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Hibernate is no worse than many other tier 9 powers for brutes god modes give you a few minutes of invulnerability and then leave you week as a kitten and self rez well rely on your death to do anything.

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So you think that the AT most defined by shear aggression needs a power that is the ultimate passive defense?

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2b what makes a set defining power is often in the eye of the beholder personal being covered in ice defines the set for me not a single power that debuffs my foes


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So really all you need is power customisation to make Energy Aura look like Ice, since you only want it for cosmetic reasons.

Set defining = what this set has that other sets don't. All Ice powers are available in other brute sets appart from CE and Hibernate (The +def component of EA becomes pretty worthless with the brute .75 defense scaling is applied, making it just a less powerful Power Sink clone).

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1.Frozen Armour
2.Hoarfrost
3.Icicles
4.Wet Ice
5.Permafrost
6.Energy Absorption
7.Glacial Armour
8.Chilling Embrace
9.Hibernate

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1. Do you really think it is a good idea to put the end recovery power ahead of the E/NE Shield, pushing that back to level 28?

2. CE is a set defining power (along with Hibernate), if you are calling it a "take it or leave it" power, then why take Ice in the first place? Hibernate is a very poor tier 9 for a brute.

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Ah in that case my response is why not yes there are other good power sets but why should that stop me suggesting ice?

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Ok.

Suggestion: proliferate all powers to all ATs.

Right, now that's done we can shut down the Suggestions forum.

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Pfft once they've done that they can move on to making more new power sets there can never be to many sets IMO

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The point is, when they first started power proliferation, they said it was thier eventual intention to proliferate all powersets (with two exceptions, Empathy and Poison).

So Ice for Brutes is going to happen. Eventualy.

But by going on about it in the suggestions forum, you imply that Ice for Brutes should be a priority, when there are quite a few sets that would add more to brutes, and, more importantly, other ATs which could really do with a few more decient sets.

De fence is da guy wot u take ya hot stuff to.

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i dont think anybody would expect to be able to take a wheelchair as a costume option and expect to represent a martial arts character.

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The thing is though, it wouldn't be technically any harder to do MA in a wheelchair than any other powerset. Yes, MA would need a whole new set animations, but so would all other powersets. Shooting energy beams from your eyes whilst standing requires a different animation to shooting energy beams from your eyes sitting in a wheelchair.

No chance of the defender version, since it would be seriously overpowered on a high damage AT (Defender version has inflated damage and excessive range to make up for the lack of Aim).

The Blaster version will no doubt get proliferated to corruptors when the devs find the time.

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Ah in that case my response is why not yes there are other good power sets but why should that stop me suggesting ice?

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Ok.

Suggestion: proliferate all powers to all ATs.

Right, now that's done we can shut down the Suggestions forum.

Fury has only had minor alterations since closed beta.

The only thing that has really changed since then is the devs aren't so worried about dishing out gimped powersets.

I think Enkil's point is "why Ice" when there are lots of other good powersets that could be ported over to brutes (and brutes already have more options than any other melee AT).


Ice Melee, there is precidence for making it -dmg, but even then, it is still a slow attacking set.

Yeah, but I was responding your post, which implied that because Aim isn't so good for a crab, BU isn't a good power either.

Can't have either on a pure Huntsman though. Gotta really on toggles.

Some normal mobs spawn more bosses for smaller teams, eg Banished Pantheon, Lost. Difficulty level 3 and 5 have equal chances of bosses spawning though. 2 and 4 increase the point value of each spawn by about 1 minions worth, and thus increase the chance of getting a boss.

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Don't know if that's jsut something bugged up for me, or...?


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This is normal for the game. Some enemy groups are slightly different weighting, but you typically need a team of about 6+ for bosses to commonly spawn.

Don't set your mission to "flat", and play on difficulty 2 or 4 to give you slightly higher odds on getting bosses with a small team. (5, invincible, increases the level of the mobs by 2, but has no effect on number or boss probability).


If you want to force bosses to spawn for small teams, you can have no minions or lts in your group.

As it's done on a "point buy" system, if a spawn includes a boss it will have fewer critters of other rank.

No, it was originally called Medievil Weaponry, and was combined with War Mace and Battle Axe.

It's been Broadsword since the game has been live though.

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And you think that the CoH player base is the largest source of potential CO players?

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No, if that where true they would be stuffed.

But Cryptic seem to think it is, otherwise, why bother?

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If that's all it takes you to not play a game, you can't have been that fussed about playing it in the first place.

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True, I'm not, most of the things I am hearing make me think that CO is going to suck, including this, which seems like an act of desperation.

If Tescos had to resort to handing out leaflets in Sainsburys, I would ask "what's wrong at Tescos?".

Build Up on a Bane is much better than Aim on a Crab:

1) BU has a bigger damage buff

2) Banes have more burst damage

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It's really no different to the supermarkets telling us that specific other supermarkets are more expensive than they are. To use the McDonalds analogy above, I'd say it was a bit cheeky to do something like that, but certainly not "rude and unprofessional".


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No, it's like Tescos having someone standing inside Sainsburys handing out leaflets telling people how much better Tescos it.

The issue is not Cryptic trying to poach players, it's that they are using message boards owned and paid for by thier competetor in order to do so.


It was also stupid. Previously, most CoX players would have been prepared to give CO a trail, and would have stuck with it had they found it to be a better product than CoX. Now Cryptic have done something that puts them in a box with SOE: there are some people who will now avoid products with Cryptic on the box because they don't aprove of the way they do buisiness.

Yeah, I think all three of those would bring more to brutes than Ice.

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Was the Ice Armor on brutes not changed to Energy Amour?

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In effect, yes, Energy Aura was created from Ice Armor to try and make a more brute friendly set.

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recharge that it imposed on enemies was bad for fury generation

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That was only one of the reasons. There was also the desire at the time to keep some sets unique to certain ATs, and the fact that ice melee was a fairly low agression - high control set, not really appropiate for a SMASH AT.


Personally, I don't think brutes need Ice, but it would be a good set to port to stalkers.

Powers go together though. Ice armour is ok (sans CE, which is a set defining power), but ice melee would have to have the -recharge removed, which is the defining characterstic of a cold set. Not to mention Ice Patch and the sleep.

Same with electic. Electric Melee is fine on any melee AT, but Electric Armor sucks.

I think so. I've used it and not noticed any extreme rooting, but I haven't set out specifically to test for this bug.

Invisible weapon bug is definately fixed though.

Yeah, I applied for beta and haven't been invited.

I wonder if they wanted specific people "Arcaneville please come fix our game for us?".

Yeah, he wanted to have a sig power for each AT:

Ice for tanks, because it has the best aggro managment

Ninjitsu for stalkers, because ninjas flip out and kill poeple

Electric for brutes, because Electric Armour is teh suxor on any AT other than brute (cf stalker)


But he got overruled, so none of this counts for anything.

The animations are fixed in issue 14.

Oh, I have a whole bunch of these. Just make sure you fight magic mobs when playing through that level range.