MoonSheep

sorry for the slow response Lum, i appreciate the detailed response but feel it doesn’t address the statement made i feel the introduction of the IO system has broken the game, what you’ve said is that HC has simply allowed the original IO vision of the devs to be achieved more widespread and faster i think the original vision was wrong just because the plan was acheived doesn’t mean it is good OPs amended chart shows the point precisely, the game has unequivocally fallen apart from its original intentions - there are no archetypes - there are no grades of enemy difficulty - there is no strategy required - there is no teamplay dynamic - there is no worthwhile progession yes we have become better at playing the game, but in modern CoH if you mash the number keys during a mission you’ll likely succeed every time running an oldschool LRSF from ouro highlights how different the game challenge used to be, even with an experienced mindset

i’ll post some thoughts and build when home which will hopefully be useful. i’ve mained a mind/fire on HC for the last 6 years and for 2-3 on live before shutdown, it’s a fantastic combo if played to its strengths

by removing some of the measures that were introduced to reduce prices such as: - rare salvage is seeded at a certain price - IO’s can be converted into other sets - all IOs are the same level on the market, if you put a lvl 25 IO up for sale and a lvl 50 IO for sale, both will show as 2 available - and, not necessarily a market measure but a contributing factor: triple boxed AE farming and AFK farms allowing for a much higher generation of purples compared to live

i agree with you. server wipes are pretty rare as shown below. plus, IOs can be loaded in from a mids build the beta server is a good way for people to explore alts before committing to them

i wont be happy until the average player is walking around atlas park bare foot wearing burlap sacks whilst me and @Yomo Kimyata are lighting fat cigars and eating LoTG’s like caviar

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