Brynstar

I just found something to add. The end drain does not start until he is given the 1st upgrade. I believe it to be Chilling Embrace that is causing it.

Since Demons were released there has been discussions about the Demon Prince being the most end heavy pet of all. I recently went back to my lvl 40 Demons/Dark to run him to 50 and my Demon Prince was running out of end pretty quickly. He was already slotted with an SOs worth of end redux, and I decided to frankenslot him to bump it up as much as I could. Once I hit 42 I slotted him up to 92% end redux and took him for a spin. Much to my dismay he was a little better but still ran dry in longer battles.

I started to run some of his end costs against other pets and didn't see any major differences that would cause this disparity. I then started to monitor his end bar during combat to see if the end redux was really lowering the costs and that's when I noticed something strange in his combat attributes. For some reason his end bar slowly drains when idle, even though he shows 0.00 end consumption. His end gets down to about 98.6 when his recovery tic resolves. I checked the other demons and some other MM pets and none of them showed this issue.

This small unknown end drain may not seem like much, but it looks like it creates some kind of cascading effect with how the pet uses and recovers end, causing him to suddenly become very end heavy.

Is this working as intended or is it a bug?

One note about putting the Achilles Heel Proc into Surveillance: If it procs it will alert the target to your presence. The debuff in the power is flagged so that enemies don't notice it, but the debuff from the proc is not. Not a big deal if you're using it during combat, but it can mess up your big Alpha crit.

I would put the proc into poisonous ray and not bother with it in Surveillance. Only one instance of the debuff can be on a target at a time so they can't be stacked anyway.

I started a thread about the DE increased accuracy in the bugs section a few weeks back. The strange thing is that it doesn't show up on their stats anywhere. They don't show higher than normal acc modifier or higher than average to-hit base it only shows up on the combat log in the rolls.

I don't understand how this can be WAD, since it's only the tip mish DE and not all DE. Also the tip mish DE are bugged in that the bosses won't con down to Lt. if you have it set for no bosses.

There is one other thing that I really think is worth noting. If the devs ban nukes because it gives us the ability to do it to fast, isn't the time we save in the actual trial more than made up for by having to take the time to get the nukes?

If the members of the trial don't go and get nukes, they start and get it done in say 30 minutes. Isn't that the same as the members going to Warburg and spending 20 minutes getting nukes then doing the Trial in 10 minutes??

It's 30 minutes either way (the times are just placeholders but I don't think they are far off)

Infernal's dimension is an alternate world version of our own like Praetorian Earth there isn't a Praetorian Infernal dimension and a Primal Infernal dimension, just Infernal Earth.

I understand how with all the infinite dimensions that "another" Infernal could have gone to Praetorian earth, but that's not how the Canon portrays it.

While playing today one of the game tips on the load screen was talking about Infernal being from an alternate dimension where they bind demons ect ect, and it got me thinking. If Infernal isn't from Primal Earth how can there be a Praetorian version of him?

The canon is that he comes to Primal Earth during a ceremony gone wrong and Numina is helping him look for a being that is a combination of his best friend and a demon lord. While the praetorian version comes to their world and becomes power hungry under the influence of Diabolique.

How can a being from an alternate world end up in both dimensions as 2 individual beings? It wouldn't make any sense for there to be Praetorian Rikti so why is there a Praetorian Infernal?

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=237378

Oh look another reason not to do CoP. Castle puts in for a reward buff and they make it harder to complete without any buff to the rewards O.o!!

Still no shields in the MM epics missing them???

*2 thumbs down!!*

I've noticed over the last couple of days that the Devoured Earth in the new tips missions have 2 apparent bugs.

1) They spawn bosses even when set to "no bosses". I noticed it the first time then ran another non-DE mish and it didnt spawn bosses.

2) They have higher than normal to-hit chances. On my elec/shield (almost exactly at the soft-cap) all the ranks (even con) have between 19-25% chance to hit me. I tested this against a single minion, Lt and boss with no Quartz spawned anywhere in the mission (with a quartz up they have a much higher chance to hit than 20%). Using the power analyzer they don't show any acc bonuses beyond the normal Lt and boss bonus. I check the real numbers on the attacks they used and they don't show any higher than 1.00 acc. I also checked some normal zone DE and they didnt show any higher than normal chance to hit.

Now I know that lvl 50 DE spawns have been bugged for quite some time and they would only spawn the rock type minions/Lts and only at lvl 49. I don't know if the changes to overcome this bug has cause these other ones.

Has anyone else noticed similar issues?

Membranes are also a good idea since they affect rech, def, and +to hit.

I just......don't know......where to start???

Do I make my new toons and run through preatoria??

Start running my Dom through the 40s with the new Epics??

Start moving various toons to their new alignment??

SO...... Many...... Choices!!!!

Gratz Tal!! Hope we're all around for 6 more years!!

I'm even excited about the pets since you can finally have something to use all those cool buffs on solo.

I was looking over the new APPs for Corruptors and have 2 major probs:

1) Why in the world would we get Psi Mastery when we don't have any Psi corruptors?? The APPs have up to this point been an extended "Mastery" over powersets we already have access to, while the PPPs are powers used by the patrons and granted to you by them.

2) Dark Mastery?? Really?? Didn't we already cover that in Soul Mastery? I know the 2 sets have 3 powers that are different, but I still think it's redundant.

Would it really have been that hard to throw together Ice Mastery and Fire Mastery APPs?

Char
Fiery Embrace (the Dom version of it not the new one)
Fire Shield
Consume
RotP

Block of Ice
FlashFreeze
Frozen Armor
Hoarfrost
Hibernate

That took me 2 minutes, and they all have primaries and secondaries that match them. I'm never been one to accuse the Devs of being lazy but cutting and pasting them from the defender APPs didn't involve a whole lot of forward thinking.