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Enhancement Diversification
Submitted by Mistress Tigress on Mon, 10/10/2005 - 10:31am.
Yeah in case you haven't seen this on the Offical Forum, This little bit of fun Nerfing is pretty much the last straw for me... Now i love this game but, frankly i've had it with the Nerf, respec, renerf, re-resepc, re-renerf, re-re-resepc... etc etc... When does it end!? You know i hear other MMO's have Fun live Events that further the story line and everyone has a blast... what was the last non-live live event that we got... the Winterlord.... which was such a sad sad excuse for an event... It was suppose to be Snap fridged temps but the citizens were still wandering around in their shorts...
This following statesmans "Vision" crap has finaly pushed me to the breaking point... Just cause he died 12 times fighting a boss on his gameboy or what ever means we Must have the same fun as him... I frankly say F' him... his fun is not my fun. Now forcing us to use their useless Enhancments is just idiotic. I will continue to watch and see how this develops out as i still have a month left on my account, but man i have really had it. Their response to things that are fun that EVERYONE plays with is to not raise the bar for the other stuff like a good company would do with their "lacking" product but rather Dumb down the fun Product to bring it to the level of the rest of their Dumb products...What kind of business is that...
I'm just angry i guess, cause this will really effect my characters, and i have to once again respec ALL of my characters... it's just a waste of time... I wish the spent this much time and effort working on Fun new content or Live events or SOMETHING! ... Okay i'm done ranting... is it just me, or is anyone else at the end of their perverbal rope?
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Posted many times. Believe
Posted many times. Believe it or not, the original version of that was written back when UO was the dominant game.
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Great artcle
That's a fantastic article. I wonder if any of the CoH Devs have read it. Perhaps its been posted on the CoH forums already. Anyone know?
http://shell4.bayarea.net/~tenarius/mudwimping.html
Yeah... see that statement
Yeah... see that statement you quoted Shrike made the whole thing more understandable by me. Not saying I like it: you don't have to like something to understand it.
The basic core concept of ED is contained in that quote.
It used to be that bigger enhancements made a power more powerful.
With ED, that's not the case. Bigger enhancements only either save Slots for other powers or allow for slots to be used for other things. Hence the name "Enhancement Diversification". Repurpose slotting by repurposing enhancements.
The fundamental problem now is that PvE is balanced for characters that are more powerful. General mobs might be okay. But forget it, AVs are already, in many cases, way too strong. Doing 2/3 of your current damage, how are you going to beat AVs?
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Seems to me...
that Stateman is trying to dictate to players how to play CoH.
--Did someone say the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man is rampaging in Atlas Park? OMW and I'm bringing the Fire to toast 'im!
The Real reason for ED
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=3855810&page=&view=&sb=5&o=&fpart=all&vc=1
From Statesman...
Hammi O's...
This will allow them to give bigger enhancers/rewards. They finally figured out that people would horde this stuff. Of course most people want to have the best character possible, and that means min/max to some extent. I guess none of the Devs were ever power gamers, or min/max players.
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Ms Mystic - Kinetics / Psychic Defender
American Dreams - Martial Arts / Invuln Scrapper
Daimon Dog - Fire / Fire Tanker
Shrike - Energy / Energy Blaster
Wow. That is amazing. I
Wow. That is amazing. I wonder if Jack has read this, or if the Devs are too far gone to see what they're doing?
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Bul - Lvl 44 Claw/Regen Scrapper -AoJ
Cobbly - lvl 24 MA/Regen Scrapper -AoJ
Cow Chip - lvl 6 Eng/Eng Blaster - ICP
BurpBoy - lvl 15 Inv/SS Tank
WoW
Ive had fun playing WoW for the past few months. Its easy to level. Its easy to solo with the right classes. Its easy to get a group if ya dont have an AT that solos well. And they constantly hold live events. This month a live event is happening for both the Alliance and the Horde involving children and handing out candy. As well as always developing another corner of the world and expanding the gameplay. Also, Blizzard has a PvP system I really like and simulates the FPS games of Half-Life with Capture the Flag and Take and Hold scenarios.
If CoH/CoV continues down this path I will make the leap to WoW because as it stands I am having more fun there than in CoH, and dont take that wrong. If anything, you guys have helped to maintain my interest in CoH/CoV. I myself am growing tired of the backwards steps that Cryptic seems to be taking.
One of the MMMOs ya may wanna keep an eye on Miss T is Auto Assault.
--Did someone say the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man is rampaging in Atlas Park? OMW and I'm bringing the Fire to toast 'im!
I used to really scoff at
I used to really scoff at this link:
http://shell4.bayarea.net/~tenarius/mudwimping.html
But if you spend the time to read through it, realize it isn't specifically targeting anyone but describing how things tend to go on MUDs, MOOs, etc. with respect to changes (aka Nerfs). You will see that CoH is following this trend exactly, almost to the letter.
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What the...
MMO's are no longer meant to be fun.. they are meant to be boring and as much like real live as possible.. (sarcasm)
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Looks like I'll be sticking
Looks like I'll be sticking around for awhile yet. I have over six months left on my subscription and NCSoft won't give me a refund.
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Bul - Lvl 44 Claw/Regen Scrapper -AoJ
Cobbly - lvl 24 MA/Regen Scrapper -AoJ
Cow Chip - lvl 6 Eng/Eng Blaster - ICP
BurpBoy - lvl 15 Inv/SS Tank
I (the Player) Have done it,
I (the Player) Have done it, But Miss Tigress The Character has not, Why?
Did you guys read Statesman's Sad attempt at putting a bandaide on a Compound Fracture? This is just Sad... It makes me so mad! I loved this game, I really do... I'm not one for Midevil Stuff, (EQ and WOW) I did star Wars but that was before the Space expansion... perhaps i'll give it another try... I wanted Matrix online to be good but Ugh we all know how that turned out. The other one i've been watching is Middle Earth online. And who knows maybe Marvel will put together a half way decent hero MMO... :Sighs: Well there's always MUDs hehehe
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Miss Tigress Nat/Scrap Claws&Regen
Empty Space Science/Defender Empathy & Radiation
Remember...No Matter Where You Go...There You Are
Miss Tigress, Have you
Miss Tigress, Have you done the firefighter event yet?
Also yes my scrapper is dead. I quit after I5. I have no idea how this will effect my buffs. We'll see.
Cheryl
Main Characters: Miss Dale - Lady Dale
Alt. Characters: Hyper Dale - Arctic Dale - Technic Dale
This will likly be the end
This will likly be the end for me. I barely have time to play as it is. My current build relies heavily on six sloting Fast Healing with heal SOs. That's my main defence, which is pretty weak as it is. I have no interest in going the IH/MoG tag team defence route, but that seems to be all that's left for Regen.
I guess this will leave me with more time to work on my comic.
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Bul - Lvl 44 Claw/Regen Scrapper -AoJ
Cobbly - lvl 24 MA/Regen Scrapper -AoJ
Cow Chip - lvl 6 Eng/Eng Blaster - ICP
BurpBoy - lvl 15 Inv/SS Tank
Yeah. I suspect a lot of
Yeah. I suspect a lot of people will feel this way. I also suspect there will be no small exodus of people from the game over this change. Its going to be the straw that broke the camel's back for many a player. I supect though the beancounters ran numbers and figure if they get 20% attrition, but CoV brings in 40% more players, they've picked up 20%. My guess is that a year from now subscription numbers will be 70%-90% of where they are today.
There's a lot more I'd like to say something like me having a spreadsheet set up already that shows the net effects, but I really can't do that at this time. Though I hear rumor the NDA is soon to be lifted. And we can discuss this a bit more openly, and with more specifics.
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