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Quote:Meh...not so much. Good luck with this Looney Bin. You'll need it.Originally Posted by Black Pebble
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Quote:Unlikely. The 3 attacks that we have now for MM's took up far too much time in terms of development and, while we could likely reduce that somewhat now that we know what we are doing, it would also require 3-4 more animations to be made.Originally Posted by Tenzen
Since Demon Summoning is introducing Whip to COH. Think we may see a Whip Set in the future? I know a lot of people want Whip for Scrapper. Would be cool if you could choose the Whip damage with a Swap Ammo type of power.
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Quote:I'll admit, I had a bit of cognitive dissonance when it came to Brutes and this set. I figured, though, that it was better to give it to them now rather than hear a bunch of complaints of "Why don't Brutes get this?" or "Why are Brutes the only base AT to not get a new Powerset with Going Rogue?"Originally Posted by Col_Blitzkrieger
Oh dear, not another dancy-prancy powerset. Dual Pistols already looked silly.
Brutes don't dance! Unless it's The Monkey.
That said, people are creative. I'm sure they can come up with rationals to make it fit.
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Quote:Tai chi chuan (simplified Chinese: 太极拳; traditional Chinese: 太極拳; pinyin: tàijíquán; Wade-Giles: t'ai chi ch'üan)Originally Posted by Leo_G
The proper term is Taiji-ish....because it's called Taiji >_>
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Quote:The perfect team = 8 players who:Originally Posted by Wicked_Wendy
I'm sure you have all been on a team where the "leader" tries desperately to create, in his or her mind, the perfect team combination. "We need a Tank for Aggro" "I want a Kin so we all hit faster" "I have to have Scrappers and Blaster for huge DPS" The fact is any team with good players can succeed and thrive
Last night I put together a pick up team of available players to run the Positron TF. The team make was:
1 Warshade (and at that level no dawk Dwarf)
2 Defender (including a TA/Arch)
3 Controller
1 Scrapper (who had PC problems and crashed on us several times missing numerous mission)
No Tank for Aggro control, one lone DPS players and as I mentioned wasn't always around when the battles began, and a lot of players with Buffs, Debuffs, Holds, Immobs, and Slows. We managed to finish in 2:47 ..not a "speed" run by any sense but a very respectable time and we never had a serious problem during any misssion. I think m,ost people will agree that at that level COT are overpowering with Ruin Mages, Life Mages, Spectoral Demons, etc. Vahzilok hit for a huge amount of damage and their toxic damage can spell reallt trouble and the embalmed can spell "team wipe" when they explode. The fact was we were wiping out mobs so fast I don't think a single Embalmed Cadaver got the chance to explode.
We have Devices creating havoc, Psi damage, rad debufffing, Ice and TA holding and immobing and even RED bosses found themselves unable to move let alone deal any significant damage before they were face down. There is no "Perfect team and with good players at the controls any combination of AT can be successful.
I'm not saying a GOOD Tank, Scrapper, or Blaster isn't worth having. hey I have played more than one of almost ever AT to 50 level, for some reason I have never gotten a peacebringer past 10 level before deleting, but the "TEAM LEADERS" out that there pass on a defender because they have Trick Arrow, or pick up a BAD tank over a great Controller or Defender because "I need Aggro control are short changing themselves and the other players on the team based on a false notion that I MUST HAVE THESE ELEMENTS TO SUCCEED! The only thing any team needs is good players that can make the character they are playing excel.
I have countless examples in my 4 plus years of PUGing. A Citadel Tf with 6 Blasters, 1 Scrapper and 1 slightly bust Emp Defender.. our damage output was so high we moved through mobs too fast to take much damage ourselves. I helped take down Adamastor on a 4 man team.. 1 Controller, 2 defenders and 1 Warshade (me in Dark Dwarf tanker molde).- Know how to play their chosen character well
- Don't do terminally stupid things
- Know how to adjust and adapt tactics on the fly based on what is happening around them
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Quote:You *might* want to hang onto that Mission Computer. Just sayin'.Originally Posted by DJ_Legend
Does anyone know about any of the badges that come out with i17? I am a huge badge hunter on my villain and I personally can't wait for the new badges. Also, when they put Silver Mantis in Sharkhead, what is going to happen with the mission computer item in the base? You will no longer need it since the Cathedral of Pain still doesn't work. and since Silver Mantis is going to Sharkhead. If any threads are around that answer my question, feel free to post them.
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Quote:Yes...he did. And it was brilliant.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Did you really go to all that trouble to make that clown summoning graphic just for a single joke?
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Quote:Most of it's attacks are standard melee range.Originally Posted by Kheldarn
I think my main problem at this point is that it's called "Melee", when, it's not. But really, if that's the only downside, I'm game!!
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Quote:The animations are pseudo-Tai-Chi-ish, so that wouldn't really fit.Originally Posted by Dr_Mechano
OOOHH...
Castle, if you include a longer range, wider reaching cone version of the Flurry/Sands of Mu/Shadow maul animation I will send you a TV series boxset of your choice!
You know...just so I can have a HUNDRED CRACK FIST OF THE NORTH STAR! style attack.
*let large enemy group attacks build up the damage bonus to max and then unleash it on the mob and then giggle like a schoolgirl* -
Quote:Powersets don't tend to get Inherent powers. Archetypes do.Originally Posted by That_Ninja
Shouldn't Kinetic Melee have an inherent power that makes your attacks stronger the more you are hit?
That said...you are on the right track, aside from that. -
Be sure to check out the info coming out of PAX East this weekend. I think you might be pleasantly surprised.
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Quote:Funny, I've not gotten the bug report for those. Maybe one of the others did. In any case, yes...if they have that same issue, they'll be addressed at some point.Originally Posted by Catwhoorg
Castle:
There was a bug where the uniques were/are being affected by the other enhacements
March 2nd live patch notes:
The same bug affect the Miracle and Regen tissues, so the assumption is that those will get fixed as well.
EDIT: Yeah, those have the same issue. Here's a list of all the IO's affected as of today:
Code:Tempest: Chance for Endurance Drain Entropic Chaos: Chance to Heal Self Impervium Armor: Psionic Resistance Regenerative Tissue: Regeneration Miracle: +Recovery Call of the Sandman: Chance to Heal Self Freebird: Stealth Unbounded Leap: Stealth Celerity: Stealth TimeSpace Manipulation: Stealth Rectified Reticle: Increased Perception Deflated Ego: Chance for Recovery Debuff
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Quote:To the best of my knowledge, none of those Unique IO's have been altered. I think the values people are quoting as changed come from having to sacrifice other IO sets and replace them with different sets to retain the same level of defensive coverage, resulting in net losses elsewhere.Originally Posted by StormDevil
Not sure. I've seen it mentioned in a few threads here and there that the Mircale, Numina's, and Regenerative Tissue Uniques were being tweaked, but I haven't seen anything verified yet.
EDIT: Heh, I just went into Mids to make the relevant adjustments and ended up with a /Dark that recovers 4.4 EPS w/o Death Shroud on, 3.03 EPS with. Sure, Defense and global Recharge/Accuracy took hits, but I think I actually ended up with a better overall build. -
Quote:To be perfectly honest, I was busy with other things and trusted others to be on top of this. Recently (about 2 months ago,) I've had more time to "take stock" of where things are at than I have for the last year, and this was one of the biggest issues I found. We discussed it internally, and ultimately made the decision to make this change.Originally Posted by mercykilling
Why wait -this- long to make a change in it? Hasn't BoTZ been around for at least two issues? Plenty of time to see that "oops. Silly overpowered bonuses. Let's fix that." Instead of waiting all this time to "fix" it.
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Quote:Cost to build an IO isn't something that has any bearing on how well it performs.Originally Posted by Soulwind
Castle,
I doubt it's easily done, so it might not be in consideration, but what about the salvage requirements for these IOs?
BotZ are the only IOs (other than purples and a couple of the very best procs) that require multiple pieces of VERY expensive, rare, salvage to create for each IO.
While I certainly agree that the set bonuses are currently too good, I had always just considered the high merit costs and high salvage requirements as part of the balancing factor for how good the set bonuses were, but with those being slashed....
This is a maxim in the industry which basically says, you cannot balance items by counting on their rarity or expense, and that was essentially what went wrong in this specific case. That said, I'll talk to the recipe guys and see what they think about altering the costs, but I would not expect them to change. -
From the BETA Patch Notes:
Quote:Since rumors of this change have already begun leaking from the closed Beta, I thought it would be a good idea to start a discussion about it here in the public forums.Blessing of the Zephyr:
Decreased the 2 piece set bonus from this set from +3.125% Ranged Defense, +1.563% Energy and Negative Energy Defense to +1.25% Ranged Defense, +.625% Energy and Negative Energy Defense.
Decreased the 3 piece set bonus from this set from +3.125% AoE Defense, +1.563% Fire and Cold Defense to +1.875% AoE Defense and +.938% Fire and Cold Defense.
This set's bonuses were significantly decreased as the 2 and 3 piece set bonuses were far too powerful allowing players to easily stack 5 copies of these buffs for minimal slot usage.
So, why are we making this change? Frankly, we screwed up by making the set bonuses too good and too easy to stack. This was mentioned by players way back when the set was first introduced, but at the time it was felt that the situation would be manageable. Time, however has proven that to be wrong and, as a result, we have had to take this step.
Players in the beta have pointed out that this change ought to result in the cost of the recipes being reduced, and that is something we are considering. It has also been pointed out that this change should necessitate a freespec be granted with I17, which we will be doing.
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Quote:Evil is almost always determined by those who judge others actions and not by the people taking the actions themselves. The quote "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions" is talking about this. A person may be doing what he believes is the good, just and correct thing, but when others see what he is doing, they decry it as evil.Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
Relevant to both the upcoming Going Rogue and the Hero/Villain relationship in City of Heroes, I ask you the subject line: Is Evil defined by action, intent, both or neither?
Let me use the example I used when I brought this up in Comic Culture well over a year ago... Meet Team Dark:
(From Left to Right: Shadow, Rouge, and E-123 Omega)
Taken from Sonic Heroes, Team Dark has always fascinated me. Sonic Heroes is about 4 teams, each with their own agenda, playing a hand in saving the world. What intrigues me about this team, however, is their behavior and motivation. They are as follows:- Rouge: Dr. Robotnik is rich. Steal everything you can, manipulate everyone into helping.
- E-123 Omega: Dr. Robotnik offended me by saying I'm obsolete. I want to destroy virtually everything he owns out of spite.
- Shadow: Can't remember my past Rouge says if I help her rob this Robotnik fellow blind, she'll help me find my memories.
- Team Dark: Destroy Dr. Robotnik.
Those motivations don't seem very noble, do they? Rob, destroy, and "do whatever it takes to get what I want". Yet, in the story of the game, the level of destruction that they cause and the Chaos Emeralds Rouge steals are absolutely vital to weakening Robotnik's army enough to save the day. Also, they don't cause any standing damage to anything "Heroic" like a bystanding city or civilians (After all, their quarrel isn't with them).
So, for selfish, violent, and greedy reasons, they play a key role in saving the world.
Are they heroes or villains?
Is "Hero" defined by the intention of your action or its result? If it's result, Team Dark is one of the greatest hero teams in Sonic Lore. If it's intent, they need to be locked up alongside the Eggman.
Discuss.
We live in an age of moral ambiguity. Good and Evil aren't phrases most of us are all that comfortable with because we know they are not as Black and White of concepts as we wish they were. Still, we can all agree that the person abusing their spouse or children is committing an evil act...or can we? If you ask 100 people what constitutes "abuse" you'll get a lot of different answers and definitions. For instance, one person might consider spanking a child abuse, while another does not, yet both agree that not feeding the child for 3 days is both neglect AND abuse. So while "abuse" = "evil" which actions represent "abuse" are different from person to person.
Now, as for the group you asked about. Are they Heroes or Villains? Good or Evil? I'd say it depends on who you ask and, at the end of things, whether or not they succeeded in taking down Dr. Robotnik's empire. Dr. Robotnik is rich, he employs hundreds if not thousands of people, contributing to the economy. It's likely that he is a philanthropist, donating to various charities regularly (to reduce taxes and to curry favor with his peers.) People who know him only via his good public persona would likely view the team as crazed terrorists trying to destroy a good man. The media would likely paint the group in a similar light, since Robotnik and his companies are sponsors. The only way this would not be the case was if the group were involved in high profile events which earned them public cache outside of their attacks on Robotnik's resources.
In other words, they'd have to wage a PR and Media war with Robotnik to get the public to declare their actions "good" rather than "evil."
And, with that, I'll take my cynical self back to my spreadsheets where I belong. -
Quote:Sunstorm worked on Electric Control as a training exercise when he first started working for us. The set is currently sitting in the spreadsheet I have set aside for such things. It was a good effort, but by no means ready for release, and there hasn't been any announcement of us working on the set at all.Originally Posted by Lightfoot
At HeroCon, one of the new powers guys said that Electric Control was his first job on the Powers Team, and that the set was almost finished (at least, the powers coding, BAB was not there, so no one could ask about the animations).
Electric Control is coming, it is probably just a matter of finishing the animations at this point. It will probably be released with the issue release that accompanies Going Rogue (Issue 18), since the two major new Powersets (Dual Pistols and Demon Summoning) will have already been completed and tested before Going Rogue goes to beta.
I'm not ruling out Electrical Control as a set, but it is only one of several sets that are in the wings waiting for the thumbs up to proceed with. -
Quote:Conditioning, the Power, has no effect. It exists only to give insight into the class table advantages the VEATs have. Their BASE recovery rate is 1.05 and any powers or enhancements improve upon that instead of the normal 1.00. Similarly, their base Regeneration is 0.3 instead of the normal 0.25.Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
I looked at hte numbers a while back, and Conditioning seems to give next to no bonus at all. It doesnt even have any numbers in the detailed info window, so...*shrug*
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Quote:I always associated Tony Todd's voice with Mr. Bocor.Originally Posted by MDanger
For no reason I hear Mr. Bocor sounding like Fat Tony. As an alternative, Keith David has the chops.
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Quote:I don't. 2 hours 8v8 means nothing to me. 26 kills vs. 11 kills means more, but still is not enough information to make any sort of judgment on the validity of the drop rate.Originally Posted by EmpireForgotten
I can accept difficult to farm, but how do you explain a full 2 hour practice with 8v8s going every 15 minutes and no one getting a drop?
Inflation is rampant. Things going for more than the market cap is obviously a problem, considering the market cap is supposed to be the individual wealth cap. Obviously, something is quite horribly broken there.Quote:*Edit* also, is it a concern that these IOs are going for more than the market cap and are now being traded outside the market? -
Quote:I'd like to take this opportunity to remind folks that this system is purposefully difficult to farm. Your BEST chance of getting a PVP IO drop is to have 10+ players fighting one another; either in zones or in arenas.Originally Posted by DocDominion
Agreed, the drop rate on the PvP IO's are so low it's practically a joke. Nobody farms (effectively) for them anyway, you have to be stacked to be able to afford even one set and indeed they go for billions at WW's. I personally have farmed for weeks just taking turns with a villain friend killing each other over and over with no luck. NCSoft needs to incorporate some kind of system like you mentioned, to put it bluntly "the merit system but less sucky" LOL
The only way I'd be comfortable increasing the drop rates is if we could make then Bind on Pickup, tech which we don't currently have. -
Quote:In one of my business development courses back in college, one of my professors had a great, if cynical, quote: "Marketing's number one job is to promote the cause of marketing; any work actually promoting your product is purely secondary to maintaining their hold on the purse strings."Originally Posted by LunarEclipse
I certainly hope you mean the department...and not the field in general. We marketers in general are good people, really!
Our marketing guys are actually very good at what they do. The truth of the matter is that TV commercials are expensive and won't bring in enough new users to justify the cost. Our team gets us banner ads on sites like Ten Ton Hammer and they try very hard to keep our nearly 6 year old game in the gaming press -- which frankly is not an easy job. The fact that schedules change or planned features don't pan out as being feasible sometimes means that their plans have to shift, which causes delays in information release.
I would love to see a City of Heroes commercial on TV. The money just isn't there, though. -
Quote:Like this?Originally Posted by Dr_Darkspeed
Oh, another idea for high level Family: Pinstripe Powersuits!
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I've always wanted to expand upon the Legacy Chain. They are underused and interesting.
If we ever had a "scourge" like event, I'd like to ditch the Goldbrickers and put The Family back to the low to mid-level roots. The idea of level 40 mobsters with Tommy Guns still boggles my mind.