Evangel

well, i'm happy with my powerset but some people have been asking for powerest choice in teh respec. so what , you level up a blaster to 50 using AR/Dev and you want to try out ALL of the blaster possibilities.

thats how many combinations of powersets? 8 primary , 6 secondary, 5 ancillary (less the one he's already tried of course) and lets leave ancillary out of it as that is covered in a normal respec. (never was very good at combinations and permutations so I'm guessing that this is a straight forward 1 of 8 x 1 of 6 = 8x6 = 48 possibilities (however 1 has already been tried (AR/Dev) so that leaves 47.

47 x 5.99 = 281.53 euro

do this for each AT in the game (assuming they all have the same number of options:

10 x 281.53 = 2815.30

now add in VEATs and HEATs and then consider that power pools may be included in respecs but you'll run out of freespecs and have to do the trial each and every time.

thats quite a bit of cash.

I play through as the game wants me to. I have the benefit of enjoying the game and learning about the powerset I am playing. (all the arguments for why people shouldnt powerlevel) . I would have to play for 78 years to provide this level of revenue to NCNC.

so what if they dont stick around and pay subs. assuming they start playing at 12 years old, chances are they wouldnt live long enough to match it anyway

in all honesty my math looks to be a bit wrong. can someone check it and correct it if necessary ?

a confirm offer / price in the AH or BM would be good too. (with an option to turn the confirmation off). will stop mistakes of too many zeroes by accident and (as happened to me) buying 3 iron followed quickly by 3 hamidon goo. at least I can use the goo in the future but it was a serious "oh s**t" moment when my inf dropped dramatically

the payable one should allow you to re-choose powersets

would keep several requesters happy and differentiate it nicely from the in-game ones.

yeah but if you're waiting for a TF to start it helps pass the time. until they get a roast marshmallow emote when I shall happily set fire to a few buildings myself for that gooey goodness.

oh, thats level 47 blaster by the way.

lvl 47 and I still find myself using my single lvl 45 IO damage brawl....

stoopid tanks letting stuff get to the squishies....

I always thought you had to do both.

1st badge: 10 hellions
2nd 50 hellions + 50 fires
3rd: 100 hellions + 100 fires


however, the point might be to get the badge, but what good are teh badges? Are they part of a set that expands your characters powers? Do they open up a new part of the storyline ?

If no. then ultimately pointless (the badges). The fires do have a point, which is the badges though.

my head hurts.

I'll try for 8:30 but cant promise it. If I arrive late I'll still be in OB mode wont i ? so I can catch up to you

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BADGES ARE NOT POINTLESS

That is all

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unlike broken pencils

well ,they could turn on global fog in successive zones for a limited period of time to simulate a rolling fog bank after all, they can change the zone lighting and debt for rikti invasions.

I'll have my weather effect if it kills ghostraptor!

Its not zone events per se that I am looking for. its just events. happenings. things that arent predictable (rikti invasions are nice but they happen in a set timeframe and have started to wear thin for some people - not me , I love them - )

These events would have to be specific to one zone or period of time. they could just be things that happen every now and then. if you are online and in a place to see it, well and good. if you dont, well, you might see it next time.

tentacles you say. cute tentacles in fact. nice

another idea: freezing (literally) fog.

take the fog from DA and have it roll across the city in a wave that causes minor DoT cold damage.

or an actual FOG / MIST rip off. a rolling bank of fog with either:
undead swinging cutlasses
tentacled monsters
dark shapes that flit past without actually doing anything

the tentacled fog could come bubbling up from the faultline chasms.

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Hehe they do!

And you reged on my birthday, so I love you

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you're less than 3 years old

wow, gaming is getting younger and younger these days

yes, pointlessness is not often a thing suggested but I'm doing it anyway

what I mean by this is:
why does everything that happens have to have a reason ?

there's fires in Steel canyon set by hellions which can earn you a badge but as far as I know, htere is no other point to it. I like it

so why not some more pointless happenings ?

some ideas:
1. a man-sized glowing orb slowly drifts around AP. it is impervious to all attacks, it puts out a scanning ray on heroes that get too close but doesnt actually DO anything.
after a while it goes away.
Is this a precursor to an invasion ?
Is this some CoT or nemesis plot? (well, the second one goes without saying, or does it?)

2. a building in a random , generally well populated, zone goes on fire. the fire chief turns up. will heroes put it out ? maybe.

3. a skull vs hellion street brawl breaks out

4. mass migration of clockwork from one end of KR to the other, straight through anythign that stands in its way. no warning, just a march of the clockwork penguins.

5. a hi-tech sub starts appearing around Talos island. Surfaces and ducks under water again

6. a monolith appears in the middle of galaxy city. it doesnt do anything, it just appears. maybe another appears somewhere else ? maybe there's already more around that heroes havent seen yet ?

7. a plane crashes in mercy Island. no bodies, no evidence of anyone on board, just lots of flaming wreckage and a burned out shell with suspicious huge claw marks on the fuselage.

8. wreckage falls from the sky over a wide area. weird strange wreckage with glyphs on it that isnt recognised as any known faction or as magical . a new faction ? who knows.

9. a portal opens in WW on talos island and a huge demonic arm pokes through for a little bit before receding and the portal closes. Perhaps the same happens elsewhere and any heroes getting too close get attacked.

10. acid rain over an area causing minor DoT to anyone outdoors.

11. grafitti appears on overpasses saying "the lord of hosts cometh to judge you all. you have been warned"

12. a citizen randomly attacks a hero/villain shouting " I know you. You must be stopped". obviously said citizen is no match for the character but that doesnt matter.

13. Citizens have a street fight.

14. a car randomly accelerates into the side of a building and explodes.

15. citizens consistenyl get a heroes name wrong "OMG its captain wonderful! can I have your autograph". Who is captain wonderful ? why is the hero being mistaken for him (or her) ?

16. earth tremor that lasts about 15 seconds. any character on the ground gets a free shakey cam effect and a stagger animation.

17. a security drone (coH or coV) goes beserk and starts attacking its on-duty partner. once one is destroyed it deactivates and the men in white coats come along to replace it saying "nothing to see here"

18. Masses of longbow or arachnos run through the zone or use flyers to get to an abandonded warehouse which promptly explodes.

the point of the pointlessness is that
- it gets speculation going
- it starts conversations
- it puts foreshadowing in place if ever something is developed from them (the monoliths are actually the anchor points for an inter-dimensional invasion)
- it keeps up the element of suprise. you never know what you'll see or hear from other players.
- players will create their own connections and develope their own expectations

Is there any way to extend the duration of click powers like build up and hasten ?

also, If i slot a "to hit buff" into build up (I think thats the one) that has +accuracy + rech reduction , what exactly does the +accuracy do ? does build up increase your accuracy or just damage?

was it just me or were the drops nearly non-existant?

i got 1 invention recipes and 2 recharge red(50)

a few inspirations

3 invention salvage and 1 base salvage

0 enhancements

I think an expansion to the "traditional" tilesets would be nice. Not new tilesets but rather adding a boiler room possibility to the office building with a stairs down to it , or a lift gear room at the top, perhaps an empty lift shaft for people to fall down (hand in hand with this would be an option to physically interact with allies (ie: push) )

etc.

warehouses could have machinery hangars (half built airplanes, or a maze of stacking crates like the end of raiders of the lost ark ).

add to that the possibility of features such as frostfire's ice lair and things could be good.

accuracy ? who needs accuracy! just get ti to recharge fast enough and the law of averages will kill anything

cool, my plan of +heal , +kb , + psych + something else I havent found yet can go ahead for my slug power on my blaster (along with two lvl 50 damage IOs.... muhahhahahahahaaaa

on another note , while playing on the US servers ages ago (before EU Beta) I played a emp defender meant as a healer. I wasnt used to healing etc and so had a bit to learn. This was not helped by constant abuse and calls to be kicked from the team by two scrappers whi regularly ran in against purple mobs and just expected my char to be there to back them up , even if my char was busy trying to defend himself from the other purples they aggro'ed but couldnt hold.

In the end, I had enoug of the insults, told them where to go , deleted my alt , logged in as my blaster nad follwoed them around sniping all their targets for a night, oh and hurling n00b calls at them which they didnt like very much

I now have a new defender , emp/arch , that I like very much and I am sorry that I deleted my old healer as it was a good laugh up until that experience.

Gave me a good insight into how tough it is for healers nad a new appreciation for what they do. I've always said thank you since then to healers in a group , especially when they save my squishy self from getting eh.. squished.

well, it could be a villain poweset.... ohh, how about a stalker powerset !!

tbh, I would like to put in more hold/immob powers but to me, explosive are all about damage.

For your consideration/critique

Sapper:

An explosive devices powerset:

1. caltrops: as current power
2. Landmine : buries a mine that explodes when a non-allied mob travels over it. Multiple mines in close proximity can trigger a chain reaction effect. ( moderate lethal/smashing damage recharge: medium)
3. Proximity sensor: proximity sensor can be placed on walls, ceiling or floor with a medium detection range. Any motion within the sensor range causes an alert to appear on the owners screen. The owner can then , optionally, charge the sensor causing it to detonate (and possibly set off any nearby explosives) recharge: long , only 1 at any one time. 1st click sets, second click detonates, right click to disable and recharge for a reset.
4. Charge : allows the sapper to imbue his devices with additional destructive capacity of a type: Fire, Electrical, Force, negative, toxin etc. essentially the mine becomes a receptacle for the next power that targets it, which it absorbs and releases along with its own power on discharge (mine remembers what damage and what type went into it). (recharge: long)
5. Micro-mines: a small minefield in a bag! Spread out over an area these small explosive devices detonate when walked over or once their timer has elapsed. (type: lethal/smashing , chance disorient recharge: moderate)
6. gas grenade: lobs a grenade of Tear gas that does moderate Toxin DoT and has a chance to disorient any that enter its area of effect. (toxin moderate DoT, disorient foe , foe –end)
7. Smart bomb: a small mini missle that launches itself at a target. Once within range it explodes dropping a payload of small warheads filled with a concentrated napalm variant onto and around the target (high smashing/lethal , moderate fire DoT , recharge long, range: long)
8. Razor wire: a canister of experimental razor wire. Long cables made of monofilament wire controlled by nanotech bots. Once thrown the canister bursts open spreading the wire as far as possible. The wire will start to move toward any motion it detects (mobs in the AoE) and then start to wind around them, cutting and sawing as it goes. The wire contracts toward a central point at which time it becomes inert and can be gathered for re-use. (AoE , enemy Slow, high DoT lethal , moderate DoT: electrical, recharge long )
9. Fantastique plastique: Chargeable plastique charges that can be set on floor , walls or any surface. Water proof, fire retardant, cold proof. These are indeed the height of chemical engineering in the explosive arms race. This power takes two icons, a set icon, that can be used up to 6 times and a detonate icon that works from anywhere in the instance (range is not a factor). Once detonated the explosives begin to recharge. (AoE , damage extreme Lethal/smashing , high (fire), recharge: very long)

IMHO: whoever said "farmers us X" or "you know a farmer beause he uses Y" is a gimp.

Play whatever you want to play. Farming has its place and if some people like to do it , then thats good for them.

My main is an AR/Elec blaster and I've been asked to PL players as I hang around AP (err, that is not meant to sound dodgy). - actually , anyone ever see any children in CoH ? seriously, where's little Timmy ? where's the Well? Where's Skippy?

same goes for many sets of the same type. so waht, make your own character. make a cool costume, make a good bio, play the character you want to play. The idea of a MMO is to have fun, not follow fashions.

I read how good Fire/fire tanks were and decided to see for myself as I hated the tank I rolled up before (super strength / Ice). have to say ,I quite like the fire / fire tank. makes me want to look at other tank varieties.

thieves was probably a wrong example. I was really just thinking why should base items sell for inf instead of prestige. after all, the base item benefits the SG so shouldnt it also benefit it when sold ?

was a good laugh and finally tipped my SG prestige over the 50k mark so its financing a medbay

those little crab bots are a pain in the nether regions. I'd swear that one hung around on purpose waiting for me to rez... evil little sods.

Looking forward to thursday.

how about the ability to place the squares where you want ? (ie: instead of a grid).

for example your 8x8 grid = 64 squares

if you ahd the option you could lay them out in 16x4 so your base would be linear like the habitation ring on a space station or a sewer or a series of train carriages.