Arcanaville

You can make Domination perma.


They must be playing around with something if Synapse implies he's seen a difference playing his blaster, but that doesn't mean what they've done is all they'll do.

Its unresistable, but its not granted. Topdoc was thinking about debuffs that are delivered through grantpowers, because with those the target is given a power that causes it to debuff itself, like Bruising's resistance debuff.

This is significant because when the target debuffs itself, for obvious reasons the purple patch doesn't apply. Trick Arrow's unresistable tohit debuff would be unresisted, but still decreased by being delivered by an attacker -5 or -6 to the target by the purple patch to between 30% and 15% of its strength.

In I14 beta pohsyb posted a "challenge mission" that he claimed would beat any player. It turned out to be a small room full of nothing but Nemesis AVs, EBs, and Bosses. He apparently literally meant it would beat any player, not necessarily any character, by crushing their spirit.

The domination bar is really only a gate to trigger the domination power, it does nothing on its own. What you're describing is closer to a defensive Fury bar. While its an interesting idea in general, defensive fury doesn't seem to match the blaster concept to me.

Interesting. Let's think that through. Tyrant will be either +5 or +6 during a hard way run (depending on whether Ultimates are used). He'll have 1.5 accuracy for being an AV, and 1.5 accuracy for being +5 or higher, and +5% tohit if he's +6. I believe AA tohit debuff has a maximum stacking limit of 10, so that's -75% tohit maximum.

That will floor Tyrant, which means his overall chance to hit the player will bottom out at 5% * 1.5 * 1.5 = 11.25%. Hammer of Justice has 1.2 accuracy, so it bottoms out at 13.5%**. That's pretty good, but it presumes Tyrant is at or below 80% tohit. He'll intrinsically have 69% base tohit from being a Praetorian AV and +6, or 64% if he is +5. I believe he will gain +5% tohit for each of his pets that Power of Tartarus absorbs.

So for this to work, assuming a reasonable hard way run uses ultimates, you have to make sure Tyrant doesn't stack more than 3 tartarus buffs, and they refresh stack. Once he gets more than three he'll start coming off the floor, assuming all other tohit debuffs are negligible (which in this case they probably are).

I'll admit this is an interesting idea that didn't occur to me, but given this seems to be a high order effort for a net result can be replicated by bubbles or a pair of large lucks is there a tactically significant advantage to attempting this that I'm overlooking?


** Maybe. Praetorian AVs seem to uniquely have a higher than 1.0 base accuracy; 1.1 in fact. I've not tested this yet, but I suspect that means they get an intrinsic 1.1x accuracy factor on top of all others equivalent to player slotting, which means Hammer of Justice may bottom out at 14.85% tohit.

My worst shard task force only took a year and a half.

I run Win7 ultimate x64.

Try going to a flash video site that works, say youtube, and right click on a video there. Select Settings, and uncheck hardware acceleration. Then open a different browser tab to twitch.tv. It should still be disabled. See if that helps.

Note: its settings, not global settings, and its set in the applet, not in the control panel.

My experience with Magi says when the air crackles, start moving away from Tyrant and in a direction where no other players are, and keep moving until the lighting strikes. When it strikes, because you're moving you'll likely take only one tick of damage. Because you're moving in a direction where no other players are in front of you, you're not likely to move out of one lightning burst and right into another one. Once the lighting strikes and you're definitely not in it, its safe to stop and take stock of what is where, and move back towards tyrant to engage him moving around the lightning pillars as you do.

Its similar to the strategy I recommended for Avoids the Green Stuff: don't try to move away from the death patches, try to move towards a spot you know there aren't going to be any, and keep moving until you're sure you aren't in one yourself.

Something to note is the fact that if everyone moves generally away from Tyrant, no one can possibly cross the path of another player. If some players move away, and some move sideways around the bowl, someone moving away from Tyrant when the lightning strikes could, if they are partially blinded by the lightning glare, run right into another lightning pillar that appears in front of them as another player crosses their path. That could kill them before they realize what happened.

I haven't been on any hard way runs yet, so this is just what my thoughts are on that particular issue until I see some successful hard way runs.

Nor am I hoping you do. Still:

I'd certainly have no problem with that, because adding things doesn't hurt anyone that was currently leveraging any of the existing things. Deleting Aim and boosting BU hurts the players that liked cycling both powers in alternating fashion for a longer net buff. If there was no other way to do what you described, maybe. But there should be other ways, because sets without BU and Aim would have to have this effect also.

Crime doesn't always pay.

There weren't really any going on in the Blaster forums either until I decided to start shaking the cage a while back. Part of it is that the devs seem to have been on a slow rolling sweep through the archetypes and as each gets attention from the devs most of the discussion shifts in that direction, and part of it is that a lot more discussion is about content than powers and game balance, and part of it is that all tanker balance discussions these days end up being about how Johnny_Butane defines tankers.

That's waiting. PL a mind dominator in a second account and have it confuse everything to death while your main character watches. Now that's cheating.

Eight years and I keep coming back for more.

Cheat.

If you use Barrier Core Epiphany you only need to build to 85% without it, and that buys some options, so you don't have to do quite so absurd things to reach the res cap.

That doesn't stop me from doing absurd things to reach the res cap and the defense soft cap to smash/lethal simultaneously:

40.2% s/l defense, 85% s/l resistance, so with Barrier Core Epiphany you'll always be at least 45% defense and 90% resistance to smash/lethal. Of course, its a lunatic build that has net 0.3 recovery and I don't think an unslotted Power Sink is going to really get you places.

That would be more accurate, but they generally don't. The reason as it was explained to me when Real Numbers was first implemented appears to be that combat attributes taps the game engine to get those numbers, and it can get one of two things: the net value of an attribute, and the strengths of individual buffs/debuffs before they are factored into final attribute. The individual strengths don't seem to account for resistances at the point in the code where they are tapped. Attempting to factor in things like that would take more code, and cause the feature to place more load on the server, which at the time was deemed to be too expensive to do.

I believe Resistance calculations are tricky for Real Numbers to handle specifically because as simple as resistance appears to us, the game engine uses an algorithm to handle resistable and unresistable resistance factors in a not-straight-forward way to dynamically arrive at final values. That code doesn't get any simpler when unresistable resistance effects happen to not be present.

You're cuckoo if you think you're getting more than the booby prize for that.

I toucan play this game.

If we're talking about a hundred gigs or so at the speed the old TRS-80's saved to cassette tape, about fifty one years.

You think there's a possibility Harry Potter is summoning water fowl at your location?

One problem I noted from very early in Issue 9 beta was the fact that separate from raw performance, SR is much more limited in its slotting opportunities. Most melee defense sets then, and all of them now, have more set slotting opportunities. Its trivially easy for all melee defense sets to slot defense, resistance and healing sets, except SR which has a significant blind spot with resistance sets. The only way to slot those is to take tough, which requires a separate prerequisite power on top of that.

There's a separate issue and that is that survivability is, slightly oversimplified, the product of mitigation and health recovery. SR is one of only two melee defense sets that lack significant strength on one side of the ledger (the other being Regen, which is analogously weaker in strength on the opposite side of the ledger). Soft-cap without significant health recovery (heal, regeneration) is actually not all that powerful on its own. And this is why energize, which is weaker than reconstruction in total health recovery (heal + regen), was enough to turn Electric Armor from the worst performing melee set to one of the better ones in one jump.


On the topic of the OP, if you ask me what would I completely revamp if I could revamp anything, I'm going to give a weird answer. I would revamp the set of the first two attacks in every offensive set in every archetype collectively. I would make a special design rule for them allowing them to be faster, recharge quicker, and cost less to use. This would allow lower level characters to be more active while they are building up their powers, and allow greater flexibility in making higher tier powers more interesting, knowing players always have a better set of "bread and butter" attacks that work well in general. Players would have to rely on long "attack chains" less, and get more mileage out of more situational or longer recharging powers.

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