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I think you work a little bit too hard on finding ways to be offended, and on trying to make your personal beliefs into objective crises. There are enough real problems in the world - we don't need to work on creating fake ones. On that note, I could absolutely murder a taco right now, so I think I'll go grab one! ;)
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Regardless of the looks of the ship itself, the starship trait seems immensely powerful - something that would be a playstyle defining addition to escort/raider play. If this weren't infinity lockbox based I'd consider picking it up just for the trait, but ships unique to the infinity box are the most offensive of the cash…
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Threats against ANYONE are not tolerated. Comment removed. -Kael. The problem with your argument is that "well technically..." doesn't make a difference in terms of practical application. This isn't a game or a business that exists strictly on napkins, which is where arguments like the one you're making belong. If less…
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At this point we're sort'v scraping the barrel for genuinely Legendary ships. There are only a few that were really highlighted in shows or movies in a way that might qualify them for that category: Miranda - if only because the battle between Kirk and Khan was, itself, pretty legendary. I'd fully expect its legendary…
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Seriously? What is with the nerfing of years-old starship traits these days.. especially when they come from difficult-to-acquire ships. Is Ruin of our Enemies even available to Fed characters anymore? The boxes that open into a faction-specific ship still tend to limit access to certain ships directly, and the D7 was in…
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A pretty typical move by this latest batch of Cryptic developers - instead of finding new ways to make people want to take part in things, they look for hamfisted way to force people into their pigeon holes. Adding in the new ways to spend dil on passes was a good idea. Removing the original means of obtaining them is a…
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We went over this a year ago in a previous thread though apparently it didn't sink in for you. Take a gander at the numbers you reported back then before you fabricate your new set for this discussion. The reason that the blue version of certain pets were doing higher damage than the purple versions was that pets intended…
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Once again you're talking about comparing without SAD and with SAD after TWICE being told that I'm comparing pre-and-post nerf SAD DPS. You're arguing against what I'm saying using numbers that are utterly irrelevant to what I've said. I'm mighty curious as to which pets you're averaging 6.5k+ with unless its a frigate in…
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That's not what I said - I said they were getting 4x their current damage with SAD in both cases, not 4x their non-SAD damage. As shown below it's actually closer to 2x when the numbers come down to it, but halving the DPS is still a pretty staggering nerf. You were using sub-par pets, then, if you only lost 20% of your…
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Resource re-use isn't uncommon with Cryptic. Hell, they used the zombie puke sound from City of Heroes in Magic: Legends.. that was some serious nostalgia.
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If you think the nerf was small then you weren't using it right, or rather, you may have been using it "right" in terms of what Cryptic wants but not to its fullest pre-"fix" extent. Pets with pulse cannons were doing 4x their current "fixed" DPS in conjunction with SAD. That's a huge nerf, not a little one. Superior Area…
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I'm afraid that the Superior Area Denial interaction with pulse cannons has been fixed, so hangar pets no longer do massive damage under that combo, making hangar pets once again painful underperformers compared to non-pet builds. The sad part being that the "bug" wasn't making pet builds do more damage than energy weapon…
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I got to 3500 today (Aug 11th). I used 14 old fTFO tokens at the start of the Pahvo event, and have been doing all 21 days of the events thus far. If someone did some buying out, or using up of old tokens, with previous events then it's very possible they could have completed it a while back.
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It doesn't say the ship can only be opened by them, it says the Discovery Starship box opens into it (a second, non-bound box) for KDF-aligned characters. That wiki says the same thing about all the old ships that were once restricted to a particular faction and which came out of a single box. For example the T'Laru still…
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I mean... make whatever ships you want, but don't expect them to sell. It's all very well and good to say you don't want power creep, or "pay to win" or whatever else, but most people aren't going to pay for something worse than what they've already got and won't rush to pay for more of what they've already got. Right now…
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It must be a random thing - I never got any of these codes despite other people saying they got them just for having installed and tried the game once. I actually spent ZEN in Magic Legends, and got no emailed codes. Such is life!
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Unlikely - when they first introduced the experimental weapon slot (under its first name) they stated that they were being added to escorts and similar classes that didn't already have 8 weapon slots.
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A fourth variant of the crossfield? I'm guessing the trait from this one won't be making its way into the M5 unlock of the legendary crossfield, though, right?
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The Eternal Class - it's probably the second best science ship, and only by a thin margin. Most of the others are pretty forgettable in terms of performance compared to plenty of other ships you could be snagging.
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Unless you're doing "To Hell With Honor" I'd say Subspace Vortex, as it is shield-bypassing kinetic damage. Delayed Overload Cascade is much larger kinetic damage, but it does not have any shield bypass that I'm aware of, which means it is massively reduced by shields and then scatters your targets all over the place,…
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Oh I know that most people aren't vaporizing bigger enemies in a nanosecond or anything, but most people who have been playing at max level for a little while are capable of essplodin' STO's equivalent of "trash mobs" pretty reliably and at a reasonable pace. The high DPS long-time players are tearing through the major…
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Like I said... wrath of nerds - typically the type who skim then rage without bothering to take the time to understand what was said. You didn't read what I said. The damage you do, modified by the increased threat, needs to outpace the dps of other teammates in order to maintain agro... so the damage you're doing,…
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I think it's a terrible idea. What exactly are you desperate to get? The flare?
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Well, it does things, certainly, but every increased threat method you use is replacing something that increased damage dealt, and your total damage dealt, increased by threat improvement methods, needs to outpace the damage dealt by the DPSers on your team that have put absolutely everything into dealing staggering…
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I don't think there's any current way to get the Red Angel suit. It'll show up in the Mudd Market eventually, for far more ZEN than it is worth.
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Maybe, but STO wasn't Cryptic's first MMO, and City of Heroes dealt with hard control stacking in multiple ways (not necessarily the same way for PVE and PVP). Even if they used the early and clumsy method (high resistance paired with timed, cyclic immunity periods for bossier-than-usual bosses) it would deal with this…
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While I certainly haven't tested it, most MMOs have a hard control (meaning actual holds, disables, etc... not just slows, snares, etc) resistance system that applies to the target of hard control effects rather than to the thing or player that is applying the control effect. In plainer terms, it means that the mobs (or…
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Nevermind - I misread the part about progress toward the Event Grand Prize as meaning the campaign's Grander-Grand Prize, but this event isn't listed at the bottom of the campaign event page. There's no campaign progress because this event isn't part of it.
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It's already Year of the Voth. It's being celebrated with various federation-focused legendary bundles and other sundry!
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I'll respond to this as someone that would probably be considered a "whale" in that I've got most of the C-Store ships, a bunch of promo ships (acquired via promo boxes, not later methods), lockbox ships (same), and lobi ships, etc. I've also got an increased maximum ZEN purchase limit, which speaks to my willingness to…