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Champions Online - Zero trans fat hero spread

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  • Operative21Operative21 Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Rizzi wrote:
    By buying a game that I cannot play. Game cards don't exist yet, and debit cards don't work.

    The game cards do exist, I know because I paid for my subscription with one after my prepaid visa wasn't accepted. Chances are, they just haven't made it over to your part of the world yet. I got mine from an EB despite the fact that it wasn't listed as being available on their site.

    Mind you, the EB in question only had one so I kinda lucked out there. In any case, you have my heartiest sympathies since I very nearly ended up where you are right now.

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  • RizziRizzi Sydney, Australia.Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    I have a headache.

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  • Silas BrownSilas Brown That's hobo style. Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    My debit card works. =/

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  • RizziRizzi Sydney, Australia.Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    What sort is it?

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  • Silas BrownSilas Brown That's hobo style. Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    I'm not sure what you mean. It's a Visa debit card that pulls money straight from my checking account.

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  • Just_Bri_ThanksJust_Bri_Thanks Seething with rage from a handbasket.Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2009
    Same here. My bank issued it, and they call it a check card.

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    ...and when you are done with that; take a folding
    chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
  • RizziRizzi Sydney, Australia.Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Gah!
    I need to have a little "chat" with someone at my bank. Grabbed my mother's bank card, that is exactly the same as mine, same account type and everything.
    First try it got accepted.
    Bwhaaaa? Not one to question providence.

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  • Silas BrownSilas Brown That's hobo style. Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Well, glad we could get you on the right track, then.

    I decided to check out the Champions Online forum and .. my god, I do believe it as bad as the WoW forums. Most notably the hordes of players who demand that all MMOs are about the endgame and that if there isn't a bunch of repetitive raiding then it isn't a real MMO.

    Thank God there are sane people here in the forums to play with.

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  • Just_Bri_ThanksJust_Bri_Thanks Seething with rage from a handbasket.Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2009
    All I want are interesting things to do that do not involve putting holes in things, in addition to the interesting things to do that do involve such activities. Is that too much to ask?

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    ...and when you are done with that; take a folding
    chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
  • Silas BrownSilas Brown That's hobo style. Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Just to clarify, I don't mean that 2 level content gaps are cool. They are very not cool.

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  • RizziRizzi Sydney, Australia.Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    What are Cryptic points?
    More importantly, what are they good for? :P

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  • IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Rizzi wrote: »
    What are Cryptic points?
    More importantly, what are they good for? :P

    Buying action figures.

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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Apparently, you will also be able to buy other things with them later. Character slots was one particular option they mentioned.

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  • IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Pony wrote: »
    Apparently, you will also be able to buy other things with them later. Character slots was one particular option they mentioned.

    This is what I'm saving them for. Larger benefit stuff.

    The action figures are a trap.

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  • RizziRizzi Sydney, Australia.Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Action figures?

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  • IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Rizzi wrote: »
    Action figures?

    Vanity pets.

    They just follow you around looking cute.

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  • RizziRizzi Sydney, Australia.Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Oh. That's cool. How much are they? I guess I was given 400 points.

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  • Just_Bri_ThanksJust_Bri_Thanks Seething with rage from a handbasket.Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2009
    Man, the people over in the Champions forum are so adverse to reading.

    I see lots of 'tl;dr' and 'Wall of Text' rebuttals.

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    ...and when you are done with that; take a folding
    chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
  • WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    well huge blocks of text over powers and the fact that some might be unbalanced is pretty dumb. just as dumb as arguing about said powers.

    speaking of which, force cascade with the advantage is sweet. too bad I can only seem to charge it a tiny percentage of the way, so it does pretty weak damage. really wish endurance gave more energy per point. like 1.5 or something

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  • FlakmanzFlakmanz Registered User new member
    edited September 2009
    Wren wrote: »
    well huge blocks of text over powers and the fact that some might be unbalanced is pretty dumb. just as dumb as arguing about said powers.

    speaking of which, force cascade with the advantage is sweet. too bad I can only seem to charge it a tiny percentage of the way, so it does pretty weak damage. really wish endurance gave more energy per point. like 1.5 or something

    the only problem is that endurance would waay over power recovery, and you'd never be able to passively generate enough energy to do much of anything. Now, it'd be kinda nice of you had some sort of energy bump added to recovery... or maybe larger one of one already exists.

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Rizzi wrote: »
    Oh. That's cool. How much are they? I guess I was given 400 points.
    80 points. They're very cheap, just... kinda pointless. I'd get one if I could get a pet wolf or something else that could fit a character concept (like a robot dog for a Casshern knock-off), but really, chibi Defender? That's just creepy.

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  • FlakmanzFlakmanz Registered User new member
    edited September 2009
    as an advertisement for the dolls they should have something pertaining to finally being taller than defender or witchcraft.

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  • WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Flakmanz wrote: »
    Wren wrote: »
    well huge blocks of text over powers and the fact that some might be unbalanced is pretty dumb. just as dumb as arguing about said powers.

    speaking of which, force cascade with the advantage is sweet. too bad I can only seem to charge it a tiny percentage of the way, so it does pretty weak damage. really wish endurance gave more energy per point. like 1.5 or something

    the only problem is that endurance would waay over power recovery, and you'd never be able to passively generate enough energy to do much of anything. Now, it'd be kinda nice of you had some sort of energy bump added to recovery... or maybe larger one of one already exists.

    recovery needs to do more anyways. maybe give it the .5 per point energy bonus

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  • SudsSuds Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    I am really enjoying Might. It's very satisfying.

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Is it possible to skip the tutorial yet?

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  • KwoaruKwoaru Confident Smirk Flawless Golden PecsRegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    So I understand you adjust things like weapon type at a tailor, can you also adjust what sort of creature a spell summons? I may be talking out of my ass, but I seem to remember reading that there was some modifier that changed what was summoned, though I can't remember where I read that for the life of me.

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  • MorvidusMorvidus Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Suds wrote: »
    I am really enjoying Might. It's very satisfying.

    Might is sex. It's just too bad you can't skip those stupid fucking Gadroon. They seem to wipe the floor with any melee.

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  • TagTag Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Kwoaru wrote: »
    So I understand you adjust things like weapon type at a tailor, can you also adjust what sort of creature a spell summons? I may be talking out of my ass, but I seem to remember reading that there was some modifier that changed what was summoned, though I can't remember where I read that for the life of me.

    Some of them change depending on what rank you use (ex. nightmare), others gain new abilities as you rank them up (most of the sorc pets). afaik, there's no weapon customization equivalent for powers yet.
    Morvidus wrote: »
    Suds wrote: »
    I am really enjoying Might. It's very satisfying.

    Might is sex. It's just too bad you can't skip those stupid fucking Gadroon. They seem to wipe the floor with anything.

    :P

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  • MorvidusMorvidus Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    The Gadroon remind me of the Rikti during the CoH launch event.

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  • ArchArch Neat-o, mosquito! Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    So what graphics options should I turn down to get a better framerate without compromising the aesthetics too much?

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  • NeurotikaNeurotika Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Shadows set to low really helps out.

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  • SlagmireSlagmire Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Holy shit... I made a Single Blade character yesterday. After the tutorial, I took her to Canada and she had the most difficult time staying alive. Is Lightning Reflexes boned currently?

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  • MorvidusMorvidus Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Slagmire wrote: »
    Holy shit... I made a Single Blade character yesterday. After the tutorial, I took her to Canada and she had the most difficult time staying alive. Is Lightning Reflexes boned currently?

    Melee is pretty boned right now. You have to invest more in defensive powers and passives, and spend all your advantages on said passives and powers. Mostly defeats the purpose of being melee.

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  • MechnMechn Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    CorriganX wrote:
    Someone posted this last night in the Chat. I think it was.. Mym? I'm not really sure.

    (img)

    I had managed to create a better one (imho)
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    Change the colors obviously

    They dont like to give all the parts for it to either male or female, but if put in the beast pose it should work very well.

    I think Acrobatics would work great for zerglings too, the animation really fits.

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  • chrono_travellerchrono_traveller Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Morvidus wrote: »
    Slagmire wrote: »
    Holy shit... I made a Single Blade character yesterday. After the tutorial, I took her to Canada and she had the most difficult time staying alive. Is Lightning Reflexes boned currently?

    Melee is pretty boned right now. You have to invest more in defensive powers and passives, and spend all your advantages on said passives and powers. Mostly defeats the purpose of being melee.

    I wouldn't go that far. I think it does help to have some kind of stun/interrupt type of move, otherwise you just take too much damage. Also, for Slag, single blade is kinda hard early one because you are both melee and have no aoe which makes things doubly hard.

    On a completely different note, I just got the always chill advantage on frost breath, so that plus shatter is just OMGWTFBBQ damage on groups of 3 or more. For example on a group of 1 villian and 3 henchies, I can be pounding on the villian to build up energy, then do a frost breath, which creates an ice tomb on each enemy, then shatter which just kills all the henchies and takes the villian down half is health. Its pretty ridiculous.

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  • MorvidusMorvidus Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Morvidus wrote: »
    Slagmire wrote: »
    Holy shit... I made a Single Blade character yesterday. After the tutorial, I took her to Canada and she had the most difficult time staying alive. Is Lightning Reflexes boned currently?

    Melee is pretty boned right now. You have to invest more in defensive powers and passives, and spend all your advantages on said passives and powers. Mostly defeats the purpose of being melee.

    I wouldn't go that far. I think it does help to have some kind of stun/interrupt type of move, otherwise you just take too much damage. Also, for Slag, single blade is kinda hard early one because you are both melee and have no aoe which makes things doubly hard.

    On a completely different note, I just got the always chill advantage on frost breath, so that plus shatter is just OMGWTFBBQ damage on groups of 3 or more. For example on a group of 1 villian and 3 henchies, I can be pounding on the villian to build up energy, then do a frost breath, which creates an ice tomb on each enemy, then shatter which just kills all the henchies and takes the villian down half is health. Its pretty ridiculous.

    Granted, Shockwave helped a fuckton, but at my level, EVERY GOD DAMNED FUCKING STUPID PIECE OF SHIT mob has a hold, flies, or has a power move (even as a henchman) that makes Shockwave worthless. Not to mention every fucking mob is ranged for some reason.

    It's such bullshit that I have to reroll after getting to level 24...

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  • TagTag Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Glal wrote: »
    Is it possible to skip the tutorial yet?

    To what end? There's no other place to go from 1-6 at. Granted, the first 6ish levels play almost identically for every set so I wouldn't mind starting at 6 (although the perk OCD would prevent me), but you could use the same logic to skip the first crisis zones, etc.

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  • MorvidusMorvidus Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Tag wrote: »
    Glal wrote: »
    Is it possible to skip the tutorial yet?

    To what end? There's no other place to go from 1-6 at. Granted, the first 6ish levels play almost identically for every set so I wouldn't mind starting at 6 (although the perk OCD would prevent me), but you could use the same logic to skip the first crisis zones, etc.

    Every toon plays out the same...

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  • MugaazMugaaz Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    I know it's pretty stupid to level really fast and then bitch about max level content, but getting that out of the way..... Not sure how anyone is going to care about this content. The content itself is ok, the quests are all mildly interesting with nice maps, the mobs are SUPER easy, but alot of the missions are bugged or have incorrect text. The real problem though is that you only get 6-15 tokens a day. The secondary items cost 250 tokens, and the major ones cost 1000. That's just too much. The gear isn't even that great. I spotted a few mild upgrades, but nothing that was all that interesting. I'd be more interested if I could get 3 minor items or 1 major per week. That's about 5 weeks for a full set, which is about the limit of my attention span for gear grinding.

    I really love the Nemesis missions, but I don't see how I can do anything to trigger these besides far around outside griding mobs for perks. Is there a way to get a couple daily Nemesis missions? So far these have been the more interesting missions I've seen.

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  • WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    they said they'll add in an option to skip the tutorial eventually. that'll be the day I actually I make an alt

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