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will not be tolerated by those of us in the community that actually enjoy this game.

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Please provide documentary evidence that people who don't play the game the same way you do aren't enjoying the game.

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Don't you understand how a witch hunt works? Evidence is for fools.

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1. In before the delete.

2. If the OP thinks I'm going to waste my time in the MA reporting farms he can bite me. I like the regular content and don't use the MA. The people that use the MA can police themselves.

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Don't make him start putting up scary posters about the Red Menace and how its everyone's civic duties to root them out.

Wait...

Farmers are laborers... Communist revolution is about the laborers rising up to take control of the means of production...

*slowly takes off glasses* Oh my GOD...

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Rise of the Drakule has gone through a few revisions in the past for difficulty (not sure how long ago you played it), and in I15 it's getting a major overhaul.

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When I was re-playing it, I did feel that the I15 changes to power selections will be a blessing for the arc. I understand totally that you want to keep the vampire "feel" of the npcs powers and currently it is kinda limited as to what you can do in that area.

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Just a quick mention of a couple of the bigger changes, Drakule's going to get more axe powers, but won't have Cleave. That's the huge hitter. He's getting whirling axe and the cone power, which I can't remember the name of, since as an AV I feel he shouldn't be ALL single target. His secondary is getting changed, so he won't have the heal power, which could be absolutely crippling for some teams when he spawns as an AV, and he won't have the stun aura or the stealth, as I've had reports of people not being able to see his model. I think it has something to do with graphics settings maybe? Whatever. He's losing it.

Spektyrs are going to have their dark blast worked so they get mainly control powers, i.e. dark pit, tentacles, and torrent instead of a bunch of damage powers. Those powers tend to not have -tohit anyhow. Drakule's brides and priestesses will FINALLY go back to Dark Miasma, as I can make them without darkest night, which is probably one of the most annoying powers to give to an enemy.

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Yes there is!

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Perhaps you wouldn't feel such shame if you didn't constantly do such immoral things to Liv.

GOD IS ALWAYS WATCHING YOU, JUDADS

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Title: Rise of the Drakule
Arc ID: 51357
Creator’s Global Name: @laserjesus
Mission Count: 2
Notes – Boss/EB heavy


Lowdown – There is plenty of humor in this arc and overall the writing is very good. I really, really hate having to lower my difficulty just to play an arc, but the Eb in the first creamed me and the description did say "best for team play". The look of the customs is good, though the powers badly need rebalancing.

Funny Level – For team play I am guessing Very Humorous. I would not recommend it for solo play at this time.


Fun Level - Team play it should be pretty fun. For solo play not so much.


Let’s up it to 11! – Please, please rework the powersets. It would definitely increase your ratings/plays of people that like to solo.

Overall Rating – The arc is very worth playing however even lowered to level 1 the amount of dark powers combined with confuse and self heals may be very hard for many soloing. It should be perfectly manageable by any decent team


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Thank you for the review! I will make sure to play through Trademark Infringement.

Rise of the Drakule has gone through a few revisions in the past for difficulty (not sure how long ago you played it), and in I15 it's getting a major overhaul. Still quite a few dark blasts and heals (they are vampires, after all) but the overall difficulty should be lower. For instance, no more things like Cleave or Midnight Grasp on the AVs, and less dark blasts on the LTs and such, since I can fine tune them to be somewhere between standard and hard.

The reason why it says for teams is mostly due to the fact that it contains EBs and AVs, which not everyone can solo. Essentially, anyone who can solo an EB should be able to solo this with some skill, and you can always bring insps for the final boss.

Flared boots/gloves, stealth chest detail, armored pads shoulders. Belt, you should probably use stealth. Don't even bother trying to match the helmet, just stick it in a full mask if it's a guy, and a mask with hair if it's a girl. The Longbow helmets look retarded anyhow.

Since I've already played and reviewed Death to Disco, could I get a review of Rise of the Drakule from you?

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I can't believe a level 50 doesn't have 10k to buy a wentworths tp or can't park at a wentworths for 21 days (plus a few) to earn free wentworths tps to solve this issue. Either will take you from any zone to the wentworths of your choosing - including the one in Steel. (where you could buy another wentwroth's tper, before heading back to Peregrine Island via the O-portal.)

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The point is why should I have to? The idea is a non-solution to a problem that doesn't actually exist, that would negatively impact peoples' gameplay. Not just my gameplay, mind, but the gameplay of any low level character who wants to SK up with a high level character doing non-farming MA missions. Said low level character will have to traverse to Steel Canyon, then to Talos Island, then to Peregrine Island. When I could just go to whatever zone he's at with one of my numerous methods of easy travel from being such a high level and not have to contend with higher level enemies like the lowbie would.

You've got a problem with tons of people spamming broadcast in Atlas? Huh. Sounds like Atlas since the beginning of time. This is why I start every one of my heroes in Galaxy. See? Problem freakin' solved.

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Well if they could cap AE missions to whatever the lvl range of the particular zone is, that would fix everything IMO. 50s could still come to do AE fram in Atlas if they want....they would just have to do lvl 10 farms They could still go farm lvl 54 boss AE missions all day in zones meant for 50s.

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You didn't quite get it.

My first idea means - If you are above the level of that zone, you can't use the AE in that zone - at all - the portal will not let you in and you can't use the AE computers to pull up missions. Level 1's can still pull up level 50 missions in Atlas, Galaxy, or Mercy if they want to.

https://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthre...SID=&fpart=

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Not signed. I don't want my level fifty to have to go to talos and then steel or use a base portal to have easy access to a university and a wentworths.

Yeah, I don't agree with this. Especially due to the fact that we'll be able to recolor standard enemies in I15.

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Your average player probably doesn't care too much if he can't use the burning forest map in AE anymore, but if you cut his experience, he's going to notice, and he's going to be pissed...

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I guess I'm not "average", since I very nearly drove down to Paragon Studios in person to [censored] at them over this one. Seriously, if they pull that [censored] again people will quit writing stories. After a point it becomes just not worth the hassle to rewrite every patch.

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The burning forest map was horribly bugged. Collection objects would spawn in midair, and I can't count the amount of times that missions on the burning forest map were impossible to complete due to bosses not spawning. I'm sure it'll be back.

But again, I was more pointing out that a small change to MA will piss off a small amount of players. A global reduction in rewards will piss off pretty much every player. As this game is a subscription based product, pissing off a few players at a time with changes is far better for them financially than pissing off a lot of players at once.

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Links to the original redname usage:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat....ue#Post12069021
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat....ue#Post12159065

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Wow, I had never read that post regarding Web Grenade getting replaced in Weapons Mastery. As I have a Scrapper that SHOCK actually uses Weapons Mastery and SHOCK actually has Web Grenade, I would have been extremely pissed off to find that it had turned into a cottage grenade. Very pleased that Castle ultimately decided against it. Web Grenade's probably one of the most useful powers in that set.

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Females can wear Crab Spider backpacks? How come I never find this stuff?

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They HAVE to wear Crab Spider backpacks if they're a Crab Spider. Otherwise, no they cannot.

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And as someone else said, I've always wanted to see shoes given as an extra option in addition to feet. Knee-high boots are good and all, but they are VERY limiting. The one option we have for sneakers just isn't anywhere near enough.

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You can "cheat" and recolor work boots and wear them under pants, but that doesn't work for all kinds of shoes. The leather boots under pants works great for a more high class shoe. But yeah, beyond that, I've got nothing :P

This, obviously, was inevitable.

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However, there's a Sonics close to me, so I can take you there. Also, I LOVE Boston Market, but the one near me closed. We'd have to hit Cleveland for it, and that's quite a drive for a tasty, tasty, deliciously, tasty sammich.

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Oh man, they just opened a Sonic in my town over the winter. It was probably the best thing to happen here in years.

Yes, I live in a very boring town.

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Man, when this Sonic opened up, I giggled and jumped. Like a little [censored]. The closest Sonic to me was in Columbus, and I wasn't about to drive two and a half hours for Sonic.

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Yeah, to get to the closest Sonic I had to go out of state to Indiana. Not really wanting to cross the state border for burgers. Only for cheap smokes and fireworks.

Fighting Freedom is 21-30ish, with some variances in the level range, with the 4th mission not having one since it has only custom enemies. Arc ID is in my sig.

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However, there's a Sonics close to me, so I can take you there. Also, I LOVE Boston Market, but the one near me closed. We'd have to hit Cleveland for it, and that's quite a drive for a tasty, tasty, deliciously, tasty sammich.

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Oh man, they just opened a Sonic in my town over the winter. It was probably the best thing to happen here in years.

Yes, I live in a very boring town.

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You don't have an MMO run for 5 years by being stupid all the time.

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Fixed.

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That's true, Everquest is still running somehow.

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The issue is the psychology of it. A continual series of small nerfs may cause more negativity than one big one followed by a series of buffs.

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The problem isn't how much negativity is caused, it's how much of your player base gets angry. With small cuts here and there to hit the outliers, the people who will notice for the most part are the people who were using the exploits and such to gain rewards at a higher rate than what was intended and those who visit the forums regularly.

However, if you make a big cut, more people are going to be affected, and in a bigger way. Those people may get so angry with this big cut that they unsubscribe, possibly never to resubscribe. Those people won't be appeased by the gradual raising back up, as they won't be around any more.

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Did I hear something about a completely revamped costume maker coming? I think it was in the Going Rogue announcement. Did I just imagine that?

Maybe, just maybe, they'll finally expand the legs section and add a bunch more details all over. That would be cool.

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Seriously? This sounds amazing if it's true!!

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Yeah well I can't find it now to save my life. I must have been smoking something.

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You hooligan.

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You will never see them cut rewards to MA to the extent that you are suggesting.

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Something has to, and will be done.
Although i am not pro-cutting rewards, its probably the easiest fix. And by being the easiest fix, will probably be the one that gets implemented by Paragon.

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Please. Just because it's the easiest fix, doesn't mean it's the one they'll do. You don't have an MMO run for 5 years by being stupid. Most MMOs fail to even start or are cut down to 1 or 2 staff members or are shut down completely after a very short period of time. Cutting the rewards across the boards is probably something they will NEVER do, because you can bet your [censored] that it will piss a lot of people off. Not just here on the forums, either. Your average player probably doesn't care too much if he can't use the burning forest map in AE anymore, but if you cut his experience, he's going to notice, and he's going to be pissed.

For the last 5 years, when they found an exploit, they fixed that exploit. It'll happen exactly the same way here.

Consider me signed for more leg details as long as it doesn't end up with Rob Liefeld style pouches everywhere.

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The only two "great" losses I cite are 1) the ability to create a custom boss that is LESS than the standard;

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We technically never had that, though. It was literally on test for a week. And there's going to be changed to custom critters in the next test patch according to Castle.

And as far as I'm concerned, the ticket gain is looking just fine to me. On missions using the dance club map, which is a tiny freaking map, I still get like 200 some odd tickets solo if I kill everything on the map. On a full team I get considerably more. Obviously all LT farms are going to give you more tickets, because that's how tickets work. From the looks of it, the developers really don't give a damn how many tickets you set your mission to give, unless it's an absurd number. In that case, you'll be hitting the ticket cap. Which, by the way, I've hit exactly once since it was put in, and I do MA teams more than once a week.

The best possible solution to this problem is to make it so any given critter can only be rezzed once. Obviously, that will take extra coding and thus won't be the easiest or quickest solution. But as far as I can tell, it's the best.