Mental_Giant

AR for Defenders... sweet!

The new character creator is another thing from the marketing survey... its predictive power improves!

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Niviene_CoH
ohh today is going to be good...

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This can be encouraging or scary, depending on how you look at it...

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--Demon Summoning/Darkness*

What does Darkness mean? Can it mean Dark Pact? Dark Miasma?

--Dual Pistols/Energy*

Is this Energy Melee from the current set?

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Obviously Darkness refers to the current Dark Miasma secondary for MMs and Energy is the current Energy Manipulation for Blasters. This isn't rocket science.

We may get more new sets, but the only ones we know of so far are Demon Summoning and Dual Pistols.

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If you make a toon from the Going Rogue power sets, you will be allowed to walk between the RI, PC and Praetoria. If you have a pre-Going Rogue hero/villain you will be allowed to switch sides by going to Praetoria and doing opposing faction missions...that is if you are a hero you can go to Praetoria and help Tyrant. and if you are a villain you can go and...do whatever it is that villains do in Praetoria. you will not be allowed into PC tho, I feel that GR will have that limit, you can switch sides in Praetoria and Pretoria only if you made a toon prior to GR.

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I highly doubt Praetorian characters will be defined by the new power sets. My initial theory was that you would roll a Hero or Villain as normal, and both sides have access to Praetoria. If you "fall" as a Hero, or are "redeemed" as a villain based on content in Prateoria, you will lose access to the opposite side. So, fallen Heroes will only be able to access Praetoria and the Rogue Isles, and redeemed Villains will only be able to access Praetoria and Paragon City.

It's possible they will let us create characters of any AT in Praetoria, and then when the character has gone down the Good or Evil path they will get access to RI or PC. I'm not sure they will be doing that, however.

Well, the work thing got pushed back, so I will be on at 8.

Crap... something came up at work. I'll be on late if at all.

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Be aware that a small patch was applied to the live servers today.

Please plan accordingly.

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It looks like a good patch, from what the notes seem to indicate. Mito farms are dead, and the MM temp power should now work for Barracuda SF.

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The Science Booster is live as well!

Transgendered lycanthropes rejoice!

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Hey ,i'm new to this game so i dont know muce about it ,i know that cryptic made this great game and then sold it to Ncsoft ,then the entire team that made CoH and CoV has moved to Ncsoft and now called Paragon Studios ,is that true?

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This is correct.

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btw is there info about going rough expansion? ,couldnt find info on the site .

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Precious little, but you have given me a new favorite nickname for the Going Rogue expansion.

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Not even a little bit. In fact, I will be mad only if it DOES get Double XP.

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QFT

Meeting no.: 13
Target level: 41
Meeting Location: SG Base

Agenda: G'ville

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I've seen alot of mid-level tanks without taunt!

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Oh no!

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This is a myth... everyone knows that Tanks by definition have Taunt. "Tanks" without Taunt are actually Scrappers.

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It still hasn't been denied that I16 is the synchronization patch for Going Rogue.

As was pointed out in a different discussion I6 was not City of Villains, it was Along Came a Spider which added 3 PVP Zones to the Hero Game and included a graphical update.

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It hasn't?

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To be fair, BaB, you were a little ambiguous there. A little more clarity would have helped...

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Please, for the love of all that's holy, tell me you're joking when you said this.

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Your joke detection meter is borken.

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Yes, it is.

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It still hasn't been denied that I16 is the synchronization patch for Going Rogue.

As was pointed out in a different discussion I6 was not City of Villains, it was Along Came a Spider which added 3 PVP Zones to the Hero Game and included a graphical update.

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It hasn't?

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To be fair, BaB, you were a little ambiguous there. A little more clarity would have helped...

BaBs found the "Power Customization" button that the original Devs hid in the code, and he turned it on. It took about five seconds.

I'm not even sure we'll get Double XP for the Dev's Choice arcs. With all the PLing issues in AE, it'd be simpler to just have only dev-created content be Double XP.

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Mental....

I think you know what to say now.

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I blame Voodoo?

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You could have a Solo build and a Team build

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oh yeah, I should have thought of that one at least.

Also- What is this skiing you speak of? I started playing this in 2004 but haven't been on for the last year. whuttahail are you guys talking about?

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Apparently, a part of the winter event. I'm all ears about this "skiing build," though.

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There are two ski tracks in Pocket D during the annual Winter event. Some travel powers are much better than others (SJ + SS tend to trump everything, fly is too slow and tp doesn't really work because you need to pass through gates), so you can alt-spec your flying hero into one with SJ and get much better times on the ski tracks. There are Bronze, Gold, and Silver badges for each track based on run time.

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ohhh I seeee...
Thanks for the info. Looks kind of useless though, unless like you said - you were into PvP:

* # Each build always has the same amount of earned experience, but alternate builds will not train up alongside the active build. # When choosing an alternate build for the first time, the character will start at Security/Threat Level 1 and will have to be trained up, level by level.

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Not really. You could have a Solo build and a Team build (especially useful for 'trollers, Defenders, Corruptors), a normal build and a Raid build, an AV-bustin' build, a ski-build (mentioned above), a Knockback build vs. a DPS build. There are plenty of uses for this.

There's also the "I'm out of free-specs but just realized I can squeeze Stamina in earlier" build.

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Hey it's twins!

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I was testing Fista's link to make sure it worked.

Leave out the IMG tags? It looks like that's what your avatar is pointing to now.

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huh?

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QFT

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I, too, am confused.

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The issue of reinstating a pact that has been broken by a lapsed account is up for discussion. I don't imagine the devs will allow it, as it would involve the immediate balancing of levels, so in extremee cases a player who just came back to the game could pact with a friend and gain from 1 to 20 levels without doing anything.

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No, no, there is a very simple solution.
1) The two characters in question must be the same level.
2) Current XP is equalized to whichever character currently has less.

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That is a simple solution, but if the issue in question is a pact being broken because one member went inactive and the remaining partner gained a bunch of levels, it does not allow for the pact to be reinstated immediately. The inactive player would need to catch up first.

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I don't see how it would involve an immediate balancing of levels. If a level 5 character pacts now with a level one there is no such immediate leveling. Paired XP after that point goes to the lower toon until balance is restored, but there is no "insta-leveling" involved.

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I guess I don't understand how pacts work now. My assumption was that once in a pact you always had to be at the same level.

Even if there is no insta-leveling, however, a lvl 5 pacted with a lvl 49 would get a huge bonus to XP, because getting all of the higher leveled players take would be a huge number for a lvl 5. I think this would be another PLing scenario, and regardless of whether you are in favor of PLing or not, the Devs clearly don't like it.

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I like the MA, but for reasons that have nothing to do with levelling.

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This right here.

I always assumed this is how it would work. To my knowledge, no MMO ever allowed a character to gain XP on an inactive account.

The issue of reinstating a pact that has been broken by a lapsed account is up for discussion. I don't imagine the devs will allow it, as it would involve the immediate balancing of levels, so in extremee cases a player who just came back to the game could pact with a friend and gain from 1 to 20 levels without doing anything.