rian_frostdrake

not quite, there usually is an option for one degree in either direction for a character. a hero would get a heroic option or a vigilante option. now vigilante would still be generally heroic, but violent, and usually disregarding an innocent to get a big bad. now if you are a villain, you would either get a rogue or villain option. vill options are generally nasty, whereas rogue are more self-serving, but kind of showing concern for human life and collateral damage. so one way to look at it may be heroic options are generally saving helpless people and averting danger, vigilantes usually are still attacking evil, but doing so in a callous and brutal way, rogue have some regard for life, but still are selfish and materialistic, and villains are just plain nasty(someone can fill in the vills descriptor for me better, i havent run any vill options, im mostly heroic or rogue.) yeah, im thrilled they used them, and for me, doc quantum went from a doormat you went over to get redside capes, to one of my favorite canon characters, they pretty much turned him into a vigilante jigsaw.

I was fighting myself on this as well. rian has wanted to lay the hurt on phipps since issue 7, my initial thought was (one vigilante point wont hurt" but once i decided to run it because in character, rian would feel obligated to save amanda vines, the overall story worked...i do know i beat the everloving @#$% out of the arachnos guys who denied me my beatdown, i was popping reds superfluously, just to get the point across that rian would have been in a foul mood. I'm not consistant enough to rp, but i do like to keep something of a consistant mindset for characters.

not at all. the inventions were released in an issue that added no new beginning level content, rwz and vanguard merits came during an issue that only added content for level 35 characters, itf was added during i13 which only added a small amount of mission content and only for a specific leveling band. You have already discussed your dislike of ANY level 20 content regardless of its quality, because it was pre stamina, so your initial attitude was focusing all resources on endgame. I am saying reasonably if there was a focus, and neither you nor i know enough about game design to make a specific call as to how well the resources were allocated, then trying to become a endgame heavy raiding game in the midst of several very popular mmo's is to join the ranks of games that have attempted and crashed upon the rocks with a user base that, had they really been obsessive endgame raiders, have done without hardcore raiding for 6 years now, and would be a bit like unarmed martial arts fans still playing the gorilla, they exist, but their numbers reasonably would not be great.

and finally you remind everyone of your true colors, cop IS content for endgame characters, but it doesnt give phat enough loot, so its forgotten. it Is for all playstyles, particularly ones that are getting hams/vams right now, it just isnt the specific kind that you want, YET. boo!

heterophobe!!

coh has a meaningful leveling expereince, it also has a meaningful series of things to do at the end for merits, hamidon enhancers, vanguard merits and purple drops, all of these improve a player after they have finished leveling. what it lacks is a multi leveled tiering system based on a heavy loot system. thats it, be honest here.

I haven't opposed it, my problem with the op ,and, usually, you is the insistence that gr was bad because it didnt target you. im glad its coming next issue for those who want it, i wont be screaming and yelling in the beta and open forums about it over and over, that will be the difference. You dont like pre stamina, we get it, some of us can deal and can appreciate the other aspects of the game, particularly the better writing. we dont begrudge the endgame players, maybe return the courtesy? You are intentionally putting words in my and others mouth by saying it bothers us, that is nonsense, and not the point of the thread.

which response was rude? he expressed his opinion, we expressed ours, he said stuff that we disagreed with, we disagreed. i'm sure you can understand disagreeing and posting about it.

again though, its a question of philosophy. many, such as myself, see endgame raids as the same treadmill, but now with the added bonus of having long time commitments, a need to form up gorups with other players with your playtime and playstyle who may add additional responsibilities to your life (want to go out to dinner with your girlfriend on a raid night, you let your guild down!) and those raids, unless everything i have read is a lie, dont change each time you run them. So you are still treadmilling repetitive content, only now its hard, and only has a minute chance of dropping one part of what you will need. that is fun to some, particularly people who like traditional mmos, but for many or us, its the description of unanesthitised dental surgery. I guess the question is, should coh be competing with far larger and more popular games that already engage those costumers fully? or do they do their own thing and get the people not currently vested in larger games? if you only have the size and resources to do one..well, maybe trying to out gorilla the gorilla isnt the smartest move.

i LIKE it.

well, since most of your questions have been asked, I figured that i'd expand on this. coh is very casual, but there is definitly soem fun for min maxers. once you get situated, you will notice inventions, many of them will come in specific sets, and equipping several of them will have effects like a global increase in your defense against melee attacks, global recharge bonuses, and even occasional procc-ing extra damage, there are people who pour over these to get bleeding edge performance, so once you get comfortable, you will find that while min/max is not required to be effective, there are kindred spirits you can talk with to get to the bleeding edge of efficiency. best part is once you get to the sweet spot, you can alter difficulty so that you can increase the challenges to match your new capacities enjoy!

my step-father watches texas hold'em on tv..every time the announcer announces that someone has a "jack off-hand" i giggle like a 5 year old.

Eh, chase is a friend of mine for nearly 30 years, we have both helped each other at different times and i know that were i to suddenly need to take all my material possessions and give them to someone else for a time, i would trust him. he gets on my friend list. a former co worker of mine who i can talk intelligently about music and some more mainstream nerd-isms and politics, he is not on the friend list. Generally my friend list is made up of deep trust friend who i have known for over a decade and have shared some experiences that indicate i could trust them seriously those are my facebook friends...or girls i really wanted to @#$%

for some years i posted on another message board "the next level" it was kind of similar to unleashed actually, i had individuals there who i tended to have similar tastes with and would have called friends, but when i got sick of said board's attitude, i was gone and they haven't been seen again, they were internet friends, transient, unattached, real friends are described above.

conversely, knowing that different people have different tastes should indicate that nobody should expect the game to cater 100% to them, some people love teaming, some love soloing, soloists get hung up on tfs, teamers get hung up on solo only content. live and let live, nothing is going to be perfectly to your tastes.

you know i had wandered why they couldnt get chuck norris, stallone mention him along with van damme and segal as people they talked to, but they never got into why he, particularly with his meme resurgence, didnt want in. Eh i like dolph though.

my second 50, seraph blue, is an emp/lit, i soloed her about half way to 50, and that was before the 30% solo defender damage buff. heck, i dropped some eb's with her solo. slot your secondaries too,and you will survive. well, mostly is incorrect. there are some solo missions, as described here they are neither needed to advance the story, nor are they majority of the content, so you were wrong. SOME solo, then you would have been golden.


Now i will admit, it does occasionally shake the flow a bit, as i tend to spend part of my coh gaming time playing with friends who are not always geographically close, and splitting that up isnt entirely cool, but I can understand the justification, and the annoyance really is negligible so long as we can still chat with each other.

neither have I but i followed the context.

yep, blinded by the light, Bruce Springsteen and later covered by Manfred Mann. famously misquoted on that line which mann changed from "cut loose like a deuce" to "revved up like a deuce".

i'm giving you pun points for that one. anyhow, new characters for old groups always make me feel happy.