Chompie

I just had a thought too...

... that uninformative thread titles suck.


Anyway, yes, it used to actually be a temporary power. In these toggle-filled days, sometimes I wish there were more click-defenses, or situational-toggles. Oh well! Maybe in a new set.

You could pretend to be a 4channer and do it like a motivational.

Badassery
I cut you in half with a HAMMER.


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But why has nobody commented on how there is a shotgun shell on the ground there? That's the comedy gold, right there.

I'm allowed to jump in mid-game, right?

Okay! I toss three Earthen Slinkies into the air and play Saz'kk, Devourer of Trinkets- and i got him in before the slinkies landed, so he can cast multi-condiment spells on his first turn!
I feed Saz'kk an enchanted nose ring from my deck to let him cast WHIRLING WHIRLIGIG WHMAYHEM! Each player must uproot three of their already enplanted pieces from their jigsaw matrices and rotate them out of place! HA!

Nobody ever explained softcapping very well to me, but I think I've got it.. mostly.

One of the big huge problems with explaining this crap is that the terms are really ambiguous and most people explaining it use the same word for multiple different parts of the calculations. So I will color-code it. If you are color blind, I could like, format it? Bold/Italic/Underline I guess? Let me know if you want me to.
I'll be using:
Yellow for the ToHit stat.
Orange for the Accuracy stat.
Green for the Final Chance To Hit stat.

Chance to hit someone is ToHit x Accuracy. This I understand. But I end up getting confused between Chance to hit and ToHit once in a while- I know ONE of those is Floored/ceilinged so it can't go below .05 or above .95 - but I don't remember which one. or if it's both.

Base stats for NPC's are .50 ToHit and 1.00 Accuracy.
Base stats for Players are .75 ToHit and 1.00 Accuracy.

Defense subtracts directly from ToHit.
So, if you have 45% Defense, it reduces a foe's ToHit against you to .05 for a grand total Chance to hit of .05 -- Like so: .05 = .05 x 1.00.

Now we get into the part where I'm missing a little information. Whether this is from poor reading or being not informed, I dunno. This is now me asking a question, so if you're trying to understand what the softcap is, this lower part will probably just be confusing- stop reading below this line.
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More than 45 Defense doesn't help you, because enemies can't possibly have a harder time hitting you. But, again, I can't remember if this is because Chance to hit is floored at .05 or because ToHit is floored at .05 (or both?).
For even-level foes, it doesn't matter which one is floored, but when you're fighting higher-up (or lower-up) enemies, the enemy's Accuracy against you changes. I'm pretty sure this is .10 per level difference.

So, a +1 Foe against someone with 45 Defense hits like this: .05 x 1.10 = 5.5% Chance to hit. Right?
Now, what if it's a +1 Foe against, say, 49 Defense? Which part is floored? Which one of these is right?
Floored(.01) x 1.10 = .05 x 1.10 = 5.5% Chance to hit
.01 x 1.10 = Floored(1.1%) = 5.0% Chance to hit

And I know there's some point where there's a big enough level gap that the attacker starts gaining (or losing?) ToHit instead of Accuracy. But I also don't know where THAT is.

I definitely overuse the Assassin mask. I have to try really hard to not use it.

And miniskirts! If I'm using a skirt, it's a miniskirt. And I'm using a skirt most of the time, because I can't find a non-skirt leg option that looks quite right. Not enough layers, I suppose.

Heh, just remembered the one Citadel TF I was on. That TF... would have been really fricking boring if it weren't for the hilarious team. Blaster, Blaster, Blaster, Blaster, Blaster, Blaster, Scrapper, Heal-Empath.

About five minutes into the first mission, I figured that the Heal-Empath was getting bored of the coordinated focus-fire and strategic pulls we were doing. So, I started trying my hardest to get killed, and guess what? All five other blasters followed suit.
So for a couple hours, the team consisted of six blasters all competing to see who can get brutally murdered before the empath can heal them, with the scrapper frantically running ahead trying to hit things before they died of AoE overdose.

Gooood times.

Bah! Puny mortal. Airplane engines are hypnotic to me! Your terrible in-flight movies are no match for my unavoidable airplane narcolepsy! MUAHAHAHAHAAA!


I'll send a stalker after the next person. Not your ordinary creepy stalker, but the damn near superhuman kind that you can't get rid of no matter how much law or evasive maneuvers you use! And they will never, ever give up, and nobody else can have you. Nobody! Anyone close to you will be killed, a victim of your stalker's paranoia and murderous tendencies! Anyone! All die! And then you'll die by accident and it will be a RELIEF!
AAAAAHAHAHAHAAA!!

Whee. :3

Curses. I'm always interested to see others' take on the arbs. Oh well!

I'll give you a quick write-up of two of the shadow shard zones. I'm quite familiar with these two.



Firebase Zulu - Don't rush. If you just hurl yourself at top speed around the zone, you're bound to fling yourself into the abyss sooner or later. Take it easy, and keep the map open and zoomed in so you can keep track of where the jump geysers are.

Teleport and Fly take all the fun out of this zone unless you only use them to catch yourself after a mistake- they do help you get to missions more reliably, though.

The entrance to Firebase Zulu has teleporters to the other Shard zones. If your mission is at the far end of this zone, you can take a portal to the Cascade Archipelago, and then head back to FZ through the normal between-zones path. Very quick if you don't have horrible load times.

--- A little info on Gravity Geysers ---
Gravity Geysers (marked on the map with a dot and a line pointing out the direction and distance it sends you) are tricky things to use, but can send you across the Shard zones quite quickly if you get the hang of them.

To use one "properly", turn off Super Jump, Flight, and/or Super Speed (Swift, Hurdle, Sprint and Combat Jumping are fine), step into the groove in the rock leading up to the geyser, then run forward. Holding down Forward, backward, or the strafe keys in mid-air can send your path askew after you have been in the air for a little while, but with some geysers it is necessary to correct your course with these.


Cascade Archipelago - You cannot travel the entirety of this zone without Flight or Teleport. Its central island is vertically enormous, with land mass after land mass stacked on top of each other. The gravity geysers, even with super-jump, can not actually propel you all the way up each tier.

You *can* travel the outer ring of the zone without flight/teleport, but it is extremely difficult. Great if you enjoy hard platforming games, but very bad if you don't like having to start over a couple times.

This zone would really benefit from a 3-D map. The two-dimensional one is garbled and nearly useless for the center portion.

Cascade Archipelago connects to Firebase Zulu on the west side, and The Chantry on the east.

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That should be a little handy info for now.

I'd also recommend using a couple spaces of no witty quip at all- makes the full rotation last longer, and if you use it in something like Taunt, you aren't spamming stuff every ten seconds.

In Nukes though, I'd say it's fine to go without the non-quip spaces.