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Aett_Thorn

By Aett_Thorn,
Posted on: 2011-05-25 13:27 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion

 

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I'm hoping they went thru the trouble of making it so it scales depending on how many targets you hit, maybe base 1 end for each extra target, but who knows if thats even possible. If not I'm likely going to be playing more ill/cold even less now, the idea of spending some +10 end to buff one god damn person, i duo or do smaller teams with him mostly, would be awful.

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Originally Posted by ultrawatt View Post
I'm hoping they went thru the trouble of making it so it scales depending on how many targets you hit, maybe base 1 end for each extra target, but who knows if thats even possible. If not I'm likely going to be playing more ill/cold even less now, the idea of spending some +10 end to buff one god damn person, i duo or do smaller teams with him mostly, would be awful.
No scaling. End, recharge, everything the same, just a 30' buff bubble that catches everyone inside your target. besides you of course.

 

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Hmm lets see Arachnos Pets for Operative Tessa(crab spider) and Agent O(Night widow). Robotic Drones for T-Bot 0329 (Bots/DM MM) and I am think Nemesis minions for Icee Hotee (DP Blaster whose bio states she time traveled here from the 1800s where her former mentor had battled a brash young evil sceintist called..NEMESIS lol)

I guess the new buff idea is nice .. honestly I never had a problem buffing the old way but this will make it simpler... Now about that END issue!

The new stuff we can purchase with merits is nice but I am much more excited with the prospect of the vouchers. Finally a way for my MAIN to spend more time on line and still benefit my other 50 levels.

Overall I'd say for a X.5 update this is a winner.

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Originally Posted by SinisterDirge View Post
No scaling. End, recharge, everything the same, just a 30' buff bubble that catches everyone inside your target. besides you of course.
OK, now THAT is awesome.

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Originally Posted by ultrawatt View Post
OK, now THAT is awesome.
The game is spitting out $5 bills and people are complaining they are not sequential. Same old story.

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Now about that END issue!
What end issue? For your buffers? It costs me 7.5 end *7 to cast one shield per teammate. Now it will cost 7.5 end to cast one shield with up to who knows how many peeps you can fit in a 30' radius. I repeat, what end issue?

 

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What end issue? For your buffers? It costs me 7.5 end *7 to cast one shield per teammate. Now it will cost 7.5 end to cast one shield with up to who knows how many peeps you can fit in a 30' radius. I repeat, what end issue?
I also heard that this change is going to increase the recharge of these buffs to 180 seconds, make them 30' PBAoEs that come preloaded with "gather" macros, infect and destroy your video card, infect and destroy your brain and kill baby pandas when you aren't looking.

All true!

 

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Originally Posted by Cyclone_Jack View Post
"The new pet choices are Arachnos, Carnival of Shadows, Cimeroran, , Longbow, Nemesis, Phantoms, Polar Lights, Robotic Drones, Rularuu, Rikti, Storm Elementals, and Vanguard."

1.) Rularuu Pets. Beyond Awesome.
2.) Storm Elemental Pets. Awesome.
3.) What was/is supposed to be between Cimeroran and Longbow?
Well, the list is in alphabetical order. And the criters would have to spawn at level 50. I was hoping for Cabal, but that wouldn't fit. Council? Freaks? Circle of Thorns? Clockwork (psychic)?

Ah well.

WTH are Polar lights, though? Just random globs of energy? That's pretty neat. And YAY, Phantoms, finally i can make my Mind/Kin the Illu/mind hybrid i always imagined her as!

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Originally Posted by EmperorSteele View Post
Well, the list is in alphabetical order. And the criters would have to spawn at level 50. I was hoping for Cabal, but that wouldn't fit. Council? Freaks? Circle of Thorns? Clockwork (psychic)?

Ah well.

WTH are Polar lights, though? Just random globs of energy? That's pretty neat. And YAY, Phantoms, finally i can make my Mind/Kin the Illu/mind hybrid i always imagined her as!
I imagine they mean *Northern* Lights as in...

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Winter_Horde#Northern_Light


Man, a bunch of them in Lord Winter's realm can totally wipe the whole map unless you take care of them with the way they can floor your Defense.

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Originally Posted by ultrawatt View Post
I totally don't get why people don't want speed boost, its +rech AND +Recov for Christ sake, guess they are just too slow to be able to control it. But i guess some people just don't think fast enough, it's not like they can help it. It's not like the CHOSE to ride the short bus.

Anyway, i cant wait for all most new lore pets. So many look cool, of course lore is still going to be the worst iSlot out there. and keye's reactor sounds pretty tough

EDIT: yes i know im evil :P
Inertia Sucks.

Same reason for combat you want to be using Hover instead of Fly [although I will say Fly has gotten a lot better about it].

Myself, I don't like superspeed, I really don't. Hallways too crowded as it is, and it makes it awkward to move through with other collision objects. I don't mind nearly as much in flight, but on the ground it bugs me.

I deal because Speed Boost is freaking awesome, but it's also generally why I don't take Superspeed as a travel power.

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Wait. So for those of us who have essentially forced to use our Empyrean merits for incarnate stuff because the RNG hates us will probably not be able to afford the shiny new costume things any time soon? Oh joy. Thanks RNG......

 

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Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba View Post
Speed boost is group wide now? Awesome. I can't wait to read all of the crying and gnashing of teeth over that one.
Every Kin I built I stopped playing shortly after getting speed boost and remembered how much I hated spending a large portion of my time recasting it. This is a really good change IMHO.

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Originally Posted by Deus_Otiosus View Post
Give them the option to disallow buffs if its such an issue, of course they always have the option of quitting and finding a team to match their playstyle - which is better for all parties rather than have them fail to keep up on a hyperspeed murderfest team who stops for nothing or careening into walls because they can't control the movement increase (This still stuns me that people complain of this).
OR the Kin can warn ahead of time he's SBing, and who the target is so anyone who doesn't want SB can get out of range.

Ta da!

 

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OR the Kin can warn ahead of time he's SBing, and who the target is so anyone who doesn't want SB can get out of range.

Ta da!
--OR--

You could read this post from Black Scorpion that says they're adding a menu option to disable movement speed buffs from other players (but you still get, say, the recovery buff from Speed Boost).

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--OR--

You could read this post from Black Scorpion that says they're adding a menu option to disable movement speed buffs from other players (but you still get, say, the recovery buff from Speed Boost).
OMG!!!!

That would be...nice.

In other news, here's a dev rundown on the Keyes Trial:

http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/gam...and_guide.html


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Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
Not squids, light form.
I think he/she is talking about the powers. there the same as the Nova.
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I myself cant wait for this to hit, the armor for a few char's the AoE buffs for my MMs the new lore pets, i (a guy) nearly/almost cried form how epic that armor looked and form what i heard on the UStream is well... lets say i love the Devs!

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Woah great stuff!

Why is no one else hyped as I am about being able to buy Purple and PvP sets?! Those cost retarded amounts of infamy. Now it'll be possible to buy a few choice ones!

Super awesome.

And yes, non-praetorian pets. Now my Bots/ MM can have... MORE BAWTS! Not lame devil-foreigner bawts but real good old fashioned primal earth bawts. And my Mercs/ MM can have.. some kind of primal infantry of some kind.. probably not longbow And.. Phantoms I guess for my Necro/

Good stuff. Good thing I didn't get around to crafting my Lore pets yet!

 

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I hope to see plenty of new kins - it makes me want to roll a brute in anticipation.

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Plenty of new kins? Hehe, I'm gonna be dusting off my shelved kins. This change may have single-handedly revitalized the set for me. 2 times to 50 being a dilligent large-team SB'er was one cast too many, and they've languished for too long. I always think "man I'd like to play kin" but then I think "man SB man, man oh man".

Now I'm looking forward to them. FORWARD!

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Why is no one else hyped as I am about being able to buy Purple and PvP sets?! Those cost retarded amounts of infamy. Now it'll be possible to buy a few choice ones!
Probably because you can already buy them via Alignment Merits, but they cost "retarded" amounts of alignment merits each, and we all expect that trend to continue.

So for Purple or PvP IOs you'll have stupidly high costs of Inf, Alignment Merits, or "Incarnate Merits", take your pick.

It's nice to have options of course, but I wouldn't be thinking they are going to suddenly become cheap or plentiful if I were you.

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Probably because you can already buy them via Alignment Merits, but they cost "retarded" amounts of alignment merits each, and we all expect that trend to continue.

So for Purple or PvP IOs you'll have stupidly high costs of Inf, Alignment Merits, or "Incarnate Merits", take your pick.

It's nice to have options of course, but I wouldn't be thinking they are going to suddenly become cheap or plentiful if I were you.
Yep.

Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA