UberGuy

The Assault Bot has significant -Regen in its plasma bolts.

• Regeneration -5 for 30s (30% chance) PvE only [Ignores Enhancements & Buffs]

(-5 is aka -500%)

The game time definitely does not consistently appear in synch with "wall clock" time.

DRMs definitely have a positional component on all their attacks. (Well, except Darkest Night, which has no attack roll.)

Psychic powers
Dark Miasma powers

Edit: It boggles my mind how hideous Mask of Vitiation is, given that its duration is twice its recharge time.

Actually, a lot of work has gone into the analysis on this, and there are no Scrapper builds that can obtain the DPS levels needed to overcome a Giant Monster's regen levels. The absolute best DPS builds out there are /Shield Scrappers with saturated AAO, and it's not high enough when paired with the best DPS primaries, like Dark Melee or Fire Melee.

The major contributor to soloing such entities is large -Regen debuffs. The ones of 500% and larger, even when resisted by level 50 GM resistances, are such as to contribute such a large effective DPS that ATs with much lower inherent raw DPS capabilities can be built to overcome what's left.

Neither Hami nor the DE count as Giant Monsters. Indeed, the DE are tagged simply "Monster". The distinction is that they don't level scale. I am pretty sure they are level 50, since they all do more damage to anyone who isn't level 50. That's Hami too.

Yes. There was no patch note for it. Honestly, given how ridiculous their mezzes are under PvP rules, I'm happy it was changed, but I don't know if it was intentional.

I don't know why you think it would be wrong. He has lower HP with the same regeneration % per second. That means he regenerates fewer HP/second. That's not wrong. It's a natural effect of being lower level.

Most mez protection scales with level. Look at the stats on toggle mez prot powers on your own characters while you change your level slider.

The only way to change their type is to reset the arc. Once you have "generated" the mission, you're stuck with the mob type it has in it. All you'll be able to do is scale their level/number up and down.

I strongly suspect they will work, because the powers perform the function that the set enhances. (Accuracy isn't something powers do as much as something powers have.) However, I haven't tested it myself.

Your only choices were:

• Random Rare Recipe
• "Power 10" SO (Accuracy, Damage, Recharge, Endurance, etc.)

If you were running a Statesman Task Force or Lord Recluse Strike Force, you were given an additional option: a random Synthetic Hamidon enhancement.

That was it. You never were able to choose salvage.

The options to choose various SOs was widely considered pointless in a world of IOs - especially a world of IOs where a common recipe could be sold to an NPC for more than the price of any SO you could want to buy.

The option to choose a random rare recipe was replaced by merits, so the devs could better equalize the rewards per task force. Essentially they wanted some TFs to be worth one random roll, some to be worth more than that, and some to be less. You can take your merits and go roll for random drops at Merit Vendors sprinkled in basically every PvE zone.

The option to choose random Synthetic HOs is still on the STF and LRSF.

The option to choose random salvage never existed.

Hope that helps.

The fact that just about every Brute attack set gets something like Build Up reinforces the point. All Brute powers that buff damage function equally less well on a Brute as, say, on a Scrapper. I don't how see /Shield merits special consideration or is uniquely disadvantaged. Fiery Embrace is party of the supposed offensive specialty of Firey Aura, and yet it is just as degraded on a Brute compared to on a Scrapper because more of a Brute's damage potential is an additive bonus on a smaller base.

There's nothing magically bad about the damage buff from */Shield on Brutes here. It works like everything else similar across the AT.

All Brute powesets beneft less from +damage buffs. This doesn't introduce a balance issue. It might be highlighting an existing one.

For example, this situation has existed all along for Super Strength with Rage and other sets with Build Up. (Not even mentioning that BU is smaller +damage for Brutes than it is for Scrappers.)

Except this is always in the hands of player choice. It is not like what happened in Zimbabwe, because real people cannot simply start doing something else to make more money, where players in CoH can. Worse, players should be expected to have to use the market as a two-way street. If everyone tries to act as a consumer, the system breaks down.

In the real world, what happened in Zimbabwe was a crisis and a tragedy. In the game, it called for people to adjust in some very mundane ways. Their refusal is neither a crisis nor a tragedy.

I don't see on what basis you can really say, one way or the other. And like Cat, I don't really see that analogy as valid except in the sense that absolute prices went up.

In Zimbabwe, you would make X Zimbabwe dollars a day on Monday, and a loaf of bread cost Y Zimbabwe dollars. On Tuesday, a loaf of bread could cost 2Y Zimbabwe dollard, but you still only made X dollars a day.

That's not what happened here, for serveral reasons. One, obviously the price increases weren't so extreme. But more importantly, they didn't represent a major shift in ongoing purchasing power. Yes, if you had a large pile of inf already, it would buy you less after I14. However, your absolute earnings rate on the market generally kept pace with the bulk of goods' prices, because you could sell on the market at increased prices.

The people who didn't keep pace as well were people who were only using the market to buy, meaning they were buying with purchasing power obtained purely through defeats, mission bonuses and NPC vendor sales of recipes and SOs. Their earnings would stay basically static while the market prices of goods went up*, so they could afford less. However, they were destined to be left behind no matter what, because the richest players would be the ones concentrating wealth by selling the most stuff (either dropped or flipped).

Unlike the laboror in Zimbabwe, who probably can't just up and change jobs (becoming a bread seller, for example), the player in CoH always has the option to act as a recipe (or crafted IO) supplier to the market. Doing so will always help them "keep up with the Jonses", as it were. They'll at least be able to afford to live in the same neighborhood.

* What prices actually did in I14 wasn't that cut and dry, and the example of them rising mostly applied to purple sets. A lot of goods decreased in price because supply spiked.

With no relevance to the rest of your ideas, the market isn't in need of this currently. Right now it's drowning in salvage.

Every 10 seconds, including one check at "zero" seconds when you activate it.

When the proc is allowed to go off on its 10 second intervals, it checks every target in the area of effect. It has a chance to go off with the listed probability on each target.

They only have a chance to be affected if they are in the area when the proc is checked.

Mechanically, Tar Patch works just like a rain.

As above for Darkest Night.

A proc in Dark Servant acts based on what the servant is doing. If you slot a hold proc in Dark Servant, it only checks when the Servant uses its hold. Likewise with its immobilize. One of the best things to slot in Dark Servant for frequency of triggering is a Dark Watcher's Despair: Chance for Recharge Slow or a Cloud Senses: Chance of Negative Energy Damage, because so many of the Servant's powers apply toHit debuffs. Particularly, the Chill of the Night aura he uses is always on, autohit and wide-area.

A toHit debuff proc will check for activation off once per target per 10 seconds in the aura and once per power activation per target in powers like Tenebrous Tentacles and Twilight Grasp. Other procs will check when the powers they could be slotted in on a player are activated. The proc doesn't have a radius of effect, but rather has a chance to affect everything hit by the power it is slotted in.

What the proc delivers to a foe does not matter, but it does matter what kind of set the proc is in. You cannot slot damage sets in Dark Servant. If you slot something like a hold set's proc in him, it will only go off when he uses a hold, etc.