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She wasn't six slotted with heals so it won't be as drastic a change. I added recharge reductions to all hear primaries and secondaries as well as end reductions, so she should be able to heal much more often. Be interesting to see how that trade off works out in the long run.
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From: Paragon City on patrol | Registered: Jul 2003
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I got by without recharges or hasten until about level 35 on Y. Once I had hasten fully slotted, he did pretty well in terms of healing recharges. I had RA six slotted with recharges too, so the recharge on it wasn't too bad either.
I'm not sure what the long run will be now. I think COV is going to be a lot more fun in the near future.
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Truthfully, a good part of my annoyance with "Enhancement Diversification" is that I'm just being willful. Before ED I liked trying out slotting aside from the ACC/5 DAM. I liked it, it was interesting and made me different from the other players. With ED, however, I'm not trying something new but following a path forced on by the devs. It makes following my own path much less fun because it's no longer my path.
Plus my END drain defender doesn't have a 6-slotted short circuit to look forward to, anymore. (From what I could read on the boards, you needed short circuit 6-slotted to get much fun out of slotting electical blast for end drain.) That really sucks.
I dunno, at the least there should have been some sort of reward/incentive for those of us already practicing Enhancement Diversity. Not the usual promised-reward-down-the-line (which usually changes from the time it's hinted at and when it actually happens, but an actual carrot for enhancement diversity. I mean, c'mon, give us enhancements to cover ALL the secondary effects.
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Well, I solo'd Stratum quite a bit over the weekend and while it sucked not being able to one hit anything without build up or aim, it wasn't as bad as I thought.
He was always six slotted for damage (for the most part) but now it looks like I'm gonna have to start giving him one or two accuracy's.
Last night, I grouped with 3 other blasters, two tanks and a defender and we still dealt a ton of damage. The only reason anyone died was because our tanks and the defender mysteriously all dc'd at the same time. Once they came back we were fine, tho'.
Still not very happy about it though overall. I don't like designers that enforce a certain style of play. Reminds me too much of my Warhammer 40K days.
Jamie
From: Wood River, IL | Registered: Aug 2005
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Wow, with the release of CoV nobody's posting here anymore!
Is anyone still playing just regular CoH?
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From: Founder's Falls, Paragon City | Registered: May 2004
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I tried Shadow Lad a few nights ago to see how Enhancement Diversification affected him. It wasn't as bad as a lot of other people have seen, but it took noticeably longer to work my way through the mission I was doing, and then I was unable to complete it because without perma hasten, I couldn't keep up with the boss' damage to me and his own healing.
Playing CoV is fun because I'm not high enough level to really bother six-slotting anything, so it's like ED doesn't exist yet. Plus, if I can't play Seymour Krelborn on stage, at least I can play him in the game.
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From: Standing beside you in Ferndale, MI | Registered: Aug 2003
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My highest COH character after Blue is a dedicated empathy healer by the name of Fascination Y. He's just a hair short of 43. I played him once or twice after ED, but his healing is pathetic now I don't have the heart. He just can't keep a team alive the way he used to, and his attacks were never all that strong BEFORE ED, and it certainly hasn't helped them. My energy blaster Blue Battlette could barely manage to kill ONE white baddie in about 3 shots, including snipe ...
All in all, I just don't see myself playing much COH unless they do something to fix ED.
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Speaking of which, either I can't find it or they have deleted the entire thread on ED ... seeing as how it was well over 600 pages and there were very few positive responses that's probably why.
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quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour: I tried Shadow Lad a few nights ago to see how Enhancement Diversification affected him. It wasn't as bad as a lot of other people have seen, but it took noticeably longer to work my way through the mission I was doing, and then I was unable to complete it because without perma hasten, I couldn't keep up with the boss' damage to me and his own healing.
ED's kept me out of CoH, too. I'd probably be okay with my Kheldians, who I never got that high but I'm still annoyed with the whole deal.
quote:Playing CoV is fun because I'm not high enough level to really bother six-slotting anything, so it's like ED doesn't exist yet. Plus, if I can't play Seymour Krelborn on stage, at least I can play him in the game.
I think it helps that we don't have expectations to the powersets' abilities, even in copied-over powersets which are supposed to run differnlty in different ATs. In CoV ED is how things always were.
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Well, maybe they'll get the ED sorted out by the time I restart my account. I hope!
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From: Founder's Falls, Paragon City | Registered: May 2004
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quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: My highest COH character after Blue is a dedicated empathy healer by the name of Fascination Y. He's just a hair short of 43. I played him once or twice after ED, but his healing is pathetic now I don't have the heart. He just can't keep a team alive the way he used to, and his attacks were never all that strong BEFORE ED, and it certainly hasn't helped them. My energy blaster Blue Battlette could barely manage to kill ONE white baddie in about 3 shots, including snipe ...
All in all, I just don't see myself playing much COH unless they do something to fix ED.
I played Stratum quite a bit over the weekend (an eng/eng blaster like Blue) and the only time I really noticed a big difference was when I hunted on the streets. Missions were still easy to get through but I cannot one shot anything anymore without Build Up and Aim.
However, I spent about three hours in Bloody Bay yesterday and he flippin' ruled. I built an eight man team and we kept raiding the villains base. At one point we fought for about 35 minutes straight before the villains pushed us back. It was a ton of fun, a lot more than I expected it would be. What I can't get over is that I can one or two shot a player character but I cannot do so to a computer controlled minion.
Jamie
From: Wood River, IL | Registered: Aug 2005
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ED has definitely had an impact and will take some getting use to but I think that smart use of the respec can fix things up on most chars.
Mon is a little weaker but his end usage is MUCH lower since I respced him and added an end reduction So in each power. I did away with Hasten completely on him since the only really long recharge power he has is Nova and I don't really need to use that all that often. So now instead of 4-5 damage/1 accuracy on each of his attacks and 4-5 damage resistances of defense buffs on each of his defenses he'll have 2-3 damage, 1 accuracy, 1 recharge and 1 end reduction on each of his attacks, and 3 damage resists or defense and 2-3 end reductions on each of his defenses. In place of Hasten I picked up Conserve Power for those rare times when his endurance starts to get low. He seems to be doing just fine this way though it does take a bit longer to take down minions, lieuts, and bosses in comparison to before.
I kept Hasten for Mysa (3 slotted with recharge reductions which means it's fully active for all but 30 secs of downtime) I took the 9 spare slots from Hasten, Health & Stamina (like Mon, Health & Stamina are down to 3 slots in each)and divided them up among her heals (1 more heal in each) and Recovery Aura, Regen Aura & Accelerate Metabolism, adding an extra recharge in each as well as either Health or Stamina. The extra recharge in each makes her heals reusable almost immediately (particularly while Hasten is running) and helps bring the down time on the others a bit shorter also. I also rearranged the slots on her attacks so each would have a recharge in it as well.
Condo I haven't respeced at all yet. So far he seems to be doing okay as is though I'm not done testing him yet.
All in all, I think ED is manageable with a little creativity in slotting.
Having said that, I hope this is the last time we have to rebuild our chars. I'm really sick and tired of doing this every time a new issue comes out. That's what has really bothered me about ED. It'snot the effect it has on my ability to play my chars it the simple fact that in order to do so I have to waste a great deal of time recontstructing them form the ground up. Stop it already!
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From: Paragon City on patrol | Registered: Jul 2003
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quote:Originally posted by Doc Nimbus: Well, maybe they'll get the ED sorted out by the time I restart my account. I hope!
Hey Doc, you know you get a free month if you add CoV right? And the cost for the subscription doesn't change if you add CoV either!
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