EmperorSteele

I thought Chrono Shift DID buff endurance? Ok, I checked: it DOES, BUT, only 30% instead of 50%. So you will burn through End a bit faster comparatively speaking.

Heh. If you'll allow a brief detour, this reminds me of my favorite CoH moment: Back on Live, around issue... 6-ish? Well before IOs anyway, I was on a random PI PuG on my Mind/Kin/Psi. The team was an Invuln Tank, a Fire Armor Tank (maybe scrapper), and an assortment of blasters and defenders. We get to THIS mission and things start falling apart. The Tanks were not ready for all the PSI damage, so the defenders and I had our hands full keeping them on them on their feet. Then we get to the Clockwork King, who was +2 iirc. The team, feeling fairly confident despite the bit of a beating we had been taking, charged in. BAM, the tanks faceplanted instantly. Fire tank rezzed himself and instantly got put down again. CK took down one or two others. I called a retreat to regroup, saying I would hold him off. The rest of the team fled while I popped IW and an orange, and went to work. I sapped him with Siphon Power and Fulcrum shift, and used Transfusion to heal any damage he did. He summoned more minions? I confused them. I attacked when I could, but was focused on keeping him neutered. All I was trying to do was buy the team some time and breathing room, but moments turned into minutes, and I finally realized "hey wait, where's the team?" I took a moment to pan my camera around while FS was animating and saw it: The team on a nearby hill, cheering me on! And that's when I realized, "Holy shit, I'm soloing an AV!" But then I realized something else: I may have been tanking the AV, but... I wasn't doing much damage. So I told everyone to come help and they did, and we promptly committed regicide 😃 That said, I don't recommend Mind/Kin for this experiment. It'll survive, but without anything to deal damage while you're busy using your kin powers to debuff him and stay alive, you won't get anywhere.

I think that's the Controller "Overpower" mechanic, where all Controller CC abilities have a chance for an extra point of magnitude. Dunno for sure though.

I just wanna know who's the dork who drove uncommon salvage up above 15k >=O I'd say time to sell out, but I usually vendor all mine after playing for the evening >=(

So you're saying we need a teammate for this now? Bah! My plans to be alone for valentine's day keep getting foiled!

Not taking a side on whether FA needs a buff or whatever, and I generally prefer to avoid making absolute statements, but... I don't think the logic here flows. Yes, fire armor brutes are practically a majority of characters. But, how often are you on a team with one or more of them (outside of farms)? Surely, if they were such great characters to play, they'd be pretty hard to avoid, right? I mean, I dunno about you, but I barely see any outside of AE or occasionally circled around Ms. Liberty leveling up. And if they're not running around playing non-fire-farm content, how good can the set actually be?

For real. Like, if you're playing Mind/Emp or /FF... then, yeaahh, good luck. But if you pair it with rad, dark, time, or any other set with -res, you'll see a noticable impact. Pair it with Kin and you'll do respectable damage. The thing with Mind is... it's busy. Other Controller sets do their damage over time, and have pets to do the heavy lifting, so all you have to do is toss out an AoE, or carrion creepers or phantom army, then let your pet go to town while you keep the pet healed. You're in no danger, damage is being done, life is good. Mind Control? You gotta WORK at it! Even if you Mass Comedy a group, if you want reward credit, you still gotta chuck out an AoE or two.

I don't know whether to scream or cry, lol!

I'm a bit mixed on Staff. Like, I'll wait for the big AoE to get it's ring, and I'll use it, and then... all the bad guys are still alive. Which is fine, I don't expect it to be a one hit multikill, but, I don't perceive any difference between the buffed and unbuffed version of the power. It certainly doesn't seem to do any more damage... and this is on a Scrapper, so you'd think any extra % damage would be noticable. I'm not saying there's no difference, just that it's hard to see and appreciate. Also, this is down at level 20-something, so maybe with higher damage enhancement, the extra damage really starts to show up. But yeah, I got bored of that character pretty quick unfortunately. Rerolled as a Stalker, and it seems a bit more fun so far.

So while i LIKE the IDEA of combo mechanics, whenever I play such a set, it rarely "feels good". Like, hey, this bad guy is almost dead, but NOW the orange ring shows up and it's like, do I use it? I don't have to, but if I don't, I feel like I've wasted my time? Or it's like hey, I've built up my 3 points of whatever... too bad there's no one to use it on oh HEY there's a mob over there, I'll just- oh. My counters just expired. Sigh. =/

The story there was that one of the devs snuck the source code to a prolific community member just after Live shut down. Said player then spun up the game as a private, invite-only server, which was kept mostly under wraps for about 6 years. Then a bunch of STUFF happened, the server was revealed, and the guy released the source code for anyone who wanted to make their own server. Cipher was one such person, and was one of the first people to get a stable service up and running for more than a few weeks. I'm being vague and not naming names because it was and still is a huge source of DRAAAMAAAA so the less said the better. That said I'd be supersuprised if none of the live devs didn't play here or weren't involved in some capacity.

So here's how the blue beams are supposed to work: They target the person FURTHEST from King Midas. They will NOT target the same person twice in a row. So the strat is basically two people standing at the far edge of the room not attacking much, and moving the second the beam starts to appear. This breaks down when Midas uses the D-Rifter and summons your counterparts/versions of himself/Professor Zeon. The blue beams sometimes appear just as you teleport in while everyone is grouped up, and baiting the beam by staying out of the fight isn't as reliable. So everyone still needs to be on their toes, paying more attention to the beam than the actual fight itself.

Only 2 1 left to go, and I'll wait a month instead of farming the same mission 100 times; I got shizzit to do!

Just about the highest LEGIT amount (unless people are using a bugged mission or are insane enough to repeat an entire story arc 100 times): (see's Blood and Kwof's posts) Oh come ON!!!! EDIT: updated to 1580!

Yeah, part of her bio (which was repeated verbatim in the comic, much to the disgust of Ms. Liberty) said something like how she is entirely loyal and devoted to Tyrant, and serves him in... ALL capacities. Wink-wink, nudge, barf, etc. Because they're all EVIL and TWISTED versions of the noble and perfect beacons of Everything Good we know the Signature Heroes to be! (Today's dose of sarcasm brought to you by the hit series "Boy the early writing sure sucked!") It wasn't mentioned much outside of that, and again, when GR came around the Devs were all "Nope!" and quietly retconned that out of existence. So you'd be forgiven if it got past ya 😃

Easy there Hyper, Razer wasn't saying SM should be censored, just that it's weird that the rules say "don't do this" but then there are characters in the game who do "this". And, I get it. An NPC acting that way is fine; amusing even. If a player kept moaning in team chat every time they got hurt? It'd get weird real quick.

So, some Hami-Os have dropped a little; people dumping unwanted DSynchs would be my guess. At the very least, several of my lowball bids filled. We'll see how long that lasts.

More to go, but figured I'd post my progress today!

More to go, but figured I'd post some progress!

I liked the first two eps so far, but yeah, I wish they revealed a little more about Lucky to give some context (even if it would be a red herring) as to why he randomly attacked the tracksuit guy. Bigger question: why are these guys after Cap's old watch (I'm assuming that's what they were after based on context)? I also like that Kate isn't a total Sue. She's strong, has some skills (which you see she earned in that amazing title sequence), and is fairly astute... but she also gets in over her head, makes dumb decisions, and doesn't realise that everyone is playing her like a fiddle. I don't mind the lack of action, as I prefer the character development and world building they've done. I like the small scale and personal stakes they've set up here, and, unlike in TFatWS, there's good reason for Clint to not want to call in any fellow Avengers (like seriously, where was War Machine when all those senators were being held hostage by Super Soldiers?). Looking forward to the rest of the episodes 🙂

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Slaughtering them might be the problem. They only transform at a certain health percentage (33? 25?), and as LTs (I think that's the only rank that transforms?), it's very easy to overshoot and kill them before they can start their animation. So you gotta go with the slow and mindful approach.

"Why didn't you program the synapses to work collectively?" "We, uh, didn't think of it?"

I wonder if it would be possible to keep WO prices artificially inflated during the event by selling them to "yourself" at normal prices during peak hours, so that whenever anyone looks at the "last 5" all they see is the normal selling price. You'd need to be constantly selling/rebuying dozens at a time, taking a loss on your listing fee each time, on the hope that someone eventually outbids you or types an extra 0. I feel like anyone with enough time, money, and boredom could probably pull this off!

I say leave the p2w buffs as they are. If the discussion started with someone saying "its not fair that I bought these and I lose time by VOLUNTARILY joining a TF with temp powers disabled", then that logic is flawed. It's completely fair. You bought the full time on those powers, and are now choosing to run content that they don't work in. I mean, I'm not completely against the idea of turning them into that big of an inf sink, but I just know I probably wouldn't use them to supercharge new alts anymore, as I'd go broke REALLY fast.