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Swinging and ice gliding would be great. Maybe some alternate animations for super speed? It looks silly as is, to me.
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I still see groups form...for certain events. I was on a Jack team earlier (though only one team was present. We took him down easily) and fought Deathsurge last week.
But ones like Lusca? No, I never see anyone fight her due to being far too difficult for no reward outside of a badge. -
Quote:It seems somewhat impossible to have a harder time with enemies that have one attack and brawl yet an easier time with enemies that have numerous melee and ranged attacks and frequently ambush.Originally Posted by Arilou
I don't. Especially not clockwork. Damn end drain.
Maybe clockwork (though with stamina being inherent their problems have ceased for me) but skulls/hellions? -
Quote:About 43 or so before I just gave up. I think I gave up when Cimerora was released. I simply could not solo anything. To this day it remains my worst soloer ever.Originally Posted by Smiling_Joe
How high did you level your warshade? Because Peacebringers pre-26 are actually a bit superior to their darker brethren, IMHO. Their damage is comparable, and Peacebringers at the time when there was still a "heroic" were far superior soloists. Voids and quantums were rougher then, and you did ALOT less damage.
But if you got your Warshade to 32 and beyond, you had your damage output tripled over what a Peacebringer could do.
So what happened to Warshades, specifically, to make them such awesome solo death machines? Enhanced difficulty settings. On heroic, you were stuck with one lieutenant and two minions per spawn against which to buff. Now, however, you can crank up the number of enemies you face, and how powerful they are.
Because of this, Warshades are rolling through solo missions at the resistance cap along side two and three pets that add 100-150 dps (if you can get three fluffies out consistently) to damage that is boosted by fully saturated mires. Dwarf Mire - with it's shortened recharge/duration and respectable damage - turns black dwarf into a heavy scrapper that can tank for the essences.
Peacebringers still solo as well as they ever did. Better, in fact. But the ability to increase spawn size was a game-changer for Solo Warshades. -
I'm sorta wondering what happened with Warshades. I had one years ago and tried for years to level it to 50. Busting it out when I knew I could get a team (basically Double XP weekends) and then shelving it because it was so incredibly painful to solo on. I couldn't solo my own mission on heroic without dying against a minion. I respecced around 4+ times, followed build advice, etc, and eventually I just gave up. On the contrary I had a PB that was far more fun to play.
So it's odd to me that I now hear PB's are so inferior to WS' when, back when I tried WS', they felt like probably the worst class I ever played in a game. -
Mmmm censorship.
I'm quite against any form of censorship including this, but I have a question.
I noticed (in the US, atleast) that newer songs have to be really censored for radio. Even words like God and references to drugs get censored. Yet the oldie rock station I listen to can play this song or Pink Floyds "Money" uncensored. Both contain coarse language. Why do old songs avoid censorship? -
Quote:They're not fun to fight against at that level.Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA
Paragon City PD aren't a new faction though. They're just a pain in the ****. Never had much of an issue with their Praetorian counterparts.
Ghouls are a bit more binary. My Broadsword/Fire scrapper and my Ice/Thorns domi eat them alive (and hated Praetorian Clockwork). Some of my other Praetorians completely hate ghouls.
I have far more trouble with Praet PD and Resistance and Ghouls than I do with Clockwork or Hellions or Skulls. They are noticably more buffed up as pointed out with PPD having numerous attacks and hellions having about one. -
Quote:Praetoria is noticably more difficult than older lowbie content. And it is indeed new.Originally Posted by Arilou
Where do people get the idea that this is NEW?
PPD has been around since Mayhem missions got introduced! They've ALWAYS had glue grenades and nasty to-hit debuffs. Villains have been dealing with it for years.
It's not "balancing around IO's" it's just that PPD is a *very tough* enemy group.
Resistance and PPD are far far FAR more difficult than Hellions or Skulls. Heck, even Vahz, IMO. -
Quote:Well as far as I'm concerned it shouldn't happen in any arc as they said they wouldn't do that.Originally Posted by Bad_Influence
Balancing around IOs [which I thought was something they swore would "never happen,"] SHOULD HAPPEN IN LEVEL 45+ ARCS. It is purely stupid to "balance around IOs" in a level 20 arc. How many people are set-IO'ed out at level 20? I can tell you, I'm not.
Re that Sky-Raiders-in-the-tunnels mish, I hit Stealth, Sprint and ran through that like a maniac till I hit the end. I'm not that gullible, I know a bunch of suffering when I see it [usually] and that looked like plenty, all in one handy little package. I Just Said No. -
I have to wonder if new content is being designed around the idea of heroes being much more powerful than they used to due to IO's.
I.E. balancing around IO's.
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Quote:Guess it sure does. Though I can't underestimate 25 levels of difference.Originally Posted by Dispari
I soloed the incarnate intro arc with SOs on my DP Corr so my mileage has definitely varied.
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I tried a DP corruptor (not blaster, so YMMV) and it was possibly the weakest character I've ever played next to my old warshade. I could barely take on 3 minions of my level. Bosses were a no go even one on one. EB's? LOL! LT's were as difficult as +2 bosses on my other characters. I paired it with /traps so I did have some debuffs going.
I don't know if it was DP or traps on that character but wow was it sucky. I'm in the process of making a DP/? blaster now. Probably EM. -
I'd love it. I wanted to make a pulp comic sort of hero using DP but as usual with blasters, no secondaries click. Devices is the closest but still not what I want (and I never hear good things about it.)
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Quote:I'd say in their eyes it'd be stealing. They didn't give the name to you.Originally Posted by Jophiel
"Stole"? That's a bit of hyperbole. Especially when you note that they're not paying anything to retain having them.
I have to look at this from the companies view. If I was the lead developer I sure as hell wouldn't delete everyones names because they didn't play for a year or two. Because if I do that I am banking on never ever getting those people to resub. I am essentially acknowledging I fail at getting old customers back, which isn't something you want to fail at in this buisness. Is it worth losing any potential resubs from older gone players just to make a few people on virtue happy? Not really. And the names everyone seems to want that aren't attached to a global (Ninja, Light, Magician), they were probably snatched the first day of play. And once they are released they again will be snatched up within an hour of that release. Never to be released again. -
Quote:And then people with 30 character slots run in and create level 1's they never play of characters with names like "Voltage" and "Anarchy" and in about 6 months we're at the same problem we are at now with few names.Originally Posted by GreySquirrel
Keep in mind, they'd have to miss every free reactivation weekend for two years to not have their names re-reserved. The amount of names we'd get back is an unknown factor, but with somewhere in the neighbourhood of at least 75,000 inactive accounts, I think we'd get a lot of names freed up. There are a lot of old accounts out there that don't even have globals still; its a fairly safe bet that they're not going to be coming back for the most part.
If you want to wipe level 20's and under who haven't logged in in 4 years, go ahead. I don't think it will do much in the long run and is just a quick bandaid fix that won't do anything. If you want to erase the names of level 50's regardless of how long it's been, well, I can't get behind that. You'd be better off just banning them from the game because they're probably not coming back after you went and stole all their characters names because they didn't pay an upkeep.
I still see no-unique names being the best option. The only real problem people have with it is "But...but...I don't want someone to see my global at the end of my name, which they can turn off! Can't I just have that level 50's name?" -
Quote:I guess if they just want THAT game to take all their subs...Originally Posted by Golden Girl
It's the use of the word "pack" instead of "patch" that makes it sound like it might be less than free
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Quote:A booster pack that includes content outside of costumes and powers? No thank you, please. We do not need to go down that path.Originally Posted by Ultra_Violence
Assuming the "Strike Pack" is a free upgrade and not a Booster Pack that is. No reason they couldn't have a booster related to 19 material. I am thinking they really like booster packs these days.
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Quote:I still don't see what it solves. It also negatively impacts those who can't get on during that two week period/don't get the email for various reasons. What if they're over seas stationed in Afghanistan or what if their computer is broken? Too bad, so sad? And in the end what do we gain with this risk of potentially infuriating potential customers? A few names get freed which will instantly get taken up again and we're back at square one.Originally Posted by GreySquirrel
*resists the urge to be overly snarky*
This has all been addressed in the proposal Ascendant made, so it really serves no purpose to continue bringing it up. I realise not everyone reads every post on the thread though, so I've summarised it in the original post. You should take a look.
It's a bandaid to the problem, not a fix. -
I'll say the same thing I said in RP Virtue. Use the system that CO has. I know thats an unpopular opinion because they're a rival game, but really, I don't see a good alternative. I'd prefer being able to always have the name I want available with my global attached (which you can turn off in CO) over needing to look up an obscure reference to the intended name and add weird punctuation in it.
Name wipes are a temporary solution and won't get rid of names held by level 50's who left 4 years ago (unless you think we should wipe level 50's names. Which is such a bad idea it's stunning).
At best a name wipe, to me, would be wiping characters level 20 and under who have not logged on in three years. That will clear a little bit but won't solve the problem at all. Just delay it for a week untill all the good names are again snatched up by people reserving them. -
I think it's abit foolish to underestimate that game. It doesn't matter if it sucks or has flaws or is made by a bad developer. It's license alone will carry many people onto it despite how bad it may be. Do not underestimate the power of a very well known and popular license.
Even a game SOE utterly ruined is still around due to it's license. -
Quote:I just know I got around 9 shards on an ITF. Plus the incarnate salvage at the end.Originally Posted by lll Phoenix lll
its all about chances, well maybe its only me. the 3 ITFs I said were all clear all :P
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Farm the ITF.
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Quote:I'd say players have a problem diferentiating doom cryers like that from people with honest concerns and opinions on the state and progress of the game.Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
Posting: "ZOMG the game is dying because something doesn't work the way some doofus in Wyoming wants it to!" is not feedback.
With every issue release, some idiot posts about how the game is absolutely, positively going to shut down within a month because of some feature they personally dislike. There's nothing constructive about that.
Feedback is a good thing, but the people doing the stuff the OP is talking about aren't giving feedback. They are just making fools of themselves by insisting that the game is going to die because the slightest thing was changed. And most of the people doing that leave no room for discussion.
People have said the game was doomed because of everything from ED to inherent Fitness. So far they have all been proven wrong. -
Quote:And though I don't care to argue, they have been right on a few things.Originally Posted by brophog02
Go to redside sometime and see how many players you find.
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Quote:Unfortunately alot of players on the forums take ANY criticism towards the devs as an insult to their own mothers.Originally Posted by TrueMetal
There's a difference between criticism and being a bitter, vindictive pit of negativity that jumps to wild conclusions and needs to personally insult people working on the game.
Though I have to say that most of the 'DOOM' on these forums if very mild compared to other venues spread across the internet.