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Quote:3rd post answers that question, at least from the OPs point of view (I already asked it). Not saying I agree 100% with his answer but it has already come up.Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
All I was really saying is:
If there's no balance problem....why don't we have it already?
And....if Epic ATs are already like this.....why do you want another AT that does the exact same thing? -
My Plant/Emp doesn't have it, or Absorb Pain. No-one has ever complained at all. And I play exclusively on PuGs with her. There were more appealing options for her so I took them instead.*
My Fire/Rad controller also skipped Mutate initially. But took it as his "throw away" power on my second respec (previous entries were Bonfire and Smoke).
Howling Twilight isn't a rez, it's am AOE Stun and Debuff, which has the unfortunate side effect of bringing people back from the dead
*(I've taken it on my MM and my Dark/Sonic defender and tend to use it as a backup mez or for AVs).*
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My plan is to take advantage of another i17 perk and start a Widow/Fort. Lots of AOE, control and AOE Defense Buffs for the entire party. Plus she can stand back a bit and AOE Blast rather than running into what will be a very packed melee range which would probably hammer my framerate.
* My only concern is that she'll be rather like the Ice/Psi I'm currently playing, but at range. But then that may not be a bad thing considering how much I enjoy my Dom. -
Quote:Only because of Drain Psyche really, I already pointed it out as a problematic power in my first post. Switch it with Aim, problem solved.Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
No, actually the numbers are the same on Scrappers and Brutes. Stalkers differ a little because they lose a power to get Hide, but Scrapper and Brute SR is the same except for power order.
The ONLY difference between a scrapper and a brute (in sets they share) is a brute has higher caps, the base values are identical. Brutes split the difference in that they have scrapper base numbers with tanker caps, and they can't reach those caps without outside assistance. Also, blasters have the same caps for resistance as scrappers, they just can't even get close to it (actually, I think every AT except tanks and brutes have the same resistance caps)
Besides, I can just hear the whining about how "The defenses on this new AT don't have the same numbers as the others with the sets! We want SCRAPPER SR, not this gimped version!"
I love how it never occurs to the people asking for these ATs that if it wasn't overpowered and imbalanced we'd probably already have it.
Seriously, they scrapped the "take any powers you want" mold in the first beta for the game because people were making characters exactly like what is being described here. And when the devs decided to implement the AT system, guess what combination was missing? Yup....the ranged/defense combination. Because it is inherently imbalanced to have a character type with strong ranged ability and strong defenses.
Imagine how overpowered the combination of, say, Psi Assault/Dark Armor would become at high levels.
SR and Shields would probably also be an issue, so omit them from the sets. Ice Armour and Energy Armour could probably be copied across instead, it'd be more thematic with the primaries anyway (they'd probably require a little work as part of the process to ensure they aren't imbalanced).
Human form PBs and Warshades make a mockery of the idea that a set consisting of ranged attacks, melees attacks and a Armour set secondary would be overpowered automatically. A small amount of rejigging would avoid such issues.
Mind you without a reason for the AT to exist or a proposed inherent I don't see what the AT is really for. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Black Pebble
You guys gave it to me.
Win!
Your ruining our image of you*, who are we going to cast into the role of the shadowy evil ones now? The janitoral department? Stationary (curse their pen counting ways).
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Hi and welcome (well not welcome since you've probably been scrying upon us using foul and neferious means, or do you use Firefox rather than IE
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Why the name Black Pebble, just as a random question. -
Quote:^This (good idea on the dust bunnies as well).Originally Posted by Back_Blast
Win 7 is in my opinion, what Vista should have been a long time ago. Anyways, so far as I know, yes you can upgrade Vista to 7. Me, I'd do the clean install anyways. It's more trouble since you do have to back up and reinstall stuff but a clean install can and typically will perform better. With an upgrade, you generally get to keep everything in place so it is 'simpler' but there's no housekeeping so all the accumulated junk from old programs, drivers, and whatnot is still there, potentially clogging the machine and slowing performance. Think of a clean install as an opportunity to do some spring cleaning on your system. You can install fresh drivers, ditch old programs and files you never use any more and otherwise refresh your system. While you're at it, take the time to actually clean the machine itself. Open it up and get the dust bunnies out, etc. It's more trouble, but I think it well worth the time.
Planning to dump Vista and pop Windows 7 and Linux Mint (which I've just previewed and thrown onto a bootable USB) onto a nice new shiney 500Gb drive this evening on my laptop. The HD, OS and USB just arrived by courier today*
Of course I did manage one screw-up so far, the external HD cradle I got for the old disk to go into is IDE, not SATA. I'm an idiot!! -
Quote:Originally Posted by dave_p
This thread reminds me how much I miss the ignore list.
Miss it? Eh? It still exists you know.
Click on an offenders name, View Public Profile and click the little down arrow beside "User Lists" and it's in the pop-up menu.
If you don't thank me I'll assume I'm your first victim*
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I could see some issues with SR and Shields, and maybe with Willpower and Regen (although if the HP pool of the new set is somewhere between Domi and Blaster levels not so much maybe).*
From the Assault sets it really depends on the Ranged and Melee modifiers for them, Khelds and Soldiers already have mixed ranged and melee attacks plus defenses and they aren't that unbalanced (? over Crab Soldiers perhaps).
The only really troublesome power I can see from glancing at the Domi Assault sets is Drain Psyche. And the fact Power Boost would be basically useless (replace it with Aim I guess). -
Quote:I see what you mean. To fully flesh out the idea I think you need to add an inherent which sets the AT apart a bit from others and gives it a bit more of a unique slant as a hook. No idea what to suggest off the top of my head though, avoiding a "Charge Bar" would probably be a good idea as it's already a bit of a Domi/Brute clone.Originally Posted by Psiphon
I understand what you mean upto a point.
The reasons that I would be interested in a new AT like this are:
Theme/Concept - EATS/VEATS are very limited in appearance and power choice. Personally this is the big one and the reason that I've never been able to make an Epic AT.
Levelling - As you shown by your Claws/Elec/Mu, epics allow access to ranged damage for melee types and melee for ranged. This is very late game though and is fine if you play mainly at L50. For those that enjoy levelling, access to both ranged and melee damage early on would make for gameplay not currently offered by other AT's. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Psiphon
Basically looking at a new damage AT.
Primary - Damage
Port over Dominator's Assault secondary.
Secondary - Defence/Resistance
Scrapper Secondary.
The idea is to make an AT that can play in melee and range and have medium/high damage with the benfits of mez protection and good defence/resistance.
The primary would need to have the powers modified to account for damage verses risk.
Ranged powers do less damage.
Melee does more damage.
With the right modification of the primary it would allow people to make the Iron Man type character that does a mix of range and melee damage without being overpowered.
I'm not sure to be honest. It just doesn't seem that unique to me compared to other ATs, especially taking Epic Powers and the EATs into account. I mean my Claws/Elec/Mu Brute comes close to this already, as can Crabs, Huntsman, Forts, Peacebringers and Warshades.
Obviously the EATs are more thematically limited which could matter to some people but other ATs can use Epic Pools, Power Pools and IOs to achieve the same things sorta too.
It's a workable idea and could be balanced, I just don't see it offering much of a unique playstyle really. What would be the proposed Inherent? -
Quote:Which side, Red or Blue? Recipies or Crafted.Originally Posted by PL_Beggar
25 mil for a karma knockback
50 mil for a steath (running) ?????
am I to assume getting I/O's involves farming drops and merits>? Too expensive to buy with influence?
Red Side is a little screwy usually and more so now because of MMs raking it in via an AE bug which was exploited.
Mind you Karmas are low level Bronze rolls, I usually buy them with tickets from running a few MA story arcs and get them fairly quickly. -
Hibernate on an Illusion/Storm for sure. You throw out all your pets and patches, your End takes a hammering, you Hibernate up to Rest safely and your myriad of pets and pseudos continue to work away for you. Works really, really well.
True that you can't run away but it's still a decent "Oh poop" emergency power. If stuff is still clustered around you trying to rip you apart click Hurricane and then unclick Hibernate (it should queue up Hurricane and then when you untoggle Hibernate it immediately kicks in. Or at least it used to). I've falled into 8 man spawns of Malta and survived thanks to that combo (that horrible "Rescue the CoT from the Malta" mission... Urrgh!) -
Quote:Yes, but rather quietly. There's been no drama at all.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
No she hasn't. Just do a search of her name and you'll see she's still posting in threads.
*Loses 1d100 SAN*Quote:Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Actually you have to say the name of the one who will not be named three times to summon it.
Like . . .
Hastur, Hastur, Hastur.
Raaaaaaaaawwwwwwrrrrr!
Oh damn.
Actually no offense to the artist but that's not going to cause me to lose 1d100 SAN at all. It looks like an Ewok in a hoodie. (the joys of HP Lovecraft art. It's far easier to WRITE "unfathomable, noisome horror from beyond the stars" than it is to draw one. -
Quote:Actually what happened to P_P, she's been very quiet recently...Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
True. We do have our share of people who can't take criticism, and our share of jerks who were abusing the system because they thought they could be rude with impunity. We also had a few like P_P who loudly complained whenever anyone neg repped her.
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Quote:Tone down the damage? Somethings wrong somewhere if a Masterminds attacks need to be toned down for a Domi, surely?Originally Posted by MentalMidget
Well after playing Demon Summoning, Whips doesn't seem to be a far off leap for an assault set.....probably would need to tone down the damage for Doms, but seems doable.
Seriously to think even if it is hard to animate, they had to believe that there would be requests to make it available for other AT's (DP as an example). So they may have animated many more attacks that just the ones released for MM.
One would think...... -
Quote:Given that they haven't released any other information I'd say at the moment it's "Does it work" and "Does it work as well / better than the other server or is their lag or other issues".Originally Posted by Ozmosis
3 Pages to this thread and we still don't know what were supposed to be testing?...
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Quote:* With Brutes slotting for End is more important than slotting for damage, especially before SOs. A Brute doesn't need to slot for damage before level 22 really, Fury does the work for them. Afterwards I'd usually keep 1 End in every attack and slot the rest for Acc, Recharge and Damage (depending on the powers themselves). They're a lot more interesting to slot than Scrappers / Tanks IMO.Originally Posted by PrincessDarkstar
I would definately suggest a scrapper. The difficulty remains roughly the same throughout all the levels right up to 50 so you won't really find a time when you feel weak, unlike I feel most other AT's give you.
Brutes are similar, but even then I feel they get hit with a stamina crunch much more since they can't stop to catch their breath like scrappers.
18-26 usually is a bit rougher for them, level drops and at 20 you go to Scrapyarder territory. "A bit rougher" is relative though, they're still really, really good at soloingQuote:MM's are great solo, but face a power drop at some point I think in the 20's when mobs get harder and suddenly their pets drop a level.
My Domi didn't really click until 22. Now she's a bit of a beast. Dominators have nearly as bad a Slot Crunch as Warshades (so many priority powers, too few slots until at least the mid 30s).Quote:
Other AT's I think are fun to solo, but can die easily which can cause frustration, something you don't want if you are on limited time. -
Quote:I love pacifist Empaths on my team. Shows my Plant/Emp in an even better light. (had one on a Citadel TF who dropped on the last mission and none of us even noticed until the mission completed).*Picking the Medicine Pool on your Empath instead of attacks should be a shootable offense.Originally Posted by Sailboat
That's an argument against getting lost in your attack chain, not an argument for being a "pacifist" empath with no attacks. Based on my PUG experiences, I could just as easily argue that "pacifist" empaths are probably watching Glee on the television and only occasionally glancing at their monitors. :P
Use all the tools at your disposal imo, one trick ponies tend to find themselves marginalised .
I'm wondering about your Tank on a LGTF Donna, aren't the Psi Clockwork and their daddy in the 1st mish going to cause you a lot of problems? His nuke is a PBAOE and Alpha move, isn't that going to go straight through your defenses? -
Quote:I thought it was standard practice to fly around outside a bit and then duck into the lobby anyway and wait for your new chums to come say hi.Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
i know theres other bugs with the mayhem mishs too where the hero shows up with some longbow but after you finish all them off, then you didnt complete because a huge herd of the flying longbow are flying 100 ft in the air above the bank
"Hello Bags-of-mostly-XP. I've been expecting you. As you can see I've laid out a welcoming Ice Patch in your honour".
Should do. Anything 6+ does AFAIK. If you've opted for No Bosses then they're downgraded to Lieuts, but are still Boss types (so can be Lieut Wardens and Lieut Tank Smashers and the like)Quote:Off topic, does running -1/+8 still spawn bosses? -
Quote:* Agreed, my Plant/Emp joined a team and ran the Dreck mission last night (tankless and with only 2 deaths, one being lil me who let a Tank get too close towards the start. Go team!) and it was hardly noticeable in any meaningful way, didn't slow us down at all.Originally Posted by Clouded
Last night was my first opportunity to experience this change first hand on a team of 8 versus Freakshow. Here are my thoughts...
Hardly noticeable.
Didn't notice any untargetable rezzers firing off attacks either. -
Quote:I read the questions and decided I didn't want to answer them for fear of being misrepresented. **Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker
Did it but left feeling a bit "meh"
I agree with comments by others that you're looking for answers to fit your existing hypothesis. -
Quote:Jeez, those T-shirts look just as cheap and knocked-off as the zazzle ones.Originally Posted by Rush_Bolt
Good rule of thumb when dealing with game related clothing: Unless it comes from the company's own store, it's probably not official.
Here is NCsoft's merchandise shop.
I see they also exist here as well. I wonder if the NCSoft Legal department are going to use the same tact and discretion (ie very little) against the Big Bang Theory producers as they have have against player-made material in the past? -
Quote:Originally Posted by Ocularis
Tanks would have to have insane smash/lethal resists. I can see it now...
scene: two soldiers inside the tank.
soldier 1: Hey did you see that game last night?
soldier 2: Oh yeah, They won big time!
<plink><plink>
Soldier 1: What was that?
Soldier 2: Huh?
Soldier 1: That sound? What was it?
<plink><plink>
Soldier 2: Oh, haha. There some archery blaster outside.
Soldier 1: ...
Soldier 2: He's been out there for an hour.
<plink><plink>
Soldier 1: What time is the game on tonight?
Soldier 1 : Hey, now he's got a weird little arrow out. Ha ha ha
<plink>
Soldier 2 : What's that dripping all over the tank? Oil? Huh?
Soldier 1 : And now he's got what? A taser? What the hell?
<whoosh>
Soldier 1 : Aaah, that's no Blaster. Quickly, drive out drive out, I'm broiling alive. He's drawing some sort of other arrow
<plink> <fizz bang crackle>
Soldier 2 : I can't. The controls are all dead. AAAAAH
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Quote:Originally Posted by je_saist
Okay, I can halfway see your point on the length of the buff, but all anti-mez powers are like that. Clear Mind lasts for 1:30, Increased Density lasts for 1:00, Clarity lasts for 1:30, O2 Boost lasts for 1:00, Thaw lasts for 1:30, and Enforced Morale also lasts for 1:30.
So, as an anti-mez power, Clear-Mind is hardly the shortest in the game. Nor do I understand the reactive use to be too late. Defenders, Controllers, Corruptors, and Masterminds are largely supposed to play from a ranged position, and allow melee types to take point position. Melee classes come with an inherent anti-mez, although it is possible for several enemy groups to over come those mezes. E.G. Council in the Moonfire Task Force can overpower a Willpower Tanks stun resistance.
Just placing the anti-mez on an ally during this time and poof, they are back in fighting position.
I'm also pretty certain the developers have made it clear that the anti-mez powers are short for balance reasons. Yes, you can keep everybody on the team anti-mezzed... but in doing so you take up time when you can be doing something else... like attacking, debuffing, other buffing, or controller.
I just 1-2 buff squishies with Fort and CM and leave it at that, unless I notice someone is actually staggering about, snoozing or holding their heads or they call it. I can barely follow who I last Fortituded and who gets it next, adding CM monitoring into the mix would just cause my brain to melt.