Psychic Guardian

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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Clockwork O1 View Post
    A man can't punch kittens everyday, sometimes he has to dispense a little information too! Besides, it's my turn to punch kittens today.
    Psh punching kittens is for middleschoolers with hormones. Pulling converters out of the live build to disappoint everybody is what you all were REALLY up to this morning
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by EarthWyrm View Post
    Yup. Servers are up, Zwill is on Virtue AP tossing around that new disc power, and the two hours I stayed up after my wife went to bed repositioning alts and getting all the various IOs I want to convert on characters with appropriate resources to work with them appear to have been wasted.

    Which I wouldn't mind so much, if I weren't sick with a sinus infection.

    But I'm fairly annoyed.
    I am also quite annoyed after staying up hours past when I should have like a kid on christmas morning for Converters. Grinch-Devs who stole christmas might wanna stay away from my villains and heroes alike until this is rectified .
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Xyzor View Post
    What a pathetic fail that is...

    So, let's review:

    Staff Fighting - No

    Beast Mastery - No

    Converters - No

    So very anti-climactic.

    I know they'd mentioned (if you knew where to look) that the ATs weren't going to launch today, but still, they seem to have failed to release just about everything I was looking forward to in this update...

    Hopefully the new trial will at least be fun, or did that not make it into the release either...
    My sentiments on i22 exactly. The one thing that got my ears perked up was the knowledge that converters were FINALLY confirmed as launching. Only thing I got my hopes up for-not here. I'm also looking forward to Staff, but I heard the confirmation that wasn't contributing to i22 being any good awhile ago .
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Clockwork O1 View Post
    There was a setting on the beta server which caused them to work correctly in that environment, but not on live, we have identified and resolved the issue, they will appear in the next patch.
    Now you have to tell us when that IS. lol
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by SwellGuy View Post
    At 20 or more I'd grab a bunch of them.
    And there lies the issue with our Devs. If players are willing to spend money on something they have to find a way to ruin it before releasing it. Because if everyone wanted to throw their money at them for things it'd be horrible for NCSoft .
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by blueruckus View Post
    x25 Super Packs is over a $15 dollar value. One token is not worth $15.
    lol according to the devs yes it is. Since you get one per 1200 paragon points

    And I also would've liked to see x25, I didn't pay attention to the amount on beta. That would've been great for us tier9's...but no. I am massively disappointed with everything(not) in i22 today.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kaylala View Post
    hehehe you can see the tells between us, I'm glad I wasnt saying anything bad haha
    He musta flooded it off the screen with that SG chat. Lala speak without "saying something bad"? Unpossible.

    And pretty sure I already said it in-game, but Grats DE
  7. Congrats War Witch! I've been around since '07, and I was proudest of CoH's team and how they interacted/responded to players the most while you were Lead Dev, making me super excited to see you in a high position of power again .

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Electric-Knight View Post
    That and... While we'd all put it together and had some vague information passed our way... I missed the memo that had you move out of the top spot!
    So, welcome back, you hoser!
    Yeah. I missed that memo too . Imagine my surprise when I was stalking Dev forumprofiles and randomly found Posi had his "Lead Dev" forumtitle again lol.
  8. I haven't seen this mentioned yet, but our evil devs nerfed the lava on Trapdoor(and the signature arc) a LONG time ago. Dragging him to the lava doesn't hurt him anymore, taking away a "weak" toon's failsafe option for defeating him.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by tanstaafl View Post
    I was thinking of buying a few. But at 800, I'll spend the time. Running them below, its XP, and for running them at 50, I do it at -1/x0 often level shifted.

    Hopefully a lot of people agree with me, and we see a sale on them soon.

    I do see them as a very good pay for service, saving time and nowhere close to paying to win.

    I wont claim to know the Dev intentions, but I'd imaginae marketing would want as many sold as possible.
    I think there would be more money in having them cheaper as I'd spend over 800 points if they were 200 points each over spending nothing. But the market plan doesnt seem to about he micro pricing much for transactions, and they have the data to support thier view.
    Black friday was the only decent "sale" they had. Nothing seems to go below 50%. It's usually 25% off or less, only 50% off on things that are so high we still don't even buy them at 50% off. It's like people have been saying since the Paragon Market launched; It's like they try to make us not want to spend any money .

    Ghost Falcon stated way back that if things didn't sell prices would be re-assessed and possibly lowered to account for it. Someone more obsessed than me can point something out and call me wrong, but unfortunately as far as I remember nothings price has been permanently changed/lowered after it was put on the market on live.

    Even if they put these on sale for 50% off it'd be 200 more than I'd ever spend on these. Even the alignment system only got 25% off this week.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Doc_Hornet View Post
    I don't see myself purchasing many of the Alignment Switcheroos, but they would come in handy for sideswitching new level 1 VEATs/HEATs (that is, if they work on low level VEATs/HEATs).
    They can't be used on a toon under lv20. Or a Praetorian. 2 more things veto'd out of the possibilities of this item....because it'd make people want ot use them? Why would they allow a sold item to be useful? /sarcasm

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by White Hot Flash View Post
    They can't limit usage to just people that don't have GR
    They could...just like they could've allowed it to let a hero become a rogue with one use. Jeeze it's not like it's not expensive enough to warrant such a broad change. Paragon has become more about quantity than quality since the paragon market was released. I used to say it was the death of the game, but after Super Packs which probably made more last week than the total of all subscriber subs last year combined that's no longer true.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lothic View Post
    I think people such as yourself have the confused idea that the Devs were actually expecting to make a "potential goldmine" from this. If they actually wanted to make a lot of money this way they would have made the ONLY way you could side-switch be via this token method. At the very least they would not have left the "free" way to do it in the game at the same time.
    I'm just wondering why they waste the time coding and bugtesting features that marketing then goes and purposely places out of the desired range for 90% of players.

    Like (theoretic example)"New to the Paragon Market; pick any desired name you want for a new character, even if taken by another already"-100,000pp. It doesn't matter that an item has been created and given to us if it's in a pricerange to be laughed at.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Liquid View Post
    Alignment change tokens are great, and will save badge hunters time when new issues come out with opposite-side badges. They also will be great for roleplayers that want to RP a sudden change of personality or alignment (for situations like mind control, possession, curses, etc).

    800 points, however, is exorbitant. That's the price of a new powerset. Featuring the entire alignment change system also highlights how expensive it is-- 800 points for a one time change on a single character, or 1200 points (900 right now!) for the ability to do it with any character, forever, after running 20 tip missions and two moralities, and bundled with it is new content, alignment powers, and alignment merits.

    It's too bad, I was planning to buy these. I was expecting 80-160 points with how minor their effect is.

    I'll probably be running the new SSA tonight, looking forward to seeing the impact of Statesman's death.
    This. I tested these on beta and was eager to see them go live so I could buy a handful. $10 to flip one toon? Lol. No Thanks I'll continue despising the work required for alignment swaps since that's gonna be the only way they get changed for me. These could have been great sellers, but Paragon Marketeers screwed up another potential goldmine .

    AND aside from SSA6(which being VIP I don't consider an addition to the "market") that's the only new thing this week. Was super disappointed when I logged in and hit the featured button at 3am this morning .
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion View Post
    What I am getting at here is other Arch Type ATO Proc seem to be Global effects. The Dom Proc increases damage on ALL your powers. The Scrapper Proc increases Crit % on ALL your powers. The Brute Proc increases Fury that increases damage on ALL your powers. The Blaster Proc gives a minor damage plus to the one power you use it with? I do not understand how that is comparable to the other archtype ATOs.
    Pretty sure the Brute proc only buffs the affected power's Fury generation.
    The Kheld, MM&Scrapper are 3 of the only global ones.
    Tank=single power +Res proc
    Stalker=single power +hide proc(no placate)
    Corruptor=single damage proc
    Blaster=single damage proc
    Defender=single power aoeheal proc
    Controller=single damage proc(and all it's IOs buff control not dmg. People weren't happy)

    The point is there are a very small number of global ones. And the damage procs are totally different from old ones. Instead of Proc-Per-Cast it's Proc-Per-Minute. As others have said; If it states it will go off 4 times per minute, and you put it in a power whose base recharge won't let it fire more than 4 times per minute before recharge buffs(60/4 base recharge=15sec) it will fire off it's 70/107(if purple) damage 100% of the time you use that power if it isn't an AoE. Arbiter Hawk even confirmed that for us. That makes them way more powerful than the old ones.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by gameboy1234 View Post
    Which is stupid. I lost the lead on a 24 person league once to someone who queued up because they couldn't find their way out of Atlas Park to join us.
    Of course it's stupid. The whole TeamUpTeleporter system is *censoring myself* code. It's "working as intended" by the messed up devs point of view. But they're too stubborn and proud of their own intentions for it to ever change it to make 90% of the playerbase actually happy with it*.

    *waits for the 5 forumites to come running in to defend how the TuT is god.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dark Energon View Post
    You <bleep>ing <bleep>head.. looking at the <bleep>ing header i thought u were going to say you were going to <bleep>ing leave us.

    <bleep>ing damn you!

    ps: Lub ya!
    He got me to click the thread too. lol.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by WanderingAries View Post
    Sounds like there are some serious net traffic restrictions on here for some reason. Either that or you're trying this on a connection thats highly filtered (IE: work/strapped down router). I tanked Norton ages ago so I'm not familiar with their settings. Anyone wanna chime in on Norton related white/black listing?

    Hopefully this is norton related, that said there have been some malware related issues similar to this (kind of a stretch, but your google response is close), but if you're upto date on XP patches then you should be past those issues.
    Sorry I'm not the OP lol, just having an issue that fits this thread perfect so I posted here. The OP said he has an OS that does have UAC.
  16. Psychic Guardian

    LFG Broken?

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aggelakis View Post
    This is also not true, because the LFG works just fine if people use it correctly.
    But the devs definition of the LFG tool working "correctly" just happens to be a way that the playerbase has stated/complained was not something we would ever use in the manner they wanted us to. Hence everyone calling it "broken". People want more details and flexibility before they just hit "join queue" and are locked out of doing just about anything productive during the (quite often indefinite) wait. The flexibility is coming with i22(being able to queue while in missions), but as far as I know the details aren't(how many people are in queue already, etc).
  17. Psychic Guardian

    Archetype sets

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Roderick View Post
    Calatyzing requires that the enhancement be slotted, so if the enhancement in question isn't a Blaster ATO, no they can't. And if it IS a Blaster ATO, they still can't, because they've already got a full set slotted, and the pieces are all Unique.
    Ok. Making them characterbound and dropping from mobs is indeed one of the stupidest restrictions the devs have ever implemented then . Then next month Posi will be ranting people have 6slotted an ATO set and are "hoarding" 50 Catalysts. LOL.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Father Xmas View Post
    Yes, it looks as if there was a launcher update which can cause troubles with some firewalls due to the way to bootstraps itself for the patch.

    Worse case, uninstall the launcher (not the game) and reinstall it.
    I just ran the NCLauncher for the first time after that update to their brilliant updater. Now the launcher is telling me there are updates available for beta&test, but I hit update and the update window just pops up saying "Downloading..." with no speed, progress, or file details etc indefinitely. The Launcher's main window also says it's downloading a patch for beta as soon as the launcher opens....but it's not.

    (I'm on XP still, so that UAC garbage isn't an issue)
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man View Post
    Dell does provide good customer support
    LOL. Last time I dealt with a Dell in my house('06. Whole nother horror story.) we called their "Support"; some guy in Pakistan reading from a script in broken english which would've been a copy/paste answer had it been done online.
  20. Temp powers? Even though they're an "Inspiration"? Weird.
  21. What I saw new was the VDay costume pack(400), with character rename&respec tokens as sale items(600), down from 800. The 5pack of Enhancement unslotters was also on the sale page, but I don't remember the price(I don't even think I read it lol), the 1&3 copies are probably on sale too if their salepattern is holding.
  22. lol. Watch it while standing in Grandville >:)
  23. I made this awhile ago, and never actually came up with a use for it lol. I thought it turned out great, so if anyone likes it you're welcome to use it .

    I made one of the Statesman star too, but it kinda turned out terrible, so I'm not linking it haha .

    Edit: Just revisited the original file, and made a quick adjustment I learned since this was created to get rid of the annoying flicker when it looked at the "camera" head on.

    Edit2: I did a quick re-working of the Statesman Star model I had, I'm still not overly proud of it like the Arachnos emblem, but here it is;
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Super Flu View Post
    Thanks for the replies guys. I was just curious if I should run out and play the lotto or not. LOL.

    I also wasn't sure if some people had made some best guesses as to the drop rates or not.

    As far as the UG. I've seen a few broadcasts in RWZ that they've completed the UG and did not receive a R or VR. Anyone hearing this?
    Yes, I know someone who rage-boycotted UG for over a month after grinding through a successful undergroundtrial(with no disconnects or afks) and was given an uncommon for her efforts.
  25. I like B or D. F would be cool, but I doubt it would have powercustomization to accent the twin tips, so that's out for me.