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I generally play a En/Rad Corruptor.

CoH characters include an AR/Fire Blaster and a Claws/Invul Scrapper.

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Huh? I thought Lord Recluse is a Master Mind????

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The character is, but the devs play more than one character...

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(psst.. I know that.. I was making a funny... )

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I generally play a En/Rad Corruptor.

CoH characters include an AR/Fire Blaster and a Claws/Invul Scrapper.

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Huh? I thought Lord Recluse is a Master Mind????

Serious Kudos to you..

The word Modsmack gets me every time!

Props to you Arctic! I really like the case file part. Nice addition to backgrounds.

Thank you VERY much for all the backstory information. I have played for over a year and trying to keep everything straight has been mind numbing.

I had done the really big (to me anyway) twist arcs: Crey, Rikti/Lost, Carnie, and DE. But the Council stories got very convoluted with a lot of arcs that I couldn't follow.

Major Stars to you!

Thanks for posting this Posi. The patch note is kinda unclear. It says: <ul type="square">[*]Your enhancements will now properly boost powers that you grant to your pet. (CoV)[/list]
Being an MM, I call them henchmen and not pets.. since we can get classical pets too.

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I have it great, my wife, my three kids, my brother, my mother, and my father all play. We make a great 8 person team on the weekends.

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That is so cool. My father plays solitaire on his computer.. and we're lucky he can do that!

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Nooooooo!
Don't change this bug, leave it there I like it! Gives the zone a distinct personality
'Port Oakes, we will be with you forever!'

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It makes Port Oakes feel more like Detroit!

I'm actually wondering if it's just the Oil Spill Neighborhood. Last night I was at one end of the pier and I had to run to the CaD Ferry. I took off and aggroed some Coralax. Those suckers followed me almost all the way to the ferry. Stopping just short of drone perception.

I thought it was odd because when I sprint through mobs, yeah, I aggro them, but most of the time the chase is very short, if at all, in any other section of Port Oakes.

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Hey gang,



We are going to implement a couple changes to make this better. The early brokers will only require 3 missions and 1 heist to introduce a new contact.....

Cheers,

Sean

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I believe that's already happening in Port Oakes. I noticed it last night and was thinking of /bugging it, but since it was a but I LIKED, I kept quiet

Actually.. CuppaJo made an official post about it, but for some reason, it hasn't hit the Dev Digest yet.

CuppaJo's GW Problem Posting

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Your local store is at fault. Now truthfully, your retailer should have applied your deposit to a preoder kit and called you when it came in, that store messed up and they owe you a kit IMO.

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Having managed retail, I totally disagree with this line of thought. If I took someone's preorder money and automatically applied it to a different preorder, (whether it's better or not than the original) I could catch hell from the customer. As a retail store, you CAN'T make a decision for the customer like that.

A good retail operation could have called/emailed the customer and told them that they might wish to change their pre-order for the new preorder package. This is not a requirement and sometimes it's just not feasible. Or, at the time of pick-up, the retailer could have mentioned the differences, but that is not required either, it's just good practice.

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Secondly, when the official preorder kits were announced you should have double checked with the store to see what helm/version you were getting to CYA.

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That's the whole crux of the arguement.

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I'm just concerned that a game company I love is hurting itself.

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Wow.. that's a major tune change from the start of this thread where it was everyone else in the world's fault that you couldn't play in the headstart.

F.Y.I. I put money down on the game before the pre-order stuff was formally announced. When it was announced, *I* went to the store to make sure that *I* was getting the right product, not that *THE STORE* was selling me the pre-order.

When the collector's edition was announced, once again, *I* went to the store to make sure that my pre-order was switched and I would be getting the proper bonuses. When people on the boards started saying they had gotten they're pre-order disks, *I* went to my store to make sure I got mine.

I also ordered a pre-order copy online for a friend. After seeing the order email confirmation *I* called the company [GameStop] to make sure that my friend was getting the pre-order bonus, which wasn't explicitly mentioned on the order form. In the end, I got mine and he got his, and all is right in the CoV retail saga.

Why? Because I was the one who made sure that I was getting what I ordered. You are obviously intelligent enough to read the boards and post, yet you didn't bother to make sure of what you were getting.

You bought before the announcement and then just assumed what you put your money down on was what was announced. The product you put money down on was the game itself, not the pre-order which is a different sku. Retailers should not switch your downpayment over to another product without your approval.

NCSoft and Cryptic have announced the open server date of 10/31 for quite a while now, that is not the same as a street date. What you're saying is that if someone buys a ticket for a 4pm showing of Star Bores Episode XII, they should be able to see it NOW because they have the ticket in their hand. Nope.. it don't work that way.

Having managed retail video, I know a about street dates and legality (don't break a Disney street date.. EVER). This is not a street date issue. This is a "let's blame everybody else for my mistake" issue.

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Call me crazy....but could someone enlighten me as to why GW is wanted so bad by most? I mean, I understand having the full set...but whyis she the one that some of you wish to have the most? Just curious..

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It's because she's a phasing, healing, high defense, Aracnos Team character that could spell trouble for your opponent in Heroclix games.


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and all along I thought it was because she has big [Censored].

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The people who are missing a figure from the gamestop did you go to the store to buy it or order it from the website.



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I picked mine up at the store and I didn't get a Ghost Widow either.. everything else was in the box tho. The store manager was very upset about it. I checked at the store.

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My Statesman only has one arm X_x

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Well, he'll just have to diversify his attacks now.

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Zing - we have a winner. That's exactly what I meant by in reverse - the Multorn Host go through the process of turning into symbiotic Gravid Cell-Seeds once they've absorbed sufficient mana

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But watching that cut scene where the Multorn Host mutates is really disturbing. I don't think this should be in a family game.
I mean, I don't think I have ever seen anything swallow its own head before.. I'll have nightmares for days.

Best of luck for you.. and while you thanked us for letting you write for us, I thank you for letting us be able to read your words.

You've added a lot of flavor to an already great game. You will be missed.

I have been playing a blaster since I started. over 600 hours to level my blaster to 50. So, I would like to think I have an idea of what I am talking about.

Defiance is something I will not rely on. After testing it, I found I could not make use of it because my hp was too low by the time it kicked in and my shots were missing.

Blasters, IMO, don't need more damage, they need less aggro. In test, when I would fire something with a longer animation, the enemy in question had already turned and spotted me before the power even went off. (Not talking snipe here.) With snipe, they spotted me immediately after they got hit.

When I get hit by a ranged fighter, I usually have to look around to see who hit me. Enemies should have to do that too. Especially with a snipe attack. Unless I am in melee range with my blaster, I should not have instant aggro. I think that's something that will help blaster's survivability.

Defiance will cause new blasters to die more as they try to get that boost in damage (which can be accomplished well enough with Build up and Aim).

This is a fun set to play. (Only to 6 so far, but I have really enjoyed it.) The sounds could use some work, but I like the animations and with the debuff, it's awesome. I am afraid you will tweak it down in dmg before going live tho.

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If you hadn't already done that, you would have had a mission to go to Striga and see her. It's much like the way you get sent to talk to Wincott if you haven't done so already.

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I figured that. My respose was to the person who said that the shard was useless, one of the reasons being that you don't get missions from Paragon City that send you into the Shard. I was pointing out that I don't get missions that send me int Striga either.

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They created a zone in I2 with very little content. A zone that no one visits or fights in due to A) Travel restrictions and B) Terrible missions. They could have spent some time to improve the zone, but they did not and so now you have a ghost town called Shadow Shard.

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Funny, but I think there's a lot of content in the shard.. some people just don't want to take advantage of it. I will give you that travel is terrible in the shard if you aren't TP or flight. That could be improved. But I saw the death star for the first time last night and thought it was awesome. As for it being a ghost town, MANY zones are ghost towns now.. not just the Shard.


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Have you ever in your heroing career been given a mission from Paragon City to go into the Shadow Shard? No you haven't. They do not exist. Heroes are given no reason to go there and in fact you never have to go there at all.

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I don't get any missions to go to Striga either...In fact, I don't remember getting an introductory mission to Striga, I just went and saw Stephanie Peebles to start it off.

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Do you really think that it's fortuitous to continue pushing back content for level 40-50? It sounds like a method to thin out their long-term subscribers more than anything. A new player could very easily roll up a hero today and have him past the level 35 range by the time that Issue 5 goes live. The only thing that would be more pointless WOULD be to create a new level 1-5 zone. A level range you can go through in an hour of play?


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Well, the new zone for levels 1-5 was sarcasm. As for level 40-50 content, I think there is a lot of high level content. I have gone through 40-49 and missed 3 contacts. I have a lot of missions left to do. I look forward to hitting 50 and retiring my hero.


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I'll reiterate. In a game where all you're doing is beating up bad guys, you need to give people a reason to keep playing with a main. Creating new low level zones isn't it.

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Every single member of my SG has at least 5 characters of varying levels.. not one specific main character. The bulk of our characters are below 35. New zones for where the bulk of our characters are is a great idea to me.. will help keep me playing.

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And the Level range of Croatoa, STILL needs to be bumped up 5 or 10 levels and a pox on anyone who doesn't fight with us for that change 'til it makes it's way to the Live Servers

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I am having a problem with posts like the above, complaining about the level of Croatoa. Everyone who has complained stated it's because they want a higher level zone. I have been playing since June of 04, and correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't the first new added zone, in Issue 2 - I believe, the Shard? And isn't the Shard a level 40+ zone?

Hmmm.. so the high level players got a new zone before everyone else.. and now the devs are creating zones for the other levels and people are getting upset.. seems like a poor reason to get your underwear in a knot.

And all of this new content is free... gee.. I think I'll complain that there isn't a new zone for levels 1-5 because I am so over GC and AP.

You will be missed here. Thank you for everything you've done to keep the boards updated. For those of us who mostly lurk, Red Name posts like yours are VERY helpful. Good luck in all your future endeavors!

Congrats!

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My MA scrapper can two shot a minion, and with a crit I've one-shotted oranges. And the Oranges I've one shotted are DE Fungi, and MA does not have the most damaging attacks.

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Well darn, that just took the wind out of my sails

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Don't let him get you down. He's exaggerating and leaving info out.
All Orochi is doing is puposefully inflating his information to make it sound like scrappers are massively better than they really are. Crits typically only occur 1 out of every 20 hits (1 in 6.67 for Eagles' Claw, our slow-recharging heavy-hitter attack). Don't get mystified whenever a scrapper says, "I can one-shot God with a crit!" That typically means, "Holy crap, I got really lucky and it would take X more tries to do that again!"

Like I said, don't let him upset you. He's trying to do it on purpose.

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Thanks for that. I didn't think I was talking out of my league, but I really only play the game to have fun. I don't sit and number crunch.

Although I have played my blaster for close to 600 hours, so I think I know what I am talking about, even if I can't back it up with hard numbers.

I will say something else I think needs addressing. When I get hit by a ranged attack, it can take me some time to find out exactly what hit me, so I can hit it back. Especially in a large group.
When I hit an enemy with a ranged attack, the mob hit and all his friends almost immediately know I did it and charge, even when I am in stealth mode. This is a big problem to me. This is where there is unbalance.
Taking away instant aggro from a blaster ranged attack would help tremendously.

You can't snipe and cover in this game. The moment the enemy locks on, the decision is made by the program whether you're going to be hit or not. Nem snipers have hit me through walls, almost constantly. Where as, if I am drawing a bead on them and they walk past an obstacle, I lose the shot.

That should be looked into. It would help allow us to be the ranged weapon that we are meant to be.