SinergyX_EU

1 of my first toons ever created, a emp/rad defender originaly on the US server was copied i believe 2 years ago to the EU.

In his time he gained like 12 lvls, mostly due joining up with friends/SG, but hardly.. well, never on a PuG. The old days of a happy dedicated healer are pretty much over (they always forget the buff part).

However, i recently started to play more on the US servers and gave my empath a go and see how it will turn out on PuG's.

Within like 2 minutes i already got the first PM and a team invite. Along with a sonic defender, the whole team protected us like we are not allowed to die or something.

So team scattered, i was solo again and within 5 minutes i got my next invite. Same story.

Would i however put myself on team-search on the EU, i can stand there for ages and never get a single invite. I'm a passive empath, i do not make teams, i dont advertise, i will wait for those who need me.

So is empath really that useless on the EU?

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I've been making a second string list of good powers in APPs that don't have eqivelents in PPPs.

Hibernate
Rise of the Pheonix
PFF
Force of Nature
Indomitable Will
Earths Embrace

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Visa versa, PPP doesnt have pets.

Those first 4 afaik are blaster only, as villains have no blaster counterside (all have either control or protection abilities), i wonder if they would do any good on the APP side.

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They could easily axe Brute pets (as long as this doesn't touch VEATs), Stalker snipes, and Mastermind cone attacks, for example.

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Those are picked by many, its more towards powers that basicly never are chosen by anyone. (like my earlier dispersion bubble of blaster set).

Please please please drop that KB-bubble thing of Blasters force epic. Outside annoying people with it, its a plain useless power (with 6 mobs = no end left).

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Um, Fire tanks already have mez protection to all except kb. But I see what you mean about wanting kb protection.

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You forgot imm protection. Only burn gives this for a duration, but for many sets burn is not much of a usefull skill.

Even with KB IO's, you're pretty much stuck to the jumping pool.

Then again, each Tankset has a 'penalty', fire its KB/Imm.

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The other PvP power changes, well its beasically a way to nerf powers in PvP without affecting PvE, which is a good thing for those who are mostly into PvE. I see Power Boost and Power Build Up as being top of the list to get this treatment.

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They may also be thinking of it as a way to boost PvE powers without unbalancing PvP? Justified or not, there have been long-standing grumbles about powers being nerfed in the past to serve PvP.

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Or like GW did, make each skill have different effects in PvP and PvE (mostly duraction, damage or strength though).

Its a good one they pushed back mission builder (yeey for costume characters), but i keep my doubts about shields.

Dual whield was already an dissapointment for me, i forsee shields not being different then this (aka, there are several games that have implemented shield in such way i prefer playing those instead).

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I believe that WoW is still the largest MMO currently?

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P2P wise yes, but not in the entire MMO world.

Yet, back to CoH, they are at top having the lousiest (for those who have a board) board of em all.

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Plus, give it a month or however long, and when I13 comes out, EVERYONE will be back.

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for about 4-6 weeks then were back to this sorta thread

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Be honest, when the new sets arive, PI will be flooded with lowbies just getting their toon asap to 50. They get bored, they leave and we're back at the start.

Like a guy on MMOrpg said nicely:
CoH is like the most beautifull rubber band i've ever seen. yet, by now, its stretched out too far and lost its touch.

The 'hype' period after each issue is shortening with each issue, i just dont login my 46 anymore just to evade stupid party requests that been flooding PI, my tanker get mocked for hardly having any IO set bonuses.

No, just give me 1 chance to transfer all my character to the US, i would be happy. (yes, there also are such invites etc, but due the way higher playerbase, it hardly affects you since you still can find good players).

I cant find that specific line anyway, i do read this:

“NC West is really about NCsoft getting serious and doubling down back into the AAA side of the business. These games have big teams, require huge investments, and take years to build but there aren’t many people who do that as well as we do and you can expect to see and hear more from us on the Lineage / City of Heroes / Guild Wars kind of product going forward. That’s what this company is going to be all about.”

So they still see GW/LA2/CoH as their core 3 games, with TR/DR as 'lower'. TR itself i must admit indeed got majorly better. The difference between beta/start and now is very huge, they really improved the game, yet failed on a few aspects (instance teaming is as good as dead).

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gameplay wise, CoH is far far behind WoW.

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I beg to differ having tryed WoW more than once i find my self coming back to CoH because amongst other things i prefer CoHs game play

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You can proclame anything you want, how kiddies rule wow etc.. the fact is WoW is ahead over 9.5million players. At the end of the line, its numbers, nothing more... nothing less. Somewhere at those numbers, NC failed at CoH on it.

You might not like WoW on its graphics, its community or whatever, yet blizzard gave what people want, the numbers state it so. You can remain being unique, or keep your own style, AoC is the living example of the results of doing so. Ironic, that the only game that can actualy compete with wow is a simple 2D game, runs on the most oldest computers.

CoH is a awsome game, but never meant for the masses.

And whatever you try to justify this, it wont change the gap of 9.5million players. How good or bad a game would be.

Reality, sometimes you would prefer a brick.

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WoW charge for expansions and charge a monthly fee.

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Should make NCsoft start scratching their heads what they did wrong eh?

gameplay wise, CoH is far far behind WoW.

Difficult not that really (well i faceplanted a insane ammount), but highly annoying:

Merc/TA MM. Specialy pre-TA fix, even after the minor merc fix. The redraw is insane (basicly anything u do never match your next power).

I think alot of sets are diffcult during low lvls on solo. Regen is rather lousy pre-16 (basicly only u got is a tiny bit regen?), my earth/storm lacked huge on damage, my AR/sonic corrupter was without endurance nonstop.

Hm quick one on mine:
2 accounts both over 40 months now.
1 account i believe at 17 months
1 account at 6 months
All CoH/CoV seperate bought, GvE on 3 accounts, wedding pack on 2 and err.. prob something i forgot.

Who want to do the maths?

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It is - it's very good.
Now, about these animation upgrades for our avatars...

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Good point.
I say start with better cape animation, perhaps some face motion animation, few FX upgrades on powers here and there..

No need for animated hair, who needs that anyway?

Merc/TA MM

I only know 1 other person having this set

Partly the reason Blizzard never released another MMO, it would compete with their own biggest succes. Europe/US based their game alreadyd dominated the market, there is no need for a 2nd one.

There are several succesgames that made advertisement in Europe but remained 100% support on english only. They did however gave each country their own forumbit, each having free moderators to communicate incase a player is bad in english. GameMasters actualy did pretty good on getting a succes (and upcomming one) in europe.

Giving full support (client and backend) in a certain language always remains tricky. US is easy, asia widely is easy (either chinese or english - with exceptions), Europe is a mix of roughly 10 language's.

Personaly, and no flame or feeling towards them, i would have gone for a plain english client but with multi-language backend support.

I actualy like this idea Specialy those annoying family or council guys that keep running off and shoot you from miles away.

I actualy activated my account just to post here, to show respect to all that forced to leave, possible have to leave and yeey for those who can stay

Face it, Europe just isnt a big 'target' of many MMO's, eventualy you have to re-set all current layers of management and people and start up a new one. They way NCsoft is doing this, beats me.

How ironic, where not long ago was said the future is bright and great things were ready to be announced, i serious hope they didnt meant this.

I just hope all of this is for the better, for the games, for us and for Europe/US. I wish all those not able to stay to find a great place to continue their career.

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Farmers will benefit the least from this. The bonus XP will be too small or limited when it comes to powerlevelling a toon in any serious way.

Casual players that can only log a few hours now and then though, will get far more out of it.

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They indeed probably follow other games. Few randoms:

Cabal - over 4 months, about 1 lvl of double exp (equal lvl40).
WoW - 3-4 weeks, not even half a lvl double exp (equal 34)

In the same time u could just do another hour of missions, you would gain the same.

Without making a whole list, i put 2 on the list that will be in the game As i gues the set wont have any passive 'boosts' (ice - slow, inv - def, WP - regen etc), i gues it gets a few attacks.

Shield bash - stun single target.
Shield slam - PBAoE knockdown (i took that one from cabal)

I would love to see the Battlemode 2 of Forceshielders (cabal) but that would be too much fantasy/tech style

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I heard they where going to include him, but he would be impossible to beat*.

*Unless you managed to aquire the "Summon Chuck Norris" temp power.

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That summon doesnt have Roundhouse kick.

I prever the temp buff 'Never gonna give you up', you can get it if re-roll to rick.

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Eagles claw/dragon tail is going to look stupid with a shield on your arm

shields = /unsigned imo, couldv put better use of time to create a powerset that could be more widely used like dual pistols/staff/water control/energy control/steel armour etc etc. Too many Captain America's are going to be wandering around now for my liking, at least with another powerset it would make people have more creative characters.

(the above post realises that SOME people will make actual awesome creative characters with shield )

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Take a look at the shielder of Cabal, they did a fancy job making a sword/shield combo still look very fancy Lets hope they do the same to katana.

Imho dual blade is supposed to be without shield, it kinda suits the other games that have free options on weapons and shields.

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Don't worry - you will get them - sometime

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See, look at GG.
She been waiting for animated hair for like 3 years now?

And still happy waiting

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2 – A real Veteran is recognisable by their name. It is normally something cool and names such as King_Spam-a-lot or something with a period after it (e.g. War…Witch….) are unlikely to be Veterans.

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That one goes wrong with me

Since some ... i promised not to swear here... idiot took the name Mika like over 3 years ago, my GF decided to pick mika with a . at the end. Currently going for the 42 months badge