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I asked the same question just after the new FE went live. People who were in the beta were able to see the progression the devs made in adding the FE damage component to each power available to Brutes, Scrappers and Tanks.



Given how the engine works (you can't add an effect to a power, just switch them on or off depending on Flags) it's really the only way they could implement it this way. Things like Domination, Containment, Scourge and Crits work in the same way, they're baked into the powers but dependent on Flags / Conditions switching them on (whether it be a Flag the caster has, like Domination Mode on, a random roll or a Status Effect the target has on them). FE works a bit like those inherents, although I think it's the first power other than Vengeance where the condition flag is set via a power from a powerset rather than an Inherent.


It's definitely not pet damage, pet damage involves summoning an invisible pet / pseudo-pet at a location which then does the damage (a la Shield Charge, Lightning Rod etc).

Would we have preferred if you used the right term rather than a wrong one?
Is that a trick question?

That'd be craic, which is cheaper but just as addictive

I use cheers all the time for thank you, in-game too, I never realized it could be a cause of confusion.

I did say I was nipping out for a [slang for cigerette] once in team chat too and it got horribly filtered. "You're doing what for a what now???"

It got boring, so we moved on.

I'm just waiting for the "Everything is a Hellion plot" Issues.

Are you counting that godawful series where they actually got to Earth and every week was Face and Apollo being chased by what every earthling assumed was a guy going to a fancy-dress party as a robot with the light from Kitt stuck in its face?

Most annoying example of this is where I've used Dominator Power Push (which, like Crane Kick is an awesome way to finish off an enemy) to defeat one and push him away from the rest of the team, he landed beside a hostage and rezzed off of them instead

Go to Dark Astoria. If you haven't gotten a tip within 20 minutes of AOE Zombie Death then there's something seriously wrong.



I completed my Rogue to Hero last night based in PI, I was one tip short and got it from 20 mins of picking on grey conning bosses (Warhulks mostly as they're easy to spot) in the zone.

Paging Golden Girl to the thread. Golden Girl to the thread please.

I've been playing nearly 6 years now, 1.5 of them US side. Last week I dinged my first US (and 3rd overall) level 50. (I should be adding another this week as my Widow/Fort is at 48).

So yep, tis about the journey for me, I wasn't even aware I had a destination to be honest.

I've no real interest in the Incarnate TFs really or the Incarnate abilities. (I'll probably try the trials though just to see what they're like).

Wouldn't Soul or Primal Forces be closer matches? You even get Soul Drain (Mire-a-like) with Soul. Primal has some advantages too, no need to go red-side to get it and Power Boost works well with the ally bubbles.

Not sure what you could do at the moment with Fire. If we had APP Customization it wouldn't be as much of an issue of course, dark purple fire would work pretty well.

Only thing I can think of is fudging it as an echo of some other Kheld form, a fiery sun-dweller (I know Novas already live on/in suns) of some sort and designing a cossie around that idea.

Web Grenade does have knockback protection, Web Envelope doesn't

I'm pretty sure this is incorrect.

Back Alley Brawler initially said what you've just said above.

However he then came back and took back what he said and said redraw times are not factored into animation times for Weapon sets.

They are factored into things like Stone Melee hammer attacks and Spines/Thorn attacks however.

Nope, what I do is on my EU account log in and check Wentworths Atlas for a Training Origin Enhancement with 0 for sale and 0 bids. Then go off and get that and stick it on the market for 100,000 inf or so.



Log on as the NA account and look up the item. Verify there is still only 1 for sale and 0 bidding and then buy it for however much you want to transfer. The EU account can then log in again and collect the funds.


There's always a small risk that someone sticks the same Enhancement up at the second you place a bid, but it should be a tiny risk. You could also spread / lower the risk by doing a few smaller transfers rather than one big one if you liked.

Nope, not at the moment because the NA and EU global names are seperate systems.


The only common server is the market one, so it is possible for an EU character on one side to place rare / trivial (like an Intangibility TO) onto the market and then your NA character buys it for a lot of money, hence money flows from the NA side to the EU side (minus the 10% Wentworths Commission of course),

That was me (the Carrion Creepers), and it was 78 proc hits (not chances of, actual damage hits from them) via 2 different procs. However I think some of the Posi Blast ones weren't targetting at living targets because of the weird way the corpse bramble things seem to trigger on corpses / defeated enemies. It was also against "best case" enemies, an attackless bunch of +1x8s in the AE. Still good though, but not game-changing really.

As for Caltrops it's ok, a proc chance every 10 seconds which basically boils down to 1.4 DPS per proc. Caltrops does 2.78 damage unslotted every second so each PROC is like adding a 50% damage enhancement to it.

So it's certainly worthwhile. However in the case of the -recharge I'd drop it for another Damage/Recharge IO personally.

Yes, you'd never see Paragon Studios hiding or masking the number of players on a server, say by changing how the search tool reports totals for example, would you...

I assume you mean Plant/Thorns above? I've no real idea what you mean by "chemicals" or "splash damage" though.

Plants Holds and Immobs are the same as any other Domis really, they have the same magnitude and durations as any other holds and do about the same damage.

The only real difference is that a Plants AOE Immob does twice the damage of others which can make it a worthwhile power to slot for Damage and to PROC up.

I've been thinking about this and there is one thing about the PROCcing I got which might be distorting the figures. The entangling corpse explodey thing seems to do damage to something other than Live Enemies. It's either itself or the corpse it spawns on (the torrent of grey numbers you always see at the end of a fight even though all the enemies are down). I suspect the Posi is also proccing at whatever targets those grey numbers are affecting.

But it does certainly proc for all Vine attacks too, which makes in invaluable anyway.

I'll have a look at squeezing at least one other PROC into creepers tonight to run some more testing. The Trap of the Hunter is probably the next easiest to test because the Lethal Damage type lets me filter it out easier along with the other two.

^This, and the post above.*


I wish someone told the Tank I was teamed with during the week who seemed to be of the old school "Wait until I call it" brigade.


Tip : If the Plant/Empath on the team is getting bored and deciding to take the spawn on themselves (and is quite capable of doing so and not dying) then chances are it's YOU who is doing something wrong, not them.

More importantly (to me anyway) they're implementing some CSS3 things and fixing some CSS2 incompatibilities.

Yes please!