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You sure the information on those temp powers wasn't originally posted on April 1? They just sound so ... silly. The bat would be nice as an emote, though, so you can hit a player as you yell, "QUIT AGGROING ALL THE GROUPS!"
And both those power sets for archery sound much more controller than defender. I wonder how it will all work out.
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It actually came from a COH related website called the 5th Column. The author seems knoweldgable about everything else and seems to be pulling the info from the patches that are downloaded. These are already in the system but have not been activated.
I thought the same thing about them and it's certainly possible that they were inteded to be for an April Fools event that never happened.
But I sure would love to have that bat on some pick up teams!
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From: Paragon City on patrol | Registered: Jul 2003
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I don't see how they can't see that stamina is a mandatory power. As quickly as you can go through attacks at the upper levels, you'd be out of juice in no time flat if you didn't have stamina.
As for hasten ... I resisted taking it for the longest time on any of my toons because I didn't want to have a cookie cutter build, but I do have to admit that it's come in real handy with my level 36 healer ... the extra juice you can keep in heals without a recharge and the fact that hasten tends to offset somewhat the slower recharge effects of some enemy attacks make it irresistable for a healer, I think.
It's sad that you have two out of your 4 pool powers already taken by necessary choices, though.
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Perhaps they should make Stamina and Hasten Inherent powers that you earn by attaining certain levels, just like you get heal at level 2 when you exit Outbreak. Hasten could be attained at 10 and Stamina at 14.
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From: Paragon City on patrol | Registered: Jul 2003
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Yeah that was yesterday's patch. Maybe Condo and Mighty Mon can go back and do Positron now without haven't to worry about LCing and getting dropped from the team.
I also noticed for the fisrt time that they have a "Coming in August 2005" blurb on the feaures update page for Issue 5, so it looks like that's at least a few weeks away yet. Probably see it go to test server in a week or so.
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Just popped over the the CoH boards. Looks like Issue 5 has been uploaded to the test server.
Haven't had a chance yet to read about all the changes but it sure sounds like tankers and scrappers have a taken a BIG hit to their defenses!
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Wow! Spent most of the afternoon reading threads about all the changes in I5 that are being tested on the training room server. If all go live,CoH will be very different when it comes to teaming and soloing.
I would encourage everyone to go read the numerous threads on the "Training Room" forum at the CoH boards. The chages are too numerous for me to list.
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PS: With all the changes, I can't see how they could release Issue 5 and NOT give out a free respec. Everyone, and I do mean EVERYONE will need to respec in order to rearrange slots if not select a new set of powers. So start considering what you may or may not want to change.
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From: Paragon City on patrol | Registered: Jul 2003
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I don't know if you all heard the bigger news but Marvel has combined forces with Microsoft to bring their MMORPG to life finally. And it will also be playable through the new XBox 360.
Could be that this will be the big competition that will resolve the lawsuit. I know I would be more interested again if I could play a CoH similar game but on a console and not have to be online to play.
Anyone who doesn't have hasten now is going to regret it if they don't take it. I used Blue's full auto once and it seemed to take much longer to recharge ... and given that AOEs will now affect no more than 16 baddies at a time that's not good.
And that hacks me off. Unique builds are constantly getting screwed over in COH ...
The archery and sonic sets are kind of fun, but when you add in all the nerfs they're planning this time, I'm thinking the Devs may be reaching the point where they may finally be cutting their throats ... the Controllers seem to be absolutely furious with the changes ... blasters get a bit of a boost with defiance, but I don't think there are as many blasters around as there used to be, at least on the upper levels on Triumph.
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Yeah, I spent some time playing around on test also. I've been a fan of Hasten right from the start and don't have a single char without it but I agree with Blue, it's pretty much mandatory now.
Poor Prism and Grev and 88 are going to be limited to one pet at a time as of Issue 5 so we will no longer get to see Pookette or Pookeena in game (unless Pooky agrees to share time with them) or Peebles and Bam Bam (some thing with Rocky). Sounds like the only controllers that will be able to summon more than one pet will be Fire Controllers (who will summon 3 Imps at a time). Illusion controllers will also summon 3 Phantom Armymembers at a time.
Archery and Sonic are quite fun BUT....
Archery blasters have no logical secondary. There is no Archery secondary for them. Best combo will likely be Devices I guess.
Archery Defenders will be much cooler, they have a n Archery balst secondry and a Trick Arrow primary! Lots of fun with entagling arrows (like web grenade) and explosive arrows, etc.
Sonic is a lot of fun but seems overpowered. I'll be surprised if they don't nerf this set before going to the Live servers.
A gripe I have for the defender Sonic set...NO heal! This seems very much like Force Field with the animations changed. But it is very cool.
Got some names reserved on live servers already to make new chars with them
[ July 17, 2005, 04:17 AM: Message edited by: Vee ]
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Red Caps look like evil dwarves; Tuathan are Werewolves, but not the same as Council War Wolves; Cabal are the witches from Halloween event; Fir Bogs are the Pumpkin head from that event also. Ghosts are just like those on the ghost ship. I heard mention of trolls that throw people at you and then explode but didn't see any.
All in all looks like a very cool zone. War Witch (from the original comic book series is the trainer for the zone. She's on the north island, sitting in a yoga position and floating in mid air
BTW: Cabal Sprites (underlings) give endurance buffs while you are near like the blue crystals in Oranbega, probably some green sprites around also but I only saw blue.
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From: Paragon City on patrol | Registered: Jul 2003
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I'm going to head back and find War Witch. Isn't she too low for Croatia though? 8-) (Apex was revealed to be a level 15 scrapper at the end of the first series...)
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The bad news is that Condo got roped into trying the Eden Trial this morning and ended up with 300K in debt AND then the team decided we couldn't complete it because the mind controller with TP and healer decided to quit.
Needless to say Condo will be seeking help to work off all that debt.
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