Celestial_Fury

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what does /jranger stand for anyways? I never understood that one.

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JRanger would reply to every thread he disagreed with:
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no

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He was then banned. /jranger is now used in memory of his permeating dissent.

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Oh wow, he got banned? I was wondering when that would happen... Although I really don't like that people are trying to "immortalize" his inane nonsense.

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I see him as a victim and a martyr of the system. He was only stating his opinion. He wasnt insulting anyone.

May god bless JRanger. He fought for freedom til the end.

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Nonetheless, despite all the strife the issue of "if /no is disallowed, then /yes shoudl be too" ... Ex elected to ONLY single out the negative half of that particular pairing.

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negative (adj.) 1. Containing, expressing, or implying a denial or refusal; that says "no" [a negative reply] 2. Opposite to something regarded as positive; specif., a) lacking in positive character or quality; lacking evidence, affirmation, etc.; having the effect of diminishing, depriving, or denying [a negative personality] (Webster's New World College Dictionary Third Edition)

The key word being negative. You can disagree all you want, doesn't have to mean being negative. That is what all of this is about. The negativity in these forums is off the chart. This is supposed to be a place where discussion rules, not /jranger or /no answers. If you stop and think about it, you have to admit that it has gotten way out of hand lately and this is a step in the right direction. The community needs to come together and start helping each other instead of trying to insult each other. We can all help by being less "negative". That is all.

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I find what you have writen here to be PC BS. I am not attacking you but what you have writen.

I feel i had every right to state my opinion here about what you have writen, which is pure politically correctness [censored].

No harms meant.

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Notice how /signed and "yes" aren't on that list?
So they support one form of fluff but ban another?
That borders on hypocracy.

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So true. I call BS on this.

OMG! This is gonna sooo rock!!!! Yeehaw!

Flashback! Weapons! Powersets! More crafting!

*faints*

This gonna be best issue EVER!

I havent tried but i suspect that using Stunning Arrow followed by a Taser shot WILL indeed stun a boss. This could make Taser worth taking imho...

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it seems that mass PMs will be the only thing in this universe that will cause him to sit up and take notice and maybe respond.

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Wrong. It doesn't work like that.

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How does it work then? Please enlighten us? If we are simple players that devs rarely notice, what must we do to get the answers we need? Other than keeping PMing them until they get it, what else can we do? Tell us.

Seriously, the CoP , base raids and Items of Powers have been one of the biggest failure from the Dev team in this game. Just thinking that these features were showing on the CoV box when it first came in store makes me laugh alot.

I wonder if it will ever be fixed. With IOs available nowadays , Items of Powers seem pretty powerless. Theyd need to give a way better bonus so that players be willing to raid to get them.

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Anyone has have a fresh look upon SR since Inventions came out?

I've been toying with my SR scrappers and respeced them to add more slots to their defense powers ( even the passive ). By simply 5-6 slotting a few sets of Serendipity and also slotting all my Pbaoe attacks with Multistrikes , i bumped up my aoe defenses and melee defenses by a few percents. I wonder if i i was wasting my time but somehow i really feel my SR is doing ALOT better than before. Now im even considering dropping AidSelf and going for Tough and Weave instead since the endurance cost of pretty much all my powers has been reduced by over 80% ( to all attacks and every toggles ).

Any people have some insights to share? Are IOs the long waited "Fix" for SR?

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I don't know if I would call it a fix, but because of the way defense stacks, every percent counts for SR: positional defenses can be expensive to get in the sets because they require five or six of a single set, and many of the sets are pricey (not all), but if you can get them, you can increase SR to very high levels of defense. Its not difficult to get to the 35%-40% range without too much difficulty, and that is a substantial improvement in strength. Going tough/weave opens another possibility: getting to the "magic 45%" mark where you begin to floor foes without tohit bonuses. Slotted weave is about 6%, and tough can take the steadfast protection Res/+3%def IO, so the fighting pool actually has almost 9% defense to all theoretically within it. That's most of the way from the about 30% defense SR has to the magic 45%. Set bonuses and power pools can get you the rest of the way.

That's a pseudo perma-elude build there, at least for PvP (in PvE, just barely getting to 45% is of no use against any attacker with any tohit buffs at all).

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You mean it is good to achieve 45% for PvE. In PvP that would not buy much against the common To Hit Buffs that are used all around.

Anyway i mostly play the PvE game and it is really nice to be able to wade into Nemesis packs without Elude on and not being shredded by all the aoes and jiggers explosions

I still have lot of problems when i face packs of enemies that are 3 levels above me but at least now they often miss me enough to buy me some time to react, hit inspirations or withdraw. I rarely faceplant on the alpha-strike like it used to often happen. Overall, i am very happy with how the IOs helped SR powerset. And i added over that the Numina and the Regenerative Tissue unique IO and my health bar really seem to replenish somewhat faster even during combat. I also get 5 times 4% regen from all the Serendipity sets i have slotted so its all adding up. And finally all the accolades bonus hitpoints are adding over that. No doubt Regen and DA scrappers still are greater overall but i am not ashamed of my SR performance during combat anymore. And i must say that my SR really seem to be the first runner when it comes to fight packs of carnies and maltas. Dodging endurance drain really is one of the thing i like the most with SR

Anyone has have a fresh look upon SR since Inventions came out?

I've been toying with my SR scrappers and respeced them to add more slots to their defense powers ( even the passive ). By simply 5-6 slotting a few sets of Serendipity and also slotting all my Pbaoe attacks with Multistrikes , i bumped up my aoe defenses and melee defenses by a few percents. I wonder if i i was wasting my time but somehow i really feel my SR is doing ALOT better than before. Now im even considering dropping AidSelf and going for Tough and Weave instead since the endurance cost of pretty much all my powers has been reduced by over 80% ( to all attacks and every toggles ).

Any people have some insights to share? Are IOs the long waited "Fix" for SR?

I will miss Q 4ORCE so much! These 4 guys really were giving me a good laugh

I liked the Top Cow comics but i prefered the way they were drawing the characters in the first issues. In the later issues, i think they changed the artist and i didnt like the new art ( which was looking more like anime to me ) . I prefer classic drawing and i liked alot Blue King Studio art. I wish BKS had written a story about the Freedom Phalanx.

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Now let's say for [censored] and giggles we take all the common baddies in the game and reduce their health, damage, and XP by 80%. And then we increase the spawn sizes by a factor 5. So now, instead of facing spawns of 3-5, you're facing 15-25. Holy Full House Batman! Now you actually have something *worthy* to fight.

The tank/brute/scrapper plows thru them like a bulldozer, foes flying everywhere, constantly surrounding you, trying to overpower you, but they are but flies and you rip thru them like a hot knife thru butter. You're taking some damage here and there, but nothing you can't handle, and you're definitely working up a sweat cause you're just cycling thru powers non-stop. Mmmm quite satisfying.

The defender is momentarily daunted, but with their array of buffs and debuffs they too find it highly satisfying watching 2 dozen baddies bounce up and down on a tar patch, or flee from a chilling freezing rain, all the while being picked off one by one. Yes indeed, so very satisfying.

And can you just IMAGINE the sheer joy a team of 8 would be like this??? I get goose-pimply just thinking about it.

NOW you feel like a super hero.

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I would truely love to have that at times as well. And I think the devs would like to have something like but, but I beleive that design considerations prevent it. A lo of players on the CoV side of the house take a bit hit in framerate if too many MMs are on the team. You hope for the bestest systems to run your game, but you have to design for more modest systems. I think that the 3 minions = 1 Heroes is partially in reponse to that design contraint.

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I think this could be achieved by simply adding another "difficulty setting" where enemy number would be three times more than normal but conning green minions and blue lieutenants. Some of my characters would really enjoy such a setting.

I agree base percentages of powers should be available in game. It would be nice to see at a glance that when you enhance 57% of Damage Resistance power you are actually enhancing 57% of lets say 40% Base resistance. Just highlighting the Base number in the SO enhancing screen would do it.

Great post discussing optimization of ATs via IOs.

In theory , if a player could get access to all these IOs in a timely manner it could be great. I cant wait to see how things will turn out on live servers. On test so far, acquiring Scirocco and Numina IOs is very random and expensive.

KB protection IOs seem fairly numerous and can be bought for cheap at WW these days. This single IO with one extra slot allocated in a Res power let you free yourself from Acrobatics and that is really neat.

Availability of the most wanted IOs on live servers might prevent a lot of players to achieve builds like the one you propose. Healing IOs are quickly bought by all ATs. I foresee prohibitive prices on Live for Numina IOs and that if there are any at WW.

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Set Bonuses are always active. The special powers from IO Enhancements which grant them are not.

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What about in passive powers? If I slot +20% regeneration in Fast Healing do I get that bonus all the time?

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Passive powers are always on, therefore any enhancements of this type would always give their bonus.

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If I slot +20% regeneration in Dull Pain do I get that bonus only when I click Dull Pain?

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Right. A Set Bonus which gave +Regeneration would *always* be active in Dull Pain, while an Enhancement which grants +Regeneration would only work for a set period of time after Dull Pain was activated.

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Ok thanks. That does clarify what was said earlier about stuff in click powers always being on.

So quick rule of thumb.

Set Bonus' = Always On in clicks / passives
Set Bonus' = Only On in toggles when toggle is on.

Special IO's = Always on in passives
Special IO's = Only On in toggles when toggle is on / Only on in clicks when the power is clicked.

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No, Set Bonuses are Always On in clicks/passives/toggles.

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Gah! My head hurts already!

Devs really think players will have fun exemplaring to do TFs in order to get a little shiny recipe? Especially when it is clear than IOs arent such a big deal in the end? Look , Task Force Commander accolade gives a nice little boost but still i never envisioned getting it for every of my alts because the boost just isnt really needed.

Id rather keep defeating enemies that are around my level and gather more influence, salvages and SOs while keeping getting xps. I can still try to trade later. I really dont see myself exemplaring and wasting 5-6 hours on Positron TF. Not much fun imho and not enough rewarding.

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It is stated here in this thread. It's just buried amongst all the "But I REALLY want it!" posts.

In short, the reason is the same reason why propel doesn't show the same thing for everyone. Also, it's the same reason why a Physics card is an option.

The thing is that the physics calculations are done on the client, and not the server. With the calculations performed on different machines, and no mechanism to synchronize them in the current protocol, any differences in the environment (like the ones caused by differing network latencies) would cause different results, and the ball would be in a different place for different people.

In short, the network protocol, server, and client are not structured to handle putting the ball in the same place for everybody.

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Thats really too bad. I think this Big Red Ball thingy would have been great to revive the Arena. Super Powered Soccer Matchs would have been soooo cool. Just imagine the two teams using all their powers to try get the BRB in the opposite goal Blasting at the ball , hitting hit with melee , flying , superspeeding , jumping around to get to it

Awww... This arena event would have hooked me like Blitzball did with FFX You know when you come to like a minigame more than the real game

There must be a way! Devs please think of something!

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I'd also like to know why Cryptic hasn't taken advantage of many possible merchandising opportunities that exist with CoX because of its ties with comics.

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The comics and novels failed miserably. Even many of the players of the game didn't want the comic free with their subscription, it was so bad, hence the option they had to put in to not have it sent to you.

The CoH "signature" characters are bland mashes of overused cliches, and this goes for heroes and villlains. So I'm not sure what they'd used for merchandising that would have any appeal.

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Well , you are entitled to your opinion which i personally find a little too harsh... The comics werent that bad imho. I especially liked the Blue King studio writing who was so often relating to the stuff players see in game... And as far as saying that CoX signature heroes are cliches... well , maybe they somewhat are but it doesnt make them as bad as completely unique heroes that are sooo unique that they look just too weird in the end to be liked. One Spawn at times is cool but i like also to see that simple good old heroes ala Thor or Captain America or Statesman arent completely forgotten.

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AI critters have always 'cut and run' if they consider themselves unable to win an encounter. The behavior you describe is consistent with that condition.

It is not impossible that the AI is flipping to 'run away' mode too easily for some reason. Reading Aett_Thorns post, it does not sound like this is the case, but if you can get some solid data to back it up it'd definitely be worth looking into.

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As realistic as this AI can be, it really is just an annoyance to have enemies running away when you are a melee attacker with no real ranged attack. Especially in the lower levels where it is common to prefer fighting green, blue and white cons because you arent tough enough to fight higher enemies. Maybe the AI should be reviewed?

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I think most people would just like either
a: a personal storage locker in base
b: a personal storage locker in base

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ok, but what would you put in these personal lockers...

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Enhancements, salvage, and influence.

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At this point , i would just let players e-mail themselve enhancements and influence and get rid of the base concept. Many people seem only to be mostly interested into the "storage" facility which really can be useful for transfering stuff to alternate characters. I wonder if we need big bases and all that just to achieve this. So far , i have zilch interest in bases and i despise prestige system . For me , gaining prestige means losing influence . And influence is far more important for the gameplay than prestige . It really is that simple . The only useful thing ive seen in bases so far is the teleporter device. I only wish devs had spent the time they were creating base items to create new costume options

In the end , when you die , its your own mistake . I mostly only play with PuGs and when i see that things arent going well , i leave. And i will certainly withdraw in a middle of a fight if things are turning bad. Some players tends to just stay there , hoping for a miracle to happen and they die . Then they complain. Only you can control your own character , thus you are responsible of his wellfare before everyone else. But of course, blaming the N00b is easyer than blaming oneself i believe

Good old superspeed with the stealth component remains one of my favorite pick

And with little jump pack i got when buying CvsE , no need anymore to get the Leaping pool unless i want to make a PvP build

Add Vyvyan to the list too but she left ( I think she was taking care of costume and body parts ) . She replied to me twice about costume questions a long time ago .

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What am I missing?

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You're missing the same thing everyone else is missing: a costume option for male bare legs. It doesn't exist.

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The bare legs option for Male and Huge body types has been added to an internal build. It will be coming down the QA path and to a server near you soon.

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How many new subscribers will a player need to bring in game this time in order to unlock this new costume option ?

/em is worried

While it is fun to see this new costume piece being added , it still makes me wonder why devs still havent given us back the OLD SKIRTS from launch .

Why is it soooo hard to get them back ? Ill give them back the Toga anytime for my old skirt in exchange ...

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As several have noted, I7 features content mostly for City of Villains (levels 41 to 50, in fact). This is exactly what we did for CoH. City of Heroes will receive a cool graphics upgrade, new base items (Empowerment stations!) and access to Recluses’ Victory. It’s true that CoV received more attention, but that’s mainly because we needed to fill out the levels. I had the option of releasing I7 or waiting until we could fill out the City of Heroes content. Obviously, I chose the former. New content should get out there when it’s ready. We'll be focusing equally as much as possible on each product moving into the future...


For those who have speculated that Newspaper missions are coming to City of Heroes, they aren’t…yet. That’s coming a little later in the year. I’d like to add something different to the CoH system…

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Please tell us about costumes Statesman . Are all costumes options coming to CoH in I7 ? Do we get back the OLD skirts too ? Please . Thats really all that it would take to make me a happy subscriber .