ChaosExMachina

Thanks for reminder.

I'm actually questioning its defensive utility. I just used it for the first time last night, and immediately came to the opinion that phase is unpopular because it's unsupported by the interface, in addition to the offensive mindset.

In other words I criticize that he didn't consider the interface and whether it supported the purpose of the power, which definitely does not take enemies out of the action.

The targetable phased enemies act like phantom army, essentially, and they can jump back with no warning to team members who don't know when you used it. It's especially important if you consider that twilight grasp and other dark masma powers require targets to work.

So I just wrote this.

I just tried the black hole power for the first time. Yikes. While I can imagine situations where it can be occasionally slightly advantageous, any enemies that don't phase now have a phantom army of invincible, identical enemies to interfere with the ability to target them.

Obviously these powers have a bad reputation, but that has lots to do with the fact that they are not supported by the game interface.

1. Add an immobilize while PVE, not PVP, enemies are phased so they can't run in front of the unphased enemies.

2. Add some sort of large and obvious visual effect, like the confuse purple dots but bigger, so that the team knows not to attack. This effect should also signal the phase stopping so that you don't get suddenly swarmed. This would also make carnie illusionists much more fair.

3. Make target commands skip phased enemies by default. After trying the power the first time I was immediately killed because it was impossible to target. Even after learning of that and preparing, targeting was inconvenient.

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Attack...cs#Data_Tables

HitChance = Clamp( AccMods × Clamp( BaseHitChance + ToHitMods – DefMods ) )

It explicitly says that BaseHitChance is 75% at equal level.

Read the rest of the wiki page.

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Attack...cs#Data_Tables

There will be tons of flames so let me just get in ahead and douse some of them.

The 75% is the base accuracy of player vs. equal minion powers. The 1.0 (or whatever) is multiplied by that. So Mids is counting the 75% while the wiki has it in a chart at the bottom.

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Attack...cs#Data_Tables

Note this is why the common claim that softcapped defense works against 95% of attacks is not true, unless you only battle even level minions.

I'm considering provoke as a way to summon less (tanking for teammates is not particularly important since there's usually a melee with mez protect). How useful is it, particularly to dark miasma? In occasional tests at the i19 beta, it has not been very reliable. Bots and team members are able to take aggro easily. Do I need to slot it? Is its accuracy absolute against any non-player enemy?

je_saist: Good points. People should try to avoid such scenarios, but if I comment upon it I will try to be less confrontational about it.

Not so much an attempt to promote discussion, as a complaint about the nature of the suggestion board. And I've got no problem with those who disagree, just the general taking of it to the next level, so to speak, or use of bad arguments. Lothic's post for example, along with a bunch of others, disagreed while being totally reasonable. It's not like there is a single person who went too far, but it's the general buildup of, well, like I said, it feels like suggesters are heretics sometimes.

I'll admit that I probably overreacted here, because some of the reaction, upon reading it again, was provoked by OP's PVP accusation. This is something of a pet peeve that is often true though: suggestions are probably the easiest way to get posting aggro.

This suggestion is good and the way oneshot protection should be handled in pretty much any game.

I think it makes sense as a way to make defense less luck dependent.

Of course there are some things about CoH specifically (too easy, few oneshots, and ability of any build to cap defense) that interfere, so the myopic suggestion hate brigade has to mob the heretic rather than just discussing how those things could be made compatible.

You guys know that the devs have repeatedly made it clear that any blaster secondaries they make have to involve fish melee, don't you? I can link to a bunch of other posts I wrote to back that up!

If you read more of that she's suggesting that regular mutants were 1938 and psionics were before, and she, explicitly, is a psionic, not a mutant.

The writing of the whole origin of powers nonsense is very bad at multiple levels.

* Insulting dialogue non-choices that require you to guess wrong to Psyche, call yourself stupid to Tarikoss, claim to not know about Rikti or mythology, etc. This is even more egregious when you consider that it was created as the first example of 'dialogue choices' in the game.

* Misinterpretation of natural origin as meaning no powers. It can also be an alien or such, and the very same issue had fortunata players, natural-only! Both of them tell the natural origin player, explicitly, that they have no powers.

* No mutants before 1938, other than psionics. Only villains are told there are 'sub-types of mutants that perhaps were their own origin,' which at least is a tiny consideration for player origins.

* The idea that human fission was some cosmic event, as if it was the first time in their universe atoms ever got smaller rather than combining?

* Both Synapse and Shelley tell you that you were created in some experiment by somebody else. That ignores most of the sci origin superheroes ever created, working only for those like Synapse and... Captain America? What about those who did it themselves? Accidents like most of Marvel 60's heroes?

* Explaining power proliferation. So, for example, if you were a defender, you couldn't pick up a rifle or use traps until Dr. Brainstorm did some messing with the universe?

* Explaining magic as invented by humans, which must make a lot of sense to, say, a magic origin void creature who reads that arc.

I take it just so I can use it constantly if I want. A better question is why to take SS or SJ if you have Ninja Run. :P

Perhaps you should say why you want it and why NOXP is not sufficient.

Funny the responses of how it comes up so often. ONE of those was actually verified and after tons of data by many players was resolved.

I think that is some sort of intentionally ugly graffiti of emperor cole.

The boost does not work with summoned powers, which includes lots of secondaries too, but that is NOT working as intended so it will work eventually.

However, even if they did, spiritual boosts won't buff summon recharge, unless those powers are given access to recharge enhancement (which I would like, as a way to slot the recharge intensive buffs).