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Coward: Sep 10, 2009; _{I say we take off and surrender unconditionally from orbit.

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I would like to play a Tank to play with my friends, mainly because I just want to herd and stand there and let my buddies who have less experience with the game have fun beating up baddies without me dominating each fight. What's the current thinking on the tankiest powerset that just stands there and holds aggro? I have already done the whole Stone Armour thing back on live - is that still the most lazy tank set?

# ¿ Jun 11, 2019 00:52

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 20:37

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Merilan posted:

I'm finding Willpower to kinda have trouble holding aggro with just its aura compared to other sets, so it might not be the "laziest" in terms of stickiness; something with a damage aura and AoE attacks (like Shield) would have an easier time of it, I think.

Wait, Shield has a damage aura now?

# ¿ Jun 11, 2019 01:18

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Both a damage aura and a taunt aura? That's just Dark and Ice, right?

# ¿ Jun 11, 2019 02:34

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Dareon posted:

Now I feel like advertising my Mercs/Emp MM The Legendary Vic Goss in LFT and pissing off every one of those people by only healing my pets.

Put together a team of empathy characters and one pubbie, where everyone just spends all their effort buffing and healing your pets.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2020 00:59

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...Now I want to see the absolute worst build at 50, with all slots having enhancements in them. Presumably you want to full slot Rest and Sprint for a start, but what AT and sets would lead to the worst?

And then the worst 8 team up and see how far they can go.

# ¿ May 6, 2020 23:34

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Gynovore posted:

Never played mercs, but from what I've heard, they're extremely mediocre. Damage isn't amazing, they're not especially sturdy, they have no mezzes or debuffs, and Serum is terribad.

I played Mercs, and pretty much this. Especially about Serum.

# ¿ Sep 2, 2020 23:32

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LordSaturn posted:

by all accounts Matt Positron Miller really assumed that everyone was waiting on them to start setting up epic raids and progression ladders, for some reason

It is so mind-boggling to go back and read his posts to just see how completely he misread the primary appeal of the game he was lead developer for. CoX was unbeatable as a dolly dress-up game that allowed you to create characters of quite different genres, and gave you space for a long name with variations in capitalisation snd spaces, with titles. Of course people were going to be drawn to trying out different combos of powers and outfits, not to mention hilarious gag names. No one really wanted the heavy end content gearing and raiding, not when your brilliant idea for a Street Justice Stalker with the vampire face and cape but in those boxing shorts and gloves called Count Punchula is just begging to be made.

How you could think this game was for people to play super seriously with just one character was bafflingly odd.

e: Count Punchula was my last great gasp on live. Such a great look and his bio read something like, "A suspiciously long-lived aristocrat with an unquenchable and unholy lust for punching"

# ¿ Oct 27, 2020 08:59

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Huszsersvn posted:

Awwww, I love the little hands holding the spare mag.

# ¿ Nov 27, 2020 21:33

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Jazerus posted:

ncsoft is manifestly a normal company in this regard

see extremely normal company disney and their brutal butchering of marvel heroes

Oh, was Marvel Heroes subscription-based?

# ¿ May 15, 2021 02:14

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The day Instant Healing became a click power and a glorified Dull Pain is when Regen died as a set.

# ¿ Jun 22, 2021 02:50

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Ziddar posted:

Way back in the day, before ED and the hits to Regen, the powerset pretty much had 2 states: topped off and dead. I felt invincible as DM/Regen unless something hit me so hard that I lost like 95% of my health in one shot. It was simply unreal how fast you healed with everything toggled on.

Yeah, it was basically "Is there an Alpha strike? No? Okay, I'll tank everything."

# ¿ Jun 22, 2021 07:47

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All they had to do was fudge the numbrrs a bit so the heal wasn't so overwhelming, or make the power at least be once every second fight in terms of cooldown instead of ridiculously long and Instant Healing would still be a fine capstone to make Regen almost worth it. I have no idea why they nerfed it as much as they did.

# ¿ Jun 22, 2021 18:21

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Section Z posted:

I never won a costume contest, but I did get into a zero stakes robots MM vs ninja MM minion emote dance off with a fellow loser way back when live was going.

God, MM can be such a pain to wrangle but the fact you can literally order your pet army to dance and other bullshit is fairly unique as far as I know.

If they'd let us use the costume creator to customise the pets I would never have had another character.

# ¿ Dec 13, 2021 09:03

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Un-nerf Regen!

# ¿ Jul 27, 2022 23:41

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Just got to remember that right from the beginning CoH was designed for team play, and has numerous ways of making that as easy as possible that even modern MMOs don't come close to matching.

# ¿ Jul 31, 2022 05:28

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Coward posted:

Un-nerf Regen!

# ¿ Aug 6, 2022 03:11

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Abroham Lincoln posted:

As long as you're having fun there really aren't any wrong choices. Except making a Regeneration character. That's a wrong choice.

Un-nerf Regen!

# ¿ Apr 18, 2023 00:59

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Gynovore posted:

Ya know what really loving irks me about Regen? They could make the power level just right by doing one tiny little thing... turning Instant Healing back into an unlimited duration toggle like it was at launch. It would take about four minutes of coding, tops.

# ¿ Apr 19, 2023 03:56

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Opinions on SJ for Stalkers?

# ¿ May 13, 2023 03:35

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I personally dislike basically all the IO set nonsense and 50+ content. They feel really divorced from what I saw as the main game - a dolly dress-up simulator which included punching. Yes, I played through a lot of the same content over and over, but I was a playing a different dolly with different fists. End game content was making a new character, and that was more than enough for me.

Admittedly most of the times I was doing the same content I was taking different groups of people I had introduced to the game through their first times seeing the content so that might have made a difference.

# ¿ May 18, 2023 00:52

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 20:37

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loving hell. I remember on live getting pissed off with smug idiots spamming AoE immobs that ruined everyone else's fun.

# ¿ Mar 1, 2024 08:48

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