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Quote:Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
Yeah, my experiences have been different so far.
I've actually never done a speed TF (some sped up bits here and there maybe, but not true speed TFs).
In fact, I was just mentioning how I want to join in on a Speed ITF some time, because I have no idea how people are doing it in the times they have and I am entirely curious to experience it, hehe.
I don't think I've ever done an ITF that came in under 1.5 hours.
I've joked that it is entirely because of me, but that's not really true.
All that being said...
Baronesa (and likely some others here), we should do some TFs together some time!
Anyone think we could try hooking up fully IC TFs in the TF global?
I've been on a speed LGTF once, and killmost TFs. I liked the reward/time ratio...but that's not why I play, in fact, the speed LG was about as boring to me as gathering in other games.
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Quote:The heck?Originally Posted by skrid
Pursuing several Task Force invites in the last week or so, I am told, upon joining, that I don't have the alpha slot, and that if I don't it will cause a nerf for everyone. In fact, when this has happened, the Level 50 in question had just gained the alpha slot, and I had not yet gathered enough shards and/or salvage bits to fill the alpha slot.
Essentially, I was told that if I didn't have anything slotted, that I should leave the TF, because I wasn't ready. So, here's the thing: if you have to do TFs to /get/ shards (and yes, I know that some of the high-level missions such as AV mishes will give shards), how are you supposed to get those shards when people ask you to leave their TF because you haven't got shards. Since I'm a piss-off kind of guy I left the TFs at that time.
This all seems rather rude to me. I also question whether the Devs would put in place a system which would apply a nerf to a toon or to the team they are on, simply because one member doesn't have the alpha slot filled yet. Perhaps they meant that it's as if there was a nerf in effect, but that wasn't what was said.
I'd be interested in people's opinion and if anyone can shed light on this nerf that people without the alpha slot inflict on other toons in a TF.
No, its not applied to the entire party (that I know of). However, unless you and your party is willing to fight 54s with a 46, you're basically useless to your party.
And yeah Ironblade is right, without a slotted alpha you can still get on every other 50 TF and trial/raid in the game with no problem and shard farm or get items for TF completion.
Really, with a fast group and some luck, it takes about 1-2 hours to make your first Alpha. A slow group, that is unlucky, about 5 hours assuming you complete the TFs.
So...what's the problem? It's endgame content, its supposed to take some effort to be able to run it. Just be glad its not something like RoMs endgame, where you have to spend a fortune to be able to play endgame -
Quote:No. Just. No. When we tried that the first day, we spent about 30 minutes and couldn't get through one of those hotspots in the first mission. It was taking full party attacks to kill minions...we MIGHT have been able to do a boss but it would have taken all day (and with the rezzing and healing lieuts, that didn't help). God help us if we faced an AV.Originally Posted by Person34
Could a team consisting of all non-alpha slotted characters have any chance of beating one of these new TFs? That would make for some serious bragging rights if it could be pulled off.
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Quote:Speaking as an Invuln, I will say this in reply to the above post: THIS (if you solo missions).Originally Posted by Deus_Otiosus
You want Tough and Weave.
Invuln is not a "resistance" character, you have layered defenses, resistances and HP.
If you're having end issues with weave, you need to fix the endurance issues - not drop weave.
Whether its adding +recovery special IOs, or chucking some more end-reducing enhancements in, or using the Energy Mastery pool, or whatever, do what you need to keep that power.
However, if you regularly run with a crowd that has partywide +def buffs, you can probably get by without it. Unless you regularly run against a crowd with massive -def debuffs... -
Quote:Heh...when it first came out, several of us misunderstood it. We thought you needed it unlocked to function, and we tried the Tin Mage...clearing those hot spots was doable, but it took FOREVER (we had great accuracy buffys going), but my Energy Transfer was doing like 100 total damage, and I'm used to it doing 700+Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
So, a non-Alpha slotted character would run it functioning as a level 46?
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Quote:Most likely...both. I believe War Witch said something about the game now being scalable to "a theoretical level 60". As we get new powers, I expect to get better enemies behind the doorways, and possibly for incarnate level zones.Originally Posted by Bringer_NA
There is a level shift attached to the higher tier slots, as well as some inspirations. We'll be either as high as some enemies, or we'll be facing higher level enemies.
But I don't see them raising the difficulty of current in-world enemies. So I think we will eventually have the Rikti Magus con yellow to us when we do a ship raid. -
Also, my heroes, even with combined trains, seem to be spending most of their time running from one zone to another. Or they have a kill 20 zone mobs mission. I think I've done more kill 20 missions to level 20, than I did to get to 50 on my villain. Redside is almost all door missions so you'll see way more people blueside.
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Quote:If you're trying to team for storyline content, that may be difficult due to the swarm of 50s doing the incarnate SF/TFs.Originally Posted by Angelofvalor
I am just not getting invites like I use to when I played a few years back, I am hardly getting any at all and I am level 34 ill/rad controller I do not mind making teams but believe me I have tried what is going on? Virtue is almost always in the red.
Go for the server wide LFG channels, I'm sure some others are having trouble with getting lower-level teams too. Check the SG adverts in the forum, and ignore blind invites to blueside SGs...err...better yet, just add that guy to the global ignore list. I added one name, and stopped getting blind invites completely...
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Quote:Agreed, the source of the best missions I've seen have been AE. But, that said, its also been the source of some of the worst. I'd have to say that of the missions that I've played, two of the four best were AE missions, and the other two were level 45-50 Strike Forces.Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
People are constantly finding exploits that allow you to take a character from level 1 to level 50 in the course of a day.
AE can be an awesome experience, with some of the best writing in the game coming from other players. But, sadly, it has been very much perverted from it's original intention and gotten a bad reputation. AE itself doesn't deserve the reputation it got, but abusive players ensured that it did.
I'd actually like the most exploited mission type to remain, IF you change two things: No INF rewards, or nerf the INF to a trivial amount and leave the XP. Second, require something like already having a level 50 on your account or several months in the game to access it.
This provides an easy out for alt-aholics, while limiting the game-breaking aspects, no easy money, and they will have played enough that they will probably have at least some grasp of how other ATs/powersets work. -
Quote:Ah, yeah, I keep forgetting the fact that Granite basically turns you into a castle...but one with no catapults or ballistas on the walls.Originally Posted by Ideon
Unfortunately, it's really, really, hard to ignore the stone effects.
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Quote:For giant monsters, rikti pylons and invasions. Will you become more powerful relative to them? Or will they scale up with you?Originally Posted by Smash_Zone
It's not a level bump per se. It looks like it will be like sidekicking, in that you are Combat level 51, but you're still Security level 50. So basically, your powers will get stronger, but you won't get any new slots, powers, etc....
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I've never had a problem that bad on an alignment mission, unless it was bugged. Really, most seem to be easy-mode
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Quote:That was why I suggested multiplying the XP required dramatically, not 2x, but something like 100x per extra power selected...you might farm 5x faster...but it'll still take 20x longer.Originally Posted by SuperFerret
That would be more incentive for farmers, as well as giving them the tools to do so faster.
It'd help AE farmers, but it would make us truly able to build ANY character we can imagine (Amazo?). -
Quote:It's only 30-50% to something that's not already suffering from ED issues. And only type of enhancement at a time. It will make the people that solo GMs and AVs more powerful, BUT it will make some of the "middle-weight" players with standard IOs, but no sets into "heavy-weights", and make "lightweights" with nothing but SOs into "middle-weights".Originally Posted by Bittovan_Odduck
It seems to me the Incarnate slots are overpowered.
(Yes, I know, poopstorms of bad karma will fall on me for that, but I have here my sturdy bumbershoot and a bottle of Febreeze so I HAVE NO FEAR!)
Digressions aside, slots that add 30-50% to ALL of a characters main powers just seem over the top to me. We already have heroes/villains who can solo AV's and GM's, though I don't suggest that is a large proportion of the playerbase. It only takes a small proportion of min/maxed characters to distort a game out of shape though.
What kind of challenges can they present to players who can already solo virtually anything in the game, who then get 30-50% more powerful (roughly)?
If this has already been done to death elsewhere, just point me in the right direction and I'll go away. Quietly.
I promise.
OLDER content will get easier, and CURRENT content will be playable with these enhancements (or at least sorta playable). -
Quote:Super Strength is a given. Inv or WP should work, there's a self-rez+power boost in WP, right? We've seen the big blue boy scout knocked down and the villain thinks he's about to rule the world and then...Originally Posted by Gobbledygook
As I sit here, totally stoked about the upcoming Young Justice series, I am faced with a dilema. You see, I want to make an omage to one of my favorite characters. The question is, what best embodies a kryptonian, ss/inv, or ss/wp?
And yes, I know it's against the EULA to make an exact copy of an established, but it will not be an exact copy. Thank you for your help.
But if you tend to think of him as being invuln, I mean, no matter WHAT you hit him with, its not enough to hurt him. That says Stone Tank to me (and then ignore the effects) -
Quote:Well, me and several others misread it as needing to have the alpha slot unlocked the first time I tried tin mage. I had no trouble hitting with the teams +TH buffs, but doing 30 pts of damage with Energy Transfer...fail team was fail ^_^.Originally Posted by MLEdelen
My question is....with all the advertising, announcements, and talk about the incarnate system. Why does most of the people in game knows nothing about the alpha slot.
And those that do, don't know that you have to slot it. They all try to start an APEX tf, without putting a power in the alpha slot and have no idea how to do that.
Not much of a question, more of a comment or complaint. Been trying to get an apex tf going all day, but noone seems to know about slotting the alpha slot. -
Quote:I'd recommend a group for the slot unlocking, I needed a duo for Honoree and Trapdoor. But we should have had more, it took a LOT of dying to get the strategy for the Honoree right ^_^.Originally Posted by BloodFairy
Do we have to group and do group content to achieve this now?
Because if the Vanguard merit thing is the only other option which is massive grind this game is broke, farming, wasting my life and I'm through with it. It's just that too many mmos are like this and I left all them for this game years ago, because there was no "end game" raids you HAD to do to unlock something and there was no farmer grind either to get stuff, but if that is case now, failed game.
I am just asking. Like I have said before I play at very very late hours, barely anyone is ever on but the developers never take that into account when doing anything. If a games too fun they consider it broke and make it miserable. I want access to the incarnate stuff but I don't want to do raids with people that aren't online, I don't want to change servers, I don't even want to group with complete strangers if it was an option and I don't want to grind away with vanguard merits to get this either. Games should be fun and not a job. I already have a job.
The taskforces REALLY accelerate getting the slot filled, but killing a few bosses here and there on your normal missions will eventually get you shards to convert to the better pieces. But the only content that actually really needs the slot filled, are the new Task Forces.
So, if you don't want to run that content with the people you have online, and don't want to do PuGs, then you really won't miss a lot. -
As far as I can tell, my own strategy for that is to find 7 people that CAN do the BM mission, and then I stay up on the roof.
I mean, coming into the zone only to find a blue patch ALREADY ON YOU, and instantly dying more than once in that way, or getting cornered between the zone wall and a couple blue patches. My main is a EM/Inv brute, I don't mind trying to maneuver, but I'm REALLY not good at it.
It's a GREAT mission for fast-reflex players, but I'm not, never have been, never will be. I can't get close to her to do much damage because she'll drop a blue patch on her feet before I can get two good attacks off, and even then they won't be "good" because I spend so much time dodging I can't get fury built. -
Quote:Personally, what I'd like to do, is the option to get multiple powers different sets/ATs from one tier, you could also choose extra base powers (fury/gauntlet/defiance/domination/scourge/etc). XP required to level would be multiplied massively too.Originally Posted by Redd Rumm
While makeing my AE arcs i tend to make my critters a little too powerful ,because they allow u to make awsome power combos like brutes with SS an Rad or MA scrappers with kin , i was wondering if we would ever be allowed to just make our own AT and combine what ever we wanted ,whether it would be a Blaster with fire blast an tanker sheild or blaster DP an scrapper MA
who knows all i know is i wish i could play with some of the stuff i come up with in AE .
So you could make the ultimate character, but you'd have to farm XP all day to get to level 2.
Or you could hit level 2 in 5 minutes with a normal archetype.
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Quote:If it worked like that still, I'd be half-tempted to slot it in Stamina and make a suit of powered armor that was malfunctioning for an RP char...Originally Posted by Cardiff_Giant
But it did use to happen and people wound up stunning themselves in a pretty comical fashion = a 10% chance on auto - every 10 secs...
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Quote:Heh...obviously, I'm not experienced in electric attacks ^_^ So it's probably not a global then.Originally Posted by Shadow State
Any attack that drains endurance, e.g. most electric attacks, Transference etc, can take End Mod sets.
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The Proc in that set gives you a chance to stun. Since that goes in an End Mod slot, it can't be used in a power that's used to attack someone.
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Quote:Teaming is a HUGE increase in leveling speed, you spend less time running to missions from the hospital. You get bigger spawns, more XP from that.Originally Posted by MassMedia
Let's skip how trivial the subject matter is and just focus on the question: Does teaming up effect the game's story? Will I end up doing things out of order, or skipping over events? Its my first character and I kinda wanna see the sights before I just start blazing through.
In general, how does teaming up work in regards to story and development? Or in regards to leveling speed and general fun? I have never even tried a team yet, mostly because I'm still 100% mediocre and easily confused. XD
Another sidenote question would be, does the story level with me? Since I started out a Preatorian, can I do the low level hero arcs on the same character? Will they be faceroll easy? Or do they match whatever my current level is?
Thanks much!
Teams are GREAT fun, especially if you get a group of people that you like to team with regularly. In many cases, they'll be happy to run with you, as long as you're honest about your skill and listen.
Since the contacts at high level have links to a certain origin, I recommend either a character on every origin (so many options, so much fun), or turning off XP and running ALL the content before moving on (my plan for blueside), or using Orouboros later on to finish the primary story content (but that could spoil some storylines).
BTW: ThugOne is correct, some games reward grinding one character to perfection. CoX rewards some casual play on a variety of characters. -
I almost regret my main being a villain now.
This could be made of awesome, especially in a group of villains "We can't kill him...yet...he's in the prophecy" "Can I just beat him up for an hour or two?" "NO...he might get mad and become a hero, didn't you read the prophecies?"
*group sigh*
"I'll go take out my frustrations on some Longbow...ALONE!" -
OK, I posted a build on the Brute board, with 6 partial sets of Crushing Impact, they said I couldn't get the bonuses from more than 5 sets of Crushing Impact.
What are the limits as to how many sets of a certain type will work?