ClawsandEffect

If I want "simple", I'll play a Facebook game.

I like the fact that it has flavor, and it really isn't that hard to understand.

It is no more complex than the invention system. And let's face it, if the invention system were all things like "Targeted AoE" "Ranged Damage" and "Melee Damage", not only would there not be very much variety due to there only being one type of IO set, but it would be pretty boring too.

Ummmm.....the escaping prisoners don't attack, they are programmed to do nothing but run away. You can keep them in that alcove all day long and they will NEVER fire a shot at you.

Using FB at other times during that trial is probably a bad idea, but it's incredibly useful in the escaping prisoners phase (now that it has been confirmed to be an effective tactic)

Now, I can't say for sure because I don't have characters with a lot of KB powers, but are the minions in the escaping prisoner phase of the BAF affected by Force Bubble?

If so, you can go to the set of 5 doors to the north and be extremely useful, because your Force Bubble will keep them from ever leaving that alcove while they're being killed. Your Force Bubble should be wide enough top cover that entire set of doors, and they are set back in the wall, so there is no way they can get around it.

Actually a pretty good analogy.

I'll expand on it a little bit.

Only the players that win Superbowls get Superbowl championship rings. In the NFL, only a small number of players even get a chance to play for one.

In order for that to be a truly accurate comparison to the state of things in CoH, the NFL would have to change things so every player in the league gets to play for one.

I think it's counting on you converting any left over threads into iXP as well as what you get from defeats.

If you end up with 47 threads after breaking down any merits you are inclined to, there is no real reason not to convert those 7 left over threads into iXP. Those 7 threads aren't going to do you any good by themselves and there's no guarantee it will even out with subsequent runs.

I've seen it done both ways simultaneously.

A few people hang out at the doors to get them when they come out, and more people waiting at the choke points to get anything the door people missed.

What?

How the hell can someone else decide if something is worth it to YOU?

And you're calling it an observable fact that it is someone else's responsibility to decide that for you?

That is, to be perfectly blunt, the dumbest thing anyone has said in this thread.

I'll give you an example.

I have a collectible coffee mug, but I don't collect coffee mugs. To ME, that collectible mug is worth no more than any other coffee mug I would drink coffee out of. However, to someone who collects coffee mugs, that mug may be worth much more than that, especially if it is the last mug they need to complete a set. I wouldn't pay very much for that mug, because it isn't worth much to me, but that mug collector may pay many times the price I would to get it.

Now, using your logic, that mug collector would get to decide what that mug is worth to me, and dictate the price that I would be willing pay for it.

Different things are worth different amounts to different people. No one can decide what something is worth to someone else.

All the devs can do is give us the content, they can't decide what that content is worth to us. And the only "observable fact" happening here is that different people have different ideas of what this content is worth. If your "theory" were true, it would be worth exactly the same to all of us, because the devs would have decided it is. This thread itself is pretty convincing evidence of that not being the case.

That's why I said in the part of my post that you quoted: "They're pretty good about listening to our feedback and trying to give us what we want, but they don't actually have to do that."

In essence, they DO listen to us, and they communicate a lot better than the devs of some games, even though there is nothing actually obligating them to do so. And even though they've been communicating less lately, they STILL communicate better than some devs.

Where that falls apart is when players start thinking that because they do indeed listen to us, it means they have to do whatever we say. And that part just isn't true in the slightest.

This...is true.

I call it "the customer is always right" syndrome. People think that because they are paying for something it gives them the right to dictate what that something entails.

McDonalds doesn't need our approval to come up with a new sandwich. The only decision we get to make about it is whether or not we like it and whether or not we will buy it. I cite as an example....the McRib. If I had any say in it, that thing never would have seen the light of day. But it did, because McDonalds doesn't have to seek my approval and there are other people that like it. (can't imagine why)

The game is much the same way. The devs can do whatever the hell they want, and the only say we have in it is whether or not we will continue to pay for it. They're pretty good about listening to our feedback and trying to give us what we want, but they don't actually have to do that.

Not going to help him a whole lot.

Sam doesn't use set bonuses.

At all.

So Cardiac and Conserve Power would be good advice, but I'll be very surprised if he takes your advice on set bonuses and the ToE proc.

No.

I would be wondering as I dove out of the circle though.

I think 4 times is the -regen one. Though I know you are correct on the nuber of stacks being absolute. Whatever the number it applies to anyone stacking it and won't go higher than that.

I'm pretty sure the -resistance is 10 times for a total of 20 or 25% debuff (depending on which value is the correct one)

What makes you think purples are necessary? For a lot of characters, purples are actually a BAD idea because they don't actually give you bonuses to the things you need.


Nothing I have seen indicates in any way that not being level shifted will gimp the team. If you were fine without it before, you will probably still be fine without it.

Don't be in such a hurry, the end game stuff isn't going anywhere. It'll still be there when you get around to it.

The debuff is 2.5% per hit, and you can stack it up to 10 times. (not 100% sure on the percentage, but it's pretty low). The amount of debuff it applies, as far as I know, does not increase with the tier, it just gets a better chance to happen.

As far as I'm aware you can't monitor the rolls to see if it happens or not.

Because they want you to play the trials that reward them. The devs didn't add this stuff so you could run the same Battle Maiden farm you've been running for years and get them just as fast as the trials. The made the cost so high to make it much easier to get them via the trials.

Originally, there wasn't even an option to get them solo. The devs added the solo option after the forums exploded with people screaming about it.

Others have made the point, but I'll make it again: The only things the Rare and Very Rare do for you that are better than Common or Uncommon are largely useless to you outside of the content they were designed to be a part of.

Going higher in Judgement basically nets you a tiny bit more damage and the ability to hit more targets. I don't know about you, but I have NEVER had 40 targets to hit at once when solo or on a single team TF, but it happens regularly on the trials.

What nukes are YOU using?

I have LTs and bosses looking at me after an Inferno all the time......and I don't have any endurance to fight them off. And this is after Aim+Build Up, with a fully slotted Inferno.

LTs have slightly more HP than Inferno can deal, and bosses have substantially more. And an LT with a sliver of health is just as dangerous to me as a fully healed one because I have no endurance to kill it with.

Or....they lack the substantial amount of influence it takes to convert a large amount of threads into iXP.

If you don't have the money to do it, converting threads into XP isn't very useful for you.

I just wanted to address this point, I'm not trying to dismiss the rest of your post.

Even on a large team you can still feel like you're contributing, and it is sometimes VERY visible.

I ran a BAF last night with my Fire/Fire blaster. Now, this blaster is the only one of my level 50 characters that is not IOed at all, in fact he is slotted with nothing but SOs. I was running the BAF to unlock my Alpha slot, so I wasn't level shifted either and was fighting +4s.

In the escaping prisoners phase I somehow ended up being the ONLY person at the set of 5 doors that spawns groups of 5-6 at a time every 15-20 seconds.

Now, if it weren't for the fact that I happened to be playing a Fire/Fire blaster and had huge amounts of AoE damage, even against +4s, that door could have quickly overwhelmed me and could have led to failure. As it was no more than one or 2 escapees made it past me in any given spawn.

I don't know if anyone else noticed my feat, and I don't really care. But *I* know that my presence at that door was a significant contribution to the success of the trial, and that's enough for me.

I have no trouble relaxing at all.

Because I always remember I'm not actually around these people. They are miles and miles away from my physical location, connected to me only by a team window over the internet.

It's a video game, and these people can only adversely affect your life in any way if you take what they say to heart.

Those leaders.....

.....are jackholes.

If someone told me I needed to have a tier 4 Judgement slotted in order to run a frigging ITF with them, I'd tell them where to go and put them on my ignore list immediately.

Really?

If you don't need anything from other players....why should you give a crap if they notice you're gone or not?