Sardan

I actually love that huge KB! Ditto when a Fake Nem blasts me onto my butt.

I don't mind the occasional knockdown/back. What I can't abide is flopping around helplessly either due to lots of minions having KB or a power like Earthquake.

A few years ago I was part of a fun SG. We all had a good time, but most of us took the game fairly seriously, i.e. we cared about leveling speed. One of us was this delightfully crazy lady that enjoyed spicing things up and yanking our chains more than she cared about leveling.

Inevitably we'd come to a dangerous spot and the team would halt, and we'd talk about how we needed to pull to thin out a troublesome room. She'd inevitably volunteer to pull and instantly use her biggest AoE at the same time we all were shouting "NNOOOOOOoooooo!!!"

Fun times.

Yeah, with two kins and decent sized mobs, you'll be at the damage cap. In the higher levels as your team faces AVs, Siphon Power can be a very effective debuff; but if you're going to choose one vs the other, I'd go with Siphon Speed. Triple-stacked Siphon Speed plus Speed Boost from your teammate turns you into a machine gun.

Yup, I kept thinking of Green Machine as I was reading this thread. Solistion, if you want to see why your idea of changing ally-only buffs to self-buffs will NEVER be implemented, create a Green Machine character. There are some build restrictions, but the point of GM teams is to always keep one another buffed with the Empath buffs so basically you can experience what it'd be like if you could self-buff. It's freaking sick. Tank-mage time. Your suggestion is never going to happen.

Man I would love to see you in action. I like the cut of your jib!

Real men pull with Fireball anyway, amiright?

I don't think the OP's post has to be interpreted as asking about exploits. After all, classic farm missions play to the strengths of the characters doing the farming. E.g. the reason the Battle Maiden maps are so popular with traditional farmers is the combo of open map with foes that don't mez, resist mez, or have strong ranged attacks. Not an exploit but definitely the ideal situation for a controller.

But without knowing the OP's character type I'd be hard pressed to recommend anything in particular. Just remember, if you want to farm choose an outdoor map to improve the speed of getting from spawn to spawn, and choose an enemy type that plays to your character's strengths. It's not rocket science.

No thanks. Castle has mentioned in the past that any changes to Speed Boost won't be for free. For example, making it an AoE would also come with a dramatic increase in End and Recharge.

I love playing Kins and I'd love the convenience an AoE SB would bring, but I think I'd rather have an awesome power left alone, lest it be made into a shadow of its current wonderfulness.

[Oh, and the OP should get stuffed. His "please and thank you" demand for buffing is absurd.]

This times 1000. I haven't done MA in ages because there are so many clones-of-clones-of-clones of old exploit farms.

Please, please, devs, put in a feature that has old missions auto-unpublish after 120 days. You can email the player's global at the 90 day mark and say "Misson such-and-so is going to automatically unpublish in 30 days unless you republish it." MA authors who cared about their missions would take the few minutes to republish, but most of the old farms would quietly fade away.

IMO that would be one of the best things to happen to MA; clear the chaff.

I've seen so many MMO launches that I'm now quite cynical. You read all the breathless hyperbole even from supposedly objective websites, then you let a few months go by after launch and a different story often comes out. Remember how Tabula Rasa was going to reinvent MMOs? Warhammer was going to surpass WoW. CO was going to crush CoH.

So DCUO may be a killer game that makes CoH look horrible by comparison. Or it may have a bunch of new shiny eye candy and lack depth and engaging gameplay. Or something in between. We just don't know yet. But I'm not fearing for CoH's future just based on prerelease hype.

We also have to remember that it's not like the cool stuff here ends with Going Rogue. There will be an issue 19, 20, etc. CoH is definitely not played out. The only thing that would make me fear for CoH's future is if they gut the dev team the way Cryptic did after the release of CoV.

EDIT: one more thing. Sony is developing this for both the PS3 and the PC. That really means, in effect, that it's a PS3 game. Forget sending tells, since most of your teammates won't have keyboards. You're likely not to have complicated attack chains because the game's going to be optimized for a gamepad. It's going to have a heavy emphasis on action. Until I hear otherwise, I'm betting that this is going to be seen as something new and unique for the PS3 rather than as competition for CoH on the PC.

Once Going Rogue goes live and we get people crossing from redside to blue, make sure to recruit a Night Widow or two to your teams. Their team oriented defense buffs are great and as a bonus they're offensive powerhouses.

I think far more players will leave redside than will go there, exacerbating all the existing teaming/market problems. Any villain that I intend to play, I'm going to move to blueside.

Sigh. Count me firmly in the camp of hating the prompt.

Argh, I totally agree with you there. Very annoying.

One quirk of the Search window is that when you first type /search, it comes up with an initial search just showing folks in your zone. Since many potential teammates may not be on the same map, it's not an accurate picture. Fill in the level range you're interested in teaming with and press the Search button and typically you'll see a much larger list of names.

While no gender is implied by the name, Lusca is obviously male. Check out this picture:

Yeah, I totally could go for this, although given people's reaction to the VEAT backpacks I think the armor would have to have 2-3 different looks available, being able to mix 'n match torso, arms, shoulders, legs, helmet. So the equiv of like 3 special new costumes, but all sharing the same animations so it wouldn't be an insane amount of work.

Now because this type of costume would be directly tied in to power sets, there'd also have to be new code forcing costume slot 1 to be switched-to when the player activated any primary/secondary power.

It's true that he didn't say he was going to nerf Shields. However, what he implied is that a nerf is clearly in order, but it's too big a job to do just now:

In another post he wrote:

When the dev in charge of powers says that the current damage level "REALLY sucks" and posts reference numbers that are substantially lower, how are people supposed to take that? Of course Shield users are anxious.