SinergyX_EU

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well, AoC is going to merge servers, which I hope CoX won't do for a while, or better yet, don't merge at all.

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Its a fate eventualy all 'less' populair will face. New players getting on a nearly deserted server wont stay long, trials halfway left and eventualy the stayed people will move.

tabula merged their 3 EU servers into 1, now if you come on the server as new player its nice active again, active chat and lots to do. Likewise the big servers as freedom on the US, the very first moment you log in, you get overwhelmed by the ammount of heroes running around.

AoC has some nice tricks, main hubs and first part mostly solo, GW has town-based missions, WoW got alot outside fighting, while in CoH 90% of your time you are inside a 'closed' mission, 8% you are traveling and the remaining 2% you either stand afk or at AH. Interaction with the 'community' thus is rather small.

Please please please let devs had taken a look at the shielders of cabal. Shield slam, shield trow, shield ray, it got it all

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Funny I have had no problem getting a "full" team for the last 3 weeks with my PB on....

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With.. or without global channels, SG and friends?

Imaging a new player getting on the Defiant/union server, how would they feel you think? I get a scary deja vue with the current state of AoC..

Earth/storm, the set that does pretty much the lowest damage at earlier lvls Grav ill or fire would have been a better choice.

But your story is pretty much the exact opposite of how i think about CoH/CoV

Added that several sets give def/res (along with APP), so u can reach quite high survivability.

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Damn it must be lonely on the German Server.

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I think it'd be the opposite - almost everyone must know everyone else - it'd be like an extended family

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If you can get a team its usually pretty good...IF.

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Well, yesterday 1am when i tried making some cyborg toons it was

Defiant 57, Union 72, Zudunkf 41.

That aint that bad

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It makes Energy Drain pretty good, but you still suck prior to level 28, and brutes are still stuck with no taunt aura and a stupid stealth power, and stalkers are still stuck with Repulsion, possibly the most iritating power in the game.

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Agree on that one, it doesnt fit imho. (doesnt dark armor also have a stealth power?)

Now custom outfits for MM henchmen and i can die happy

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Aye, hated CC on my Rad, cause of the long recharge, dont care if it doesn't work so long as its still on when I come round

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CC will still drop - it's only toggles effecting self and allies that get this protection (unless I'm reading it wrongly...). Nice as it might be I think CC, as an AoE Hold, counts as an offensive power

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Yup, probably the same 'rule' as the cast-while-moving, only friendly and self affecting.

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Further to my last post which was based on early reading of the US Controller forum, apparently you will need to buy new Enhancements for a second build.

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Seems indeed the case.

And another I13 feature _for me_ down the drain. Along with the leveling pact, it is a easy case for me.. join the farm side.

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Of course, you only "need" to do all that extra farming if:

1) You want to use the second build in the first place, and

2) You want to use uber stuff in that second build

Also, with the new TF/recipe token system coming in I13 it should need a lot less farming to get a specific rare recipe.

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I still highly doubt this will be the case, unless a redname state so. They would seriously wreck their own idea this way.

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City of Farming, what else?

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Its been that for some time, you might as well get over it

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Yuppies

On the US they had a race about it months ago, who the first was to get 5 LotG's. They did casual (missions, story), TF's and map farming. How to obtain (drop/buy) was no issue, but no help from outside (no min/max TF, no 8party farm setup).

The farm guy won rather easy, dont fight it.. just accept and join them

City of Farming, what else?

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Mercs have enough synergy with Storm if you ask me.

And there's nothing wrong with rifle DoT effects, really, since the DoT period is nice and quick. Heck, look at Thugs - Enforcers, arguably the set-defining pets, are almost completely DoT based (with the exception of Blast Clip), yet Thugs is the overall most damaging MM primary.

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Bunch of posts back i already explained the downside of DoT's, specialy with the tier 1 doing their 'mini full auto'.

Added, thugs tier 1 and 3 have 'instant' shots, unlike Mercs (commando has 2 non, scar got 1), along with the redraw and normalisation fail.

Storm i only tried on ninja, wich works pretty good. After getting 1 merc MM so high, i wasnt planning making another one

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What definately isn't going to happen is that they copy your enhancements. As Standoff says, you'd end up with empty enhancement slots in the alternative build. If anyone can't figure out why that is, they really aren't trying.

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I dont mind it being so, but it looks like a high encouragement to farm and get inf even more, if you do not want to give in on the IO bonuses.

Added, i didnt say copy, i just say re-use.

So you have (lets say) a storage of 50 enhancements, when you swap build all your enhancments are placed in the storage and you move to build 2. Then you can put those 50 back in, visa versa when going back to 1. So they just move between builds. The extra slots in the storage are for the IO's you only use in Build 1, not build 2.

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Woah, I never knew the Mercs crowd control powers sucked so badly.

And I'm guessing the Special Ops aren't bright enough not to stack the mez abilities on top of each other? So you end up with both of them mezzing the same target with the both abilities?

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They got 2 mez afaik. Flash grenade and poison gas, they both got a long recharge and they often use it at the totaly wrong moment (1 mob left, 1 runner or sortlike).

Personaly i say, get rid of the DoT [censored]. 90% of their damage is DoT based, main reason why they underperform towards other pets, wich deal significant more 'instant' damage.

I have all sets now at decent high lvl (lowest is 34), they remain the weakest set and have little synergy with any secondairy. (even traps, since they are ranged and i have to move melee often).

And serum, well next to repair (wich is a ok panic button), its the most useless power in the set.

It might be usefull if you do alot of lower TF's, where your powerpick doesnt match the lvl. (my perma granite is rather squishy pre-32).

But how will the IO's be stored? I can think up 2 builds that have alot overlapping IO's, but also alot unique IO's for that build.

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It should simply be the way WAR does it. A button you click which shows all the open teams looking for members and gives their composition, what they're doing and how far away from you they are, along with any notes.

Making it attached to anything you have to run to to view decreases the usefulness IMO.

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I think the biggest difference between CoX and the rest of the MMO games, CoX has no 'static' zones where certain missions are done.

May it be GW, TR, Cabal, WAR, even AoC or WoW, they kinda split up the quests in solo(able) and team-required instances. Whereby CoX every mission (maybe it be on heroic) can be done solo and is totaly random in Paragon city. TF's are an exclusion, but they often take several hours (non min/max'ed) and mostly limited to lvl. Even at night on GW with low population on the EU, its still very easy to get a team, just go to the place u want to do a quest and see if there are any people -> good to go, fill it up with hench/heroes and even with 2-3 people you got a full 'team' to go. Even Tabula have done a decent job getting this to work (personal and team based portals, 1 and 2 way)

Its not uncommon if i join a team, the mission is 5 maps away, middle of freaking nowhere, and by the time i reach it they are basicly done with the mission and the next mission is 5 maps ahead again (story/contact missions).

Its not that CoX is bad on it, the other games just seem to implement it just a bit better or easier nowadays. Their location/lvl is more consistant. Maybe the new mission creator can bring some extra in this, perhaps a gathering zone where missions can be picked and as a team you move to the mission entry nearby.

Like the old days, you saw alot of people hanging around the PI building, looking for any portal-based mission (mostly with AV, but thats ok). Everyone can have a basicly infinitive ammount of missions, but they are still all the same (clear, defeat, find, click), you cant just shout 'blaster lf Zone-X' to specify a certain mission or map (TF's excluded), even newspaper missions are not 'shared' quests.

we're pulling a quote wrongly here, my first line was 'last time i checked', finishing with the 'at night' part

I'm perhaps used to other games, even on TR at midnight (u know, 2amish) the chat is still going, so even doing stuff solo makes it still enjoyable (devs did a great job on TR, honest). That is, without joining channels, or setting macro's to talk in a certain channel, just plain global chat.

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Playing in the night is a nightmare on EU.

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In the night? What part of the night?

There's a BIG difference between say, 8pm and 2am.

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I call 8pm 'evening', so i should refer to 'midnight' (2-3am).

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Have you tried starting teams?

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With who? Last time check was 17 online in 30-40 range, 16 greyed out (no reply, a 'sorry full' or a 'sorry TF'). Playing in the night is a nightmare on EU.

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Final bit of advice: Invention sets are your friend, particularly anything that gives a Recharge buff.

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I hardly have any IO sets, its my low priority character thus get less funding from my total income.

Had a great run on the US last night, even on a bad PuG its a great challenge keeping everyone alive.

So at the end, i stay with 'empaths are useless on the EU due low population, odds on the US are higher that a empath still come in use'.

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And Villains already have a power named Force of Nature in the form of an Accolade Power, might cause problems somewhere?

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Good point there, so its not only putting APP vs PPP, but taking all other powers in account too. Good job for the dev's

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Well enjoy the US so, hope you have a great time over there. As I said I found it to be one long exasperating PuG Car Crash a lot of the time, but I was purely PuGing, no SG or anything.

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I already playing for quite some time on the US, to alot enjoyment. However, i got 31 characters here, wich i didnt intent to remake on the US. I will just keep spamming emails to NCsoft to get my characters over

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Sinergy_X - If you cannot be bothered about making a team, don't complain about not getting a team. What if everyone's like you?

Empath's are fine, it's your own personal perception that's flawed as others have echoed in this thread.

(Also yes US PuG's can be hilariously bad).

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You do reflect my previous post just perfectly.

Post below you pretty much explains it

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empaths are as useful nowadays as they were in the past, just check MoSTF and STF lineups.

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I care very little (.. say actualy none) about the min-maxing TF's. I play for fun, it doesnt include such TF's.

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I avoid Empaths. To many times have I encountered players who think Empathy is a synonym for leach.

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Another case of a too little population. The chances are rather big you meet up with the same person you teamed before, one does it.. not many left to show the opposite.

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Probably a perception thing - the AT itself's equally useful both sides of the Atlantic, of course, but there are more people that feel the need for pretty green numbers US side.

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That seems to be the case tbh. Where i see there any of my toon still appriciated, its not uncommon i get 'mocked' on the EU side for having so little IO bonus' on my character.

The smaller the EU population became, the more 'elite' they seem to be thinking they are.

Oh well, its pretty clear i asume Just to wait for the day that i can move over all my characters to the US