Carnifax

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* Controller - Stone Mastery - Seismic Smash replacing hurl boulder. Reduced damage.
* Controller - Ice Mastery - Frost Breath replacing ice storm
* Controller - Primal Forces Mastery - Energy Torrent Replacing power blast, knockdown version


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Ack. Carni's nice "Storm of Death" combo is being taken away too (Snow Storm, Freezing Rain, Ice Storm). Frost Breath, that's Ice's rather mundane Cone attack isn't it? Which has a target limit of 10?

The Primal change is nice though, especially as its a Knockdown version. And my Fire/Rad/Earth scraptroller likes the idea of another melee attack in Seismic Smash, but I'm not so sure more normal */*/Earth controllers would.

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But there's still a certain % chance to hold seperate from accuracy calculations isn't there?

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Nope, as far as I know that's the fixed accuracy check.

Not sure why that Grav/Rad guide says :
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It's not clear whether ToHit buffs or Defense Debuffs from other powers improve performance.


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It's easily seen that Defense Debuffs do improve the effectiveness of Choking Cloud, in exactly the same way that they improve Sands of Mu and the other Vet Reward attacks.

That description seems to be pre-i9 as well (and thus omitting how IOs affect it altogether). The "long recharge" is no longer an issue either, it was reduced to a more sane number a few months ago.

Far as I know in i13 it WILL still be dropped by mezzing as its an offensive aura.

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(At Atlas Train station, many, many moons ago):
"You're a bit of a M.I.L.F aren't you!"

>.< ... didn't have the heart to tell the poor soul.




Either that, or the first time I entered Warburg and was persistantly targetted for a 1v1 ganking by a solo player. When I politely asked if they were enjoying themselves and what they got out of permanently disrupting my mission, they called me a CULT!, (at least I think thats what it was). The Incident has always puzzled me because I didn't have any followers with me at the time.[/i]

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The Cult of Mumsie. Actually that has a ring to it

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Looking on test , there forced if you already had the power they have changed.
*** Sucks*** was there a poll we all missed or something?
My blasters sleep grenade has been replaced by what ever the new power is called , my purple set is still slotted but because its a sleep set it doesn't work.
I didn't check the bonus so would presume they dont work either.Will check later on after work.

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Feck that so. Well done Castle. Rather than give people a choice (like the APPs tend to do) you're replacing the whole lot of one type (AOE Damage) with another (single target + mez).

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Hmmm. The changes aren't forced upon us, so if I hurry and do the arcs and get that half a level before Beta runs out I could still get it?

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Are they forced or left in till a respec? Thats what i was just discussing with Cynic.

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I dunno, I'm asking you guys

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Leviathian Mastery
KO Blow (in place of Bile Spray)
108.88 Smashing Damage, Mag 3 Hold


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Noooo! My Necro/Dark MM was actually about to take Bile Spray, it suited his concept and was going to give him much needed AOE damage. Now I get another hold (rather a cool one it has to be said) & single target damage instead.

Did they get rid of ALL the MM AOE attacks? They really should have kept one for people like me who were actually looking forward to them!

I *knew* it'd be affected by these changes. Damnation.

Hmmm. The changes aren't forced upon us, so if I hurry and do the arcs and get that half a level before Beta runs out I could still get it?

I've no real idea to be honest.

I'd one good run on a PuG on Sunday afternoon featuring several forumite roleplayers (Shadowe, Shadowghost and Darth someone if I remember rightly). Other than that I didn't Trick or Treat too much really, I had all the cossie things from last year and badges don't really interest me.

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Well as I said I wasn't sure. Mid's shows an increase from the base 75% hit chance when slotting with acc/end or acc/hold enhancers. And even if it doesnt work I'm 100% global acc bonuses affect it.

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No, as far as I remember you're right there. The "lock" on Acc in Choking Cloud is purely a "you cannot slot Acc SOs here" type of one, you can bypass it with suitable Set IOs.

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Lighthouse said it on the American forums after players complained about the spawn rate there.

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He said it was bugged and they "didn't have time to fix it" which, frankly I do not belive one bit.

I suspect the real motive behind it is to make it almost impossible to get all the halloween badges in a single halloween event, thus encouraging people to return next year no matter what else is happening, but why they could't just come clean I find pretty poor to be honest.

If I understand things correctly the event was only on the test server for 90 minutes. That may be significant in itself

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Yes, because people who leave will be magnetically drawn to return next year to hunt the badge, whether they want to or not. It's all part of NCNCs evil plan

Per-lease!!

This is a little left-field but maybe it has something to do with the fact there was only 2 weeks to spot, diagnose, fix, Quality Check, test and then patch it, and with the US Test Server currently unavailable since its tied up in Closed Beta it was deemed too risky to introduce the patch without open testing in case it broke something more serious and people really started screaming blue murder?

But the tin foil hat scenario you present is far more plausible...

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4. Chain saw hand temp power plx!


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Oh yes please can we get a shot gun as well

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You can already get a shotgun - comes with holy shotgun shells - if you're a Hero that is

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My Villain has one as well. Don't think it has holy shotgun shells in it though.

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Meaning the teens are going to be deadly dull - 12: Hasten. 14: Superspeed. 16: Hurdle. 18: Health. 20: Stamina...

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I hear that

One trick is to ignore Fitness and then use a Vetern Respec at 22 if you have a few of them. You can cash in all your DOs (if you're strapped for cash this helps) and spec in Stamina then instead. Means the teens are a bit more lively, you can even take a power or two you're not sure of since you know you'll be speccing it out at 22.

On RI, I'm coming from purely a Levelling POV with my suggested slotting, and early levelling at that, once you get to 20s & 30s on strong teams you've barely time to fire the thing off.

Flashfire is imperitive IMO though, it'll stop any shots coming in and let you close and lock down safely. Its got a much quicker recharge than the AOE holds too.

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I cant see the problem, if you are sick of it (like i am too) just stand somewhere they dont spawn, or god forbid, go and do a mission.

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By now, frankly, the entire city should be panicing, or leaving for places where the sun shines,

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We did. We went to Fallout 3

It may be post-apocolyptic hell on earth but at least there's daylight

You've managed to give out about them continuing to pop out of the ground and complain about their spawns being broken and needing to be GM kicked, all in the one thread. Make your mind up man

Is there some reason you slotted everything with such low level IOs? Most are 26, which probably explains some of the overslotting you've done. Go for 30 to 35+, not 26s.

And personally I prefer the Earth epic in my Fire/Rad. The earlier AOE with a stun which can stack with Flashfire is brilliant. Plus it feels more melee-esque. But Psi would be my second choice I think for a Fire/Rad.

Hang on, where's Flashfire in your build? Best mez a Fire/Rad has.

And Choking Cloud will never hold a boss, it doesn't stack. Also, Cinders is overslotted for Recharge and doesn't have enough Hold in there. Ditto with EMP. Frankenslot 3 Acc/Hold/Recharge and 1 Hold/Recharge and you're good.

RI is taken far too late and is completely underslotted. Its your primary Acc debuff and early defense whilest levelling and soloing Hazard mobs. With Cages, Hotfeet and RI before level 10 you can solo white Perez mobs easily and level that way (the flurry of Insp drops you get doing this means you can keep going too).

Why did you 3 slot Superspeed??

6 slotting Bonfire is a waste of slots IMO. I spent them in Hotfeet, Fire Cages (2-3 Acc/Ends and 2 PROCs in Cages for me) and Choking Cloud for damage PROCs. Tricking out the Auras to do their maximum potential is preferrable to me over some recharge since they're so effective on a Fire/Rad.

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I dont they are that strong, several powers can whipe tier 1 in seconds, such as a few nice +4/+5 longbow flametrowers (burn and the cone) or a nice AV AoE (any can do) can whipe em out in seconds.

Cut down to 6 and add 2 sonic, forst or thermal corrupters, now we're talking. (i say cap resist everything? )

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And 78 of the 128 Thugs henchmen are going to be the even weaker Gang War minions. I've seen all 10 of mine die to a Council boss with one fancy sweeping move.

There was talk of it being extended here a few days since the Invasions were breaking down.

No official word on when its due to finish if that is the case though

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Possibly the most boring (if not essential) part of the event marshalling!, Thankyou for volunteering Carnifax! - One PPD Code winging its way to you courtesy of GhostRaptor.

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Nah, the running commenteries from the rest of ye kept me happy, as did Mr Corona

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T'was a really fun event. Although I do consider myself less-than-useful... Anyone catch my silly comments in Mercy? (K-Gun)

Nom, PPD Hardsuit.

Oh, and sorry for not being able to get you the names of the winners (Except Bad Hat) Mumsie.

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You kept me amused as I stood in Pocket D swigging beer and making my pets dance for my amusement... I mean while maintaining an eagle-eyed vigil over the crossroads for cheaters

I did take piccies of anyone running past me, but they were all high-levels, not racers.

Whoever had Evil Nick Knowles deserves an honourable mention, just for cracking me up at the start of the race (is the guy allergic to razors or what?)

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Oh, my PC is definitely way up there in the "good" classification.

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But your double-quotes are way up there in the "amusing" classification.

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Pfft. That's the crappy forum software. I've given up trying to delete the doubles it causes. It's hard enough getting anything to post as it is!

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Well it's the crappy forum software coupled with your crappy browser & odd work connection set-up to be fair.

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Not the first time this has been suggested. The first time being somewhere in WAR Open Beta, I think.

Game mechanics like this are bound to creep into other (older) games over time if it's possible because they do seem like a good idea.

I do have to ask though, if you can't manually go out and search and find the team members you want, how is this going to make filling out a team easier? I mean, if they aren't there, they aren't there.

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The biggest problem I have is not knowing how the list of Greys in my level range are organised, are they all teamed together, is it 2 teams of 8 people or 5 smaller teams. Matters to me because I don't mind sending a tell to one or two people, but I don't want to spam the entire team with tells. Especially, as happened to me during last week, the first chap I asked was on a TF. That means up to 7 more greyed out people in the /sea list are on the same TF.

It'd be much easier if there was an easy way to spot teams in my range who are looking for members.

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A burn patch

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With a Singy playing pinball and an Burning Oil Slick Patch my Grav/TA could have great fun with them

I reckon 8 Illusion/Stormies would eat them alive as well, 24 PAs to distract everything, 8 Tornados & Lightning Storms to rip them to pieces. And all the time the casters would be invisible... and dropping Fears and Confuses.

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Technically, that command actually causes the game to crash; not something I'd advise other people to do...

Do it properly. Type /quit and click the box that appears; Instant out.

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But that takes you to the Desktop, not back to the Log on screen, doesn't it? Which is what Lost is trying to avoid here, his brings you back to the Log on screen.

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Then there is the one mission where you go to paragon to kidnap civilians to turn over to Doc V’s minions. Or the one where you kidnap civilians on Mercy Isle to turn over to a mad scientists for use as lab rats.
Toughs are not evil at all... that’s just business, right?

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But maybe they don't die! Maybe the Vash are just bringing them back to their sewer-lair for tea and scones

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It'll be useful on those low level missions in Atlas though. The ones where you have to spend 10 minutes jogging across the map to the far corner...

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Or, red-side, those damn Thorn Tree Isle missions that keep cropping up post-30. And the Technician Naylor ones. What is it about Nerva that made them put all the repeatedly-used mission doors miles away from the zone entrances?

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Eh? Most of Naylors missions are about 12 feet away from him.

That Mu person is annoying though, he sends you all over the place!

Nice guide with good synergy tips in there (Freezing Rain & Seeds, Freezing Rain & Creepers, Roots & Tornado & Lightning Storm).

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Entangle
Ranged, Foe Immobilize
It's a single target AoE Immobilise.


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Also apparently the Lady Grey PROC is great in Audrey as it'll try and PROC for any of her attacks.