Obscure Blade

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This really depends on what type of Controller you are.

In general, most damage is going to be coming from the Mag 3 hold that all controllers get. For many sets, its best to use it after establishing containment with a "cage" power.

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I'd say it's best to do the opposite. First you use the hold, then the "cage" ( immobilisation, slotted for damage ).

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Just logged in to see the announcment. Can anyone say what the 2 new power sets are. I was told dual pistols but my source was shall we say not so reliable because they could not remember what the other one was.

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The woman in the trailer ( Desdemonia ) is suppose to be a villainous demon summoner who went heroic, and the man ( Maelstrom ) a pistol using hero who went to villainy. It's believed that we are therefore getting dual pistols and demon summoning powersets. Especially since Castle has also mentioned them.

IOs ( Invention Origin Enhancements ) change things pretty drastically, although it's a complicated subject. Depending on what you have, you can give yourself defense, add a chance for resistance debuffs to your attacks, add more regen and recovery and recharge, and so on. They can also be very expensive.

As far as Katana goes, the animations for melee sets were tweaked, and flow much more smoothly. Although being so long away you might not realize it.

A variety of custom weapon skins for Katana and other weapon sets can be chosen at the tailor; some require unlocking to get. There's a list and images of them here.

As for the game in general, there's been a huge number of changes.
Paragonwiki is a good place to find out information.

One advantage of damage auras is that they add usually less resisted damage types for many characters that use lethal or smashing attacks.

Also; if you get hit with -recharge, does it lower the damage tick rate ? If not, that's another advantage for the aura.

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On top of it all, Johnny doesn't even say hardly a thank you for saving his soul.

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Actually, you DON'T save his soul. You destroy it, leaving him an empty, soullless husk of a man.

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So when ya left, that Wailer Lord started talkin' again. He said that even if I got my soul, the wailers would still come, cause they're after my life. But the joke's on them. 'Cause the moment I felt my soul die, I stopped caring. It's kinda like I'm free. Now that it's gone, I don't miss it. No guilt, no regret, no loyalty, nothin'. I feel kinda hollow, I guess, but pretty soon I don't think I'll even remember what that means. Now, you know a lot about me I really don't care for you to know, but you were useful, so I won't have ya killed. Hey, I should thank ya', I guess, but it looks like gratitude don't mean much to me now, either.

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Here's an idea I've been kicking around; have the servers treated more like alternate universes. You allow a sort of temporary server transfer by going through a portal; you still have a home server, with your SG and where you log into the next day, but you can step from Virtue to, say Justice and be known as "Swiftslash of Virtue" or whatever ( to avoid the name duplication problem ).

Besides letting people play with their friends or on high pop/low pop servers at whim, this would allow the servers to be made different from each other without locking people on other servers out of the content. Boomtown is renovated on half the servers; not on the other half. The Rikti bomb Steel Canyon partly to rubble on Virtue ( the buildings not used for missions and such get replaced with craters and wreckage ); it gets permanently snowed in by the Winter Lord over on Champion; it stays the same over on Guardian; and over on Infinity the Outcasts get new uniforms.

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So yea, switching sides has its advantages, but sort of ruins roleplaying gameplay in a way.

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Quite a few of the RPers actually seem quite pleased by the idea. Their undercover agents "can go back home" now, their mercenaries can work both sides, their split personality supers can flip back and forth, etc.

We aren't being forced to switch; so if switching sides violates your particular RP, don't switch sides.

Dark Illusion Control for Doms

Radiation or Dark Blast for Blasters

Claws for Brutes

Thermal for Masterminds

Traps for Controllers

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if anything you'll be seeing tons of Trollers and Blasters redside replacing Corrs and Doms

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I love all these wild speculations about stuff being replaced. Everyone seems to think that the ATs they personally enjoy will be replacing all the ATs on the opposite side.

Though I have to admit, it'd be really funny if it all became true and redside was all Defenders, Tanks, Controllers, and Blasters while blueside became all Brutes, Corruptors, Doms, and MMs.

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Right after it comes out, I suspect that's what you'll see. Hordes and hordes of people on the opposite side. Just like Atlas Park looked like it had been napalmed after they gave scrappers fire armor.

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Saw this mentioned.. what does it mean?

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Someone hired to work on the Going Rogue expansion? R for Rogue?

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Several other people have suggested that as well. It seems logical.

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I wonder if there will be any graphical updates to regular CoH/ CoV, like there were for CoH when CoV arrived.

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I kinda wonder about this too. Posi's mentioned that he's got a team "looking at a graphical update" for the game. For a drastic upscale in the FX, that could be wrapped into a purchasable expansion.

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Someone pointed out elsewhere that Positron said they had "R-type programmers" working on it, which he called an in-joke. R for "Rogue" ?

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Brutes are probably the best AT in the game, they can tank, they can kill, what cant they do?

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Read ?

"Words . . . words hurt head. Must SMASH ! !"

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True. They couldn't "kill" it with MA, so they're taking more drastic measures!

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Castle : "Drat it, Positron ! First we give them Mission Architect, then we give them Going Rogue, and they STILL keep playing !"

Positron : "I know ! This time, we'll send them money ! Surely THAT will drive them off !"

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I didn't get in to closed beta

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That's because beta is open this time.

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See, the devs are just that cruel. NO ONE is getting into closed beta this time !

As I understand it, MM minion appearance is actually selected client side, like Propel's random objects. So, for example, different people see a particular Thug differently. You'd need to change that to make the OP's idea possible.

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yes it was published...why?

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No EXP or tickets in Test mode. Were you running it in Test mode ?

Drat. I used the forest fire map twice in my arc. I'd heard about glowies occasionally spawning the the air.

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The Paragon Police span the entire range. You get beat cops at low levels, with the occasional undercover officers, then detectives, then SWAT, then the power armor, police drones, and finally Awakened (police Kheldians).

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Psi Cops are somewhere in there too.

Villainside Kheldians.

Warmakers, which are Peacebringers corrupted by Mu magic into the service of Arachnos. They and their powers would be red accented with lightning instead of normal Peacebringer colors. Instead of the normal Dwarf, they'd turn into a giant glowing red spider that spits lightning for Energy/Toxic damage.

Nictus, which would naturally mostly have Warshade powers. Perhaps with a more evil theme, like sucking energy from the living. You could add some Nictus only powers; like Summon Lesser Nictus, which summons a less powerful Nictus that possesses an enemy ( Confuse, basically - or perhaps turns them into a temporary pet ). Or Possession, which lets you stealth by possessing an enemy NPC ( Lieutenant or below ). There were some pre-SOA VEAT speculation threads with cool ideas for this.

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I'm curious, on an abstract level, what the Demon set specialty would be.

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Perhaps a "Summon Demon Lord" power, that summons an extra-powerful pet for a short period ? Or a "Devour Soul" power, that lets you "suck out the soul" of a target, and boosts your pet's damage temporarily. Lots of possible thematic possibilities actually.

I'd recommend all 3 of Muu's arcs ( 2291, 6832, 6845 ), and # 2150 Win the 2009 Freak-alympics. All are very funny, except for # 6832 Uncreation which is creepy.

Excellent. I do wonder if there's an aura in this Pack like with the Cyborg one.

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Whats the magic pack?? I must be in the dark about this, ive been watching the forums, but never heard of that, is there a screenshot somewhere of this??

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It's like the Cyborg Pack; it'll be purchasable and have costume parts, and hopefully an aura and power. They are coming out with a "Super Booster" for each Origin. The Cyborg Pack was Technology; next is Magic. What's known is here at Paragonwiki.

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I'm glad we're getting a free respec, but it surprises me. I didn't think there were significant power changes that would lead folks to desire a respec.

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The pet recharge nerf is a pretty major change.

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Or if you took Hasten to help Lightning Storm, or took Speed Boost or Adrenaline Boost on a mostly-solo Controller. Even if I keep my /Kin controllers, Speed Boost is going. If any of my occasional teammates complain, I'll tell them to blame the devs.

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I'm glad we're getting a free respec, but it surprises me. I didn't think there were significant power changes that would lead folks to desire a respec.

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The pet recharge nerf is a pretty major change.