Chad Gulzow-Man

... You realize that the i20 beta was open to everyone at least one night a week for the last month, right?

But it IS actual irony, not the generic misuse of the term that's been floating around since it was popularized on the internet.

A potent AoE mez power? (I know Cryonic Judgement and I think Ionic Judgement can have Hold added to them as they go up in the tiers.)

A team heal/rez power?

A self buff (armor) power? (I'd really love some damage resistance on my SR Scrapper...)

Maybe a power that fills your inspiration tray, or allows you to convert tier 3 insps into Incarnate inspirations?

I'm just grasping beyond that.

You're confusing addative buffs with pre-calculated damage potential.

As a Scrapper, you start with 100% damage, because it can be debuffed by enemy abilities (or even friendly powers such as Radiation Emission's Mutation rez). 100% is your unenhanced, unbuffed damage... so, the example that has been used is to say that you have an attack that does 100 damage. You can have an additional +400% maximum damage buff applied (total damage cap is 500%).

So having 400% damage = 400 damage output (on a base 100 damage attack), but +400% = 500 damage output... which is also the cap for a Scrapper.

In your own examples above, a "100% enhancement" should be displayed as "+100%."

Edit: ... Yeah. What Aett and Jade said. -_-;

Apparently it's an identification number that gets emailed to you when you first sign up for an NCSoft account.

They just DID a graphical revamp in May 2010--Ultra Mode.

The problem with upgrading the character models is that there are actually a startling number of people who don't want to see the player models upgraded, either because they are still running on older machines or because they just like the style.

Back around Going Rogue's launch, David Nakayama (the art lead) asked what people thought about replacing some of the old costume piece textures with newer hi-res ones. Public outcry demanded that nothing be removed, and that they keep all legacy costume pieces as they are, but add in the hi-res textures as an alternative option... even though it was noted that this decision would take far longer to implement.

Anyway, it's a matter of taste. I don't find the character models in brand-new-competitor to be particularly appealing, but they're at least better than those in couple-year-old competitor (which were of course inferior to CoH models in all ways but total polycount).

My main characters are effectively the same person copied through [plot device* goes here]. Even the "evil" one isn't truly evil, but is very self-serving and just really hates the "good" one.

I justified their switching sides as the "evil" one capturing the "good" one and forcibly switching their minds, then running off to the Rogue Isles to do bad things where everyone could see and ruin his good name. The "good" one, now in the "evil" one's body, quickly broke free and established what was going on before any real harm could be done... but they're currently stuck in each other's bodies until [another plot device happens (aka, "when I get all the badges")].

*Technically, "a wizard did it" applies here.

I approve of this, too!

It's one of my favorite things to have learned about today. I understand your point about "why is it in the overview?" because it really is small potatoes on the list of features, but I am extremely pleased to find this out.

I dunno... there was that briefly leaked "recycled pee" inspiration in the i20 teaser...

I just started reading that. (No spoilers, please.)