Codewalker

Okay, if it was blank then it should be fixed. I actually fixed that bug a while back, but um, kind of forgot to actually push my changes to the live site until I went and checked after seeing your post... Grumble grumble.

If you see another link that sends you to a wonky AT please let me know. I know Titan Weapons/Assassin Strike redirects don't include it and need to, but other than that I think the pool powers and such should be fixed. Still need to refactor the effects display, but it's hard to motivate myself to do that when I'd rather be working on the backend revamp that will invalidate most of it.

Try http://tomax.cohtitan.com/data/power...=Class_Blaster instead. The bug would be on whatever page that link came from, mind telling me so I can fix it?

Kinda sorta but not really. There a few things that fake it by having a power that sets a mode, and suppresses whenever you get hit or activate a click power.

There's no "in combat / out of combat" flag that flips when you're on an enemy's aggro table like there is in some games.

Hmm, so does that mean that ToF will be the only sustain power that simply doesn't work 5% of the time?

At least it's only on a 10 second recharge, so that isn't too bad.

IMO that's just dancing around the fact that putting Soul Drain in a blaster secondary was just a bad idea, all around.

And even then, Interrupt reduction doesn't decrease the activation time at all -- it just makes less of the long windup interruptable.

Like Reppu said, this is branching to an entirely different power if you have more than 22%, like Titan Weapons momentum or the new Assassin's Strike. Hawk even explicitly mentioned power redirection in a previous post.

There's no cast time, so it'll activate "instantly" (the next combat clock tick, which is every 0.125 seconds, plus your connection latency). The activation period is 0.5s, which means that the effect "pulses" every 0.5 seconds, with the first pulse coming immediately when the power is toggled on. Since it lasts 0.75, and since the effects all use Replace stacking, they overwrite themselves every half second, before they expire.

Really the only thing that affects is how long it takes for something like Power Boost to kick in and begin affecting it. In this case somewhere between 0 and 0.5 seconds, depending on where in the cycle you were.

I'll choose to read that as "a toggle a la Dimension Shift".

Speaking of which, please send a huge THANK YOU to whoever in the art team took the time to slip the FX in. I know I bugged you mercilessly about that during beta, and while the power is still very situational, at least it looks REALLY FREAKING COOL now.

It's not, and I was under the impression that this was intentional.

IIRC, The Fool is the reason that Mystic Fortune prompts you, because of the risk involved in accepting the buff. That's reinforced by the somewhat extreme lengths that the power goes to in order to stop someone from "cheating" by replacing it with a different buff.

That said, I certainly wouldn't complain if it became cancelable.

Very excited about this. My original character (and now my badge character) is Energy/Ice and was already pretty awesome. Getting one of the first absorb powers not in a new set is just cool. And I don't even have to respec since I usually run CE anyway!

FWIW, Knives, along with MA critters who have Caltrops, were "fixed" a few issues back. The damage will still pile up, but the slow no longer stacks, so standing in 5 caltrop patches only slows you the same amount as 1, instead of dropping you to the run speed floor and making it impossible to get out.

It was one of the first applications of some new tech (added circa Going Rogue IIRC) that allows for specific effects of the same power to not stack across separate casters, rather than just "from same caster".

Looks like Mids is including the "crit from hide" damage. That should normally only apply after placating an enemy, but I don't see a way to disable it.

Yes, Omega slot gives you a +1000 level shift for 10 seconds, then there is a mandatory 5 minute lockout before you can use it again.

The client knows that an enemy took 99 damage because the server tells it that enemy X took 99 damage. It has no knowledge what debuffs the target has, or what those values are. It knows that the server is telling it to draw a particular FX (say, the +Res orange shields) on a particular entity, and that's it.

The client knows the numbers of buffs placed on YOU because those are specifically sent. They didn't used to be, and when the devs added real numbers, they also gave us an option to disable sending of those numbers, for low bandwidth connections like dial-up modems. If you turn them off, the server just informs your client that you got a particular buff so it can show the icon, but sends no details about it.

Whatever the problem with that mission is, it's entirely serverside (like the ITF "lag" used to be). Something specific to that mission is bugged and making the server take a lot longer to process things than it should. There were reports in beta of the map server actually crashing and causing the character to become inaccessible. Now it just causes disconnects, so that's some improvement I guess.

No, that information is not sent by the server unless you're using a power analyzer or Surveillance (with the window open). The critters that have resistance to the unused types are extremely rare in any event.

The amount of damage types is only relevant when they're used. If Barrier granted you resistance to it, you might have a case, but it doesn't. Barrier itself does have a ton of effects though, so it might slow you down if you're on a very low bandwidth connection and don't disable buff number sending.

Don't forget about Special (That's the one used by Hami and EoEs, it's also used for a lot of self damage powers like Absorb Pain). Unique1 is Crystal Titan damage, as well as a bunch of other stuff. 2 and 3 are barely used.

"Healing" is also technically a damage type. Strictly speaking, it doesn't need to be (non-negative numbers of damage is healing), but having it be one allows the devs to create debuffs that give you resistance to it.

There's also Electrical and Radiation, which are currently unused, though a few random enemies have resistance to them. Try using a power analyzer on a fire in Steel Canyon sometime.

Not to mention damage types 15-19, which don't even have names at the moment...

Very often. It's quite common, actually. Anytime before you slot SOs it's very difficult to enhance that much. Even with SOs you only end up enhancing around 95% if you slot 3. Not everyone does. Anyone using IO sets may end up anywhere from 70-90%, depending on the set. Someone with Musculature may end up with 120% slotted.

A kineticist may not slot for damage at all, instead depending on their self buffs to get them close to the cap.

Because capping it at 200% makes the display less useful.

Yes, capping it at 300% means that you need to take enhancements into account to calculate your final damage. You'd need to take them into account even with 200%, but if it capped at 200%, it would make it impossible to tell how much +DMG buff you actually had, making the display completely useless for someone who did not have exactly 100% damage slotted through enhancements.

How many characters do not have exactly 100% damage slotted in every power? Well, uh... all of them...

Edit: To clarify, I agree that it's not intuitive. However I prefer a somewhat useful display that shows correct info over one that lies to me between 200 and 300% with no way for me to see what the real value is.

Maybe in the future something could be added to the enhancement screen that shows on a per-power basis what the current damage (including global damage buffs) is, and how much "headroom" until it hits the cap that power has. I don't think the combat attributes is the right place for it though, as that should be about global character attributes. Until then we have tools like Mids as a stopgap for the number crunchers who care about those things.

This. Would you REALLY want to be on a trial led by the guy who was spamming broadcast?

I used to be able to log in from my iPhone, but starting a day or two ago, the above has been happening to me when I try.

Even when it did work, the log-in would last only until I roamed far enough to get a different IP address (or switched between wifi and 3G), at which point I'd be logged out. Going back to the home screen and then into the browser again also usually resulted in a logout, which is extremely annoying.

I'm sure this is a direct result of the "Remember me" option being set up to not actually remember you, on purpose from what we've been told.

So yeah, before they worry about a mobile skin for the forums, they need to deal with the forums themselves being very mobile unfriendly.