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People are underestimating a side effect of overhauling the graphics properly - Being able to market the game "as new" again. Old players get a tasty treat, and a proper influx of players, due to the game being "new" again.

If the marketing people play their cards right with a new box release aswell, i think this could easily double the amount of players, especially if they time it right around the CO/DCUO releases.

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Hey!

Someones been paying attention to what I've been saying, they're saving up the good stuff for just after the launch of CO/DCUO.

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Could well be the case, but not sure if CoX, overhaul included, would be too effective if marketed as "new" being 5 years old, a CoX 2 would make more sense for that idea imho.

Talisker FTW!

There's only one thing better than Talisker... lots of Talisker

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The general consensus that this is a reference to power customisation, though of course it may not be.

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I bet it's "The Coming Storm"!!

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Pizza compared to Florence

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You surely mean Pisa? Pizza is not a city afaik...

Re-built your base yet? Yep

Made a Captain America Clone yet? Yep

Converted your salvage to brainstorms yet? Nope

Lost a crafted item behind a base wall yet? Nope

Petitioned a Captain America Clone yet? Yep, petitioned myself then deleted the char

Converted your brainstorms to salvage yet? Nope

Earnt a merit yet? Yep

Done a boring TF just for the merits yet? Nope

Done a dual build yet? Nope

Done a respec yet? Yep

Realised you should have done the dual build after the respec yet? Nope

Decide to not play a character just for the day job yet? Can I use the phone call?

I had a Fire/DM tank and he was real fun until lvl 32 when he got deleted (he was on second account and it was cancelled, but it was an account matter, not the toon's).
Had Weave planned on him because I was going t take his positional defences to around 25%, plus, once getting Tough, weave is not a hard choice to make.

To be honest, the Tanker was coming along better than I expected plus the combination of Healing Flames + Siphon Life was awesome. I'l try to post you my intended build (final, some respeccing while levelling required) in case it might be helpful for you.-

Never been a PvPer myself because probably the only way I have to win a PvP match, either in the old and new system, is if I were given an "I win" button (and still not 100% sure), but after reading this thread, I see my feelings regarding the new PvE content, specially the Merit System, translate to a certain extent to PvP, and Shockwave pretty much nailed it, "handing it in a plate".

I find I13 somehow insulting, Shields set strikes to me as a bunch of [censored] for players who don't give a toss about decent efefctive gaming but hey, they can roll a Captain America, the way Merits are implemented gives me the mental image of a donkey following a carrot on a stick while the owner of the carrot is cracking at the donkey's expense and for what I've read here, PvP doesn't seem to get better treated.
I didn't PvP significantly before, and won't do it now either since it's not really what I enjoy on this game and what I used to enjoy prior to I13 is now a boring grind which I am not in the mood to pay for, so here I am waiting for my sub to run out.

Anyway, sorry for the rant and hope to see you people in Champions and after that in TOR, just wanted to point out that you guys hit the nail in this thread, specially Londoner, Merits, Day Jobs and all that were not needed, more TF's and new content was, unfortunately the devs reply to that seems to be the MA where players can pay devs and do their job at the same time.

Gah, this went longer than I anticipated, sorry for the rant.

Didn't notice anything strange these past two days endurance or mez wise, but foes aggro range seems to be much higher plus when running Battle Maiden mish with Cynic, we noticed an odd runaway code, he had a nice herd on his Spines/Inv and all of a sudden, foes started running away like mad in all directions, I don't think this has anything to do with any PvP code though...

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You always know you're posting to a forum full of pedants when people get pedantic on you.

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Fixed for pedantry.

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Fixed for even more pedantry

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I said before, I'm a bit like a newcastle united fan.

Love the team, cant bear the management or the type of long ball football they deliver to us fans. Or the results.

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I think we might still take Jose Enrique back

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Kismet unique does give ToHit, not Accuracy.

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Even better then.

I guess I am the only one who thinks that having posts about I14 and even I15 the day after I13 is launched means I13 is quite poor overall, despite some efforts to put lipstick on the pig.

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I don't get what projecting focused power a short distance has to do with claws. Same goes for Focus

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That's true, but Focus animation rocks. I guess similar thing happens to Follow Up, I don't get why an attack allows you to make more damage and have higher accuracy for 10 seconds, but hey ho.

Tbh Shockwave sucks, for some reason I was thinking Eviscerate.

Sorry and all that (damn now I'll receive the admonitory letter ).

Claws is good (and was better before) for PvE, for PvP I frankly don't give a toss and wont try to convince you about anything regarding PvP to be honest.

Still, can't see any damage reduction on Claws in I13...

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the power "Shockwave" its a total waste

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That, Sir, disqualifies you as a proper Scrapper and you'll soon receive an admonitory letter from the Scrapper Guild

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Do you honestly call 0.01 an INCREASE in damage lol


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Well, it's not a reduction either.



Claws is probably best DPS scrapper set in game, it doesn't have a huge damage spike, but the DPS is unmatched. The nerf to Focus was more harming because it changed totally the lvling of a claws scrapper until lvl 26 at least slowing it significantly, but reducing Slash damage accordingly to a faster recharge is not reducing the set damage at all.

Blackjack is overrated

Perhaps it could have been saved if I13 had been released before, damn devs...

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If you are worried about endurance then I suggest Performance Shifter: Chance for + end, 1 of these in both Quick Recovery and Stamina sorts that. IMO Medicine pool isn't needed, but its certainly another option, depending on playstyle. With the amount of +regen you can get into your build with IO's, coupled with both Tough and Weave, and the -acc in Rise to the Challenge you shouldnt have any problems, not even against EBs, especially with the high damage from Fire Melee.
If you don't have it yet, I suggest acquiring Mids Hero Designer and have a play about on that, it will show you your overall defense, damage resistance and regeneration.

Have fun

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Performance Shifter chance for +End is great, but tbh a WP scrapper with both QR and Stamina, really shouldn't need it and neither Conserve Power for that matter...

Heh, just noticed in one of the new arcs there's a mission named "Save the Tabula"...

kinda inappropriate innit?

I am personally not fond of self rez powers, for me it's like being defeated beforehand, although hardcore number crunchers will state that faceplanting is a mere technicality and [censored] like that, I hate faceplanting on a scrapper and will never incorporate a self rez into my attack chain.

Either Figthing Pool or Medicine Pool would drastically reduce your need of self rez, I personally prefer Fighting Pool for a more scrappery feeling, downside is, when you see your green bar going down, you usually go down, but you have a heavy dmg primary and it should be relatively easy to have every foe dead before you hit the carpet.

In case you feel you lack a bit of Accuracy, don't forget there's a very useful low lvl enhancement, Kismet 6% Accuracy that you can slot in Combat Jumping for a bit more Accuracy if needed. If later you feel you still can benefit from Focused Accuracy or other powers, you can always respec your char.

Focused Accuracy is being changed today on I13 and it swaps ToHit Buff for Acc Buff while its endurance cost is reduced if I am not wrong. I'll wait until patch notes are released for full details, but I am already considering using Tactics instead of FA myself.

If you don't have acc problems, not sure the new Focused Accuracy will do any good except maybe on the ToHitDebuff Protection (if they haven't changed it).

If you are worried for the endurance, you can compensate it by slotting more endrdx in your attacks since with FA you'll only need 1xacc IO and even maybe none if you have attacks with higher base acc.

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I want to take the fighting pool especially for weave but i dont have 3 slots avaliable, and i quite like my self res, i seem to use it a lot as i am relativly new to this game.

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Fighting Pool would reduce significantly your use of self rez

Claws is great DPS, either Claws/Inv, DM/Inv or Fire/Inv should be great.

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*Flies around Faultline, getting 65fps from his 8800GT at max settings*

What lag?

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Not fair getting an anti-lag device for Birthday

Wouldn't like to see Stamina as an inherent, but I'd like to see some pool that offered some similar power, maybe a 5% base recovery instead of the 10% Stamina gives in order to have more options, maybe make it the second power choice instead of the third, just a thought.