Carnifax

So where are the Vines cossie parts then? I could find the rather crappy patterns to overlay but no cossie parts to go with them last night.

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Since the patch my "cinders" is on a 2 min recharge and "flashfire" is on a 1 min 09 recharge.The only spell that has a reasonable recharge is "fire cages"

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How is this possible if you've got perma-dom? With just SOs & no sets at all Flashfire can be up every 45 seconds (90 second base) and Cinders every 2 minutes (4 minutes base).

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+Rec means more Mires/Time. Mires are your main source of damage buff.

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And more Eclipse, which maxes out your Resist with 5 targets anyway so set bonuses adding to that are pretty much irrelevant. Plus Eclipse also tops up your blue bar.

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The weekend I get married?

Typical

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RL>Exp
Prioritise, Carnie. You know you can do it!

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Yeah! Reschedule the wedding.

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Or, bring the laptop & mobile modem!!

That'll go down well

The weekend I get married?

Typical

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I think the hold will probably last long enough for burn, but you can make burn perma but not the hold. My Elec/Fire brute duo's with a Rad/therm corr and was stack Imobs to keep bosses held for burning. Most AVs dont run from burn so it works alright

Of course you can have a ghetto hold and burn. You win

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I think I made Seismic fairly perma in Mids with some Frankenslotting. Two of those wonderful Acc/Hold/Recharge IOs and a combo of Acc/Dam and Dam/Recharge recipies from cheap melee sets. That's just over perma vs even level bosses, I think.

Of course those Acc/Hold/Recharge IOs can be (relatively) expensive for me since I'm not good at amassing Inf. But that's the goal for the mid 30s for dealing with bosses.

Fault, Burn, Fences, Tremor & Ball Lightning for everything else. Yum.

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Once you get end sorted (took me QR and Stamina on my Stone/WP) you'll probably find attacking get fury just fine and you can use perma fault. I think Consume will actually be better than QR on stone brute, but not 100% sure the numbers will support me. The downside will be if you're just left with the bosses but I tend to take them down first so I can 1 shot the Ltns

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From what I remember on my (horribly built) Fire/Stone tank Consume managed to scrape me through. But that was soloing with a Tanks level of damage (and a horrible, horrible build. I took Jump Kick instead of Combat Jumping, didn't take Stamina until respeccing it in at level 26, after about a year being idle and didn't take Fault at all). It really was the ultimate n00b build and the main reason I tend to ask about these things on Forums nowadays

Consume is probably best for rampaging through lots of minions, QR is better for Boss & EB fights.

Bosses will be held and horribly burnt to death anyway, at least that's the theory.

Probably Johnny Moronic, my Thugs/Traps Keanu tribute toon. His minions are all leet-tastic versions of people from Keanu films as well.

I quite like Quantum Arrow for my Grav/TA as well though.

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You guys REALLY should take a week or so off from CoH you know... All this stressing out over a game. It's really not good for you, you know!

Avatea will no doubt post, with an apology, when she actually GETS to work. It's currently 8:30am in California, she's probably still on the way in.

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So you're saying I've your permission to skip work and duck out early to enjoy the evil daystar?

Cool!

So long suckers...

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Tired of waiting ...
I'll check back later, it's to much of a sunny day to sit here and get treated like we're nothing by NCSoft...

It's not like we can do anything else is there ...

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See you soon Chum, I'm sure it won't be long.

(see what i did there? - Chum?.. Sharkbait?...Chum? - geddit?)

*Ducks incoming barrage of rotten fruit

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I -sea- your puns get worse and worse, ML.. ;D

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It begins...

come back Mornington Crescent. All is forgiven.

[insert random comment about my post having no porpoise here]

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We're merely minor customers on this side of the Atlantic.

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Not this time, they haven't announced anything on the US side either have they?

We're all equally despised, hurrah!

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Perhaps NCsoft are waiting for it to go live before saying "Surprise!! We released [Enter appropriate release here] today!"

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Yes.

That's what I do when I upgrade something and forget to tell the customer their online service will be going down for scheduled but unannounced upgrading. They love it when I do that. I can hear their screams of joy from across the Irish sea.

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Yes.. please update this with news... Telling us its closed or not going to work anytime soon with a reason would be nice.

Just giving it the silence treatment is not the way to go... Especially with the new forums and sites now.

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Posi made a throw-away comment at the 5th anniversery Roast Posi thing in PocketD.

Basically they couldn't get this to work properly without flooding the servers with traffic so it was quietly forgotten about and left to rust "until we can get some network coders to look at it" or something similiar.

Woo. Issue 15. Woo.

*waves a wee flag with "meh" written on it*

New faeces at least....

Oh wait, I read the patch notes wrong. Drat. I was looking forward to Rikti Munkies having new ranged attacks.

Bah. Mother's Love is evil I'm telling you. Evil!!

They're just lulling you into a false sense of security before stealing you away and brainwashing yo....

*is mysteriously abducted*

I am now back. I would like to say that Mother's Love is in no way evil at all, I must have been mistaken, and when they overthrow States and Lord Recluse I will be a happy slave in their totalitarian regime.

Finally, gasping like an asthmatic marathon runner who smokes 50 Major a day, I cross the line to level 12 and DOs.

I mean the End burnage of this build is just ridiculous!! So much pain scrambling my way to level 12. The last level was made soloing a lowbie farming mission with lots of AM buffs going, street sweeping is tedious beyond belief when you're out of blue most of the time and resting whenever it's up.

If it hadn't been for that Farm mish I think I'd have given up. Thankfully now I've at least got tonnes of -End DOs slotted into my powers so I should be a bit better. Plus the Farm mish showed me the light at the end of the tunnel in terms of what I will be able to do once my End woes are sorted and I can keep my Fury up, having to stop and rest and watching my Fury ebb away made me want to cry.

Fault is excellent too, I've been mostly using it mid-way through a fight so I get some Fury built from being attacked before Fault & Healing Flames fixes me & I can do some serious damage with 3 attacks (especially if Build-Up is also ready).

Looks like this will be a much different Brute to my "never stops" Dark/WP Brute, squisher, but with even heavier spike damage & developing a nice amount of AOE havoc later on.

Plus I realised that I'll have the Seismic Smash and Burn combo in my mid-20s which should be a real boss killer.

Think it's halved for 10 seconds after you attack, and the bonus does count.

That's what I get from Red Tomaxes description of it anyway.

So for a Blaster it halves to 1.75% and is enhancable.

Thanks very much all

Getting very auld indeed. Half my 30s are gone! I had them a minute ago and as soon as I turn my back whoosh, half of them disappear!

Stupid chronoton particles. Give me back my yoof!

So I ended up, after making a build for both in Mids, on going with Fire. More defensive holes but Healing Flames. And oodles of damage.

Level 5 now and by the gods those two mallets eat End. Roll on DOs / SOs, Stamina, Consume and lots of Inspirations. One-shotting minions at level 3 with a big smashing noise sorta makes up for it though.

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Actually it seams only the french have found that little niche exploit. I have never encountered it on any english servers (i guess thats down to it being a french mission) only when i started playing on vig and without being able to speak good french did i stumble upon the gem that is maxed def/res on any char and a boss farm

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I've seen a fair few Bubble map call-outs in Atlas and Cap recently. Also a mish featuring lots and lots of captive Rikti Guardians so you get AMed and bubbled every time you rescue one. That's actually quite a fun mission (I ran it solo with my Dark/WP Brute) because they've also managed to create lots of fairly large spawns. It's fun going over the aggro cap easily when soloing and practicing my aggro control, corner herding and lining up Shadow Maul.

Beats running crappy radio missions solo anyway.

Saw the bomb one in the listings but thought it didn't sound like much of a challenge. I want to cluster em and take them out myself, not let some bomb do it for me.

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Love that idea. I know it's been suggested before (I know, because I suggested it ). There are downsides to it, and the invasion spawn-code (being based around the number of heroes within a certain area on the server's heartbeat) would need to be rewritten. But I still love it.

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I thought they were based on something that was around about lvl 30? Hence why its partly easier for high levels and damn hard for lowbies?
I may well be way off the track there

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The powers the invasion mobs have are right for a level 30, but the spawn rates are based on the number of player characters nearby.

Hey folks,
Enjoying my Dark/WP Brute so much I'm thinking about starting another at some point.

I reckon I want to retry Stone Melee (the first character I ever created was a Fire/Stone tank who was deleted years ago). Question is what to pair it with?

I'm drawn to either Fiery Aura as a recreation of the Tank, or maybe Elec Aura.

What's peoples opinions on the two combos.

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I'm a big fan of the booster packs and have purchased everyone so far but i really dont feel that the below feature is something that should be in a booster pack and should be available to all players.

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as well as the new Super Tailor feature that will allow you to change the inherent body type of your character to Male, Female or Huge for each costume slot

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I know what you mean BM, A shape/sex-changing emote has been a long-requested feature and It does make me wonder if the long requested stuff like this is now flagged and destined for the micro-transaction packs to optimise profit.


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How else are they going to sell the thing? The cossies are alright but hardly ground-breaking in any way and there's not much else there, no fun throwaway powers (Fortune is actually pretty damn good though, I've used it a lot on lowbie PuGs to random-buff my teamies).

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I agree, it would be much better to see this sort of thing in-game.

The Zombie Invasion is +chance of anyway after handing in Halloween costume salvage. The price of which had recently skyrocketed, but the other night was really quiet so with the help of a friend tried to instigate a Zombie Invasion...

Several Million Inf later... nothing.

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Weird aside : I saw a Zombie Invasion alert for Firebase Zulu last week, which struck me as a bit odd.

I love the idea of custom NPC bosses & critters running to and from the banks to do heists etc. With all the Player Built critters in the MA at the mo it'd be great if the dev team could choose a bunch of their favourites for this (they all scale 1-54 too so could be made zone appropriate fairly easily).

Leverage the User Generated content the MA has given them a bit more.

Ice or Sonics would probably be better than Rad. My teen Rad/Pain had a lot of issues getting much too much aggro from the AOEs and thus dying, often thanks to the "Cannot Heal Self" flag the uber-heal gives you for 15 seconds (pity the Heal Aura isn't a Regen one like the MM version, at least you'd keep some form of self-healing with it).

Ice has nice single target damage, slows and the 2 holds to act as mitigation. Plus Ice Storm for when you do want to cut lose with the AOEs.