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On 11/5/2022 at 8:10 AM, Meknomancer said:
@Harakh i have tried running an mm with bonfire. Just once. I still can't get over them not giving heat mastery fire shield. Its hard enough now as i'm skipping fighting pool on most mm's to find slots for the new upgrades, without that and an epic shield i tend to get 1 shotted instantly as i rarely play outside of melee range unless its something like a bots/dark or mercs/storm. Kin lets me keep fighting and leadership but soon as you switch epics you have almost 0 def/res. And i don't like the long recharge on bonfire, it can barely keep up when soloing i find it useless on teams no matter how much recharge i have or how i slot it.
Your right about BG mode, if i run it and take hits pets drop. Better to play aggressive and take the hit myself and 1 click top up hp with the kin powers.
@plainguy it looks like full slotting is the way to go. Numbers on the winters bite look much better although i wonder if thats because its gloom thats the better dps. No pic for life drain? I'd guess theres 0 benefitting the spectre summoned with a numi set in. No acc no dmg.
I was going to ask Harakh how the spectres tanked but i can see the 400% taunt i didnt notice before.
I'm uncertain if spectres would be affected by buffs like leadership. As far as i can tell they are untargetable/unbuffable.
No clue WTF happen.. there were 6, actually 7 when I posted.. It those last 2 with that IMG icon..
I will edit and add them
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1 hour ago, C U R S E said:
No it is just the pets life drain and not your attack.
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2 hours ago, UltraAlt said:
Economics.
Sometimes is cheaper to by something on the spot to worry about transporting goods from another location yourself.
You don't start as a billionaire, but anyone can learn to use the market and gain wealth. (It is much easier than in real life)
Things don't have to be instantaneous.
And you don't have to say in the auction house all day.
... and I think the term you are looking for is ... Ebil Marketeer
Nope.
I just disagree with the suggestions that I disagree with. I agree with plenty of posts.
I don't know where you are getting that from.
I really don't care either.
Guy you have this signature at the bottom of your post and you are pretty much doing exactly what you are complaining about. Its a bit bizarre to say the least.
Why are you dictating what is easier for me?
Why do you feel I need to understand the auction house game? I didn't care when this game was live all those years ago.. Why do I need to care now.. I just want to play the game not waste my time house keeping..
I am getting that idea from you saying what is important for the Devs and what is not.. You don't need to shield the Devs.. You are the only guy here who took my post as offensive with your comment..
Why did you think my crazy comment was pointed at you? Did I mention you? No.. I have zero clue who you are beyond I guess one of the Suggestion forum guardians. But I can understand now.. You think this is YOUR forum to protect and you need to protect the devs from unneeded work..
Well again like I said.. I have given several suggestion which the Devs ran with.. So I think they like my ideas.. Where are yours??
Gun Turret changed to Gun Drone, My idea.. Use wayback machine on the old boards.. I am there making that EXACT suggestion.
Gun Drone too much aggro here and on bug board.. You guys ( yea now I am saying you are that guy) came to the defense, LRN2PLY.. Working as intended.. Gun Drone reduced aggro.
I suggested Soul Extraction based on the pets.. Wow.. Guess what.. Here it is..
I suggested level 2 powers be an option for level 1 - it was related to Entangle Arrow, but other powers as well. I received more LRN2PLY and how important entangle arrow is to a build. And Yea.. you guessed it.. level 2 powers an option for level 1..
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2 hours ago, cotesan said:
As an OG I disagree. I understand where you’re coming from but it puts new players at a tremendous disadvantage. I can’t tell you the countless times I get the message cannot put xxxx in storage or email, but I get it.
its part of character development. I’m ok with not having everything at once.
What disadvantage ?
Where is the competition?
You mean to say having access to all your recipes and salvage and merits across all your characters HURTS a new player? How?
This is like crazy talk.
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2 hours ago, UltraAlt said:
that's why you have at least one extra so that they can move between the SG's to shuttle goods like I said.
Please read my entire post.
The point is to provide a workaround because it is highly unlikely the OP is going to get what they asked for.
It is highly unlikely that is going to be added to the game.
I don't think it is worth the DEVs time to try to do it.
That's my point. I'm sticking with it.
I don't know..
I have suggested several things and they were implemented in this game.. I posted them up and you can look back as I updated my post related to those request that people like yourself said it wasn't going to happen.
Gun Drone in the Live game so many years ago? My idea. Use wayback machine look for plainguy on those old boards and you will see I made the suggestions for a flying gun drone instead of a stationary one.
Gun Drone too much aggro, reduce the aggro.. My suggestion and put up on bug board here.. Again people like yourself saying working as intended.. Aggro reduced..
I don't know I think I have good suggestions and valid complaints and it seems the devs agree with me as well. -
On 11/2/2022 at 11:10 AM, InvaderStych said:
This would be an interesting idea to revamp Vault Reserve. Of course just because I don't find it useful in the era of free (no prestige costs) bases and the like does not mean that no one finds it useful.
So, pending the notion that it wouldn't step on lots of toes, an Account-Wide Vault that repurposes the location might be interesting.
Standard Code Rant applies here in a big way - character/account stuff is extra wacky from what I understand.
Very fair and reasonable comments..
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I would then suggest a new device or item in a SG base that would facilitate this sort of thing.
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On 11/3/2022 at 8:33 PM, UltraAlt said:
Per base
You can have all the bases you want up to one per character on your account.
I would suggest having at least one more character than bases so that they can move from sg to sg to transport whatever you need to transport from sg base to sg base.
But you can't have multiple characters in different Super groups. You are still stuck at looking through various SG bases and then emailing these items.
The whole point was not to have a work around it was to a consolidation. A giant bucket with all your stuff in it..
Basically when you look at salvage it should say you have 1000 Nevermelting ice on your entire account. You have 40 Exploit Weakness: Dam/End across all your accounts. You have 200 Empyrean Merits. You have 57 Back Alley Brawler Halloween Gloves, You have 600 Reward Merits, ETC -
On 11/2/2022 at 12:47 PM, Krimson said:
Sure, I'd love to be able to take all my Incarnate Threads and just... make all my Tier 3 50s fully Incarnate right now. Would that be fair to players who don't have tens of thousands of threads? Probably not. But I would like it.
You can't transfer threads, so would be out of scope.
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On 11/3/2022 at 10:01 PM, Yomo Kimyata said:
The only way I would not vehemently oppose this if they made it so that you could add certain items to the Character Items menu and then be able to pull them off the menu on any character linked to your account. Character Items is already kind of an exploit, but you don't really notice how exploitable it is until you open a bunch of packs.
But it's kind of a moot point, since I highly doubt something like this would ever be implemented.
I can't afford packs so I have no clue what you are describing.
I am just saying if you can email it then it should just be listed and available when you open up your salvage or Recipe.
Money should just be one large bank. UNLESS I understand that for some players they have several toons money capped and whatnot.
I am talking about the majority of players not the minority.. Unless everyone is super rich here and I am the only one who isn't.. -
On 11/2/2022 at 4:13 AM, UltraAlt said:
You don't.
Use the Auction House to buy it.
Incorrect, in the first sentence.
I would much rather the DEVs to other things than spend the massive amount of time on this that it would take to provide what you are asking for.
The damage is moving the DEVs time to do this than having them do things that they want to do to improve the a game.
Insulting other players is no way to get people to agree with you.
Why would I buy if I have it on another character ?
Not everyone is a auction house billionaire.
Not everyone wants to play city of auction house.
I have ZERO power to make the Devs do ANYTHING..
I just put up the suggestions.
Though they did use my suggestion to be able to slot your level 2 at level one..
They did use my suggestion about Soul Extraction.
Not insulting, just stating facts.. Your post is a prime example of it. Some how in your head you feel if if someone post a suggestion that the Devs are inclined to take action.
So if everyone told the Devs to remove Masterminds, you think they would listen or agree or feel inclined to do so? By your comment it clearly appears so..
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Dark Empowerment
- Now accepts Healing sets and enhancements.
- Lich's Life Drain have been moved to this upgrade, no longer grants Petrifying Gaze to the Lich.
- Slotting this power with heal enhancements will enhance Life Drain's heal.
- Dark Empowerment range increased from 30' to 50'.
- Grants a 15% max HP (half enhanceable) to all henchmen.
Do they mean your Attack Life Drain or is it the pets Life Drain or BOTH ?
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You need 3 powers to have 3 pets out.
This is what I have slotted on a Petless mastermind.
For the Specter Resistance Power there is a difference between accuracy and resistance numbers based on the slotting.
You can see from the Specter Rake Power there is a difference in DPS based on the slotting. You can also see the Accuracy is coming from the power since it matches the Accuracy for the power as well.
I turned off any powers to make sure something like Tactics was not giving me some extra numbers.
IGNORE THIS.. Tried deleting but was just messing up the post and wasting time. Just an extra image that got in. I don't know which one it is..
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On 11/3/2022 at 6:17 PM, Nightmare Shaman said:
Trying to play a petless MM is one of the saddest things you can experience in CoH.
Not True.
Please see my signature for some of my builds.
I play about 10 or so Petless and Semi Petless Masterminds, most are last pet only.
Trick Arrow is King.
I have whips Trick arrow which is fun and thematic
I only play solo on all my Petless Masterminds because I want no drama on a team with them.
I also have a several power pool only builds which is similar in concept. Basically you can pick and use any powers from primary and secondary until level 4 where power pools are picked. The rest of the build is via power pools. Ninjutsu and Shields are primary go sets here for these types of builds.
Necro with the changes is great and fun.
You cannot really level as a petless Mastermind due to endurance issues, plain and simple. Since Masterminds pay a higher cost to use powers, you cannot just play like any other set. You can notice that sometimes with pets as you have to slow down your attack rate or pop a few blue inspirations. Well, it is much more noticeable when petless. it can become impossible in your 20s due to endurance even on a lowest setting mission.
But at level 50 with IOs and yes Incarnates you can solo 3/8 or 4/8 depending on the mob type. Carnies and Malta are always tough for any AT. But council and COT are easy farming.
I did solo an AV on my Robot Traps last pet only build. Screen shots are in the petless mm thread.
My goal is to solo ITF. The issue I was having was fighting the AVs as it was a stalemate. I couldn't kill them and they couldn't kill me. So there was on way to advance.- Requiem (5th Column Arch-villain, 5th General) (this is the 5th general)
- Romulus Augustus (Arch-villain)
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My suggestion is simply if you can transfer it, then should be seen account wide.
So if you have a rare Prophecy Invention Salvage on one of your 50 or 100 or 200 character, it can be seen and used by all.
My simple thought process around this is basically if I can go through all my characters to find this piece of salvage why do I have to go through all of this process to get this piece of salvage?
Why do I have to jump around on X amount of characters trading and bouncing around invention sets and salvage and money for HOURS to build out a character at the end for a final build.
Even if your that kind of player that has this down to a science, organizing everything you have, this has no downfall for you.
My simple statement is that this causes no damage to a player or account.
I am just using the above as an example but should be everything, Money, Salvage, merits, recipes, ETC.
I know the usual suspects will come here having some crazy complaint about this. I just don't see how this hurts anyone. All it does is streamline character building.-
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On 10/23/2022 at 12:30 AM, Doc_Scorpion said:
No, thank you. Down that path lies tankmages. CoH doesn't need tankmages.
I didn't work out the whole semantics around this.
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I have a petless Necro Trick Arrow and the 3 specters from the attacks are very helpful. They hold aggro well.
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Basically where you can pick any power from any AT for that Tier but then it excludes all the other Tier powers from that level. Of course make any exceptions as needed.
Do this for Primary and Secondary and even Power Pools.
EG
Tier 1 whip from demon summoning
Tier 2 Buckshot from Assault Rifle
Tier 3 Typhoons Edge from Dual Blades..
ETC..
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7 minutes ago, biostem said:
Do you mean mixing the whip attacks with dark blasts into a set, or allowing the whip attacks to summon temporary minions?
You know I didn't even think of the whips attacks doing that, but that sounds like a great idea.. Maybe spawn those hell on earth minions.
I was more interested in a power set with these 2 combinations.
I wouldn't even mind having whips as a power pool.
I am telling you the Necro minions the attacks spawn are very helpful.
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Just saying Whips and the New Necro attacks would be make an interesting combination..
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On 1/7/2022 at 9:54 PM, plainguy said:
So they are saying UNDEAD pets have SOULS to EXTRACT ?
I don't want to get all Meta and stuff.
But I thought that was the premise of dying, that once dead you lost your soul. That coming back and UNDEAD ( which is clearly not Living) you don't have a soul.
I just Googled this and got various answers related to DnD..
But the consensus is zombies have no souls. Liches have their souls hidden.
No clue where Grave Knights stand but I am thinking Undead..
Soul extraction clearly says depends on the type of undead you extract it from..
All this being said, I would say Soul Extraction should work on a NPC and once the NPC is dead you get the extra pet based on the NPC level. Minion, LT, Boss..
Maybe chain it..
Example.You soul extract a minion.
While soul extraction pet is alive. Using soul extraction on the next minion will make your current soul extracted a bit stronger maybe refresh the duration. A third extraction of a minion on this already soul extracted pet would now make it LT level and refresh the duration. Killing a LT while this soul extracted pet would increase it to Boss level and refresh the duration.
And the this duration should be steady and not this mysterious number of how long it MIGHT stay.. Let players know the duration based on the Rank..
So3 minions = LT
2 LT = Boss
3 minions + LT = Boss
If you to spice it up and put a wildcard in it..
You can soul extract Elite Bosses and even an AV BUT it has a chance to turn on you randomly.. So one moment it can be fighting on your side then turn against you then, you regain control and it is fighting on your side. You can make it DPS based.. Meaning if you take a good hit, that hit breaks your control.
You could even add in depending on the mob you kill the soul extracted pet will have different attacks..
Again to all the Naysayers !
I will take this as a win..
You are all welcome..
Please let me know what other suggestions you want in future pages.. So I can write it up and get it approved for you.
Soul Extraction
- Recharge lowered form 600s to 300s.
- Only works on active Henchmen, not Specters.
- Will extract the soul from each Henchman for 60s before the Souls vanish.
- The extracted souls are still linked to their bodily hosts, if the host of a soul is defeated, the soul will also be defeated.
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So much for all the naysayers.
Thank you page 5!
Secondary Sets (non-Epic ATs)
- Tier 2 powers moved from level 2 to level 1 (character creation)
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Is there any intent on maybe passing some of the buffs to Mercs AR attacks over to here?
BTW I am taking credit for the merc buff since I posted this first. -
Mastermind have had endurance issues for years..
I posted this several times on this forum.
This is a compounding issue.
Masterminds can do amazing things if the build is fine tuned and everything works out right..
ORThey flop like a stack of cards.
And like many primaries and secondary's when you pick the correct 2 its better.
EG.. Sentinel DP/Super Reflexes.. Yes lower DPS but full defense cap easily, same for Ninjutsu.
It's these things that just pile on top of each other.
As a simple example Range Cap hover blaster, easily obtained on all blasters. That alone can put you at a 3/8 mission setting. But you also have some extra powers you can pick that are not conducive to obtaining this type of build
These types of things are not always possible on Masterminds.
Even when they fixed group fly, you would think having flying armada of robots would be good, but it wasn't it was just too clunky and unless you had a outdoor mission it was useless. Pets would get stuck all over the place.
With Masterminds its death by many cuts..
Again as I have also said.. I just believe Masterminds are just too hard for the devs to handle. How the coding is set up.. So on and so forth.. Too much effort for possibly so little results or even no results..
Do you tackle an issue in all these 4 archtypes sentinel, blaster, corruptor, brute in 20 hours OR do you "TRY" to fix a mastermind issue.. Limited time would dictate I can fix 4 issues instead of hoping to fix 1.
Again no clue, as the devs never said hey this is the issue, changing the endurance numbers breaks this or that for them.
All I know is they had this discord chat, which is listed and the request are there..
As another example to my point.. They "Fixed" the Robot bubble issue, but this fix came with a decrease in defenses. So its clear they couldn't fix it without the loss as it was too much trouble.
But still they are an unique archtype for any game.
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Dark Empowerment slotting question - Life Drain
in Mastermind
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Would a proc work in this ?