Tired Angel

Im not sure how I will use it. Im not really into competitive PvP and dont understand how it works (or how the upcoming changes will affect it) so I dont know if I will do the whole PvE/PvP build.

I may use it to play with powers that I would have not originally taken on my toon. E.g. replacing the leadership pool with the pressence pool or changing the jumping pool to the flying pool.

I will admit if you aren't paying attention you can get it mixed up with the rest icon because they both look like grey blobs in the corner of your eye.

I will admit I have rest on crtl+0 and self destruct on 0 but thats not the point! I still didn't mean to blow myself up when I meant to rest

Although I would love to introduce Incarnates into the mix in CoX as a new origin that granted access to a special power pool (poss a travel one and a power one) it would break the feel of the game as Incarnates seem very rare/powerful things. I know it would suit a couple of my toons better than a magic origin.

It would be cool if they could build on it a lot more as well. I love the lore behind CoX and it seems that the whole incarnate thing is just at the tip of the ice berg. What if there was a Egyptian Well of Furies. Imagine a new hero turning up with the power of Ra!

Anyway thats my 2 inf on the subject

I didn't take Temp Protection on my Fire tank because it didn't offer that much. Ive got KB protection from a IO which is slotted in my Combat Jumping power and this works quite well accept on the odd occasion with AVs. And even when it happens then I can run straight back in a get agro back with Taunt.

If Temp Protection was swapped with something that offered KB protection I would probably respec it in and replace Burn. Burn is quite good if you are either:
a) With a troller that can hold everything in place
b) Soloing or in a group that gets over its head. As bad guys will try to run away from the area of effect and then run back giving you a few seconds breathing room.

I rarely use it for the immobilisation aspect.

Im not sure how it works but I involved in an invasion yesterday at Kings Row with my lvl 7 troller and because her damage was a quite low all I did was confuse and blind foes and put shields up for my team. However at the end of it Ive ended up with 3 lvl 30 recipes!

Again Im not complaining as they will sell for a little bit of inf but like you got me thinking

I will admit I stopped playing CoX for a couple of weeks while I was giving WAR a try. I am fan of the original tapletop game so thought I would like this.

Like people have said WAR is something new and they have been hyping a lot so of course people will go and give it a go. However, what attracts me to CoX isn't really present in WAR so I dont think I will be there for long.

I dont particularly read the creative board much, I will admit that. But to be honest there is still so much about the CoX world that I dont know anyway I find myself reading Paragon Wiki for back ground info etc.

And when I heard that the mission creator is being put off till I14 I was a little upset because I am frustrated fanfiction writer and thought this would be a fun way to get my creative juices flowing!

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How about Shark Repellent batspray?

Or a Monty Python power set:
* Pointed Stick = moderate damage
* Fish Dance = + def and attack
* Ministry of Silly Walks = -speed but PB AoE confuse
* Dagger in the clitoris = high damage
* Poke in the Eye = Minor damage, foe -accuracy
* Albatros! = self heal
* Parrot Sketch = PB AoE Disorientate (as everyone is trying to join in but can't remember it all)
* Wafer Thin Mint = Extreme Damage, knockback on both friend and foe
* Meaning of Life = GOD MODE

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You seem to have missed off the holy hand grenade power!



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Damn!! I knew I had missed a good obvious one! Thats what I get for trying to be funny just after waking up!

And thought of another good one for that set. It would be a pet and it would be the Rabbit from Spamalot

How about Shark Repellent batspray?

Or a Monty Python power set:
* Pointed Stick = moderate damage
* Fish Dance = + def and attack
* Ministry of Silly Walks = -speed but PB AoE confuse
* Dagger in the clitoris = high damage
* Poke in the Eye = Minor damage, foe -accuracy
* Albatros! = self heal
* Parrot Sketch = PB AoE Disorientate (as everyone is trying to join in but can't remember it all)
* Wafer Thin Mint = Extreme Damage, knockback on both friend and foe
* Meaning of Life = GOD MODE

I dont have anything against it, although I dont do it a lot myself.

I have done it from my main to one of my alts by crafting a rare IO and passing to my alt via the SG storage. I then sold it on the alt for a few million.

The reason I did it was because I had rediculously bad luck with his drops. I usually will get enough rare stuff to sell to keep the toon plodding along , but with this one all I ever got was common stuff that went for a few 100 each.

I think I would do it more if there was an easy way of doing it as my main has a few mill on him that isn't going to be used any time soon.

Yep! Not sure of the dates but I know its been tested on the US test server (we didn't get to test drive it over here).

It usually runs for about week around the date of halloweeen.

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Well, one can only try to do one's best... besides, I can't help it if I tend to read you as a happy-go-lucky barbarian with ne'er a care in the world.

Who tends to go "wahey!" or "oooo missus!" a lot.

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See that would make an excellent Bio!

And I lol'd out load really hard at the carnal sin toon!

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And little girls hugging teddy bears who see 'goodness in their soul' and there is a teary moment after the villain has saved the little girl but then has to go off to do bad things

Sorry for double post but I just wanted to say that I think a pokemon MMO would be brilliant! And I am awaiting for the US release for Pokemon: Platinum so I can import it.

I also think that a fantasy MMO that would draw me no questions would be one that offers the same level of character customisation and selection of powers as CoX as that is one of the things about CoX which keeps me here! (I have to refrain myself from buying new character slots on the english servers!).

I think if they turned Neverwinter Nights into a MMO then I could get into that.

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(One note, which game is WAR? and whats RvR, because that deosnt ring any bells...oh, and Base Radis would indeed be cool, I have to admit =P )

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WAR is Warhammer: Age of Reckoning also known as Warhammer online. RvR is Realm vs Realm. Its kind of like PvP but on a grander scale. Once you join a server you either can allign yourself to order/destruction. The idea is that you are literally at war with the other side, so not only are you playing missions but you are also battling in to gain control over your part of the land. You can gain keeps etc and eventually raid capital cities etc.

The closest thing I think we have to it in CoX is in one of the Hero vs Villain PvP zone recluses victory. Where you fight for control of a potential future for Primal Earth. This future is determined by the capture and control of various Temporal Anchors, each defended by a Pillbox.

However in WAR entire maps areas of maps are flagged for RvR combat

CoX is my first MMO and to be honest I love it to death. Been on it for almost a year, although I had a break in the middle. I think the graphics are great, the gameplay is smooth and engaging and the sheer uniqueness of every character is brilliant.

I finally got into the WAR open beta last night and played it for a little while. So far it hasn't grabbed me in the way CoX has. I am still going to give it a try because I didn't have that much time on it last night but I found it hard to connect with my character as it seemed very generic. Also the graphics and gameplay don't seem as good as CoX. And there were far to many people around, I know people are worried about CoX EU side being quiet but I found that I didn't like it when there were about 50 people running around me in the same space!

The thing about WAR that attracts me is the playing as a group in the whole RvR setting which I haven't experienced so there is a chance I may still get into it.

However, I can always see myself playing CoX because of the community (im a member of a couple of brilliant SGs) and that each of my characters is completely different to somebody elses.

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I like referencing my other characters in bios as well. For example my brute Atomic Demon was created when Dr Hooked (my mastermind) cloned Black Karhu (my tank).

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Oh yes, I love doing this with my characters. CyberDeath (Bots / Dark MM) is Sigma Suits (En / Fire Blaster) Uncle, and Agent Sky-Angels (En / Dev Blaster) Father .He thought she'd died during a test flight of one of his gizmos. The feed back from the monitoring equipment gave him his dark, soul manipulation abilities and sent him a bit doolally in the process.

In the short period of time after the accident while he still had an ounce of his sanity, he left his latest project the "Sigma Suit" to his nephew to help combat what he knew he was going to become.

Illuzi-One (Ill / Rad Trolly) is Ben Travis (Sigmas) college sweet heart who volunteers to be a test subject in one of his experiments, just so she can show him she's interested in him (hitherto expressions of her amour had failed due to his concentration on his work).. a pair of energy gauntlets capable of projecting holographic illusions.

Unfortunately a malfunction in the small fusion reactors that power them, result in her body absorbing large quantities of radiation. Remarkably, instead of killing her, her body is able to utilize this radiation to help her combat evil.

All suitably ridiculous story lines befitting of comic characters, I'm sure you'll agree

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Oh totally! Just wish I could write more comic bios, as most the time new characters get sucked into the fan fiction I am writing in my head (it will eventually get written down!).

Although I did have a character called 'Kinetic Midget' who invented a protective suit based on Kinetic shields. He was a scientist gone mad because everyone made fun of his size. I deleted him though, I might bring him back

Another couple of characters that reference each other is Charlie Bright and Greg Wise who used to be mercenary partners until they went there seperate ways. Now Greg is back looking for his old friend Charlie, but I dont think they will find each other soon, they are on different servers! lol

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I'd actually think Hollows and Boomtown. Imo Faultline doesn't need any tweaking at all

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I think Faultline needs a zone exit of some sort halfway down as travelling times can be a nightmare. I also think that it needs a map pointer for entrance to the Archnos tunnels as it is VERY difficult to find unless you know what you are looking for.

As for the offline XP thing. My gut reaction is against it. But I guess if it is VERY little then I could live with it. I know for me I enjoy the journey (as someone else has said) more than getting to lvl 50.

I love writing bios in CoX - like others have said they kind make the character complete and playable. Some I create the back story fit the concept I am making, others I make the concept fit the back story. Ive got one character, Rendraka, who is a consistent character i make in loads of RPGs but I haven't found a build or story that fits him yet so dont like playing him.

A lot of my bios are quite serious though, filled with personal tragedy. A bit dramatic but I like giving my characters a reason as to why they do what they do. For example Black Karhu was scientifically enhanced and then watched a lot of his friends/colleagues die. Tired Angel was banished from his divine home and now fights evil to stop the aching of his soul. Tristar is the merging between a peace loving human and veteren Kheldian so suffers from eternal guilt. Shadow Mercury is addicted to the dark magic from his tech suit so fights evil to fight the evil in him.

Most of my villains are just sociopaths so nothing exciting there.

A couple of my toons have funny backgrounds. My tank Baby Bam is a 16 year old girl who was given her powers by mistake when the ancient mystic got the wrong hospital delivery room. cAptia nTyop is a disgruntled english professor who went mad through marking essays with typos. Apocalypyic Jester is being from a chaos dimension with no rule and she somehow got banished for unspeakable crimes!

I like referencing my other characters in bios as well. For example my brute Atomic Demon was created when Dr Hooked (my mastermind) cloned Black Karhu (my tank).

A) About 21 alts and various rerolls before I hit my first 50 (which took about 12months, but I did have a break in the middle). I now have closer to 30 but a lot are jsut concept ideas that I will make as I like designing toons.

B) I think I always lean to slightly a touch pimped on all my toons. I always prefer to slot sets if I can, and if not that then normal IO's (as I dont have to worry about them running out when I lvl). My 2 highest toons (50 and 35) both have virtually exclusive Sets in their powers but they aren't necessarily the best ones or at the highest lvls. My 50 still has lvl 30 something set enhancements which I haven't replaced yet so there is still a lot of potential in the toon.

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/em signed

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/e double signed!

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Possibly an Advanced editing mode then where you can only determine the enemy of its selected class?
The mob size is already pre set as you said but would it be that hard to be able to individually choose each enemy on different difficulty/team size?

Heroic solo = a minion and a lieut (iirc), so be able to determine what the minion is (with a list of minion enemy classes) and what the lieut is (same as before).
Obviously doing this would take up a lot of time/effort but would help a great deal in creating a certain feel in your missions. If you chose not to go into the advanced settings then the mob types would be random generated?

Edit: Didnt they say somewhere that we could place the mobs whereever we want? Was it individual enemy placement or just spawn placement?

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I'm sure you will be able to do something like that and choose the type of minion/lt is actually spawned. They say the the mission creator is an easier to use version of what the devs use and they create missions like that. For example the Striga Island mission where you fight a base full of only Vampyrs.

And I think they said you choose roughly where the spawn is - i.e. near the front, middle or back. You couldn't choose the exact position.

Im not to surprised about the limitations of the system, but Im sure they will improve as time goes on.

One thing I was thinking about was about ambushes. Correct me if Im wrong but I couldn't see anything about whether ambushes were possible to script. I know some of my fav and most challenging missions have been ones with unexpected ambushes.

I like it that there will be some customisation of the baddies to make things unique. I know the thing Im looking forward to most is to actually tell one or two of the stories that I have in my head. I feel that the PCC content wont appeal as much to the people who don't read the mission briefings unless hte mission itself really makes you think (which I dont think they will be able to at first until people learn how to use it properly).

As for ratings, what I think will happen is that misisons that consistently get high star ratings relative to the number of votes they get will be checked out by the developers. So a mission with 30 4-5 star ratings will be looked at but a mission with 1 5 star wont be.

I also think it would be useful for the missions to have global names by them. I know part of the fun would be getting my SG to go in and play my mission (i would even ask the boss to put an announcement in the message of the day!) and if they could search by name then they could find it easily.

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hypogonadism

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Massive nuts syndrome?
I'm not a doctor...just curious

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Unfortunately kind of means the opposite - your not producing enough testosterone and your nuts may shrink!

I'm a secretary to a doctor who does an Erectile Dysfunction clinic

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So you must have met just about every hardcore PvPer then?

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Nah! They all go to the penile enlargement service at ULCH

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People who you've never talked to before who call you mate immediately.

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You must hate Aussies then... G'day mate!

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As I posted above, I generally just hate people, and that is regardless of nationality, creed, religion, race etc. I'm fairly equal with my hatred.

Of course Australians are to blame for that darn Australian Questioning Intonation currently pervading British youths. Yeah, that annoys me too. I'm just a bitter old man.

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Hurrah for bitter old men!!

I've been one since I were a lad.

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I hope to become one some day. Bitter young man doesn't carry the same weight

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I know you can't hit young children with sticks and get away with it!

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hypogonadism

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Massive nuts syndrome?
I'm not a doctor...just curious

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Unfortunately kind of means the opposite - your not producing enough testosterone and your nuts may shrink!

I'm a secretary to a doctor who does an Erectile Dysfunction clinic