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i just go and self stuff at whichever price is under the last price and only involves me pressing the 1 key if the last couple sold at 100 inf i stick it on at 11 if the last few sold at 200 i stick mine on as 111 etc etc.

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rather than having nice shiny boxes in nice shiny stands in major game shops for the casual walk past buyer to go "oooooo that looks fun" the way I did.

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You are still failing to grasp that they could print as many nice shiny boxes as they want but there is nothing they can do to make retailers put them on the shelves.

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Oh I agree, but they also can't stock what they can't GET. Anyway, if they're insistent on the digital download method, then they should at least be talking to the people at Steam as a distribution channel. At least then more people would become aware of the game!

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steam would be a great idea as would some form of torrent

But I'm still hopeful some one in marketing (or whoever made the no box decision) will have a change of hart and at least do some kind of limited release.

So far i've managed to avoid aid self on my lvl 50 elec/elec largely surviving on a mix of the sleep heal proc and a kill them first mentality of course this only works with my elec elec as his attacks have a chance to sleep on my mace/elec I'm quickly wishing i had went mace/shield but I'm to pig headed to change and my claws/elec stalker is again a exercise in theme over praticality.

the fact that a lot of elec armour users seem to favour (or feel forced into) aid self is a bad thing in my opinion players should not feel railroaded into picking up specific powers and the fact of a simple addition of some healing ability in power sink a relatively easy change to implement as they've already done it once would greatly help

Got to agree with enforcer i think the idea of not releasing a boxed set EU side is a terrible idea i think there seriously underestimating the draw of a actual physical box on the shelf even to me some one who already has the game the idea of going and getting a box is far more appealing than just downloading the thing from the web.

there's just something having it in your hands that's better than and virtual content

Yea rename it to Overcharge and just have it boost specific attribute would get around the possibility of it making the like of parry to powerful.

I would however also let it boost the effects of the EMP at teh end of power surge.

agreed i was just thinking out loud a move to tier 7 and added heal would be perfect. would also work for stalkers as i don't think Power sink aggros when used from hide (could be wrong as not at 35 yet)

As to conserve power take it out back and shoot it is my first reaction. Another option would be to replace it with Power Boost (even tho castle hates it) this would improve the secondary effects of any attacks but more importantly boost the end sappage and heal that power sink could do for a short space of time.

Yep that's exactly what i ment there neer identical except where elec resist specific damage types EA avoids them but they both largely concentrate on energy based damage what bugs me tho is where energy can get defence figures of

Smashing=25.7
Lethal=25.7
Fire=29.3
Cold=29.3
Energy=32.2
Negative=22.2
Psi=5.9
Melee,Ranged,AoE=5.9

and resistance values of

smashing = 11.7
Lethal = 11.7
fire = 0
cold = 0
energy = 14.6
negative = 11.7
toxic = 14.6
Psy = 0

all from SOs meaning it gets pretty good over all protection even before branching out into power pools on top of that it has the endurance draining, stealth and self heal.

while elec has

zero defence

and resistance of

Smashing 41
Lethal 41
fire 41
cold 41
energy 90
negative 35.1
toxic 0
Psi 41

so elec has good resistance but almost every hit coming its way is gonna hit it there's a truck sized hole to Toxic damage and the only means of mitigation is endurance drain


It just dosent seem overly balanced at the very least elec should be given some Toxic resistance (i realise there's some in power surge but as you cant use power surge for a hole mish without serious IOing i don't see it as valid)

Now don't get me wrong i don't want them to come along and slap some defence in elec as having a pure resistance set is interesting but they need to go back over it and consider how its supposed to survive for prolonged periods of combat where it has no means of off setting the damage that coming in.

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Now that i think about it Elec is more like the ugly offspring of SR and EA they've taken SR really high defence values and switched them over to really high resistance stuck in the +recharge speed then garnished with EA endurance abilities. but don't seem to have given much thought to the fact that while with high defence you mite not get hit by that big attack with high resist your still gonna get hit just not as hard.

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9.Overload. leave as is

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I believe Overload is for Energy Aura Brutes, Power Surge for Electric.

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Um yea is is i can only blame the fact that i was comparing the 2 sets (as the appear to be at opposite sides of the same coin) while doing up that list

Tho maybe Overload would be better for elec than power surge it would at least give a hefty boost to defence giving elec both high resistance and high defence for a short time and it has some max HP in it as well.

Yea more resistance would be some what pointless as elec already has that in spades but regen could be interesting

It would also pretty much self balance for brutes, scrappers and tanks at least, either hold back and gain good regeneration or make lots of attacks and have your HP recovery drop.

For stalkers it would also be handy as from experience stalkers seem to have a pretty full endurance bar for the majority of the time with it only dropping when in prolonged combat.

and of course power sink could be used to quickly top up the end bar to keep regen boosted.

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Good point about the 5th anniversary date. Hmm... Timing is REALLY tight, isn't it?

I have strong doubts about i15 coming out on the anniversary date... By now, we'd have heard some concrete details about it if so... They've probably just got some kind of game event in mind for that instead, and save i15 for around June time, when CO is due to launch.

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Would they talk about i15 tho while the build up of i14 is still underway wouldn't make sense to start giving details of i15 till after i14 hits open beta at the earliest.

Another possibility is that there could be some game event start on the 5th anniversary perhaps a rework of the council at war thing with council and 5th in open warfare and at the end of the event i15 could hit with a major story update that could give them at least a extra month to work with.

like blue rabbit says that's probably more to do with the fact that a base is just a instance so next to the base portal is the next best place.

But i do agree the vanguard day job badge should be awarded for being in any of the vanguard buildings regardless of whether there in the war zone of not.

Cya Col always sad to see a familiar face disappear.

good luck with the job hunt.

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Stupid MA was raiding my dreams last night - but for some strange reason there were stormtroopers in it...

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Custom faction

Is that not what WAR dose?

OK been thinking some more about this and if i had my way this is what i would do

1. Charged Armour. No change (replaced with hide for stalkers)

2. Lightning Field. No change (replaced with charged armour for stalkers)

3. Conductive Shield. No change

4. Static Shield. No change

5. Grounded (add MaxHealth (%10) and +regen (%75)(only when in contact with ground) this would make grounded similar to rooted and give elec a nice survival boost figures would be about %19.5 and %146 when slotted with SOs)

6.Lightning Reflexes. No change

7.Conserve power. Remove and replace with Power Sink. Give this the energy drain treatment and add in a %3 per target heal

8.Put new power here

9.Overload. leave as is

possible new powers

Teslic field. PBAoE Toggle sleep works in similar way to cloak of fear would also drain a small amount of endurance

Static Flash. Click power dose -visibility -to-hit to foes neer by

Sap power. single target close range power would sap a significant portion of a targets endurance and return it to you foe -80% self +%40

I'm sure some one can come up with a better replacement power tho.

I recon these changes would help both brutes and stalkers and don't dilute elec theme to much they would also make it far easier to port elec across to Tanks and scrappers.

agreed getting shot of conserve power would be a wise move tho i wouldn't rush to replace it with the HP power being that conserve is currently one of the few powers that can be safely left out a elec build without damaging performance.

Instead replace it with another utility power which while useful wouldn't be "required"

yea that could work tho could be to much I'm not looking to have elec armour godly but it just seems bad that its a pure resist based armour yet has no way of clawing back the HP its going to loose in a fight.

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For the sake of my mental well-being, I am not going to calculate how much money I've spent.

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Thoroughly seconded, I'm sure Its been a hell of a lot less than if I had been subscribed to other MMOs, but still - I'm just not going to go there. Ignorance is bliss.

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I'm in this boat i just don't want to think about how much cash I've put out to feed my CoH habit

Not so much a suggestion as a request but could elec armour please be tweaked it just seems weaker than its fellow armours for both brutes and stalkers (especially stalkers)

At the very least could the heal ability from energy auras version of power sink be ported over to it so that it has some means of regenerating the HP your guaranteed to loose. and if your feeling extra generous hows about a small regeneration boost in grounded (when your on the ground of course)

the ability to post those files to a MA section of either the forum or the main site would be nice.

Unfortunately you cant set up Paypal for recurring payments (unless its changed recently)

Not sure if you could use one of those prepaid credit cards tho that mite be a way to do it without going the full credit card rute.

Kadabra Kill is one tuff cookie definitely as hard as some EBs

so far I've only faced him with brutes and he's a real pain pre KB protection i find the best tactic for him is hit hard and fast and hopefully take him down before he starts KBing me all over the place after KB protection he's not so hard.

Very true it could be confusing to new players but as a added layer for more advanced players i recon it would be a great feature

Personally connection issues seem to have improved so far no mega lag or rubber banding or disconnects

Why would a new box need a load of new content to attract new players surly if there new players all the content is new?