Darth_Khasei

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I can't see playing Claws and not taking both Spin and Shockwave. Both powers add AoE damage but function differently enough to where I don't see one replacing the other. I wouldn't skip either.

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The ratings system is terrible and everyone knows this including the devs as they were told in a thread several hundred strong during test.

KAT/WP is easy to cap for melee and get high numbers for AOE and ranged as well.

What is it this morning people not have their coffee yet? We don't need these poorly thought out "fixes" for problems that exsist in your head. The idea is just absurd.

You are not making any sense mate...none.

Which has nothing to do with the topic of the thread nor the discussion of ranged attacks being overpowered contained herein.

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There are still exploits that need to be closed.

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Have you reported these unclosed exploits to the devs? Good now let the devs do their job.

Whatever exploit you are referring too obviously is not well known so for the purposes of the discussion in this thread I'll modify it to no well known exploits are being used. Happy?

Understood.

You do realize that we will NOT be able to pick powers from the ground up. "Adding" powers to an already overpowered standard custom critter roster of powers is in NO WAY a remedy to the issue of them having too many powers already.

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Heh, I doubt if any rewards for custom criters are going up until months after the Devs feel absolutely sure they won't be farmed.

On the other hand, jacking up the rewards on a particular critter would be a great way to locate any farmers they wanted to get rid of...

[/ QUOTE ]On the third hand, leaving them as is would (and I know I'm going to get flamed for this) tend to discourage building Farm Missions full of nothing but Custom Bosses. Thus reducing the need to identify and punish individual offenders.

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Building a mission with all custom bosses is not a punishable offense. Castle's all AV mission would be an example of this.

Custom boss farms are kind of funny to me since they are harder and slower to clear than using the standard BM mobs for the same reward. People are such sheep.

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COX style farming is here to stay and helps keep a lot of people renewing their subs each month.

Exploit/outlier farming is not good for the game, has been removed and is no longer an issue as of the patch that removed the exploits/outliers.

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Has it, really? Stand in the AE building in Cap Au Diable on Virtue. The LFF and Farm LFM broadcast and local is still there, just not as bad as it was.

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Those people are Boss and Lt farming.

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That's still farming. I even still see arcs in the MA list that say "farm", for example "Lvl 54 Farm for 40+" and they're not talking about Old McDonald.

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YES it is still farming and thats what I said in the first post. "Exploits and Outliers" are GONE. There is a difference.

It is okay and it is a good thing. Don't try to marry exploits/outliers to content that can be farmed in general they are not the same.

In terms of the AV, EB, Boss and LT missions they do not fall into the expliot category nor the outlier category. Castle's all AV mission would be an example of this.

If your point is nobody should be making missions that can be farmed with MA, I would just say that crusade is a total waste of time. People are going to make missions that can be farmed with MA and they will farm them, period. None of those people are in ANY danger of being banned etc... anymore than your average BM or TV farmer.

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I just found out I have to work from 18th-21st of june. I remember the last, and only, 2x xp weekend i was a part of being (i think) 21st-24th of january.

Will 2x xp weekend be in June or July, and if in June, will it be around the date I have to work.

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The devs decided to do away with double xp weekend. They are also going to remove patrol xp and xp smoothing. This of course is in response to the vocal minority complaining that other people are leveling faster than they want them too.

I don't know that it is going to be addressed. The fact that they used this death knife model instead of the PvE melee critters ranged attack is a bad omen, IMHO.

Changing it now would basically amount to someone admiting it was a overzelaous punitive overreaction and we all know the ego involved won't allow that to happen.

Thats just silly.

COX PvP was drawn and quartered, then burned with the ashes being dumped into the channel from the white cliffs of Dover.

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COX style farming is here to stay and helps keep a lot of people renewing their subs each month.

Exploit/outlier farming is not good for the game, has been removed and is no longer an issue as of the patch that removed the exploits/outliers.

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Has it, really? Stand in the AE building in Cap Au Diable on Virtue. The LFF and Farm LFM broadcast and local is still there, just not as bad as it was.

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Those people are Boss and Lt farming.

COX style farming is here to stay and helps keep a lot of people renewing their subs each month.

Exploit/outlier farming is not good for the game, has been removed and is no longer an issue as of the patch that removed the exploits/outliers.

It must suck to be you since there is not a damm thing you can do to control how someone else decides to play the game they pay 15 quid a month for then.

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I think it was a case of insufficient testing due to the fact that the changes were rushed to curtail abuse as soon as possible.

As it was, the Devs were criticized for taking over a week to address the issue after it went Live.

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That would make some sense if it were the very first time they have dealt with this exact same issue. It is not as a matter of fact the Wolves come to mind back in issue1 where they added the ranged boulder attack because they were all melee and being farmed. Many other melee critter in the game have reasonable ranged attacks.

No, its more like what I stated before, he was mad and lost it, then went punitive with it. Where's Castle when ya need him.

I see nothing wrong with how you or anyone else is playing the game, aside from the RMT'ers. Cheers.

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I'm sure the Devs are datamining and trying to figure out what to do, like always.

Hopefully, it's just a matter of scaling down the damage or recharge of these attacks. Hopefully, there is a happy medium where minion attacks are strong enough to challenge kiting Blasters without overwhelming them.

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I guess the question from most people goes back to the "why not just use the same type of attack that Battle Maidens minions use", why use an "obviously overpowered attack"?

To "me" the reason is simple and goes to the initial tone of the first letter from Positron, he was "mad" when he made the change. We are all human and we know what happens sometimes when we get mad, we lose it...perspective that is. Positron needs to pass this issue on.

Castle who has a better relationship with the playerbase and who's past powers changes caused a lot LESS uproar would be the man for the job, IMHO. I trust his view of the game and balance better than Positron, who has "repeatedly" displayed a less than steallar ability to properly interface with the playerbase and who's changes always appear punitive in base and nature.

I think the people in the AE buildings in Cap and Atlas understand what the limits are and have gone back to having fun.

There is something that you mentioned that seems a little off. What unusally high reward is being gained by those running the BM and TV farms? Can you give a "specific" example of a "current" farm that supports your statement of "unusally high rewards"?

It seems to me what you are referring too is "expliots" being farmed, not farms that are examples of exploits because there are none of those. If you know of any then you need to report them to the devs asap.

Maybe a red name will come and address this issue this week.

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