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Takofanes Open Mission Changes and Mechanics
Takofanes Rewards
ZEN Store
Misc
Power Changes
Crippling Coils
Condemn
- Added Turakian Termination daily mission to Dwoemer. This is for defeating Takofanes.
- Added Wolf Monster head costume. Includes head, hair, ears and eyebrows.
- Added Werewolf tail costume to the Bloodmoon store.
- Added Wolf Mane costume to the Bloodmoon store.
- Added Heavy Hook costume to the Bloodmoon store.
- Added Heavy Chain costume to the Bloodmoon store.
- Added Takofanes Throne vehicle and Travel Power device to the Bloodmoon store.
- Added Banishment device to the Bloodmoon store.
- Added Corrupt aura to the Bloodmoon store.
Takofanes Open Mission Changes and Mechanics
- Takofanes has been boosted to be in line with the standard for event bosses.
- His attacks have been given wireframe tells.
- At the start of the fight ghostly heroes cannot be harmed. As the fight progresses Takofanes will target a ghostly hero and open them up for attack.
- Fixed a bug so Takofanes will more reliably spawn his Doomlords. These Doomlords will hone in on a undead Hero and try to defeat them. It is possible to grab their aggro and lure them away. Takofanes should summon a Doomlord roughly every 30~45 seconds.
- Ghostly Undead heroes have had their health increased so they can take more of beating before being defeated during the fight.
- Defeated Undead heroes have had their HP increased and have been updated to use their new open mission attack layout.
- Doomlord HP has been increased.
- When the Doomlords are defeated one of the ghostly heroes will apply a heavy resistance debuff to Takofanes for a short time.
- This debuff can no longer stack under certain conditions.
- Moved the resistance debuff to display on Takofanes' Buff bar to make it easier to spot.
- Takofanes can now summon empowered Harbingers every two minutes.
- Both Harbingers and Doomlords can start summoning meteor attacks once they dip below 90% health. These will be indicated by a vertical cone wireframe and target players randomly.
- Both Harbingers and Doomlords have an area effect that drains nearby Undead Hero HP by a flat amount.
- The fight fails if all 13 heroes fall.
Takofanes Rewards
- Default: 5x Treat Bags, 11 tokens (diminishes after multiple runs), gear pack, Spell of Takofanes mod.
- Common: Takofanes costume parts. Dweomer, Negalodon, Fenny and Pirate Captain action figures. Spell of Takofanes mods.
- Rare: Cardboard, Nightmare Crow, Wolf Monster Head, Werewolf Tail, Heavy Hook costumes. Dark, Ghostly, Fog, Skull and Corrupt auras.
- Very Rare: Takofanes Throne Vehicle/Device, Banishment device.
ZEN Store
- Added Shining Crusader costume set.
Misc
- Addressed a bug where some level 45+ Master and Supervillains were using nailed to the ground instead of gravity.
- Gravity yank will only be used once a npc is in combat for at least 10 seconds.
- Increased cd on gravity effect.
- NPCs that use rifle butt will no longer spam it.
- Fixed a bug where some become critter Invulnerability ability dealt mysterious slashing damage to the user.
Power Changes
Crippling Coils
- New Advantage: Applies Light Everlasting to you and nearby allies.
- Known Issue: This buff doesn't always reliably apply to allies.
Condemn
- New Advantage: Fully charging the power spawns a healing rune at your target.
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Patch notes last week, about the improperly scaled devices that were dropping sporatically in the first week of Blood Moon. I happen to have purchased a Fists of Compliance with improper scaling so I'm curious if there's any update on the state of this vendor and if it might be implemented even if Blood Moon ends, since it's not in this patch.
Too Bland and Generic for my tastes, dissapointing
EH! but again I had been really getting
750Zen? I will get it only on a discount
Oh boy, I sure hope the 5000 falling damage was fixed
http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/champions-online/news/detail/10228513-champions-online:-dark-crusader-costume-pack
Yet in the Zen store it is Shining Crusader. Which is it?
BUG:Wolf Mane unlocks absolutely nothing for Males
The costume was unlocked but it doesnt show up in tailor cetegory ) neither on the search field
For females its called Werewolf and not Wolf mane as the item describe it
I'm really loving the Mohawk wolf hairstyle
Have vehicle version and tune up kit in inventory.
Says I do not have Takofanes Throne Vehicle.
submitted ticket : [System] [TicketCreated] Successfully submitted ticket ID #4,133,128.
Thanks! We'll look into these.
Edit: Just to be clear I like the vehicle, it's something that's cool and unique, but at 700 coins, good luck farming that for the toon you want it for.
Why?
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1) Getting the device when the Vehicle is far superior. Vehicle you just use a tune up kit and BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!! Bind to Equip baby! Vehicle is faster and you can attack with vehicle.
2) Failing to realize that event items are supposed to be special not something every hoo ha can be sporting around on their level 1 toon. It is already kind enough that we have a store that sells BoP. Cause you know. 3 years ago? No such store, all was drop from bosses, bosses that incidentally died so fast in a feststorm of lag that you could barely tag them for credit.
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His yellow Aura deals % Hp Dot. If your max Hp is low enough, that % should be around 200-300 Hp per tick...in team up you get sentinel Aura and Medical Nanites, you are immortal. Just grab a vehicle with Medical Nanites and keep an eye on Heroes and you are doing great contribution to the run while being a low level that is not dieing and gain a lot of exp.
2) level 1 characters can't leave the tutorial, it's impossible for them to get the vehicle, but even if they could, why exactly should they have access to something I spent time unlocking? I have like 95 level 40 toons, some 34 leveling toons, if I unlock a vehicle with one of my level 40s why shouldn't I be allowed to put it in the vault for one of my other toons? Any toon that I have right now that can handle crypts or do this needlessly difficult content already has a decent vehicle with rank 6 mods. This throne doesn't really fit the theme of most of my current roster of characters anyways, I'd want to make a new character for the throne, but because of BoP that's not an option ATM
it's how i transfer heirloom gear to new characters before they start and squeeze out every last drop of extra XP from it
W H Y? Why hasn't been fixed yet? This is basically a FREE Cheap Death
Whoever you are, be that person one hundred percent. Don't compromise on your identity.
Also... Throne+Upgrade kit = not bound throne.
One fix I'd like to see is to make the device version cheaper. It's a LOT less useful than the vehicle since it is a non-combat TP.
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Or you spend some time with a couple of different characters so that they can both earn the coins (between missions, farming, and treat bags) to buy a throne.
And now, this week, you can spend time with toon 1 farming Tako and maybe not even have to worry about buying the throne if you get lucky, and then you can spend their coins on whatever else it is that you want to buy.
This is supposed to be a rare item. If every character on everyone's account can share the throne then it may not become more common in actual numbers but it certainly becomes more common in practice.
If you just want a vehicle that you can share then there are plenty out there. Heck, all of my characters were given a vehicle some time back... Does that still happen?
No one *NEEDS* the throne. Some people just want it, and getting the coins to buy one for a character is not that difficult for anyone that can participate in this event.
Still hoping that it's damage is somewhat fixed, or the effect lessened, it's really awkward to fall into the floor from a little ledge so fast, althought I can deal with that. The main issue seems to be the fall damage.
Click here to check out my costumes/milleniumguardian (MG) in-game/We need more tights, stances and moods
How about just letting us enjoy the stuff we bought or unlocked? Sure, if you only have one character that you play all the time this isn't a problem for you, but some of us enjoy making new characters and if this weren't
That is all of you right now o3o
Why BoP stores are good:
1) They allow for a way to reliably get items. I don't know how long you've been around, but in the past you either got lucky and got the drop (which were BoE) or bought it off other players (this is important for point 2). Stores did not exist.
2) They allow for the existence of an economy. If you could get BtAoP/BtAoE directly from the store, the prices would get deflated a lot and the drops would be completely worthless.
3) They allow for a certain degree of uniqueness/bragging rights/look mom I'm special ."Certain" because the prices are actually really accesible so right now you have 80% of the playerbase running around on a Cosmic Toilet wearing Edgelord Auras. Otherwise that would be 100%. Arguing against this point is arguing against all MMOs that have seasonal events with unique rewards.
Meanwhile I can give you 1 good reason as to why the old system was bad:
1) They made running events completely pointless and worthless. When you as a new player could buy a BtAoE Dark Aura on May for the price of 100g because the previous Halloween's Bloodmoon people were able to farm more Dark Auras than they could possibly ever sell and have them sitting on their banks, come the current year Bloodmoon, unless new rewards are added, you have no reason at all to run it cause you already bought what you wanted 5 months before. No matter how much you want to argue this point, we have yet to evolve beyond the proverbial carrot chasing.
And finally:
1) If they were to give out free or easy to obtain Vehicles that you can then easily rank to the same tier as cash shop vehicles, no one would buy Cash Shop vechicles outside of cosmetic reasons. This is a fact that you can cry "the devs just want our money" as much as you want, but it's a reality. Games need servers to run. Servers cost money. Money comes from players that subscribe or buy stuff from the cash shop. Any game, not just CO. And every dev team knew this. Hence last year's free Wasp SE being BoP (as was this year too) and not BtAoP.
So TL;DR:
What you are actually asking is for devs to continually develop events with good enough rewards that would encourage you and new players to run them, without actually intending to put any money to support that, both real or ingame currency. And all of these held together under the argument that someday while walking down the park an apple may hit your head with a sudden surge of inspiration for a character that may require one of these items for it to work.
Whoever you are, be that person one hundred percent. Don't compromise on your identity.
Could it be that you don't even understand the argument? Even at this point? First of all, the best stuff in CO at the moment are out of lock boxes, you can't buy what you want from the cash store, you have to buy keys and gamble. Believe me if buying what I wanted from the cash shop were an option I wouldn't spend so much time grinding to get cash for the AH. Second of all nobody here has been complaining about give aways being BoP, people are upset about things we need to grind to unlock being BoP. Namely vehicles and auras which in past years were BoE or BtA. Nobody here is against CO making money, I don't like the lockboxs, but I've wanted new stuff in the store for years. I've bought vehicles from the store a couple of times now, I've bought tons of costume sets, travel powers, devices, all kinds of things. The reason I buy these things is because I want them for characters because I'm still interested in making characters for the game. I'm still interested in the game because of events like the Blood Moon. If the Blood Moon isn't fun for me, and this year it hasn't been fun, then I'll stop playing as much and stop buying things.
The items in the game this year are no more difficult to obtain then last year all that's been changed is that our ability to use these items has been restricted.
None of those things make Bind to Character on Pickup better than Bind to Account on Pickup.
Making things bind to character instead of bind to account has this exact same effect on a lot of players.
Cash shop vehicles are inferior to lockbox and drifter trash vehicles. The only reason to get a cash shop vehicle is for cosmetics. Do people even buy vehicles from the cash shop now? I'm betting lockbox and drifter trash ones are far more popular.
[at]riviania Member since Aug 2009
You did not understand my post. The store is BoP, yes, it limits the ceiling of the price. However if the store were BtAoP or BtAoE like a lot are asking, the price would be even lower. Thus BoP store is a nice relatively new thing the devs did for the playerbase without actually killing the worth of events and items (You have me confused though, you are saying BoP store is bad yet argue for a BtAoP/BtAoE store?)
@Guyhumal and @Sterga:
Yes, I'm aware that mostly the best vehicles come from Lockboxes (with the exception of Maniacs). However where do you get the item to open said Lockboxes? That's right! Cash Shop \o/ I mean, until I see numbers and charts that correlates this information, I'm not taking it up as a valid argument. The devs have easy access to this information, if they have kept doing this for the past events, clearly people are running them. In fact, I would say that a huge number of players are running them, because any time an event pops up, Cosmics become almost impossible to recruit a group for. Saying that a lot of people stopped running events because of 4 or 5 forums poster is an hyperbole, specially since forum posters in any game represent at best 25% of the game's population.
don't really have a use for the others yet.
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While I don't like it, I'm partially okay with it because it reduces the size of my event currency shopping list by quite a bit--I just won't bother farming for them, just like I won't bother with the throne. I only really use vehicles for flying around anyway, and if worse comes to worst, I'll just put any new characters in whatever the next freebie vehicle is, or the next bind to account vehicle I manage to get my hands on.
You made the comparison to vehicles you buy in the cash shop, not to lockbox or drifter trash vehicles. It's an important distinction because of the clear inferiority of cash shop vehicles to lockbox and drifter ones. Upgrading vehicles, even event ones, requires a cash shop purchase as well, something you didn't take into consideration. In fact, a decently powerful level 1 vehicle picked up for free might even encourage upgrade purchases when a cash shop vehicle wouldn't even be considered due to basically having to buy it and an upgrade if a player wants to use it for something other than cosmetics.
Buying keys to open lockboxes was not part of your original point and doesn't make sense to bring it up now to support your argument.
CO's population has been in decline since the game was launched with a few upswings that Cryptic couldn't even capitalize on. There aren't very many new players coming to the game and vets have been leaving because of things like bind to character on pickup auras along with other things that discourage alting. The events are drawing in fewer players. The big tip off is that zone caps tend to be reduced to 50, but there are still the same-ish number of zones as past events with 100 player cap. There are not a whole bunch of players doing the Halloween event, there are less. No one is coming to the event for bind to character on pickup, but there are plenty of people not bothering for that reason.
Forums posters are normally considered to be 5% or less of the player population. If CO's forum posters are 25% of the game, that means the general population is horrifically low and only the die-hards are left as the major portion of the population. Not that many people post on the forums here.
[at]riviania Member since Aug 2009
I haven't opened a lock box since they discontinued the rewards program. I've got everything I wanted from the lockbox system from the auction house. I haven't had to spend a cent of real money to do it either.
We're never going to see those numbers, it's not in the games interest to release them even if they're up, so all we can do is report our own feelings on things. I don't think people who are pissed off at a game make forum posts to be honest, most just quietly leave, and so I'm sharing my opinions not because I hate the game but because I still love it. I'm disappointed with the direction it's taking. I wouldn't think of speaking for other members of this forum or people in the game. I can only report what I've seen and what I've heard.