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Quote:I read it as "People in beta more or less thought it sucked so we've pulled it to make it better"Originally Posted by Diggis
You guys must be reading a different release to me. I read it as the Alpha slot didn't stand on it's own as well as hoped and really needs the other levels to work so they are waiting to release it closer to I19 so that players don't feel like they wasted their time.
Quote:Since Alpha Slot Incarnate Abilities do not exemplar down (and we're not changing that), we find that players end up with Power that has limited use. We recognize that the Alpha Slot experience is something that a lot of you are eagerly awaiting for and we want to make sure that it is awesome, and most of all fun, when we bring the system on-line.
Now you could be right, maybe it's because just one level of it is underwhelming, or it could be that the entire thing is poorly thought out, I dunno, haven't seen anything about how it works currently to make a judgement on it myself. -
Quote:Yes, it'd count as being public since the NDA would no longer apply. You could talk about how it had been working in beta. Not sure how you can say it'll be pretty much unchanged though, surely if that was the case there'd be no need to hold it back in the first place.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Thing is, the Alpha Incarnate Slot will not go public when Closed Beta ends, because it won't be in closed beta at the time. Do we count it as being public because it WAS part of Beta even though it will probably be part of the next Beta pretty much unchanged? That's kind of what I wonder.
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Quote:Consume is alright, but nothing spectacular. Then again nor is Conserve Power.*What's your primary?Originally Posted by Donna_
get the Performance Shifter Proc.
Got this.
Slot for Endurance Discount in your big costers.
Done this quite alot, although i think the issue if the high recharge
Slot for more Recovery Bonus or more Max End.
Slotted at the moment for +35% recovery, everything else is very tight to get perma hasten
The Dark Mastery Power Pool has a +End power, but its a long recharge.
Sorry shoulda said, I'm a troller
The Electric Master Power Pool has a (imo) better +end power
and the Power Mastery Pool has Conserve Power.
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So basically GR won't feature the Incarnate system because you've decided whatever system Posi came up with isn't up to scratch a month before it was supposed to go live? Ooops.*
Think I'll leave GR for a few months so, more chances to do levels 1-20 with yet more alts really doesn't grab me personally. I'm all alted out. -
Quote:Sorry, should expand on that. No brute is going to enjoy a tank on a gr team running off to herd like you can still get blue side The Herding to Here on every single spawn type.Originally Posted by New Dawn
Your kidding me? It's that playstyle for my Brute or I am logging. (My Brutes survivability is often linked to needing some numbers).
On topic, couldn't give a monkeys, either are welcome and fine.
A brute would much prefer to do as you say, take the alpha themselves to angry up the blood. -
Quote:It's actually cheaper to frankenslot with a couple of Def/Rech IOs than replace SOs every few levels. They're pitifully cheap on the markets because Defense/Recharge isn't a desirable combo most of the time. As long as you go for Yellow ones rather than Orange the Salvage required is fairly cheap too.Originally Posted by OneFrigidWitch
2. Hi! I have barely enough money to slot with generic IOs, after purchasing salvage. I have a few sets. I simply do not have the time, or patience, to go off and waste my life in Market PVP. I am an extreme casual player. Do not remind me of the glory I might have if I spent more time uping regen this, or recharge that. Let me be happy enjoying myself with far sub-par slotting, I am having fun, I will never have this perma ML you speak of, so it would be great if you simply left this out of the argument.
People claiming you need to "Market PvP" to get something like Def/Recharge IOs at 25 or 30 are simply incorrect. They're vendor trash to most people and priced accordingly. -
Quote:My Dark/WP Brute used to have terrible issues with this, looking jealously at the */Elec brute getting all the Mob love with their fancy-pants damage aura.Originally Posted by Katie V
Scrappers stack. Brutes don't. On a team, one brute is theoretically superior to one scrapper. Once you get three brutes on a team, they'll be fighting each other for Fury, while if you've got three scrappers, the only thing they'll be fighting for is to see which one gets to fire off their AoE in the middle of the next spawn.
In general Brutes on teams can do as much or more damage as scrappers, but there are lots of terms and conditions attached to that and others playstyles can interfere with your ability to do it.
For example no Brute is going to enjoy a Herding Tank playstyle very much (and why would they
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Quote:It's a dish best served cold?Originally Posted by Aggelakis
This, though typically I only end with a trailing ellipsis if the "missing half" of my sentence is obvious, or if the first half of the sentence is sarcastic. Otherwise, I never use an ellipsis anywhere other than in the middle of a sentence to indicate a pause or shift in thought.
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Oh, and if you must Vendor level 50 common IOs are the way to go I found. I started with Uncommon and Rare salvage but once I had 100k amassed it was trivial to just bid on stacks of level 50 Common IOs and make 50k a pop vendoring them. Once I had about 10 mill from that I was able to buy and craft the Knockback protection IOs and sell them for about 9 mill profit a go.
Still peanut to lots of people but quick for me to do when I first switched to the US side to give me a cushion. -
Consensus? Here? In a forum?
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Controls won't make a difference, it's a bug with pet AI. One that was supposedly fixed last patch, but it turns out wasn't at all.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Diggis
This morning I was doing a small test seeing how easy it would be to buy up high supply low demand salvage to vendor. I was buying at 20-50 inf for the most part and while I was buying 10 or so stacks of 10 at a time someone else was buying the same stuff for 1000inf. Moral of the story is people are stupid.
Time = money.*
950 inf is not a lot of money. I don't want to spend a lot of time waiting for the thing to fill if I need some common salvage to craft something so spending 1000 inf as oppose to 50 to get it quickly is hardly stupid. Better than standing around waiting, or creep bidding to save yourself a tiny amount of inf. -
Quote:We prefer the term "Britain and Ireland". British Isles is a legacy term from before 1922.Originally Posted by Diggis
Didn't see England, Scotland or Wales there either :P
(Yes I know there was an English team there, but they weren't actually DOING anything
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I actually thought the same thing to and I've looked it up many times before. It gets me everytime. The collection you are talking about is the political body of United Kingdom and if you include Republic of Ireland it's the British Isles.
Teams in sporting events doesn't really come into it either. For example in the Rugby the Irish team is basically the Republic and Northern Ireland rather than their being a separate NI team (there's a separate NI team in soccer though). -
One thing to note about Teen Brutes, DOs and slotting. It's generally better for a teen Brute to handle their Accuracy and End woes with DOs rather than slotting for Damage. Fury boosts your damage anyway so maintaining high Fury by ensuring you can constantly attack is a better move for a Brute.
All my teen brutes slotted their attacks with 1-2 accuracy DOs and the rest of the slots End Reduction DOs. It makes a big difference to maintaining your Fury and keeping your damage constantly at a high level.
Once you get *Stamina at 20 and SOs at 22 you can experiment more with your slotting, 1-2 acc, 1-2 End Reduction and the rest either recharge reduction or damage as you see fit (my rule of thumb is long animating powers tend towards slotting for damage, short animation ones with a longer recharge slot for Recharge more but you'll get your own feel for it). -
Quote:Yep, I'd agree with this. MMs don't need IO bonuses to do well and while anyone can benefit from frankenslotting MMs can be light on slots anyway.Originally Posted by Siolfir
If you want to feel "strong" personally with little to no investment, I'd agree with a /WP Brute. SS for better AoE, SM (with Fault) if you just want to giggle at things while they're trying to kill you.
If you want to be able to take out GMs using just SOs, make a MM. Everything everyone has said good about Traps holds true for them, plus they can put the traps down without ever losing DPS; I actually stripped all of the IOs out of my Thugs/Traps because they simply didn't matter, and put them on characters that actually needed them to achieve the same performance. As for "best primary", I'd throw Demon Summoning into the running.
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Quote:Originally Posted by CactusBrawler
Can anyone tell me how broadcasting my real name to all and sundry on the web is keeping my information 'with proper security'?
Well technically if you don't post on the WoW boards then that doesn't happen. So you've the power and control to prevent it.
Something I think the WoW suits are thinking of, they don't WANT people using their boards. Official forums are costly to run and that place is a dank hellhole. I think all of this is mainly an excuse to let it slide into obscurity and become obsolete. -
Quote:Why is that a weird combo? It's probably the best ranged AOE Domi damage available.Originally Posted by Madam_Enigma
I enjoy my plant/fire dominator myself. Yeah, weird combo I know. It's for RP reasons.
* The absolute closest the OP is going to get (and which someone has already mentioned) is a Fort who takes a mix of the Ranged attacks (including both Dart attacks) & some of the Widow Claw attacks (Swipe, Follow Up, Spin and Lunge maybe) and perhaps Psi Tornado. -
If you're looking for something which excels from 1-50, doesn't have the stigma of Fire/Kin and doesn't require you to Speed Boost people try Fire/Rad. Safer than Fire/Kin, better before level 38 and still superb after. It's a great combo. Hotfeet & Choking Cloud is horribly effective.
My Fire/Rad/Stone scraptroller is just ridiculous fun. -
Quote:Tell me about it. I'd assumed Russian Male Order Bride was a typo until Vlad showed up in a dress.Originally Posted by Defenestrator
Those are a total rip-off. Mine suffocated in the box during shipment.Quote:
Helpful link indeed. It didn't even turn up my online phone book entry. Which is actually kinda weird. And sad, cause I'd like some roses and a dildo in the mail. Well, I don't really need the dildo. Maybe a Russian mail order bride instead?
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Quote:Originally Posted by Venture
That's because people are a sea of statistics. Social policy is not established by the fact that something bad happened to someone somewhere. Bad things happen to good people, and that's unfortunate, but we don't stop the world on account of it. It would be hard to find some aspect of our existence that did not have unfortunate consequences for someone somewhere attached to it. Cars kill 45,000 people a year and injure 2.5 million more (roughly), not to mention the long-term environmental issues, but just try even raising the standards for a driver's license, never mind getting rid of them.
Over here the standards and difficultly associated with getting driving licenses has been constantly rising over the last few years with different legislation being brought in relating to effective penalisation & enforcement, more limitations on Learner Drivers and tighter controls on car quality & road worthiness. We now have the lowest fatality rates recorded in the country, while having the most cars on the road and higher speed limits where suitable.
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Quote:Originally Posted by poptart_fairy
I'm not looking at it as a matter of security though, simply one of accountability. Honestly, if someone is determined and/or sociopathic enough to get at your real world information then exchanging a forum avatar for a real name isn't going to deter them a great deal in the long run, I feel.
Well how exactly is people knowing your real name on a board making you any more accountable?
Anyone in a position of power (like a mod) can extract that info anyway. All it gives anyone else is your name, sex and possible information on your ethnicity. -
Quote:Originally Posted by FireWyvern
I know he wouldn't use MY endurance. =p It's his endurance i was wondering. I've stayed there watching him attack and he didn't seem to use any. Maybe i just didn't wait long enough...
Who have the highest threat between me and Singularity? It seems they always attack me, but that might just be because he's a lot slower then me.
He is slow and only has single-target attacks, so you're probably going to out-aggro him.
Unless you maneuverer it so he's blocking a doorway and things try to pass through him, then the repel field seems to work well as an aggro-field diverting attention to him. -
Quote:Exactly. It's all about data points. Adding more, fairly needlessly, just makes people nervous.*Originally Posted by Nethergoat
You know what removes that worry from the minds of the gaming public?
Not broadcasting their real names to a large population of strangers with unknown motives.
Of course "fairly needlessly" may not be the case if the aim is to ensure activity on the boards dies down so you don't need to spend so many man-hours moderating the place. -
Quote:He lasts basically for ever (for all intents and purposes).Originally Posted by FireWyvern
Just to make sure it's really what i've noticed. Singularity stay forever after you casted it? It doesn't use any endurance? And it can't be attacked/killed?
Also, if i slot rech IOs in it, will it make his attacks come faster?
Any advice for slotting him?
It uses End to summon but once summoned doesn't use any of yours, it has its own pool of End but should never get close to using it up. It can be attacked and killed, it's fairly resistant to attacks but can certainly die. It cannot be healed but slowly regens health itself.
Regen IOs do not affect how quickly he attacks. Nothing can boost or debuff any pets attack rates any more.*
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Quote:When did this happen? I haven't been on in a week but mine where at the 6 months or so US side I expected.Originally Posted by SinergyX_EU
Ok, perhaps i missed out a announcement or so, but anyone know something about a recent change in veteran rewards if you have both a EU and US account active?
I re-activated my US account recently, going ingame my chatscreen was flooded with Veteran reward badges, turns out i went from 24 months to a wooping 48 months veteran on my US account.
My gues was, it has to do with my sub on the EU account, but i cant find any news about this.
There was some change to how they are handled and the systems that award them and it was mentioned that there may be some beneficial quirks to players as part of that but I assumed they meant someone getting an extra month or two, not a whole 2 years. If it is the switchover bug then you keep them anyway AFAIK.
I'll log onto mine later and see if I jump from 6 to 52ish.