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Boredom is an internal emotion, dependent more on your attitude and other factors than on one particular activity. I've been a LTS for almost 4 years and I'm not bored with the game -- and there's a bunch of stuff I haven't done yet. I've never done any PVP at all. Never did Nemcon. Never did most of the lairs. Never did…
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Cave In is okay as it is, I think. Not the greatest attack power out there but decent enough. But the fact that so many other Earth attacks either have long activation times or require a full charge to do decent damage hurts the set. Stagger seems a bit weak to me, and I've always thought knock resistance and holds would…
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Slight thread necro here, but I'm expressing my appreciation for the Terra Version X build. I've been trying a bunch of earth builds (different from the other two I already have) and at least at lower levels, this is the one that actually performs decently.
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I was thinking about suggesting Inexorable Tides instead for multiple attackers, but yeah, against a single boss that's not going to be so useful.
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I've never used any Q or Nemesis gear on my characters -- just random drops and mission reward gear. Usually chosen to enhance SS, but I'll go a little lower on SS for a significant boost to offense/defense/crit, depending. I'd probably feel overpowered on most of my characters if I started using "real' gear for leveling.…
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I have to say, the Galaxi build works quite well. I was trying a similar build though with DEX/INT/EGO and using Ego Weaponry as primary single target attack, and it was just not doing the job. This build still feels a bit scary to me -- I habitually have Conviction and Force Shield on most of my characters and I get them…
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We asked for vehicles. But the reason we wanted vehicles was customization and theme. I wanted my antihero from the streets to deal out justice with her shotgun on the back of a grungy, rattling old motorcycle sometimes. I wanted my flashy cyborg martial artist to get on a bike like the one from Akira, then leap off and…
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Without running numbers, my guess would have been that AoPM's boost to energy via INT, REC and DEX, combined with its boost to damage and crits which raises DPE, would work out the same as Arcane Clarity -- maybe better if using a dual-stat energy unlock.
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Odd. At this point my characters already tend to have more free retcons than I can reasonably use (*), and costume change tokens and additional tailor discounts don't matter that much to me since there's always plenty of globals in the bank. (Maybe totally free tailor use or something. As it is, I usually forget that I…
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It's an offensive passive. :shrug: Still less squishy than... pretty much all the other offensive passives.
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Force Shield with Force Sheath is my overall favorite, with its lingering semi-block with no damage penalty, plus energy return.
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PWE tech support advised me to bind Toggle Mouselook to Right Click. Which... isn't what I wanted, but it makes the game playable. Still somewhat awkward given that I've been playing for years with Enable Mouselook = Right Drag, and muscle memory is a stubborn thing. This fixes the random targeting stuff as well as…
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Eh, I do what I always do: run solo missions, level up characters to 40, shelve them and start new ones. Part of that includes XP alerts. With melee or less alert-friendly characters, or when I'm currently hating other people, I'll do just enough XP alerts to keep the bonus alive. Otherwise I'll use it heavily when I run…
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I'm glad it was a Smart Car and not a Range Rover or something. Though I'll take this as further evidence that knocks could use a nerf...
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Eeep! :( Hoping for a speedy total recovery and as much comfort as possible.
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:frown: I really want to like PFF. (I really want to like Medical Nanites too, but that seems even more hopeless.)
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This is what you're missing. This set really puts the butt in "butt cape": [IMG]http://seshat.org/images/Champions Online_2014-02-20_18-09-40.jpg[/IMG] That piece is available both as a secondary Hips Layer option and as a tail, and yes, you can set them both simultaneously so they constantly clip each other as well as yon…
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Don't forget Buffalo Wings... But seriously, yes, this would be an awesome thing. Throw in some Renaissance mechanical wings too -- bamboo poles, canvas, ropes and pulleys.
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I really don't think costumes that aren't holiday-specific should be lockbox-only. I'm an LTS but would have been happy to drop a few bucks actually buying Zen to get the costume set, instead of waiting another 3 weeks for my stipend to hit. I used to do that in the past, back when cool stuff hit the C-store faster than a…
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LUNGES ARE ALMOST COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT to how I feel about knock. Lunges don't magically make wasting time charging an attack, or getting that "____ is out of range" message somehow fun, instead of frustrating. Lunges are great for their intended purpose, but they do not solve this problem. At best, they help recover a…
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Lunge cooldown yes, but the charge time is still wasted, the gathering of enemies for an AOE attack is also wasted, and 90% of the frustration is still there. If a bunch of enemies are surrounding a tank, to knock enemies away from him is poor tactics. There is no way around that. It's just a stupid thing to do. It reduces…
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I suppose if you're fighting Ao'Qephoth and the player who has aggro doesn't block, telling them to block would be "imposing your playstyle on them."
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No energy, but time and DPS. Chances are, I just got done lunging to get where I am. I have five enemies on me. I charge up an attack.... someone scatters everyone away with knockback. I pick ONE target, tap lunge, but it's on cooldown. I start running toward them and lunge when it comes back off cooldown. By the time I…
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6) Every time a player knocks back a group of enemies while a melee teammate is charging a melee attack against them, stun the offender for 2 seconds, disable their travel power, and turn them pink.
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My current "main" (aka, the highest level one I'm pushing to 40, as opposed to all my teens and 20s) is a heavy weapons tank with Defiance, CON primary, Energy Shield, and Enrage rather than IDF. And it's been fantastic for leveling. "Stopping to heal" is simply not a thing that happens. I have Bionic Shielding (which is…
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Knock is half the equation that makes me not want to play melee characters in Alerts. (Two-Gun Mojo is the other.)
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My characters are anonymous. And legion. They're not really everywhere, though.
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Thanks, that was very helpful. I was starting to suspect Cybermind was up to something.
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...also, enemies I've previously defeated are sometimes auto-targeted briefly.
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It doesn't seem to be a settings reset. There's also a weird tendency to switch targets during combat even with my fingers off the right mouse button -- and after combat, to target enemies I'm not even facing who haven't attacked me. Which tends to taunt them when I have energy builder on "never cancels" like I usually do.…
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TBH, AOE really could just be "running around hitting things w/ epidemic." I'd avoid Epidemic if I really wanted to stick with a volcanic theme, because it's all I would ever use except for single-target boss fights (and maybe even then, with Supernatural Power). Pyre might be a good thematic power to have. Quicksand might…
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I haven't seen this happening, but then I really only do XP alerts to top up the XP bonus, or when I'm around 38 and running out of normal content (without going to Vibora). And grabs are definitely not over too quickly, on average. Though there are balance issues with some of them where a group of supposed trash mobs at…
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Most of what I do during an alert with a support character is... kill stuff. Occasionally I will throw heals to those who look like they need it. Mostly I don't, I just let the passive do its work. Some of my support role characters can out-DPS a lot of DPS role types and steal aggro from tanks. Meanwhile they're boosting…
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Yeah, the costume designer for new characters isn't correctly showing when you don't own some content. It's gotten me before. Not like this is an exploitable bug. As soon as you hit the world, you won't have any costume pieces you don't legitimately have access to.
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I usually think the other way around: "I have Conviction and INT, so I might as well take MSA." I prefer Conviction over most other self-heals; probably 70% of my builds have it. I know there are some better self-heals as far as raw numbers go, and ones that work better in some builds. But Conviction is easy and versatile.…
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I like the growth thing. I was actually thinking that it should do more damage. Make it a fast, nasty Lifedrain, very likely to kill the schlub who didn't block. Pain is an effective teacher. This wouldn't make the encounter "easier" but it should remove a lot of ignorance, one way or the other. At the very least, it gets…
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The lag was... interesting. I entered the Freedom Tunnel in Monster Island. Lag pulled me back out of it. I entered it again, took a few steps, and lag pulled me back out again. Never seen that before. :D
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Freon, Devana, Draconis and even Psimon are not so bad. Rakshasa is annoying. Jack Fool and Baron will kill you until you figure it out. With AoQ, one person who doesn't know what's going on can screw it up for everyone, and they don't even die as a result. If they don't know WHY AoQ's health bar keeps popping up to full,…
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Play whatever you want, however: The worst possible team for a typical alert is 5 tanks. The best (arguably) has 3 or 4 DPS, 1 or 2 support, and 0 or 1 tanks. That said, with freeform you don't really have to think trinity. I like DPSers who can survive everything that comes their way, self-heal and still keep pouring out…
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I realized I haven't done any Force characters with Crushing Wave, so I put together something around Crushing Wave and Overdrive. I think that combo works just fine. (I happened to go with Two-Gun Mojo, Quarry, INT/DEX/REC, Conviction. Force Shield/Sheathe is next, then active offense and defense. CON would be fine in…
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I'm glad I got my 1000 day LTS rewards legitimately. Not like waiting 1000 days really required any special effort on my part, but still. It feels better that way.
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Red: his shoulders they do glow, Black: his spiky legs bipedal, His aura's blacker than his soul, His cloth is blacker than his metal. Black Redder, Black Redder, with many a burned-out eye! Black Redder, Black Redder, you ugly little guy!
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Yeah, Ice Slide is horrible. My ice character had Power Flight for a while, recently switched to Millenial Flight (aka "travel power's so bright, gotta wear shades"). I'm going Ice Form pure DPS, and honestly Avalanche and Ice Blast tap spam is all the attack I need. Crits and bonus damage all over the place.
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Yeah, I hate that. It's not a particularly fun mission and the stupid prompt won't go away. The looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong cutscene for Radioactive Ringleader. The multiple, badly voiced cutscenes for Thick As Thieves. I Choose You, Gadroon and Take You To Their Leader are a bit annoying because of the required…
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YOU LEAVE MY GAME ALONE. No, seriously. I make alts. It's what I do. In single player RPGs I'm likely to start one of each kind of character a few times until I decide what to finish the story with. In MMOs I max out my slots with different kinds of characters until I have to delete some and narrow down which ones I'm…
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Pestilence is REALLY good for taking out minions. Just do a smidgen of AOE damage and then forget the minions and concentrate fire on the tougher one. Pestilence and Quarry are my two favorite offensive passives.
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Yeah, it has a few holes and relatively weak powers. I wound up starting an infernal chains character that will probably do all right, but nothing spectacular -- all the non-chain infernal powers have much better DPS. I'll probably do something with Kinetic Manipulation next because the idea's planted itself. It's probably…
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Kinetic Manipulation is the only passive I have never used. (Yeah, I have one with Medical Nanites and two with PFF.) I almost am tempted to try it just for completeness. I want to put together a chain-themed character, and that'd limit me to the physical chains rather than the toxic ones though...
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Nevermind, somehow I completely forgot about Ctrl+F5 (which can be rebound through the settings interface). You can tell I don't use muni bots much. :)
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I've used Implosion Engine on a couple of characters, but there's nothing really "ultimate" about it. More like, another power you can throw out there and let it stack with whatever else you're doing. Plana Fracture I took once and wound up retconning out.