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It depends on the proc. Gaussian's grants the power to Self, so it will never affect enemies, and will always work regardless of what you slot it into.

Also, around issue 14 or so safety checks were put into all the procs. They can't affect the "wrong" kind of target any more. Worst case scenario these days is that it simply does nothing at all. Procs like Performance Shifter will have no effect in elec blast powers, rather than granting endurance to your enemies.

As Invincibility doesn't affect self, however, you'd need an enemy in range in order for the proc to have a chance to go off. Due to the way the proc works mechanically, having multiple enemies in range doesn't increase your chances unfortunately, though this may change with the PPM switchover in I24. Exactly how that's supposed to work is still fairly muddy though, so I wouldn't count on it.

More like I20, or maybe even 21. It was very recent, and there was much rejoicing from people who play kin a lot.

Like Trickshooter said, it's all pseudopet-based now. Chain Induction used to be grant-power based, which caused all sorts of havoc with things like procs, confuse effects, and damage buffs. It was changed to a pseudopet IIRC around the time Going Rogue came out, to fix most of those issues (maybe slightly before, since Electric Control came out with GR).

AFAIK Ion has always used pseudopets. The original implementation didn't set the mode to prevent multiple hits (it tried a different method I can't quite remember, but didn't work consistently). It was unintentionally more powerful than it should be, because a single Ion judgement could chain back to the same target multiple times.

Some of the enemy powers like the Mito's chain, and Praetorian Clockwork may still be grant-power based, but none of the player ones are.

That's the best way to go -- you often have only a small window of time before Domination drops and you can no longer activate it.

The power that is on auto is processed server-side, so it goes off regardless of network lag, etc., at the absolutely earliest time that it can possibly fire. That tiny bit of time can sometimes mean the difference between Domination activating versus dropping.

The only thing you have to watch out for is that if a power is queued the auto power won't fire, so if you're queuing your attack chain nonstop you may want to start inserting short pauses around the time Domination looks like it's almost recharged.

I might put it in Energy Torrent on my energy/ice while on a big team, just because it's part of my ST rotation as well. I don't think I'd want it in explosive blast (even if it could be global), and I definitely wouldn't use it at all while soloing.

KB+Slow is just too good of a mitigation strategy to not use while soloing.

I like the prestige sprints from the paragon rewards tree if you have them. No need to waste a slot, you can still slot Sprint for endurance at low levels, using Sprint won't turn you transparent, and you can choose 1 of 4 options for VFX to use while you're stealthed.

Also I didn't see it mentioned, but be aware that the various stealth IOs from travel sets (Celerity, Unbounded Leap, Freebird, Time&Space) are not only unique, but they're exclusive with each other as well and it simply won't let you slot more than one, even if it's from a different set.

Finally, the effect from the proc is flagged to fire on "Self", so unfortunately you can't turn IR (or speed boost) into a poor man's Grant Invisibility.

Well normally I'd just look it up on City of Data. But since the public version of that site only shows live powers, and since I have absolutely no idea where that info comes from, and even if I did things that are in beta are subject to change at any time, the best I could do is to make a completely wild, uneducated, random guess...

So to make such a wild guess, I'd say it's probably an enhancement that is a -99% Strength Buff to Knockback.

With a lack of any other Knockback enhancement, and assuming that there isn't a minimum cap on KB strength (Recharge and Endurance Discount both have one to avoid possible divide by zero errors, but I don't believe KB does), it changes the equation to this:

(Base Power KB) * (1 - 0.99)

Which basically reduces all knockback to 1% of its original magnitude. So it would take around a mag 75 KB power to not be affected by this enhancement.

In other words, exactly the thing Castle said wouldn't work.

OTOH, If you slotted enough KB enhancers in the same power, you could counteract this one and make it do KB anyway -- enhancements are additive and not affected by strength buffs already in play. But that seems really pointless.

*glances at title of thread he chose to respond to the question in*

Zwillinger confirms: My Little Pony Online.

Not necessarily. The AoE damage from Tornado is decent, but it's a fairly small radius, over a long time and not especially better than some attack powers.

Most hard targets that you'd want to use it on for single target damage are immune to knockback anyway, so no change there.

Edit: Tornado also has a fear component with a 20' radius (damage/KB is only 7'), which will cause enemies to try to run away from it if they are able.

Quills wouldn't build Fury. Fury works by checking for the number of attack (non-self-targeting) click power activations each server tick. Damage auras don't build it because they're not click powers, not because they're in the secondary.

It's the exact same event type that builds Domination as well, with the addition of also counting number of times attacked.

Guests can also use the Pillar of Ice and Flame if they meet the normal level requirements for it.

*cough* Incarnate Trial Bosses *cough*

;-)

With a robot leg.

So... space pirate... robot... ninja... zombie?

Committing the character to the database (long-term) storage actually happens around 10-15 minutes after you log off IIRC. This is why toggles used to remain on for a while after you logged off, but only if you logged back in within that window.

There are incremental checkpoints as well (the cause of 'rollback' of recent events when a server crashes), but it's the final commit that removes the character from the game server's active state. Things like which powers were toggled on, as well their recharge state were lost at that point, because the database didn't contain that information.

I kind of suspect that the motivation behind the change may have partially been to fix the "exploit" of logging off for 15 minutes to recharge powers that have a >15min fixed recharge. That's just a guess -- I haven't tested to see if they are now saving power recharge data though.

The logoff change isn't really similar to the proposed toggle "remembering" at all. Any similarities are superficial at best.

Hardcoded. A new system would need to be designed to accomplish suppressing toggles and any associated animation bits when in a particular mode.

I'm not saying it's impossible or won't happen, just that it would require a fairly significant investment of programmer time.

I actually use it for the incoming text message sound on my phone.

I also use the Howling Twilight sound effect for meeting reminders...

The refund is the easy part. The hard part is reliably deleting all of the enhancements that you bought from whatever characters you claimed them on. Not the same thing as a double purchase which didn't actually unlock anything extra.

Vorpal is just a cone attack that uses yourself as the target. It doesn't actually teleport you anywhere.

You don't need a special keybind. I drop teleport onto the same spot that I drop all my travel powers -- first slot on my second tray. My second tray has the keys Q-W-R-T-Y-U-I-O-P mapped to it, so using teleport is as simple as Q, click, Q, click. I actually prefer that to the shift keybind since you don't have to hold the key down in order to teleport.

With the default key mappings, you could put it in the first slot of the first tray and use the '1' key to teleport, which is almost as convenient.

Teleport is only clunky if you try to use it by clicking on the icon, but it's hardly the only power that is clunky for clickers.