Wicked_Wendy

Well back then MoG also had one serious drawback.. When you clicked it YEAH while active you were invincible but the goofy thing drained your Hitpoints into the red. You needed to defeat whatever it was in front of you before it wore off or be ready to run and have some awakes handy. Now you can click it at full strength and STAY at full strength no moatter what is TRYING desperately to hit you until it wears off. LOL

Hey I have contacts that gruble at at, insult me, tell me to go away I bother them when they run out of mission and all sorts of other rude things. frankly being hit on, even by so obvious a classic lounge lizard as Dean, was kind of nice and at the end of his arc I did high five him LOL

I liked both Dean's and Leonard's arc and did think the writing was superior. If I had any complaint at all.. Why won't Leonard give me his cell phone number? LOL Even after defeating Protean I still had to run all the way back to him to get the final mission and complete the arc. that aside i enjoyed running it and kudos to Doc Aeon for the work! :-D

OH I see what you mean. Yeah once GR hits and everyone starts crossing back and forth the lines will definately blur. I don't see any in game way around that but personally, for RP purposes, when taxibot Sara hits the Rogue Isles she will basically be UNDERCOVER. If she "kidnaps" someone she will make it appear she is but actually guide them to safety (in short actually rescue them for both the group that has them now and the one that wants them). If she robs a bank... Hey that was all a set up to keep her cover going. None of those PPD cops got hurt they were all in on it and .. of course the money all got tunred back to the bank. I mean come on if your going to make Recluse and his mob THINK you've gone bad you have to act the part or you just get shot at.. a lot. LOL

I would love to see more content Villain side, not that it isn't possible to level to 50 without seeing all there is now but COH has a ton more. And trying to earn Merits on COV is no where near as easy as on COH. Not counting the CoOps (ITF and LGTF) the best a Villain can hope for is 6 that offer up Reward Merits. Heck just doing the 6 required for TF Commander equals that and those offer more merits (granted most are longer than the ones on COV). Adding in 2 additional ones in Striga (Moonfire and Hess), 4 in the Shard, The Katey Hannon, 3 Trials (again not count respecs since Villains do get those as well) that adds up to 9 more opportunities for a Hero to team up and get Merits than a Villain does.

I realize that with only 7 zones even trying to add another 9 more SF/Trials would be insane especially since 4 zones already host an SF now. You'd have SF/Trial contacts stacked beside on another. I doubt they will add anymore zones Redside so maybe the best Villains can hope for is more CoOp zones where they can team with heroes and earn reward merits and XP, etc. Of course that never actually balances the scale since it adds ANOTHER way for heroes to get more merits as well but at least it would help. The trend seems to be CoOp anyways since the last two new zones we got were that way.... well one revamped zone (the RWZ) and one new (Cimerora). I've seen a number of suggestion for this including Faultline, Croatoa, Boomtown, and even The Hollows or Perez Park but it would take some REAL crative writing to explain how a zone that for 6 years has been considered a part of Paragon City to suddenly allow Villains to show up and HELP. The RWZ was easy.. The Rikti want to take over and enslave the whole planet. Good or Bad guy you realize that that is NOT a good thing and do what you can to stop it. The others? Well its already been argued how do you justify villains suddenly showing up in Croatoa to HELP a small college town on the outskirts of the city keep from being dragged into the Spirit world? Faultline, as was mentioned, does have an Arachnos presence but they aren't there to protect them dam from breaking and the same Villain groups that roam the zone operate freely in Recluse's domain. I'm sure he's perfectly happy that they are there causing trouble and helping divert attention from his plans there so why would he suddenly authorize villains to go and help out? With the rise of the 5th column I suppose Boomtown has some possibilities Villains already have Barracuda's SF which pits you against Reichman just like kahn's TF does hero side so there is a common enemy that both Red abd Blue agree needs to be taken down. But like the RWZ we would be talking a major revamp of the zone to make that possible.

Let's say we run off the Council from the zone completely. 5th Column establishes a huge base, not unlike the Council one on Striga, and plan to use it as a jumping off point to invade both Paragon City and the Rogue Isles. Now we have the HUGE question of what level range to make this zone when we do all this. Presently heroes can enter at 12 and the villains found there are Trolls, Outcast, Clockwork, Coucil and now 5th Column. Dp we keep it at that level and just let those same groups wander outside the Column base? Obviously the Column couldn't care less about the other groups aside from the Council deeming them to be weak and inferior. Or do we increase it's level and the have to decide which Villain groups will replace the ones there now? Also aside form spawning during Synapse TFs IF the level increases and the Clockwork disappear where do we put Babbage? /e eyes roll and mind boggles

Of course there has been talk for years about a Moon base zone, more wishful thinking than anything else since it still hasn't occurred and it started back before Faultline got revamped , The RWZ became CoOp and Cimmerora came into existance. But it WOULD be another zone where Villains and Heroes could coexist and even battle a new alien villain or just give us another place to battle Rikti.

There is no easy answer but then I don't get paid to come up with ideas .. if I did i'd be a Dev and be designing the game not playing it LOL Hopefully they will continue to find new ways to keep the game fun.

I'm not sure that's true to be honest. I'm still not 100% sure how GR will work but IF it allows me to take a 50 level hero and go Vigilante enabling me to cross over and through Time Travel, etc start earning COV badges then I plan to do so. When, if, that occurs you know every COH badger alive will be clamoring to get to the Isles and add to their badge count. At the same time 50 level badge hounds from COV will be headed to Paragon to do the same. I see this helping both sides since players that NEVER played COV will be showing up there and the same is true of red siders that never played COH. I think that's one reason we now have badges for earning 500 and 1000 badges.. once GR happens and people cross over those two will be a lot easier, as a lot cheaper since you don't need to spend a fortune earning Crafting badges, to obtain.

BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ wrong! I have DM on several of my MMs. I use it constantly for the outstanding disorient and slow. I DONT wait for people to die and haul it out once is a while in fact anyone playing with me better have some awakes on them IF they die because the chances are it won't be recharged and available. Now admittedly in all the other cases you are correct but the question is are you building a "Team Support" character or not? While the arguemnt goes on and on end on the fact is even the best of teams can make a mistake that results in too many mobs aggroed and players end up face down on the floor so if you team having heals and a rez do support them. YES people can, and most do, carry awake but even a tier 3 awake still leaves you with no end. A REZ from any of the powersets in question brings the teammate back at full strenth, unstunned and ready to battle again.

If you solo constantly.. skip it but if you team it's a useful tool that SUPPORTS the team. NOT one that hopefully gets used a lot but still good to have. If you solo and team try a dual build like I do. One build has the Rez along with many other things that help my teammates and the other skips things that don't help ME at all and allows me to add other things that increase my attacks, my defenses or whatever.

Now here is my theory as to why the game has shifted away from desiring defenders and controller that heal and no it has very little to do with the entire player base suddenly discovering the JOY of buff/debuff since those were always around. Patrol XP changed the game completely. Suddenly when someone died they discovered hey I didn't go into debt the patrol XP saved me! Word spread like wildfire soon the attitude became "Why should I waste a slot on my team for an Empath when my patrol xp will wipe out debt? Even if I go to bed with debt by the time I wake up and go to work or school it will all be gone!" That statement is totally true but here is what I don't understand.

Patrol XP is also increasing the amount of XP and Influence/Infamy you earn so the longer it lasts the more you make and the faster you level. If you are smart and also camp out at night in the Police station you can also build up additional XP bonuses there.. Patrol xp gives you a 50% boost in XP and a seasoned law Enforcer can add an additional 25% for as long as two hours. That's a minimum of 2 hours of play time where your earn 175% of what is normal for XP and Influence .. the closest thing to a constant double XP weekend you will find in the game. When you die and your patrol XP absorbs the debt but it uses up the amount of XP you would have had to earn back and decreases the amount of time you get that 50% bonus.

With all the other ways players use to increase the amount of XP they earn so they can level faster, legal and the ones NC Soft considers illegal (ie farming PL etc), why this area became a rallying cry for Healing sucks and we don't need your kind here I have no idea. The vast majority of the player base is more mature and you'd think they understood simple math. 175% = 75% more than I would normally get.. Mmm Good! Prior to this occurring when I logged on an EMP Defended or my Ill/Emp Controller I had times I was still loading and already had tells or blind invites to team because no one wanted to DIE and have to spend the next ??? working off debt and earning 50% of the XP they normally would. Now I see open discussion on Global channels I belong to about how Empathy suck and who needs a healer anyway. Well first of all I have never considered any character I had, troller or fender, to BE A HEALOR. I take and use every buff/debuff available and take and enhance my attacks. My feeling always has been the best defense is a good offense and while the damage even a well enhanced defender does is less than a scrapper or blaster can do DAMAGE IS DAMAGE. When all the bad guys are face down on the floor and not moving the need to heal, buff or debuff ends so I'll take all the damage I can get from anyone and everyone.

No team NEEDS a healer.. but then again no "good" team needs a tanker or a KIN or any of the other FOTM powersets that a lot of leaders decide they simply have to have to survive and do well. All you need is 8 good players that understand their powers and the game and adapt their strategy to make it work. I did a Citadel TF with 7 blasters and 1 Defender (yes it was an EMP). The team leader was a little concerned that we had a LOT of "squishies" and not much healing. We decided to try it and moved through missions with ease.. the damage output was so high nothing lasted long enough to cause a team wipe. I participated in an ALL CONTROLLER Katy Hannon TF and we finished in 19 minutes and 1 second... no tank, no scrapper, no blasters .. Just a ton of buffs, debuffs, HEALS, holds, immobs, slows, etc that drove the Cabal and Redcaps insane. I've played on PUG radio mission teams that had nothing but Defenders and Controller that did the same thing. "They can't hit us, we are hitting them a lot easier, they can't move and we are healing faster than they can hurt us. WE ROCK!"

and since when is PAIN Dom a defender powerset Mondo



There is NO such thing as a Healing base set but with three strong heals it is by far the best available to a defender which is WHAT the OP asked for


Maybe you shouldn't assume I dont. Then again how many teams have you been on that couldn't find a tank? Don't assume you know how I play this game . I am beginning to see why your rep is so glowing. I am not one of those that sets AURA to Auto and sits back doing nothing but supoposedly healing my team.. its a waste of END. I HEAL when its needed but suggesting no team will ever run into a situation where someone aggros two or even three mobs at once or gets confused in a COT cave and seperates before getting attack.. takes damage and will NEVER need to be healed it foolish. S%$t happens and when it does, to even the best teams, having someone along that can mend the wounds is not a horrible idea.


Gee I could have sworn I covered that along with many of the good points of nuerous other powerset that also heal. It has a decent heal and a Rez with special benefits.

THERE is NO such thing as a HEALER set but like the others they do have a HEAL and that is what the OP asked about. Do you actually read things or just post to express your own need to insult people?


And since at lower levels those are the only things abvailable what do YOU suggest the OP take? The fitness pool so he doesn't need to waste powers in the teens trying to get Stamina? HEALS are still important in the lower level game. When those powers are available and with the trend now to run +4 X 8 at times they become important at times even later on. I agree buffs and debuff outshine heals by far but at level 10 HOW many of them are actually available to a defender or controller? Or do you PL through those levels and have no clue what its like to be vulnerable? I still see post on the TF global for Master of STF Runs looking for a HEALER to help keep the tank alive while he keeps tries to occupy recluse while the rest of the team take out Pylons.

Oh heavens no I started on COV LOL I have a dark wicked side I just play sweet and innocent Giggles

I is sowwy I gots all excited when I saw the green dot but I did correct myslef LOL

Hey Mister cake and hugs are free. My Boobies cost and we are talking rare purple recipe prices here! LOL

LOL love that Oh and in addition when she was younger Stephanie was a classic gold digger. JUST how many wedding rings can one person own?

There is a logical explanation for the lack of children in Paragon City..... Look what happens most of the time when you go Trick or Treating during Halloween.

Yes Glen but when you HUNT in the open world its by choice and you are hunting things in an area where the mobs are around your level and you can suvive. At level 7 some contact will send you to Perez Park to defeat 10 COT.. that's a death sentance waiting to happen for most. At level 12 a contact will send you to Boomtown to defeat 10 Clockwork and again most ATs will struggle and suffer defeat attempting to roam around looking for Clockwork to attack in that zone. In the 30s in brickstown certain contacts will have you hunt for 30 Council to defeat and while this used to be easy now you will consistantly run into 5TH Column where you used to see Council. Then hit the higher levels and run across defeat 50 of whatever. I personnally am not spending half a hour running around trying to find 50 of any villain group.

I don't mind an occasion hunt during a story arc or TF that actually tied into the story being told. Defeat 10 Clockwork to reveal the location of their hidden base etc. as an example. But many contacts will automatically give you a hunt mission the very first time you click them and that, to me, just seems like busy work because they haven't come up with a REAL mission yet.

Like the OP I like Memphis Bill's suggestion send me to the train station and let me hop a ride to an outdoor instance mission where I clear the map to complete the requirement. Rikti Raids, Zombie Attacks, Etc won't disrupt me and I'll get a better end XP bonus since those are technically considered door missions.