Carnifax

The Death Goggles are cool and I've seen some nice uses of the lab coats on female models on that US but I'm not really too pushed on this, which is good. It'll save me some cash.

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Edit : Also is there any reason they couldn't attach a second AOE fear effect to the Spectral Terror summoning power if Domination was running?

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The effect of domination is coded individually into each power, it does a check to see if "domination" is active. I.e. it doesn't work like Power Boost. Since the spectral terror is a seperate entity to the dominator, it can't know if domination is up or not.


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I know that, that's exactly what I'm saying, modify the Domis Spectral Terror Summoning power to give it a Domination-checked extra effect.

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You could code the power to summon two Spectral Terrors if domination where up I guess.

Or indeed a larger Phantom Army.

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Not two spectral terrors, more like a one-off 16 second AOE Fear effect, so the summoning power is boosted by Domination in a way.

I like the idea of extra PAs if you're in Domination too, that'd be cool (but unlikely to happen).

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I'd rather have it that they converted Illusion Control into a MM primary


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Masterminds are getting Demons though. Stop being greedy

Hmmm, I'm in the "lots" camp too but I can narrow it down to 3 (or 4)

Carnifax herself. My first 50. A tiny little imp of a thing but capable of throwing out masses of chaos (Illusion/Storm). I always get a kick out of the mayhem she can cause.

Dark Quasar, my level 50 triform WS. From level 20 onwards she was a joy to play and level. So many tricks and options.

Black Abomination : Dark/WP Brute. What happens when a Necromancer gets jealous of a Thugs Bruiser and decides to make one of his own. You get an unkillable tattooed rampaging zombie.

I reckon Illusion Control would be fine as is.

More to the point I think it'd be overpowered if one of the Invises was dropped in favour of another AOE control power, especially a AOE Fear one. You could double / triple stack fears with 2 powers (thanks to the way Spectral Terror works).

Give Spectral Terror grant a good chunk of Domipoints (what are they called?) when summoned, ditto with PAs and maybe drop the animation time of Deceive a bit to allow it to be used more as a staple control power.

Edit : Also is there any reason they couldn't attach a second AOE fear effect to the Spectral Terror summoning power if Domination was running?

My favourite tri-form WS guide (and the most up to date) is This one on the US servers. Helped me a lot in deciding what to get and slot.

From my own experiences playing my WS:

Drop Medicine and Stamina. They only work in Human Form and you don't need them as long as you've got corpses to feed Stygian Circle. SC only really needs 1 or 2 slots I've found, End Red and a Recharge (that way it's up when you need it and you have the End to fire it).

Get Sunless Mire at level 12, basically it gives you a massive damage boost for 30 seconds. Miring & then going into Nova gives you huge amounts of AOE Death. AOE Death is good. 1 acc & 3 recharge in this Mire.

Gravity Well is your hardest hitting Human form attack (bar the nuke) slot it for Acc, Dam and some recharge. Since it's also a hold it's great using it on a Lieut or Quant / Void.

Gravity Emination is pretty useful too. It's a cone knockback (boo) and stun (yay). Opening up with it and knocking & stunning things into a wall is useful, followed by a Mire, Gravity Well on the toughest target (hardest hitting single target attack now with boosted damage from the Mire. Yum), switch to squid mode and fly straight up and use the mire-boosted AOEs on the stunned bunch.

Eclipse ignore the End Mods, they aren't really needed. 1 acc, 2 Resist, 3 recharge and it'll cap you off 5 enemies and be up as much as possible.

Unchain Essence is fun, I got it in the 40s. It's a mini-nuke. Eclipse -> Mire -> Dwarf -> Dwarf Mire -> Human Unchain Essence is a great combo (followed by a Grav Well on a choice target). You can do the same with Quasar too, the trick is to max out their damage by stacking Human and Dwarf Mires (human form mire lasts 30 seconds, dwarf only 10 so try and fire off Human first).

Black Dwarf Drain should have at least 1 acc & 3 heal, it makes you a lot tougher when you decide to tank for your fluffies (or teammates).

Black Dwarf Mire, 1 acc, 1-2 dam, 3 recharge. You'll be spamming this while in Lobster Form and it turns you into a proper Scranker, especially on teams. 3 recharge means it's perma and your single target attacks will hit hard. Combine with Hasten and it can boost it's own damage (which is why I go for Recharge over Damage).

I like having as many Extracted Essenses out as possible so I go 1 Acc, 2 dam and 3 Recharge. The End Red isn't needed (all hail Stygian Circle).

Inky Aspect doesn't really need a Recharge. A stun is probably best (it doesn't actually cost that much End to run).

Nova form itself is overslotted for my tastes. I think I had 1 End Mod (or End Red, can't remember which) in it and left it at that. Slots are too precious to spend on Flight Speed IMO.

Off to the Americans? Cool, their boards are currently far more lively, especially the AT ones.

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The XP buff will be whored

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XP Buff? - I thought Marriage was universally acknowledged to be an XP drain *Badoomtish* - Maybe it could be worked out to function like an XP Levelling pact albeit with the 'Ball and Chain' badge.


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All fun and games until the lesbian catgirls start demanding equal rights and march on City Hall calling for same sex (but different species) Civil Unions.

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And whats wrong with Catgirls... <snip>


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Just about everything!

All fun and games until the lesbian catgirls start demanding equal rights and march on City Hall calling for same sex (but different species) Civil Unions.

Hi folks,
Sorry about being so quiet for the last few weeks. Recovery from operation is taking longer than I thought and up to my ears in RL stuff too boot.

Sorry I couldn't make it to the team, sounds like you guys are having a hoot. Did manage to make my MA arc origin story before I went in and refined it a bit now but the game has lost it's appeal since I got out so don't think I'll be able to join you now.

If you get bored (shameless plug time) the arc is listed on CoG. Quick throw-away thing, only takes about 20 mins.

Good luck with the team, sounds like you guys are having a great time.

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Opera mini can't connect to coh forums. Ghostraptor said he would poke around but nothing happened and operas support monkeys couldn't be arsed to answer my mails.

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Yeah, I've had trouble with it too recently. Weird because it did use to work, really well too. Now it just throws a Java Connection Exception a lot of the time.

There is a new version of the browser out, my phone prompted me to install it earlier in the week but I haven't gotten around to it yet so I dunno if it works any better.

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Can i just say.

In the nicest possible way I hate you

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After that I sorta hate me too.

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Tbh i skimmed it, i'm on my phone since my internet is down and don't want to read 10 pages on the [censored] nokia browser.

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Have you tried the Opera Mobile Browser? I use it on my mobile a bit, it's a fair bit better than the Nokia one on my phone.

It has a bit of a love/hate relationship with these forums though due to time-outs. Think it's a combo of sometimes having long load times here and short connection-timeout limits on the browser.

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so its in GR then?

cool

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Eeeew, what?

Oh, the expansion, not the former Mod. I see. Carry on.

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Ok i'm confused now. There's too much going on. Why not concentrate on playing 1 team before creating 600 different theme teams

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It's Ok. We've sedated Knightly now and restrained him

Medieval is the team theme

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true - no offence meant if your regarding myself.

just being in the spirit of the thread lol

my lifestyle is such that my main occupation is doing precisely this and gaming. not that im paid for it but that i am limited to it. practically the only pleasure i have until it was all made futile by the devs revoking badges and therefore negating my time on here.


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But they're only revoking MA Badges, there are still tonnes of non-MA ones. Obviously I dunno how many you've got etc but there tonnes which ain't going anywhere.

And then there's always good old Altitis to fall back on. That's the bane of my gaming life and my main CoX addiction (must.... not.... go.... to.... AT.... forums).

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all is not lost

http://www.onlive.com/index.html

winter 2009

[/ QUOTE ]lol OnLive, enjoy your vapourware.


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Winter 2009. Cool, at least we don't have to wait Duke Nukem lengths of time for it

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Riiight. And no-one is going near the Hunting badges for non MA enemies, groups or achievements.

So what exactly is your point?

[/ QUOTE ]my point was you stated you did see something wrong with BH for 10 hours and i tried to tell you, there are people out there that will BH for 10/+ for badges in one form or another not to be half listen to

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No, I was saying there's probably something wrong with playing 10 hours every day.

Other than sleep I can't think of one thing that's healthy to do for 10 hours every day (maybe one thing, but you'd end up all chaffed and probably rather bored after a while ).

[/ QUOTE ]and there are people that go total nuts when DXP is on and play for all 3 days straight just to get the most out of DXP and that is different to 10 hours >.>

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I certainly wouldn't consider that healthy at all

My initial point was that Kiss said "here is my 10 hours per day".

I was slightly taking the mick pointing out that 10 hours of anything per day (other than sleeping and, granted, its opposite state) is probably excessive. Especially playing computer games.

You can disagree by all means (without swearwords and name-calling would be nice though or the thread will get locked).

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so - being awake for 10 hours a day cannot be any good for you - spending 10 hours a day at work cannot be any good for you. YOU ARE OUT OF YOUR DEPTH

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I assume you do stuff while awake? Aka it's not exactly doing the one thing for 10 hours straight

10 hours work a day every day certainly isn't good for you.

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Riiight. And no-one is going near the Hunting badges for non MA enemies, groups or achievements.

So what exactly is your point?

[/ QUOTE ]my point was you stated you did see something wrong with BH for 10 hours and i tried to tell you, there are people out there that will BH for 10/+ for badges in one form or another not to be half listen to

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No, I was saying there's probably something wrong with playing 10 hours every day.

Other than sleep I can't think of one thing that's healthy to do for 10 hours every day (maybe one thing, but you'd end up all chaffed and probably rather bored after a while ).

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sure if you dont mind losing any votes.

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Indeed, in terms of rotating arcs. Of course if the new arc is likely to get a lot of people who liked & rated your first arc previously it could be well worthwhile anyway in terms of net tickets (if you're going for tickets) or just because you like the new story you came up with.

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you cant actually post more than 3 missions carnifax so what is the point of making more than 4 or 5.

(despite my other 6 in development(none of which are farming))

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Well since you CAN post more than 3 if your Arc gets enough ratings and gets elevated to Devs Choice or Hall of Fame there's plenty of point in (a) making more than 3 and (b) Clearing out the farming [censored] so people can easily access and rate good stories.

Plus even if you don't make HoF you can easily rotate which ones are published if you make a nice new arc you want people to try.

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thats a good point. measuring ones worth?

the fact is you, I and everyone here is just 1's and 0's and variations and multiples of.

another fact, my tenner each month is worth as much as any other players. here paragon studios is my tenner. now here is my 10 hours per day. i got all these lovely rewards. ooh you mean you really are taking my rewards off me.

ok - paragon studios worth to me, "rip off waste of lots of time".

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You play 10 hours a day soley to earn badges?

You don't see a problem with that?

[/ QUOTE ]no i don't if you find that fun then so be it, i gone around cap for grelmings, gear, hordling, MU, goldbrickers for hours , then i move onto mercy to farm skulls and then maybe to port to farm ghost, hellions and family and then off to st for tsoo the other familiy and DE. and i can spend over for over a little reward as a badge with no xp/inf/prest/recieps and salavge, and i had never bugged anyone to join me in helping me in farming these badges

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You see that's where the crux of the issue lies in this case. The MA badges which are being removed are being removed because the Farming associated is causing the MA system to be clogged with crud, turning legimate MA Story players off it, and worse, driving Authors away as they see the arcs they spent weeks crafting lost and adrift in a sea of crappy "Clik a million things and kil the Aliens" arcs which take about 5 minutes to create.

[/ QUOTE ][censored] hello im talking about street kill in areas in villain side not the stupid MA thing. so you can try to pin it on me about all the MA arc are my fault but you can stick it up your [censored] right now as you can see that im talking about street kills as i meant areas and enemy groups

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Riiight. And no-one is going near the Hunting badges for non MA enemies, groups or achievements.

So what exactly is your point?

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i forget - YOU know my personal situation @all knowing carnifax@

you might see a problem with that if YOU did it.

NOT I you judgemental SOB

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I'd see a problem with anyone playing anything for 70 hours a week to be honest. Judgemental, sure. Why not! Doesn't make the judgement any less valid.

You need to switch your keyboard from US to UK by the way.

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thats a good point. measuring ones worth?

the fact is you, I and everyone here is just 1's and 0's and variations and multiples of.

another fact, my tenner each month is worth as much as any other players. here paragon studios is my tenner. now here is my 10 hours per day. i got all these lovely rewards. ooh you mean you really are taking my rewards off me.

ok - paragon studios worth to me, "rip off waste of lots of time".

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You play 10 hours a day soley to earn badges?

You don't see a problem with that?

[/ QUOTE ]no i don't if you find that fun then so be it, i gone around cap for grelmings, gear, hordling, MU, goldbrickers for hours , then i move onto mercy to farm skulls and then maybe to port to farm ghost, hellions and family and then off to st for tsoo the other familiy and DE. and i can spend over for over a little reward as a badge with no xp/inf/prest/recieps and salavge, and i had never bugged anyone to join me in helping me in farming these badges

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You see that's where the crux of the issue lies in this case. The MA badges which are being removed are being removed because the Farming associated is causing the MA system to be clogged with crud, turning legimate MA Story players off it, and worse, driving Authors away as they see the arcs they spent weeks crafting lost and adrift in a sea of crappy "Clik a million things and kil the Aliens" arcs which take about 5 minutes to create.

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thats a good point. measuring ones worth?

the fact is you, I and everyone here is just 1's and 0's and variations and multiples of.

another fact, my tenner each month is worth as much as any other players. here paragon studios is my tenner. now here is my 10 hours per day. i got all these lovely rewards. ooh you mean you really are taking my rewards off me.

ok - paragon studios worth to me, "rip off waste of lots of time".

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You play 10 hours a day soley to earn badges?

You don't see a problem with that?