Since when could I do "other things" during Eye Beam mode? Is this something specifically for Power Armor characters? Because I'm under constant global CD while the lasers tick. Actually, the only way I can even stop is to block to cancel it.
So that you know where I'm coming from, Eye Beam was my mainstay attack for most of the PvE game with my partner because of its combination of low end cost and ease of play (set it and forget it), letting me focus on other things like watching his health to throw out a shield, or visual cues for when to block.
Now, I'm willing to admit that last patch, Eye Beams probably did too much damage last patch for its end cost. They started low, but ended high, with almost no energy requirement. With Rank 3 Eye Beam and Rank 3 Ice Form supporting it, at level 27, my beam's first tick was usually somewhere just under 200 damage, and ramped up to ~650 on the final tick. For essentially zero energy cost (I'm INT/END superstatted), I was putting out a hefty amount of DPS. This was actually pretty dangerous, considering I had no aggro reduction and my form was an Offensive. I would regularly grab the aggro of legendaries and cosmics off my tank buddy (who runs in Balanced with Regen), and fights often swayed back and forth between pewpew and near death.
Logging on today, I heard about the changes to forms and Eye Beams. I checked, and sure enough, my form was granting me +43% elemental damage instead of the +100% it was doing the day before. Annoying, but something I could live with... if it weren't for the nerfs to Eye Beam itself.
Instead of 200->650, my Eye Beams now tick for 80-120 damage, flickering between the two numbers throughout the duration, ie. not steadily ramping up, but just random.
Slightly confused, I tested out my Force Blast next, and smacked the same dummy for 400 repeatedly. And quickly. And for a relatively tiny amount of End.
My Rank 1 Force Blast, with no form supporting it, out DPSes my Rank 3 Eye Beams with a Rank 3 form supporting it by a huge margin. This wouldn't matter so much if I could do something else while the Beams were running, but I can't, and the Beams are way, way too far back for my to respec out of them, or the form that boosted them.
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Requests:
1) Roll back the changes to Eye Beam damage to what they were in the previous patch.
2) Give Eye Beams a real energy cost reflective of its damage.
3) If 1 and 2 are impractical because it's supposed to work with Power Armor toggles, consider adding an Advantage that significantly increases its damage to pre-patch levels, but disables Power Armor toggles when activated and makes it more end intensive to use. This would allow players to still make Cycloptian heroes while hopefully not unbalancing PA's potential damage.
Eye Beams needed an END cost, but its damage was fine. Hopefully someone at Cryptic will see this.
Yeah i have str as a super stat since I was doing ok with PFF without end. And yes I block. The problem I have is almost all my attacks need to be charged to do much so I leave myself open to tons of damage while trying to do it.
This would be your issue, yeah.
This is incredibly dangerous to do to yourself in this game. If you hadn't noticed that before it shows how bad PFF was.
So it needed to be nerfed because I did ok with only having one of the super stats for it? Thats a bunch of bullshit. What about regen where you don't need any super stats to do well? Or invul where alot of people just took con and not str as a SS?
Yeah you could cheese PFF just like you could any other defensive power but less so than others. Hell most of the bitching about PFF was actually related to force sheath lingering instead of the actual power.
The ego affects the regen rate of the shield, and the endurance affects the amount it absorbs. So it sounds like they nerfed the amount it absorbs, and not really the regen, so it would make sense that the stat you don't have assisting your shield would make it more weak. But if it really is as bad as you say, they should have given the power back to those who already had it, so they could decide whether or not to keep it with the new stats.
Yes I realize that. But taking it down in 5 seconds and then having no defense isn't a defense. Its like not have to hit block for a few seconds.
Five seconds is more than enough time to have them nearly dead.
You are in fact intended to have to use your own HP.
Which is fine. But then what happens when I have to fight a villian or something along with them for a quest? I can't do it because I am dying due to drastic changes in the defensive i've chosen and being unable to respec due to borked costs.
Look I agree it needed a nerf. I'd said that in PA chat before. The problem is they nerfed it to the point of near uselessness.
Would you mind sharing your build?
Here is mine:
lv 18, powers are Force Bolts, Two-Gun Mojo (Rank 2 + Close the Gap), Force Eruption, Condemn, Breakaway Shot, PFF (Rank 2), Field Surge, Acrobatics. My super stats are End and Ego.
And so far while I have to be more careful I'm not having the problems you are describing.
I always wondered why every PvP match I've played since the head start had some guy just spamming eye beams the entire game. I didn't think the damage was too crazy, but it makes sense now why so many people used it if the end cost was that low. It always felt like a "god, you annoying little buttmunch" power than a "OP nubby power spammer" to me. Bringing back the damage but increasing the end cost would be just dandy.
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So, PFF has been nerfed into nigh-uselessness. Teleport is still OP. Regen can actually die now, provided it's not combined with TP.
On an unrelated note, I just got my game box. The cover sleeve is sweet. Except for the Witchcraft on the back, who does not look at all like Witchcraft.
edit: upon opening said box, I have discovered that Champions comes with the most informative and comprehensive manual ever.
it says absolutely nothing about actually playing the game, and mentions reading the online manual and in-game help. It also only mentions it once.
You know, there really needs to be something in there about how you pick 2 characteristics as your super stats, and how said stats increase as you level and are the basis on how much damage your powers do.
Haha they added cooldowns and no respecs?
Lost interest now.
No cooldown and free choice of powers is what interested me in the first place.
I'm a respeccin kinda guy and I do not understand the elitist kind of "you shouldn't respec you horrible man you" attitude people have to respecs around here. If I wish to respec, that is up to me. Kindly bugger off.
There have always been some cooldowns. Sometimes we deem the right balance to a power is to add a cooldown, though that is rare. A large majority of powers are still cooldown-less.
Respec is still there. Still not balanced right, but it's not like we're removing it?
Yes I realize that. But taking it down in 5 seconds and then having no defense isn't a defense. Its like not have to hit block for a few seconds.
Five seconds is more than enough time to have them nearly dead.
You are in fact intended to have to use your own HP.
Which is fine. But then what happens when I have to fight a villian or something along with them for a quest? I can't do it because I am dying due to drastic changes in the defensive i've chosen and being unable to respec due to borked costs.
Look I agree it needed a nerf. I'd said that in PA chat before. The problem is they nerfed it to the point of near uselessness.
Would you mind sharing your build?
Here is mine:
lv 18, powers are Force Bolts, Two-Gun Mojo (Rank 2 + Close the Gap), Force Eruption, Condemn, Breakaway Shot, PFF (Rank 2), Field Surge, Acrobatics. My super stats are End and Ego.
And so far while I have to be more careful I'm not having the problems you are describing.
Level 25, force bolts, force cascade, force shield w/sheath adv, eruption, PFF rank 3, field surge, and field drones. jet boots. I have STR/EGO as my super stats. Currently I can't tell if field surge even does anything anymore and the drones got nerfed hard which they needed. The only thing that makes it so I can solo at all is force sheath.
EDIT: Akinos do you know if field surge actually does anything for PFF anymore?
So, PFF has been nerfed into nigh-uselessness. Teleport is still OP. Regen can actually die now, provided it's not combined with TP.
On an unrelated note, I just got my game box. The cover sleeve is sweet. Except for the Witchcraft on the back, who does not look at all like Witchcraft.
edit: upon opening said box, I have discovered that Champions comes with the most informative and comprehensive manual ever.
it says absolutely nothing about actually playing the game, and mentions reading the online manual and in-game help. It also only mentions it once.
You know, there really needs to be something in there about how you pick 2 characteristics as your super stats, and how said stats increase as you level and are the basis on how much damage your powers do.
Yeah I'm writing up some feedback on the manual now. I had nothing to do with its creation so, but they are still adding more to it.
Here is mine:
lv 18, powers are Force Bolts, Two-Gun Mojo (Rank 2 + Close the Gap), Force Eruption, Condemn, Breakaway Shot, PFF (Rank 2), Field Surge, Acrobatics. My super stats are End and Ego.
And so far while I have to be more careful I'm not having the problems you are describing.
Level 25, force bolts, force cascade, force shield w/sheath adv, eruption, PFF rank 3, field surge, and field drones. jet boots. I have STR/EGO as my super stats. Currently I can't tell if field surge even does anything anymore and the drones got nerfed hard which they needed. The only thing that makes it so I can solo at all is force sheath.
EDIT: Akinos do you know if field surge actually does anything for PFF anymore?
The only thing I can see is that it does not look like you've ranked up any of your attacks at all. Also how often are you able to use Force Cascade? Without the strong single target damage I get form Two-Gun Mojo + 4 advantage points spent I'd think most of my fights would be a lot tougher.
So, PFF has been nerfed into nigh-uselessness. Teleport is still OP. Regen can actually die now, provided it's not combined with TP.
On an unrelated note, I just got my game box. The cover sleeve is sweet. Except for the Witchcraft on the back, who does not look at all like Witchcraft.
edit: upon opening said box, I have discovered that Champions comes with the most informative and comprehensive manual ever.
it says absolutely nothing about actually playing the game, and mentions reading the online manual and in-game help. It also only mentions it once.
You know, there really needs to be something in there about how you pick 2 characteristics as your super stats, and how said stats increase as you level and are the basis on how much damage your powers do.
Yeah I'm writing up some feedback on the manual now. I had nothing to do with its creation so, but they are still adding more to it.
Akinos, when you have time, could you maybe comment on the post I made above? Or, if it's not your field, ask someone at Cryptic who did make the Eye Beam change? It would really be swell.
Thanks in either case. You've been a great representative so far.
Neva - Yeah, it's End cost, for me, is something like 0.19 initially with 0.11 / sec. It was definitely way, way too low before. I annoyed some people in PvP with it a couple times, but most of them had the common sense to start blocking.
It's a nine second toggle. If you die to it without blocking, you probably deserve it.
Here is mine:
lv 18, powers are Force Bolts, Two-Gun Mojo (Rank 2 + Close the Gap), Force Eruption, Condemn, Breakaway Shot, PFF (Rank 2), Field Surge, Acrobatics. My super stats are End and Ego.
And so far while I have to be more careful I'm not having the problems you are describing.
Level 25, force bolts, force cascade, force shield w/sheath adv, eruption, PFF rank 3, field surge, and field drones. jet boots. I have STR/EGO as my super stats. Currently I can't tell if field surge even does anything anymore and the drones got nerfed hard which they needed. The only thing that makes it so I can solo at all is force sheath.
EDIT: Akinos do you know if field surge actually does anything for PFF anymore?
The only thing I can see is that it does not look like you've ranked up any of your attacks at all. Also how often are you able to use Force Cascade? Without the strong single target damage I get form Two-Gun Mojo + 4 advantage points spent I'd think most of my fights would be a lot tougher.
Oh force cascade is rank 2 or 3. I have the advantage on my energy builder that procs the bubble so I can use force cascade pretty often.
Here is mine:
lv 18, powers are Force Bolts, Two-Gun Mojo (Rank 2 + Close the Gap), Force Eruption, Condemn, Breakaway Shot, PFF (Rank 2), Field Surge, Acrobatics. My super stats are End and Ego.
And so far while I have to be more careful I'm not having the problems you are describing.
Level 25, force bolts, force cascade, force shield w/sheath adv, eruption, PFF rank 3, field surge, and field drones. jet boots. I have STR/EGO as my super stats. Currently I can't tell if field surge even does anything anymore and the drones got nerfed hard which they needed. The only thing that makes it so I can solo at all is force sheath.
EDIT: Akinos do you know if field surge actually does anything for PFF anymore?
The only thing I can see is that it does not look like you've ranked up any of your attacks at all. Also how often are you able to use Force Cascade? Without the strong single target damage I get form Two-Gun Mojo + 4 advantage points spent I'd think most of my fights would be a lot tougher.
Oh force cascade is rank 2 or 3. I have the advantage on my energy builder that procs the bubble so I can use force cascade pretty often.
Speaking of which, is that supposed to tell you in the description that the bubble can be used on a power in place of energy, or is that something that is inherent in all energy forms? Because when I read it I was under the impression it just absorbed some damage, but when I went digging on the forums I found out it had that ability.
So, PFF has been nerfed into nigh-uselessness. Teleport is still OP. Regen can actually die now, provided it's not combined with TP.
On an unrelated note, I just got my game box. The cover sleeve is sweet. Except for the Witchcraft on the back, who does not look at all like Witchcraft.
edit: upon opening said box, I have discovered that Champions comes with the most informative and comprehensive manual ever.
it says absolutely nothing about actually playing the game, and mentions reading the online manual and in-game help. It also only mentions it once.
You know, there really needs to be something in there about how you pick 2 characteristics as your super stats, and how said stats increase as you level and are the basis on how much damage your powers do.
Yeah I'm writing up some feedback on the manual now. I had nothing to do with its creation so, but they are still adding more to it.
Okay. I've decided after some testing that I positively hate and despise the defense changes. My super strength/might character just got his ass kicked by some grondlings 4 levels lower than him. Literally, all I could do the entire fight was block, because all grondlings do is spam shtick attacks. Even blocking, and trying to limit the size of my pulls using ranged attacks to draw them out had little effect. Defiance, was never superb as far as defenses go, but when I get my ass kicked by 3 grondlings 4 levels lower than I am, there's something terribly wrong there. At the very least, I think the damage buff to mobs was very unnecessary.
Here is mine:
lv 18, powers are Force Bolts, Two-Gun Mojo (Rank 2 + Close the Gap), Force Eruption, Condemn, Breakaway Shot, PFF (Rank 2), Field Surge, Acrobatics. My super stats are End and Ego.
And so far while I have to be more careful I'm not having the problems you are describing.
Level 25, force bolts, force cascade, force shield w/sheath adv, eruption, PFF rank 3, field surge, and field drones. jet boots. I have STR/EGO as my super stats. Currently I can't tell if field surge even does anything anymore and the drones got nerfed hard which they needed. The only thing that makes it so I can solo at all is force sheath.
EDIT: Akinos do you know if field surge actually does anything for PFF anymore?
The only thing I can see is that it does not look like you've ranked up any of your attacks at all. Also how often are you able to use Force Cascade? Without the strong single target damage I get form Two-Gun Mojo + 4 advantage points spent I'd think most of my fights would be a lot tougher.
Oh force cascade is rank 2 or 3. I have the advantage on my energy builder that procs the bubble so I can use force cascade pretty often.
Speaking of which, is that supposed to tell you in the description that the bubble can be used on a power in place of energy, or is that something that is inherent in all energy forms? Because when I read it I was under the impression it just absorbed some damage, but when I went digging on the forums I found out it had that ability.
Some powers consume your Energy Form (which the force bolt advantage proc is considered) for some advantage. Force Cascade can consume an Energy Form for a cheaper cost. Another power, Gigabolt, can consume it to let you charge it for massive damage.
Lossing an Energy Form buff for any reason other than expired duration (I think) causes a debuff which prevents you from having another for a while, so while, for example, a guy with Electric Form can Charge up Gigabolt whenever he wants, afterwards he's stuck without his passive for a while.
Quick question: Anyone know if Challenging Strikes carry over in Offensive stance?
I'm toying with the idea of making a Tank/DPS Fire/Supernatural build but taking an offensive passive or even just looking at offensive stance seems much too dangerous if I spec for threat.
Yeah Ill throw in here and say though some defense changes needed to be done, PFF/Field Surge got hit too hard. And I am End/Ego. I really dont know if its worth 2 power points plus the advantages right now, unless the other defenses are just as bad. Hopefully they will adjust it back up at least some.
Also, two things though that Cryptic really needs to in order to keep me around is to be more specific in the patch notes and to provide respecs for power changes. To make the kinds of changes they did and not give numbers, and not provide a respec for people, they are just asking for people to get mad. Im cool with balancing powers, Im not cool with surprise balancing of powers without the option of dropping that power.
Haha they added cooldowns and no respecs?
Lost interest now.
No cooldown and free choice of powers is what interested me in the first place.
I'm a respeccin kinda guy and I do not understand the elitist kind of "you shouldn't respec you horrible man you" attitude people have to respecs around here. If I wish to respec, that is up to me. Kindly bugger off.
Yeah, really, you being a horrible person is totally unrelated to your want to respec.
Exactly!
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edited September 2009
Patch notes.
Not going to rage or get patronizing or anything, but seriously.
Patch notes. They are your holy tome, greater than any manual or in-game info-dump. There should be a page on the web side linking to every patch note ever, and internal contests for fun and prizes for the best patch note.
Edit: Unrelated, I signed up for the test server.
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Can regen still crit? I haven't been paying that much attention to it, but I'm not sure if they meant it not to crit at all or whether they were referring to only the 100% crit bug. (Also does ego scale healing crit "severity"? And is recovery and/or presence scaling it at all in addition to dex's crit rate?) Reevaluating my planned passive defense choice
Regen should not crit anymore. If it still does, I wouldn't plan a build around it, because it's not going to.
Hrm, that's a shame, a crit based defense would be fun (though I guess that's basically what the dodge defense is supposed to do).
Does it scale with anything now? I've heard rumors of recovery, but it seems like con or presence would be more fitting for hp/healing in general.
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The XP is still fucked up, I'm only halfway through 23 and I have zero 23 quests. I had to do them when I was 22 in order to make 23. Now I guess I'm going to have to start in on the 24 quests in order to...ect...ect...ect.
Also, searching for emergencies really needs to give the fucking level of the quests. I used that damn thing and spent 30 minutes flying all over the place only to find out all those quests are 3 levels above me. I wouldn't care so much but the number of quests you can have in your queue is relativly small so I can't just accept all of them to have them logged.
I think you're doing it wrong... I have a character at 25, he was still doing lower level (22-24) quests when I hit that. You sure you're questing in all the available zones (MC, Canada, & the Desert)?
I think you're doing it wrong... I have a character at 25, he was still doing lower level (22-24) quests when I hit that. You sure you're questing in all the available zones (MC, Canada, & the Desert)?
I have been to every single NPC that shows up in the crime computer in all locations and finished every quest. Even those shit sewer one shot missions in MC. I had to do that repeatable mission in canada a good 6 times in order to make 23 as it is.
There's another repeatable lvl 23 mission, so they know the xp is still fucked up. They don't have the content for the current XP curve and are filling it by forcing you to repeat the same quests over and over.
Hey guys, so, I'm quite interested in this game. I didn't play in the beta, but I'm thinking of picking this up as I thought CoX was neat and I'm interested in the more action-oriented slant this takes. My only question right now is, how is the technical end of this? Lag, performance, etc. Has it had a smooth launch so far?
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Can regen still crit? I haven't been paying that much attention to it, but I'm not sure if they meant it not to crit at all or whether they were referring to only the 100% crit bug. (Also does ego scale healing crit "severity"? And is recovery and/or presence scaling it at all in addition to dex's crit rate?) Reevaluating my planned passive defense choice
Regen should not crit anymore. If it still does, I wouldn't plan a build around it, because it's not going to.
Hrm, that's a shame, a crit based defense would be fun (though I guess that's basically what the dodge defense is supposed to do).
Does it scale with anything now? I've heard rumors of recovery, but it seems like con or presence would be more fitting for hp/healing in general.
It definitely scales with Recovery. That bit is in the description now.
So, PFF has been nerfed into nigh-uselessness. Teleport is still OP. Regen can actually die now, provided it's not combined with TP.
On an unrelated note, I just got my game box. The cover sleeve is sweet. Except for the Witchcraft on the back, who does not look at all like Witchcraft.
edit: upon opening said box, I have discovered that Champions comes with the most informative and comprehensive manual ever.
it says absolutely nothing about actually playing the game, and mentions reading the online manual and in-game help. It also only mentions it once.
You know, there really needs to be something in there about how you pick 2 characteristics as your super stats, and how said stats increase as you level and are the basis on how much damage your powers do.
Yeah I'm writing up some feedback on the manual now. I had nothing to do with its creation so, but they are still adding more to it.
Akinos, when you have time, could you maybe comment on the post I made above? Or, if it's not your field, ask someone at Cryptic who did make the Eye Beam change? It would really be swell.
Thanks in either case. You've been a great representative so far.
Neva - Yeah, it's End cost, for me, is something like 0.19 initially with 0.11 / sec. It was definitely way, way too low before. I annoyed some people in PvP with it a couple times, but most of them had the common sense to start blocking.
It's a nine second toggle. If you die to it without blocking, you probably deserve it.
Sorry I'm not ignoring you I just don't know anything about Eye Beams. I will see what I can find out, though as you can imagine everything is on fire.
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Missing the intense days of Beta already? Miss seeing bugs, giving feedback about what isn’t working right, and directly contributing to the health and wellbeing of Champions Online? Well, lucky-lucky, we’re here to announce our new public test shard, the aptly named Public Test!
When we have a new patch that we want to test, we’ll push it into the Public Test shard first in order to allow you to check it out, see what’s different, and provide your feedback before it gets pushed to the Live shard. Just another way we can be absolutely certain our Live service is polished, basically.
So, how does it work?
* Sign up to be a part of the Public Test by visiting http://www.champions-online.com/test-shard-signup
* Every two weeks, we will automatically copy your existing Live characters over to the Public Test shard. This will replace any existing data found in the Public Test shard, so don’t expect to make any real progress there.
* New patches will be pushed to the Public Test server at 9 a.m. Pacific on whichever day a new patch is ready. We’ll notify you on the Public Test Forum when this occurs.
You can sign up to be a part of it right now by clicking here, and then you’ll be able to hop in just as soon as we’ve got our next patch ready.
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Here is mine:
lv 18, powers are Force Bolts, Two-Gun Mojo (Rank 2 + Close the Gap), Force Eruption, Condemn, Breakaway Shot, PFF (Rank 2), Field Surge, Acrobatics. My super stats are End and Ego.
And so far while I have to be more careful I'm not having the problems you are describing.
Level 25, force bolts, force cascade, force shield w/sheath adv, eruption, PFF rank 3, field surge, and field drones. jet boots. I have STR/EGO as my super stats. Currently I can't tell if field surge even does anything anymore and the drones got nerfed hard which they needed. The only thing that makes it so I can solo at all is force sheath.
EDIT: Akinos do you know if field surge actually does anything for PFF anymore?
The only thing I can see is that it does not look like you've ranked up any of your attacks at all. Also how often are you able to use Force Cascade? Without the strong single target damage I get form Two-Gun Mojo + 4 advantage points spent I'd think most of my fights would be a lot tougher.
Oh force cascade is rank 2 or 3. I have the advantage on my energy builder that procs the bubble so I can use force cascade pretty often.
I'm not sure if you already answered this or not, but are you sure that advantage that procs on the energy builder isn't overwriting the field surge (if both are considered energy forms? I'm pretty sure somewhere it says that you can only have one energy form at a time. I wonder if this is what is happening and whether it is intended that way?
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Here is mine:
lv 18, powers are Force Bolts, Two-Gun Mojo (Rank 2 + Close the Gap), Force Eruption, Condemn, Breakaway Shot, PFF (Rank 2), Field Surge, Acrobatics. My super stats are End and Ego.
And so far while I have to be more careful I'm not having the problems you are describing.
Level 25, force bolts, force cascade, force shield w/sheath adv, eruption, PFF rank 3, field surge, and field drones. jet boots. I have STR/EGO as my super stats. Currently I can't tell if field surge even does anything anymore and the drones got nerfed hard which they needed. The only thing that makes it so I can solo at all is force sheath.
EDIT: Akinos do you know if field surge actually does anything for PFF anymore?
The only thing I can see is that it does not look like you've ranked up any of your attacks at all. Also how often are you able to use Force Cascade? Without the strong single target damage I get form Two-Gun Mojo + 4 advantage points spent I'd think most of my fights would be a lot tougher.
Oh force cascade is rank 2 or 3. I have the advantage on my energy builder that procs the bubble so I can use force cascade pretty often.
I'm not sure if you already answered this or not, but are you sure that advantage that procs on the energy builder isn't overwriting the field surge (if both are considered energy forms? I'm pretty sure somewhere it says that you can only have one energy form at a time. I wonder if this is what is happening and whether it is intended that way?
It wasn't overwriting it. Most of the times I used field surge I was blocking and not attacking so the advantage couldn't proc.
Here is mine:
lv 18, powers are Force Bolts, Two-Gun Mojo (Rank 2 + Close the Gap), Force Eruption, Condemn, Breakaway Shot, PFF (Rank 2), Field Surge, Acrobatics. My super stats are End and Ego.
And so far while I have to be more careful I'm not having the problems you are describing.
Level 25, force bolts, force cascade, force shield w/sheath adv, eruption, PFF rank 3, field surge, and field drones. jet boots. I have STR/EGO as my super stats. Currently I can't tell if field surge even does anything anymore and the drones got nerfed hard which they needed. The only thing that makes it so I can solo at all is force sheath.
EDIT: Akinos do you know if field surge actually does anything for PFF anymore?
The only thing I can see is that it does not look like you've ranked up any of your attacks at all. Also how often are you able to use Force Cascade? Without the strong single target damage I get form Two-Gun Mojo + 4 advantage points spent I'd think most of my fights would be a lot tougher.
Oh force cascade is rank 2 or 3. I have the advantage on my energy builder that procs the bubble so I can use force cascade pretty often.
I'm not sure if you already answered this or not, but are you sure that advantage that procs on the energy builder isn't overwriting the field surge (if both are considered energy forms? I'm pretty sure somewhere it says that you can only have one energy form at a time. I wonder if this is what is happening and whether it is intended that way?
It wasn't overwriting it. Most of the times I used field surge I was blocking and not attacking so the advantage couldn't proc.
Well, so much for my theory. Carry on then, nothing to see here.
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It definitely scales with Recovery. That bit is in the description now.
Wait.....it scales with recovery? Damnit. Well that completely screws my choice of consitution for one of my super attributes. I was still labouring under the impression that it scaled with constitution.
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Please change it back, Akinos
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The ego affects the regen rate of the shield, and the endurance affects the amount it absorbs. So it sounds like they nerfed the amount it absorbs, and not really the regen, so it would make sense that the stat you don't have assisting your shield would make it more weak. But if it really is as bad as you say, they should have given the power back to those who already had it, so they could decide whether or not to keep it with the new stats.
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Would you mind sharing your build?
Here is mine:
lv 18, powers are Force Bolts, Two-Gun Mojo (Rank 2 + Close the Gap), Force Eruption, Condemn, Breakaway Shot, PFF (Rank 2), Field Surge, Acrobatics. My super stats are End and Ego.
And so far while I have to be more careful I'm not having the problems you are describing.
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You know, there really needs to be something in there about how you pick 2 characteristics as your super stats, and how said stats increase as you level and are the basis on how much damage your powers do.
There have always been some cooldowns. Sometimes we deem the right balance to a power is to add a cooldown, though that is rare. A large majority of powers are still cooldown-less.
Respec is still there. Still not balanced right, but it's not like we're removing it?
Level 25, force bolts, force cascade, force shield w/sheath adv, eruption, PFF rank 3, field surge, and field drones. jet boots. I have STR/EGO as my super stats. Currently I can't tell if field surge even does anything anymore and the drones got nerfed hard which they needed. The only thing that makes it so I can solo at all is force sheath.
EDIT: Akinos do you know if field surge actually does anything for PFF anymore?
Yeah I'm writing up some feedback on the manual now. I had nothing to do with its creation so, but they are still adding more to it.
It certainly should (it's still set up to do so).
If you feel it's not please bug it!
The only thing I can see is that it does not look like you've ranked up any of your attacks at all. Also how often are you able to use Force Cascade? Without the strong single target damage I get form Two-Gun Mojo + 4 advantage points spent I'd think most of my fights would be a lot tougher.
I bugged not seeing the globe when you use it. I'm not sure if it is giving both the temp shield and the recharge however.
Akinos, when you have time, could you maybe comment on the post I made above? Or, if it's not your field, ask someone at Cryptic who did make the Eye Beam change? It would really be swell.
Thanks in either case. You've been a great representative so far.
Neva - Yeah, it's End cost, for me, is something like 0.19 initially with 0.11 / sec. It was definitely way, way too low before. I annoyed some people in PvP with it a couple times, but most of them had the common sense to start blocking.
It's a nine second toggle. If you die to it without blocking, you probably deserve it.
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Oh force cascade is rank 2 or 3. I have the advantage on my energy builder that procs the bubble so I can use force cascade pretty often.
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Honestly I'm not sure why we're seeing such a huge difference in difficulty then.
I can't tell if its actually doing anything. I will push it then nothing seems to happen. I take the same amount of damage I do before I hit it.
EDIT: It tells you in the description its an energy form and will cost less to use force cascade but will consume the form.
@Mobius: I just take too much damage and the proc is completely random. On average it will go off every 5-10 seconds I use my energy builder.
Some powers consume your Energy Form (which the force bolt advantage proc is considered) for some advantage. Force Cascade can consume an Energy Form for a cheaper cost. Another power, Gigabolt, can consume it to let you charge it for massive damage.
Lossing an Energy Form buff for any reason other than expired duration (I think) causes a debuff which prevents you from having another for a while, so while, for example, a guy with Electric Form can Charge up Gigabolt whenever he wants, afterwards he's stuck without his passive for a while.
I'm toying with the idea of making a Tank/DPS Fire/Supernatural build but taking an offensive passive or even just looking at offensive stance seems much too dangerous if I spec for threat.
Also, two things though that Cryptic really needs to in order to keep me around is to be more specific in the patch notes and to provide respecs for power changes. To make the kinds of changes they did and not give numbers, and not provide a respec for people, they are just asking for people to get mad. Im cool with balancing powers, Im not cool with surprise balancing of powers without the option of dropping that power.
I never asked for this!
Exactly!
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anon: Level 40 Champion
Superstats:
Level 5: Super Constitution
Level 13: Super Endurance
Powers:
Level 1: Throw Fire
Level 1: Lash -- Crippling Challenge, Rank 2
Level 5: Iron Lariat -- Rank 2
Level 5: Fire Flight -- Rank 2, Rank 3
Level 8: Regeneration -- Rank 2, Rank 3
Level 11: Thermal Reverberation
Level 14: Crippling Coils
Level 17: Pyre -- Rank 2, Rank 3, Challenging Strikes
Level 20: Immolation
Level 23: Fireball -- Unstable Accelerant, Challenging Strikes, Rank 2
Level 26: Flashfire -- Sweltering Heat, Rank 2
Level 29: Force Shield -- Rank 2, Force Sheath
Level 32: Resurgence -- Rank 2
Level 35: Fiery Form -- Rank 2, Rank 3
Level 35: Teleport
Level 38: Fire Snake
Talents:
Level 1: Abyssal
Level 6: Boundless Reserves
Level 9: Paramilitary Training
Level 12: Survival Training
Level 15: Field Ops Training
Level 18: Command Training
Level 21: Jack Of All Trades
Not going to rage or get patronizing or anything, but seriously.
Patch notes. They are your holy tome, greater than any manual or in-game info-dump. There should be a page on the web side linking to every patch note ever, and internal contests for fun and prizes for the best patch note.
Edit: Unrelated, I signed up for the test server.
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
Hrm, that's a shame, a crit based defense would be fun (though I guess that's basically what the dodge defense is supposed to do).
Does it scale with anything now? I've heard rumors of recovery, but it seems like con or presence would be more fitting for hp/healing in general.
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Also, searching for emergencies really needs to give the fucking level of the quests. I used that damn thing and spent 30 minutes flying all over the place only to find out all those quests are 3 levels above me. I wouldn't care so much but the number of quests you can have in your queue is relativly small so I can't just accept all of them to have them logged.
I have been to every single NPC that shows up in the crime computer in all locations and finished every quest. Even those shit sewer one shot missions in MC. I had to do that repeatable mission in canada a good 6 times in order to make 23 as it is.
There's another repeatable lvl 23 mission, so they know the xp is still fucked up. They don't have the content for the current XP curve and are filling it by forcing you to repeat the same quests over and over.
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It definitely scales with Recovery. That bit is in the description now.
Sorry I'm not ignoring you I just don't know anything about Eye Beams. I will see what I can find out, though as you can imagine everything is on fire.
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
I'm not sure if you already answered this or not, but are you sure that advantage that procs on the energy builder isn't overwriting the field surge (if both are considered energy forms? I'm pretty sure somewhere it says that you can only have one energy form at a time. I wonder if this is what is happening and whether it is intended that way?
It wasn't overwriting it. Most of the times I used field surge I was blocking and not attacking so the advantage couldn't proc.
Well, so much for my theory. Carry on then, nothing to see here.
Wait.....it scales with recovery? Damnit. Well that completely screws my choice of consitution for one of my super attributes. I was still labouring under the impression that it scaled with constitution.