MoonSheep

it won’t be a popular suggestion but i think things are far too cheap. CoH isn’t the sims, it’s a progression based MMO i would remove the ability to convert IOs and remove seeding from salvage so that the economy can have some natural elements reintroduced if people want an instant lvl 50 fully slotted out they can build those all day long on the beta server, something we weren’t able to do on live the HC population looks to be sufficient to sustain a free market

thanks, i’ve got to work hard to retain my spot as the 3rd best dominator on homecoming. being on the podium stops my hooves getting wet when it rains heavily

damn, do people still believe the xp component has a material impact? confuse is also a great power when you’re in the lvl 40’s, go to PI or RWZ and confuse rikti guardians to get accelerate metabolism stacked 7-8 times and become a good. personal record is 13

dominators can stack enough confuse to mez most AVs even though Purple Triangles of Doom, takes about 40-50 seconds, sometimes worthwhile for tricky battles

absolutely, including the part on the right which allows me to create a mini rez kit since getting a switchable logitech bluetooth keyboard though i haven’t been able to use the F1-4 keys which is a real shame

they are all readily available, some are just in demand more than others further to that, all of them have availability on the marketplace and ontop of that, there is a huge abundance of influence on HC. if anything, prices haven’t kept pace with the amount of influence available in the economy the threat/acc/rech ones are an anomaly, but the prices on the rest of them seem fine and proportionate to the benefit

edit: almost certain this is a troll post, a good one @Octogoat 😛

i opened the build to have a look as you and i are often aligned in our review comments but i don't think it's in a reviewable state yet. the slotting is wrong or highly suboptimal in every single power in the build. my troll post senses are tingling as the more you look, the more it doesn't make sense, it even misses the damage proc from armageddon in atomic blast i would encourage anyone who's interested in poison to read this fantastic guide: if people are interested in the proc potential of radiation blast, i'd recommend the thoughts noted in this thread by me and @MonteCarla

it's the inverse of the 3 wolf howling at the moon shirt. 1 wolf howling at 3 moons

i agree, whilst fire/fire has the highest DPS, ice/fire is an all time classic and a great blend of damage and mitigation. fire/ice is also a good combination in my opinion too, if +4/x8 is important i’d do it on a scrapper or similar instead. i think living that life on a squishy would be a real slog, +2 or 3 / x 6 would be a nicer balance of challenge and progress

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whaaaat, no way! that’s great to know i also learned recently that when you’re selling recipes, salvage etc at the vendors you can press e or whatever the key is to sell a stack, lifechanging

in the last 6 years of HC i’ve made 4 alts that i’ve played to lvl 50, though i’ve only invested significant time in two of them. my last 50 was in 2022 or 2023 i’ve played since 2005 and have tried most things over the years other than tanks and MMs, think thesedays i’m just happy playing what i know and enjoy the poison defender is likely to become my new main, going to invest time in badging it out. great damage and huge debuffs amount of time i spend playing each: mind/fire dominator vet lvl 330: 10% kin/sonic defender vet lvl 450: 50% poison/fire defender vet lvl 60: 30% elec/shield stalker vet lvl 30: 10%

i tend to rate my friends 1 star because it’s funny, but don’t really use the system outside of that player notes are helpful if someone was particularly fun or chatty. helps remembering who some people are on my global list too

it’s an unpopular opinion but i feel it’s true: IOs broke the game

i completely with you, the fact that it would still be quite useless as a 25ft radius power does make me wonder why the radius was set so incredibly low

i’m not a dev or a tester, so feel free to discard my opinion into the Bin of Ignorance™ but i can’t see how it would be difficult to click it _once_ during beta and think “hmm, that seems a bit naff” and then instead type in radius “25” rather than 10 in the configuration

i tried black hole from blaster dark mastery recently and thought what, surely that isn’t right? a 10ft one time trawl with a 4 minute recharge.. err… ?? the AoE radius is so small that there’s never really a reason to use it as many AoE attacks have a larger radius and it has a 4 minute recharge rather than a dwelling location power did someone really test this during development and think “hmm this seems balanced” Link to City of Data stats

i agree with both these points - purples make it a lot easier to get permadom and generally give some useful +acc which makes it useful for a few key, longer recharge powers that can be slotted up heavily with damage procs instead. they are expensive but well worth the extra effort to attain not building for defense also allows better focus on overall damage and effectiveness opportunities. tough and weave are very much not required on a dom given that a mezzed enemy deals no damage

you’ll get the hang of it soon enough mate. get the computer issues sorted and come join us on the excelsior server, you’ll never have a problem finding a team there

and you can stack enough confuse even with PTOD on AVs, with the recent changes to adaptive recharge this will be even easier on a mind dom

i agree with a lot of the comments here. i’m sure the dev team have put a lot of work into this and value it as a much loved project and may also be players of HC, but i don’t think it’s ready to be released yet from the trailer and gameplay videos i’ve seen general thoughts are: - animations seem very wooden - nothing during combat seems fluid, it looks almost like a turn based MMO, enemies seem to just stand around whilst being attacked - a lack of particles is quite noticeable - the world seems very basic, there’s more shadows and textures needed

hey due regard no travel power may make it a bit slow to use, combat jumping helps keep it nice and agile during battle though i’d consider picking up explosive shuriken for some extra damage. i’m not familiar with the set but the stats on city of data look reasonable my personal preference is to not build for defense, especially on a dom where i can lock things down. this would allow you to do things like put 4 damage procs in masterful throw and other powers which have a long recharge i’m not sure the chance for +absorb will be that effective in veng, i’d put it in health instead and an LoTG +def in veng to improve the stats if you‘d like one of the purple contagious confusion procs when you hit 50 feel free to DM me

ah, didn‘t know what you meant by standoff - i interpreted it to mean an equal combat situation rather than a ranged mexican standoff style battle

poison/fire defender, it’s a bit wild in the first few seconds, but once things are debuffed it tends to go a bit smoother. poison/ice would be better for solo with its two hold blasts