ClawsandEffect

Say what?

That makes no sense AT ALL.

The clothes you are wearing is one of the main things that determines your physical appearance.

You told me that everyone should assume you are one of the good guys because of your clothing, which is a factor in your physical appearance.

That would be associating someone's morality with their physical appearance, no two ways about it.

I also note that you did not deny saying that. Too late to try denying it now, since responding to my post the way you did is as good as an admission.

Then you come in this thread and say it is offensive to make assumptions about someone's morality based on their physical appearance.

That makes you a hypocrite. End. Of. Story.

That is HILARIOUS coming from the person who once told me that it was obvious she was a hero, because she dressed like one.

If that's not a textbook case of "associating physical appearance with morality", I don't know what is.

Hypocrisy is funny.

That is called "evolution". This is just the first part of the Incarnate content, future content will be just as hard, or harder. It is intended for high level characters that have already reached the peak of their power, and it is intentionally more difficult than "standard" content.

If the game stayed stagnant, like you want it, it would start bleeding off subscriptions as new games come out that offer new features and new challenges that players here might like better. It has been proven that an MMO that refuses to change with it's playerbase will fail more often than not.

This is the end game content that everyone and their grandmother has been requesting for literally YEARS now, if it were no different than the stuff we already had, what would be the point of even doing it?



So, because YOU don't like content being more difficult, the entire game should NEVER change, EVER? Thankfully the devs do not share that viewpoint. The devs are also not marketing this game to only one person, they are marketing it to the widest range of players they can. A large number of people have wanted more challenging content in this game for a long time, so the devs responded to that and gave it to us, as well as a means of making our level capped characters more powerful.

If you're this bent out of shape NOW, I can only imagine the temper tantrum you're going to throw when the next part of the Incarnate content is released and it's even harder than this.

Also worth noting: The solo difficulty has not been ramped up, because this stuff you're throwing a fit about is purely optional. It is just like IOs, PvP, Task Forces, and anything else in the game. There is nothing at all that says you HAVE to do this. So, if you think it's too hard....don't do it.

You should probably just save yourself the hassle and just ragequit now, because the Incarnate content is NOT going to get any easier just because YOU want it to be.

Seriously, I have never seen anyone complain as much about something they claim to enjoy as you do. You seem to think the devs are obligated to change the entire game just to make YOU happy. News flash: They aren't.

Actually, a /Regen benefits more from S/L defense than from melee.

I'll explain: The most common defense debuff in the game by far is machine gun fire, which is flagged Ranged/Lethal. If you focus on melee defense, you end up with little or no defense against machine guns. Since /Regen has no defense debuff resistance at all, if a few guys start shooting you with machine guns your defense is going to completely disappear in a hurry.

Slotting for S/L defense will slow that down a little bit. By no means will it prevent it completely, but if you just have melee defense any enemy group that has a lot of machine gun users (Council, 5th Column, Crey, Longbow, Malta, etc.) will render your melee defense you worked so hard at getting completely useless.

That said, I would look into getting a little more accuracy in those attacks. If you're at or near level 50 you can slot a single Nucleolus HO in there to cover the lack of accuracy, and it will ED cap damage as well.

You're wrong.

It isn't the percentage of the bonus that matters, it's the name of the bonus. In this case, LotG +Recharge is listed as LotG +Recharge. A 7.5% bonus from another source is listed as a Huge Recharge Bonus. End result, you can have 5 LotGs AND 5 7.5% bonuses and it won't put you over the cap. Now, if you were to slot 6 LotGs or 6 7.5% bonuses, THAT would put you over the cap.

The enhancement values aren't THAT bad. As I mentioned, it has better recharge enhancement than Scirocco's, so it's a better fit for Dark Consumption.

The 1.8 max end and 2.25% max HP are what make it a win in my book for an SR, both of those things are things SR wants. I'm planning on swapping around my slotting on my DM/SR brute for that exact reason (and frankenslotting Gloom with 3 Thunderstrike/3 Devastation)

I don't fight more than +2 uplevel very often, so I'm not particularly pressed about to-hit versus +4s. And I already hit the 5-cap on 5% recharge bonuses elsewhere (one of which is coming from a set of Oblits, 2 Red Fortune, 2 Crushing Impact)

I just took out Trapdoor no more than a half hour ago, solo, with a defender. I did not use anything on him beyond my powers and a few inspirations.

I used a temp power to help take out the Honoree (Amy's Ward, Honoree hits like a truck), but otherwise got through the entire arc just fine, while solo, on a defender. The character in question is moderately IOed for ranged defense and end recovery, but is by no means uber.


Well, if part of the game requires things you flatly refuse to do for any reason, I guess you aren't going to get to enjoy that part of the game, are you?

Yes, there are things in the game that you are going to need help for, it is the nature of any MMO. CoH is better than most in that you can solo a large percentage of the content, but you still occasionally need help. If you refuse to ever ask for help for any reason, the problem lies with you, not the content.

You won't set foot in a PvP zone, you won't put together a team, and you think using a temp power means the encounter is "too hard". If you think THIS is too hard, you're going to have a very rude awakening in the near future I think, because future Incarnate stuff is only going to get harder. The game should NOT be made easier to appease those players who think asking for help is a bad thing.

Well, if you just started playing within the last couple weeks, you wouldn't know this.

With the release of Issue 19 a power pool that probably 95-98% of the characters in the entire game had was made into an inherent ability. Since this affected such a huge proportion of the characters they handed out free respecs for people to use to take advantage of the new feature. (Since you had to respec in order to get it as an inherent)

Since we could have 2 builds they handed out one, and then another a week later. Well, now we can have 3 builds (another feature of the new issue), so they somewhat unexpectedly gave us a THIRD respec. That's probably the one you noticed you had.

Any time the developers change anything about how powers work in an issue they pass out free respecs with it. And everyone gets one, whether the change affects them or not, because it wouldn't be fair to just hand them out to characters affected by the change (and it's a lot easier to just give one to everyone than to try to give them only to characters with specific powersets)

I actually kinda like Eradication for positional softcapping. If you 6 slot it you get: 1.8% max end, 1.56% ranged defense, 2.25% Max HP, a useless debt reduction, and 3.13% AoE defense. So, for 1 more slot, you get the same AoE defense as Scirocco's, and a little bit of extra ranged defense as well. You ALSO get more max end and max HP. Makes sense to spend one more slot to get the same benefit as another set, plus other useful bonuses.

For a DM/SR I would put that set in something like Dark Consumption if I could afford to burn the slots. Obliteration and Scirocco's will give better enhancement values, so I'd use Eradication in something I don't plan on using that frequently.

Edit: Now that I think about it, Eradication gives better recharge enhancement than Scirocco's, which makes it better for a power like Dark Consumption, where accuracy and damage don't matter as much.

I concur that Kinetic Combat is bad for positional defenses though.

I am very well aware of the distinction between protection and resistance. You keep making the mistake of thinking that YOU are the ONLY person I have been addressing this entire time. You have been talking about getting resistance, other people have been talking about getting protection. But of course your ego doesn't seem to allow for the possibility that I may not have been talking to you specifically.

In this particular case, I AM talking to you, so I'm going to address your resistance concerns.

If support got resistance to mez....it would solve nothing. Do you understand how much resistance to mez you need to even notice that it's there? It works just like recharge in your powers. You get 100% reduction on your recharge rate and it recharges in half the time. So, the 20% resistance that the Aegis unique should be granting you will reduce a standard 8 second hold by a whopping .8 seconds. That's less than a full second, can you honestly say you would even notice a reduction of duration that was less than a second?

Actually, go ahead and give support ATs 20% resistance to mez. It will have no noticeable effect and you'll have gotten what you wanted.

It's a mistake that happened in a file somewhere......on a weekend when no one is in the office to fix it. I'm quite confident it will be fixed by around 8 AM Pacific time Monday morning. Something like this is going to be priority #1 when everyone shows up for work Monday.

There was another guy posting a thread threatening to ragequit because a file got screwed up. Seriously, it was just a file that got borked......it does happen occasionally with computers. If it persists after the weekend maybe then you can start getting bent out of shape, until then, be patient and see if they fix it.

Again, it is a mistake that happened on a weekend when none of the programmers are around to fix it. If none of the staff tried to log in on their personal account over the weekend they may not even KNOW about the problem yet.

Oh noes!

Something stopped me from logging in!

Who cares what caused it! The only answer is......RAGEQUIT!!!!!

I had the same problem, it ran 2 patches, and fixed some files, once it verified the files I got in just fine.

Seriously, dude. The client/server communication had something screwy going on with it, and it was easily fixed.

Threatening to ragequit over this is just....well....childish.

Yep, you're absolutely right. Giving more power to the player characters definitely should NOT come with increased difficulty of the things that require that new level of power. End game content should be stuff we can blow through with little or no effort so we can glory in our invincibility.

Yes, I'm being sarcastic, in case you didn't pick up on it.

Don't worry, it shouldn't be too long before some intrepid players figure out how to game this content and trivialize it just like everything else that's been released in the last few years.

Remember how hard the ITF was when it was first released? All those teams that failed it because Nictus Romulus was deemed "too hard to beat" by a lot of people? I do, and look at it now, people are running a TF that used to take 2-4 hours with only about a 50/50 chance of success in 20 minutes.

I wasn't around when the Eden trial was released, but I've heard it used to take forever to get through it. People learned how to game it, and now it's 15 minutes tops.

The re-introduced CoP trial? That was hard at first, now it's 20 minutes.

Kahn started as a difficult TF, now it gets blasted through in a half hour.

Successful Master runs of the STF and LRSF are almost common now, and they take maybe an hour to do normally. Those were both insanely hard when they were first released.

If the devs DON'T make something insanely hard, the players will trivialize it just like they've done with everything else that was supposed to be challenging. Just speaking for myself, I'm happy the devs are stepping up what they are throwing at us. It would get boring really quick if we got all this new power and the content was the same old "gather a team with lots of debuffs and AoEs and blast through it in 30 minutes" that the previous "challenging" content has become.

Because if they spent all their time fixing old stuff that isn't working properly, we would get no new content for years at a time.

It is actually fairly common for a bug fix to create a seemingly unrelated bug to pop up elsewhere. So, they'd fix one bug that made a new one, and that fix would make a new one, and THAT fix would create a new one, and so on.

And as far as PvP goes, they DID fix it once, as per the request of the PvPers. The problem was, what the devs felt was needed and what the players felt was needed were 2 different things.

Nope, you have to reset it first.

If you reset your mission then the Trapdoor mission should be able to be abandoned just like any other mission. I don't know if my experience has been different than others', but I've never been able to abandon an active mission, I always had to reset it before it would let me.

No, he's been reading it. He's just got his mind made up that it isn't fair that an AT designed to work better on teams doesn't get passive mez protection like an AT that is designed to solo better.

Myself and several other people have listed numerous ways that a defender or controller can prevent a mez from happening in the first place, but since it isn't 100% all the time effective it's not good enough for him.

We've also mentioned that scrappers and tanks don't have 100% effective infallible mez protection either. If something stacks enough mezzes (like the huge groups of Green Ink Men that spawn in Talos Island for example), that melee character is done.

Arcanaville explained why it is the way it is better than I can, so I'm not going to bother going into it yet again.

But what it boils down to is: It IS balanced, whether you think it's fair or not.

I don't think it's particularly fair that defenders can buff their teammates and debuff the enemy better than my scrapper can.

But you know what? I deal with it. Maybe you should too.