Aett_Thorn

Your attacks are okay, but I would never put Taunt on auto. You want to use it strategically, and it's useless solo for the most part (the -range helps, but if you're solo, then you've got all of the aggro anyways). Plus, you want to make sure you're switching targets on a large team, since you want to gather as much aggro as possible, and Taunt only hits 5 enemies at a time.

For your armors, Permafrost can come much, much later in your build. However, Frozen Armor and Wet Ice should be in your build by now. Frozen Armor is you basic smashing/lethal damage shield, and Wet Ice gives you protection from being Mez'd. You want those two powers.

I would also advise you to pick up Frost soon. It's your only AoE damage power until Frozen Aura (and Icicles, too), and it's a great power.

He's talking about the Ancillary and Patron pools.

It was the Devs changing it so that passive powers couldn't slot the travel sets.

They don't mention gaining +Res, either. I'm just saying, the ring doesn't have to have the same function. Maybe it's the anchor keeping him as part of this world.

Bah! Begone with you and your reading skills!

You should really look at downloading Mid's Hero Builder. All of the experience, none of the influence cost.

Get rich enough, and it actually costs you more money to pick it up than if you had passed it by.

Please don't mistake disagreement with rudeness. Nobody here was being rude, just trying to point out why your ideas might not work. Not all of your ideas will work in this game, and many have been discussed often before.

I hope you do come back and post again.

Ummm...Willpower was released in I11. I have e-mails from Castle discussing Threat from well before that.

Edit -> Or my memory is going. I have some e-mails from just before I11 came out, but others from slightly before that, and the others were deleted. So maybe I just think that I11 came out more recently than I remember. I am an old fart, after all.

However, in checking through my e-mails from Castle on the subject, I did find out that I was wrong on something else, too. DebuffMod is actually around 50, not 2. That might explain a lot.

This is kinda-sorta true, but not exact.

Basically, Castle and Ghost Widow went into the files upon the request of the players, who were noticing things with aggro that shouldn't be happening, based on how the players thought that aggro worked in the game. At the time, the original aggro coder had left, and so nobody on the staff or in the player community knew how aggro really worked in this game, though we had some ideas. In short, the common idea at the time was that in order to steal aggro from somebody, you needed to have twice the level of Taunt as them, and that other factors weren't really involved.

However, Ghost Widow found the Threat files buried within the system, and after looking through them, her and Castle gave us the very simplified formula that you'll see being thrown around today. As part of this, they disclosed through a series of PMs what some of the values are (e.g., the AT Mods, Damage, and TauntDurationRemaining *1,000), or at least close approximations of them (DebuffMod is usually around 2 per debuff effect). Then there are others that were too complicated to really boil down simply (RangeMod, AI Mod). What they did tell us was that they discovered that while they could create the AI mod to "Kill the Healer," there was no AI coded with that at that time. This means that "Healer Aggro" should not exist. However, that doesn't mean that spawn aggro doesn't exist, or that using a heal doesn't create some minor level of threat.

But if you're really seeing mobs that are being damaged by others, and they still attack the person who throws out a single PBAoE heal, then you should bug that, or at the very least get a video and see if other people can replicate the situation so that we can see what is going on, whether it's just certain enemy groups, or what have you. It could be all AoE damage that he is taking, if he's close enough to hit the meleers with his own PBAoE, but I'd want to see it to be sure.

I think that castle and Ghost Widow now have a good understanding of how it works, it's just very, very complicated, and gets easily broken because of its complexity. It doesn't mean that it was broken and they decided to keep it, it just didn't work how the documentation at the time said that it worked.

Yes, but that has nothing to do with weapon models, which would affect this.

Well, we're not really sure about that, to be honest. we know that there is a RangeMod value in the threat formula, but we know nothing about it. Current speculation is that melee range generates a higher threat value, but it might be the other way around. We really don't know.

Expanding on 2) for a second: it would require 6 new animations for each powerset. Basically, you'd be creating the animations for 3 new sets, without getting new sets out of it.

It's still better, for several reasons. One being that if you're at the damage cap, Fiery Embrace still adds damage now. Before, it didn't.

Actually, it's about 0.76 mag turns into KB. 0.75 or below is KD.

Considering that it was done in the Alphas phase of the game, and was found to be horribly imbalancing, I think it would quite quickly destroy the game.