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This dropped from an ancient construct in the deep water area at the back of the lemuria zone.
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20 seconds of literal immortality.
My super cool CC build and how to use it.
Extremely rare drop. Shame it's a BoP.
psionic accelerator drops from bronze king as well
not sure how rare they are now, since i have gotten them on 10 of my characters since alerts went up.
but then vehicles make farming constructs much easier
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What's funny is the game is basically still balanced around that gear, and not the stuff shown to the right of it xD
My super cool CC build and how to use it.
Wut yu talkin bout gam's not EASY BLAUGH!!
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Block timing explained
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Or maybe players are just stupid.
Could be also that.
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Or something...
Just wait 60 minutes I'm uploading that inferno without any gear very hard mode run of one of the new missions. I only die in it because I really used much fire before other than when testing in the PH and one fireball build. I've never really done a fire DoT build which is how I should of been playing the inferno in that.
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That's kind of how to make the game more challenging. If its too easy, hit more than one mob.
Doesn't really work in CO though especially if you have something like invulnerability when mobs are hitting 1's and with unbreakable technically heal you why not mob more and more up other than the annoying CC they may have.
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Eh, dump the defensive passives and go pure offense. Makes the gameplay more dynamic, if you're into that sort of thing.
I think in my entire toon roster, I only have one 40 that takes a dedicated defense passive? Sure changed a lot from even 1 year ago, when I had no one at all using an offensive. Hm...
That's how I play, Offensive all the way, and I usually take a second, Defensive, passive as an "OH POOP" button if I get into hairy situations.
And yeah, back in the day, a Defensive was essential for survival. When the game went easy-mode, they were no longer required for most content, at all. At least for solo play.
Yeah I pretty much always use an offensive passive unless there is a reason for me to use AOPM for example with master of the mind or something like that.
You end up having to ask yourself what's the point in mobbing so many up with an offensive passive though when you could easily enough mow through the enemy in seconds if you have a decent enough build.
It's not like it's hard to get 100% damage resistance from defense with maxed gear on an offensive passive build to half all damage and then rotate AD's so that half the time only take damage past about 4k and for the other half a 10k would do 2.5k to you instead.
One use of conviction every 2 seconds will help keep you up through that even if you had 5k dps incoming.
A defensive passive isn't needed to show stupid over the top reduction's to incoming damage but it does amplify it for sure.
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When the solution to "the game is boringly easy" is "restrict your power selections"... that's an issue when the game's core mechanic is "customization".
Says the game's not easy.
Immediately lists one of the reasons why the game is easy.
And yes Gradii there is a difference between those two things... that's why it's an issue that we're experiencing both of them at the same time.
My super cool CC build and how to use it.
the melee ones who wait for a bit then charge.
the ranged ones who run into melee combat to fire weapons, some of them really are just plain stupid.
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If it's us being op (and we are) or the mobs being stupid (and they are) doesn't matter. Easy is easy, anything about why is just an argument of semantics. The funny bit about this fight is the game was specifically *designed* to be light on challenge. It's supposed to be casual action, not a hardcore raid mmo. It's balanced around the weakest of the ATs, before the regear, because most of the stronger ones didn't exist when a lot of the content was created.
One can argue "If you're not used to how the game works" as a caveat for difficulty, just like any other game. But once you're passingly familiar with builds, specs, roles, and basic MMO mechanics like pathing and aggro pulling? Basically, with a bit of experience? It's more than possible to just flip that switch to elite on every character and never look back. Note that this was specifically requested, too.
"I want to feel like a mighty super hero, we shouldn't have content that only top end builds can complete, it's unfair to those of us who like running unoptimized theme builds. Elite should not drop such better gear, I should be able to casually solo the same gear on any of my characters" was the argument. And that argument *won*.
Funny that we started hemorrhaging players right after that.
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THIS DRIVES ME DEMENTED. If you have a mob with haymaker, stop having him fire a gun energy builder at me and make him throw that haymaker. IF they're ranged, don't bunch them all up for MY haymaker. A few simple AI tweaks would do this game wonders. Viper seems to follow sane rules about that stuff, and they're pretty obviously the hardest mob in the game as a result. IMO, all factions should be buffed up in efficacy to viper levels.
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Block timing explained
True story. But that's part of what I meant. Give other mobs more debuff/tactical options, and make em not all bunch up on you like those stupid gangsters Nighthawk? uses. Hell, even Psi is half ranged, and without fail they're all bunched up on the tank like they're looking for an autograph. I kinda feel like it's a little of column A, a ton of column B. The fact that they debuff like that is brutal. The fact that they do so spread out, so the melee tank has trouble pulling em all without stuff like spinnan chainz? Puts em firmly in the "good mob" category.
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One of the main things I remember about Serpent Lantern(after it being boring and having Serpentor in it) was that the Viper Mages(I think that's the name, not too hard to figure out which mobs I'm talking about if I'm wrong though) actually do have different AI based on difficulty slider settings. They will not use certain attacks(or use them far far less) on easier settings and will go all out and try to murder you if you're on elite. Now I'm not saying that doesn't make SL still pretty easy but what I am saying is when they introduced SL and the Difficulty Slider they did apparently put in place the beginnings of a more advanced system.
I don't even remotely pretend to know the state of the code left in place when Cryptic moved on and Cryptic North took the reigns or if it's even remotely salvagable. I'm just mentioning this as a "just in case" tidbit basically. Also, I fully understand that even remotely looking into this is not a top priority issue. It would be nice but it's not Playable Perm Content or Baseline White Hit Power Balancing to Center....but I thought it was worth pointing out at least for this conversation.
Also, back towards the end of last November I returned to STO(I played a little bit of the beta) and played 2 toons to "Yeah, I did just about everything" level before getting bored and returning to CO and I noticed a few things but one oddity that sticks out to me is that considering how close CO and STO are in their original designs and release dates....did you know mobs in STO have and use Energy and mobs in CO don't? The energy bar in CO is almost a decoration in all honesty yet you can build a psychotically effective energy drain toon in STO. I wonder why this is....
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Also cause some smart-alec dev thought it'd be great to give the Viper PA's an instant, spamable aoe KB Micro Muni. Viper is tougher cause they are the one faction given almost *everything*: defense breaking, heal debuffing, tons and tons of instant and casted KBs that can be chained on you, high innate resist, blocks, flight TPs, burst dps attacks, smoke bombs, personal shields, PA toggles that stick on you even if the mob gets disabled, and even a group buff.
Most other factions get maybe 1-2 charged KBs (sans the shotgun spammy Hoods), 0-1 charged holds, the standard 'big brute' mobs.. and not much else of note (okay, maybe some DoTs that mainly just serve to delay you from going to the next zone- yeah, great fun: waiting!). The Undead minions that use Infernal and Bestial SN powers are notable simply cause they hit really damn hard rel to other factions for some reason, and perhaps Destroyer minions (oh hey, another PA faction is also powerful; who woulda thought?).
Ice Nem minions also are extremely annoying w/ Snowstorm spam, Shadow Master Villains have Kev Poe's insane 3-4k base dps Shadow Embrace that they can randomly whip out (<- Cryptic: what was the rationale for adding this, btw? Just to gib lowbies randomly?), and Lightning minions spam an oddly hard-hitting Sparkstorm.
Some of them are fine mechanistically, but enemy factions are all over the map - mostly being rather pathetic, but many of the harder ones being 'challenging' cause of overcompensation (Viper) or cheese (shotgun/KB spam; adding a no-warning 4k dps spell to a minion that lowbies can fight).
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