Bill Z Bubba
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Emp merits cost 1 inf so you can T4 out completely as well.
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Not overlooked, just not relevant to me. I will never undderstand the mindset of being a PC gamer on a rig that's not capable of playing modern games. CoH may be ten years old but that doesn't mean it hasn't seen its share of upgrades. Gotta keep up.
It's *another* reason why the solo incarnate progress should have been done in a way that didn't make one look at it and go, "Are you ******* kidding me?"
Regardless, it's still not something for which someone should have been fired. All they had to do was make it a 20 hour gate PER ARC and two emp merits from that one contact EVERY time you finished all the DA arcs. -
Quote:Crusades! Jihads! Witch Hunts! Get the pitchforks and torches! Storm the castles!Originally Posted by jwbullfrog
We're not dead yet. Let's not go starting any blood feuds now.
Or have a beer. I'll stick with beer. I like beer. It's good for me. -
Quote:Fething?Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
... Fething hell.
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Quote:Yup. My current company was just purchased by a larger, publicly traded company and I'm already seeing the "two many chiefs" idiocy pour in. Time to get that résumé cleaned up.Originally Posted by Energizing_Ion
Pretty much this....once a company gets to a certain size it becomes "top heavy" with all the tens and hundreds of "managers" and very few actual "workers"...lots of miscommunication and/or lack of communication.
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Quote:True. Except for the part where you have to grind 40 times as long for the same advancement.Originally Posted by Starsman
Plus, DA was no more grinding than repeating the same handful of TFs every single day.
Granted, I didn't want anyone to be let go over this decision. I just wanted them to fix it. -
He could have been told that he wasn't allowed. People get weird about IP.
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Quote:Derails are part of life! Keep it alive here.
I think we have sufficiently derailed the thread here, in fact, it may already be overtaken. I would like to take this moment to (finally) apologize to Bill Z. Arcanaville, would you like to continue this project discussion/report/criticism in another thread, maybe in another forum ? (there is a city sunset category over at the Titan Network) -
Quote:Yea, DA arcs, Number Six and Belladona as per Sister Jeanne on beta. Running more now but only up to 27%. I'll probably head back to live instead of trying to get to 100% on hybrid solo tonight.Originally Posted by UberGuy
Nosir. They were going to let some other content, like the DA arcs, give it out, but nothing had happened yet.
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Quote:No pets were in use. That was just BZB, the aforementioned chain and a T4 spiritual alpha. Which... I should probably change to musculature since I'm no longer trying to hit 313%+ recharge in FU for the FU/Focus/Slash/repeat chain.Originally Posted by Yogi_Bare
Cim pet damage is reduced on Beta; I would go for something with an assault pet that can stack -res, -max hp or -regen and a support pet that can buff your damage.
EDIT: Is there some way to convert anything to Hybrid Experience? -
I was just infomed that you can get emp merits on beta...
So, here we go:
T4 degenerative 75% -MaxHP / 25% Toxic
Pylon 1: 296 sec
Pylon 2: 272 sec
Average: 284 sec
T4 Reactive 75% Fire / 25% DRD
Pylon 1: 315 sec
Pylon 2: 257 sec
Average: 286 sec
Interesting. Appears to be a wash.
Claws/SR Brute, nowhere near the damage cap.
Attack chain is Followup, Focus, Slash, Swipe, repeat. Yes, it would be better with Strike on the end, but I always hated that animation.
I'll add Assault Hybrid after dinner and test again. -
Quote:Agreed. Z's post came across to me as, "That which you don't want to hear you will be hearing this week."Originally Posted by Roderick
It is still interesting wording, especially in light of Zwillinger's recent post, which gave me pretty much the exact opposite vibe of what Commander's response gives.
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Quote:I long ago accepted that trusting anyone you don't sleep with is probably a bad idea. Course, trusting some of them didn't work out so well either...Originally Posted by Another_Fan
Well you have your guy telling you that. Most of the forumites chose to believe people that told them things they wanted desperately to hear. All I can see is people on these boards put more trust in the devs than I would my immediate family.
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Quote:I can't help but think this must hold some water as I had an NCSoft employee tell me that CoH was headed for shutdown 5 or 6 months ago, but as we had heard it all before, I didn't give it much thought at the time.Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Which makes me wonder if the writing was on the wall, at least for a massive staff downsizing, one that would significantly slow new issues.
Guess I should have. -
Quote:Pretty sure that NCSoft-Austin is in charge of server maintenance.Originally Posted by Paladiamors
...hang on, whose doing maintenance?
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Quote:And no one ever noticed that we both have spiky hair. Also, William Zed Bubba is an anagram of Bawled Labium Biz, and we all know what that means.Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
It's all a Bill Z Bubba plot?
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Quote:So I killed it. I'm the Big Evil for attempting to bring about change by voting with my wallet. Ok, fair enough. I'll carry this burden.Originally Posted by BrandX
But Paragon Studios is in Washington
What killed the game?
The players who left killed the game. The players that came to Freedom and stayed free. Then NCSoft pulled the plug.
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And the marginal -res from the Reactive should stack with the -res in the Achilles' Heel proc. That's the route I took on BZB v1. Just wanted to make sure there wasn't something I was missing about the nature of -MaxHP that would provide more benefit overall.
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I'm going the easy route by testing tonight. Hopefully I'll get the rare drop I need to craft my T3 Reactive.
If I do, I'll be comparing these two against 4 pylons, 2 pylons per test and taking the average.
Degenerative T3 75% Chance for Max HP debuff (10sec)
Reactive T3 75% Chance for moderate fire damage-over-time
I ran a BAF and a Lambda last night and plan to bite the bullet and keep running i-trials until I get BZB fully T4ed. Happily, my first drop lasts night was a very rare.
I'm trying to figure out (and my apologies for not stating this up front) which of the two T4s will be better for effective DPS against pylons and lvl 54 AVs (in general on the AVs.)
Reactive Radial Flawless Interface for the 75% Fire / 25% DRD
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Quote:Makes one wonder if the 100000 active players statement was anywhere near accurate.Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
well the way i figure it is if there were ~100,000 active players when the announcement happened, out of the current 18,684 who signed the petition i figure <1000 of them were not current players since it has been heavily promoted in game while only vaguely mentioned on the various articles
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I would really enjoy it if all of the time goats (... goats? I meant gates.) on incarnate progress were removed so that I could actually make some worthwhile progress solo before it all goes away.
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Like this? Is this what you mean?
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Quote:Or they could be, you know, looking for jobs to support themselves and their families.Originally Posted by Mindscythe
As has been posted by someone in the know over on the Titan forums: No news is good news.
In all likelihood, Paragon Studios and NCsoft are still in the aforementioned "delicate negotiations" and are under a strict NDA. The fact that we haven't heard anything from Posi, or War Witch, or Z, is actually a good sign. It means they're otherwise occupied, and since we know that there are negotiations ongoing, the silence should be read as good news.
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For whom versus what? Solo against hard targets like AVs and Pylons. Guess I need to start runnin I-Trials on Pinn before doomsday. I would like to see BZB fully T4ed out.
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I hear ya. I ran through the first two DA arcs to check out solo hybrid advancement. Running at +4/x8 w/ bosses and clearing everything, I get 3% per mission.
Guess some things weren't actually fixed with I-24 after all.