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Quote:And there was me thinking I was going to have a hoard of angry scrappers with pointy implements chasing after me for that oneOriginally Posted by Triplash
No-one said we were a bright lot.
But then again, we don't get paid to think. Punch, monkey! Punch!
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Quote:You forgot to add the 100% base everyone starts off with. That gives you 381 in total.Originally Posted by HelinCarnate
Perma sould drain with max targets will only get you a constant damage buff of +96%, plus "full" fury for another 150% plus veng will get you to +281%. Which makes me wonder why you include veng in your numbers unless you bring a corpse with you just for buff purposes.
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Quote:Given that the ratings and results in the search box would both be populated by the one player local-side whatever ratings system they choose to use is irrelevant as they'd presumably use the same system both to rate people and to view the ratings they've previously set.Originally Posted by Aura_Familia
Errr aren't the ratings created by players? Meaning that someone may use a 1 as a good player, and someone may use a 5 as being good?
Unless it's a different type of rating the OP means.
A player would never see others Star Ratings in the search box in any way, only the ones they themselves have previously set. -
Quote:A non-purple proc in a toggle at level 50 averages out at 14 damage every 10 seconds. Blazing Aura does 9.79 damage ever 2 seconds, or 48.95 damage every 10 seconds.Originally Posted by Archantos
Greetings all.
The title says it all. Since the damage output and range on Blazing Aura isnt all that great, is it worth slotting it with procs? (6 slotted - 4 damage procs and 2 acc/dam/end io's) or would i be better off with hami-O's (3 slotted - 2 Nucleous and 1 End reducer)
So you're probably marginally better off slotting for damage to get it to around 90%, slotting for Acc and End as you see fit and throwing a PROC or two in if you've got the slots spare.
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Quote:You're biasedOriginally Posted by Dechs Kaison
I'm a fan of the synergy with Dark Armor. Call me biased.
Actually I think -dam works best with Regen (WP) or Heals personally (Dark has them too of course). Or more -dam (Ice or Shields).Quote:Power Siphon is a long duration damage buff, which works very well with powersets that have damage auras: Fire, Dark, Electric, Ice.
The -dmg, I feel, is most noticeable if you stack it on heavy resist. We're down to Fire, Dark, and Elec.
Resist and Defense sort of have the same relationship with -dam that they have with each other, they're separate layers of mitigation but they don't really synergize together per-say (in the way say -ToHit and Defense go together). It seems logically that -dam and resist should complement each other in the same way, but they actually don't if you look at the maths behind damage calcuations (if you have 50% resists and 50% -dam you still take 25% damage)
My own picks would be one of Dark, Willpower, Shield or Ice, whichever you fancy playing.Quote:The set has a few stun powers, and would be great if you could stack them with something. Dark Armor has Oppressive Gloom. -
Quote:It's -100 Endurance, ie 100 off whatever End you have at the time of the crash.Originally Posted by Roderick
When Unstoppable crashes, it applies a -100% Endurance crash. Is this Base End, or Max End?
In other words, if I have all the +End Accolades, a few +End set bonuses, and [Superior Conditioning], would it be possible to have a bit of End left after crashing?
I'd test it myself, but I don't have a high enough level Invuln character yet.
So yes it would be possible to end up with some End, if your current End was over 100 when the crash kicked in. -
Quote:Exactly. The fact he'll go "Urrgh, that stormie, I want a heelor" and move on is a good thing from the Stormies point of view. Hopefully they'll get a team and leader who know how awesome stormies are.Originally Posted by Lazarillo
...and in those sorts of cases, it's probably better to get a low rating from an idiot.
(I know I'm being slightly unfair to idiot tanks, but it stems from the i4 days when I used to be told not to use Freezing Rain "because it makes things run away from me")
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Quote:If you choose to look at the EU version of an item change the URL so the item_id parameter at the end is two less and it'll give you the US version.Originally Posted by Arilou
I still can't even find the US store due to me being in Europe. I know I managed to get past that once but I forgot what I did...
There's no way I know of to get a US version of the storefront though, because the NCSoft web development team use IP based filtering to determine what you see (not the brightest idea in the world).
In general their over dependance on IP based filtering causes more harm than good. If you HAVE to use it at least give people links to other versions chaps. It ain't rocket science. -
Quote:Uh-oh. My wife ain't going to like this news!
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Five seasons on NBC and another two on CBS is nothing to scoff at, but in the face of very diminished ratings, CBS put an end to the Patricia Arquette series. -
Quote:From what I'm reading the OP just wants to be able to see ratings *they've* put on characters from within the search box, not some sort of global system.Originally Posted by Atilla_The_Pun
It has everything to do with the suggestion.
The problem with a rating system is that it will not only be used by good players, it will also be used by idiots.
Therefore, as in the above mentioned example, if the tank is an idiot, just hates stormers (or Energy Blasters, or whatever set even though stormers and tanks can work together just fine, the idiot tank will give the stormer a bad rating.
People, aside from the purely ignorant, will give players bad ratings just to grief them.
No, this is a horrible idea. Ratings are client side and need to stay that way.
So whatever Mr Idiot Tank thinks of a Stormie is irrelevant (unless it's Mr Idiot Tank doing the searching / inviting). -
Quote:Ah there's one really. And his views have always been... erratic.Originally Posted by Psylenz
No fire for defenders, no FF for corruptors yet, and no Thermal for defenders either, Thermal is a proliferation I would play.
In other news, there are some folks in the mastermind boards that are convinced that Aid Other trumps Deflection Shield and Insulation Shield on Masterminds. -
My Plant/Emp it is VERY obvious what her controls are doing. The buffs, not so much, that tends to be the way with defensive buffs / team buffs anyway I find. But you will get a lot of "This team is awesome" comments and buffs and debuffs are what's causing that chiefly, even if it's hard to quantify exactly why you are steamrollering +3s.
If you want a Support character where it's obvious they're doing lots of stuff I'd recommend a Plant/Storm controller or a Fire/Dark Corruptor. No-one is going to miss your powers with those combos.
Dark/Sonic defenders are superb too, but it may be harder for the scrapper to comprehend the reason the AV they are fighting appears to be melting and why exactly their orange numbers are so large (bless 'em) -
Quote:Henchmen tend to be alright. The worst effects I've found are the knock-on ones on Controller, Domi and Blaster pets. Phantasm for example is pretty badly affected because he has a cone with knockback and the ability to summon his own aggrobot illusion within his perception range.Originally Posted by MajorPrankster
Some you must be playing a completely different game than I am.
I cannot think of a single bug that has impacted my game play in a real negative way in years, other than the occasional complete crash, which, working the software industry for as long as I have, can be just as easily blamed on bad drivers as the CoH executable.
I think the only thing I have noticed is that the pet AI is a bit wonky, I don't expect expendable henchmen I can re-summon pretty much at will to be the sharpest pencils in the box.
Mind you it's made my Plant Pet a bit better since she'll use her bite attack more. -
Quote:Hee. Neuron approach, I like that a lot Sam
This Neuron approach to design where you start up a feature, then leave it hanging half-way through in pursuit of the next new shiny has to stop. The whole game is becoming one giant collection of half-features, bugged missions and terrible writing, to the point where even previously GOOD stories are destroyed by newer ones that contradict them and previously working mechanics no longer work.
I totally agree too, our development team simply seem to lose focus far to easily chasing the next new shiny before they've even resolved / finished off the current one.
As for bug fixes they should be done between issues. And there should be some indication from the development team as to what they have on their radar in terms of known bugs. As-is reporting bugs seems like firing mails at a black hole sometimes. I'm not asking for a dedicated ETA of when they'll be resolved, or statuses of each bug, but simple acknowledging the fact that, for example, Pet AI has been borked for nearly a year now (since City of De-moos) and they're aware of the impact it is having on ranged pets would be something. -
Quote:Also known asOriginally Posted by Amy_Amp
Ill/storm should easily be mentioned.
"AAAAH. I CAN'T SEE!! What's that screaming noise?!? Why are the baddies bouncing all over the place? Why is that glowing guy running after them and aggroing the next spawn??"
I love Illusion/Storm. Pure chaos. In fact I think a remake of her US side should be my next character. -
Quote:Quake and Freezing Rain IMO.Originally Posted by Mortimer_NA
I was looking in MIDS last night and realized that there are 3 possible slots where I might place the chance for resist debuff IO in my Earth/Storm controller. Those would be Freezing Rain, Earthquake, and Tornado. I have a few interlocking questions regarding this.
1. Just because I CAN place them does that mean I SHOULD place them in all 3 powers?
2. If not, what powers would be the best to place it in?
Thank you guys!
Sirken
In all cases the Proc will check every 10 seconds against everyone within the AOE of the effect. In Quakes case that's a 25 foot radius, and in FRs case that's a 20 foot radius, both from where you placed them. In Tornado's case it's a 7 foot radius from the things center, and it has a habit of knocking people away from itself. -
Quote:This is about Rad Blast though, not Rad emission.Originally Posted by DemonCaller
Looking through these threads, I'm a bit shocked that no one turned down my rad emission/archery defender for the Khan TFs a couple of weeks back...and did I say at the time she was lvl 42-44?
That was when I was starting to realize just how powerful rad could be...until then, had been using my arrows most of the time (so guessing I was taken for a blaster) with no one saying anything...
Of course, of all my defenders, only one is emp/psi. The rest are debuffers (with the exclusion of one bubble defender I take out once in a blue moon)...I think a lot of it is that quite a few people see the emp defenders and equate that with the healing class or buffing class, then think ALL defenders should be like that.
And rad emission can be deadly! Don't believe me, ask the mobs I helped steamroll with my friend's emp/dark defender last night!
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Welcome back Pyra, I remember teaming with you in my first round of the i7 Community PvP event that was organized
I think our team even won that round -
Quote:Not for me anyway. But I don't play melee builds.Originally Posted by Nitra
With Fitness going Inherent, has the fighting pool taken it's place as a must have pool power the way fitness used to be?
I tend to go for "interesting but marginal powers from my sets I formerly couldn't squeeze in", swapping Super Speed for a travel power I like more or Leadership. -
Quote:Nope, Burn has been changed. Nowdays there's an initial burst of damage which does 2/3s to 3/4s of the damage (I think) and then the ticks.Originally Posted by Brynstar
Just a small note about burn. It's max # of targets is 5 at one time. It can easily deal dmg to 10+ targets because as targets die the tics can start to effect new targets. Granted it won't do it's full dmg to more than 5 targets, but saying it has a 5 target max is a little misleading.
So since the initial burst is limited to 5 targets too the damage doesn't spread out as well as it used to. On the upside the new version is better at working with Fury as the old version used to lose its Fury damage boost 2 seconds in due to the way Pseudopets inherit buffs. -
I'd have a chance to finish other games and use the PS3 I got for Xmas more, there's a small pile of games 'stacking' up on that (ahem)
Seeing wife/kids doesn't count really because they're all in bed when I play anyway. -
Quote:No mention of Seismic Smash, the best single target damage power going for controllers?Originally Posted by vernichterhelge
thats simply wrong
stone makes you tough as hell with his powers:
1) fissure is a brilliant damage power with good stackebale disorient:20 sec rech for 14,6 sec duration (unenhanced)
2) rock amor is good for sm/l def which you want to have as much as possible on a /kin for not be hitten by any enemy
3) earth embrance is a +HP power which can be used a a panic button
clue: stay with stone mastery for a farming fire/kin and cap your sm/l def for best surviving -
Quote:Or portals from the Hospital / starting point to different sectors of each map perhaps (where the contact for that sectors story arc is).Originally Posted by Aura_Familia
The mission doors would all have to be pretty close, which would wast a vast majority of space of the zones. The current doors (based on tfs) in the zone are NOT very close together.
Now if they added an insta porter to mission doors then that's another thing. -
Quote:It again depends on how you define "revamp". A Hollows style revamp which just focused on sprinkling these new mission doors in a sensible way would certainly be needed, but nothing more really.Originally Posted by Aura_Familia
Not unless they add something faster for travel than the jet packs.
Those zones are freaking HUGE to just sprinkle mission doors willy nilly like they do in the regular zones.
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Quote:No, the store is all in one. The difference in what items to show is based on the IP Address you use to access the store pages, because NCSofts web team aren't the brightest when it comes to web development, bless.Originally Posted by Quinch
Which begs the question... are the US and EU stores separate? And if so, what's the US store URL?
They don't even provide links in Item Description pages to easily allow you to jump to the other regions version. The rule of thumb for items is that a US Item has an item_id 2 less than it's European counter-part in the URL.
* Going Rogue US is*
https://secure.ncsoft.com/cgi-bin/St...em&item_id=210
Going Rogue EU is
https://secure.ncsoft.com/cgi-bin/St...em&item_id=212