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Quote:Time. These things take time to develop and refine. Even Earth Assault took a while to refine (some would say too cautiously, a lot of the potentially cool powers like Fissure and Mud Pots got pretty gutted) and that was pretty much rehashed powers to a large extent.Originally Posted by MeleeMadness
I know the devs think DM has a lot of control powers, well then, allow DOMs the ability to use it as a primary!
I know that is silly and will never happen but!
What about dark assault? There is soooo much out there that they don't have to create a darn thing. Using Smite, Gloom, touch of fear, Midnights Grasp and Siphon Life as well as the powers from Ghost Widow. There is so much for them to choose from. It would be the easiest assault set to make.
There has to be a reason it hasn't been done but what is that reason?
And with Dark it's the sort of thing which should probably get Dark Control first before Dark Assault. -
Quote:Originally Posted by JayboH
Look for a fix very, very soon.
I want to know why some people still think TA is weak. It sooo is not. If anything it is under-rated.
It's distinctly average and very late-blooming. Especially compared to the other debuff sets (well Cold is also late-blooming but Cold is nastier in terms of what debuffs it has as well). -
Quote:Huzzah!! My work here is done.Originally Posted by Nos482
Well thank you, now I can´t get that song out of my head...it will probably be stuck there for the next couple of days.
Dance your cares away,
worries for another day.
Let the music play,
down at Fraggle Rock.
Although if it's any consolation I've got the theme tune for Trapdoor going through my head (damn you Landrig!) -
Quote:Stone/DA sounds like a nightmare in terms of End Management.Originally Posted by Shadowpuff
My DM/DA is lvl 50. I had fun getting her there and the survivability is good. But her damage is low. SM/DA sounds fun. Which other primary would work well?
My DM/WP is probably the most unkillable character I have, especially once he gets going. He survived Sigil and 2 other Lost Bosses whaling on him, conning as +2s (I missed the Pariah and Sigil in the spawn) without any Insps in his mid-20s. Single-target damage is sick too (and you can shore up AOE damage with the Mu APP). -
Quote:They ignore Enhancements & Buffs though, was thinking of maybe slotting for it & Psi Resist in Foresight.Originally Posted by AkuTenshiiZero
That's what Mid's says, yes. Unless Combat Training: Defensive works the same way, I dunno.
EDIT: Aha! Mystery solved. Man, that's going to get interesting running both at the same time... -
Quote:Is it the scaling resistance which goes up as your Health falls? (although I though it was Foresight which provided that).Originally Posted by AkuTenshiiZero
I'm new to the SoA gig, I rolled my first Widow last night. And right off the bat, this power is confusing me...
The 7.5% Melee Defense is obvious enough, but what's this "Special Resistance" about? When I first rolled the character, I had something in the neighborhood of 11% Resistance to everything. But after a few levels, it was gone. At first I thought it was dependant on number of teammates, but that proved false.
So what gives? Why did my Resistance vanish?
*Edit : Yes, it seems to be. See here. This power and Foresight both provide it. -
Quote:Originally Posted by EU_Damz
I have always wondered why no body else has done anything like this lately
surely would be an awesome show!
Wow, reading Wikipedia it turns out Knightmare was part inspired by one of my favourite ever Speccy games, Atic Atac! -
Quote:End Recovery / End Reduction, at least until you get into the 20s and get both Stamina and Consume (which you want ASAP). My Stone/Fire was the most horrific burner of End I've ever come across.Originally Posted by Bohmfalk
Could I get some tips on what to build for with my stone/fire brute?
Building Fury can be difficult too since a lot of your attacks are slow to recharge (but quick to animate) and a lot of the time your enemies are wandering around stunned or getting off the ground. So two quick-recharging attacks (Stone Fist and Air Sup for example) are a good idea. By the same token lots of recharge in the mallets & Seismic and/or lots of Global Recharge is good. Means those heavy hitters recharge quicker, as does Healing Flames. If you can get some Slow Protection IOs or bonuses then do as well, -Recharge debuffs do evil things to a Stone/Fire Brute.
Lastly be aware that Burn doesn't play well with Fury, if you look at Mids the damage listed there when you've got high fury is incorrect. This is because Burn takes 10 seconds to put out that damage, but the inherited damage from Fury only sticks around for the first 2 seconds.
So Recovery and Recharge are good. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Tal_N
They still haven't nerfed fire/kin controllers as the master farmers of the world?
Nope, other than the across-the-board "Pets now have a fixed recharge" change I mentioned in your Ill/Storm guide. Also Imps now spawn at -1.
Neither change is particularly noticeable on my Fire/Rad though. -
Quote:Knightmare.Originally Posted by EU_Damz
Never heard that show The Fraggles to be honest
Shows i watched when i was young were
Red Dwarf [just bought series 8! Yes the one with a giant dinosaur in!]
Dinosaurs
The original power rangers [before it just got stupid]
Crystal Maze
This virtual reality dungeon and dragon tv show which made you look like the contestants were actually there and had to be guided by voices [cant remember the name]
It rocked -
Pets & Pseudo-pets no longer benefit from Recharge bonuses. This means Set IOs with Recharge in them won't make Lightning Storm or Phantie shoot faster. By the same token LS won't benefit from Hasten or any other Recharge boosts who have when running. In PvP I'm fairly sure Toggle Dropping has been abolished.
Epic Power Pools have been boosted and have 5 powers in each now. You can get the details on the Red Tomax site which now lives on The Titan Network -
Quote:Clangers! Yay!! That and Bagpuss were my two favourites when I was really little.Originally Posted by Nuclea
Meh I was expecting something like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69vO9ScXLV4 or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfsMZKwqw3w
Now I feel really old
As for the OP, I wouldn't be citing that as an example of a good quality kids show. If you'd gone with The Fraggles or Sesame Street I'd be in full agreement. -
My friend was at this, with his 4 year old son. The son was dressed as Batman (and looks well cool), my mate was dressed as Robin (because he's a weirdo).
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Quote:Originally Posted by Local_Man
Tal_N was a frequent poster on the Controller boards, and wrote an awesome Illusion/Storm Guide . . . in fact, one of the best guides ever posted. I made my Ill/Storm because of his guide. All kinds of detailed information not otherwise available. I learned a lot from him, and used a lot when writing my own Illusion/Radiation guide.
I, for one, am happy to see ya back.
I agree. Ages ago I wrote an Illusion/Storm guide myself EU side. Then one day I went onto the US boards and I read Tals and went "damn it!!". Everything that needed to be said was said in Tals in a much better way than mine. So I let mine slide into obscurity (and wrote a Grav/TA one instead).
Welcome back Tal_N and thanks for the guide* -
Would sticking the "Does not stack from same caster" flag onto Rage fix the double-rage no-crash issue and make the set perform more as designed and remove the issue?
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Quote:That'd be my preferred option too, but it's a shedload of work. I'm not sure the NCSoft bean-counters would be impressed by such an expense.Originally Posted by Coin
Still not perfect though, badgers in particular wouldn't be happy having to redo all their characters and not being able to get hold of the anniversary badges again.
I still maintain the best answer was the one someone else had earlier. Add 4 new servers to the US list, call them the same names and do a blanket copy of everything that's on the EU servers. Then close the EU ones down. As the meerkat says, simples.
That way, no one loses any access, badges, accounts, anything. The ONLY issue I can see is in a globla name conflict and that can be sorted with either a rename or a EU adding to the end of it. Give players the choice. I can't even see it affecting the RP players either as my understanding is that it's the toon that they RP, not the account.
Hell, I'd even be happy to have a few days/a week off from the game while they implement it. Ideally, it shouldn't take too long as it's just a transfer of data which they can obviously access already, but even if they needed to transfer the dtata physically, I'd be happy to wait!
Come on, people, you know it makes sense!
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Quote:This. The third option would be good, give us the option of paying one fee and gaining access to both sides of the pond, an Account merger rather than a server list one.Originally Posted by Bull Throttle
Then let me convert my EU account into a NA account, with all my retail codes and veteran time intact; stick all my characters in limbo and give me a transfer token for each one.
or
Let me transfer characters between my EU & NA accounts under the same Master Account - NA players transferred to the EU servers in the past, so this must be technically possible, surely?
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Give everyone with a EU account a free NA account on the same NCSoft Master Account and make Vet rewards apply to Master Accounts - heck give everyone with an NA account a free EU one too.
or
Something else, anything. Just please stop ignoring the problem until all the EU players have gone.
EU to US transfers would also be great. -
Quote:No, they'll say "City of what? Going What? Never heard of them. We do have the expansions for WoW and Conan though."Originally Posted by Mortuary
I assume due to this great tie-in between Gamestop & CoH that when I go to my local http://www.gamestop.ie/ store in town I will be able to pre-order and get these goodies to use on my EU account?
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Quote:That was just an example. There's lots of things they could have announced for purchases of the full EU package and announced it in parallel with the GameStop announcement which wouldn't have affected exclusivity.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Well, they've not actually said that won't happen - but when you're marketing something as exclusive, it's probably not a good idea to point out that it'll also be available in a non-exclusive way later
Check out the wording of the "exclusive" offer - there's lots of wiggle room
Instead nada, and Avatea has to post another "We're looking into things for you" post. Thats poor management and poor PR (not on Avs behalf, but on those formulating and coordinating these campaigns).
I certainly can't see any reason for a potential new EU player to purchase an EU version of the game. -
Quote:By the same token this announcement can hardly have taken them by surprise, it's obviously a preplanned marketing and development campaign,Originally Posted by EU_Damz
We all understand and know that an opportunity like this should never be passed up. More advertising is more advertising at the end of the day and only good for the game/business.
So how come there's nothing in place already to act as compensation / an alternative to EU players?
It's obvious that such an opportunity is great for the game in the US, but why weren't any parallel plans for the EU also formulated and announced at the same time? Even if they were as simple as "These IOs will also be available to any EU player purchasing or pre-purchasing GR directly from our store".
Instead the EU gamers get "jam tomorrow, maybe" -
The subtitle of this forum gets more and more bitterly ironic with every announcement, doesn't it?
I'm sure Av, War Witch or Black Pebble will be along in a couple of days to tell us any concerns have been "passed along" to whomever or whatever they all report to (/dev/null I'm guessing)
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They're PROCs with DO levels which stop working at 20?
Meh, that's alright so. Thought you were going the Dragon Age route where you got as-good / better items from spending cash / pre-ordering than you get live.
Standard practice nowadays but I'll order when it goes live thanks. -
I was going to suggest Grav/TA as I agree with you, it's a very solid combo. But you've beaten me to it
Out-of-left-field suggestion is the Controller I made US side : Plant/Emp.
Totally different to my other 3 controllers (Illusion/Storm, Fire/Rad & Grav/TA) and excellent on teams. Very early control and you feel like you're really contributing to teams (something which Grav/TA can lack if the team is steamrollering I found).
Yes you've to buff a fair bit but it's kinda neat and a bit different. Plant means you can confuse things, lock them down and keep up with buffing without feeling dedicated to it or enslaved by it.
Or an Illusion/Stormie. They're not like Grav/TA in any way really but you do get some excellent off-the-wall control and lots and lots of chaos. Very different from the usual Controller style of play -
The tool falls over sometimes. PMing a Mod (Ocho or Av) or sending a Petition usually does the trick, someone goes over and kicks the hamster cage.
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Remove the -ToHit from Twilight Grasp and stick it into Dark Servant. In fact try and max out his -ToHit, he does tonnes of it.
Take Tar Patch much earlier. The -Resist in it is much more useful than say the Damage boost from Assault.*
Take Fearsome Stare earlier, in the early 20s. It's that good.
Howling Twilight is a godly power. It's not just a rez, it's an autohit AOE stun as well and a decent -regen for dealing with EBs and AVs. The fact it brings people back to life is almost incidental.
Personally I'd leave Assault and Tactics off until the 40s and get the AOE controls & Tar Patch instead. They're incredibly useful.
* Don't be afraid of frankenslotting IOs either. -ToHit/Recharge IOs are excellent in Fluffy (Dark Servant) and dirt cheap usually. You can have a perma-Fluffy who floors things -ToHit by slotting a few of them. His Heal is also the Defender version (he's the Defender version in general) so he works well in terms of healing any pets who are near him (Demons like melee). Summoning DS in the middle of a spawn means any pets who close to melee are basically well protected, especially once you Fearsome Stare and Darkest Night them too (and then dump Tar Patch on them). Then you can focus on whipping things and basically be untouchable and things will be taking 60% more damage (75% if you've got Assault running too).