SinergyX_EU

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Will he just spam Heal Aura and "LFT" all the time? Or will the AI prove to be better than 90% of the empaths in game?

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There are some empath based mobs in the game, their AI is - i am amazed - worst then my mercs medic.

I think standard rules will aply to the sets, just like the PP's or default AV's, pop their tier9 at XX% health, cycle randomly through powers and hardly use any of their secondairy.

Playstyle may vary

I was stuck on slots, had to make choices and since i never liked it on my empath, i skipped it. And since he's on defiant, i really dont expect alot of partying also

I was lucky to buy LotG's at the time they were cheap, thus able to counter the whole -recharge penalty of granite. My solo style is the 2 def armors and rooted, making solo quite easy too (along with nice SS secondairy) and with the recharge bonus having quite alot at perma (EE, hasten, Rage, etc). I will never trade my granite for any other tank set.

But since you prefer a 2side set, i would pick ice/ice. Ice got quite alot extra damage now due the freezing footstomp does damage now also, it has great added survivability due 2x hold power (secondairy and epic), got a OMG PANIC button and OOOHH [censored] button, along with a nice overal set on the primairy. My personal dislike, the looks and sounds.

Pfff my daily work in CoH US is cleaning up the inboxes of my characters

Ah so indeed Tabula didnt had sync, imho great feature to have

Recently US side of Cabal made some huge movies again, all dancing and action. Based on the playerbase of CoH US, having dance animations would serious bumb the video's off it.

(apart from 'thank the guy' song, i never saw any great dancing one).

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I'd pick a Resistance-based armor to stack with World of Pain. Also, try to get your hands on the two +10% resistance pet aura unique IOs.

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I'm saving for those for my thug/pd, but last time i checked they both went nearly 35mil so that will take a while

Minor difference i have, i wont take that share pain power, due the heal-penalty you get from it.

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The Where's Aion one, on the other hand, has got to be one of the most retarded dances I've seen in a long while. And I've seen plenty.

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Thats why i said it's based on matt, if you know the original it would suit it

Guildwars, cabal and rose made quite some advertising on youtube dancing movies alone (GW vs WoW dancebattle 'hammertime', cabal 'tell me', rose 'baywatch'), from CoH i only know a few good movies. Even from those, alot are plain demo-edits, no 'mass dance' real footage.

In TR i remember on earth a few started breakdance and rave, within minutes we had like 30 of em doing the same. (although GW and cabal have sync ability, i couldnt find one in tabula).

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On topic, what we really need is a Hammer dance emote. Plus parachute pants in the cossie creator, of course.

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Noooo`! that would create more doooooom posts how CoH copied a certain i wont name it other MMO.

If we keep it in the NC zone, lets see:
GW fly
Where is Aion?(based on matt).
LA 2 eye joe
even tabula

Well, i still see it serious, CoH is 1 of the very very very very very few games that have no full dance animations. Youtube is maybe a 'mass advertising' method, whereby dancing is key.

Sure, we got the demo edit, demo record and stuff, but all we have are some fluffy 5 animations of 'repeated' movements, unlike even games like GW, LA or even Tabula. (specialy tabula, had alot).

Although the recent sale-prices might be off sometimes, specialy on the 'really who needs this stupid recipe' recipes. I use them to easy transfer money to my other accounts (oversea).

(just look at the lvl5 TO's, 5mil for a fear one? ).

Indeed, depends very much on your playstyle. I'm the 'aggressive' petmaster, letting my pets do the work while i supply debuff and support. Aid self is usefull in that line if you get some beating. (i always take it, in party its more likely you get hit by something).

Provoke is more like a BG playstyle, i have little to no experience with that.

Not in the exact combo, but have in different sets.

Traps is very nice, dispite the little nerf they did on poison trap it still is a great set. Few lovely alpha takers (acid mortar, drones, or even detonater), great stacking FFG with the bots shields. Calltrops and webnade for your big bot's burnpatch.

Although may depend on your playstyle (BG mode or straight out attacking), even tripmine is very nice to play with. My necro/trap can use both detonator (extact soul) and tripmine to full extend.

FFG follows with a 'delay',it wasnt uncommon i got mezzed because the stupid thing got behind, my tip is just to turn camera to the direct the FFG is comming from, he suddenly goes straight to your spot.

Bots itself is great but sometimes tad annoying due their size. Damage is nice, specialy it mix between SL, nrg and fire damage.

Take the def shield, along with manauvers and i think you can hit softcap rather easy.

/traps remain 1 of my nicest sets i have (i have em all).

Yesterday i made the choice of moving my 50 from libery to freedom, to the 'dreaded' PI. (actualy it was PI, PI2 and PI3).

Based on what i saw on broadcast (LFF mostly), there is your goldmine.

Specialy with the 'turn exp off', 2 accounts and some topslotted toon (be it troller, be it whatever), i think you can make quite alot of money.

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ok, so maybe price needs attention... What would you suggest was a reasonable price... I may not have relative understanding of fair price as I tend to work in big numbers... xD

Would 50 million be fairer?

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The first lvls are considered very cheap, while the latter lvls are considered more expensive.

1-22 would be cheap, while 28-50 is more pricy.

(lvl1-12 is like done in 2-3 runs? - with proper 46 bridge).

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Might start in game business
Running PL for inf...
100 million to get you from 1 to 22 and into SO's?

Any takers?

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Not for that price, but on the US side it seems big business.

Good weekends i go 20-25mil fee-sharings alone

(funny that u can do 1-4 in minutes, but they still pay like 600k-1mil for others to do it).

I do the newspaper rushes alot.

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You're contradicting yourself there.
You're sayign they fine without IOs, then you say you can't stand em being fine after spending inf...
which is it?

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If you play to the limits of a party, every AT or build can be 'fine', such as shannon says. However the startpost 'considered' the shield build to be 'fine' with spending 30mil inf.

But i'm a resist player, not a defence one.I want to see reduction in numbers, not 'lucky' misses.

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Indeed, but under those circumstances, the advantage of the Shield tank is that they can buff you back (and probably contribute more DPS than most tankers).

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We have kins for that

But like i said, shields are just as _good_ as the other sets. Why people keep pondering over 'arguments' why XX is better then shields or shields better then XX.. dont know. (like you just did now also - more than most), it works on a total different level.

But i still check my 'goodness' based on common IO's or SO's. crafted IO's are bonus, not 'essential'.

Each situation can you think up some tanker that will be 'better' then the others, but doesnt mean the others cant 'perform' for their job. A granite has SB, ice/shield got resist-buffs, fire/dark got defence buffs, inv/WP err.. mix of those. Achillesheals and advantages, at the end its just to complete the mission.

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A mate of mine got his shield/ice 1-50 dying once.

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A guy i know got his character to lvl50, never died and was still lvl2 when went back to atlas.

Dying (or being defeated) is relative to your team (good/bad etc), the missions you do and how 'on the edge' you like to fight.

(how many i've seen falling against stuff like psi king, not knowning he can 1 shot alot of people).

Although i had a shielder in the team last night, with my thermal and a fellow sonic defender he was quite indestructable. Then again, nearly every AT would be such if they had thermal and sonic buffs.

Just got my weekly MMORPG newletter, City of Heroes is game of the week With some extra info about the mission architect, it already gets some nice attention.

Sadly, the links in the CoH page of MMORPG all go to the US side So no new fresh people for us?

I personaly dont wanna start counting mine, specialy for the full NCsoft gamerange.
2 40+ EU accounts (45 and 42 i think), 12 month 3rd account, 9 month US account, all the goodies on 3 accounts, few character slots and transfers, i believe i even bought CoV seperate.
Then GW i have all the unlock pvp packs, 3 CE versions, the preorders and all the addons.
Tabula i have the CE version, 9 months payment (Veteran says 12 months).

Not sure if i bought AA, i did play it.

So basicly, i really dont wanna know

PC's i never consider as 'game upgrade', i buy a new one when i feel like it

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So the good thing to note is that NC may be terrible with advertising, and they may force games out before they are ready, but they do end up with decent games that people enjoy when they eventually find out about them from word-of-mouth about their closure and moving to F2P.

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The thing i still wonder, what would CoH be if they did had proper advertising? kinda each NC game has got his succes by play 'luck' (?) or such, just like Aion in Korea made a succes without big advertising, i do not hope they will do the same on our or US side.

But my sences say, issue 15 will get graphics updates. At that point, they trash out advertisment, along with the hope MA will be a succes and news will spread of this rather unique thing in the MMO world.

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have absolutely no idea of what i am

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tbh, me neither

(selective quoting ftw!)

But anyway, perhaps not scary but they just lurk around. This forum aint the most 'friendly' one around (timeout, form not valid, huge ammount of subforums), they often see it and go 'meeh i ask ingame instead'.

Also, most games have forum(s).XXXX.com as their forum part, for many easier to get to. Why not do the same here? :?

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One of them has to be working on the Widow capes... surely?

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Or animated hair?

That was mostly for chainguns and those flametrowers, other guns were really not that expensive on ammo. And just like any other shooter, its not just spamming out a trashload of bullets hoping to hit something

When it hangs, can you still ping the router from both computers? (192.168.1.1)? Or even any website?

Be sure you have the cables in the right ports (modem into the wan port, computers into the switch ones). I see you have your 2nd PC with a fixed IP (.3), that might give a collision if the netgear dhcp aint working properly.

Finaly, be sure to have your router in router mode, not in switch mode. So the cable login-info is stored in your router and he will maintain the connection, in switch mode each PC tries to connect directly to the modem, whereby the modem only can connect to 1. (and thus loosing internet on the other).