Dr_Mechano

hehe thanks for the review

Glad you liked it, will sort out the Coins instead of Coins thing soon. It is meant to be a 'starting arc' as in you can do it straight out of arriving in Mercy, glad keeping it short, sweet and simple worked for you.

If the your post was directed at me Cerulean, I've already bought the booster pack, I was merely saying to PsychicKitty that they got their facts complete wrong with regards to WotLK and that it was a case of "didn't do the research" before posting.

I bought it just for the death goggles which means I can finally make a decent 5th Column-alike costume.

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It's not an expansion, it's a mini-pack.

But y'know, you're right. They shouldn't put out anything to make some extra money to keep a 5 year old game afloat. I'd rather they just shut the game down when they don't make enough each month to run it anymore.


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Oh please. $15.00 per month from over 40k subscribers...this game isn't going anywhere right now. This is all about lining their pockets by selling us features that should have been there all along.

I can understand paying for things like the Mac Pack and the sort,,,but this one is a total, complete rip off.

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LOL...you know i read this....

And you know at least this company actualy provides new things...

Another company which i wont name....claims they have 10 million subscribers...and they pay 15.95 a month but they get NADA!!

In a paid new exapnsion they got i think one dungeon some new sets of armor and that was it...Wrath of the Lich King was the name of the expansion.....

ANywise for the amoutn people pay....for this game and i include ones like me who pay yealy and pay less that way.....i think we get a heck of alot of goodies.

And by the way.....you are only renting some memory space ona drive and allowed to play this game....we dont anything in this game not even our characters......so i don;t think it can be really considered any mroe of rip off then renting Movies...Getting a Library Book or having a magazine subscription.

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Sorry but you're completely wrong on Wrath of Lich king there...

They got:
1) Atleast 10 new instances of both the 5 man and 25 man variety at various points in the new level range and at the level range cap.
2) the level cap went from 70 to 80 with 10 levels worth of quests and content.
3) Lots of new equipment.
4) A new PvP zone with siege vehicles implemented.

Outside of the paid for expansion, WoW does get Issue sized patches BUT they're less common than CoH Issues, they tend to turn up once a year or twice a year.

If you're going to be critical atleast get the information right, it wasn't just 1 new dungeon...

Sadly the character I put aside for the Super science booster has been maligned in the levelling capacity.

Whole idea was a shapeshifter in the style of Moment (the shapeshifter mercenary employed by Malta), each costume was also going to be level range specific.

Costume one: Female Longbow (1-20).
Costume two: Supa-Troll (1-20 halloween salvage slot).
Costume three: Family Capo (20-30)
Costume four: Raserei Ubermenschen (30-40)
Costume five: Blade of Artemis (40-50).

bah where was this confirmed?

Just checked the store now and it's still down for maintenance...

indeed was great!

((missed the inspired by part at the start, thought it was a serious conversation...damn you!))

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I liked CoX when I first started playing. But it is not the same game now. AE caused that shift and it's a shift which should have been caught during the Beta.

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The problem with Issue 14 Beta was that nobody was actively trying to 'break the system' or so it seems. Well they were warned of the Rikti Comm officer situation during Issue 14 Beta but they probably figured that if they kept quiet it would go away (probably the worst reaction they could have had to it).

People in Issue 14 open beta were probably doing like me, trying to make story arcs, tweaking them, seeing how the system worked, what I could do to get around mob levels that jumped all over the place between missions and various other things. Nobody was going "right...how can I completely exploit this for my own XP rate gain..." perhaps there were a few but nobody was really being vocal about it.

That's the problem with beta test sometimes, the folks you have testing aren't going to 'break the system' in the right way to get the major flaws (Rikti Comm Officers, Hami mitos etc. etc.) noticed, they'll be too busy focusing on the way the devs thought it should be played.

Well that's my explanation as to why the AE system went live the way it did...I seriously doubt the devs are THAT incompetant, even if Positron in his initially ranty speech came across as a bit like a child throwing a tantrum but we'll let that one slide...

An interesting fact as well, if you take tough if actually increases all your resistance, you're actually tougher in PvP than you are in PvE.

Most brutes/tanks seem to hover around the 55% damage resistance mark to all anyway thanks to DR and SS with rage, combined with Fires Fiery Embrace notches up your damage quite a bit, especially when combined with the Long animating (and therefore high damage) attack of KO blow and throw_fish.

More experienced PvPers, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Also quick question myself, is Mids borked slightly or does boxing really do the stupidly high damage I'm seeing it (386 on my build) and thats with just Rage.

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Especially since Lothic (last I checked) still not happy that the dves took the time to change the alakazamreact emote to bring up random objects when one the juggle emotes still don't work when hovering (even after it was pointed out that it BAB said it was fixed but got broken again).

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That was me...but in my defense:
1) I didn't know that the juggle emotes weren't working with flight at the time (technically, they were working, they were just being immediately interrupted by the flight idle animations)
2) It took about 10 minutes to copy the giant list of FX GEOs from Propel, and then remove the ones that were way too big
3) It made me giggle like a schoolgirl for a solid couple of hours.

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Go on BaB add a 1 in a 100 chance to randomly turn into Hamidon on that list, would be hilarious...

...or atleast a Hamidon Bud.

Feel free to try my arc, the Arc ID is in my signature, it's level 1-14 story arc.

All feedback welcome

Heh all this level 1-50 PLing must be happening heroside.

Sitting in the Cap Au AE currently and everybody is asking for level 20+ or 35+

seems like if you haven't atleast played normal content for a while that farm teams wont invite you on.

Atleast that's what I'm seeing anyway...

Looking through the guides and I can't see any recent guides on an SS/Fire build (there is one but it's quite old and doesn't really go in-depth as most of the other guides do), just wondering if any of the more experienced chappies in the brute forums had a good idea on a build.

The build would include throw shark and probably the two cone attacks, apart from that, it's up for grabs.

Ah that'd just be the name to throw them off the fact that it's entirely made of Cabal members...

You try going up against someone that can fly and has a hurricane centered on them...they would dominate the league and you can hear the humiliation of other teams being beaten by "The Sallys" from miles away...

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I think someone's been skipping class to farm AE. >.>

But yeah, there's one in Croatoa and one in Founder's Falls. Not that 98% of the populace ever visits those two campuses.

Maybe part of the problem is that these universities have no sports and no mascots!

And what would Croatoa's mascot be? Would they schedule games against the Miskatonic University Fighting Cephalopods?


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Actually Croatoa is the only university that I know has a mascot...

...it's Sally (our resident Loch Ness Monster-alike) although she is unfortunately an unofficial mascot...I say make her official, I mean she surfaces ever 30 minutes...so it's not like she's really that mythical...

Though why she's a threat to anyone...I can't really figure out...I mean..she runs off with one punch...

GM support is wide and varied.

Had awesome GMs that fixed the problem right away.

Had awful GMs who never even understood the problem, let alone how to fix it.

Spice of life and all that...

Just looking for reviews, comments on my arc.

It's level 1-14, designed for lowbie villainous play, no custom enemies, a couple of custom allys (never above lt level).

currently at 61 rating and a 4 star average.

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Quick Question...I was running the Midnight Draws Near Arc from Darren Wade and for fun I used the Visage power on my short female into the tallish male Midnighter...It seems to work fine in live when it comes to that respect?

It used the Smoke CC Emote from the magic pack and it changes the sex perfectly fine and the size scales...am I missing something?

Why is it not on live yet if that bit of programing code works?

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That's something different, the Midnighter disguise works like the halloween temp costume powers and is a model replacement (the underlying character is still the same, get held with your halloween costume on and it supresses).

The super tailors don't just switch models, they completely change your model base (male, female or huge).

Yes I was in SG mode when the glitch happened.

Appears to be a problem switching from Female to Huge body type on occasions.

Whenever you switch from female to huge, the proportions go all wrong and completely messed up.

When going back into the tailor to fix it appears as they the tailor still thinks it's female, infact the body type remains female but inherets the 'huge' proportions on the chest, arms and upper legs but retains the female face, boots and keeps the last costume, outfit is completely glitched out.

Logged out and logged back in again, costume was back to it's original state (female with no glitches) and could be switched to huge without problems.

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None of those pictures give me the creeps, except for this one.

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Aww, but they're such cute liddl' fuzzy wuzzies. How could you be afraid of that?

As for what'd creep me out? Hmm...it'd have to be something like a room that was an enemy or the like. All around you, but at the same time nowhere specific, and when a part of it takes damage, the whole room gets gradually more organic/decayed. Yeah, stuff like that.

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Ah in D&D this is known as the Terrible living room of death!

Lurker = Ceiling tries to strangle you to death!
Trapper = The floor is trying to eat you!
Stun mould = The walls are trying to consume you!

It's basically the ultimate in party killing technology and pretty much the equivilent of Rock Fall, everyone dies type party kill since it's virtually impossible to get out of it.

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Gah the waiting is killing me...the magic booster pack was kind of sprung on me as a nice surprise...but now I know that the SUPER SCIENCE! booster is coming...like being a kid and waiting for damn Christmas...

HURRY UP ALREADY!

Ah I'll throw mine in as well.

I always enjoy feedback, however it is a lowbie villain arc, from 1-14 and could probably be easily accused of being "Just a bunch of stuff that happened", 61 plays and a 4 star average (which I'm very happy about).

Arc ID: 80259.
Arc Name: A Proper Heist.
Missions: 4 (short)
Level range: 1-14
Difficulty: Very easy.
Description: You hear of an old time crook preparing a heist the old fashion way, perhaps he'll cut you in on the action...

Notes: Does contain Longbow (plus Family and PPD) and I know you dislike them but they're in small doses so hopefully wont push your major annoyance buttons. General alert as well, one of the custom NPCs (ally) AI can go a bit wobbly at times, not found a way to fix this.

(Anyone else playing this, feel free to PM with reviews of the arc, like I said, always love feedback, good or bad).

Ah the bane of the pocket D teleporter power.

One of the first characters I made, once I hit level 3 I activated it and of course ended up in Pocket D.

Now I didn't even know about the map at that point (tutorials...who pays attention to them?!) so I've blindly picked an entrance coming out from Pocket D..of course this turns out to be the Founders Falls entrance...I run along for a bit, forget where on earth the entrance back to Pocket D is and sigh.

I pull out the actual physical map, the one that came with the GvE edition of the game and begun plotting my route back...

So that's a level 3 going from Founders falls to Talos, Talos to Steel Canyon, Steel Canyon to Atlas park.

Needless to say that entire journey taught me about aggro ranges doing my damndest to avoid stuff so out of my league it could one shot me with a nasty glance.

Was only when I stumbled upon pressing M before pressing enter to type in team chat did I suddenly see a map come up and proceed to facepalm rather hard.

heh I know Elec/Elec rarely, if ever, has to care about Endurance but I'm not too thrilled at the /Elec secondary (even though I've had an elec/elec brute tank the LRSF perfectly well, including the final eight).

Would probably make a Mace/Shield Brute but I've heard Mace is quite a lot like Axe when it comes to endurance usage (though I think Stone Melee or SS are the big endurance hogging primary sets if I remember correctly).

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Someone should write a guide on Brute endurance management.

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Believe there already is one...even if it is kind of a jokey one... (not sure if ya being sarcastic or not, doesn't carry well in text) I know how to manage endurance but I was just curious to see what the least endurance using primary was.