Bill Z Bubba

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First off, this post is *NOT* a precursor of any particular impending change. The topic is strictly informative and for discussion.

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Understood. I will answer these questions to the best of my ability with the knowledge that this is only an informative exercise.

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I'd like to know about breakpoints for To Hit and Defense and how you, the players, think it should work. I'm not talking about mechanics -- I'm talking about the expectations you have in a fight.

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1) You have the default To Hit value (ie no buffs), your target has no Defense value. How often do you WANT to hit him? Conversely, as the defender, how often do you expect to be missed?

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I expect to hit said target and be hit 50% of the time.

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2) You have the maximum possible To Hit value, and your target has no defense value. How often do you WANT to hit him? Conversely, as the defender, how often do you expect to be missed?

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I want to hit him 95% of the time. I expect to be hit 95% of the time if he has the max tohit buff and I have no defense.

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3) You have the default To Hit value, and your target has the maximum possible defense value. How often do you WANT to hit him? Conversely, as the defender, how often do you expect to be missed?

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I expect to miss that person with max defense 95% of the time. If I have max defense, I expect to be missed 95% of the time.

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4) You have the maximum possible To Hit value, and your target has the maximum possible defense value. How often do you WANT to hit him? Conversely, as the defender, how often do you expect to be missed?

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I expect to hit that person with max defense 50% of the time. With that defense, against max tohit buffs, I expect to be missed 50% of the time.


Hmmm, how do we get to that? We set a hard cap on defense at 45%. We set a hard cap on tohit buffs at 45%. We do away with accuracy completely. All accuracy insps become tohit buffs.

Defense based builds are then redesigned to remove tier9s so that they can maintain 45% defense at all times.

We make it as difficult to get 45% tohit buffs after these changes as it is NOW for a defense based build to get 45% defense outside of running a tier9.

Done.

Having fun fixing this, Castle. It's a tough nut to crack. I like Arcanaville's plan, but I think what I've proposed is far simpler.

Very Nice.

DIiIG!

Guess I'll toss that free trial I've had on my desk for over a month.

Can you not solo at all in DDO?

Gonna be damn purty, Graver.

If you grabbed the screenies by hitting PrintScreen while in game, the get saved to your <installdirectory>\screenshots

Nice one, T_L.
Wiki's got all the CoT costumes

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I know that you're looking for "good shots" to use as reference (which I don't have)... but I'll be darned if Council defying gravity doesn't look cool.

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That one's awesome, Sarrate.

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~Relen~
Lifes absurd events, deserve absurd reactions.

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Could you please use proper punctuation so that "life's" is possessive and the sentence makes more sense? The comma is unnecessary.

Thank you.

Howdy everyone. I have had no time to dive into the game to hunt down CoT and Oranbega screenshots.

If you have any, can you please post some for DaosX? As links fly up, I'll notify him.

Thank you much,

Bill Z

Lookin gorgeous. I'll try and email you some screenie links this weekend of CoT and Oranbega.

As for the sky, that's for Graver to say.

Harassment is harassment. Regardless of whether the one getting harassed deserves it.

Awesome stuff.

Here's the original Hellbird

Fire/Dark. At least that's what she is now. Oh wait... does Corr mean something other than Corrupter?

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So is it just a rehash of the RSF?

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Nope. It's what LRSF and Safeguard missions should be.

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I'm not giving up hope that the devs will replace the mistake of the last two missions of the LRSF with the proper AV usage in the STF.

I'd really like to have fun, too, ya know.

Ahh, Hex... you're back in my favorite of your avatars.

<le pant>

daaaamn.

Diggin it. Love that torn spinal column work.

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......how can my sarcasm take a turn into strange erotica :P

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Subliminal instruction from your avatar.

I hoping to see more teamups like this. It's getting pretty obvious the the graver/daosx piece will come out gorgeous.

I wonder what a graver/schuler or juggie/daos piece might look like.

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Here's a screenie of mine.

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Let me guess ... LuvBunny the evil pink bearded villain?

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Almost, he was Bunny Doom Foo. Now deceased. His battlecry was "Hippity Hoppity KILL!" Jumped everywhere.

Kilotonnage,

Roger that. I'll mess around with the Shader and see what I can reproduce. Thanks, man.

That's not quite what I meant. It's gorgeous on the composition, but I'm guessing you don't use FSAA and your Shader setting isn't on high?

Here's a screenie of mine.

I ask, because I've wanted to do a side project comic but my screenies don't have a comic book feel to them, and I'm not sure how to produce it.

Kilotonnage,

Are those untouched screenshots, or are you putting them through some kind of p-shop filter to cartoon them up before posting?

I like that all those costumes are actually cool. You artistes must be stylish in all aspects, huh?

Powerful stuff, man.