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Wait ... how is that in any way shape or form related to Equilibrium? I'm confused.

Who knows, it's certainly not one of the buffs they fired off in the demo though.

Possible, but I doubt it somewhat. You can hear that little noise the game makes when you try and use a power that's not recharged rather a bit when you listen to the demo. Especially towards the end there.

Now now. There are horribly overlong TFs that are dreadfully in need of revamping (cough).

Well. Trials of Atlantis was considered by many to be the start of DAoC's downfall.

It's somewhat a different thing though, it'd be like forcing everyone in CoH to do hardcore PvP in order to achieve the rumored 50+ content. They basically shoehorned high end hardcore raiding and PvE farming into a primarily PvP endgame.

Hmmm. Possible. I haven't used those pieces much.

Well, in the video I saw there were about 6 or so attacks that I noticed. The animations all seemed fairly speedy except for the pbaoe. Heck, even the pbaoe was only 3 or so seconds I think, which if it was a nuke of some sort would be pretty understandable.

It looked to me like a pistols/em blaster to me. There were a lot of energy manipulation self buffs in the initial buff-up phase.

And was it just me or were those new glove and boot pieces on the blaster they were playing around with? I recognized everything else in the costume except them.

One finally fired off after 4 hours. So whee?

Well, I'm glad I'm not alone in my dislike for those little cheap as all getout buggers. They went beyond being a challenge right into being frustrating.

What exactly is giving you those impressions. Your 3 is possible I suppose, though they went to a fair amount of effort to give mirrors of any of the accolades that really provide any real positive power (+hp and the like). I'd imagine you could end up with both of the accolades, but only one copy of the powers myself.

As for the first one. It's actually probably a better question than an assumption really. I've always been under the impression that you could switch sides at any time in your character's career, but now that I think about it, I'm not really sure that it's ever been said either way.

There was an interview the other month with Posi over at Tentonhammer where he's quoted as saying this:

“We’re going to have a whole new system that will allow max-level players to take their max-level characters and make them even more powerful.”

So that kind of half answers your question at least. I'm hoping we'll get some of the how at Hero-con without needing to specifically ask for it. I'm personally kind of expecting whatever it is it will be tied to new end-game content of some kind.

By the same token, there's really not a dang thing wrong with anyone wishing anyone else a 'merry' or 'happy' anything. If someone is so oversensitive as to get upset over someone wishing them well on a different religion's holiday that's their problem really.

Most people I've ever met have really been ok with it. I've been wished a 'Merry Christmas' by practicing Jews, Muslims and stringent atheists before and I do my best to try and wish folks well on their holidays as well (though I'm admittedly hazy on Muslim holidays). I've yet to be wished a Happy Hanukkah, but if it were to happen this year I fail to see how I should do anything but respond in kind to the person trying to be nice.

Yea, that's the only reason I picked my snipe back up on my energy blaster, I had a somewhat throwaway power slot and a couple snipe IOs. So now I get a chunk of +recharge out of it.

The snipe still kind of sucks though. I can do more damage with other powers in the same amount of time it takes for the snipe to animate and fire off. I do use it occasionally as an opener, but that's pretty much only on a whim since I figure I have the power, I might as well use it once in a while at least.

Oddly I always feel that way when I play my Energy Blast characters.


Oh, also I'd like to second pretty much everything Sam has said about snipes in this thread. A majority of the time I'm usually better off using attacks other than the snipe. Heck, snipes don't even add all that much to defiance in spite of their huge wind up.

It just seemed a redundant comment in a wish list of features is all. Now I'm honestly curious though, what sort of meaningful "end game" content do you want to see? I've personally played and liked pretty much all the "end game" type content out there in some form or another over the years and when the content's done well I like them all really, so there's no bias behind me asking you that.



The same could also be said for any sort of new zone though. Whenever you add in any sort of new content it's either not going to pan out and be wasted, or be well done and draw players there.

Also, I don't know that diluting the playerbase is quite so bad a thing here in CoH as it is in other games out there. With the speed of travel in between zones being so low, and the global chat system letting people communicate with each other regardless of which zone their in or even which server they're a player (who knows how to use the chat system ... there really should be more in-game information about that) can end up with a far less 'empty' feeling than they would in another game's lower populated zone.

I don't know if I, personally, want an efficient game. I'd prefer a fun game. For me that's a game with a lot of fun things to do, which isn't always terribly efficient. It's why I wish they'd be able to revise some of the lesser used content in CoH, since there's really a lot of potential there for great content. (Not that I'm even slightly against new zones mind you)

See ... now I'm curious as to why someone would neg-rep me for this with a, ""Thanks for deducting rep from this user." "My pleasure." comment. Does someone dislike Barnes & Noble or GameStop just that much or something?

Bah.

It's for 60+ month vets.