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Section Z posted:Is the "Swallow Tail Cut" advantage on Scything blade that causes percentage damage still cool? I remember trying it and liking it, but had some misgivings about it (Doesn't on Supervillain or higher, only applies in the first place if it is the first Bleed effect on a target, damage decreases per tick). STC counts as a bleed when used with Reaper's Embrace, so you get to consume 6 bleeds instead of the normal 5 if you max your bleed count, which means more damage. At least, that was the case when I tried it a year ago 
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ANTIPROOOOTOOOOONNNNNNNNN!  He's gone (or moved to Neverwinter, I forget) and they scrapped the stupid crafting system of his. The only legacy of his that is left is the Vibora costume drops (which did get a drop rate buff after AP left).
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Dec 7, 2012 06:18
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Mewnie posted:ANTIPROOOOTOOOOONNNNNNNNN! He was like the Gozer of CO. Except not as corpulent or visibly obnoxious.
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It's back to thinking I own Tesla Coil, Geo Armor, and Dark Armor, Swamp King, and Epic Samurai again in the Character creator.  I could see myself having bought some of those in the past (Geo, Tesla) but I wouldn't have bothered with Epic Samurai. EDIT: And redeemed villains, is back to being unlocked again.Make up your mind about if I have costume bundles mysteriously for free or not game, I don't want to make a character only to have half their costume stripped from them when I log in to play them later. These bait and switch shenanigans are getting confusing. I'm probably going to fail spectacularly, but Rec Primary, Int/Con secondary for Power armor feels like an okay attempt at the moment, considering the Rec Tree's energy goodies. Section Z fucked around with this message at 09:24 on Dec 7, 2012 |
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Section Z posted:It's back to thinking I own Tesla Coil, Geo Armor, and Dark Armor, Swamp King, and Epic Samurai again in the Character creator. Some of the costumes are given for free if you're subbed. They also might have been granted to people who were subbed in the past or before they added in the premium/gold tiers, but don't quote me on that.
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Cryptic's costume unlocking has always been slightly... off, especially in the early days. I grabbed the six-month special back when the game first started (which is finally about to run out due to my credit card changing; can't transfer it to a new one) and managed to get half of the six-month art deco costume and half of the lifetime costume. Didn't matter enough for me to put in a ticket since I've never really used either, but sheesh. Also... I've been thinking of handing the thread off to someone else, since I honestly haven't really played the game in months and I think I'll let my subscription lapse when my card goes. I've been playing STO a lot more these days, since it seems to be getting the lion's share of Cryptic's attention; I went to go update the OP with whatever winter event ChampO was doing, and there was... nothing to add. I was going to wait for some big patch/event as a good chance for it, but the only real event in recent memory was, uh, CoH dying, and that's not really a good excuse. If anyone really has a good idea for do a new thread, toss out an OP here for review and I'll close this one. Or just toss me poo poo by PM or whatever that needs to be fixed in this one meanwhile.
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Archonex posted:Some of the costumes are given for free if you're subbed. They also might have been granted to people who were subbed in the past or before they added in the premium/gold tiers, but don't quote me on that. But this time, this moment restarting the game? Oh look, I have access to them again. It's not that I gain them that is confusing me, but the fact I have them, lose them, get them again, so I don't know if it's safe to loving use half this stuff or not. Along those lines, I am an idiot who didn't take the Tech Moon base for free, "Hmm, I think I'll use some of my old points to buy a base... I have coupons? *clicks dropdown* It says I have no coupons. *buys Sci-Fi Moon base* Now to go to my moon base *clicks hidouts* .... Free claim?... I could have gotten Moon base for free? Why the hell would I have ever clicked this hidouts button to find out if I didn't know I owned one yet?" So I took the Arcane Sanctum for free. The game still says "You have coupons!" every so often when browsing the C-store out of curiosity, even though I never have any coupons listed in the dropdown. At least from my mistakes, I was able to tell a few pals to check the hideouts button first as they dust off old accounts. So one got a free moonbase  EDIT: Aaand they are all back to locked again
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Dec 7, 2012 09:55
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Section Z posted:It's back to thinking I own Tesla Coil, Geo Armor, and Dark Armor, Swamp King, and Epic Samurai again in the Character creator. I made a character with all the Rock outfit pieces last week, and when I actually entered the tutorial, I was almost-naked. For some reason, the costume was available in the designer, but not in the actual game. 
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prefect posted:I made a character with all the Rock outfit pieces last week, and when I actually entered the tutorial, I was almost-naked. For some reason, the costume was available in the designer, but not in the actual game. Always, always select 'Hide unowned costume options'. Yes, you can select the costume from the dropdown menus, but with the option turned on to hide them, your player model will not show those 'owned' pieces you really don't own. Also, gently caress grinding for Snakebucks. I just want one thousand 
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quote:I've been playing STO a lot more these days, since it seems to be getting the lion's share of Cryptic's attention They've added like 3 things in 6 months. Which of course is still more than CO.
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Aphrodite posted:They've added like 3 things in 6 months. It's far more than 3 things, actually. And the 3 things i'm guessing your thinking of are pretty huge. They not only made the end game bearable, they pretty much removed Gozer's lovely influence wholesale after he was kicked to the curb. The inclusion of a ton of varied end game content helps too. To the point where the game actually has a proper zone to explore on the ground, now. Never mind all of the new encounters, and queuables. Either way, word is is that some of the CoH staff got recruited to both CO and and STO, so that's something at least.
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The only big Paragon-to-Cryptic member I know for sure is Doctor Aeon, who was a major Mission Architect and, when that sorta stopped being a thing, started writing content for the game since about the Going Rogue expansion (so, he wrote the game when it was well-written). He went to STO, but I hope for CO's sake he writes some stuff for that. He knows how to write a superhero setting, and if I'm right about what he wrote he really knew how to write villains.
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Archonex posted:It's far more than 3 things, actually. Still just prettied up grinding for stuff so you can more efficiently grind for stuff. vvv Yeah but with the bonus of being a total chore to play with Korean MMO pricing on their ugly rear end ships. vvv Aphrodite fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Dec 7, 2012 |
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Aphrodite posted:Still just prettied up grinding for stuff so you can more efficiently grind for stuff. MMOs.txt
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So, if I were - hypothetically - kinda interested in getting into this, does subbing seem the way to go? The F2P archetype selection is laughably limited, especially coming away from CoH.
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I decided to head back to this game after CoH went down, and I was happy to see that most of the stuff I unlocked back when I had a sub is still there. I'm a little bummed that I can't play my Gold characters, but I might end up resubbing since I feel like Cryptic is one of the only MMO companies that isn't massively scumbag. So how 'bout them character builds? I don't have many available to me, but the ones I'm playing are working out pretty well. I'm told there's been a lot of rebalancing, so I'm guessing that means my Might dude won't be able to solo Legendaries anymore. That's too bad. If i decide to unlock some though, which ones are pretty satisfying? I'm generally a melee person but I might spring for Specialist since I'm reading in this thread that pistols are actually worth a drat now.
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LaserShark posted:So, if I were - hypothetically - kinda interested in getting into this, does subbing seem the way to go? The F2P archetype selection is laughably limited, especially coming away from CoH. My advice: find somewhere selling the boxed game for cheap. Note that you can only use one retailer box per account, so don't buy 10 copies from Amazon, as you can only use one Amazon copy. I've got Amazon and Best Buy on my account, wish I could find a cheap Walmart and Gamestop copy. Note that some of these will also come with extra costume parts or some real-money game currency too. You can also contact amazon sellers who have the timecards cheap, and ask them if they'd be willing to just email you the code and not bother shipping the actual thing to you to save a few bucks. Although I did that last one and the dude emailed them to me and then also mailed me actual ones, which worked out well for me of course, but still kinda lame as the communication seemed clear enough to me but I guess not. Edit: Also to all the new people,  Free poo poo here http://www.alienwarearena.com/giveaway/champions-online-ffa-game-bundle Should still work. Gives you an Archetype, and a costume set. Also an adventure pack, but those are free in general now I think anyway. For more free poo poo, play the game via steam and you should get some items (I think I got a sidekick?). You may have to make your account through it though, not 100% sure. There is also a bonus (that is ending very soon I guess) for linking your Cryptic account to a Perfect World account, feel free to take advantage of that. Light Gun Man fucked around with this message at 07:30 on Dec 8, 2012 |
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Light Gun Man posted:Bonus Stuff! Thanks for this! I linked everything but for some reason it didn't unlock the Viking Warrior Set, maybe it takes a bit of time to work? I was able to "unlock" the Devastator AT from the character select screen but when I tried to use some of the Viking Set during character creation it didn't work. I'll try again tomorrow morning. Edit:  In order to claim your stuff, go to the BONUS tab in the C-Store in game. If you attempt to unlock it under the normal categories, it will not work. Make sure it's the bonus tab.
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Rixen posted:I decided to head back to this game after CoH went down, and I was happy to see that most of the stuff I unlocked back when I had a sub is still there. I'm a little bummed that I can't play my Gold characters, but I might end up resubbing since I feel like Cryptic is one of the only MMO companies that isn't massively scumbag. It looks like you can still hit 85%+ damage resist with Defiance, so throw in some healing and an active defence power and you might well still be able to do the crazy stuff.
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Metrohunter posted:It looks like you can still hit 85%+ damage resist with Defiance, so throw in some healing and an active defence power and you might well still be able to do the crazy stuff. The archetypes that get defiance don't get self healing abilities, though. I checked.
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General Maximus posted:The archetypes that get defiance don't get self healing abilities, though. I checked. Freeform, mate. It's all about freeform.
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Oh that's right. I only play freeform so I forgot about that. I refuse to play archtypes.
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Mewnie posted:ANTIPROOOOTOOOOONNNNNNNNN! That's pretty encouraging to hear actually, that was one of my relatively few beefs with this game (1 in thousands drop rate for things).
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Is there still any way for a player to bug their head's appearance into invisibility? With the new Devestator AT unlocked, I kinda wanna play a Dullahan, a Headless Horseman kinda dude.
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Mewnie posted:ANTIPROOOOTOOOOONNNNNNNNN! Is this Antiproton person any relation to Positron from CoH?
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So, I've been idly thinking about trying to get a Supergoon Safari going over the holidays. I have a few questions to that end: How many of you guys have characters at level 40? Do we think it's reasonably possible to get 5+ level 40s together for a few hours? How interested are people in seeing the game's tiny collection of good, high-level, grouping-mandatory content? Are people running Therakiel's Lair and just not talking about it? I would need to rebuild my old regen tank to participate. What superstat/trait configuration makes sense for that? How much misery is involved in getting livable stat-relevant gear around that level? The one good thing about the old crafting system was that you could, with a little help, get yourself a suite of high-level equipment in whatever stat configuration you wanted. R.I.P, 38 blues.
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LordSaturn posted:How many of you guys have characters at level 40? If you can get into good groups, it takes maybe a week at most for a casual player to get to 40 now. A single XP alert gets you anywhere from 1 level, to half of one. And that's when they aren't running bonus XP weekends like CoH had. Therakiel's lair runs do happen. Though if you want to get a good one one elite, your best bet is to avoid PUG's. There's a disturbingly high number of people coming into the game (I guess from CoH?) that can't build a freeform character to save their lives, recently. Also, they countered the loss of crafting equipment with free equipment "lockboxes" that require no key. You do the tutorial quest, talking to someone in the game world, then you get a box that can be opened at certain levels. The game also has WoW style heirloom gear. They actually handed out entire sets of it for the older players during the last anniversary. Having gotten a set, I can say it is indeed awesome. But if you don't have a set to fill all of your slots, it isn't that hard to get geared up. Edit: Notably, there's even a few ways to avoid gearing entirely, too. You don't even have to rely on conventional gear. It's entirely possible to level up through vehicles, and just be the equivalent of a dinky pilot on the ground. There are also permanent transformation items that drop in the game world very rarely, and other ones that are purchasable from the shop. Vehicles have their own gearing system that the stupid pubbies keep bitching about being underpowered, since they didn't start off as godlike destroyers of worlds in their hovertank. In reality, they're actually just as effective (And probably more, in some ways that put them higher up than characters. Like speed.) as them. However, vehicles are expensive, since the main way to get them is from the Z store. Which means you have to buy them from someone who already bought them, or from a special vendor. Transformation powers range the gamut from joke powers that turn you into generic NPC's in MC (Like "Turn into Frank", which I think is one of the joke ones.), or turn you into mobs and bosses. They level up as you level up, too. And there's also a number of homages, like the Cyborg Ninja from Metal Gear being a Z store transformation option. Archonex fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Dec 9, 2012 |
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Okay, I started this game last night. Played for a couple hours, no problem, no issues at all. Today I log on and every time I go into an instance it gets a bit laggy until it'll suddenly disconnect me from the server. This doesn't happen when I'm in the open world, mind you; it only happens when I go into a mission instance. Is this a common thing? Any tips on how to make this stop? I'm on a wifi connection, if that matters...though, again, last night I had zero connection problems. I'd ask on the official forums but apparently there's a "grace period" before you can make new posts if you're a new member.
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prefect posted:Is this Antiproton person any relation to Positron from CoH? Maybe as Positron's spergy Praetorian double. Not the same person- Positron, to me, comes off as a real human being. Antiproton was all "Let me check the numbers on the drop rate... yeah, they're fine.  "E: LordSaturn posted:I would need to rebuild my old regen tank to participate. What superstat/trait configuration makes sense for that? I overhauled my regen character after the new stats- I'll have to load up the game to go over the Specs, but I went Dex, Str/Rec, focusing on the dodge bonus Dex spec and loading up on dodge gear and then taking Burning Chi Resurgence with the RR advantage. I didn't even intend to tank, but since I hardly ever have to block now, I end up DPS tanking. To any CoH powerbuilders coming over, layering defenses works quite well here too. You don't even have to take Dex as a SS, since there's pretty good dodge mods at 40. (I went Dex to crit like mad). Mewnie fucked around with this message at 04:26 on Dec 9, 2012 |
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Mewnie posted:Maybe as Positron's spergy Praetorian double. Mind you, his idea of "fine" tended to be a .00001% drop rate on a freaking costume unlock. He was basically Gozer if he had an evil alter-ego name of another comic book MMO dev. The name fit.
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Mewnie posted:To any CoH powerbuilders coming over, layering defenses works quite well here too. You don't even have to take Dex as a SS, since there's pretty good dodge mods at 40. (I went Dex to crit like mad). My current might character is Con, Str/Dex. Considering dropping Dex for End or possibly Rec, though.
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Having a good bit of fun so far, but there is some bizarro thunderlag going on with this game only. I'm talking over a minute delay between things happening. Is the server commonly overloaded in peak hours or something?
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Happening to me as well, never had any issue with CO before. Random disconnects and desyncs all over the place.
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Archonex posted:If you can get into good groups, it takes maybe a week at most for a casual player to get to 40 now. A single XP alert gets you anywhere from 1 level, to half of one. And that's when they aren't running bonus XP weekends like CoH had. Are you sure about this? An XP alert will get you a level if you're below level 10, but it's less than a tenth of a level by the time you hit 30. Unless I'm doing something wrong.
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Those who have connectivity issues, try turning on a proxy in the launcher options window. I use the US proxy, and most connectivity issues I had without it on instantly disappeared.
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Friendly warning to any other newcomers: If you see a smash alert with Ao'Qephoth, just don't queue. Your PUG idiots won't block his health drain attacks, the timer will run out with him at full health, and you will not get your XP bonus.
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To explain why: Ao heals himself by lifestealing from people. If you don't block this, he can heal himself to full very quickly. The drooling, awful creatures that make up 99% of the game's playerbase lack the digits to press any keys at all, much less hold shift down for a second or two.
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Hey, I've got a question, since the power overview didn't go over many of the pets. Which ones are the most worthwhile? I'm trying to make an Infernal Ranged/Pet Build and just stack Poison DoTs by spamming attacks via Supernatural power while hiding in a Circle of Primal Dominion while the pets do the heavy lifting. I'm thinking of grabbing Ritual of Arcane Summoning for a Controllable pet, along with March of the Dead and Summon Shadows for uncontrolled pets. Any suggestions for more? I want to grab at least six pet powers.
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OneEightHundred posted:Friendly warning to any other newcomers: If you see a smash alert with Ao'Qephoth, just don't queue. Your PUG idiots won't block his health drain attacks, the timer will run out with him at full health, and you will not get your XP bonus. This is funny, I actually queued up for an Ao today, and the queue popped just as zone chat was discussing what an awful nightmare fighting him was. I went in expecting the worst, but it ended up being one of the smoothest runs I've ever had. I guess I lucked out. Second run was a little worse, but enough of us blocked his drains that we were able to drop him in good time.
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