galadiman

Amazing guide - good for all players. Sticky it!

I like Bob. Heroes get a vacation!

Let’s see, Brad… you hate it…
1) Because you have the choice of including people (or not) from a wide level range?
2) Because the enemies look like something different than you would otherwise expect?
3) Because you can’t make a simpler substitution for a pseudo-cimeroran costume until level 34?
4) Because the enemies have heals, which allow you to continue to act, rather than mezzes, which, it is widely agreed, are very frustrating?
5) Because your VEAT, and your MM, cannot ‘pwnzorr’ them in a single bound? Strategy much?
6) Because the mobs ‘just keep coming’? Again, Strategy much?
7) Because (see #1 again)
8) Because (most of the lag can be avoided or otherwise dealt with… and see #6 again)
9) Because it solves an often-complained-of problem Heroside?
10) Because it is a lucrative TF?
11) Because you are unable to form a team fast enough? Most TFs are open to much smaller ranges of levels… does that make it easier to make teams for those?? Any TF team will suffer from bad leadership/team dynamics. Pulling all the elite bosses at once, ignoring the Cyst ambushes, playing like your character won’t take any damage… these are not advisable in ANY TF.

It sounds like many of your reasons for disliking the ITF are the same reasons you like the LGTF… and it sounds like you use tactics for the LGTF, but not for the ITF.

LOL, ITF vs Positron. I like the LGTF for its variety, the ITF for its mass combat and pacing (and the self-awareness needed), the STF for its tactical elements… but I like the ITF best of all.

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there really should be more to the event than just meet up in one spot and beat on stuff till the event ends, I think that there should be some sort of random objective the Rikti are after in each zone, some examples, in Atlas park the destruction of the atlas statue would crush morale in the city, if the rikti can plant enough bombs then they win (and a new place will have to be found for holding CC's, till the scene is reset anyway)
In Sharkhead the rikti could be planting bombs on one side of the pit, enough placed and boom, the pit becomes a giant pool till Cage can get it emptyed.
Far fetched I know, but I like to dream

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I had a similar idea I posted a long time ago about an event that would be a very big programming job, but pretty cool... involving an attack on Skyway that would end in zone-wide freeway collapse if the players failed... but really a HUGE programming job. Still, it would be so cool...

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I would describe Victory as the "NO BS, we don't care if you are gay, straight, white, black, yellow, green, whatever...Play well, have fun. make friends, give each other grief for N00b mistakes, play the effing game and quit yer whining server."

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I vote for this.

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I think this is pretty accurate. That's why I like Victory...

YOU GREEN N00b!

Great points made. I agree - This is my favorite TF, second being LGTF and third STF.

Great Fight Night MP! Wish I coulda stayed longer. Hopefully I can play some tonight. See you pvp'ers all next week!

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for 10 bucks you can feed an entire family with this:

goto wendys

buy 9 chilis from 0.99 cent menu

drive home

enjoy

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You have no soul.

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As bizarre as this may sound, Wendy's Chili is one of the best chilis I have found outside of homemade... granted, it's a little 'generic' in terms of heat and 'character', but I have been repeatedly suprised at how good it is.

Take it home, give it some personal touches, and you might have a very convenient, high quality Chili experience. If you don't mind the beans, that is...

OK, let me break it down FURTHER:

Currently:

CasualPlayer: playplayplay. “Hmm, I wonder if I could make my powers better…”
Devs: “Issue coming – use your freespec!
CasualPlayer: Hmm. But if I respec NOW, they’ll change the power on me. Better wait til I know what the changes will be. No time to figure out what all that technical stuff in the notes means, I’ll just play it and get a feel for it, the respec.
Devs drop the issue and the freespec, Player loses a freespec he might otherwise have used.

OR:
CasualPlayer: playplayplay. “Hmm, I wonder if I could make my powers better…”
Devs: “Issue coming – use your freespec!
CasualPlayer: Hmm. But if I respec NOW, they’ll change the power on me. Better wait til I know what the changes will be. No time to figure out what all that stuff in the notes means, I’ll just play it and get a feel for it, the respec.
Devs drop the issue WITHOUT the freespec. “Freespec in a week guys, use em!”
CasualPlayer: Hmm. Let me play JigglePants for a while, and see if the new issue makes his pants Less Jiggly.
CasualPlayer: (3 days later) Wow after playing JigglePants for 3 hours, people say that Weezel power is better than my current Wubble power… so I feel like I need to switch my Wubble power out for that Weezel power with the special FlimFlam status effect.
(use up the freespec to change his Wubble power to Weezel. For a casual player, this is not trivial.)
CasualPlayer: (4 days later) Wow after playing JigglePants for 4 more hours, I hate that Weezel power – that FlimFlam makes it hard for me to build up my Borkplum as fast as I used to. And what’s JigglePants without BorkPlum?!? But that other freespec is coming in a couple of days, so I can wait and use that to switch back. Also, the new SuperIronSpiderBatFlashLantern Underpants movie is coming out – so I can see that AND eat Real Food, too!
(wait a day, get the new freespec, use up the new freespec to change his Weezel power back to Wubble.)

CasualPlayer: Yay, all is right with the world. Wubble gets my Borkplum up as fast as ever, and faster now that I slotted that new Luck of the Geezer +rech (tm) IO. Go JigglePants!

(Please note: all player, character, power, enhancement, and other names have been changed and sillified for absolutely no logical reason whatsoever, except to make grown men giggle like little girls, and for little girls to mock said grown men derisively on YouTube.)

As I said in my previous posts:

1. Most people neither 1) follow the forums, 2) use Mids, 3) read the patch notes before the issue release.

They play the game. Because most people don't have the time to do the other stuff.

Delaying helps because a) people have alts, b) they can use the powers after they drop on the live servers, get a feel for the new features, and then decide how to modify their build. That takes playtime. Most people have less than 10 hours a week to play. Are you with me now?

It's amazing that some of you can respec in 10 minutes, I cannot. I am a simple man, with simple needs. The game is not made for Uberplayers; if it was, well, nm.

The explanations you are giving as to how to maximize the use of freespecs is geared toward people who look at the forums, understand how the powers work in detail, and know what they’re after. That’s about 5-10% of the players out there, imo. (I have no numbers for this, a blind guess.) I hazard to guess that an equal ratio actually read the patch notes.

Few people can get an idea of how a power would feel different from notes like, “increased recharge from 2 sec to 4 sec, reduced damage scale from 0.85 to 0.76, and increased end cost from 2.5 to 4.3”. That’s WAAAY too abstract for even me, and I have a math degree. (which only means that I wasn’t that smart in picking specialties)

There’s really No difference between studying a power change and doing “a little advance research.” I’m talking about Casual players here. Who would most likely go by the “Feel” of a power, rather than the numbers… and once the issue hit Live, they would not be able to compare the numbers to the previous iteration anyway.

So if, for example, they had Psi Shockwave, and now it feels less “super”, they might have trouble identifying the difference for themselves, or even not care to do that research, as it is time they might better spend playing.

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A specific example: For the I15 Live drop, we got a notice on Friday that the issue was “going to drop soon” and that we should use our respecs. I did not look at the forums on Friday (things to do). I never look at the forums on the weekends (for shame). My friend had a marathon 2-day event planned, in which I participated when I could, because not only do I have things to do, but I also have a wife, who likes to see me from time to time (go figure). So I got to play in about half of the event, Aand I really had little to no time to actually do a respec, (much less 4 of them, which is how many characers are due for one) since for me they take about 90 minutes to 2 hours conservatively (repick the powers in the right order, replace enhancements, save the ones you want to save, and replace powers in your power trays. That’s a lot of work) Oh yeah, and I even have a spreadsheet guide I work from.

All this whine is for a reason: I am NOT a casual player. I play a significant amount of time (for a person not in college and with a family). So if it is hard for me to use these respecs, I have to imagine that casual player has a harder time than I do. (And I said “me” only because I can only speak for myself, but I suspect my problem is not unique to me alone.)

In conclusion, I think freespecs are great, but often I don’t get to use them in time. I’d love to have some notice and a real chance to use the respec. And I think others would as well.

Well, there are many reasons one could put Respecs to good use. With many extreme value IOs out there, that's one reason (flame away). Also, many people (like me) don't have ample time to 'study' how game changes affect power choices, slotting, as well as how to optimally slot a power without playing the changed power for a while.

Also, I am slow. So forgive me if I need a few days (of which I may only play 1 or 2), not to mention all of the alts... to 'get' the changes on the powers.

So I might actually need 2 respecs to get one "Character Respecification" done the way I want.

(BTW, unless I'm crazy, Respec trials only grant you a respec on the first time you do one. So I suppose that's three respecs right there, but they are not unlimited).

Yup, it is a significant request, because it would save me influence/infamy, time, and effort. That's why it is a Suggestion.

This may already be a dead horse, but I'm gonna try anyway.

Could we standardize Free Respecs so that they are credited exactly (or approximately?) 1 week after a new issue hits Live?

Reason being, I can't adequately 'test' a new power modification unless I've had a chance to work with it a little bit while it's on Live (I know about Test, but not everyone can/wants to go to test...)

Thanks for the consideration.

I suggest dividing Reichsman's HP by two. I did the SF blueside yesterday and took 30 min to drop him - that seems TOO long to me. 15-20 minutes seems reasonable.

I would suggest that the OP has some "rose colored glasses" on when thinking of the "Good Old Days" of CoX.

I wasn't around then, granted, But I hear that Even in the Halcyon Days of Yore, there were Dumpster Diving Farms, it was called City of Blasters, people would herd entire maps into one area and one blaster nuke would drop them all, people clamored for more zones, etc.

Most people seemed to think that getting rid of these things made the game better.

I joined a little over 3 years ago. The game has only improved. Move on, and take off the blinders, or give us your stuff, and go home. GLHF.

A LOT of the names on here are extremely cool. One I saw recently, that was the most unusual I've seen in a while, was Scission.

What he said. Cut back on the coffee.

Great run, Des. STF got me to 50 on my archery/mental blaster (yay!)
But that was a LOT of TFs to run in a day, on top of the Villain milk run yesterday... Your stamina is impressive!

I'd like to sign up for the last three, in case they get tight... (LGTF/ITF/STF)

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LGSF: Due to high interest I decided to form two teams. The team I ran finished in 80 mins with 15 deaths. Some minor squabbling at the beginning, but otherwise a full run. I'll blame mild fatigue for my part in the squabble. Apologies to anyone that was offended.

I was still pleased with the run.

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And I got to run my first team - we finished in 2:00:18 (grr), but it was a nice money run, imo.

Sign me up for that last LRSF spot!!

I dont care. na na na na na na na

I believe I can safely say that I speak for all men everywhere, when I say:

Pics.
Or.
It.
Didn't.
Happen.

And I'm not seeing any deficiencies here.

'Marilyn' in terms of Impact and 'overall' sex appeal, not just 'bewbage'...

I'm just sayin. I mean, do you think all men just think about bewbs? <<..>>

And about that link...

MY EYES! MY EYES! I'M BLIND, BUT NOW ALL I SEE IS THAT PICTURE!! MAKE IT STOP! AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!

Just wait... I predict Katherine Heigl will be the next Marilyn Monroe, plus much better acting capabilities, minus the bad stuff.

Great shot of KH's face

And if this isn't 'Marilyn'-esque...

And as a Silver Screen Queen

Don't get me wrong, Kate is lovely, but she looks kinda thin to me. Voodoo may be onto something. <cringe>