ClawsandEffect

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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zaloopa View Post
    Just out of curiosity, what limitations do VEATs have?
    Your concept is chosen for you, and you have a very limited selection of powers.
  2. The Performance Shifter proc is also good in things like Superior Conditioning and Physical Perfection.

    The values are low enough on both that the +End is a better choice than an End Mod. (Superior Conditioning actually increases your max End instead, so the +End gives it something it doesn't normally do)
  3. Devices.

    I love the one character I have that has it, but I feel no desire to ever play it again on a different character.
  4. How late does TT usually run?

    I have to work on Tuesday nights now, but if it runs late enough I might be able to hop on for a bit when you guys hit Pinnacle on the 31st.

    I've been saying I'll join you on Pinnacle for the better part of a year now and haven't made it yet. Still not going to promise anything, but I'll try if I get off work early enough.
  5. I build for survival first, then damage output, so Spiritual is the choice for me.

    I may look into Vigor as well, someone made a good case for it being used on Willpower in another thread.
  6. I prefer S/L on regens because of the sheer number of defense debuffs that come from ranged/lethal attacks.

    It sucks to have one guy with a machine gun shooting you and stripping away your melee defense so you can get pummeled by the guys in melee.

    Not a huge deal for a regen, but I build mine to click heals as seldom as possible.
  7. ClawsandEffect

    Kat/DA Help!

    Read this thread: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=189427

    Everything I would have told you is covered in it. It was pre-I19, but the vast majority of the information is still valid. The BotZs are even still useful, but I don't lean as heavily on them as I did before the nerf.

    I used full sets of Eradication in my AoEs for the ranged and AoE defense (the extra HP is nice too)

    Mako's Bite in my single targets, and Aegis in my armors. I used no purples at all anywhere in the build, and my melee is over soft-cap with 2 Parry, ranged is softcapped at all times, and AoE is sitting at 43.9%, which is close enough you would never notice a difference.

    I used Cardiac.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle View Post
    Which alpha on a WP scrapper? Why that's the best part! Musculature is the one you want. Don't just kick people, kick the hell out of them.
    I lean toward Spiritual myself.

    More heal enhancement means better regen and more Max HP.

    More recharge means smoother attack chains.
  9. I'm not sure how important it is to you, and it's just my opinion, but Street Justice is one of the only non-weapon sets that doesn't look utterly stupid with a shield.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Person34 View Post
    I wish they would have allowed players to custom tailor the alphas. Maybe have us create a series of alphas with the bonuses we want and then combine them all into one custom alpha with focuses that specifically benefit the build. I love muscular alpha on my melee toons, but usually have zero use for the immob and defense debuff bonuses. I would however -love- a 45% damage, 33% rech and end redux alpha.
    You just explained why they didn't do that right here.

    Allowing players to design their own Alpha enhancements would lead to some very overpowered characters.

    This way you have to choose which is more important to you.
  11. ClawsandEffect

    XP booster power

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Sulfur_Tios_EU View Post
    Hi folks!

    At which level range do you get the most out of the XP booster power or Experienced temp power?

    In other words; which levels are the slowest to level?

    Thanks in advance!
    Level 40-50 are the slowest, getting slower the closer you get to 50.
  12. Quote:
    Help me pick a Badger!
    I recommend a Honey Badger. They are more amusing than the other varieties.
  13. Also, there's nothing wrong with Ice Blast.

    But if you REALLY think the devs are going to alter a powerset because ONE person is unhappy with its performance in PvP (a vanishingly small portion of the game), by all means, keep trying.

    You want to blast in PvP? Roll a Psi like everyone else.
  14. Quote:
    Who do we look up to now?
    People taller than us.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by dbuter View Post
    Yet another site removing a good service in the name of a lame internet protest.
    I hear that it's bliss.

    Is that true?
  16. Question: Why would any group bent on world domination or any other goal put all of their resources in the same neighborhood where they can be stopped by a team of newbie heroes in a single afternoon?

    Traveling to different zones actually makes sense. It would be dumb to base your entire operation in a single zone. So what if it's inconvenient to the heroes? Why would the enemy you're fighting want stopping them to be convenient for you?

    I find it hilarious that, in a game where we have the ability to cross an entire zone in less than a minute, people want to remove travel time form Task Forces.

    Tell you what, how about we remove the zones altogether and have every single mission, TF, and trial in the game accessible from a single door that your contacts stand next to?

    Some of the hunts can go away, but some of them should remain. Gotta get information your contact doesn't have somehow.

    I'm more annoyed with the sheer number of pointless defeat all missions in Synapse. The story would not be impacted in the slightest if they combined all of them into a single mission.
  17. ClawsandEffect

    Tights!

    I'll repeat my previous request that we be allowed to apply more than one pattern to Tights.

    And using my previous example, the most obvious use for it would be to allow us to use a pattern like Stripe 1-4 on the upper body and combine it with a background for a chest emblem.

    Currently, if we want to have a background for our chest emblem like a circle or a square, our only option is to have the rest of our upper body be one solid color.

    Also, you could use a lower body Stripe pattern combined with the vertical Thin Stripe to have almost a football uniform leg stripe going on.

    There are thousands more things that would be possible if we were simply allowed to apply more than one pattern at a time to the basic tights.

    It would be also be nice, if this could be done, to have Pattern 1 overlayed by Pattern 2, so we can create different overall appearances depending on which pattern we choose as the top layer.

    Oh, and what everyone else said too
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Angelxman81 View Post
    Dont get me wrong I love the drawing in the login screen.
    I just hope this is more than cheap marketing and he dies and stays dead for a while.
    Wouldnt mind if Hero1 is resurrected and takes his place with a new updated costume.
    Ummm, Hero 1 doesn't need to be "resurrected", since he's not dead. Unless you mean resurrection in terms of being returned as an active character.

    Last he was seen, Vanguard was working on trying to cure him of the Riktization he went through, as per the Mender Ramiel arc.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Angelxman81 View Post
    They've said Statesman will die in SSA#5...
    So you kill your most iconic hero in franchise to remove him from game, then honour his death with a login screen?
    Sorry this doesnt make any sense.
    I hope someone dies for real in the SSA or Im going to kill someone myself
    MUA HAHAHAHAHA!!
    Yes, he's going to be removed from the game.....but that doesn't mean he's going to be retconned to never have existed at all. He just won't be an active character anymore because he's, well, you know.....DEAD. (granted, that didn't stop Ghost Widow)

    I'm sure there's going to be a statue of him somewhere, and he will be mentioned in a significant number of new story arcs. I can guarantee that he's not going to die and just be immediately forgotten about by the other NPCs in the game.
  20. It's time gated OR money gated.

    If you want to avoid the time gate, pay to avoid it.

    Personally, I can't see myself buying one of them. In my opinion, spending money just because you're too impatient to do it in-game is kinda silly. But, if people want to do it, I suppose it gives the devs more money to develop things I actually care about.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by TrueGentleman View Post
    In turn, please keep in mind that it is very important to a portion of the community, the one that's the vanguard of immersion in this game. Immersion is vital to an MMORPG since without it, it's ultimately indistinguishable from Prattlefield and Modern Gorefare.
    And there's nothing stopping you from changing alignments via tips if that's how you feel it SHOULD be done.

    I'm a little confused by something to be honest:

    Please explain how someone buying an alignment change token has any impact whatsoever on YOUR immersion into the game.

    What others do with their characters' alignment doesn't have any effect on what you do in the game, so why do you care? What, is it a moral objection? Some sense that you are the only one who can say how the game MUST be played?

    I don't PL or farm, but I don't stand on a soapbox and declare that it isn't right. I don't think either are good for the game, but, and this is an important point, it is not my place to tell people how they're supposed to play the game.

    If it's a roleplaying concern, I can think of half a dozen scenarios off the top of my head in which a hero immediately becomes evil, or a villain becomes good. Mind control, they were drugged, their powers had an unexpected side effect on them, I could go on and on.
  22. The thing I want more than anything else is the ability to stack more than one pattern on my tights at a time.

    The most obvious use for that would be the ability to have some of the stripe patterns AND a chest emblem background (like the circles or squares)

    Let us worry about clipping issues. The way I envisioned it working is the base, Pattern Layer 1, and Pattern Layer 2. Layer 2 would go over the top of layer 1, so anything that shares space on the layers would be covered up by layer 2.

    It would open up literally thousands more possibilities, and you wouldn't have to design any new patterns.

    I would like to see this in addition to anything else the community comes up with. I can't even tell you how many times I've thought "Man, it would look awesome if I could combine this pattern with that pattern."
  23. More than a couple +HP bonuses are useless on a /Regen once you cross the threshold of perma-Dull Pain.

    I had a bunch of them on an old build, and I noticed that when Dull Pain was active (100% of the time if I wanted it to be) I was actually losing a couple hundred HP from set bonuses I crammed in. I rethought my build shortly after that.
  24. Mine would be easy actually.

    Stone Armor/Fire Manipulation Tank.

    Because Fire Manipulation has 6 PBAoE powers. Including 2 damage auras. I would also increase the immobilize magnitude in Mud Pots to mag 4.

    With Fury as my inherent.

    And a power pool that gives me Wormhole.

    My combat tactic would be to just stand there and bring my enemies to me. They'd never hurt me, and would die horrible burning death by my 3 damage auras.
  25. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironblade View Post
    They definitely don't give a global rename with every issue. I think we've gotten more than one, though. I seem to recall two occasions when the global server went kerflooey and global names got changed to the next character you logged in with. But since that hasn't happened in quite a while, I don't expect any global rename tokens in the foreseeable future.

    We all get one global name change by default.

    We were granted one when the global names broke.

    And we were granted one when the server lists were merged to fix global name conflicts between US and EU players.

    As far as I'm aware, those were the only ones we were ever given.

    I know you can request a global name change, but that usually only happens if there is a copyright or trademark being violated by the name.