Aett_Thorn

Well, first off, I'll give a shout out to ParagonWiki's article on the Incarnate Abilities. It might be a good place to start on this.

Most of the Incarnate stuff is possible to do solo (though some of it might be hard for you, depending), but teaming will make it easier to do.

However, to make an ultra-rare Incarnate Ability, for right now, you will need to be doing the Weekly Strike Task Forces, which will require you to team.

Gotta admit, that does seem pretty cool. Very random and completely unexpected, but I think I'm going to like.

I wonder if it's going to be the "Rogue Islands" stand-in in Praetoria.

/Kinetic Melee would also be good. The -Damage helps with the lower resistance values, and Power Siphon can be a huge boost to your damage aura. The Stuns and KD effects should also help you out, and Burn + Burst should help out even more in the AoE department.

It depends on what you're trying to do with the set bonuses.

While the damage output might not seem all that great because it happens in frequent, but low-damage tics, the overall damage output by these powers is actually pretty good. Slotting it with 6 Obliterations is a good way to go if you want some Melee defense, though only if your Endurance usage is under control. If it's not, then 6-slotting with Multi-Strikes might be better.

I think that swinging Goofy at your opponents would be fun! However, I think that unless you allow customization of it to allow people to use Mickey, Donald, or Pluto as well, you're going to hear complaints.

Korilynn,

First off, I'm glad that you took my post in the way that it was intended. However (and while I'm not too upset by this, I know a decent amount of people are), using the term 'hon' in a post when referring to someone is decently patronizing. I'm not four, and I do tend to know what I'm talking about.

Now, as your post is fairly large, I'm not going to quote it, but only certain parts of it. I hope you don't mind.

The Fighting Pool was already taken a lot by the melee ATs, especially Tankers and Brutes. I see a decent amount more Scrappers with it, but I would say that Leadership is becoming more prevalent on the ranged ATs. Both Assault and Tactics can be helpful with only 1-2 slots, and Maneuvers taken by everyone on a team can give everyone 20-30% Defense to everything on top of what they already have.

First off, welcome to the game! I am very glad that you like it, and I'm glad that you'll be staying a while.

Now, to your points (in no particular order).

1) You do not need to buy IOs to compete. The game is still balanced (at least in normal content) on SOs. As such, if you sell all of your salvage that you find running through the game, you should have more than enough influence to buy normal enhancements. Those high sell prices help out the sellers, if you're not also buying things.

2) As a new player, I don't know why you'd expect to be able to compete with players that have been here for years, especially since they've had years to build up influence stores before there even was a market. (A bit of history for you, before the market came out, one of the Devs came out on record saying that there was over 3 TRILLION influence in circulation. While that has likely gone up, you see why many people think that this game needs influence sinks).

3) A single player can do little to affect the long-term inflation of prices. As such, market griefing by single players doesn't do a whole lot. Another person listing the item at 5 influence will sell before the "griefer's" items priced at 100,000, regardless of the bidders price.

4) Before Incarnate content came out, there was little to do at the end game. The game focused highly on making alts and going through the game again. As such, there were usually a lot of players on at all levels. With the Incarnate stuff going on, there are a lot more people playing their high-level toons at the expense of making new ones. This means that there are fewer people generating low-level salvage items. However, the demand for these items hasn't gone down as much. So there's less salvage supply, and constant demand, which means that prices go up. Because of this, it becomes a seller's market. Run magic-enemy content, and you can make bank selling the in-demand salvage.

5) Using tickets on SOs is a decent idea, but you might actually make more money using those 3000 tickets to buy random magic salvage rolls, and selling what you get.

6) Be glad that you came into the game now, where there are alternate ways for new players and low-level toons to make money. In the early issues of the game, the Dev thought was that characters shouldn't be able to afford a full set of SOs at level 22. Influence gain was about the same as it is now, but there was no market to sell random stuff on, stores only sold the "power ten" enhancements (so enhancements like Endurance Modification were only sold from your contacts, at VASTLY inflated prices), and the only way to make lots of money at the low levels was to hand it down from someone else. It's much easier to outfit a low-level character now than it ever was.


I hope this helps a little. And please don't judge these forums based on the S&I forum. It is known to be one of the more...contentious...spots on the forums. If you ask a question in the Player Questions forum, there's an unofficial race among some of us to give a helpful answer quickly. These forums are some of the best I've seen in terms of community. The S&I forums just don't always show that.

This has been asked for before (though not usually with a specific speed in mind). The problem is, the geometry can't tell how fast you are going, and determine how to interact with you based on that. Basically, with the way the game works, there would only be two things to do: 1) What we have now, with everyone swimming, or 2) if anyone has a +runspeed power, then run on the water, even if standing still. Obviously, number 2 is fairly dumb, as if you stop running, you wouldn't sink.

There may be other technical hurdles to it as well, but the Devs have looked into it before, and it's a lot tougher to do than you might think.

It works with every other form of stealth.

Now, there are in-game limits to Stealth, which might mean that if you're already at the Stealth cap, then it won't have any effect, but the Stealth procs work with all in-game forms of stealth.

Threat depends on a number of factors, and it's not just a binary thing.

In short, the formula for Threat (in a very minimalized fashion) is this:

Threat = Damage * AT Mod * AI Mod * RangeMod * DebuffMod * (TauntDurationRemaining * 1,000).

Now, given your scenario, I would imagine that a few things happened. First, the Tanker jumped in, and got sight aggro, or maybe even a single tic of damage from his damage aura hit Reichsman, and then the Tanker started leading him away (possibly not having Reichsman in his aggro aura in the transit period). Thus, when you hit him with the Debuff, the Tanker's aggro had decayed to the point where you could steal aggro from him.

Does that sound possible?

Disaster Preparedness Office.


Edit -> And it is pronounced as depot. But it is an actual military acronym, and is how it is really spelled in the Air Force, at the least.

The game really has no way of knowing how you got a certain IO, though. Certainly there are different pools of them, but it can't tell if you got a pool A recipe from an enemy or from a merit purchase. This is complicated further from the fact that you can sell them. Does a buyer need to know if the seller got it from merit purchases, or that it's the rare one that they are looking for? I know that I don't particularly care where it comes from.

"Normal" set IOs will lose their bonuses if you exmplar down to more than 3 levels below the enhancement level. Meaning that if you are slotted with a full set of level 40 IOs, then if you exemplar down to level 36, you'll lose the bonuses.


However, Purple sets ignore this. You can exemplar down to level 1 and retain their effectiveness. This is part of what makes them better than normal sets.

Well, it's not quite the same thing. -ToHit and +Defense go into the ToHit formula in the exact same spot. However, -DMG comes into play before Resitance gets applied, but it ends up being about the same.

Let's say that you have an attack that does 100 damage, and that you are 50% Resistant to. Normally, this attack would do 50 damage to you. Now, let's say that a 20% -DMG effect gets applied to the enemy. He will now be doing 80 damage to you, of which you resist 40, leaving 40 getting through. As such, you are resisting 20% of the damage that you normally would have taken, but it's not the same as you getting another 20% resistance, if that makes sense.

For instance, if you were to get a +20% resistance buff, you'd be at 70% resistance to the attack, and only take 30 damage.