Bill Z Bubba

Really thought photon seeker stupidity was still in the funny stage.... I was mistaken. Damn things are broken.

Here's my post in bug section

WOOT! Geko's on it!

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PM's statesman about this.. answer.. Gotcha.

I dont know if thats a yes or no though..

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Neither. But I'd expect one around Halloween as a treat. Not sure what the coinciding trick may be though.

I want another respec, too! I've got 2 Khels, a WS and PB.

When I-5 went live I respeced using the freebie and got rid of Q-Fly and Neb-Form because I knew they'd be nerfed just like Phase Shift.

Oh wait.....ummm....

OK! I deserve a respec since you're making massive changes to SR! This addition of defense debuff resistance might actually help me be viable in combat more often.

Oh wait.... ummmmm

damn.

MisterNick,
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Elude is gaining XP half as fast, because that character is not fighting half of the time

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As an SR scrapper, I must refute this. When elude crashes for me, it takes all of 10-15 seconds for me to hop back, pop 3 blues, get FF and FS back on and get back into the fight. These leaves 5-10 seconds that I'm unable to recharge end. So I'll usually need to pop one more blue.

Now, if I am completely out of insps, then I'm down for maybe 30 seconds. Down half the time simply isn't true.


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Ice needs help. SR needs help. I've been letting myself get sidetracked down an argument that doesn't have a point here, and in which I had my numbers wrong to begin with. I apologize for that. I certainly didn't need to be arguing with SR proponents, defense detractors and the pro-Ice crowd.

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Saw this. Good post, sir. I value highly folks that post as you have in this thread.

I think SR and Ice are finally getting the help we've so been clamoring for. I just can't say enough how this pleases me.

Thanks, Positron. I'll get Bill back into Croatoa now and go for some Sally sightings.

Great start, Statesman!

Now we need to deal with the ToHit Buff problem. As it stands, Aim+Buildup+Accuracy enhs can negate all the defense that an SR scrapper can come up with, even with elude. Could we make the values you have here be unsurmountable by ToHit Buffs?

In other words, if I have both FF and Dodge at 50, could I have 32.4% defense (or less if my actual defense totals for those powers is less) so that my defenses aren't negated?

To further explain, if I don't have FF and dodge slotted, I would have 17.5% defense against all attacks, minus the adjusted defense debuffs if present. But if I have them fully slotted, I'd have my max unsurmountable defense at 32.4% minus any adjusted defense debuffs.

Or do you feel that if someone dumps the slots and power choices to have buildup + aim + accuracy enhs, they SHOULD be able to floor everyone's defense?

Lastly, this change does not the scaling discrepancy between damage resistance and defense as enemy level increases. What are your plans for that?

Hoping more changes are coming to cover these two areas and maybe even more changes to add further types of damage mitigation to the defense based sets.


EDIT after reading thread: Wow...they stack against all debuffs? That's.... awesome.

And you're already looking at the ToHit Buff issue.... excellent.

That really only leaves the scaling issue and quite frankly, if you fix ToHit Buffs vs Defense and the enemy level scaling issue, I'll be so damn happy that I won't bother asking for other forms of damage mitigation.

6 slotted health and a couple of dam-res insps for AVs will do just fine for me.

If they can still one shot me, so be it. I'd still be happy that the deck is no longer flat out stacked against me.

Sweet. Thanks, poz!

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First, a big thank you to everyone who played on the Training Room server and helped I5 to be one of our best launches ever! We’re extremely happy about how I5 went live.

Second, we’re still scouring the boards for bugs and other issues, but we’ve finished making large changes to the power sets. We’ll still be looking at issues as the arise. For instance, there are issues with Defense builds; we’re going to look at that problem more carefully (the Damage Resistance Inspirations are a step, but there's a little more to come).

Thanks for all your great feedback!

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There's more to come for defense sets??!!?!?

I've got my crow, my hat and my shoes all ready to cook up and start chowing down on if help materializes for SR, Ice and FFers.

Thanks, Statesman.

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As has been proven time and again, they can make PvP changes independent of PvE.
Please stop this "Waah waah pee vee pee is ruining mai game!111!!!!!fordfocus" rhetoric.

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Ford Focus?

I'm going to take the religion standpoint on this:

The bible tells you god exists, therefore he must.

The devs tell you that no PvE changes will occur based on PvP, so that must also be true.

/atheist
//thinks people do lie
///hates sheep

CuppaJo,
Did they happen to mention whether Defense debuffs were also reduced seeing as how there a about 5 times as many Defense debuffs in the game as Resistance debuffs, and that the Defense based sets were reduced just as much as the Resistance based sets?

Also, there have been statements made by the player-base testers that Resistance debuffs don't actually debuff Resistance but rather raise the amount of incoming damage. Would you please also ask if Defense debuffs can be changed to equate to Resistance debuffs?

Thanks much

I read the last few pages of this thread, because I recently started a fire/ice tank.

A recurring theme is that
A: NO ONE likes the changes to tankers in general
B: NO ONE likes the changes to burn.

Well, sorry folks, but I'm here to tell you that you're wrong. I've been hanging out on the test server. I've been running around on live since I-5 hit.

A lot of people ARE happy. And I'm one of them. The time of letting the tank herd the map while everyone else sits at the door with their thumb up their posteriors is over...

And for that, thanks, Devs.

As for burn, I took ice for ice patch. Burn is a PBAoE, so it will burn 10 baddies. Good enough for me, and with ice patch bouncing them, they can't run. Done deal.

For all those that say "MY SECONDARY CAN'T DO THAT!!!" I respond the only way I can...

My secondary on my main can't do ANYTHING that the other scrapper secondaries can pull off.

My primary on my main can't buff the defense of my inferior secondary like 3 of the other scrapper primaries.

Claws/SR is arguably the most gimped scrapper set.

Yet I can STILL solo on invincible. Takes a bit longer and it's a little riskier, but it's do-able. Looks like States and company did exactly what they were trying to do, so be it.

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Just to clear some stuff up:

The fact that you did the Task Force is NOT stored on your character anywhere. There is (well, there WAS) no reason to store this, since you could do them over and over again.

Suggestions like "just datamine ME" or "just datamine the level 44+ characters" don't narrow down the database query at all. We still need to look at ALL the data for the specific bits of Task Force related goodness that says "yes, this guy did the Task Force".

As for assigning the badges to those with the souvenirs. That -might- (in the biggest sense of the word) be possible, but it will have to wait until some of the engineers get their heads up from City of Villains to take a look at this. Rest assured that I am looking into this option (which I know doesn't satisfy everyone).

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but.... but.... the devs don't listen and the devs don't care!

riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Thanks a bunch for all the insight and information, Positron. For myself, at least, this is all I really ask for:
Information and understanding of the decisions made.

Now if only SOMEONE would explain Ice Armor and Super Reflexes vs PvP to me.

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If CuppaJo had specifics like that to be given out with the first announcement, a lot of angst would be avoided.

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/signed Back off the messenger folks.

I just came in to read this because the title made me go....

waaaaAAAAAAAAAA?

That being said...great guide, man!

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Why isnt Cuppajo cleaning all these messy and uncalled for posts

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Probably because there's only 24 hours in a day and the amount of useless [censored] flamewar posts has reached 95% of all posts. Cuppajo was caught posting at midnight CST the other night. Far as I'm concerned everyone needs to back the hell off of her.

Quit shooting the messenger and take it upon yourselves to act like adults, even if you're not, and clean up your own posts.

Now on topic, I think it cool that we'll have a chance to ask some pointed questions directly to some of the devs that we have little contact with.

My hope is that many of you trolling imbeciles won't blow it for the rest of us like you did with the developer response threads.

Sweet.

Thanks much, Geko.

(And the devs never listen to the player base.)

All faiths are based on faith. They have no validity in reality. That being said.... why is religion being discussed in a forum about City of Heroes?

I knew that discussions of greek/roman mythology, and then bringing in celtic mythology would eventually end up being a flamewar with zealots pushing their idiocy.

Sad to see that I was right.

Please delete this thread. Religious delusion is as sickening to some of us as sexual harrasment and stalking. It has no place here.

I-5 will come with a free respec

From my forays into WoW and Guildwars, and the reading I've done about WoW and EQ2, it appears that we still have the most engaged and responsive dev team right here at Cryptic.

Read into that what you will.

For every disappointment I've encountered with CoH, something else has made the game fun for me. World of Walking bored me to tears. Same with Guildwars. I'm rarely bored when I log into CoH. Unless I try to play my empath.

In my 10+ months of playing, I've never had an enhancement go red. Mind you, I was in an SG from day one due to my brother having played since launch. I've never needed money, and anyone I've run with didn't need it either.

Now that I've got my own filthy rich 50, all my alts get full sets at at all break points. 2:7:12:17:22:27:32:37:42:47

Wow... that's a lotta influence I burn through. Oddly, my 47 PB is richer than my 50 Scrap now. Guess I should start raiding his piggy bank.

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Here is the entire population of Steel Canyon.

They don't know how not to be seen.

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WAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Almsot fell off my couch when I read this.... still giggling....

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Yay more shared power sets between controllers and defenders. There was not enough overlap already.

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My thoughts exactly! Yeah for only one primary to call our own!

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OH JEEBUS FREAKIN WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Scrappers only get 4 secondaries and tankers only get 4 primaries to choose from at all. Cry me a farking river.

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you had better have a non-fudge-factor replacement for the Cosmological Constant in the margins of your notes,

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M theory

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I'm just going to argue that there isn't, per se, a "Judeo-Christian" God. There is a God of the Hebrews and there is a God of the Christians, and never the twain shall meet.

And the God of the Hebrews is not perfect, he's a jealous God. He says as much himself.

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Gotta disagree here. As Jesus himself, if he existed at all, was a Jew, and thus his "father" was indeed the Jewish god.

Thus, the Christian and Jewish god is the same dude. Bloodthirsty, self aggrandizing, jealous, petty and sociopathic... yup, same god. Actually, not much different than the Greek/Roman gods.

At least the Norse gods were full of honor... and good beer.