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Quote:Oh what I would give to go back to the days when that was trueOriginally Posted by DarkGob
The best advice I can give you is not to farm your way to level 50. Play through content, actually learn to play your characters. Unlike other games, this game does not begin at the level cap.
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Quote:IIRC you only have to avoid killing the patrols. So you can kill anything standing still and patrols are generally easy to avoid if you are paying attention.Originally Posted by OneWhoBinds
(I should warn you, one of her arcs includes a mission you might want to just burn an Auto-Complete on. Forced Stealth missions are never really good... one against an enemy group that can ignore any stealth is awful. Throw in details like the time limit, multiple objectives, a maze-like level, and (IIRC) the fact that you will fail the mission if you engage anything in combat... makes this mission a huge chore to do.)
Personally I just pop purples and run to the end. -
Threads like this make me sad.
People shouldn't have to know anything to play and enjoy this game and it has been so for ~7 years up until incarnates
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Quote:I quite like it actually (Not on TF however), on a fast moving toon it feels like you are going into bullet time.Originally Posted by EvilGeko
I would like to remove the 'Total Focus' animation where ever it exists. Not sure if that counts as a revamp.
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Quote:Annoyingly they actually did listen to feeback, but only as long as it fitted into their 'vision' of what the power should be. If only they learn to let go of thier ego and accept that sometimes it is the vision itself that is wrong (But that would be admitting to making a mistake, which some people just can't do).Originally Posted by Kangstor
It was a permaable toggle when it was first introduced in VIP beta with a 0.5 end/sec. Asking for dropping endurance cost (or letting alpha effects it IIRC) so there won't be a big disperancy between builds that can manage it and those can't resulted to make it half-time up toggle. After that asking it returned to old model didn't work at all and most we could get was a passive boost.
I will be damned if I ever give my feedback in beta ever after that. I will only report bugs and that is all. -
Quote:Ah sorry I suck at reading sometimesOriginally Posted by Cheetatron
I'm speeking of the PPPs as far as i can tell the APPs are mostly the same between the melee ATs except for a few power differences in some pools but IIRC fire is 100% the same between Tanks/Brutes/Scrappers/Stalkers
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Quote:I think I read this as you want people to play certain AT's because they are the only ones that get certain powers, rather than because the AT itself is fun?Originally Posted by Pauper
Pretty sure this won't be a popular option, but I'm of a mind that some power sets should be retired for some ATs. Best example: you can be a Martial Arts/Super Reflexes Scrapper, or a Super Reflexes/Martial Arts Tanker, or a Martial Arts/Super Reflexes Stalker. It's possible to argue that Scrapper and Stalker are largely superfluous (have one AT that focuses on damage and another that focuses on defense) and thus at least part of the combo should be retired for one of the two damage-based ATs, or conversely that the combo makes more sense for Scrappers/Stalkers, but less sense for Tankers (really, a flippy, superfast, ninja brick?).
Some power set proliferation and duplication made sense when CoH and CoV were largely two different games, but now that the games are almost wholly integrated with one another, the duplication of power sets just seems like laziness in some ways. This could also help with the perception of certain ATs as sub-optimal -- part of the reason that Blasters are considered underpowered is that they have basically the same primary sets as Corruptors, but the Corruptor interacts with them in different ways which are considered more entertaining. Replacing some of the more damaging Corruptor power sets with less overtly powerful but more flavorful new power sets which better fit the Corruptor 'theme' should also help the perception of the Blaster AT.
Reducing the number of places where you see the same power set available on a different AT should make that powerset seem less 'old', since you're not seeing it every time you decide to roll up a new toon.
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Pauper
I don't think this is a great road to be going down at this stage in development. Originally sets weren't as proliferated as they are now and it made sense when the game was new so people experienced everything, but I think with a game this old almost everyone currently playing will be a veteran of some sort and will want more choice not less. -
Quote:See I can be positiveOriginally Posted by Electric-Knight
That's a pretty cool idea, in my opinion.
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Quote:Oh I don't care one way or the other about the actual issue, but this is just an example of poor planning makes for poor performance.Originally Posted by Zombie Man
While I agree that pre-announcements can be made the day before they leave the office, I disagree that this is as big an issue as you seem to make it.
Also if 4 people hadn't all replied at once I wouldn't have posted here again lol. But I can't just ignore them because that would be rude
Edit: You might be pleased to know I am leaving work now so won't post again for a good 12 hours. -
Quote:Even worse lol!Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
From the sound of things, it is quite possible that the person responsible for doing that job (I'm going to go along with it being Ghost Falcon) was also the person responsible (or heavily influential) for making the decision of when.
He of all people should have known that him staying up until midnight for the rest of forever wasn't a practical solution. -
Quote:I get the decision was made to keep it that way, but why was it ever made to make updates at midnight if they didn't have the right people working at that time?Originally Posted by Texas Justice
Actually, that's handled by the Producers, so yes, they are a part of the Development staff.
They've made the decision to keep the updates delegated to either a Producer or Associate Producer.
It's a small part of their job.
Again from a business perspective once the decision is made it makes more sense not to have to change things publicly and to make an internal change to allow someone else to perform this role once the lack of planning has been noticed. Back tracking is almost never a good thing. -
Quote:I took it the right way don't worryOriginally Posted by Electric-Knight
Haha, I hear you on that. And I hope the humor in my reply was appreciated, even if it was jokingly at your expense.
In this case, I just think it is an understandable business/employee-consideration decision. It seems like it is a job for a high-up producer/developer, so it's not something they're leaving to any old employee. And they changed it so that the person responsible doesn't have to do it at midnight, their time.
I also enjoyed it being the old way, but it really makes zero difference to us in the end. I'm sure it makes a difference for the person having to flip the switch though. And I so wanted to make a positive comment somewhere after reading it but seems I failed lol.
Sadly I stand by my 'lack of foresight' comment and that is what really annoys me the most in this case. -
Quote:They probably don't need development staff to make the change either though.Originally Posted by Texas Justice
But they still don't need to have any Development Staff on duty round-the-clock.
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Quote:I really don't want to be negative again but I have to beOriginally Posted by Ironblade
A lot of the so-called excuses are simply business decisions. We hear a lot of complaining about why things get scheduled the way they do. Frequently, the reason is that it needs to take place during normal business hours at whatever location is responsible.
Business decisions that start with 'lets do it at midnight' then stop when they realise nobody actually works at that time really make me sad. They could save face by automating it but didn't.
I don't mind when it is scheduled for, but changing the schedule for a reason which seems to boil down to 'lack of foresight' gets me annoyed.
I have quit jobs because bosses just don't look ahead (And ignore my usually correct predictions) and I hate seeing people making decisions when they don't show the most basic decision making skills. I know this is only a small thing, but if all the small things are done right then everything works properly.
Edit: On a more positive note you are quite right, some things like maintenance have to take place when people are at work and it makes no business sense to employ people to come in at night just to they can do the patches then. Especially because if it all goes wrong they will have to wake everyone up to come in and get it all working again! -
Quote:Numbers in a different colour?Originally Posted by Thunder Knight
I can understand not wanting text, but I'd like to see something. A brief extra hit flash, or just anything to let me know that it went off at the time it went off. (And not trying to scroll back through a combat log that is constantly moving after the fight's over)
Otherwise it doesn't "feel" like Assault is doing anything at all. (And I already have that issue with Interface)
Edit: Actually that might be good, standard damage one colour, procs another, interface another etc. -
Quote:Nah I start off by reading the threads I enjoy, then eventually when people stop posting replies in them I move on and eventually get to threads about problems and get more and more annoyedOriginally Posted by Electric-Knight
Don't mind PrincessDarkstar too much... They just woke up on the wrong side of their dark princess bed today.
But I really do hate posts making excuses for the devs not doing this or that, yes they have made the game and do some good stuff, but they are not perfect and should be due for criticism when they do things wrong. People who constantly stick up for the devs are the reason why so many bugs go live because the beta forums are full of 'oh thank you I have wanted water blast for years and I don't care how much it may or may not suck as long as it makes a nice splash sounds'.
(Grr I planned not saying anything negative in this post but derailed myself )
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Quote:A pre-written announcement page takes seconds to put up.Originally Posted by Zombie Man
Switching the time also means that they can throw up the announcement page within a few hours of the change rather than half a day later.
And they seriously have no trustworthy staff working at that time in a global game?
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Quote:I just realised I got my maths wrong, with 3s cast time every 18s that is already more than 15% of your time. Adding say 1s redraw to that puts you at 20%!Originally Posted by PrincessDarkstar
With a 3s animation time if you were to get Shadow Meld perma then you would be spending a very significant amount of your time just casting it (Close to 10% if you have a set that also had redraw!).
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Quote:I have been wondering the same thing myself.Originally Posted by RogueDefector
Thanks.
I've noticed that it's quite quiet on this server now, I remember the days when it was extremely populated.
Just wondering whether to transfer to another one.
Even in EU peak hours Freedom and the other one have more people on than Union.
I would stay where you are unless you have free server transfers or intend to create new characters though. I think they are planning on milking us for every last penny through server transfers and the like rather than attracting more people to the game. -
Quote:The draw that kept many people in this game used to be the ability to create, play and enjoy lots of different alts. Unlike other games it was never about having a 'main' that got all the good stuff and a few others wearing hand-me-downs.Originally Posted by Zombie Man
Because you play all 18 characters every day and that they all can't have one extra power after just a few hours it's not worth playing at all?
And I've said this before to this type of complaint: The game is balanced around one character. If one does not realize that creating and maintaining more characters than just that one is necessarily more of a time investment, then one does not have grip on how time works.
I don't understand the change to this endgame type grind, and the more people it drives away the worse it will be for us all. Union feels totally empty most of the time now and I rarely see any shouts for PuG TF's like I used to, and when I do there is hardly any interest because there just aren't that many people on. I entirely blame the incarnate system for that. -
Quote:It is probably worth mentioning that you don't usually need to be softcapped for the full duration if you are using Shadow Meld.Originally Posted by Synesence
Thought it would be possible to get a Perma Shadow Meld, but sadly, nope, even with 238% recharge. Closest thing I can get is a 5-second recharge basis.
I have a character build for 32.5% defence to all (1 small purple from normal softcap) that is i-capped when he pops Shadow Meld. There is only a ~50% uptime on Shadow Meld but once you have taken the alpha and spent 15s killing stuff you tend to be able to survive the rest with lower defences, and Shadow Meld is up again for the next mob.
With a 3s animation time if you were to get Shadow Meld perma then you would be spending a very significant amount of your time just casting it (Close to 10% if you have a set that also had redraw!). -
Quote:My 6th sense tells me that is going to change soon.Originally Posted by Psymate_Dayton
So many great suggestions by so many great people.
The only thing I can think to add? Crashless nukes for all! The crash is an archaic mechanic initially thought up when the level cap was 40, correct? This is a different game now. Why not let Blasters/Defenders/Corrupters go in and clear a room every couple minutes without and endurance crash?
The same sense tells me that I will be waiting a long time for Energy Melee on scrappers because new sets sell better than proliferation
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Quote:Fire Ball begs to differ.Originally Posted by Cheetatron
The way to decide between Brute and Scrapper imo is what would you rather have, Brute PPPs, or Scrapper PPPs imo Brute Soul Mastery beats out the other options in terms of survivability and general value with the exception of water sprite and shadowmeld the scrapper PPPs suck
But otherwise you are right, and Gloom is OP
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SR, Ice (Apparently though I know nothing about it) and Energy (Capped to all but Neg and Psi very easily).
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Isn't the Gaussian's proc so poor that until it goes PPM it doesn't really have a place anywhere aside from something 6 slotted with the rest of the set?