Ironblade

No one is disputing the loss of people in your SG or your knowledge about their motivation. The point was that this is NOT a representative group. The very fact that they all knew each other makes it non-representative of the general game population. If your SG had some sort of theme or common goal, that would make them even less representative of the population.

Gee, thanks for putting words in my mouth. Did I say anything about upgrading whenever the whim takes me? No. I said my upgrading isn't scheduled around Going Rogue. What it *IS* scheduled around is the age and current performance of my computer.


The rest of your argument about waiting because computers will be more powerful in a few months is still absurd. That's not "making an informed purchasing decision". It's called being unrealistic about computer technology. It will ALWAYS be more powerful in a few months.

Sure, there ARE valid reasons to wait. As you say, if Going Rogue *IS* his main interest, then wait until we know more. If he doesn't have the money available, then wait and save. But "computers will be more powerful"??? Not a reason.

I know it was also affecting the Vanguard HVAS at one point. I remember the Shivan patch note, but don't know if the HVAS was fixed.

There's always hope. At most companies, there are people willing to go beyond their official job description and do what's needed. Hopefully someone like that will hear about this and take a second look to see whose fault it really is.

Standard response about losing a feature that they thought was important enough to advertise it on the box.

No problem whatsoever. Been playing 4-1/2 years and it doesn't seem any harder to get good names now than when I started.

Early names: Ironblade, Alloy, Mythmaster, Lifeshadow.
Recent names: Ironshield, Staff Sgt Frost, Dark Devices, Agent Pitchblende.

You will note that there is no funny punctuation, incorrect spellings or tricks using o/0 or 1/L.
I particularly like the last one. Pitchblende is uranium ore and the character is earth/rad.

This is true, and the only valid reason to wait.

This is ALWAYS the situation. Therefore, this is NOT a reason to wait.

Again, this is ALWAYS true and NOT a reason to wait.


P.S. I will NOT be waiting. My life (and computer usage) doesn't revolve around one game so the schedule for Going Rogue doesn't determine when I buy (or build, in my case).

Affected? Yes, but not the way the first paragraph suggests.

Let's say you take a power at level 4 and add additional slots at levels 7, 11, 15, 23 and 42. If you exemplar from level 50 to level 6, the power will keep all six slots. The level at which you added each slot does not matter. The order of the enhancements in the slots does not matter.

Now, having six slots of high level enhancements would make your character DRAMATICALLY more effective than someone who is really level 6. Therefore, the EFFECTIVENESS of each enhancement is reduced. (Math involved, Father Xmas provided the relevant link, blah, blah, blah )


TL;DR version: The level and order you add slots doesn't matter.

Fixed that for you.

P.S. Of course, I hear lots of the PvP'ers left.
P.P.S. I'm a badger.

Pretty easily. You can enter the Shard at level 1 to buy a Raptor Pack. Also, one side of the ship is close enough to the hills that you MIGHT be able to leap aboard WITHOUT the Ninja Run power. I'm sure Ninja Run would let you reach it.

Tankers seem to be both simultaneously lauded as the foundation of a good team, and denigrated as being completely useless.

Absolutely. I was just saying that you can't be 'world class' at both. I have 'survival tanks', 'damage tanks' and 'general purpose tanks'. If someone asks me to tank the STF, I don't bring a tank built for damage.

A scheduled, multi-zone attack? No. Those are always announced well in advance.

On the other hand, it's a safe bet people will be running the Lady Grey TF during the long weekend. That will trigger a single zone attack (which might be the wrong faction for you to attend).

With all due respect, when someone comes here looking for answers, it's best not to guess and/or speculate. You have it wrong and Lemur has it right.

Well, despite the names, 'Willpower' is actually more of a regen set than 'Regeneration'. For accuracy, the regen set should really be called 'Self Heal' since that's where most of it's power lies. So, REALLY, Willpower DOES provide better regeneration than Regeneration - but that doesn't mean better survivability.

The 'bread and butter' power is Reconstruction.... okay, most people would say it's Integration, and it is, but I'm assuming that Integration gets taken as soon as you can get it and you never turn it off. Base Reconstruction heals 25% of your hit points once per minute. You can enhance that to approximately half of your hit points every 30 seconds. So that power alone can replace your full hit points almost once per minute - at the cost of interrupting your attack chain.

Next, Dull Pain. Get this: under the right conditions, Dull Pain can heal you for MORE POINTS THAN YOU START WITH! This is because it first increases your maximum hit points, then heals you based on a percentage of the new total.

With these two powers, plus Moment of Glory, you have tremendous ability to deal with incoming damage. I have been on multiple task forces where I had to go into fights first because the tank couldn't survive it. Some enemy types are like kryptonite to certain tank sets - they bypass or negate the defenses and the tank has nothing to keep them alive. Self heals and regeneration work against everything (okay, except maybe Hamidon, but you don't see him too often). Classic example: most tank sets vs psionic enemies. With regen, I don't care if the damage is fire, psi, lethal, whatever.

With the regen set, you don't have to worry about an enemy being able to bypass your defenses or attack your weak spot. Another benefit (which it has in common with Willpower) is that you can skip the Fitness pool and pick three OTHER powers to enhance your survivability. My first character was broadsword/regen and I've logged thousands of hours on him. Regen kicks butt.

Having said all that, I know multiple people who simply do not use the regen set because, "It's too clicky."

Realistically, even the devs can't quantify this unless everyone who quits the game fills out an exit survey (and is honest in it).

Not menacing enough.
"I'm sorry. IceMan, IceWoman, IceBaby, IceIceBaby, and IcedDarling have all been taken. And I swear if you type in Vanilla Ice one more time I'm going to go Blue Steel on you!"

NOW, it's menacing.

This is probably not going to happen. The devs are under the impression (and might be right) that having a lot of storage capability will result in hoarding and harm the market/economy.

You don't need to. The term is commonly used in one of two ways:

1) "Our team needs more DPS."
All they are saying is that they want a character whose primary purpose is doing damage, like a blaster, scrapper, brute, etc.

2) "The DPS of this attack is 8.5."
Pretty much no one cares. This is a useless detail to over 99% of the players. I've been playing 4-1/2 years, have dozens of IO'ed characters, one with a build that cost billions, and I don't care what the DPS numbers are. It pretty much only matters to game developers and people who want to fight archvillains solo.

So, if they are referring to a character as DPS, it just means 'damage dealer'. If they are referring to specific DPS numbers, ignore them or they'll start in with other details like DPE (Damage Per Endurance).

Yeah, that help entry was pretty much useless.
"We have implemented new purchase limits to help prevent fraudulent credit card use. These limits restrict the number of codes which can be purchased for each product per household and/or credit card used within a certain timeframe."

With zero indication of low long "a certain timeframe" might be. sheesh.