Mental_Giant

Issue 4 was indeed the Worst. Issue. Ever.

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Maybe there is another MMO with something like that and they got confused?

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I know WoW has all kinds of wacky features. I heard you can set up a healing power to only heal until the target's health hits max, and then shot off, saving mana.

Assuming the guy wasn't just referring to rocking the aura (which is most certainly not preemptive healing as described) maybe this is what he meant.

I'd like in on this if there's still room. I have a 50 of the main 5 ATs, but for a Master run I assume you'll want my Ice/Cold Corr.

Grammar.

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Yeah. And I don't care.

omg I did it again!

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Newp, but nice try. Oddly enough "care' isn't a preposition.

English. Go figure.

;shrug

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I was referring to breaking another English rule, not ending a sentence in a preposition...

See if you can spot it.

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Yeah, but the preposition thing isn't a hard and fast rule. Neither is not starting a sentence with a conjunction.

Actually, here's a list of seven outdated grammar rules which includes both of the above. Yeah, I went there.

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You don't feel like you're bringing enough to your team with Pain Domination? The damage, healing, and buffs you're bringing with your AR/Pain are probably not all that different (overall, as in how they'll help the team) from what you'll bring with your Widow. But hey, it's about having fun, do what you want.

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What damage? Healing was sucking so much end it was hard to keep up a decent attack chain. As a healing set, I like Empathy better because you get more pro-active buffs earlier. WoP and the other goodies come too late in the set, IMHO.

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Meh, just do your best, MG. Switch if you want, of course, but there is no such thing as a healer equaling an invincible team. Like I said in my previous post, we had some people almost insta-dying, and there were two or three of us with Pain Domination on the team.

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The issue isn't really about people dying, but about me not feeling like I'm bringing as much to the team as a more active buffer/debuffer or an offensive AT.

My Widow is almost 30, so I'm going to bring her next week. With the good number of VEATs we have this time around, another stacking set of buffs will always come in handy.

Grinding (defined simply as doing something unpleasant and repetitive for future reward) doesn't really have a place in CoX, because we have no end game. The closest thing we have to "high end lewt" is purples, but since they really aren't needed for any content in the game, no one really rushes to 50 so they can farm for purples (at least, I hope not).

CoX is meant to be fun from 1 to 50. We can have a debate about what life is like pre-travel powers and pre-stamina, but in general the point of the game is to experience it. If players choose to grind to 50; that's their choice, but I don't see any dev-created incentive to do so.

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I left the night with the image of Hamster saying to me, and I quote, "I want to be your dog". DC can vouch for me.

No explanation was given and I don't think any are needed.

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Not touching that one.

Hit 29...widow is pretty fun, only have 5 attacks so far and it is really hard to choose between which ones to take.

Might respec into a fort build too...been trying one and it seems fun.

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Hmm... I have two VEATs stalled in the 30s... maybe I'll swap out my Pain Dom for one of them. I am a pretty crappy healer... MP died last night while I was debating the Johnny Quest movie with Voo in VFC.

This thread is still here?

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We've already got people complaining they can't find a team on some servers, and you want to drop the availability of teams per side by an additional 60%?

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Let’s talk about teaming/cross alignment communication.

Is it possible that we will be able to communicate with our opposite alignment in this alternate universe and thus team with them creating a larger or equivalent pool from which to form teams?

A new Broadcast Channel might look like this (could be from a Villain or Hero and seen by all): LF team - Hero Missions

Potentially missions could auto side-kick, like AE, to reduce level disparity and increase teaming opportunities.

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In Paretoria, you will definitely be able to make mixed teams, but in your theoretical Praetorian Paragon and Paretorian RI, you would only be able to team with Villains or Heroes who have been redeemed/fallen, no?

Nice!

Please rephrase this in the form of an Open Letter.

Or use one of the official farming threads.

Either way is cool.

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The question is this...what happens to the badges that were already earned??? I think it could be set up so with how they have the "groups" of badges set up for personal and SG to setup another tab (for those of us that have hero toons have a villain tab and vice versa)....the question then becomes how will accolade powers work? Will the accolade powers work only when you switch factions or will the powers still be in place?

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You will retain all badges that were earned, because you can always switch back to your original side. The Devs aren't going to wipe out all badges if you are able to switch back. They may change the names of the badges depending on what side you are on, but they'll still be there.

Accolades present an interesting question. It's possible you will only get access to the Accolades on the side you are on, but they might also just let you have them all. I haven't done the research to see if that would be unbalancing or not.

Meeting no.: 6
Target level: 26
Meeting Location: SG Base

The Plan: Sharks

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For the first time, Hero characters can become Villains and vice versa, enabling Heroes to cross over to the Rogue Isles™ and Villains to experience Paragon City™.

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It could be as simple as:

Paragon City in Preatorian Earth = Villain area
Rogue Isle in Preatorian Earth = Hero area

Therefore allowing us to experience the other area albeit from a different perspective.

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This is less simple than just letting us use the zones already in existence, and it potentially splits the playerbase 5 ways (Real Paragon, Real RI, Praetoria, Praetorian Paragon, Praetorian RI) instead of 3 (Paragaon, RI, Praetoria).

HBD, PB!

I don't see a compelling reason for hiding previous side badges. They're not going to rename Assassination Strikes to Heroic Strikes or call Stalkers Hunters or anything like that, so I don't think they'll be troubled by Villains using Heroic sounding badges or vice versa.

I could be wrong, obviously, but it's highly unlikely.

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So with this Rogue Expansion set, will we be able to collect both villain and hero badges?

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For the first time, Hero characters can become Villains and vice versa, enabling Heroes to cross over to the Rogue Isles™ and Villains to experience Paragon City™.

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It's nonsensical to assume that characters can cross over and "experience" the other side of the game without getting badges.

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I think he really meant to phrase the question as something like, "If we change sides, can we keep our old badges as well as getting the new ones" or "can we have both hero and villain badges on our character at the same time?"

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Again, why assume you would lose your previous side badges? Especially considering the devs did confirm (I forget exactly where, but it was pretty clear) that you can switch sides multiple times. Since it's not a "one off" side switch, I see no reason why they would remove badges you earned.

EDIT: It was in the FAQ:

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Q: If you change over to the opposite alignment, can you change back?

A: Yes.

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To be fair, LL boasted about PLing from 1-50 in a day way before Posi announced the consequences.

Still, it's pretty obvious that she was one of the people who was going to be hit with disciplinary action.

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Everyone allways complains about END on Scrappers and Brutes but I've never had that issue. The reason being toggles are what drains your end and I allways skip over them unless I'm a Tanker.

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Not just toggles. Attacks and travel powers will drain your End too, or did you think that they're free?

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Now you're just putting words in my mouth. Yeah everything takes end (except auto powers) but the end drain from your attacks is nothing compaired to your toggles. Even if you actully missread or missunderstood what I said you have to be a noob not to realize toggles cost more endurance than attacks.

It's one quick burst of END loss for an attack that you'll get back 2 sec. later naturally vs. a constant end drain for a toggle that you won't get back till your toggles drop, you turn them off, use a CaB, or rest.

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Out of curiosity, do you use Stamina in your builds?

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So with this Rogue Expansion set, will we be able to collect both villain and hero badges?

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And yet, no one has answered this question yet!

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Yes. I assume that will be the main draw for people to cross sides.

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Haven't seen this confirmed yet.

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It was confirmed in the initial email:

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For the first time, Hero characters can become Villains and vice versa, enabling Heroes to cross over to the Rogue Isles™ and Villains to experience Paragon City™.

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It's nonsensical to assume that characters can cross over and "experience" the other side of the game without getting badges.

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So with this Rogue Expansion set, will we be able to collect both villain and hero badges?

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And yet, no one has answered this question yet!

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Yes. I assume that will be the main draw for people to cross sides.

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everyday that passes makes me feel like we're going to end up paying 50 bucks for two powersets and one zone...

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The power sets will most likely be part of the free content that comes with I16. The 50 bucks will get you side-switching, and not a new zone but a new City's worth of content, along with possibly a new AT.

Deleted, and not put down to lvl 1 or something? Interesting.