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Precisely, there are enemies that can become tougher when they take too much damage and haven't been defeated. There are maps that can spawn bosses even with No Bosses turned on, because they weren't part of the map's initial spawn generation. Hells, you can encounter bosses, including Council bosses, that were placed at map generation when the No Bosses flag is being applied, simply because they downgraded to bosses. (That mission in Port Oakes with the Vampyri that was smuggled into Port Oakes comes to mind.) I haven't heard any complaints about any of this until people started complaining about the Council after they got reworked. (And I still haven't heard any complaints about enemies upgrading to bosses mid-fight except for Council War Wolves.) And the biggest complaint is for something the Council (and 5th Column) have always done. But now, suddenly, it is a serious problem? Now, suddenly, it isn't fair? How does that make any sense at all? If players are going to complain about the rework the Council got, then they should be complaining about the rework. Not things that they seemed to be perfectly fine with before the rework. Take the OP for instance: The author claims that solo leveling is a chore and then turns around and says that (s)he/they were solo leveling with Council while not even paying attention to the game. Seriously? This isn't an idler game. That is the OP's complaint? That the game no longer plays like an idler that can be safely ignored while doing other things the author seems to enjoy more? The author can't watch a queue of videos while somehow still playing the game? (Edit: As an aside? I still don't understand how the Council rework is stopping the author from being able to chat with people or listen to music while playing. My friends and I chat while playing on the regular. Even during combat at times. And how much attention do you need for your music while playing?)

Or make use of the available options. Use a smaller team size setting when soloing so you aren't fighting downgraded bosses constantly, use any mezzes you may have so they can't transform, make use of your KB/KD powers to keep them from being able to activate their transformation. This isn't anything new. So why is it now a serious problem when it has been going on since Live? Edit: What about Malta Hercules Titans merging into bosses despite the No Bosses option turned on? I don't hear any complaints about them.

Thanks for the heads up. I'm normally red side, so I don't spend time in the Shard.

There is no such thing as a Hamidon Halloween Costume power like the Malta Gunslinger costume power. There is only the event salvage Hamidon Halloween Costume. So you are mistaken about it not being salvage.

No one is saying that display error isn't wrong. I entered the discussion to see if maybe you weren't seeing it because of recharge buffs you already had. Sometimes a bug report post isn't, and a simple dialogue between players can resolve it. @Luminara entered the conversation to give clarity as to how much recharge Cross Punch is supposed to give and explain the expression. @Wavicle entered the discussion to find out where you were getting your information. It wasn't until you responded to @Luminara's 5%/10% post that it should be 100% that you got any push back. So relax, no one is trying to say you are wrong. Just trying to figure out the situation.

No. Per City of Data, which @Luminara was kind enough to explain the expression, it should be 5% if you have just Kick or Boxing, or 10% if you have both.

The more recharge you already have before Cross Punch's recharge boost kicks in, the less noticeable it becomes. Just like damage buffs, recharge buffs are cumulative. Look at it this way, base recharge is 100%. Then you build in 100% recharge into the powers you have. That cuts the recharge time in half. If you also already have 100% recharge as a global effect, that cuts the time to 1/3. And if you get another +100% recharge from a power on top of all that, that cuts the time to 1/4. So the more you have, the less you see when you get another boost to it. https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Recharge Edit: Do you have powers that take minutes to recharge? Then sure, that would be a good way to see if Cross Punch's recharge is working. Edit again: Cross Punch's recharge boost is: [MagExpr]% RechargeTime Strength (self only) for 6s Magnitude Expression: 0.05 * (source.ownPowerNum?(Pool.Fighting.Boxing) + source.ownPowerNum?(Pool.Fighting.Kick)) https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=pool.fighting.cross_punch&at=blaster What that means? I don't know.

On the wiki, it states this is a known bug.

City of Data can be found via this link: https://cod.uberguy.net/ It can also be found via the 3rd pinned thread on the Tools, Utilities, and Downloads page accessible from the Home Page. Also, how much recharge do you have on the powers you are checking? The way recharge works, if you already have a lot of recharge boosts, you may not be seeing Cross Punch's because the progressive gains are harder to see. For instance, my Elec'/Elec'/Mu Dominator has 153.75% Haste (up from 100% base) and my Charged Bolts have a 62.73% recharge reduction. So my recharge on Charged Bolts is 1.85 seconds (from the base 4 seconds). Even if I added in Hasten (which I don't have) and got its 70% recharge boost, my Charged Bolts will still have a 1.4 second recharge. Not a difference I can normally detect. So I would recommend checking your powers' detailed information, using Cross Punch, and seeing if there is an effect there. (I don't know if there will be, I don't typically watch my power's detailed info window, but that is the best way to check I can think of.)

*shrug* My response if someone uses the Flying Disc power on my character when I have an emote going is to re-apply the emote and delete the temp power. (Edit: Yep, I'm a mean and inconsiderate player. Not giving that power back.) That said, if it was possible to not have a player's character's currently active emote not be disrupted by the application of a buff from another player's character? I would welcome that. I don't think that is possible though since those buffs, the frisbee, and the snowball have assigned animations they are required to apply to show those powers have been used just like hitting a (non-held) enemy has to have the appropriate animations applied when affected by player character powers.

Okay, I guess. Personally, I think that should remain the purview of story contacts, but I'm not going to argue against either. (Edit: Though I would be in favor of adding a repeatable missions contact to the Shadow Shard instead, which would be easier to explain. Or refer players to the repeatable missions in Dark Astoria that so far I have never seen a cave map for. However, if the devs decide there should be a repeatable missions contact for dimensions that have been declared off-limits except for emergency situations like Council Empire Earth and Werewolf Earth, or under pseudo-ban like Warrior Earth, that is up to them.)

Except that makes no sense. The radios and papers are tracking what is going on in that zone of the city or isles. There is no way for them to be aware of what is going on in other dimensions, let alone provide a means of you getting there.

Goldbrickers don't get holds until level 40, not 30, and don't get blinds. IDF have no blinds. Nemesis have no holds or blinds. I'm sure there are others, but I don't feel like digging through all the available high level factions,

I'm not putting words in your mouth. You posted: "Was the promise". Past tense. "You didn't need to do obsessive grinding." Past tense. "The best MMOs in the market discarded "hAaAaRdCoRe" design mentality, because people no longer have time for "hardcore"." A statement that seems disconnected from the thread unless the intent is to state that CoX has gone "hardcore" and players don't have time for it. To which I asked: Because your comment implies that CoX no longer has the promise of being able to level your way to 50 solo if you wished. It is written right there in your post. If that was not your intent, then you need to clear that up. I am not a mind reader. All I can do is read others' posts and respond to them. Further, CoX has not gone "hardcore". You have to choose to up your difficulty to get to "hardcore". Neither is CoX forcing any trinity gaming either. Players, like me, are solo leveling to 50 and even full incarnate status just fine. Also, nowhere in this thread did I make an argument against the OP. I stated corrections about things posted in this thread I know are wrong are not correct. I stated a summary of what those saying the Council changes are bad seem to want: an enemy faction they can steamroll safely without effort. I even went so far as to test some of your claims to see what was going on, and then I reported the results of that test: The level 54 Galaxy Archon died as quickly as any other level 54 boss my SS/Willpower Brute has fought and only dropped my health by half. So please, show me where I made any bad faith arguments. And while we're at it, show us how trinity gaming is being forced on players. Or how the game has gone "hardcore". Or any other claim you have made in this thread so far. Edit: Oh, and by the way? Just to be clear? NOW I am opposed to the OP's claim. (You're not even the OP's author, but your defense of it has convinced me the OP is very much in error.)

So are you saying you can't level to 50 solo?! And without 'obsessive grinding'? Because if that is the case, I'm going to call you a liar.

I'm not a dev, let alone the dev that designed the power. Best guess though? Because it is supposed to be an 'anyone can use this medical power on anyone else without being a healer' power.

I don't recall incarnate content that has Council in it. If there is, please refresh my memory. (Also, not all incarnate content is +4. Dark Astoria is incarnate content, and it follows your difficulty settings.) (Edit: Same with Number 6. His arc is incarnate content that follows your difficulty settings.) Edit again: A funny thing happened just now in the game. I wanted to test my SS/Willpower Brute against a +4 Galaxy Archon to see how bad fighting them has gotten for SS characters. With the Galaxy Archon at level 54, I trounced him. Like almost completely and overwhelmingly. He didn't even take me that long to defeat. He got my health down to half, but by then he was quite dead. (My Brute is only a 50+2 by the way. I don't even have a T1 in my Destiny slot yet.) So I have to ask, how is your Invulnerability/Super Strength Tanker built? There is no way my character can tank incarnate content for others, I'm not built for that, so I'm seeing a disconnect here. More information may help figure out what is going on.

Aid Other has a range of 25 feet and is set to accept Reduce Interrupt Time, Endurance, Recharge Reduction, and Heal enhancements. That is all you can slot in it to improve it.

I'm not understanding how the Galaxy bosses are doing OBSCENE amounts of (negative) energy damage to your Tanker since my Elec'/Elec'/Mu Dominator is doing fine eating their attacks.

I have never encountered a Council mob turning into a higher rank werewolf unless I was playing with bosses turned off and the lieutenant in question that wolfed out was an Archon. (So, a boss. Just downgraded for the difficulty setting. And like I've previously stated, getting boss rank mobs on missions where you have bosses turned off happens with other factions too. Like the Circle of Thorns where the portals in the portal room can sometimes spawn a boss Demon Lord even if bosses are turned off. It seems that any bosses that are not initially part of the mission map [final room enemy, ambush, normal mid-mission triggered spawn, or other], but are instead spawned by something after the mission/map is generated, ignores the boss settings.) (Edit: I don't remember the group level ranges, but I do remember Nacht and Raserei forces always had a chance to wolf out. Also, the Eclipse Vampyri Archon (or was it Dark Vampyri Archon? I can't remember what the first word in their name was) would turn into a War Wolf when near death as well. And you could always find yourself fighting those from level 45 on.)

And yet players that suck at PvP like me get PvP badges. All it takes is someone willing to work with you or an alt account. So yes, anyone can get the PvP badges. Not all of them, but the ones that can't I've heard are broken and even PvP'ers have difficulty getting them even when they meet the victory conditions to. (The Swiss Draw one I believe has that issue.) So again, with sufficient effort, even someone that sucks at PvP can get PvP badges. The difference, is, and I'm against participation trophies too, is that participation trophies are being handed out for competitions and the OP is requesting a "I done good!" reward for doing stuff alone. Where the TF/SF already has its rewards and the solo player that is clearing it is already getting the TF's/SF's rewards without having to gather a team to do so. So at least to me, the OP is all about being able to boast, and it was that being able to boast back on Live before the Master of badges were finally figured out enough that it didn't take specific character and team builds to accomplish them that enabled players to belittle team members that lacked those badges. (I was even kicked off a non-Master run LRSF because I lacked the badge, the rest of the team had it, and so felt I was going to get in their way. Again, on a non-Master run. Just a regular SF run. So the last thing I want to ever rear its ugly head in this game again is an opportunity for people to go around comparing e-peen sizes and mocking others for it.)

This discussion is on track. How your requested costume options are included is very much part of requesting them. And it would still be simpler to just have a 3D model that gets attached to the character than trying to apply a 2D image in a 3D game. (Edit: At least in regards to adding moth antennae to our characters.)

What do you suggest be done? ... I said what I suggest be done in my post. Spear Thrust becomes a melee attack, not a ranged attack. Both Sweeping Arc and Cyclone of Blades become cones, not PBAoEs. And you either reduce the number of secondary effects in each power or be content with the set not hitting as hard as any other set in the game. (Edit: Oh yeah, and Impaling Strike and Sweeping Arc trade places.)

A player's notoriety is applied to the map. The entire map. That works just fine when it is their mission, but how is that supposed to be applied to a zone? Whose notoriety will be used to set what can and cannot appear on the zone map? If I'm wrong and the devs can do this? Great. However, I'm more than willing to bet this can't be done. So the notoriety option is out. And the invasion option will prevent players from being able to fight the EBs alone. There are players that choose to face AVs and GMs alone, and you are asking to take away their option to fight what they want so that you won't have to use the already ample available options to deal with the EBs. You have yet to give a reason why you can't ToT near drones or Hero/AV contacts that will deal with the EBs for you if you get anywhere near them. You have yet to give a reason why you are unable to use a Breakfree and escape. If an EB mezzes you? It still has to attack you to kill you, and the game code prevents it from doing so in 1 hit unless your character is already injured. So the EB mezzes you, you pop the Breakfree and possibly eat a hit, and then you run like mad and get away. Why is that not an option for you? Breakfrees are a whopping 50 inf' from the nurses at the hospital or most vendors. You have yet to give a reason why you are unable to ToT near someone else that can fight those EBs for you. You have yet to explain why any of the available options of dealing with the EBs are not viable for you. Instead, you insist on an option that I'm pretty sure can't be implemented or on taking away the option other players utilize to fight the EBs alone. Why is your difficulty at dealing with the EBs more important than their freedom to fight those EBs, especially in light of the options already available to you for when the EBs show up? So that's it then. That explains it.

Well, if we're going to call things out, a spear thrust is not a throw. So that T1 should be a melee attack, not a ranged attack. And the description of Cyclone of Blades tells me it should be a cone, not a PBAoE. Same thing with Sweeping Arc, though from the name rather than the description in this case. (Which should not be a level 1 available power anyway.) And like @Xandyr said, there are an awful lot of secondary effects on those powers. So either the damage is going to take a massive hit or the powers are going to suffer equal penalties in other areas.