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Quote:50% chance of 0.67 knockdown. and it takes Knockback and pbaoe sets.Originally Posted by Talen Lee
Well, my doms tend to build for so much recharge that so far they've all got the concealment power because I don't tend to need filler powers. That said, as a teleport that does sound nice and saucy. If it did the knockdown I'd be sold.
It's worth trying at least. And jump kick can hold a knockback set, and we know Talen loves socketing him some Kinetic Crash.
I've put it onto my Ice/Thorns and it's quite nice. Does about 10% more damage than Thorn Burst to those really close (8 feet I think) and less to those further (I think 1/3 of that but I'm not 100%)
The downside? A 2 min recharge. But if you're building for recharge out the wazoo you could have it up every 30-40 seconds I guess? -
Come on folks, you gotta expect this sort of thing in an open beta
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Quote:You want to fight Pumices, Lost and lowbie CoT with all of your powers available?Originally Posted by rsclark
Then call it level 20 if you want, but still give me all the powers and options I have gained that make the game more enjoyable. It's not the number slapped on the character that matters so much as it is what you can do with them - and a level 20 character has a lot less they can do than a level 50.
You don't see the problems that would cause (hint : "Pum Farm team LFM. PST") -
At a guess to try and match the number of new characters that would be floating about after an Issue Release, and so it's more enticing for all the F2P and Premium Players to try out.
The entire issue seems devoted to giving the lower half of the game new things to do, so thematically it fits.
I'd guess that future chapters will up the level range until the last is 40 or 45 to 50.
I was quite happy to have a character which suited the arc and the arcs enemies, I wouldn't fancy fighting Malta or Knives or whatever even before I'd gotten my grubby little mitts on SOs. -
Quote:Originally Posted by afocks
You "would" what to a digital avatar ?
*insert filthy comment involving rendering his/her pixels here*
I'm like a Sid James for the Digital Age. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Lazarillo
Is it wrong that I read that post in a Farnsworth voice?
Damn, why didn't I think of that! -
Good news! According to yesterdays Patch Notes they've increased the spawn rates for Hellions in Atlas
Oh wait, that's exactly the opposite of what you want. Me am Bizarro-Carni. Me am happy that you got exactly what you didn't want. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Fixer
I've been enjoying beam/traps far more then I thought I would.
Me too, although I went the Defender route instead for some reason (actually I know the reason, I'd played a Thugs/Traps MM before so wanted to try Traps from a Primary PoV instead).
I knew I liked traps but I'm amazed at how addictive trying to make Disintegrate spread happen is. -
Quote:I was going to cite a Plant as well. Creepers can do completely evil things to the average Ambush Farm, especially when procced up. All you have to do is spam Roots, fling seeds occasionally and try not to die.Originally Posted by Necromatic
I can do +4/8 fire or sl (ambush or not) on my plant/kin. Not sure how efficient he is but its damn fun listening to all the slapping the creeper vines do.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Seschat
Which brings up the question, why do I NOW have to click "Yes" to get it to do this now. Seriously, if the game is patching, that is my cue to go get a sandwich, and hopefully come back to a login screen.
This I agree with. At least stick a "Don't ask me this again" tickbox on the stupid thing. -
Quote:Did this last night. The team comprised of one Warshade, 2 Trap/Beam Defenders, 1 Sonic/Sonic Corrupter and a Time/Ice DefenderOriginally Posted by Finsplit
The endless, rapid, you're-playing-a-squishie?-screw-you ambushes in the second mission are the polar opposite of fun. With the peacebringer, I tried -- and failed -- to get all the glowies, because I simply couldn't keep up with ambushes staggered 30 seconds apart. With the corruptor, the moment the ambushes were announced, I ran out of the mission, went to make a sandwich, and went back in once the timer had run down. I can't imagine that was the devs' ideal solution, and it certainly isn't mine, but it worked and it's probably what I'll do if I run these arcs again. (Sandwich optional.)
We had loads of fun battling away. Our only downside was we ranged from level 14-20 so no SOs and our damage was pretty low (I know my Defenders attacks are currently way underslotted for damage).
Eventually they wore us down, but not before we destroyed 100s of the blighters. It was probably one of the most fun fights I've had in CoH in years! -
Quote:My Traps/Beam defender is probably going to get it too. Having an emergency "Give me all my Traps and my Tier 9 back NOW" power seems really appealing for her.Originally Posted by Talen Lee
Looking at it on Peacebringers and Warshades, it looks like it's pretty stunning. Particularly when you have all those long-recharging powers. I picked it up on my DP/En blaster, where it looks like you can do tricks like Build-Up + BO + Build-Up (it stacks, I checked), or Conserve Power+BU+Hail+BO+Hail. And so on.
My Ice/Thorns is probably going to pick up Spring Attack as well, SJ is fine for me as a Travel Power (I have fly but it really doesn't suit him). I'll pick up CJ as well which is a nice "doesn't need any additional slots" power (essential on a mid-level Domi). -
Quote:Originally Posted by Talen Lee
Whoah, seriously? I admit, I haven't run the numbers on the power - I saw 'pool power shield charge' and assumed it was godawful.
Feedback I've seen from people is that it's a nice enough filler power. It'll basically work as a nice way to get into PBAOE range.
Whether it's worth 2 picks to get to really depends, if you're taking Combat Jumping and Superjump anyway it could be well worth it, if you've to sacrifice things to get to it then it probably isn't. -
Quote:I'm kinda the same. I went with a Traps/Beam defender and I'm really enjoying it. Like FF Once you've lobbed a few powers out from your Primary you've nothing really to do other than blast stuff and try to get that delicious "Disintegration Spread" message.Originally Posted by _Ail_
I'm having a lot of fun with an FF/Beam defender. FF means you don't have to watch redraw much at all, and matches beam's futuristic look pretty much perfectly.
It is hardly optimized but very workable and thematically nice.
Weird thing was, when I was reading about the two new sets I figured Time would suit me down to the ground and I'd no interest in Beam. But when it went live I really liked the Beam effects of teammates and I found Time a bit meh (the sound effects I think).
Both sets seem pretty PROC-compatible as well which will be nice going forward -
Quote:This. On a defender sticking a standard SO into Neutrino gives about 7 extra damage (33% boost, damage at 50 starts at 22), sticking a Proc in averages an extra 14 damage (20% chance of 70 damage at 50).Originally Posted by Mc Carbonara
Neutrino by far :
2 Acc/Dam HO, 4 proc= ranged buzzsaw
So PROCs are much more effective in it, assuming you can live with the randomness.
You've a fair number to pick from, even outside of Purples : Devestation chance for Hold, Achilles Heel : Chance for -Resist, Touch of Lady Grey : Chance for Neg NRG Damage and Shield Breaker : Chance for Lethal Damage -
Quote:No offense, but this is is a jerky marketing move. Make something "limited edition" so you can try and charge extra for it.Originally Posted by Ghost Falcon
Please note that at the end of this sale, the Spectral Pirate Costume will be removed, and will not be available for sale in the Paragon Market again in the near future.
-Ghost Falcon
Errr, no. -
Quote:The cone can take -res procs?Originally Posted by Do0msayr
I solo a good majority of my playtime, so for a team of 1 the spread hardly happens for me. To compensate for this though i stuck the -res proc in cutting beam and acid mortar, so if one target is melting, i use the cone if I'm lucky it procs on the non disintegrating enemies still a win for me since i will still kill them fairly fast. Also does anyone know how close the mobs have to be? or what the radius for spread is? not listed anywhere that i have looked.
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Quote:I dunno, not to the same extent. Wouldn't 8 times have 400% recharge at all times, just from the Tier 9s stacking?Originally Posted by BrandX
Saying that though, goes for all the sets. Multiple Dark's become stupid powerful pretty quickly too
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Quote:Well it hasn't for at least 2 years, when Posi said that the better metric was time vs reward.Originally Posted by Severe
nah im not selling anything!...im just talking about the devs newest nerf to self rezzers in the a.e.
apparently risk doesnt = reward anymore..lol -
Quote:Weird. The impression I got from it was that is was a fail-safe for when weird exploits crop up, moderating the damage until a proper patch can be applied, not a half-arsed rush job, and it's also an event hook for flagging when those sorts of exploits are triggeringOriginally Posted by all_hell
That was the impression that I got about MARTy too. It was created so that they wouldn't have to monkey with things that may or may not have unintended side effects on "legitimate play"
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Quote:No, they are player untargettable. They aren't invulnerable at all. Certainly Freaks aren't. I've seen Carrion Creepers and imps rip their faces off while they're still rezzing.Originally Posted by Draeth Darkstar
This.
At least a few people around here can read.
Edit:
Mobs are invulnerable for several seconds after rezzing, until well after the animations have played out, et. cetera. They can attack you a fraction of a second before you can even target them. They are no more easy to defeat than they were the first time you hopped into them with a taunt aura, gathering them in a second or two, and dropped a burn patch or whatever have you on them. This is ridiculously faulty logic. -
Quote:Well no, this isn't quite true. Why? Because when they rez they do so right beside you (so they're already clustered up nicely for you), pbaoes and pets can eat their faces as they rez and they're also in any patches of horridness that you may have set up (debuff patchs, burn patches etc).Originally Posted by Reiska
For two, let us break the argument down. A self-rezzing mob is, generally, equally as difficult to kill the second time around as it was the first time around. To argue that it shouldn't give XP for the second kill, which takes exactly the same effort as the first, skews the reward model regardless of whether you're measuring time/reward (because they take twice as long to kill) or risk/reward (because they have twice the opportunity to hurt you).
Personally I'd say it's a fair enough change. I've used them myself for some powerlevelling but certainly having the XP bags pop back up right beside me so all I had to do was spam my PBAOE and pop Insps seemed a bit off to me. Personally I'd have given 50% XP for them, but this is obviously aimed at stamping out that behaviour altogether. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Sugar_Rush
Awesome news, I grabbed Sugar Rush & made sure Cryonic was delivered to the correct hands while I was at it. I'm feeling all nostalgic now!
Well if you're on (and bearing in mind how terribad we are at actually being on at the same time) I'm currently playing a Traps/Beam defender on Exalted if ye fancy a get together. Also playing Carnifax as an Illusion/Time but I may reroll, Time annoys me at the mo -
Quote:I'd prefer they try and nickle and dime us with terribad offerings like this rather than stuff I'd actually want.Originally Posted by MementoMori
.....No.
For every reason posted above here is a recap.
1. We can make better pirates with the CC as is (give us the shoulder bird)
2. This thing dose not work with stealth powers making it useless on a whole AT
3. It is purely cosmetic and only makes you look like an NPC
4. 600 PP and that's on "sale"
If this is your plan, to nickel and dime us for junk just so you can make a profit, its disgraceful. This is a money grab, and you and your marketing team should feel bad about it.
At least I can laugh at this. -
Quote:In fairness Marketing have probably seen some of the ridiculous eBay auctions of these things in the past and thought "Hot damn, we gotta get ourselves some of that action".Originally Posted by Liquid
This is really the problem I have with the prices on the things. Beam Rifle was created from scratch, with awesome effects. We know powersets take significant development time.
And here you are selling something that was already in the game for the same price as a brand new powerset. These things are less useful than costume pieces, and they required no new art assets. They should be 40 points.
Unfortunately for them they didn't make the connection that most people I've read comments from found those auctions for a minor cosmetic power beyond ridiculous in the first place.