Agent White
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Quote:I'm not going to lie. I don't like using it.Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
You just like using that .gif, don't even lie.
I love using it.
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Quote:There's a number of sets I wish they'd give this treatment to. Though I'm not sure it'll work the way we'd hope. Regrowth works on us because it's a self targeted cone, -we're- the target. Nothing in NA let's you target someone explicitly and still get the benefit.Originally Posted by Zamuel
Hopefully the Controller and Corruptor Poison: Alkaloid can get the Regrowth treatment since it's a Tier 1 that can only be used on allies and that's problematic since unlike MMs they don't get pets until much later.
I do love the philosophy though of making support sets work solo as well as on team play. That's what's kept me off of 'almost strictly team' sets like Empathy or Poison if I'm not using a Mastermind. -
Quote:Right here:Originally Posted by John_Printemps
Am I the only one who wants to know why/how Marauder of all people is standing on the "Trainers Podium" in front of Atlas?
Right there in the first paragraphQuote:Issue 24: Resurgence is the next major free City of Heroes Freedom™ content update. Issue 24 provides new story arcs for a variety of character levels, ongoing power and Enhancement upgrades, and continuing premier content for our VIP players. Now that the Praetorian War is over, former adversaries work shoulder to shoulder to rebuild in the aftermath. As refugees from Galaxy City and Praetoria flood the streets of Paragon City, fresh conflicts bubble to the surface and new enemies emerge, setting the stage for a coming storm. -
Quote:Already got my elec/devices blaster all kitted out with a slotted up Targetting drone and a kismet in hover.Originally Posted by Synapse
Okay, I thought so. There are so many awesome features coming out in Issue 24 it's hard to keep all of them straight.
Now, if you'll excuse me I have to plan out my AR/Dev blaster's build for Issue 24. Perma insta-cast Sniper Rifle due to Targeting Drone? Yes please.
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Blaster changes aside. I do wonder if the incarnate arc or any system change will let us earn AiXP outside of the Magi trial or if we're stuck farming it for another few months. -
This assuming they keep up with every incarnate arc having a personal story at the end. they may choose to give it a break.
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Quote:no no, it was announced. We've got like 3 threads going "OMGSQUEE" over it.Originally Posted by Synapse
In issue 24 ranged blast tier 9s will be crash-less. This was actually announced in one of our coffee talks. Err, at least I hope it was and I am not having a "moment".
/em looks around for Black Pebble
Blast sets got some love with short ranged blasts being bumped to 80 feet, snipes can be "insta-cast" if you have adequate +to hit, and ranged blast Tier 9 "nukes" no longer have a crash and have dramatically reduced recharge times.
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I'm pretty jazzed about this honestly. Thinking of rolling up a grav/nature troller.
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Quote:Why would you want to respec? Just build new ones and switch out. I can't wait to build a Banished Pantheon LoreOriginally Posted by EnigmaBlack
And while I'm happy to see more Lore pets added, they really need to come up with a way to respec Incarnate abilities.
Yeah I think so. They hinted a while ago that fans weren't super happy with it so it was time to box it up and move on. Shame. I was hoping for a 40-50 Praetoria zone. Still time for it, but if it happens it probably won't be for a long whileQuote:And on a side note, was destroying Praetoria the devs way of saying "Yeah we f'ed up with Gold side"? -
Could be Shadowhunter, he seems to have survived. Or is still a ghost. or something.
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Quote:Sure go find me the design bible.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Feel free to outline how the 20-50 content would have progressed in the same style as the 1-20 content
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Quote:...where are you seeing it's coming in 24? it says coming tot he market 'soon', it doesn't mention I24 anywhere.Originally Posted by JayboH
Yeah, I wanted it to come out before Bio, but didn't realize we had to wait until issue 24, which isn't on beta yet. :P
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Quote:The greeks used to do that whole "I observe it, so it must be true" thing too.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
All the major story reveals about Tyrant and the loyalists except the "truce" with the Hamidon were put into the 1-20 GR content for a reason
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Quote:You're doing that thing again. Plans change. Just because we have what we have now does not mean that is always what was intended. Saying "It's this way, so it was always meant to be this way" is extremely fallible.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
You're totally misreading the intention of the Praetorian storyline and what it was designed to do
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New intrepid informer up on Nature Affinity too. Wonder if we're getting that before Bio Armor
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High level arcs! Incarnate Arcs! New Lore! Swoon!
Also, an intrepid informer just went up for Nature Affinity:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=294273
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Ohh Praetorians in Paragon. So maybe Ms. Lib -is- getting replaced by the Prae trio.
Can't wait to see if I'm right.
Let's see now:
Replacing the worst IO set bonuses: Squee! Great move.
New Io sets: Double squee! They all sound pretty interesting. Though TAoE is the only one I think was -needed- for variety, the others add to categories with lots of options already. Still, cool!
More Lore: YAY! The Dark Astoria mobs! AWESOME That'll certainly round out some options more. I've got a necromancer that'd be VERY interested in some BP lore pets. Kind of surprised there's no Circle/Knives of Artemis, but hey, the other options are still awesome <3 Can't wait to see what they do. Longbow get their cataract, will BP get ravagers? :O
New Incarnate Arc: YAY. Sounds great! Always happy to get more arcs to do as an Incarnate. Plus fighting more Praetoria DE! The teasers seem to show Shadowhunter and more than one encounter with the Avatar.
New Zone Stuff! : Honestly these sound like some zone revamps! Curious if the zone levels will be remaining the same (I expect they will, it would be pretty hard to squeeze 20 levels of mobs in St Martial/Bricks) but the new arcs will be welcome additions to help fill in the dismal 30-50 range
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Quote:Uh, no. We're talking about Imperious. The whole point of this is the OP is trying to make an awful point that since States and Psyche died, Imperious should be removed the same way because he dies but the situations aren't simila. We've never witnessed Imperious die.Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Not so much obstinate as 'The so called logic behind all this is so fething stupid it makes my brain hurt'.
Let's be honest, here, States and Psyche were culled out because they were the last vestiges of Jack's presence in the Game. We KNOW that. The Devs know that. Just no one is admitting that's the whole reason behind this godawful cludge.
It's a hamfisted point trying to call out about Statesman and Pysche and that IS a pretty silly situation, but it's not really analogous to THIS situation except as a tangent about characters dying (not BEING dead). -
Quote:Good because it was never funny. And at this point I think you're just being obstinate.Originally Posted by BrandX
Was never really trying to be funny.
I go to Cimora. I do the mission/tf. I do SSA1. I go back to Cimora...he's still there.
The excuse for removing Statesman and Psyche was "They're dead so you wouldnt see them anymore"
So why not replace the TF with someone else?
And of course he's still there. You're -told- they die. You're not -shown- they die.
You're traveling to a point in Cimerora -before everything in Cimerora goes down-. let's map out important points in a rough order:
A: First arrive in Cimerora
B: Sister Arlia's/Daedalus' arcs
C: Imperious Task Force
D: Handling Mot & Cimerora burns
E: Imperious and Romulus kill each other
We never get to E. As far as our personal timeline goes, we make it up to D and leave Cimerora to the present to deal with Mot. We're -closer- to E than we were, but we never make it -to- E. We're only told E happens at some point while we're thousands of years in the future. So when we go back into Cimerora, it's still -their- past. In fact it may not even be E at all, it may be F or G or H and we don't know because we haven't experienced it yet, there could be more stuff that happens between our leaving after the Mot fiasco and the two of them killing each other.
Really it's honest to gods time travel. There's no monkeying about with what's present, what's leveling, what's anything. it's time travel. We travel in time to a point prior to their deaths and have yet to reach the point where they die, we're only told they die. In fact we always knew they'd die, as said, Cimerora is gone, Statesman and Recluse possessed the incarnations of Zeus and Tartarus, and it's -thousands of years in the future-. Of course they died. We only didn't know how and at what point in time, a time we've yet to reach.
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No it works like the Controller's Overpower. While it's running you'll just randomly have your mezz be more effective. The 'to mezzed opponents' thing only applies to the waylay damage proc
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Quote:Having a proc to mezz something doesn't make that power a mezz power, it makes it a damaging power with a proc chance to mezz.Originally Posted by atomicdeath
With resilient radial tier 4, Increases Damage Resistance and To Hit Buff effects by 20%, Taunt Duration, Immobilize Duration, Intangible Duration, and Stun Duration by 33%.
And interface core tier 4 and control core tier 4.
With the immobilize proc on all damaging attacks. All attacks from the henchmen should be controling powers, imo. But your saying interface doesnt effect control hybrid. Why not? when in the control hybrid description hints it should. So where does it say it does not?
Procs are distinct, separate effects that are only triggered by their associated power. Nothing you can do changes what a proc will do, either it's damage, duration, etc. You cannot change procs.
Alpha, set bonuses, etc, none of them will change the procs. The interface "2 Mag Immobilize for 4 seconds" is ALWAYS going to be that, nothing you have change change it's duration, it's magnitude or anything, it's a separate, distinct effect that has a chance of happening when you use a power that triggers the chance to proc.
Stuff like the alpha and mezz bonuses only affect powers that come directly from -you-. A proc doesn't come from you, it's a separate effect triggered by you. All you can do is trigger it or not trigger it when you use the power associated with it. -
Quote:Really? Ok, didn't know that! I assumed all of the DoTs just showed up as extra damage pings, didn't think any of them had graphical effects. That does make sense though since I have seen, like the OP, folks with the swirl that were still moving.Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
as a note to agent white the swirling thing around the baddies feet will always show as that is the "graphical" effect for spectral even if it is doing just DoT -
It's a very low mag immobilization, I think just mag 2? So it's just going to stop minions unless you can stack it up quickly on lieutenants and bosses. Even then, it's only 4 seconds, so even if you manage to stack it, it might be just 1-2 seconds, which is a very 'blink and you miss it' time frame.
As for Control, no, the +1 Magnitude does not affect the interface proc. What the +1 mag means is that any time you have a click mezz power, it has a proc to increase its magnitude. For example, flash is a mag 3 hold. When you've activated your Core Control toggle, it now has a chance to become a mag 4 hold. Or say Chillblain is a mag 3 immobilize. With control, it has a chance to be a mag 4.
But the two don't interact. The interface gives you a 25% chance to affect a target with an immobilize. Control gives you a chance to increase the magnitude of a mezz you're using.
So say you've got both running. If you use a non-mezz power, let's say Spectral Wounds, then only Interface is going to have a chance to go off, because Spectral Wounds is not a mezz and therefore can't have it's magnitude increased. Now in a mezz power, say Blind, both interface and control will have a chance to proc. The interface proc will hit the target with the immobilize, the control proc will increase the magnitude of the hold.
Now, if you want the two to interact it's going to have to be in a damaging immobilization power, like chillblain or roots. When you've got control running, it can all stack. So the magnitude 3 immob can become a mag 4 from Control and it will stack with the mag 2 immob from spectral, so for 4 seconds you'll have an effective mag 6 immobilize effect on the target, which will immobilize any boss.
But that's all the plus magnitude stuff. The other component of Control -should- be working on immobilized targets, that is dealing Waylay damage to them because they count as mezzed targets. But again the spectral immobilization is mag 2 and only 4 seconds so it's mostly going to be affecting minions the full time, everything else will be blink and you miss it and the proc chance to hit mezzed enemies with the waylay damage caps out at 75% so it won't always happen. Basically you're looking at a very narrow window if you're trying to use explicitly control core and spectral interface together. -
Actually Marcus Valerius is probably the bigger "problem", since we can go through events that witness his 'death', or at least his removal from Cimerora, then we can turn around and get one of the timed repeatable missions from him.
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Yes, I know what control does. I'm not sure what you're expecting it to do when you say 'the mag 1 hold never takes effect'. The T4 Core does 2 things. It has a 75% chance to hit mezzed enemies with a psychic damage proc and has a 75% chance to increase a mezz magnitude by 1. If you can hit an enemy in the 4 second window they're immobilized with the interface you can do Waylay damage. The +1 magnitude will not affect the interface proc in any way.