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Quote:Lisa stomps her huge foot. I put in for a vacation the last week in July because Going Rogue was advertised as coming out in July, and Amazon had a release date for the 21stOriginally Posted by Olantern
I imagine that's the same reason companies prefer to release games in July, or even June, if they can. The fact that some of their primary audiences have the free time to play them makes the games much more likely to be purchased.
As for Going Rogue, I always assumed "July" meant "the last possible weekday of July," just because it feels as if lots of issues and updates over the years have hit at the very end of a month. Now, I suspect it'll be closer to late August or early September. That's disappointing, but if they need that time for adequate testing, better then than earlier.
I can still change the date of my vacation...I wish with all my heart I could look into a crystal ball and pick out the ideal week to be off
But. . . it still might be released last week in July.
Might be all the hard, time consuming, bug chasing, things came out in Issue 17. The mechanism for changing sides might be a breeze compared to introducing both Ultre Mode and the new updater to all these different computer systems and their users.
The Devs have gotten experienced at giving us new powersets, so that might not be a problem.
Lisa nods decisively.
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Quote:So long as you not attacked and remain motionless??????Originally Posted by starphoenix
That power only seems to be useful for avoiding patrols and PvP. Will getting a prepurchase (early Demon Summoning and Dual Pistols) allow us into the Tier 3 Closed Beta Invite or is it for just preorders?
I am trying to find a purpose for this power and failing miserably....hmmm...I don't PVP so I don't know of a purpose there...avoiding Patrols means moving about does it not??? If you move, you are not remaining motionless.
Only thing I can think of is it will help a Mastermind keep close to his pets while they are fighting.
Every single special power the Devs have given us has been winners, and I am betting a nickle this one is no exception, sooo this Shadowy Presence power makes me real curious about what we will find in Going Rogue in which remaining motionless is a good thing
Light bulb flickers on.....SPYING!!!!
Hmmmm....I am looking forward to Going Rogue.
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Quote:Grin. I made some pretty quirky posts last night which probably made some people red in the face, and mad as heck at me....have not revisited that posting, and not sure I am going to, but, getting red in the face and hatin' is the opposite of stagnation so I guess I did my partOriginally Posted by UnicyclePeon
I think the forums are just in a rut.
But still. I guess I'm saying I don't have a solution to the stagnation.
Lewis
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Quote:That is a very cool answerOriginally Posted by PumBumbler
Forum buffs wear off too quickly and need to be individually applied.
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Wry smile...well...if you team, yes, take it because to a lot of people faster is better.
However, don't give SB to to the team's clutz. Said clutz will smash into walls slowing the team down while they wait for him/her to catch up...true story
Lisa-Biggest clutz of all
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Quote:YESSSSSSSSS.........Twilight Snow, I salute you.Originally Posted by Twilight_Snow
I'm not criticizing your build in particular. It's just a general observation that people (including my suggested build above) have to sacrifice quite a lot in order to acquire the desired bonus. Actually, we are just trying to help by posting builds and making suggestions here, and not meant to be offensive.
I could get close to soft cap defense via bonuses on a pure resistance toon, I have tried...but I lose more of the basic three, acc, end, rechg, than I really like....and there are some powers whose secondary effects I like to beef up a bit.
I thought it was just me.
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Quote:Claws, I have a Dark/SR who never dies no matter what I do...hmmm...have not taken her to the Cim Wall yet, but she eats Romans for breakfast.Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
Oh, right, because NO ONE uses a set for typed defense, do they? I'm not using the exact same sets everyone and their grandma uses so they're the wrong ones?
I guess that's what I get for trying to do something different.
She is built with sets that I have never seen in any Dark/SR build posted here.
And I am about to use oddball sets in my Spine/Elec..actually right now she is Frankenslotted in a way I have never seen posted in the scrapper forum. I have a friend who is not happy with his Spines/Elec, which is the same level as mine, and I am having no problems.
And when scrappers got the fire epic, I went on test, did not have a respec, but I did have a second build. I actually played a mission with a completely unslotted level 50 Fire/Fire scrap and not only did I kill things, I did not die !
So, I say keep on with what you are doing. There is more than one way to skin a cat..err catgirl?
And who knows....the people who post these expensive builds just might be trying to sell stacks of what they have posted in these must do builds...they know newbies, folks in a hurry, and people with more influence than sense, will see the posted builds and say ok that is what I will do....they then scurry to WW, buy the stuff and thus play right into the posters hands.
Grin..so, you never know, behind a posted build there just may be an Ebil Marketeer. When you post a fresh build, that new build draws attention away from what the Ebil one is selling ....and that is bad.
And must be stopped
And I am joking..at least I think I am..Shields secondary and your multi-billion influence builds I am looking right at you
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What about having one in Texas?
I live in College Station, and Mark and I would love to attend one.
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Hello all.
I can thankfully say I now love issue 17. What I have done about the small enhancement numbers on the manage screen is when I need to see them I wear both my Trifocals and my reading glasses at the same time. Mark nearly split a seam laughing when he first saw me do it, but hey, it works.
I took my time and got to knew the new Wentworths and I love it. I think, in time, the haters will too. You see, knowledge adds onto knowledge. Mistakes will be made, lessons will thus be learned, and one day you will find yourselves going OMG
The new email system is the catgirl's meow. I had one problem with it, and that was because I tried to email when the Global channels were down.
I have my mouse pointer, AVG gives the updater the cut direct, My video card, well, I cannot max out the UM settings and fight...but I can max them out while I am traveling over water, or standing on a cliff and looking out at the scenery....and when fighting, looking at water is not a thing I do anyway
So, I and my computer system are ready for Going Rogue
Bring it on
Hmmm...end of July is not that far away when you consider that there are two Betas to get through..Closed and Open.
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Quote:Enhancement numbers...as in the manage screen? They are there, just very, very, small.Originally Posted by Anti_Proton
Anyone know how to get the enhancement numbers to show up when you mouse over them? Since I17, all the numbers are gone.
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Quote:Clap, Clap.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
You know, at this point probably the WORST thing they could do to Going Rogue is make Incarnate Levels heavy forced-teaming content. Seriously, if this is Recluse's Victory AV-hunting in the streets or Mothership raids like what I think it will end up being, there better damn well be a solo alternative, or I foresee a few VERY pissed off people in the future. Heaven knows I'm a fanboy for the game. Always been one. But a dick move like that would seriously make me consider dropping out.
*edit*
As far as having faith in the developers goes, this is NOT an area I have much reason to have faith in. Everything else I'll give them the benefit of a doubt, but they've been treating solo ability like an annoying side effect in most new content for as far back as I can remember. They DID remove all the factors that make solo play PHYSICALLY impossibly, such as simu-clicks and some AVs, but beyond that, it's been a case of "Can't beat it? Team!" I have no reason to believe Incarnate levels, which seem to be sold as epic loot and epic raids, will be any different.
Believe me, I am MORE than willing to eat crow if it turns out I've been speaking out of my *** and the system is entirely solo-friendly. If that's how it turns out, then I'll be glad to have made a fool of myself over it. But they've been pushing for team play so hard recently I'll only believe it when I see it.
*note*
For years I've been saying that the 5th Column will never be back, and I'll only believe it when I can zone into an instance and punch a 5th Column soldier in the face. As of I17, I can freely admit that I was wrong, and I am now a believer.
I think us soloers might number more than the Devs know...if there is a way to determine this via datamining they really should check it out.
And if all the good stuff is only to be gotten via Banner like events..I am never going to get anything, because, all the Banner teams I have been on have all ended in failure. Every single one of them. I appear to be cursed in that regard....I blame Mr Bocar.
So Devs, please, please, please, think of us soloers.
We buy booster packs, respecs, slots, subscriptions, etc.
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Hello Fury.
I am loving this thread. My electric/Shield is level 33 now and so far I love playing her. I had stopped leveling her because I don't have a billion influence and was afraid because of this she would start to go bad and ultimately become unplayable.
However, I am playing her now and want to see just how far I can go before she flys apart.
I have been Frankenslotting and have some good bonuses already, but I have not been using the sets you suggest. So far, I am using a combination of Mako's, Eradications , and common IOs in my primary and am using common IOs in my secondary. I also have the various uniques and procs...Regen Tissue, Kismet, Steadfast and Performance Shifter.
I took the fitness pool, the fighting pool, and, the reason for my writing this,the flight pool.
I feel Air Sup brings a lot of survival to the Electric Primary....I am probably wrong about this, but in my experience and for my playstyle it is so.
I did without it for a bit on my Elec/SR and it felt...wrong.
So, in a tight build like Elec/Shields how can I sucessfully bring in Air Sup?
I don't do things like solo AVs or Pylons, my goal is to have a fun toon. I solo so ducking out of the mission to grab more purple inspirations is very doable...and emailing the purples to myself is equally wonderful.
In a case like this, can I forego Combat jumping???? Hmmm...jusy how many purple inspirations is the equivalent of Combat Jump?>>>
Yikes, I have to go to work.
thanks in advance.
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I vote for Dark/SR. I have one at 50 and she is amazing. Nothing kills her. I took her into Romanland and they could not touch her, I got sapped by two sappers at the same time and my blue bar did not move.
You pay the price for greatness by having a harrowing time leveling up, you will die quite a lot, but the first time you get sapped by two sappers and not a thing happens to you...you will know it is worth the long haul.
That said, Kat/Willpower is what I am going to make when Going Rogue comes out. I do like me some Willpower
Good luck to you
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Quote:Billions of influence on a toon just to make it work correctly, and the toon in question being the very one that the players of all stripes, and most importantly all bank accounts, voted for is wrong.....Originally Posted by Werner
Yeah, I don't think I'll continue forward with my IOing plans for my Fire/Shield, and I'll probably dump what I've bought so far back into the base. My intent was to make a damage powerhouse. The AoE portion of that now sounds likely to take a big hit, probably about the time I finish earning the billions of influence and dumping it all into the character, since that takes me months. No thanks. No longer worth the time investment.
I'm not saying that it shouldn't be examined. Perhaps it should. I'm just not going to bother IOing something that's definitely going to be examined. I am way, way too tired of fixing or abandoning carefully-crafted characters that the devs nerf or even buff into something not at all like what I planned. Perhaps if someone could just tell me what powers and which IOs might be STABLE for a couple years, it'll be worth the investment. But obviously that can't happen. At this point, I'm kind of thinking I'll never bother with a top end build again. I'll just keep leveling up alts until I tire of that, and then give up on the game completely.
Again, not saying not to nerf Shield Charge. Not working as intended, blah blah blah, fine, whatever.
But I'm just not sure if I can take it any more.
Grin. I will get off my soapbox and scurry away now.
I guess when building a toon, you build with an eye to its strengths, instead of adding something it does not have, such as defense bonuses on resistance based toon who has only combat jump as a defensive power.
The Devs crafted the powersets to work together, and we look for powers to skip so we can add Weave to the above pure resistance based secondary.
I only added Defense bonuses and Weave to my Fire/Fire build, ChiliCheeseDog Annie, after she hit 50, same with my Dark/Regen....I think....Battlesneeze Jessie might have gotten Weave while she was in her 40s can't remember now.
I have been playing my Fire/Fire lately and I am wondering if the little bit of Defense granted by Weave, and my Defense bonuses, is really worth not taking another power from my Primary/Secondary. .. especially with the ability to email purples to oueselves so we will have them during missions.
And I just answered my question, didn't I. Weave and my bonuses will make my purple inspirations go further. Or I could use more reds, or yellows, blues are good too.
ok, I am leaving this post before I get myself more confused. Another power would be nice, but the small amount of Defense I already have, will bloom with the right number of purples, which are easy to carry due to being able to email them to ourselves.....hmmmm...
Lisa-Running away fast
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Quote:Grin. I just woke up, and I am enjoying your creative spelling and self confidence. . the emotional pickup is better than coffee.Originally Posted by mauk2
Er, no, you must be mistaken. The Dev's have a solid policy to never buff anything.
I reads it on the internetz, so it must be true! LOL.
(Although a boost to fire armor would be teh sweet!)
Also, folks need to chill. This thread is far from the first time SD has been looked at, I posted months ago that it was inevitable it was getting nerfed.
Hmmm, how gud is mah search-fu.....
Seems is gud!
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...98#post2641998
If you have to hate on anybody, bring it, I am tuff.
I don't want Shields nerfed, just tweaked a bit so it plays well with SOs...so, I guess I want it buffed????
But, Voltanna just made 33, and I, gasp, have started to put some IO sets into her, so we shall see. Scrapper forums will probably be hearing from me in the coming days.
A buff to FA sounds real good to me. ChiliCheeseDog Annie, my level 50 Fire/Fire scrap gives a thumbs up to that idea
This thread has grown. Which is good, as people are brainstorming, and throwing out ideas, and being constructive.
Hugs to everyone here, and have a good Friday.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Hazygreys
if powers and sets are balanced using SOs, then shield needs a buff please
Bless you Hazygreys.
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Lisa reads this thread sadly.
We need to get these bugs identified and squashed pronto....Tempers are being lost, feelings are being hurt, anger is rising.....not good.
But, the bright light at the end of the tunnel is I that am positive there will be fixes, and born from all this chaos will be a stable Going Rogue.
Just need patience, and communication, and reporting problems to the Tech Support at NCSoft...and giving Tech Support enough time to do their magic.
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Quote:Grin. Somehow I missed reading this... easy to do as I swooped in quickly with my only intent being to apologize.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Wait: you're saying by your own estimation its fine now but reading the forums makes you afraid it will fall apart? Personally, I would recommend you stop reading the forums. If the forums can make you bitter about a powerset that is "doing wonderful" for you in actual play, the forums are doing far more harm than they could ever do good for you.
My hubby and couple of global friends have been telling me this almost from day 1.
I see myself as being stupid, and the forumites as being intellectual gods. So when I read something on the forums "It must be so
Yes, my level 32 Elec/Shields is great fun. I do not intend to PVP, beat up on AVs or Pylons solo. Just regular PVE stuffs.
And yes, I was truly worried that she would suddenly fall apart as I enter the high 30s, 40s...sigh. I think I need a vacation.
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Quote:Lisa looks at Santorican with hope in her eyes, because she feels Santorican is a straight shooter.Originally Posted by Santorican
See that is the trap that people keep falling for, you don't need billions of influence for shields to be good. If you set yourself a decent budget you will need at most 200 million influence for a character that will perform better than 90% of the game.
I do have some IOs in my Elec/Shields. I have powers frankenslotted level 30 Eradications, I have the steadfast unique, I have a Kismet accuracy..forgot what else I have in her build. I bought that proc that drains endurance from enemies..Tempest???
There is a post that Fury posted about shields on a budget. I looked at the cheap one but still had this mindset about billions being required and that blinded me. Fury, if you are reading this, I am going back and have another look at your builds.
I came back to this thread to apologize about the bitterness of my earlier post. It just seemed to me that since all the player base voted for Shields, not just the rich, then we should get a set that works beautifully with SOs, to reflect the needs and pocketbooks, of all the playerbase, not just the very rich.
So, yes Castle, look at Shields but with an eye towards "how can I make this powerset SO friendly?"
Hugs to everyone, and I am so sorry about being bitter.
This is a game. Bitterness has no place here
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Quote:Noooo, I want to play my Widow.....Originally Posted by kidengineer
Looks like server crashed.... again.
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Quote:Me, I went to Virtue, invited Mark's new Widow to the SG there, then went back to Protector and played until I had to go to bedOriginally Posted by Stalemate
Where's McCharraigin?
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Quote:YES YOU DO!!!!!!!!Originally Posted by Castle
This thread makes my head ache. I *really* don't want to look at Shields, do I?
The game was balanced around SOs, so you would think a powerset powered with SOs would play well... as you can see by this thread, Shields takes billions and billions if influence/infamy to make work. It is lackluster without expensive IOs.
The players wanted Shields, the players voted for Shields, and what we got is a powerset for the very rich.
I am sorry , but I am very bitter about this. There is not much that makes me bitter, but this does because I don't have billions to pour into one toon. . .and I do want to play a Shield scrapper. I have an Elec/Shield at level 32, she is doing wonderful now, but reading the forums, and hearing about the need for billions of influence I am expecting her to fall apart any day now....and that is not a nice feeling.
Sorry about my Venting, but this has been a sore spot for me for a long, long time.
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I don't know what to do about your problem as I am not techy, but my husband could not log in to City Of Heroes issue 17 when it was released. He went to NcSoft support, ran and sent them a test they wanted run, and that late afternoon they had him in the game and creating his Demon Summoning Mastermind.
You could try that.
Good luck.
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Actually, it was my fault. I was too happy.
I had just gotten home from work, took off my shoes, pulled out a cold Dr Pepper and began playing my Widow and chattering with a global friend when the crash happened.
Blame me.
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Hello all.
Yesterday, I was having no problem sending emails with goodies attached to my alts.
This morning I sent off four, and never received any back.
They are stuck in cyberspace somewhere
I don't know if this is just me, or if the Devs are working on the system, or what...but just be careful today guys
Lisa-Off to work with me.