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As far as I understand, it is not possible to tag individual power effects to ignore buffs - it seems that the whole power must be tagged in that manner. So, for this reason, heals with a Damage Resistance component - and only such heals - are tagged to ignore all buffs.

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Gotta love the idiot factor in here.

Maintenance fluctuates with Daylight savings changes on BOTH sides of the pond.

The complaint was that maintenance SHIFTED an extra hour ON TOP of the 'apparent' Daylight Savings move.

We're used to six months of the year being 11pm maintenance, and the other 6 months being 1am maintenance.

It was horrible to have a week of 10pm maintenance (and it was for more than a week -- it reverted back to 'normal'' 11pm maintenance yesterday).

As for this assertation that it's a US-centric game, that's not very cogent. How many people are put out by the current 6am/9am Eastern/Western time-zone maintenance windows, and would be 'adversely affected' by a 8am-11am window instead -- not many!

Japan is in the same timezone as us, and I know quite a few Japanese players, and there are the New Zealanders who are an hour ahead of us, who would be spitting chips at 9pm shutdowns.

My request was to move maintenance back to what it was, or perhaps a bit further, not to shift maintenance to 10pm USA TIMES.

Gotta love the 'someone elses problem' attitude a lot of unthinking people have.

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[/ QUOTE ]Gotta love that you missed the part where US DST changed its start time two years ago. Maintenance wasn't moved, the US just goes into DST before Australia leaves Summer Time now. And the server maintenance times are based on the local time for the cluster (Pacific for west-coast, Eastern for east-coast), and neither of them are in states that do not do DST.

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For three years, maintenance has been 12.30am in summer, 10.30pm in winter, with a week or two in between at 11.30pm, due to the different changeover times for daylight savings.

Maintenance was recently starting at 9.30pm. This was the point in Troll's original post.

That cant be explained by US DST changing its start time, can it? Maintenance time was actually moved.


Aett - I cant say I agree with your reason against staggering maintenance times.
For the bulk of the playerbase, it doesnt matter whether maintenance happens at 9pm or 1am their time, because they aren't playing then anyway!

[/ QUOTE ]Ummm.... yes, it can.

Currently, it's DST in the US, but still Summer Time in Australia.

Normally when it's not Summer Time, Maintenance starts at 10:30 PM However, with the clocks in the US moved forward one hour, maintenance time starts 1 hour earlier. Therefore, 9:30 PM your time. Simple math, people.

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When you're lagging like I was the other night? Yes.

Also bear in mind that this is a major QoL suggestion for people on the more crowded servers who may wish to avoid the "load everyone standing under Atlas' crotch" lag you get on Virtue or Freedom.

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Need I make a double post?

[/ QUOTE ]And which of your suggestions for "fast travel" skips the "Load 100 PCs at once because you're within draw distance of Atlas' crotch lag" part? None.

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i wish they would remove the flag that lets the buff only affect powers that do straight up heal and nothing else. theres only 8 powers that buff will apply too

<ul type="square"> heal other
healing aura
radiant aura
warmth
cauterize
nullify pain
soothe
soothing aura[/list]
7 of those powers are basically the same power with just a differnet animation and nothing else. thats a pretty small pool of powers for a buff thats in every heal and heal/acc IO set

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Incorrect. The bonus is not limited to power that only heal. Aid Self, Aid Other, O2 Boost, Siphon Life, Life Drain and Dark Regeneration and many others get the buff. Twilight Grasp and Transfusion should, although they are a little wonky about it due to the pet summon. The only powers that don't get it are those with a resistance component such as Healing Flames, Reconstruction, etc. This does have a side benefit, which is that the healing of those powers cannot be debuffed.

[/ QUOTE ]And my regen scrapper is thankful for that every time she does a Hami-raid.

You can also 4-slot Jump Kick with Kinetic Crash, for a cheaper (inf-wise) option.

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867-5309

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Argh.

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Somebody had to.

[/ QUOTE ]I'm guessing the rejection hotline?

[/ QUOTE ]No, that's Jenny's number. Call it for a good time.

When you're lagging like I was the other night? Yes.

Also bear in mind that this is a major QoL suggestion for people on the more crowded servers who may wish to avoid the "load everyone standing under Atlas' crotch" lag you get on Virtue or Freedom.

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Considering the ease with which one can get to Atlas Park I don't see a need for this.

Like a poster said above an O portal can get you there.

While it's true Villains get a phone number for this they are also pretty much cut off from the front area of Mercy once they leave the zone.

[/ QUOTE ]I can? You mean my level 21 tanker could have used an O-portal to get back to AP after completing the cape mission?

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She's a shy girl and her boyfriend is very jealous so she simply doesn't like to give it out. Anyway.. agreed but somehow I doubt it will change. Interesting though you do the Percy arc on Croatoa for the "Origins of Power" badge and after 1 talk to mission he gives you his number. She won't give up her's even after completing two different mission arcs.

[/ QUOTE ]Not to mention that villainside you'll already have the phone number for your cape/aura contact, since it's just your starting contact.

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Gotta love the idiot factor in here.

Maintenance fluctuates with Daylight savings changes on BOTH sides of the pond.

The complaint was that maintenance SHIFTED an extra hour ON TOP of the 'apparent' Daylight Savings move.

We're used to six months of the year being 11pm maintenance, and the other 6 months being 1am maintenance.

It was horrible to have a week of 10pm maintenance (and it was for more than a week -- it reverted back to 'normal'' 11pm maintenance yesterday).

As for this assertation that it's a US-centric game, that's not very cogent. How many people are put out by the current 6am/9am Eastern/Western time-zone maintenance windows, and would be 'adversely affected' by a 8am-11am window instead -- not many!

Japan is in the same timezone as us, and I know quite a few Japanese players, and there are the New Zealanders who are an hour ahead of us, who would be spitting chips at 9pm shutdowns.

My request was to move maintenance back to what it was, or perhaps a bit further, not to shift maintenance to 10pm USA TIMES.

Gotta love the 'someone elses problem' attitude a lot of unthinking people have.

Ex

[/ QUOTE ]Gotta love that you missed the part where US DST changed its start time two years ago. Maintenance wasn't moved, the US just goes into DST before Australia leaves Summer Time now. And the server maintenance times are based on the local time for the cluster (Pacific for west-coast, Eastern for east-coast), and neither of them are in states that do not do DST.

Pretty simple, really, have the City Representative who gives the cape and aura missions give you her number when you accept the Cape mission. I know I find it somewhat annoying to, after I've gone through the series of Talk-tos, including the one with Justin Greene in the [censored]-end of IP, have to go back to the city rep to unlock my capes. Especially since the cape mission is usually for me 200 yards from the Steel Canyon tailor. And then we don't even have it for the aura mission, so after you get done sweeping Crey's Folly, you have to hike back to AP again, rather than just heading to IP and setting up your new costume.

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Are you sure they've actually gotta wire each animation individually to include the specific weapon, basically making a new one for each weapon?

[/ QUOTE ]Yes, because BABs has stated it's a "state-based animation engine". Basically means that any power, if it is to be used in more than one "state" needs a separate animation for each "state". Brawl now has animations for Shield, RH weapon, LH weapon, RH Weapon + Shield, Two Weapons, as well as 3 times that for Male/Female/Huge, then twice that for Flight/Non-flight.

Aye, but if Tanker and Scrapper ElA had a DP clone (Let's call it Electro-heal) in place of Conserve Power, can you imagine the hue and cry from Villains? They'd take "Devs Hate Villains" to a whole new level!

Actually, I'd like to see ElA's Powersink (and only ElA's) get the Energy Drain effect. Or replace CP (on both) with a DP clone.

CP is completely redundant with Energy Drain/Power Sink, and if replaced with DP, would be used much more.

Unfortunately, wholesale power-replacement is not fondly looked upon by the playerbase and very rarely used by the devs (see Grav control, losing Fold Space as Tier 9 for Singularity. That's the *only* one that's ever gone through, and it was ages ago, Issue 1, IIRC).

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due to the risk involved.

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A Fire/Fire/Fire blaster will have 30% S/L resistance from their APP shield. A Fire/Fire/Fire scrapper will have 35% S/L resistance from their set shields. What exactly is it that amplifies the Blaster's risk -- that additional 5% resistance the Scrapper gets? Or the does the fact that the Blaster can attack from range some how make it seem 'riskier'?

[/ QUOTE ]The other eight powers in Fiery Aura. Fail.

Scrapper also gets....
Mez protection
Capped Fire resist
Cold/energy/negative/toxic resist
self-heal

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1) I was not the only one to die, so reports of my demise(s) are being greatly exaggerated

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I may have slightly exaggerated just about everything

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2) When starting a ITF, it is not recommended that you buff the mobs, debuff the players, and turn off enhancements.

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Yeah. Only some truly incompetent would do something like that... Though I might get a crazy group together and try that sometime. Our setup last night might have pulled it off. It wouldn't have been all that fun though.

[/ QUOTE ]Smurphy ITFs: Turn off teleport prompt because all it does is delay the fun.

I've been on a few Smurph ITFs on Virtue. 131 is all right, but lower than some he's done just with Invincible/Relentless, without the enemies buffed settings. (Though the one time I brought my main, we only had 55 or so deaths. )

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Also lacks sleep protection at all.

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/e coughcoughcoughdie
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Downpour
Click: Self Heal, +Res(Fire, Toxic, [u]Sleep[u], Disorient), +Perception

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[/ QUOTE ]Try reading my second post in this thread where I corrected myself.


Anyway, I'm not going to spam a self-heal every 30 seconds just to have mez protection. Also, this set is light on defensiveness, yet will garner more aggro without taking taunt than an ice tank that took taunt.

Finally, mag 7 will KB anything shy of an EB. I like the concept, but the execution needs a lot of work.

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Could use a bit of stun/disorient protection in there.

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/e cough
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Downpour
Click: Self Heal, +Res(Fire, Toxic, Sleep, [u]Disorient[u]), +Perception

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[/ QUOTE ]Yeah.... bad idea. Even if you have it flagged to use like a breakfree. Also lacks sleep protection at all.

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In before edit! Hehehehe.

Also, it's not really that different than Active Defense. The problem is more that the Endurance scaling cost from a heal and low duration of effect would probably make it awkward.

[/ QUOTE ]Yeah, just saw the sleep in there, but I'm not going to edit since I was already quoted. &gt;.&gt;


However, the problem with that is it starts at 30s recharge, 45s duration. As it stands, this set will be a bigger end-hog than a Spines/Dark scrapper. If you want to do a PB-type mez protection, it should all (or most) be on the one click, have a longer duration, and a better-scaled end cost than this one does.

Although I *love* the idea of having KB protection from level 1. I might suggest putting the sleep/stun protection on the toggle that has hold/immob protection, then altering the heal to be more like Integration on end cost, heal scale, and recharge time, as well as resist duration.

(I do see why you put the sleep/stun protection on Downpour, thematically it's like O2 Boost, but I think it is just not a workable method for a tanker/scrapper/brute/stalker.)

I might also suggest giving storm barrier a more exotic mez protection. Perhaps some Confuse protection, because control of something so chaotic as the weather allows you to shrug off attempts to instill chaos in your mind, or something similar?

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Could use a bit of stun/disorient protection in there.

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Downpour
Click: Self Heal, +Res(Fire, Toxic, Sleep, [u]Disorient[u]), +Perception

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[/ QUOTE ]Yeah.... bad idea. Even if you have it flagged to use like a breakfree. Also lacks sleep protection at all.

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Hug - A hug emote! (To solve height problem, there could be: hughigh, hug, huglow, hugkneel.)

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I hate to say it, but huglow and hugkneel wouldn't last 3 seconds on Virtue before some ERP person turned it into the umm... "oral satisfaction" emote.

I like everything else posted so far.

[/ QUOTE ]Fixed that for you.

/macro RAID target_custom_next Magus

How is the CH broken? It's simple Supply and Demand. Seriously, Economics 101. Everything in pool C (until merits) had roughly equal supply, but unequal demand. The items in higher demand will command a higher price, because that's the way a free market works.

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Well at least no one listed any retarded RPing reasons to no merge the market this time.

[/ QUOTE ]Yes, because Roleplay reasons for anything in a Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game are automatically stupid. *eyerolls*


Also, Smurphy, the JoJo comment was a joke.

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And give JoJo the keys to all our inf?

If the markets merge, the only winner will be JoJo.

*gets back to work on his "stop JoJo from dominating the world economy arc"*

I blame Neco. &lt;/SG in-joke&gt;

Probably because NC Soft hires through an agency, though, and not actually a decision from NC?