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DC Universe Online |OT| The next legend is YOU!
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The dominance thing is for tanks and controllers so that stuns and aggro are controlled.AstroLad said:
For all classes tier 1 gear is most important, although I find that even duo and alert drops are pretty sufficient, as the upgrades individually are pretty marginal at best.
hermit7 said:
yeah, what mainly you need tier 1 fully for is raids when your defense matters a lot more. Had a team of pugs who did batcave, and we got the the last room before wiping too many times and people called it quits, damage was just being taken like no tomorrow even with 2 healers and 2 trollers.
Animation-Imp
Member
So I just hit 30 on my first char (healer)
Any good gaf leagues on euro psn?
If not, some guidelines on what's next?
Any good gaf leagues on euro psn?
If not, some guidelines on what's next?
Mercury Fred
Banned
Anyone on KJ up for helping me level my villain (currently at lvl 10) or doing some hero runs with my lvl 23?
Grr, I'm having this weird problem downloading the new patch, where it says I'll have to wait 500-600 minutes to do it. I tried to reconfigure the conection a lot, turned it on and off a million times. Other games work, DCUO was working fine before the patch, downloaded patch 1.04 without problem and nothing changed since.
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Btw, I don't think the actual download is this slow, but it will take at least a couple of hours. For a 122MB patch this is urgh.
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Btw, I don't think the actual download is this slow, but it will take at least a couple of hours. For a 122MB patch this is urgh.
ChronicleX
Banned
So raided again today, did batcave in under and hour, got feat and barely missed out on kasdaq or watever its called in under an hour (we were 65 minutes, we wiped 2x on
or we would of got that one too. I'm sitting pretty on 58 skillpoints atm with more to come. It also seemed to be tank day as nearly every drop was a tank item so I managed to get that Tank Hand blaster I wanted (and a brawler but after messing around, its too slow for my tastes). So long Epic Tank Bow! Your skillpoints will not be missed!
I've now respeced into a pure tank spec now, working wonders. Pumped all my points into HP, Heal Crit anc Heal Crit Chance. 8416 HP in tank mode with the blasters when everything is up, 8686 using the brawler and I can now crit heal myself with reignite for between 3-3.5K. Good stuff <3
Yeah... Him
I've now respeced into a pure tank spec now, working wonders. Pumped all my points into HP, Heal Crit anc Heal Crit Chance. 8416 HP in tank mode with the blasters when everything is up, 8686 using the brawler and I can now crit heal myself with reignite for between 3-3.5K. Good stuff <3
BloodySinner
Banned
Mercury Fred
Banned
OK, so I had a rather hilarious moment while solo-ing with my new villain on the PvP server. She's a mental, bow-using flyer. I was doing part of the science police/ Trigon mission and this hero a couple levels up from me started to attack. I happened to have Mass Hysteria all charged up, so I used it and stomped all over him with this giant, spectral freaky purple form. So funny. After I killed him, he went after me several more times, but I managed to take him out each time. El oh el.
Anyone have any tips on using flight? I'm used to super speed and flight feels wonky. Are any of the flight skills any good? I'm using the speedy one that's available at level 9 already...
Anyone have any tips on using flight? I'm used to super speed and flight feels wonky. Are any of the flight skills any good? I'm using the speedy one that's available at level 9 already...
Gee, what a weird error. After not being able to download the patch after hours trying, I googled again for a solution and turns out I had to use Google DNS to make it work.
So, if anyone else have problem downloading 1.05 as it happened to a few people around the world, just change your DNS to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
And if someone who knows what this is about can tell me if this will make my internet conection vulnerable or I don't know, please let me know.
So, if anyone else have problem downloading 1.05 as it happened to a few people around the world, just change your DNS to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
And if someone who knows what this is about can tell me if this will make my internet conection vulnerable or I don't know, please let me know.
ChronicleX
Banned
Tux said:
Indeed, its how you chase people down as flying. Its a must have skill for World PvP otherwise people will just attack you once (causing you to fly slow) then leg it. Downdraft attack is also really good especially in a sky battle, using that will take someone out of the fight since they cannot fly anymore.
Sblargh said:
A DNS works the same way torrent trackers do, it is a massive list telling your PC where what you want is. You type in a web address, thats sent to the DNS, the DNS matches the web address to the IP then returns that IP to you. Using Google DNS just means google knows everything your internet connects to via web address unless you use a proxy.
krypt0nian
Banned
Sblargh said:
Yeah I've switched to that that DNS to make my thoughts vids stream perfectly.
Just did Area 51 for the first time. Kinda lame that all 3 of the mini bosses were the exact same guy. But otherwise it was pretty fun.
It didnt really feel like WoW where it was "Play your role or we all die"
This was everyone pretty much doing their own thing. The boss fights were the only time we really used teramwork.
It didnt really feel like WoW where it was "Play your role or we all die"
This was everyone pretty much doing their own thing. The boss fights were the only time we really used teramwork.
BattleMonkey
Member
kai3345 said:
The regular alerts you get before you hit 30 are designed that you can just queue up for them with 4 random ppl and play through them. I've done some with only 3 people even, and you can get through them without a healer.
Once you hit 30 and start doing hard mode alerts, you need to work as a team and play your roles like in other MMOs. Raids also of course require team work
krypt0nian
Banned
Two new DCUO statues revealed-
Available in November.
Available in November.
chesspieceface
Member
Just noticed there's some kind of new skull icon just to the right of the health-power UI bar, anyone know what this means?
chesspieceface
Member
Killthee said:
Make sense, the game crashed while I was in a Legend PVP arena, so it must have stayed on when I logged back again.
Mercury Fred
Banned
Tux said:
ChronicleX said:
Thanks guys. Do you know the names of the skills?
ChronicleX
Banned
My current stats, pretty happy with my spec now. Shame the stats screen doesn't tell you things like your current crit damage or chance etc.
just leveled my Sorcerer to 30, and loving the versatility (the fact that your damage build and healing build is completely different), as opposed to controller, where you can pretty much have the same loadout. However I do miss the mass stuns that my mental troller does to mobs. They play so differently that's it's pretty fun switching around both characters. But in terms of single target damage, sorcery just MIGHT have a slight edge on the pyrokinesis spamming of mentalists. They have a cheap low recharge weapon imbue spell that gives an extra 80 ish damage for 3 attacks, and a damage spell that almost doubles the nuke damage if used when their hp is 35% or lower, which is basically instant death (love when villain tanks think they can still take some damage before healing... and BOOM). 
But they HAVE to fix handblasters and dual pistols. EVERYONE is pretty much using those exploits, heck, in open world pvp unless you're with other people, you have to use it too if you want to survive against them. It's gotten to the point of plain silliness. I could take down a lvl 30 in 5 seconds back when I was lvl 24 with the pistols, it's that messed up. Handblaster isn't as bad because you have to hold it for 3-4 seconds to really get the glitch, but you still see everyone using that instead of the other combos so on that chance they get that 1 extra second, you're dead. Once they fix it and things level out again, I can go back to my one handed katana.
But they HAVE to fix handblasters and dual pistols. EVERYONE is pretty much using those exploits, heck, in open world pvp unless you're with other people, you have to use it too if you want to survive against them. It's gotten to the point of plain silliness. I could take down a lvl 30 in 5 seconds back when I was lvl 24 with the pistols, it's that messed up. Handblaster isn't as bad because you have to hold it for 3-4 seconds to really get the glitch, but you still see everyone using that instead of the other combos so on that chance they get that 1 extra second, you're dead. Once they fix it and things level out again, I can go back to my one handed katana.
Animation-Imp
Member
icechai said:
Which Glitch?
I haven't encountered it yet,
could you elaborate?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqdyy1nYswQAnimation-Imp said:
BattleMonkey
Member
Hmm I never knew about that glitch, is it on ps3 version as well? Not seeing how it's even done
BattleMonkey
Member
I will resist learning it... unless it proves useful for the team for alerts/raids lol
BattleMonkey said:
actually if you're in DPS, the highest DPS scores are always the dual pistol users now (which is kind of the opposite of what the weapon is supposed to be about. high combo, good aoe full auto, but not the ridiculous damage).
As far as learning it, you'll probably accidentally do it a few times, it's that easy and messed up. The ONLY redeeming factor is the damage is split, so its HEAVY damage to 1 mob, but starts getting smaller the more mobs are around. Also if the last hit of the combo is blocked before the glitch, the glitch won't happen (only way to beat pistol users is to get that block). Another interesting note, if they use it in PVP Legends as Huntress or the Joker, they lose their ability to block for the rest of that life. So once you see someone do it, spam your hardest hitting multihit skill (hammer as Harvey) and you'll kill them pretty instantly.
sorry guys, but is the US login server down? i of course checked the official forums, but it's an absolute clusterfuck of information. you can't find shit.
they need an official server status page. jesus.
PS-- Still having a blast with this game. got a level 30 hero and currently working on my first level 30 villain. both sides are an absolute blast to play. best MMO in over a decade.
they need an official server status page. jesus.
PS-- Still having a blast with this game. got a level 30 hero and currently working on my first level 30 villain. both sides are an absolute blast to play. best MMO in over a decade.
Zeal said:
yeah on the forums they posted in tech issues that there was a problem and they were working on it. seems like its back up now.
i also love this mmo, first one since guild wars that i've thoroughly enjoyed so much, as I like making alts. However the endgame right now needs some improvement as its just a daily grind of duos/raids with the occasional legends play at the moment.
kai3345 said:
It's gets harder. Some of my friends that have epic lv toons say that you don't really need a tank (since they have DPS'ers that can handle the damage). But he says that you absolutely need heals in the harder level instances and raids.
He's doing "hard mode" though. He went in once with one dps, one controller and two heals and the bosses took longer to down, but since they had two heals the dps could live.
I hope they change that, since I think the tank should be required. At least a de-crit bonus for using tanks spec. Something.
Just did bludhaven on lvl 24 with my healer and a controller lvl 28 and two DPSs lvl 28.
It was easy.
eeeeeasy. Team died one or two times only.
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Start new battle, do defense buff, make that healing circle, make the other healing thing and as long as I kept it all up, barely had to actual heal. Hope this keeps up.
Rest of the group was good too, having a controller keeping you recharged is heaven. when chemo actually came, we had the whole hazmat team alive, and with the aforementioned buffs and heals, it felt like I was just mashing the attack button until he died.
It was easy.
eeeeeasy. Team died one or two times only.
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Start new battle, do defense buff, make that healing circle, make the other healing thing and as long as I kept it all up, barely had to actual heal. Hope this keeps up.
Rest of the group was good too, having a controller keeping you recharged is heaven. when chemo actually came, we had the whole hazmat team alive, and with the aforementioned buffs and heals, it felt like I was just mashing the attack button until he died.
kyo_daikun
Member
Closest I got to that was a trinket that would transform me into a Lion Bestiomorph :/kyo_daikun said:
kyo_daikun said:
I love the superspeed boots, though they wreck my stats it is fun to just run around like crazy.
I wish I got them on my pvp toon so I could switch them on when I needed to get the hell out of dodge and acrobatics just isn't getting me out fast enough.
Is that the one that makes you like a ghost?
kyo_daikun
Member
Hex said:
No, this one turns you into an OMAC for a minute, adds around 3000hp to your character, not sure what it does damage wise.
Maybe it's just me but that Tank we had for the Stryker's alert seemed to really drop the ball in that room with the four metas. I didn't see him in front of target for nearly any of the cycle. It's why I kept repeating "OK so Mirror guy first, then Storm dude then Ice then Fire...right?" I guess he didn't pick up on that. Oh well, we made it in the end but geez I really need to level up my Tank alt
krypt0nian
Banned
Holy shit, Fred. I should have taken your offer to team up today.
I ended up doing Oolong with monkeys that kept on triggering multiple scientists and locking out part of the team on the Tornado Tyrant despite my constant protests.
I ended up doing Oolong with monkeys that kept on triggering multiple scientists and locking out part of the team on the Tornado Tyrant despite my constant protests.
some tanks are bad it's a tough role to figure out i guess. in most groups i am troller but also lead or close second dps so when i have a boss chasing me around the entire time even with grandeur equipped it's annoying as fuck and almost certain doomFredFish said:
ChronicleX
Banned
FredFish said:
Well 2 things wrong there. First, you kill the storm guy first not Mirror, you kill mirror second. Reason is storm is a pain in the backside, has the lowest hp of the 4 and the only 1 that will move around the room. The real mirror is the that does not move from his post shooting lasers at you, and when he dies his clones die too. After that you can kill ice or fire in any order really though if your "Bad" at this you will want to kill ice first, since you need fire alive to defrost yourself should ice's frost attack hit you. The only hard thing about that fight is remembering to defrost yourself so you do not become ping-ponged around the room.
AstroLad said:
The game as new, the problem is people trying to tank things undergeared or in the wrong gear or spec. They think "Oh tank role automatically makes me a tank, I can do what I want, yay!" and that is not the case. It took me a ton of respecs, experimentation, etc to get to the stage I am at now for example, so it's going to take alot longer for someone not experimenting or "trying" to understand how to play their role.
yeah exactly, which is why i'm never tough on people unless they're just blatantly being stupid. i've been running into a lot of undergeared people in the 30 alerts recently unfortunately but thankfully i have league people i can play with too.ChronicleX said:
Don't want to sound like a know-it-all. It was my first time doing the alert and the order was something given by a group member with experience there. I completely understand that it's early days and people are learning mechanics and what-not but really how difficult is it to realize that you can't Tank at range? I can understand being blown around a bit by the storm guy and losing position momentarily but the guy wasn't stepping up to anchor our assaults even after we took down the storm meta. I would be fine with it being a gear problem or needing a respec but basic "Tank needs to be in mob's face and stay there until it dies or you do" is what baffled me
BattleMonkey
Member
Where is the Simon Municipal building? It's the last place I need to complete my exploration feats and its not on the maps and been running around the tomorrow district forever and can't find it.