Aett_Thorn

^This

This is correct.

If you have an attack that deals 100 damage, let's say. You hit him with a debuff of 50% -dmg. His attack will do 50 damage to you. If you have an additional 50% resistance to his attack, he'll do half of the remaining damage to you. As such, you'll take 25 damage.

This isn't quite true. The rule of five applies to the set bonus name, not how the set bonuses as organized within their set. In this instance, it might be because the BotZ is coded as "small ranged defense bonus," and the thunderstrike as "minor ranged defense bonus." They should probably have the same name, and therefore be subject to the rule of five. But it has nothing to do with the other bonuses in the set.

I would agree with this. The crashes on powers don't seem balanced anymore (and actually haven't for a while). I can understand some kind of crash, but a complete crash makes little sense.

Let's see if this works.

Gasp!! Tundara's back! Yaaaaaaayyyyy!

3 months - Trenchcoats

6 months - Greek symbol chest pieces (yeah, I see those used all the time.../sarcasm)

9 months - Belly Shirt, the Hacker, Desire, and Disco patterns for Females, Scottish Kilts for Males

15 months - two sets of wings

18 months - Samurai Armor

21 months - shoulder capes

27 months - Tech Sleek

30 months - Signature group logos for chest pieces (Freedom Phalanx, Vindicators, Vanguard, Arachnos, PPD, Cage Consortium, CoT, Council)

39 months - Boxing Gloves, Champion (belt), Boxing Shorts, and Boxing (boots)

51 months - Crab Spider, Blood Widow, Mu Mystic, Wolf Spider Helmets



Edit -> So, except for the last two, all are under the three-year mark, which you claim is the cut-off point for new players to feel like they are attainable. And to be honest, I rarely see most of these items used even by the people who CAN use them already.

Pretty much this. There are no sets for it because you can't enhance it. And the ability to enhance -dmg is problematic, because any powers that did damage and had a -Dmg debuff on them would then be affected by the damage enhancements, as well, if my understanding of them is correct.

CoH and CoV and Praetoria are all the same game to some degree. For instance, if you buy just CoH somehow, you have access to CoV as well. However, in order to access the Praetorian content, you need to have purchased Going Rogue (however, purchasing Going Rogue gives you access to all three sides).

However, the only time you will interact directly with people on the "other side" is in PvP. But if you have Going rogue, you can switch sides.

Costume options aren't limited like that for the most part. A Hero has the same costume options that a villain does. There are a few options that you can only get if you've purchased Going Rogue, however, and others that will need to be unlocked within the game itself.

If you start on hero-side, you can only make the hero Archetypes (ATs), and if you start on villain-side, you can only make the villain ATs. If you start in Praetorian, you can make any non-epic AT from either side. Epic ATs are linked to their respective sides, and open up once you get a level 20 villain or hero, respectively. Getting to level 20 as a hero gets you Peacebringers and Warshades (Kheldians as a generic term), and getting to level 20 as a villain gets you Arachnos Soldiers or Arachnos Widows. Eat of the Epic ATs can only be created on it's respective side of the game.

ParagonWiki is a great resource, as are the forums here. Build suggestions are actually usually done on the forums themselves. But you should definitely check out ParagonWiki for the basics.

Sorry, was typing quickly and made a typo. I meant "many powers" not most. Yes, on most it will not turn into KB (though it is painfully close), but there are a number of them that it will change it to KB.