MajikMan

Why is it there you ask?

Among other things its because some critters will get past that Force Bubble with almost no problem but get hurled away from Repulsion Field. Getting smacked around by Warwolves for instance is a fast way to appreciate having the knockback toggle as the doggies laugh at that repel bubble

(Posting this again in there)

I'd like to be able to login on the forums with Firefox my preffered browser, not IE8 which tbh I do not trust using. I enter my login details only for it to reset after the page is refreshed

Aside from that they seem fine and they are much faster than before so thats great news.

Its all rather swish looking but given I'm unable to login properly on my preffered web browser (Firefox - it just continually needs me logging in) and having to type this in IE8 on my new Vista system, the forums so far get a thumbs down for me.

I had in my head the motion that Valkrie does when she attacks you with her ranged spear attack but instead of a cone, its single target (recoloured obviously too).

They didn't kid when they said it was a very melee biased set

Ice and Fire primaries are going to be fun with the combo toggles available (Artic Air and the already mentioned Hot Feet combo).

Given zombies have no resistance to fire based damage and its large use in CoV, a set that offers superior resistance (and heals!) to fire attacks has got to be great for Necromancy MM users.

Very appealing to roll another Necromancy MM when I16 is launched

So the Dominator's get this new Earth Assault for their secondary powers.

Wonder how the set will look as the existing Stone Melee/Epic powers have some holes in a typical Dominator style powerset.

1) Throw Rock - a low dmg, fast animating power doesn't exist other than the temp snowball/rock one. I would expect this to be a 'new' power.

2) Stone Mallet

3) Hurl Boulder

4) Heavy Mallet

5) Fissure

6) Build Up

7) Fault ? - really need to add something ranged as the sets way too melee focused, even compared to Elec Assault.

8) Tremor

9) Seismic Smash

Doesn't really flow with what we already have so I'm hopeful of 2-4 'new' powers to flesh out what should be a nice melee based secondary set.

I've gone with Ghost Widow on my Ice/Psi purely for Dark Obliteration (my dark 'fireball'). The shield is not too bad, the pet has quite a decent snipe that can't be interupted (plus +perception in a flakey way for you). Not sure how Soul Drain will work out with the AT changes and the recharge time on Dark Consumption put me off totally from selecting (besides the refill when entering dom mode).

Scriocco has alot of good powers to offer, a decent ranged AoE that you lack, a pet that can heal and not be healing your pet(s) cos you have none, a faster recharging endurance refiller and a 'god' mode power.

Scorpy has the only +Def/+Res(Toxic) shield, a very cool pet (alot of nice powers that mesh well), a good panic button, a somewhat iffy AoE blast and a nice single target debuff.

Mako is perhaps the weakest imho for yourself, the pet I'm somewhat a fan of but not many are, the shield noise loops (or at least it did on my last go), the cone is very pleasing graphically and does the least resisted type of damage and Hybern00b is a handy panic button. Water Spout is pure win tho and just alot of fun. If nothing else your alt build should have Water Spout in it

Dull Pain just increases your max hit points and heals you :?

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Lets also hope the black is actually black! NOT SEE-THROUGH

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Amen to that!

Mids says 11.3% boost to damage with Assault, its not earth shattering but it helps with the supremecy inherent of MasterMinds.

As for the sets I'd need to look at that later on or see if anyone else has a nice uber type build up their sleeve.

What concerns me is the level you've taken your Assault Bot at and when you've got the Upgrade power as well - both should always be taken at the level they are offered from (26 +32).

Repulsion Bomb as an damaging attack on a MM is exceptionally weak but it does allow for some IO set bonuses if nothing else - remember those bonuses are for you and not the bots.

The Protector Bots should have some amount of endurance reduction as they can run out of blue spamming shields/drones/attacks.

Assault and Tactics are always a good pickup for MM and will increase your pets damage and ability to hit tougher foes.

For Robots I quite like Scricco as patron as his AoE immob prevents knockback and foes stuck in the Assault Bots burn patches obviously = more damage overall. His shield is nice as well but its resistance, not defence based. The cone blast is woeful and the extra PbAoE melee move I'm not familar with yet on a MM (had it briefly for a Defender).

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Point is: it was a good opportunity to show off some new shiney stuff and attract new players, but once again not just NCsoft themselves lack good PR. But I'm wondered how they are 'damned' if they do show off shiney stuff...

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If the MA isn't "new" nor "shiney" in the product of 'City of' then wth is? Thats the latest feature and the biggest 'wizz bang' thing to happen to the game.As already said, the interviews for the benefit of people never to have played or perhaps played years ago. The nugget for the current player/hardcore fan was as GG put it, the almost confirmation that Reichsman will be in the game.

If I were to nit pick the video, I'd mention the rather dull/weak video of gameplay (the non MA screens) but that could have been either partys responsibility.

Anyway, thanks to the OP for linking the video in the first place.

I'm Radio and I'm also an addict of this game. Tho I can leave it now and again, I know health+money willing I'll be here till the inevitable server shutdown happens.

I am somewhat underwhelmed by what appears to be coming next but it sure the heck beats that long, long wait for new stuff.

Anyway me and my horde of alts will be around

All the best Ghost Raptor and to life away from this nut house

Cya Standoff

Take care dude, it was fun teaming with you in the old PR days ect.

People already forgotten about last years Valentines Day Dev/Forum support team event on the test server ?

Agree with Doc Toerag, I just hope that the kind of behavour seen on these forums are not displayed on the server.

You want to lower the endurance cost of Dark Armour by increasing the number of toggle powers?

No idea what your primary is but make sure that you have endurance reductions in those powers. Dark Regeneration also requires alot of endurance reduction enhancements (Heal/End IO's are handy). Cloak of Fear is the only power thats real endurance hungry so minimise its use if you have it at all.

As mentioned already again, the Tough/Weave path is not hugely worth it without a ton of set bonuses to improve overall defence.

Oh and please do reconsider the self rez power, while its no god mode its stun is king and will get you back into the fight very quickly and quite safely.

Without much known info I'm guessing some sort of hot fix has been applied today which meant the servers went down outwith their standard time (going by this forums server maintenace thread - last updated Jan 09).

I looked very briefly at the US forums and couldn't see a thread for todays patch.

While its an inconvience its to be expected tbh, after all theres fewer people looking after us now and it wasn't particulary good prior to the cost cutting measures.

While I enjoy the cossie change stuff I do agree with Mothers Love about it being retread animations.

These are amazing,great work!

I tried to play my Rad/Cold Corr like my Rad/Rad defender for ages using only Neut Bolt/Irradiate/Cosmic Burst and the snipe (mostly for the cool sound and as finisher).

Was horrible for DPS as I spent half the time moving in and out of melee range and Rad Blast on its own is just so 'meh'.

Now with Neut Bolt/X-Ray/Electron Haze/Cosmic Burst/
Neut Bomb I have a good chain if not amazing DPS.Given the large delay in registered damage from Neut Bomb, you almost always have to open with it for maximum effect, then follow with Haze. After that its mix in the single target attacks to however you perceive they need to be directed.

The nuke is fairly mediocre to follow the set as a whole but it looks nice and if you have a spare power with maybe three slots going, would serve as a panic button to finish off a herd/ambush ect. Very skippable tho, I've now dropped it from my Corr as I needed to keep Artic Air running all the time.

The PB should increase heal delivered and the stun from Cosmic Blast. Not sure about the rest of the Pain Dom powers tbh. Does sound like a nice combination, gl with the villain.

If its to pull then what Shannon says is typically the safest method, as with a standard snipe it can attract more attention.

As for Stalkers + Snipe because of the long animation time as long as you wait even for a second to start it, you will regain Hide status by the time the shot is fired, hitting for Crital damage. Its not fast or efficient but it can be quite enjoyable at times and sometimes the safest way to approach a situation

And they lowered the damage on Focus as a knock on effect of the above change.

Either I saw an advert/article in PC Gamer prior to release or simply bought it off the shelf in my local Game - I forget which. Might have been the latter as I would've looked at the new releases and thought "cool game" when I looked at the box.

I do remember the excitment of opening the box and reading bits of the comic while the game installed.