ClawsandEffect

Oh, right, because NO ONE uses a set for typed defense, do they? I'm not using the exact same sets everyone and their grandma uses so they're the wrong ones?

So just because it's not slotted how you would slot, it isn't proper?

Did I miss a rulebook somewhere that says powers must be slotted a certain way to be considered correct? Or is it just that everyone is so set in their ways in slotting a blaster that they can't consider any other options?

Edit: I updated Mid's. I didn't realize that defense was screwed up too. I noticed the weird HP bonus numbers.

Never mind, I guess if I want defense I'll just have to conform to ranged defense like everyone else does. Which completely defeats the purpose of my build. It's also impossible for me to hoverblast because the character in question has the flight bug that makes him constantly fly downward.

I guess that's what I get for trying to do something different.

Has it been a long while since you posted?

If so you may not have known that in the fairly recent past it was changed so that your forum log-in password is the same as your game log-in password.

First thing that came to mind for me when you sad that you can log into the game and not the forums. Try using your game log-in and see if that works.

If it doesn't, then you have a problem I can't help with and Support would be a good idea for your next stop.

As far as the powerset combo goes...yeah, DM/Elec should play pretty nice. I'd probably have one myself, but I don't have time to actually play all the builds I think up.

Started a thread wit it in it.

I didn't use anything that is out of line bonus-wise, so I doubt any nerfing will come of it. It's all stuff that is fair for the amount of slots invested.

It gives up a little bit to do it too, so it's hardly overpowered.

Really?

I just came up with a Fire/Fire/Cold blaster build that is softcapped to S/L/E/N AND ranged.

That alone breaks the diea of a nuke stripping away your defenses as well as your ability to attack. IF my toggles didn't drop I would be able to nuke with impunity against most enemies I am likely to encounter.

Not much is going to get through the layer of defenses I managed to build up there, so not being able to attack for a few seocnd is not going to inconvenience me in the slightest.

With a full end crash my nearly untouchable blaster is suddenly vulnerable as all my toggles shut down. Which is EXACTLY what the devs have said they want full crash nukes to do.

Nope, Control+Key activates tray 3 powers. I have never hit Control by accident when I was playing, so I put the powers I really don't want going off by accident up there. Like Self Destruction.

It's fun, but you're not going to be outdamaging fire blasters.

So, you'd be perfectly happy with a game that forces you to be somewhere you don't want to be? As long as you don't have to lift a finger to find a team, who gives a damn if Claws doesn't like it, right?

Did you miss the part where I said I play on a lower population server intentionally? Intentionally. That means I don't like the atmosphere Freedom has and don't want to play there. If I want to play on Freedom, I can play there anytime, same as you can.

Currently, I have the choice of playing somewhere that ISN'T crowded full of idiots who think I'm obligated to join their team just because they sent a tell. I prefer it that way.

That is what would change. I would be crammed in with a whole bunch of people I don't WANT to be crammed in with.

Stop thinking about what YOU want, and consider that some people don't like the playstyle you seem to prefer. Your desires are not more important than mine. Deal with the fact that I have the right to play how I want, just like you do. You want to see crowded zones that lag out every time someone sneezes, you know where to go. Don't force ME to go there too.

But I keep forgetting the me me me, now now now mentality people seem to have these days. Who gives a crap if someone else is inconvenienced as long as you get YOUR way, right?

I hope you find yourself on the receiving end of that attitude someday. You'll get just as indignant then as you do now when someone tells you that, no, in fact you are NOT more important than everyone else and don't deserve to get what you want just because you threw a hissy fit about it.

Really? And you have problems teaming there?

Weird, I play on the same server (and ONLY on that server), and I don't have these issues you speak of.

See, but I also LIKE less populated servers. If I don't feel like teaming, or if I want to duo with my wife, I don't get pestered quite as much with people wanting me to join their team, or asking if they can join mine. When I DO want to team, I have little or no difficulty finding one.

The biggest problem *I* see with merging servers is the number of people there are in the game like me. I'm playing on a lower population server intentionally, and I would be HIGHLY annoyed if the pro-server-merge people get their way and I get shove into a situation I've been actively avoiding for 4+ years. The day I get forced onto an overpopulated server against my will is the day I cancel my account, and I'd imagine there are a lot of people out there who feel the same way about it.

A server merge stands a very real chance of doing what nothing has accomplished yet: Killing the game.

No, it won't happen overnight, but the exodus of people who don't like being crammed in like sardines will hurt. And no one (or very few people) will want to start playing a game that has given the universal sign of being on the way out.

If you remember Tabula Rasa...what happened there? They merged servers, and 6 months later the game was dead. Not "dead" like people say Pinnacle and Victory are, "dead" as in: "servers shut down, no more game".

Even if YOU don't remember that, people who pay attention to MMOs in general DO remember it. And the fact that Tabula Rasa was owned by NCSoft as well would tell them that the same thing will happen here. Even if that isn't the case, you're not going to get them to risk it, at least not in enough numbers to help any.

With the history of games who did server merges failing shortly thereafter it would be, hands down, the STUPIDEST thing our dev team could do just months before the largest expansion to the game in 4 years.

Search "Dahjee"

They have as many red bars as I have green, maybe more.

Reason: Had the audacity to disagree with people in the PvP forums. (Guessing, I'd nevr seen the person before I saw them there)

The devs probably COULD do it.

But I'm not going to put any bets on it happening.

How did you overlook something called the BIG THING?!

That's like tripping over an ocean liner because you didn't see it

(I'm kidding, I'm kidding)

That is true.

But if Vigilance or Zukunft was their first choice it would lead to quite a few "WTF?!" moments fornew players.

True, but that's THEIR fault.

What about the player who WANTS to read things and learn about the game, but can't because everything is in a foreign language?

If you don't want to read stuff, that's your choice. If you want to but can't, that isn't your fault.

I wasn't suggesting this as a reason not to merge the lists, just pointing out that there will be two servers that are in a different language.

Zukunft is pretty obvious. But Vigilance doesn't indicate that it's in French by the name.

Okay.

What happens when you feel like playing the OLD character?

My main is also my badge collector. What do I do if I decide to switch from Claws/Regen to Fire/Regen, and then later on I'm in the mood to play Claws/Regen? Sure, I can roll another, but what if I want to play it at 50? I'd have to level ANOTHER Claws/Regen to 50 in order to play it.....which makes my rerolling the original character redundant.

Besides, a LOT of badges are level gated. How the hell does a level 1 have Task Force Commander when they aren't high enough level to even run the FIRST TF required, let alone all 6?

My Fire/Regen scrapper with no IOs is crippled?

Tell HIM that....oh wait, he can't hear you because he cleared this room and moved on while you were typing

A character without IOs is NOT crippled. That's like saying I can't go jogging because I can't run a mile in 4 minutes.

I will IO out a power or two at lower levels if the set I plan to use caps at 30 or 40. I mean, if you're planning on slotting Eradication for the set bonuses, why not just go ahead and do it at level 27?

Otherwise I wait until the 40s before I even start looking into what I want to do.

The devs have been on record repeatedly saying that enhancements (of ANY kind) are meant to be permanent.

According to them, we're lucky we even get to keep 10 of them.

I don't anticipate them changing their mind on this one, if they were going to it would likely have happened by now.

Pffft.

You think Pinnaclites are such lightweights that drinking impairs our ability to play?

Maybe on one of them foofoo Boone's Farm servers you'll have that happen, but not here!

On the OP: I skipped that problem entirely. I use the number keys to activate my powers. 1-0 is tray 1, Alt+1-0 is tray 2. I keep powers I seldom use in tray 3 where I'm unlikely to hit them by accident, I click those manually, since they are all powers that my survival does not depend on (various teleport powers, Rest, etc.)

I agree completely.

All I was saying is that a server list merge would benefit the EU players much more than the NA players. I wasn't begrudging them that at all.