Mega_Jamie
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Comparing this game to MMOs where your characters require the use of MP / Mana or otherwise with stupidly low regeneration rates, or the use of items to fuel your abilities which you can run out of, then this game is aweomse.
Guild Wars is the only game which does it better, and then as a tradeoff you can only take 8 spells / abilities out into the world with you, but atleast out of a fight you regenerated very well.
If we look at Aion, I played one of the spellcaster classes, and was constantly annoyed with the slow recovery rate of my mana, and compared out my odd day out with a melee character who suffered very little mana problems, it was frustrating, and I was constantly resting.
I also tried D&D online. As well as only being able to prepare 3 spells to take out into instances my mana would simply not recharge, but I NEEDED it to survive, it was all I had, and I had to wait ages between fights to get it back, and ONTOP of that my spells used items I had to buy, whereby some dude with a sword could just run in and hack stuff up and be done with it.
this is one of the ebst games for regen/recovery simply because the stand aroudn time for all ATs is the same, with some sets altering it, and built inteligently and later on in the game, theres very little issue, definately COH is the elast tedious MMO I have played. -
Not fond of the redside game.
I have in the last few days only just realised that my builds with primary could be different for doms, simple because containment isnt a factor. Doms i have made, and deleted in the past have played the primary like a troller, and not like a damage dealer. So i will make a Dom, probably electric Control, for GR, and have him go blue. -
See reasons why I dont get on with Archery for reasons why I dont get on with AR, even less so as theres no Rifle I really like, but thanks for the feedback.
if it elps with the advice, i'm really looking for good ST damage. -
Hey guys,
basically looking to play something that utilises Boost Range to it's most effectiveness. I did read that Archery was good. But since its Archery, and I don't seem to be able to get on with the look of archery waiting till 35 to get the Talsorian Bow...too long, and I would be afraid of its mostly Lethal damage making it low damage output.
I'd prefer a set with a snipe, just for a stupid amount of range going on.
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I think the trouble is that Air Superiority is a better combat pick than boxing or kick, imo.
Boxing and Kick are useless filler. on my Elec armour tank, Tough was my aim so taking one not remotely useful power to get there wasnt much of a problem. But on defence based guys, aiming to get weave can seem a bit of a step too far, though I think tough is good in it's own right even capping your defence, having a decent resistance to the two most common damage types in the game arnt that bad.
Personally I would say that the Fighting Pool has the poorest choice of filler powers any other pool has to offer. -
Apart form Shivans and Nukes and the recipe ones, I hate using temp powers, that is, I hate the thought of wasting them, i just horde them away.
My Earth/Rad torller never gets played, becuase he has the sword from Croatoa that has 3 days of log in time useage, then it is gone!.
Ourb solved some ov my problems as some are regainable. -
Welcome.
The game also has quite a good chat system with the use of "Global Channels" which you can join on you raccount, and use your "Global Name" to chat on there. So if I'm on my character Blind Dynamo, chatting on a global channel it comes from Mega Jamie.
The good thing about these channels is that since you get the global name of people you can really get familiar with the regulars of that channel, and since anybody can set them up, channels exist for all sorts of reasons, and chat can occur regardless of whether people are in your zone or not.
(assuming your going EU as you mentioned Euros)
If you end up on Union, I would reconmend joining "Union Chat" channel for random nattering, and "Sals Badgehunters" which, although primarily there for helping get our games achievements, badges, alot of big team content is ran through this, and similar channels, and they funciton as a good knowledge base too.
Defiant likewise has Defiant Events, and I'm sure that the German and French servers have similar themed channels.
You can't server lock yourself, so if your EU at all times you can make characters on any of the 4 servers, you dont have to worry about picking one from the off.
Historically Union has had the higher number of players, but I think its probably fairly even with Defiant.
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Quote:No your on to me! living in a cave not playing CoH for several months has affected meOriginally Posted by Fury Flechette
Earth epic has been the de facto standard for farming builds for quite some time. You're out of touch. Fire used to be the most popular because it's the best choice when you have just SOs, and because it gives you an AoE with your first epic pool power choice. IOs changed everything.
Seriously even with the smaller radius? interesting, not that I have a fire/kin to benefit from this knowledge. I always found the Earth Epic to be a let down when I took it for thematic reasons due to the smaller radius, as such only my Earth troller at 50 has it, while otehrs that would have went for something else. -
I Went Elec/Dark in the end.
I did the Synapse TF the other day, and I have to say, I was amazed at myself. I know that that was effectively the easiest TF for me to do, but it was nice to see how easy it was to stay on my feet, and that was as a tank with only DOs.
I made a little build. Its not brilliant because on Mids I only have the ability to aim for one thing at a time, and not several. I think its quite cheap, relatively speaking, attempting to maximise my natural recharge, aiming for perma-hasten / energise. I'm close, but my enhancement value of survivability isn't the best. so I may rework it. ofc I'll probably try for something much better if I was able to purple him out, which would probably be the end goal, but any feedback / improvements on this build would be much appreciated.
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The majority of Fire/Kin farmers will use the Fire epic and not the earth epic.
Personally I think the earth epic is awesome, but Fissures AoE is tiny! so I tend to avoid it.
With the fire epic you get a bigger AoE and a thematic fit. -
frankenslot with accurate healing, Hold and Accurate to-hit debuff in the first 4 slots, the last 2 get straigh up recharge, be they from a set for a small bonus, or just vanilla IOs
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I've just spent some time playing around in Mid's since the EU servers are down, and come up with a relatively inexpensive perma-hasten near perma-energize ELA/DM tank.
Assuming things hit, he can heal himself for ~20% health every ~3 seconds folowed by ~50% every ~32 seconds. I'm pretty gimp in Mid's though, so it could probably be alot better. Damage output won't be super duper awesomes but surviveability should be quite neato. -
Sorry!
I did mean that I don't really like the weapon sets.
Was definately gonna fit tough in there to boost up the resistances. -
Hey Guys,
looking for some advice from the tanking community, I quite fancy playing Electric Armour on a tank, a set i've only explored to a small level on a brute, and i've never had a tank very far up either.
Now my main question is what to pair it with?
I enjoy Electric Melee, and the synergistic properties with the set in general and its recharge for Lightning Rod soudns good, but I have to Electric Melee characters in general.
Elec Armour seems to lack defence, so would the Rage crash if I took SS be a bad thing?
Dark Melee, another self heal, but too much Endurance management in there?
I'm not too fussed on the weapon sets, and Energy Melee lost it's appeal quite a while ago.
My hope for this character would be to get up there and run the higher end TFs, which is my overall aim for most of my characters.
I looked a few pages back and tried a search-fu weak search, but coulnd't see alot bout pairing this set with other stuff.
More often than not he'll be teaming I hope, i dont have anything regular lined up, but TFs are easy to come by.
Any advice is much appreciated!
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Quote:That the procs that are supposed to function like Global Set Bonus' and be on all the time Do funciton like Global Set Bonus' and are on all the time?Originally Posted by Scientist_16
Do we have any info on whether this is Working As Intended or an unintended side effect?
i'd guess WAI. -
Quote:a bit of ingenuity goes a long way. How about a Targeted AoE that on it's outskirts only have a Repel -KD mechanic, so anything inside the ring gets pushed in, and anything outside pushes out.Originally Posted by Local_Man
I think there has already been a Dev comment that the "Gravity Sink" won't work with the current game engine. There is no mechanism to pull foes into a spot, only knock them back from a spot. It would be cool, though.
Ok sure Gale haters would probably hate it, and it would take a while for people to learn how to use it effecitvely so theydont split groups, but would be quite a fun power. could be achieved with it summoning a few pseudopets or something. -
Quote:wow, thats one weak constitution you have...Originally Posted by Rodoan
that's nothing. The Halloween event has your character eating candy as fast as possible until it, um, hurls thereby earning an achievement. First time I saw that in Stormwind in the crowded area by the Auction House, seemed everyone was puking their guts out. I about hurled at my keyboard (had the same near-reaction the first time I fought the Vahz in the sewers.
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Guild Wars had a getting drunk achievement. That was a quite funny one to work towards. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Crazy_Dragon
This.
Also avoid Dell and Alienware if you can, as they're just plain overpriced for what they do (and don't do - *cough* last long).
If you're feeling brave and want to actually build your own (which may or may not be the better option, depending on what you're after), do a little homework first, then work out which components float your boat. Shop around. Most of the stuff in my rig comes from several places - Scan, Overclockers, Aria and eBuyer to name a few.
Stick with these few listed here. You can save money if you get different parts from different vendors, as some seem to charge much less for specific things. May I also reconmend YoYoTech. -
Quote:Well other sets have PBAoE control attacks which, for best effect require you to wade into the middle of the mob, bringing Illusion into my argument again, this provides this type of control, and gives you a choice of 2 powers which will negate any chance of an alpha strike against you before you use it (the 2 stealth powers)Originally Posted by BrandX
If Electric Control got a Teleport attack and a chain attack...the set would go from "meh" for me, to "OMG I MUST CHECK IT OUT"...
..that would just be to much awesome!
So I think mimicing the 2 really cool mechanics of ELM would certainly be possible, and wouldnt necessarily be OP.
and would then bring people who arnt stoked about the idea of electric control whatever it contains to the table, just to check out it's mechanics. -
I wonder if perhaps some enemies to-hits have been altered.
My Elec/Shields scrapper has done is fair share of ITFs, with / without a tank on the team, with/without Cold Defenders and has never took a hit from Rom that could kill him in one.
Then just after the patch that preced i17 I did a run, we had 2 tanks and a Cold Defender, I was well above the softcap without all my toggles on, but I had them on for kicks anyway. I waited for the main tank to gain agro, a good player i've done a few runs with, and followed in with LR>SC and then... oh wait, i'm dead?
the defender had rebuffed, I had the shield which gave the +HP boost. and I got took out for over 2000 HP in 1 hit. K Catastrophic defence failure (and resitance by the looks of it) Pick myself up again, get buffed, walk back in. And down again and that time i'd turned off th agro aura too. happened another few times.
And i just cant figure it out, why was Rommy one shotting me through 80%+ defence some good resistances and 2000+ Hp. Since i17 went live the next day, I haven't done another ITF to see if it was a fluke, or if his scrapper hate and ToHit have gone up naturally. though it wouldn't suprse me if my favourite non-troller character was now pants!
On a side note, did a MS Raid that night after Nursing my wounds and strolled around surviving everything. -
Things I want;
A Chain induction esque move, but with a bigger jump range, even if it was like Blind in Illusion Control, whci hhas a small chance of putting to Sleep a nearby enemy. But something with a bit more visual umph.
Also A Lightning Rod-esque Tele-PBAoE-Hold would be friggin awesome.
Elec/Kin, Elec/Rad, Elec/Storm - yeah, its gonna be a busy time for me in GR.... -
Fix is not synonymous with Nerf. People really should stop interchanging them...
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typical. going out now...
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Quote:Want.Originally Posted by DreamWeaver
no sooner said than done. Muhahahaaas...erm, what... was I... supposed to be..
*stares slack-jawed @nathanfillion awesomeness*
Dunno why im waiting for this issue so much, no idea what secondary I want for Demons anyway... -
Quote:Rather not go near that virus/malware/DOOM filled site thanks!Originally Posted by Perfidus
itt rage.
Me, I'm off playing a game. A flash game! Blasting through Super Mario Bros. as Link, Samus, Bill from Contra, Megaman, and Simon from Castlevania. You know you wanna!
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/534416
happy to sit and try and log, only got 20 mins then out for the night, not that fussed though, long weekend to play.