how it is not because people take it, but because they mule IOs in it, which wouldn't show up in the data collection that CoH does to look at powers (plus, many powersets have lackluster powers and get ignored for years, so it's no surprise that 2 well performering sets would get theirs overlooked).

Anyway - anyone have thoughts or suggestions on such a change, or have insights into how they've seen these powers taken and used?

Originally Posted by Little_Whorn

Between nukes, new snipes, and whatnot, I'm somewhat concerned about the future difficulty of the game. At that point, +4 enemies won't be lasting long at all, especially on a team.

The funny thing is, I absolutely love these changes. Turning useless powers into useful is always A+ in my book. But what about the enemies? This game is already widely regarded as fairly easy at high levels, especially on teams. Any easier, and I'm unsure how much fun the game will sustain for me over any extended period of time. Being a superhero/villain is great and all, but not if taking down hordes of villains/heroes is as difficult as punting kittens or playing ping pong with a blind person.

Hyperbole aside, what does everyone think? Is the difficulty too easy? Should it change and if so, how?

Personally, I hope they let us up the difficulty past +4 or something like that. With incarnate levels, we're already maxed out fighting mere +1s in Dark Astoria. I'm all for more difficult factions such as those in Night Ward, but implementing more difficult challenges in this way limits what enemy groups we can sink our teeth into, further relegating old enemy factions to "Council" status (i.e. good for farming, but not any challenge for most).

Originally Posted by Another_Fan

That isn't a given. The new nukes give defenders and corruptors a really powerful aoe/control power that they can now use without worrying about losing their toggles. Take a look at the case of the Rad/Ice defender that can now Blizzard->Ice Storm-> Frost Breat all the while leaving radiation infection and enervating field running on the spawn.

The same holds true for other debuffers that can now keep their toggles running through a nuke when they couldn't before.

Originally Posted by Black Pebble

Sure. How about next week?

Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood

Except that resistance debuffs don't work that way. Since resistance debuffs are resisted by the target's resistance a (for example) 30% resistance debuff will effectively increase your damage by 30% after you apply the target's resistance.

Example. Let's compare the following:
A Blaster with Enhancement Slotting (95%), Aim (62.5%) and Build Up (100%)
A Defender with Enhancement Slotting (95%), Aim (62.5%) and a 30% Resistance debuff.

Let's say that the target has 50% resistance. The defender will reduce that to 35% (50% - 30% + [50% * 30%]).

Ignoring the AT damage scales the final damage as a percentage of base damage will be:
Blaster: (100% + 95% + 62.5% + 100%) * (100% - 50%) = 178.75%
Defender: (100% + 95% + 62.5%) * (100% - 35%) = 167.375%

So the Blaster has higher base damage AND will deal a larger portion of that base damage.

EDIT: Scooped by Garent. Oh well, I have MATH!

Originally Posted by dugfromthearth

We have the summer blockbuster. We assume it will end. Lots of people play it.

We had the Nemesis invasion and they were pretty active.

But we also have occassional rikti invasions, banner events, GM's appearing, etc. And it seems that those events get ignored.

Do we just have too many random things so that they have no real importance? Are they just inconvenient?

I don't run to them because I know solo they can't be done. If I don't hear teams forming, I just assume they will be ignored. That's a vicious circle, I know.

Adamaster seems a good idea - you can summon him and then defeat him. We got a team together to do it, then afterwards wanted to hunt other GM's. But none were out. That's the problem with random events - when you want to do them, you can't. When they show up they aren't convenient.

So do you participate and if so how often - in random events?
Should they be triggerable?
Should they have a big enough reward that makes people want to do them?
Should they be in selected zones so that people actually see them and care?
Should they happen less often so that they are more special?

Originally Posted by Rakeeb

YES

YES YES YES

The cottage rule is the WORST thing that has ever happened to City of Heroes design. It's developers willfully saying that they're going to do a poor job in the name of what, not rocking the boat with the customer? That's a ridiculous argument because the boat is being rocked to bring the customer a better product. Throw it out. It's awful.