Chad Gulzow-Man

I was referring to actual completely original custom minions. I didn't try it with recoloring an existing minion, but I did include a normal Freakshow minion into my custom group when I was testing.

Freakshow got their XP reduced when Issue 16 launched. They previously gave more XP and inf than a standard enemy, but it was decided that they're not any more difficult than other enemy groups of similar levels. And since they have a chance to rez, you have a chance to get double XP off of them anyway.

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Sigh. Just tested again, AFTER playing for several hours and all traces of Patrol XP were burned off.

A Freakshow minion in a paper mission, at level 32, gave 261 XP, 91 inf, and 13 Prestige. A Freakshow minion in an MA mission, at level 32, gave 261 XP, 91 inf, and 13 Prestige.

The custom critters are giving out 274 XP, 96 inf, and 13 Prestige. Freaks between 20 and 40 have a 5% reduction in rewards, and the higher levels have a greater reduction.

Seems like it's working properly after all. Thanks for pointing that out, Macskull.

Edit: Just to be super ultra mega sure, I tested on a Council paper mission as well. 274 XP, 96 inf, 13 Prestige.

You're forgetting Battle-Hardened, for 48 months.

You can summon a buff pet that will give you a small global defense + recovery increase or a small global resistance + uhhh... (accuracy? damage? I forget, I always take the blue ones for recovery ) pet that buffs you until an AoE takes out its 10 HP.

Totally agree with this. My main hero hails from an alternate dimension where everyone is biologically identical to Paragon Earth, but a martial arts master was able to unlock the powers of ki/chi/chakra (pick your favorite martial arts or anime reference, but I prefer "ki" myself). Chad trained under the master and learned to become incredibly fast, strong and even learned how to fly.

At the same time, he fights using an enchanted katana. However, the katana offers no benefits over any other katana when in combat, except that it never dulls and can be stored in a pocket dimension when not in use and summoned by calling its name when needed.

I decided that since most of his abilities come from his training and enhancing his body and spirit to their peak, that he should definitely be of Natural origin. I got a lot of complaints in the first 6 months after the game released, saying that I was playing him wrong and that he should have been "Magic," blah blah blah. He doesn't cast spells, he doesn't even need the enchanted sword to fight, so I say he's Natural.

To further confuse things, my main villain is a Katana/SR Stalker with roughly the same background, only he stole a prototype cloaking device, which is clearly Technology. But he's also the proud owner of an enchanted katana, which, again, is only enchanted to never dull and can be stored in another dimension when not in use. And again, since his inherent powers are due to neither the cloaking device nor the enchanted sword, I consider him to be of Natural origin.

(Things get a little confusing in the later levels, when he learns Soul Mastery from Ghost Widow... but in my opinion, he uses his own spirit to subjugate the ki left behind by the deceased and force it to his will.)

Would you like to know why the Rikti are attacking Paragon Earth? It's explained in the RWZ arcs. Seriously, plain as the nose on your face. The final arc sums up everything.

Don't pay attention to the storyline when in game? You can read the content of the storyarc I'm referring to here.

But by all means, please continue to argue against established story canon just because you think your idea of the in-game story is better than what's actually there.

Actually, that's something I didn't think about.

Conserve Power + a mini Build Up = Power Up.

... That'd be pretty sweet, actually.

30 seconds of +50% end discount and +20% Energy Damage. Sounds like it'd be overpowered, though. Even though the damage bonus isn't as significant as the ones from the other damage boosting powers, at least my intent was to add another typed damage (Energy) onto all attacks. That'd still be pretty freakin' awesome.

The idea behind the penalty (and it was supposed to be a minor one, like 5%) was that you've expended too much energy in a short period of time and so you're weak in particular to energy damage. But you'll also note that my hypothetical "Power Up" lasts twice as long as Build Up and Aim. And Fiery Embrace still gets to be its own unique power, since it's in a set with very little mitigation that isn't "kill faster!"

More or less exactly what I was thinking, plus giving people the option to skip out on Stamina since Energy Drain is so effective and recharges so quickly (even moreso with Hasten and recharge bonuses from IO sets!).

Yeah... I'm not a huge fan of rez powers either, which is why I put this one last. It does fill the hole that you see for a "heal power," though, and behaves a little differently than Rise of the Phoenix, allowing it to remain unique.

Really? I hesitated to post this one because it would be so ridiculously overpowered against Rikti and robot-type baddies. Wade into a group, taunt, and watch them kill themselves plinking away at your shields.

I thought about adding fire and ice redirection as well, but that really would make it feel overpowered. But, I suppose that could be balanced by making the energy pulses cost additional bursts of endurance, as with Repel-type powers.
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Ian makes a damn good point.

Um... no? There was no PVP in the game at all when CoH was launched.

And during the signature character invasion, it wasn't so much PVP as dev-controlled bots. It's arguable to consider them players, since they conned as Hero-class critters and not as player characters.

Only in the Rikti War Zone, which was already mentioned.

Niviene just copied the text from Friday's test notes directly without changing the heading. Note that the thread title is about the Live Servers.

This is the same patch that was tested on the Test Server on Friday. She copied the text directly without changing the title.

Cut Niv some slack. She's a busy gal, having to clean up all the messes we make on these forums.

I am so playing that later.

They changed it a while back so you can now set a limit to the number of purchases in a month per credit card, with $200 being the max I believe.

Give it a few minutes and try again. They might have implemented some sort of delay to make sure that people don't accidentally make duplicate orders. In the same way that a lot of message boards make you wait 30 seconds in between posts, you might have to wait 5 min or so in between purchases.

If it doesn't work again, try again this evening or tomorrow. If it's still not working tomorrow, contact NCSoft tech support.

As St_Angelius said above, the first and third "bug" you posted there aren't bugs at all.

If you have a dual build Soldier, and one of those builds is a Crab Spider, then you have to have the backpack at all times, because the system can't separate your build from your costume. Positron himself said there is no way to work around this currently.

And VEATs are supposed to only have access to the special costume parts (and nothing else) on the first costume slot, and not on any other slot. This is working as designed. The Arachnos costume pieces were not intended to be used with other options, and they would not match well and/or clip with other parts.

As for the "predefined insect armor" thing... that sounds like it might be a bug, but I don't understand what you're trying to say when you say it changes to plain?

Finally, why are you complaining about this here? There is a thread specifically for listing costume bugs. Post there. The end.