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A smattering of anything we've been doing as a duo. Paper missions (level 40 Arachnos last night. Let me tell you that 3x lts. + the minions or boss was not fun). Trick or treating. Normal missions.
It does seem to be mostly duos. I'd hope it doesn't have anything to do with vet vs. newbie. I know it doesn't have anything to do with level.
Trick or Treating and getting bosses+lts. on a duo at level 7 absolutely sucked. -
Old heroic settings. +0/x1. Both of us.
Trust me, the spawns we've been running into should not be duos. And no, they aren't overlapping spawns either. It's been this way for about six to eight weeks.
It's been brutal for my friend (new player) and I (crusty old Vet). -
So has anyone heard a confirmation that the developers know of the spawn bugs?
A +1 boss and 6 +1 minions (arachnos) is a little crazy on a duo. Or the 4 Lts. and 4 minions in a spawn.
Or are we just supposed to suck it up and keep fighting the mobs until we beat them through stubborness?
I'm tempted to just take a break for a few months and hope they fix things. Because this isn't fun. -
5% or 10% left. I think the last glowie or two too.
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I might actually play a dual-wielding scrapper or brute again.
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Not quite true. There are a lot of combination at the higher level that are absolute bears to level with quite a bit of content.
My Psi/Psi Blaster basically gave up regular content and I had to AE specific mobs to not run into super Psi resistant mobs and robots constantly.
There's more have-nots than you would think. -
The thing that I'm getting from the developers is that these super-annoying mobs is that they are 'working as intended.'
And that's sad, because it means unless you've picked the right AT-combo, having fun is secondary to challenge.
IOW, haves and have nots yet again. -
Yeah, I'd posted this a while back when my low level duo I was on with ran into a boss, 2xlts and 4 minions in one spawn.
We were basically team-wiping every other spawn.
Lovely 'heroic' settings at 7th level, Devs. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Noyjitat
Not to be a negative jerk or anything but if the developers ever REALLY take another look at khelds and all the things wrong with them they would probably be popular again. My pb has been collecting dust since the last "improvement" was made to them.
I am unsure what you mean about arachnos characters not being as popular though because atleast on freedom I see a ton of them.Even data-mining has shown that Khelds are less popular.Quote:Originally Posted by Clouded
You really think your anecdotal evidence is a better measure than a dev's datamining?
They are not as self-contained and they are pretty close to being forced to get and use the forms (as say compared to VEATs that get two potentially useful and different builds.)
In fact, if they ever fixed the bug where if either of your builds has the crab-legs on your back and you are stuck with them in either build, I'd probably have a crab build and a mace build.
But Kheldians are punished for not stepping on their forms bailiwicks by still having a totally broken mezz-protection in human-form, instead of them coming up with something like Dwarf form get's a +2.5% DEF buff per +10% RES buff. Or a +10% healing power buff per +RES buff.
But since giving human-form 'competent' mezz-protection would negate the need for Dwarf, they basically said 'never'.
So their jack-of-all trades actually isn't.
You can't scrap on a Kheldian if there's any reasonable amount of Mezz in your foes. -
I'm actually glad that BABs gave us some 'real' reasons, but I do have to say that these really are things that should be done as it will help remove limits.
Like forms. That is not strictly a Kheldian issue. Stoners (hah!) should be allowed to customize their forms and so should Kheldians, even if it is just tinting it based on the activation form.
Considering you are looking at customizing power pools, Ancillary and 'maybe' Patron Pools, those inherent powers should be able to be fit into that programing schema too.
I'd rather hear 'We are still working on it, but it is going to take a long while' than 'sorry, too much work to let every powerset be equally customizable.' -
Will we see custom characters scale better at the lower end (Training Origin and Dual Origin Enhancements levels) so that you players can enjoy an AE arc from like level 5 to 50?
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It would be a great improvement if instead of the Vet Reward granting you four (or so) additional walks, that it unlocked the ability to 'customize' your normal walk with the four nice additional VFX types.
I pretty much do not pick them these days just because it clutters up my inherent powers worse. -
That's just because it was the last day. People procrastinate.
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Quote:Well, until the Supreme Court finishes taking a hard look at patenting business methods.Originally Posted by Obsidius
There are several lawsuits out there against NCSoft, Blizzard, Sony, etc. by people who have supposedly patented "interaction with other people through the Internet in 3D environments" and "communicating with people across the Internet with text messages", which basically applies to all MMOs. So it's possible to patent a system, regardless of how obtuse or silly most of us think it is. Holding up the patent in court can be a different situation altogether.
But that's off-topic.
This probably had patent trolls worried, IMO. -
Quote:Hey, Castle, how the idea of Wuxia being a toggle that give you no bonus movement or leap, but has all the same animation without an End Cost? Because I'd *love* to be able to be in that 'combat stance' all the time and it's too expensive a toggle to do it normally.Originally Posted by Castle
Ninja Run (I wanted to call if Wuxia, but was overruled...) is better than sprint by a pretty good margin. It's better than Combat Jumping, in terms of speed, as well.
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Quote:I do believe they mentioned more packs for the origins after all five are done (Ie. things like Super Pack VI "Science II" as a possibility.)Originally Posted by mousedroid
4) If this is the "Natural" origin booster pack, I guess we're out of luck on things like backpacks, quivers, scabbards, etc., huh? Unless maybe (hopefully) they'll appear in a future pack.
I believe they mentioned the problem with sheaths on your back is the fact that weapons that you use are actually in your hand all the time, but invisible.
I hope they figure something out for that. Even if it is just plunking two copies of your weapon. One in your hand and one on your back. And depending on your 'weapon visible' bit, the one on the back appears or disappears. -
You can buy jetpacks for $5 too. And those are just temporary.
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And people thought I was nuts that the last patch was 'far too big' for just walk. :P
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Quote:Not sure you can do that without the tools that the developers actually use or manually editing the files (which we can't really do either.)Originally Posted by Lady_Dee
1. How do you get it in the nav to say "place the last bomb" or something to that extent.
For example if you choose to have five bombs in the mission to place. Ok plant four of them, get to the final one to plant or whatever and it just says <blank> bombs to plant.
Hostage/rescue AI has always been a bit wonky. Different AI patches may help. Generally the thing I've seen is they take off at MACH 5 after spamming you with the text your write.Quote:Originally Posted by Lady_Dee
2. Going to assume this is a bug. The first mission escort some one out. Ok, they go to the door, open and leave. The next escort get them to the door and they just stand there. I DID make sure that the "Run to the nearest door" was marked. What gives?
That should be possible. Did you try to select the group of "Empty"?Quote:Originally Posted by Lady_Dee
3. Allies. I chose my ally to help aid the character upon entering. I chose the option no baddies around the ally. Guess what? Enter a mission and there is baddies around the ally. Bug again I assume?
This one has to do with checking the map you are planning on using. Not all maps actually really have a 'back' area. Especially if you are doing random maps within a context.Quote:Originally Posted by Lady_Dee
4. Random blinkies and by random they have a mind of their own. I have a blinkie marked as IN the back, enter the mission and guess what? Its in the front! Go back and look, yep checked to be in the back. This a bug too?
Verify closely that your map actually has enough 'back' spawn points for your glowies and bosses.
That might have been to keep the size of the missions down.Quote:Originally Posted by Lady_Dee
5. Has anyone else notice for the contacts the description part is shorter then in game? You pick someone, I dunno like Lord Recluse, no information about that contact. Go to Wiki copy and past his information that IS in his description in the game. Comes back and says its too long. Maybe I missed something >_>.
Sorry for all the questions. If anyone has any answers, I'd appreciate it! -
'Ghostly' Transparent versions of the current pistols for the Force/Fire/Cold/Toxic-Poison ammo types. That way you could have either a 'manifested' mutant power of pistols or magic-etheral guns.
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Babs, while I have great respect for you, I think you are off on this one.
If we weren't to be allowed to 'stand out' in Arachnos as our VEATs, then we shouldn't also be allowed to have our own special uniforms.
We should be able to stand out from the Rank and File of Arachnos, proving we are 'better' than they are.
And with HEATs, I feel that there is easily enough feel for 'color tintable' versions of the powers so that we can look *similar* to others, but also stand out as our own heroes.
This is bad forced role play. -
That's the thing. It's randomly appearing in any duo spawns.
Sometimes you'll have nearly normal, other times you have either member of the duo dying or even team wipes.
Low level character just can't survive that. -
Umm.... so you think 1 boss *AND* 2 lts *AND* 4 minions is a normal spawn for a 7th level duo on +0/+0?
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So has anyone else been running into brutal spawns on +0/x0 Duo Spawns?
I've personally seen 1 boss, 2 lt.s and 4 minions from ToT and in missions on duos. -
Actually, I have the Fitness Hurdle and Swift. I've actually found that I can overslot Hurdle, actually. I'm a bit too bouncy with two jump enhancements in it, IIRC.
I'm not actually too fast, but I can get around fine without any travel powers if I needed to.
I use this in combat to keep up (vaguely) with everyone I'm speed boosting.
I didn't get Syphon Speed until I needed to slow down bosses greatly. So technically, I have two forms of maxed our super-running.
I feel like a pinball so often. Especially in caves.