Black Zot

DP has the same visual issue as Martial Arts - the animations were designed by someone who has no fucking idea how guns (or CQC, for MA) actually work. Even gun kata doesn't explain some of that.

For starters, fix Force Field Generator's speed, AI, and pathing so it actually keeps pace with the summoner. Having to recast it every spawn (and come up with the +recharge to do so) in order for it to do anything at all makes its alleged benefits a joke. People love to claim the FFG does all these cool things, but talking about the bonuses a buff bubble offers is a waste of breath when the bubble in question is stuck on a loose floor tile 3 rooms back. That's kind of the issue with the set in general; unless you've got a ton of global +recharge, you're using 1, maybe 2 powers per spawn and then it's down to your other powerset to do anything useful.

"Haha, we screwed up your gaming experience for a cheap jape, deal with it," is hundreds of miles from being adult. That's not even teenage levels of maturity.

Better suggestion: grow the fuck up and treat April 1st the same as the other 29 days in that month.

You lost that fight the minute you allowed the thread to exist.

This is probably the one post in this thread that actually has a place on this forum.

Yeah, seriously. The closest thing this game should see to real-world politics is "let's go beat up some imaginary Nazis". Everything else? You have the rest of the damn internet to jabber on about the issue of the day, don't pollute CoH with it.

And doesn't look like the chop-socky stupidity that old low-budget movies passed off as "martial arts". Visually speaking, no set in the game screams "I have no idea what I'm doing, please beat me to a pulp" quite like MA.

Good luck convincing the nerfherders who think threads like this are justified of that point.

Look at a platypus and tell me that again.

/jranger

You really can't have too much +ACC or +ToHit unless that's all you're slotting. Between level gaps, buffs, and debuffs, the AI will always find ways to make your stuff whiff.

This would be a valid assertion if the trial system could be relied on to not scramble teams and not drop a chunk of the raid group on zone-in. Currently it fulfills neither criterion, despite this being considered basic functionality in any other MMO with a raid-instance mechanic. Until these issues are fixed, I'm sticking to zone MSRs.

Looks like a "random generic NPC" model. I suspect the game has some sort of "insert hostage here" code that pulls a random nobody any time one of these missions comes up. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if not everybody in the mission saw the same poor sap getting rescued, kinda like the Gravity set's Propel.

So, you want every melee to start the game with their only available survivability tool being a suicide button, and the things that will ACTUALLY keep them alive coming last? Hard fucking no.

True, but if Bonfire is your only knockback ability, you might as well put your OF set there, if you're using that set at all. Your options at that point are to: 1. Slot the SA proc in Bonfire to corral the knockback and spend the rest of the slots on some damage set or other, while putting OF in another non-knockback power, thereby wasting a slot's worth of set bonuses and part of OF's value, or ... 2. Slot the full OF set in Bonfire, get its full benefits, and waste no slots.

Unless of course Bonfire happens to be your only knockback power.

You're trying to take away what makes this game fun. After I worked to get my characters up to a point that I can enjoy rolling around with them, you want to take that from me. Don't insult me further by trying to pretend that's not personal.

Zone optimization first, everything else later. I haven't had any problems myself, but I've seen it happen to others, and I know from experience what it's like to be having issues and getting brushed off by those that don't. (Steam's literal-migraine-inducing revamp, for example.) Much like the rest of the game's codebase, better to straighten the spaghetti now than to tack on a bunch of content and THEN try to fix underlying issues without knocking over the big heap of stuff piled on top.

Can, but tend not to.

Flat-out shutting down one of a powerset's key abilities in any content that involves vertical movement is NOT "near-harmless". Actively punishing a player for their choice of primary or secondary is not "flavor". It's bad design, period.

At least 7/10ths of lag during MSRs is due to having camera shake turned on. Most of the remainder, at least in North America, is greedy ISPs strangling bandwidth so they can price-gouge.

It's a common sport on the internet.

That's because it's been a dead language for that long.

This. I'd be fine with doing less damage than the average if I were allowed to DO said damage. As-is, summoning anything but the tier 3 pet is a waste of end in high-level content because they die instantly to the first big aoe. The +resist and +def auras mean basically nothing because of the massive tohit and damage bonuses plus-level enemies get against low-tier pets.