JohnP_NA

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The single-target Taunt is not supposed to work in PvP. If it is, it will be fixed in the next build.

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I was certainly being taunted by Brutes attacks in PvP in Bloody over the weekend.

And to think, I did my Regen scrapper to 50 in before the lock for the I4 nerfs....whew. And we thought that was bad.

I6:
Fast Healing, Quick Recovery, Reconstruction, Dull Pain, Integration, Instant Healing
These powers now only increase regeneration rate (end or heal) when used in conjunction with '/em dance'.
Now more in line with Rooted from Stone Armour.

Moment of Glory
+def boost reduced to 1.3%. No longer accepts Defence enhancements to avoid uninformed slotted for minor return.
Part of global defence rebalancing. Reduced Boss to-hit %ge by 0.5% to compensate.

I just have to add my voice and say that this is terrible as an idea.

I'm always teaming with my SG. But that's not really a SG as strictly defined by CoH...it's defined by the Private Global Channel and our website if anything. We always team with characters both who are members of our 4 main supergroups, characters who've not signed up yet because we've not enough space for everyone's alts - even with 4 sgs!, etc, etc.

We were very much looking forward to being able to create a big SG base.....but, now it seems we won't have prestige despite being a SG since CoH beta just because we're split over multiple groups and don't use the terrible terrible SG mode system?

Wow. Terrible terrible idea.

My question is why do things like Smoke Grenade suppress Stealth?

What is the point of a power that enhances Stealth if using it actually drops your stealth effect and then aggros them on you before the SG stealth effect hits?

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Here's the real numbers (that's what I get for doing stuff from memory).

Wet Ice
0.5% base
1.265% Defence from Wet Ice with +++ SO's.

17.71% Max Defence from Energy Absorbtion (not what I had earlier).

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So...this is so everyone else can still feel they've not been nerfed too bad, right?

"Whoa, I feel so bad now my [Instant Healing/AoE Hold/Defense/Resists] have been reduced"
"Yeah, but hey, at least we're not Ice Tankers!"
"Man yeah, I feel so sorry for those guys. We should find one and PL him to try to let him get something out of the game."

I can only assume no one at Cryptic plays Ice Tankers.

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Agreed.

We should try NEVER to change a power because of PvP alone (BTW, this is what I've always promised). The changes now aren't solely because of PvP - there's signifcant PvE issues, too.

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How do you respond to comments that this hurts Blasters, already generally acknowledged to be very squishy, so much?
SS is often the only thing that's saved my Blaster and helped get out of the way...I know Sprint/Swift just doesn't cut it.

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He said "Halloween event". Isn't that when the Rularuu invaded, from the Shadow Shard?

[/ QUOTE ] No, the "Halloween event" was the, er, event at Halloween. You know, with the trick and treating and giant pumpkin thing.

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Rikti invasion was nice...Halloween worked well...and the Winter Lords had some good stuff.

[/ QUOTE ] The poor Ruularuu, forgotten already their invasion was so pointless...and the 5th/Council battles, obviously not important enough to be considered an event.

Well, my brother's now decided he wants to play CoH and so he asked me about it last night - should he get the UK or the US edition. I said that currently there's no way I'm going to be able to play with my characters on the UK version and so he's now getting a copy of the DVD box imported. We both might change over to the UK version if you guys want to provide char copying.

I was just thinking about how this relates to City of Villains...for those Europeans of us looking forward to that as well. (And I'm including hoping to get onto the Beta here.) The EU servers keeping up release dates with the US servers - does that include CoV, or is that going to be 6-odd months behind like CoH is? Is it even going to be possible for EU players on US servers to get onto the US CoV beta?