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I did this during the week, my level 28 Ice/Thorns domi started a team in Talos doing +1 hero tips. There were 4 of us altogether in the end
1 dropped immediately after the second spawn of +2 Arachnos beat the crap out of us, the other dropped when we wiped when, having almost tackling the spawn ANOTHER spawn aggroed and we wiped. Me and the last guy tried once more and then agreed to disband and never speak of the incident again (ahem).
Yes. I managed to create my very own car crash team of fail
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Quote:You're one of those people who finishes RPGs with 100 Potions of Heal Everything and your Staff of Hideous Agony still fully charged and unused in your inventory, aren't you Cry?Originally Posted by cryonic_EU
I can't decide if I fall into both categories or neither. I have the disposable income if I really wanted to go wild on the fluff from the marketplace, but I generally think the non sale prices are a bit OTT. I still have the majority of my 'free' points, which I'll spend when I feel the time is right, or never, whichever comes sooner!
I spent my freebies on bits and bobs, but I'm in the same boat with regards to buying points, I've plenty of disposable income but I haven't seen anything I want to spend actual cash on. -
Quote:An Eden Trial? Isn't that the trial where the monsters drop things which basically make any Defense Buffs useless? So the Time guys fancy-pants soft-cap would mean nothing?Originally Posted by shaggy5
I went on an Eden run today and brought my sonic/rad defender. They said we would go fast because they had 2 Time corrs (which I will admit are good). Then the guy says, "Oh and we have a kin, too." I mentioned that I was a sonic so I could contribute to the debuff, to which I got a "Sonic? Meh" and that attitude prevailed throughout the trial.
I understand why some people think sonic (and bubbles, too) need an overhaul, but they are hardly useless, but on my team of 8, I seemed to be the only one who thought that.
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Quote:Because they'd designed Long Range TP for Teleport already? They didn't need to add another power.Originally Posted by FredrikSvanberg
That's just fluff. The description could just as easily have said that you teleport at the enemies. It's a teleportation effect, it should be a teleport power. In fact the same power could be in both pools, just with different special effects.
It's mechanically a teleport effect, since that's the only way you can do this sort of thing, but in-game it's intended to be a jump attack (in the same way Shield Charge is a Running-charge arrack)
You want to add potentially spawn-alerting, aggro-causing damage to what was intended to be a pulling maneuver?Quote:Originally Posted by FredrikSvanberg
What kind of question is that? I'm going to answer anyway because I can't tell if you're serious: because we don't need powers that cause damage to allies.
I meant that the Teleport pool could use a real attack power like all the other travel pools have had since the start. The easiest way would be to add damage to Teleport Foe. Damage and possibly a disorient or immobilize effect. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven
Deep Space Nine? Isn't that kinda the red-headed step-child of Star Trek shows?
Yes, assuming you mean the overall series story arc was interesting and compelling, for a change. -
Quote:Not to mention all those corpses...Originally Posted by Judgement_Dave
Hmmm - 7 letters...
Is it 'like cellars'?
Mine can be quite pongy - mainly as the cat's litter tray is down there. -
I'm wondering if anyone has noticed anything off about Defender spread values? Specifically Lancer Shot doesn't seem to spread half the time as the latest figures suggest.
Haven't done any scientific tests with it but I was hunting spawns in Talos using Lancer as a follow up to Disintergrate and it seemed a lot less than 50% -
Quote:This, pretty much. Like the OP and nearly everyone else here I haven't seen any of this with the two alts I created on Exhalted, just fun PuGs. My Traps defender hasnt even been yelled at to heal or shouted at for te spectacular runs of faceplants i can pull off.Originally Posted by Gospel_NA
I started on exalted, because it was a chance for me to get a name or two that I actually liked for my characters.
Mind you I automatically delete the hilariously misnamed "help" channel from my main tabs as it's a hive of scum and villainy on any server. Which is a bit of a shame since it's now the only channel available to Free to play people. -
Quote:Originally Posted by WHTJunior
I'm still not sure if this was the intended result, however. I mean, why would they just replace everything on the Training Room with characters from the Freedom server?
I am also one of those who had characters that were only on the Training Room. Since it has been down, I have recreated most of them on Exalted. Test Boy is the exception, since he belongs on the Training Room, and had been there since it opened.
I guess we will see.
There's plenty of reason they'd might want to do that: To test copy rates across databases springs to mind given that they are apparently moving servers and stuff around over the last two weeks. -
That's a chronically bad system. I can't believe that's working as designed, unless the designer is a sadist with a grudge against players.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Little_Whorn
plant/psy dom example. Every mob, bosses included, is locked down with seeds and roots (and if immune to conf, vines). All of a sudden, it no longer matters the team's defense, hp, or resist levels when the enemies no longer attack. Oh and hard targets such as AVs? perma 1200% regen debuff and 30% resist debuff courtesy of drain psyche and sleet. Yea, doms are useful in the endgame imo.
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Quote:Giving your accounts IOs is a microtransaction.Originally Posted by Heated_Bandages
I think the vet requirement for io usage should be dropped. As it stands, of the three accounts I've used over the years, only one of them will get any playtime once this account's sub drops. That is two other accounts worth of microtransactions lost because my toons are either unplayable or a shadow of their former selves with just SOs. As it stands now, free to play is only a viable option for the really old school vets.
In other words your logic is "I won't be buying any microtransactions on these accounts because I refuse to do a microtransaction to play the characters as I wish".
The game isn't F2P, it's more like those of those Pick and mixes where you decide how much sweets you want and then pay accordingly.
You don't get anything for free, but can you get a lot for a small price. -
Quote:^This. It costs a fiver to unlock for ever more, which is an effective barrier against RMTer without being too extortionate for new players.Originally Posted by TerraDraconis
Yes.
Spending $5 unlocks tells. -
Quote:Plus you can earn them solo. Fighting -1x0 enemies.Originally Posted by rsclark
If you're buying purples, yes, but for anything else, it's conservatively 2 hours for a recipe. I doubt you can get 32 astrals in 2 hours.
Plus, you need to be 50 to even begin, compared to being 20 and getting xp along with your merits.
Sure you have to do it over two days, but you can do it with multiple characters in parallel. -
Quote:Originally Posted by nicoliy
I'm seeing more and more value in fire APP and less for Primal now (good discussions). I'm thinking if I go this route to pick Fire Blast, Shield, and Consume. To add slots to the fire powers though it looks like I need to pull slots from ST. The loss in recharge bonus is not a big deal as I can put decimation in blast for the same bonus, but am I losing some necessary control by dropping so many slots from Spooky?
Also, as this change in APP does take me away from S/L cap by a good amount, is there a number that may be too low in defense or is it just that unnecessary. I hate those moments where I get agrro for 2 seconds and insta splat.
Spectral Terror works pretty much out of the box. Even with just an Accuracy IO in there he's effective. He's possibly the best one slot wonder control power going. -
Quote:Oh well, I gave up on Firefox ages ago anyway, I've used Opera for years and Chrome is my second browser. I do wonder why Mint hasn't offered to update Firefox though?Originally Posted by The_Spad_EU
There's a Firefox 7 that's just been released, 8 is in Beta and 9 in Alpha; it's part of their current "We must copy whatever Chrome does for no apparent reason" approach to browser development.
The only versions of IE I run are Virtual machine installs of IE6/7/8 for checking sites for corporate clients (sob) -
Quote:Originally Posted by Madadh
FYI, on my browser the above redirects to
http://na.cityofheroes.com/en/freedom.php
which doesn't have the "Continue to cityofheroes.com" link, at least, not on my browser. It does have "Search this Site" and "Language". "Search this Site" can be used to get ya there, though.
FWIW this is on Firefox 6.0.2. Haven't tested any other browsers. And probably won't soon get around to it.
Is there a Firefox 6 now? I thought 4 was the latest? Is this a beta release or something?
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The LFG was one of those half-arsed features that Paragon Studios occasionally creates and then forgets about. I'd love to see it used more, for both TFs and for those Zonal Events like the Praetorian ones.
Mind you i'd also like to see it actually work for teams doing Radios or whatever and would like more members. -
Not going to comment much on the build as Set Builds aren't really my thing, but one thing to note : The more you slot Spectral Terrors Fear effect the longer things will run away from it (Spectral has two powers with different types of Fear "Stand and Quake", called Terrorized, and "Run away", called Afraid)
You don't want to boost the Afraid effect if possible.
Also note that ST has a 15% ToHit debuff per power, which will stack with Times one, so Softcap really isn't that necessary. -
Quote:As I posted elsewhere I've had arguments in the comments sections of Eurogamer where people were expressing their outrage that Masterminds and Controllers weren't included for Premium Players.Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
I kind of had a feeling this was going to happen.
There's enough entitlement amongst the paying players, I can only imagine the level of entitlement coming from people playing for free who don't think they are getting what they deserve. For free.
Mind you I always felt that was the wrong move by Paragon Studios and would only serve to attract negative press (I still tried to explain that there are 8 other ATs available to Premium and Free players). -
Quote:Weird, Union was on 2 dots last night. At 9pm it's always 3rd or 4th on the Server List (seems to be neck and neck with Exalted) in terms of load.Originally Posted by Nox__Fatalis
This forum is practically dead, the union forums are practically dead, and I've never seen Union with 2 dots since I started up a week ago. It's depressing.
NCsoft, just merge some servers or something please...
If there is to be any server merging (and I'd say it might be likely once the new set-up has been running a few months) it's more likely to be Defiant than Union anyway.
This forum is dead because it's not particularly relevant to a lot of what people are posting nowadays (I tend to frequent the AT forums) -
Quote:I did this too, but I wouldn't be telling people to abandon Union and head for Virtue, especially nowadays when you can play on both anyway, what's the point of burning bridges? Create a few alts on each and decide when logging in where and who you want to play.Originally Posted by Aneurysmo
I did that two years ago. Union seemed dead to me then, with around 100-200 players online at peak time.
It was tough making the choice to abandon my 50s and move to Virtue server, but I came to the realisation that sticking with my progress on my dead server would be like sticking with a sandbox that has become a toxic waste dump rather than moving to the pristine sandbox across the road just because I've become really attached to my now toxic waste covered sandcastle.
I don't know how Union's doing these days, but I logged in briefly when my old EU account became free and I saw four people in Atlas... Four. Then I logged back into Virtue and, even though it wasn't peak time (GMT afternoon), I saw tens of people and the broadcast channel busy with people setting up sewer trials.
My advice (though I'm sure I'll get flamed for this by die-hard EUers) is to trash all your Union/Defiant toons, sell their enhancements and then global mail the influence to yourself and use it to start a new life on a busy server (Virtue is the closest in community to Union, imo).
Trashing your characters and selling all your enhancements would be a silly move nowadays, if you really want to move a character just use your monthly Character Transfer slot, but I'd still say the absolute best thing to do is just make another alt and leave your current char where they are. -
The Help channel is a wretched hive of scum and villainy. I just remove it from my tabs.
All I noticed yesterday on Virtue was that Talos was nice and busy. -
Quote:Damage should be higher than that, the base damage at 50 is 2.78 each second (according to City of Data), you should be seeing 4s or 5s I'd have thought.Originally Posted by GavinRuneblade
I have always wondered if adding damage enhancements to caltrops and other rain powers actually does anything at all. I have gone up to 120%+ including Alpha musculature and it still ticks for 2 each time. And I don't see it last longer because of damage or tick faster.
Does damage do anything or is the only way to get more damage to put in a proc?
A proc on the other averages 1.4 DPS, so each proc is basically adding 50% extra damage to the power (actually it's kinda nicer than that because rather than a trickle of 1.4s you get the occasional 70 hitting an enemy).
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Quote:Except in electrics case some impulses allow knock back, others don't.Originally Posted by Local_Man
I think part of it is the overall concept. Ice or Rock that would Immobilize someone would also prevent them from being knocked back. Electrical impulses might prevent a foe from running, but would not prevent knockback. Gravity could go either way.
You're probably right, in that whomever designed these sets decided to plump for "realism" in these powers and threw practicality out the window. Whomever designed Elec control thankfully saw sense and made design choices which made sense in term of power synergy.