Carnifax_NA

Given the changes to SuperSide kicking and the way you can tweak Diff settings solo Padding and Bridging are obsolete anyway regardless of the AE.

Didn't know this at all. I wonder how many other players think this is the case and they are "locked in" to an AE arc.

That's right. If you can overlap Rage you can avoid the -Defense crash.

Why is beyond me, but that's the way they've crafted the power. The Defense Debuff has the "Cannot stack from same caster" flag on it so when you recast Rage the 2 minute timer for the debuff crash resets.

Do you really want to download 3Gb of stuff though?

Copy the client onto a USB from your machine, copy it onto your GFs machine in a suitable location and then make a shortcut to the CoHUpdater.exe file on your desktop. When it starts it will ask where you want to install to, say the same folder as you've already copied it and it should work.

Only potential onion in the ointment might be UAC and permissions when you try this. There are certain locations which should allow you to avoid that (but I always get confused by it and just switch off UAC for the install and then switch it back on after).

Maybe Mr G just doesn't wear sun block and moisturize, unlike Agent G.



And yeesh, The Centre looks like he should be showing people to their seats in a theatre in that get-up.

It makes more sense that he's an alternative Centre (sorry I refuse to use your backward spelling Americans) given the arcs he gives are to do with media manipulation and the like.

I'm @Carnifax both sides so it doesn't really matter to me.

In fact when I stopped my EU account and upgraded my latent Trial US one to a full one the first time I logged in I had a 3 month old message from someone who had played the MA mission I'd done EU side (a nice one too)

No, the maintenance times were already synced US and EU side even if the EU ones were in Germany.

That happened a year or two back when the Great Gutting of the EU Offices occurred and we moved onto the one forum.

Maybe it's just me but I thought Mr G was the Praetorian Agent G (Crimson and Indigos protégées in Faultline).

Of course I just went on the name (and mysterious background of both)

You're not the boss of me!

Oh wait, it's Dechs and Warshades. I stand corrected. You ARE the boss of me in this case

Well obviously the genre had some appeal, it's not like I said "Hey, I despise superheroes and everything they stand for but I'll try this anyway". But there was plenty of other MMOs (and games) from genres I also like around. The fact it's a superhero MMO isn't that much of a clincher for me (which is what Lascher is saying)

What drew me to the game chiefly was the fact my now-wife was going around the world for 6 months and I needed something to occupy myself and a friend was playing this. If he'd been playing [something-else-which-cannot-be-mentioned] I'd have tried that instead.

What's kept me playing mostly is the same sort of thing that made me throw 100s of hours into single player RPGs like [Name withheld to protect the innocent] and [Name withheld to protect the innocent], lots and lots of builds and power combos to mess with.

Addendum : Do NOT do this with your Mind Controller/Domi, Terrify takes ToHit Debuff enhancements (certainly SOs) but doesn't actually have any -ToHit in it.

Spectral Terror has a 15% tohit debuff (actually it has 2 of them it can stack together), but as I found out once when doing a respec to maximise the -ToHit the damn thing cannot take -ToHit enhancements (so I PROCed the sucker instead)

Is this right? I thought the FE bonus would do 45% of whatever final damage figure your attack was doing (in other words INCLUDING Enhancements)

So in other words in your example the vanilla attack does 145 damage (100 + 45 fire). The Slotted with 3 Damage SOs does 282.75 damage (195 + 87.75 Fire from FE) and the Slotted with Damage plus Build Up does 427.75 damage (295 + 132.75)

I remember looking at this in Mids and for my BS/Fire and the total Mids was reporting for Headsplitter using this sort of combo was somewhere around 650+. Plugging the 162.5 base value from Red Tomax instead of 100 gives me a final figure of 692 so that sorta tallies with what I remember too.

Can't double check with Mids now though and so I (and/or Mids) could very well be wrong here (and Red Tomax doesn't have the new listings for the changes so I can't check there either if the FE damage is marked as ignoring Enhancements).

If I am wrong it means I'm now kicking myself (more) for not opting for a Fire Brute instead (my old Stone/Fire Brute is locked EU side and my BS/Fire scrapper is only 32 so I haven't had a chance to try it out yet)

Given this (and it's true and one of the reasons my meleers tend to love picking on Warriors in the 20s) Council might be your best bet as a compromise. They are insanely common all the way through the game and tend to have a wide selection of ranged and meleers.

Council bases tend to be tunnels joining large rooms so i'm not sure if they'd be considered "fair" or not (I consider them a pain in the **** myself) or Council on a Tech or Office map might be better.

Wait for i19. Your Blue Bar will thank you! (otherwise prepare to have a horrific Teen experience)

I haven't played my Stone/Fire since the Fire changes, I'd say it's pretty darn lovely now in terms of hideous amounts of hard hitting spike damage (especially if you stay Villianous and get Frenzy)

That's a brilliant idea!

I got one for helping with an event Mothers Love organized but just gave it to my SG as a prize for something.

They're neat but not 200+ quid neat.

My cats breath smells like cat food

There are indeed some great stories in the AE. But there are a few things which make it harder for me to play them.

1) Finding them. There's a lot of mediocre stuff in there, even some of the Dev Choices are poop. The filtering and locating of arcs is a PITA.

2) Bizarre XP mechanics. If you play an arc it's hard to know what sort of XP you're going to get or if some older mission is going to end up penalising you because it fell foul of some subsequently introduced anti-farming measure.

3) Finding a team to play them : This is a big one for me. Simply the fact that the damn things act like TFs removes a lot of the casual aspect from them, you can't do what you can do with Story arcs, where a team is constantly adding and losing players and changing. There is also the stigma of AE in general. Most people will either 1) Realise that you aren't doing a Farm Team and quit or 2) Refuse to join an AE team because they assume its either a Farm Team or some crappy mission the leader put together (which is often WORSE than a farm). Of the AE missions I've played via PuGs over the last few months it's been of this type *shudder*

Some of us don't particularly give a fig about "genre" and play the game simply because it's an enjoyable game to play.

I'm pretty sure something like Phantasm (who has a grand total of 0 melee attacks) running into melee range is a bug. The Devs may have intended the current set-up for Demoos (which is when it was introduced I think) but it's had bad knock-on effects on other pets and has to be considered a bug, regardless of the devs intentions for it.



Pet AI is now screwy and unsuited for purpose, especially for Controllers. That's a bug, regardless of what the devs think (remember these are the same devs who took 6 months and a post in the scrappers forum to realise they had grossly overpowered Shield Charge when they made a change to it, they are human and nowhere near infallible).

In my experience you do get lots more drops solo than when teaming, pretty much regardless of the spawn size you have set.

It's 20 merits for a random roll, so if you're doing any stories (other than Craptoria where the Merit Rewards are woeful) you can pretty quickly amass enough for a roll. You also get 50 the first time you do a Hero / Villain morality mission and re-enforce your morality, and an A-Merit which is worth 5 rolls after that (Rogues and Vigilantes get 50 merits instead each time they re-enforce I think?)

If you focus on running arcs and tips solo you can very quickly amass the things (my downfall is a combination of lack of focus on any one character and a love of the chaos and sheer randomness of PuGs. Even then I have a level 42 dual build Fort/Widow nicely Frankenslotted and with a nice wee collection of unique IOs I got from Random Rolls).

If I can overcome the crippling altisis and actually focus on a character for once getting some form of Incarnate Slot wouldn't take me long.

That's the ongoing Pet AI bug, which is STILL unfixed.

Probably the worst thing affecting MMs at the moment. Any and all pets will attempt to close to melee range, even if they really shouldn't.

Of course I love it on my Plant/Emp controller, but Illusion is badly affected by it too.

Hopefully i19 has a fix for it in there somewhere (although I wouldn't hold my breath)

Rain of Fire doesn't have a 2.0 accuracy, the Real Numbers are sorta lying to you on that one. The 2.0 accuracy is for the summoning / placing of the Pseudopet which does the rain effect. Its basically meaningless and you do need some Acc as the ticks themselves have pretty normal Acc as far as I remember (1.0 I think).

One of mine : The new Burn doesn't have an "Avoid" part built into it, but the burny fire patch will still make things Morale break pretty quickly and things will still do a runner pretty sharpish, this is annoying for Scrappers since they lack a Taunt Aura which would encourage the runners to stick around.

Except they didn't, bar the most extreme cases. It was very handy for getting a few of my Brutes through the Terrible Teens in fact (especially the Stone/Fire *shudder*).

I've quite happily used the MA to do that with a few characters, mostly EU side. I haven't seen any of the new raft of exploits though, haven't been on any AE farms in absolute ages as I've had more interesting things to do.