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Quote:It's charming to suggest that my lack of capital letters leaves an impression on people that lasts anywhere from hours to, perhaps, years? I've heard them talking at the salons, Sam, but I don't let it get to me. If you're going to make a real splash in this crazy world, there will always be critics. My one regret is the suffering they inflict upon themselves in their denial of such true grace.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Much more likely is that, like me, most people will never comment on this to your face, even if they're currently having a conversation with you, much in the same way as people who don't approve of your clothing won't go out and say "Did you get dressed in the dark?!?" The simple matter is it's impolite to bug people about their spelling and grammar for no reason, but it's not always safe to assume that just because people don't say anything, they're not actually thinking it. -
Quote:I'm more than happy to leave people with that ambiguity.Originally Posted by UberGuy
They also are likely to be interpreted to mean that either you don't own anything better to wear or you don't care what other people think of your appearance.
The way I see it, I can endeavor to type properly all the time and occasionally have to break my own rule when I'm carrying on multiple conversations while also fighting stuff. Alternately, I can type like I'm fighting stuff all the time and be completely consistent. I find that I make fewer errors of spelling, syntax and general cognition when I'm being consistent.Quote:How one types, in its way, sets the same kind of impression, perceived in different ways by different people. "Proper" capitalization, punctuation and sentence structure is a convention much stronger than any "rules" on how one should dress. Adhering to that convention can be seen as pointless and stodgy, or both respectful and respectable, depending on the viewpoint of the viewer. My background is such that I am more interested in behaving in a way that will be noticed by the people who view it the latter way.
Nobody has ever made me aware of having any sort of problem with the way I communicate in the game. Could it be that they simply avoid all contact with me? It could. Anyone who acts like that is someone I want to avoid in the first place so it works out perfectly. Unfortunately for them they're still going to run into me on events that were organized by a third party, and will have to endure my shenanigans for the duration of the trial.
While that's how I actually type at people, for my character descriptions I write with capitalization and punctuation. Why not? Might as well have them looking nicer since it's hard to imagine there being an element of time pressure there. -
Sarrate is correct. I don't know what mids is on about, but city of data accurately identifies fireball's average damage as scale 1.14, and ball lightning's as 1.02. As seen here: http://tomax.cohtitan.com/data/power...etype.php?at=5
There have been a handful of examples where city of data does not give the proper damage values for a power, but by and large it's the best resource that I'm aware of. It beats in-game real numbers easily and apparently it also beats mids. -
Don't worry about that, Prof. I guess I could be off base but I feel very secure in saying that the reason the rewards are as good as they are in the first place is that they want even a short arc to seem valuable enough that someone might be tempted to spend five bucks on the unlock. This combined with the fact that all of the SSAs, once more of them exist, will share the same reward timer indicates to me that they don't really care how quickly you complete the arc, just that you bother to do so.
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Maybe I just play MMs wrong but I always found that given their wonky AI, more effort than usual had to be spent on targeting and general shepherding.
WP wins this challenge hands down, I reckon. Not only is it slightly more fire and forget than invuln, shields or SR, it also has the best bang for buck when casually constructed. You really don't need fancy sets to make WP work well. Any defense bonuses you get are nice, recharge is totally irrelevant, and so on. Inv and shield may have much higher highs than WP but not with a simple SO, common IO or cheaply frankenslotted build. -
Ha, hadn't occurred to me that you meant the villain one. Haven't tried that one yet. However, if both sides are getting times in the seven minute range, it seems they must have balanced it pretty well!
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It has actually been scientifically determined, by the dpsologists and minmaximillians of this very forum, that brutes are always better than scrappers. For your perusal, a few facts:
Fact: Brutes can solo AVs. Scrappers cannot.
Fact: Brutes can survive incoming damage. Scrappers cannot.
Fact: Scrappers dissolve in water over 143 degrees Fahrenheit. Brutes don't know the meaning of the word water.
For these and trillions of other reasons, I suggest you "scrap" any idea of making a scrapper and instead join the one true path, the exalted enlightenment that is SS/FA. Thy holy tickets await thee. -
Omitting capitalization seems to be totally ubiquitous in the game at this point and I myself do it. Why get in the habit of typing "properly" in a context where rapidity is always going to be valued? You can still use correct spelling and punctuation, if you're feeling florid, as you care to, but going for the shift key on proper nouns is silly when you're trying to type "if it wasnt for my horse i never would have spent that year in college" between parts of your attack chain during a hami raid. At any rate, the content that is transmitted is 98% of the point of communication in the first place so if you really feel the need to become agitated at someone's typography, feel free to excise it via self-flagellation.
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But if you ouro out of the first mission, how is that good for your time? You have to get from founders to skyway to the contact to the next mission. You guys must have short loading times.
I've beaten it in six and some change on a blaster of appropriate level for the arc. All you need to do is kill four bosses and that's the arc. A stealth IO helps, other than that the only thing required is damage. -
The so called real numbers lie to you about beam attacks. They include the chance for disintegration damage in the single target attacks as a guaranteed chunk of each of them. When disintegration spreads, the overall damage dealt is equal to what the real numbers say, but even then not to your current target specifically. Take real numbers with a grain of salt in general, but in beam rifle's case if you want to know the actual numbers simply look at the power's detailed info, determine which part is obviously disintegration spread, and remove it. By and large with that and the bonus damage for hitting a disintegrating target removed, all of beam's powers hit as hard as the respective powers from energy blast.
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Ah, fair enough Gate, I guess I just assumed snipers ignored stealth since my main exposure to them is nemesis snipers on nemesis missions and being more than 84 feet away from them at all times is not often an option when you need to run all the way to the end of the mission. At the very least you could say that nobody but a pvp-specced stalker is going to be rubbing shoulders with them undetected.
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Quote:That should do a large amount of bonus damage in caltrops. Yow.Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison
The Raggy is great for controlling enemies, as well as the hilarity that ensues when people trip on caltrops.
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Quote:You mean like Celestial and Ascendant, both of which are just as shiny as any of the new CoT pieces and neither of which you need to pay for in the store using paragon points?Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
I'll resume doing that when they resume making great costumes FOR ME, instead of making great costumes for the NPCs and giving me the stripped-down minion version. I'm willing to pay for the good stuff, but if I can't have the good stuff, then I'm done spending my money on anything non-essential. Sorry.
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I'm loving beam/MM. I'm also starting to wonder if I am no longer capable of making non-MM blasters! The basic idea with this combo is that beam rifle is so active and slot-hungry that a set such as MM, which can be pruned down to its self buffs, tier 1 and confusion set mule, lets you focus on what really counts: blasting jerks. It occurs to me that you can pretty much say this of any blaster primary, but the disintegration mechanic favors manic play more than the average attack chain does. When you're not faffing around with secondary attacks you are more likely to be able to get a large chunk of a spawn all disintegrating at once and me oh my does that result in a lot of damage.
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Quote:So because they haven't stuck perfectly to their aspiration of minimal clipping, they should abandon it entirely and just release any old junk players ask for regardless of whether there are any pieces you can use that it doesn't clip with? I'd much rather the devs at least try to keep some modicum of polish on the content they release. This remains the superhero MMO with the best general character look precisely because they take care not to add pieces that look awful, forty nine times out of fifty.Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Believe me, I will happily stand on the Devs side when I believe they are in the right.
This time is not one of them. 'Because it clips' is an excuse (yes, excuse, not a reason) that is as old as Statesman's underwear. And it STILL hasn't stopped pretty much every costume piece to date, the vast majority of which can and will clip with a variety of other pieces. Hell, certain female shoes still clip with the feet they are on. If that's not double-standards I don't know what is. -
Quote:Oh I totally still do that, but just with the IO and ninja run. It spices it up, if you ask me. Nothing like being the one to ATT everyone to HrodToz at the end of the LGTF when you're a half-concealed blaster!Originally Posted by Rogue1
Ah, I see your point. Usually I run a lot of Task Forces, so I always take SS first. That way I can stealth through missions and then Recall or Assemble my team to take out the objective. Different play style, but it can make the difference between a task force taking one hour or two hours to complete.
YMMV, so whatever makes the game fun for you.
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To add to what plainguy said, detector NPCs such as snipers and rikti drones will see you through any amount of stealth, whether it comes from stealth the power, invisibility, what have you. Fortunately most enemy groups either lack detectors or they don't typically spawn in most instances in most level ranges.
When you attack, are hit by an attack, or click a glowie your stealth suppresses completely for ten seconds. Once that ten seconds has elapsed your stealth turns back on, but if you haven't put sufficient distance between things that aggroed on you in the mean time they'll likely remain angry and continue to pursue you. Breaking line of sight is important if you get spotted and want to continue to be stealthy. It's also worth noting that some enemies, most notably old fashioned clockwork, never lose aggro and will chase you any distance once you have their attention. -
For me it's more that sometimes I want stealth but not super speed. Typically if I take SS it's one of my last throwaway picks at 47 or 49. A stealth IO here becomes useless when exemplared. A stealth IO in sprint can be used at any level.
Also, and this is a frivolous concern but one I suspect is not unique to me, sometimes you don't want to have the frankly ugly transparency effect that a stealth IO produces active on your character. Zero impact on gameplay, more of a niggling annoyance. -
Word on the street is he was spotted on virtue this very evening!
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You literally don't need a team to beat any of this. You can solo this on any character. If I had fraps and could be arsed I'd take suggestions, but you'll just have to take my word. It is not possible to choose a primary and secondary of any archetype that cannot solo through Praetoria, supposedly the hardest of lowbie content and surely the ambushiest.
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I must be some kind of freaking prodigy because I've beaten all of this content on blasters. You know, that AT that you all agree is crap? That one. That is the one I've used to beat all of this stuff that is impossible to beat solo. What's my secret? Three goblets of Ovaltine a day, obviously
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Quote:I'm not exactly a MMO maven but I have played a certain game based on a famous pnp game (We're not allowed to name them right? I'm not sure), oft touted as a shining example of how to do F2P right, and its content packs are five bucks and up and most of them are the equivalent of something like the sewer trial in CoH. I mean the old one. It isn't fun, it didn't take much effort to design, mainly it's just a big slog. You can also buy access to open zones full of meandering critters and a couple chests with a few kill X objectives.Originally Posted by Aliana Blue
Most of the genre makes the money from baubles and systems, not content. Notice how it's been already suggested that buying one of the "arcs" may be worth it for Freemium just to have access to the rewards table. And that's how it goes, selling mangy content like this at premium prices in F2P is basically a roundabout way of selling the shinies at the end of it.
Games that have to sell actual content (DLC) have to put noticeably more effort to entice customers to pay for it.
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Quote:Yeah, like that time when they said they were re-evaluating merit rewards and everything still costs the same and rewards the same as it did with the launch of issue 13! Remember how that's what happened?Originally Posted by Snow Globe
Re-evaluating is Paragon Studios-speak for "we won't do anything about it."
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It doesn't really require a guide. Basically if you don't care about the optimal chain, take a bunch of attacks and try to use blinding feint as often as possible while running attack vitals and sweep for combos. If you do care about the optimal chain with a reasonable budget and some leeway in the build, run blinding feint, attack vitals, repeat. If you want the best chain and don't care how much it costs or whether your loved ones will start worriedly talking behind your back, the absolute best chain is blinding feint, ablating strike, sweeping strike.
Similarly for katana, iirc the easy chain to run is gambler's cut, soaring dragon, gambler's cut, golden dragonfly and the best chain removes one of the gambler's cuts? I don't really know it was well. Point being that you can run the easy chains with only a little global recharge, good slotting, and you don't even need hasten, so new EA is well suited to help either set shine. -
For one thing if he doesn't play villains very often that isn't something he'd have any way of knowing.