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Quote:As I've explained elsewhere, it's not about the amount of people who would be affected by the change itself, it's the number of people who wouldn't know if they would be renamed or not beforehand.Originally Posted by Coin
Sorry, but I'm going with the loyalty aspect. It's only common sense for any business to make sure they look after loyal customers first, rather than someone who subbed for 2 months 5 years ago and has never subbed against since.
Sadly, unless anyone knows the US @Virtue, we'll never know, will we.
Still don't understand this whole "least amount of people" argument. Surely if 500 people in the EU had to have their globals changed due to a clash, that means there were exactly 500 people in the US to change as well? How can there be more or less??
If it was down to how old the account is, ignoring trials and inactive accounts, (which is what I'd have done) then no-one would be safe and anyone may have been renamed -
Tornado is a bad place for procs for 3 reasons.
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1) Tornado does its damage via an aura it has, so the proc rate is once every 10 seconds, not once per damage hit or tohit check
2) Tornado has a pretty small AOE on that aura
3) Tornado does knockback, so unless you can immob & -kb things in place the chances something is going to be within that small AOE when the 10 second mark comes around is pretty small.
A standard damage proc in any power which uses an aura for it's effect gives you a measly 1.4 DPS at level 50 (20% chance of 70 damage every 10 seconds).
Good places for procs are pets or powers which work by using a pseudopet which casts a power themselves every few seconds (like Lightning Storm, the Lich or Grave Knights). Or powers with a decent AOE, like Freezing Rain.
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Quote:Well except for the fact that Domis don't have too many Proliferation options left. If you're going by the standard "Every AT should at least get one new set in each round of Proliferation" standard that I think has been used each time then Illusions is quickly becoming the only option left for Domis.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
It would take longer to review, test, and tweak Illusion control for dominators than practically any other powerset. For the time it would take to proliferate Illusion control they could probably proliferate three other powersets for other archetypes. That currently makes the choice easy.
The only other option I can think of is Dark Assault, and that has issues of its own (it'd need to be cobbled together and tested, and leads onto the old thematic Dark Control chestnut) -
Quote:Being good soloing AVs doesn't mean something is overpowered. It might if defeating an AV gave you something really good, like 50 merits a pop. But at the moment all you get is an SO and some bragging rights.Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex
Oh, you mean the one in the set without the -Regen. The -Regen that combined with Containment would make Traps overpowered. But. Hi!
Illusion/Traps wouldn't break the Time/Reward ratio particularly, so therefore I'm not sure you could say "It's overpowered cos it'd be great at soloing AVs"
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Quote:Trick Arrow says Hi!Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex
IMO it is already overpowered. But yes Dominators would be even worse. Just maybe not as bad as Illusion/Traps, with its double damage from Containment against AVs.
[Ever wondered why we can't get an immobilize temp power? Look no further than the existence of Illusion Control. I'm not sure there is another set that can claim to have shut down an entire segment of power possibilities just by existing.] -
Quote:Technically aren't we all in there? Unless you're an Unspeakable Horror from Outside of Space and Time, of course.Originally Posted by Sailboat
He is? How did he get in there?
Also : Braaaaains... -
Quote:Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
What's a favicon?
The little icon you see in the browser address bar or browser tab for a site. -
Quote:Originally Posted by EU_Damz
Thanks SF
I've been having fun with the list merge today and yesterday but got a time slot down for friday to do the 3rd and 4th missions of the arcs.
There is no rush to send me your character since i have the placeholders there at the moment, but i do agree that this is what AE was designed for.
My punctuation is nowhere near the best but i honestly feel the general story and progression of the arc is quite good.
Eden eh? That's the "birthplace" of my Plant/Emp character on Virtue, I can send you on the cossie file & details later via PM and you can use her if you like. My Elec/NRG domi has a strong Praetorian look-and-feel to them as well.
Screenies
I'm only a pseudo-US player though as you know so I'll send them later and you can use em or not as you see fit
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Quote:Originally Posted by UberGuy
Just an aside on that: Being non-resistible doesn't apply to higher-level foes. You can't bypass the "purple patch" with the non-resist flag. In any case, the purple patch doesn't even apply to Reactive effects (or things like Achilles Heel), because they are cast by the critter on itself. So they already bypass the purple patch anyhow.
The non-resist flag would make these effects stronger against AVs and GMs. I wouldn't turn my nose up on that, but in general play, I'm not sure it would really make any of the debuffs more attractive than Reactive.
Ooh, didn't realise that. That makes my proposal less attractive, a flat out numbers buff would be better then.
It also dents the attractiveness of Smoke Grenade on my Widow
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Quote:Originally Posted by UberGuy
That same line of thought is being posted in a few places since the broadcast.
I'm not sure I would add damage to the other procs, but if I didn't, I'd sure make their effects stronger.
The 'easiest' thing to do would be to make the effects from the other 3, except for -dam, be non-resistible. That way they'd be more appealing in different situations (vs AVs or fighting +4s) -
Quote:Originally Posted by UberGuy
Apparently, according to the ustream broadcast during the server list merge maintenance, Reactive is working as intended. They know it's (very) powerful, and intend it to be.
I'm still not convinced it won't get looked at again eventually, but apparently for now we can expect it to work as it does currently at least for some time to come.
This indicates a logic disconnect to me right here. Should incarnate powers be very powerful? Absolutely. Where the logic-fail crops up for me is where one Interface power clearly outstrips the usefulness of the rest of them in terms of overall effectiveness.
If Reactive is supposed to be how the Interfaces are supposed to be power-level wise then the other three need something done with them because as-is they're far, far behind in terms of effectiveness. Give them damage procs which do 50% of Reactives damage would close the gap IMO. -
Quote:On a Controller Grav/Trick Arrow is an interesting combo. Wormholing things into Oil Slicks and then keeping them there never gets old. You can stay at range too which is always nice. You're not going to be a tier 1 world beating character with the combo but it's an interesting tactical one which gets better and better as you go (the first 20 levels or so are meh, then you start getting decent powers with every pick)Originally Posted by EvilRyu
Let me ask you all this, if you had to pair something other than thorns with gravity what would you pair with it on a dom and what would you pair with it as a controller?
On a Domi I wouldn't, honestly, but if I had to choose I'd probably pick Elec Assault. Not even too sure why, it would just interest me. NRG would be my other choice. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Suzumebachi
Rubbish, if they'd done it by Veteran status, height, weight or colour of eyes it would have affected exactly the same number of people. I lost my name to some NA account. If he'd lost his to me it's still only one person affected, just a different person.
That's more to the point, they couldn't be bothered to work out a fairer way of doing it and just thought "it's ok, we can shaft the EU players, they're used to it".
While this is true, it's the fact the number of people who would *potentially* be affected would be much higher if they'd gone with a mixed approach, meaning before the deed a lot more people would be wondering if they were going to be renamed.
I'd still have gone with a fairer mechanism myself, but I can see why someone in NCSoft decided "Hey, lets just weigh it against the EU players so at least the entire player base won't be wondering / worried about their globals". -
Quote:Pretty much this. The one last night was a crappy lagfest. The ones last year were crappy lagfests, the ones back in CoV beta were crappy lagfests, the one back in i0 beta was probably a crappy lagfest.Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
Yeah. I seriously hope this "new tech" is still GOING in as opposed to "in now."
I managed to catch a few minutes here and there. Awful lag. Even well away from an event. (For instance, Virtue - Cap - "They're after the PTS!" OK. Nice sphere... nothing happening. Go FAR away (over by the Crucible.) Try to take on 3 Guards (not Praetorians, just the COT sort, conning yellow to me.) Manage to get a web grenade off, and my cone... then nothing. THey sort of slide around positions here and there. WELL after stuff should have recharged, it isn't.
Don't even get me started on the spot by the train. I think I had a power fire off twice - a tier 1 blast that should have just been going crazy. Oh, but one other power (my rain - not blizzard) - kept reporting that it was doing damage for a good two minutes or more.
Yeah. I shudder to think what your "Try for the highest concurrent!" is going to be like.
Look. I like COH. I wouldn't have been here constantly since Feb 2005 if I didn't. But you guys can't handle a 24 person BAF without chugging that zone, Hami raids, Rikti mothership raids, invasions, etc. have always been painful - so why do you keep on doing more without fixing the underlying issues?
I believe there may be a pattern here somewhere if we look hard enough...
I've seen no indication that any new tech has gone in to improve the situation. So I can only hope/assume that it was bundled into whatever changed with the league code and thus rolled back 2 weeks ago when the League code was reverted to fix the lag that was introduced in the Trials. -
Quote:It's nothing really to do with freebies. The problem is that at the moment you cannot transfer a character from a US server to an EU one at all, they seem to have omitted the EU servers from the list when you start a transfer, whether they would be free or paid-forOriginally Posted by Blue Rabbit
As someone has already posted in another thread where this has come up:
Silly marketing people not wanting to hand out things for free during a period where there is high demand for them... what are they thinking.
Not sure why a GM told you to suggest this though, it's a bug, not a suggestion for something new. Every other aspect of the Server Lists got merged together, this seemingly fell through the cracks for some reason,
Since this is such a Slap-in-the-face (
) I demand that once it's fixed we also get a round of free transfers to make up for it 9 (<--- Please Note Slap in face is not entirely serious in any way shape or form)
Overall in terms of calamatious bugs which could have happened during the merge we got away quite lightly with this one, I was expecting something much worse. It did stop me transferring characters across and thus has cost NCSoft some money from me, so hopefully they'll fix it soon. -
I really enjoyed being able to access Union Chat again, there was some great chat going on.
Now fix the Server Transfer issue so I can stick a US character or two back on Onion and we'll be set. -
Quote:No, that's WAI for large raids.Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
What constitutes broken, though? As far as I'm concerned, 10+ seconds for powers to fire after pressing the button IS completely broken.
At least I assume it must be, since they keep having these sort of large scale events even though they've always been laggy slideshows.
I spent 5 minutes in Talos on Virtue last night and just logged off once I saw how bad it was. Pointless, frustrating event is pointless and frustrating. -
Quote:If you got renamed you should also have a Global rename token.Originally Posted by SinergyX_NA
Is the Global you get permanently? I accidently logged in 1 of my newbie alts (darkicedef), and if i had a clashing Global, it will be called this now?
When the rename happened you'd be renamed to the last character you logged in as, not the first you log on as afterwards. -
Quote:Or account to account transfers (I know, I know,it's a magical world of make-believe I'm living in now). Just been on my old account and my Stone/Fire brute is so much better. I can't face rerolling and 35 levels to get him back though, I remember how bad the teens were last time.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Now this is just wild speculation on my part but maybe they plan to do something special with transfers like another discount or <fingers crossed> dare we hope some free transfers and they want to make sure they work before giving them to us.
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Quote:Seems to be the case. They've gotten everyone onto one list but didn't update the transfer system as part of the same process.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Most likely they don't have it working yet.
This makes me sad, was just about to move my Fort to Onion. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Vanden
As I understand it, most chance for DoT powers will work as such: with an 80% chance, they have an 80% chance for each tick. The first time a tick fails to go off, the effect ends and any further ticks don't even have a chance to happen.
Nope, in most cases DoT is a single effect baked into the engine. So the 80% chance is an all-or-nothing rolled when the power hits (like most chance-of effects). For example the chance of Toxic Damage powers in Thorns and Spines work like that, if you make the 80% when the power hits you get all the DoT, if you fail the 80% roll you don't get any of them.
As for Reactive and all the other Interfaces I'm not too sure really. They've been described as being normal procs, which seem to lack the normal 10 second inhibitor every other PROC has, but this doesn't seem to be the case. -
Quote:Because US ones take precedence, regardless of population due to how they went about it. They didn't consider any metric when flagging & renaming other than "Does this one clash with a US one".Originally Posted by MothersWomb
Is there a reason why Defiant Events was changed to Defiant Events EU when the US one have like 2 people?
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Quote:Agreed. The fact that a dev has come out and said "Oh, that's WAI" worries me (lots of things about the current Powers team worry me though and so far they haven't done much to alleivate that worry).Originally Posted by Vanden
That seems insane.
Anyone on the boards who have tried it have all admitted it's ridiculously powerful as-is, especially for Reactive (so much so that they other 3 seem pretty useless compared to it, especially if it isn't going to change). -
Quote:Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA
As soon as I saw the trailer for next weeks one I thought to myself "Oooh, that looks like the Neil Gaiman one".
Smatterings of Neverwhere in the costume designs and sets, which can only be a good thing.Quote:Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
We walk of his back, breath his air, eat his food, AND DO MY WILL.
It's also got Suranne Jones in it, who I've a bit of a thing for.
And the scary voice is apparently professional acting mimic Micheal Sheen -
You're mixing up procs, scourge and powers that make repeated ToHit rolls like Rains.
Basically Scourge (and Interface it seems) are tied to ToHit checks, if you make a ToHit roll then you also make a scourge check. However most DoTs don't do that, just Rain of style powers.
Procs would do this too, but as far as I know there's a 10 second inhibiter on them to prevent them doing what Interface is currently doing which is checking on every pulse.
I'm unsure if its an inhibiter (so procs will actually check the next pulse after the 10 second interval) or it may be that procs just have a once every 10 second rule, I'm not actually sure. Conventional wisdom is 1 per 10 seconds, but it's kinda hard to test.
The best case for Procs is summoned entities which then cast powers (rather than just pets/pseudos which have an aura), such as Pets and things like Carrion Creepers, Volcanic Gases and Lightning Storm. But the power the entitiy casts needs to be affected by that IO Proc type for it to work (so Achilles Heels procs only check if the pet / pseudo casts a power which does -def).