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5 minutes ago, UltraAlt said:
I haven't played a Dwarf in a long time, but as I recall the Warshades are better Dwarves than Peacebringers. Form switching with a dwarf can work sort of the same way and the intent is to pull agro, so, once high enough, run into the crowd as a human, nuke, and switch up to dwarf to draw agro.
Always take down Voids, Quantums, cysts <sp?>, etc. first. aka anything that does negative damage. And as soon you can get armor against negative, enhance it! (hint: there is a base buff that can give you some negative energy resistance, don't leave your base without it.)
Dwarf:
The difference between PB and WS dwarf forms -
- PB Dwarf has a regular heal. The WS dwarf's heal is also an attack. So while you can't heal on demand... you have an extra attack. I do, sometimes, feel the lack on a PB.
- WS Dwarf has the Warshade's second damage buff (Mire.) Which is why forms are pushed a bit more for a 'shade, in part.
As far as Quantums? Meh. They'll do a little extra damage you'll feel early on, but they've been nerfed so hard you'll get to where you don't really notice them. Cysts used to be dangerous, long ago on live, because they spawned Nictus. Now they don't even do that in the Kheldian-specific missions. The most dangerous thing about them is the explosion when they die. Cysts are pretty much a non-issue, sadly. So, yes, slot your inherent and NE-resist shield, but you don't have to take any real special meeasures. (Voids and Qs used to do Nictus damage, which specifically did extra damage just to Kheldians. They no longer do - haven't since live.)
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On 11/17/2021 at 4:14 PM, GraspingVileTerror said:
As I recall, they're not cloned. They're born as regular human children, and then modified in to Rikti after puberty.
There's also mention in - might be a newspaper or tip mission. You run across a Rikti who expresses disgust at your (presumed human) "birth form."
Which raises a lot of questions, honestly... I don't *think* it was a converted Lost.
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13 hours ago, TheGentlemanGhostronaut said:
I'm a bit confused about the buffs. Going into either Squid or Dwarf knocks off the buffs, but you want to spend most of your time in one of those forms, right? So... what's the point of the buffs?
Shields (toggles) drop when you change forms.
Any click buff, whether it's Essence Boost or Hasten, will carry for its full duration.
Set bonuses *also* carry over, regardless of form - switching to Nova, for instance, won't deprive you of the set bonuses in human or dwarf. (It's "just" a toggle, after all, just a somewhat weird one.)
Peacebringers are probably easier than Warshades for the simple fact that when you click something, it does the same thing every time and doesn't rely on "is there an enemy/enemy body around?" (plus you don't have to try to *get* enemies in range of your squishy self.) Peacebringers are also (IMHO) easier to run as purely human, if you choose to go that route.
Running either for the first time, you're probably going to find yourself burning respecs and those extra build slots while you get your head around it. (At 10 and 50, you will get extra build slots. They're completely independent of each other, other than being on the same character and using the same AT/primary/secondary. they don't share enhancements or set bonuses.) I'd encourage you to go triform on that first build, despite the somewhat added complexity - I tend to use Nova more, with Dwarf somewhat situational. Toss a humanform on that second build slot, switch back and forth if you want, just for comparison.
Going to throw an old guide of mine in here - yes, old. From live. Some things have changed/altered, but... well, this was from live, might still help.
And one of mine that has nothing to do with slotting or play, but if you want the backstory (alternately, skip if you want no spoilers. I also need to rewrite this.)
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Well.... I'm not *against* it, really, but as you say, it's pretty niche. And with the way you're describing what you're doing... I'd just make a version of that main on each server. get it PL'd to 50 and use that, personally, with whatever powers you need. (Which also avoids the "I transferred to help somoene, it took an hour, and then I lost my name on my main server" as a potential issue.)
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On 10/10/2021 at 9:22 AM, kubwulf said:
But you don't have to go elsewhere. This is what I don't get. You go to the vendor, type /ah see what the vendor is offering, and post for a little higher.
*Middle of a mothership raid - notices salvage is full.*
*Options - throw on AH or delete.*
*List anything I have a stack of 10 or more that I don't need at the moment at 6 inf.*
*Continue punching Rikti 5 seconds later.*
(This is also true for inspirations - I tend to have medium dropping, and can use the space for ultimates on my Warshade instead - useful for shadow slipping. List at 6, then click-list-click-list-click-list for everything else I've dumped in the AH.)
Do I lose out once in a while? Sure. Do I care... not really.
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Interesting. Thanks for this. Very interesting reading.
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Probably not as needed of a "hey, this works," but I decided (a) to throw a linux distro on a system I threw together (that (b) needed an old, old graphics card to run, since I'm not spending $50000000 on one,) and then out of boredom (c) run it on my 4k TV and (D) install COH....
So, running fairly painlessly on a 16 Gb Ryzen 7 1700, Radeon 260x (yes. 2013 vintage, I think? I *did* buy the card and run COH natively on it for a long time...) on Pop!_OS 21.04 via Lutris (it and wine installed via Pop OS's store/installer/thing.) First run, WINE wanted to install something, but (a) it was a postage stamp on a 55" TV and (b) the actual window saying "yes, install this" vanished. Restart 9since I needed a bios update anyway) and retrying let it install the files it needed. (.net, I want to say.) Worked fine, though eye blindingly bright and tiny. :)
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*smuggles in proper Wisconsin cheese.*
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48 minutes ago, SeraphimKensai said:
I'd make any build that does base editing have fly, but you can do the same with a p2w flying power.
I've seen people lose full days to base building. I don't think running out of P2W jetpack time would help. 😉
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About the only thing I disagree with Mezmera on with that post is the AOE hold recharge. That got knocked down hard, years ago, and could use a tweak - there's a good bit of space between "better recharge" and "constant spam," and if constant spam is a worry, a recharge cap (or just not letting it be affected by recharge) can be tacked on.
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I wouldn't want to convert an existing IO, personally.
New set? Sure. Looking at the stun sets, there aren't any "offensive" stun sets - all acc/stun/rech/etc. So there's room there for something to be created for actual stunning attacks that do damage. (Back when zone PVP was more popular on live, I had an energy/energy brute... couldn't be TP Foed, thanks to EA, and I had stuns in every attack. Lots of complaints 🙂 )
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Just now, Marshal_General said:
Can we get a list of people who are starting lists?
Let me check the list...
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... in regards to the OP, the sky is not falling, DOOOOOOOOOOOM is not upon us, there won't be a "caste system" and if someone gets spammy, report it to the mods and go on with life.
If there's an option that can be added for people to ignore them, fine. If not... just ignore them.
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Interesting...
I'm assuming you don't mean "16 total special enhancements of all sorts" with that cap. Though... I don't think that'd really be an issue either way.
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I know what you're referring to - used to play some text based games, after all (still have Zork sitting around somewhere.) Even SCUMM based games from Lucasarts and similar were like that. And I think that's where you're going with it - say...
Quote/get newspaper
> You have picked up the newspaper
/look newspaper
> It's yesterday's Talos Tattler, a little crinkled, with a corner a bit soggy from someone's coffee.
/Read newspaper
> The front page story is about Manticore's "special" arrows and how a Rikti is now filing for child support because of them. Tabloids, amirite?
But ... while I can see some value in having something "with more description" on it (see: newspaper) ... as you yourself point out, we can already do this with text. I can already do /em walks to the counter and gets donuts for everyone. "I hope everyone likes sprinkles!" or /em reads the paper - some tabloid nonsense about Manticore.
Yes, we can put some extra description in some things, but... would we really want them hanging around? Or adding more systems (on top of the already ... *eccentric* text editor... can we get that worked on before anything?) for kind of a niche use?
Now, if this were part of an addition where we can tag *actual objects* in bases as well (the newspaper on the desk, click and it shows it's from last week, click on the takeout container and get a note that it... should probably be thrown out before it gains sentience,) I think I'd be more for it, but as just text... not really sold, personally. Even as an RPer, it'd be *really* niche.
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"Worst" meaning what, first...
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Not sure it needs it, but I wouldn't be against it, either.
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52 minutes ago, 0th Power said:
Did anyone else notice the other villain groups?
killing crew
revelation
twilight men
fear factor
Any guesses on what they turned into?
There was some discussion on it on the old guide I had on the original forum:
http://web.archive.org/web/20120905065800/http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=117073
The Killing Crew was apparently the basis or the original Sky Raiders.
Twilight Men = Malta
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I don't think you'd want actually "random," but presets and such would be nice.
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3 hours ago, TheZag said:
So my question for you is do you like power sets that stand out as unique or wish they were more similar to other sets for that type?
"Yes."
The "standard" set layout is fine as a guide, but if every set followed it as gospel... it would be pretty boring. You could collapse them down into one and just give them custom graphics instead. I want sets to inspire ideas for characters, or backstories, or just be fun and unique in their own way - whether it's secondary effects, look, breaking that order, or having some other quirk... at least up to a point. When they start feeling like they're there to have you chase a mechanic (see: dual blades combos,) they become less fun.
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58 minutes ago, Akisan said:
@Greycat, funny you mention respecs being purchasable. With the greatly increased access to respecs (every 10 levels, plus you can buy them...), perhaps changing the reward from the Respec Trials to grant a build slot instead could work. I think the last time I actually ran one of those trials for the respec was way back on live (shortly before CoV came out, IIRC)
Eh, maybe as an option, but not as a wholesale change, I'd think. One of the complaints i typically hear about using builds is that you need to treat it like a second character - the sets don't transfer over, it gets filled with its own enhancements.
Better yet, put it in as an option on the trial with its own badges. 😉
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Know what's funny?
Have to *not* play this video past the time mark (0:50) but look at the very bottom of the list scrolling by:
(that early, early - alpha? - power list also had things like "Super Personality.")
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On 10/26/2021 at 9:42 PM, plainguy said:
As an example if you want DP/Kin.. The best build is the one
Wonder if you put any of those caveats or restrictions after this and they just didn't post....
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Where are you getting that message? Some maps (as in the map window to see where you are) give that, especially some of the "special" ones since live, but I wouldn't expect to see that on login.