Codewalker

I don't think it really is his favorite thing ever -- he was quoting the movie to give us an oblique hint without Marketing jumping all over him.

Or maybe just cause he likes riddles and teasing us.

While IMO they should give us a calender either for the current month or announce things a month ahead of time, I can kind of see why they don't.

Can you imagine the RAGE if they had been saying that Staff Fighting would be released on 4/3, and then had to move the date at the last minute because there was a problem discovered?

I could see this being a problem in a year or two from now, when some people might have 10 or more vanity pets. Besides the server load, it could severely clutter common areas like Wentworths or around a trainer.

I really wish that:

(1) The Veteran buff pets were on a different toggle from the non-combat pets.
(2) There was a separate UI for pets so they didn't clutter your temp powers.

Hey Paragon, I heard you need a UI designer/programmer for your "Next Gen MMO". Is there a position open for one for COH as well?

Obviously they're releasing an Epic Dog AT tomorrow, that's why Zwillinger was trying to get an idea what people would pay for one.

If it's to the point where Zwillinger is doing some very thinly veiled fishing about paragon point price points (say that 3 times fast!), it's already a sure thing.

The only question is if it'll be at I23 launch or some time after. Expect to hear more at the player summit.

Nonsense! It would only take a few million to cover that for most people. Buying PS wouldn't be for charity, it would be an investment. I expect returns!

Unfortunately it looks like you'd need about 3 billion to gain a controlling interest of NCSoft proper. For the right price I bet you could convince them to sell a subsidiary though.

Not just to you Tony, but to all the others saying "I'd fund development of X", or "I'd buy Y".

Forget about a partnership. With that kind of money at your disposal, you could buy Paragon Studios.

Ponder that for a moment.

This.

The isles have a lot of cool architecture and things to see, but the problem is that you can't actually see any of it. It's always overcast and dim, and everything looks drab and bland no matter how detailed the textures are.

If the sun would come out every once in a while you'd actually be able to tell just how much detail is in those zones. Except for Grandville. That's just a boring mess of black metal everywhere.

I also find navigating to be a lot more of a pain redside. Tiny outcroppings everywhere to get caught on. You pretty much have to go with flight (slooow) or teleport. Superspeed there is out of the question. Even SJ has plenty of annoyances like the northern half of Nerva.

There's no such setting.

Procs can either affect the target of the power they're slotted into, or self. They can't be "set" to affect some other random entity nearby.

By putting it in Voltaic Sentinel (if it took the set, which others have pointed out that it doesn't), or Lightning Storm, you're effectively slotting it in all the pet's attacks. You aren't directly associated with any of those. The only place a proc could possibly fire on the "owner" is if the pet had a power that targeted you, like Demon's resist shield, or Dark Servant's heal.

Otherwise it might have a chance to heal you when you summon the pet, but that's about it.

The Mastermind special ATO isn't a proc... It's an always-on aura like Edict of the Master or Call to Arms.

It does not.

The only MM secondary power that takes Command is Tornado.

The only non-primary pets (i.e. powers that benefit from recharge) that take it are Hell on Earth, Soul Extraction, and Gang War.

i.e. if you're not Demons, Thugs, Necro, or Storm, you're SOL.

You don't know that.

This is probably the best solution. It's simple to implement, it comes pretty close to what refreshing the oldest stack would be like, and the standard code rant doesn't apply to it.

So probably the most constructive thing to do is to campaign for it to stack up to 4.

The only reason for them not to do that is if it's indented to be finnicky and difficult to get a guaranteed crit from a full stack.

Well, I didn't think "maybe, it depends" was a very useful answer, but if it's the one you wanted... *shrug*

tl;dr version: Only if you have a lot of spare slots.

It will definitely hit them at least once within the AoE, but not as often as it could.

With a base slotting of 0 damage and 0 acc, adding an accuracy SO will increase the damage output of the power by about 26.7% (the difference between 75% to-hit and 95% to-hit). Adding a damage SO increases it by 33%. So damage is the clear winner there.

However, once you have 33% damage slotted, putting in the accuracy increases the final damage output by 26.7%. Slotting another damage SO will only increase the damage by a further 24.8% -- it's a 66% enhancement relative to the base damage.

All of this of course varies wildly if there are defense buffs/debuffs in play, so take that into account. That's why I usually just slot for damage and not worry about acc unless I have just a ton of free slots. If you do have them, it can push the overall damage higher, especially if you're at 95% damage enhancement. At the ED cap, assuming no defense, slotting one accuracy to get you to the hit cap is equivalent to slotting a 52% damage enhancement that ignores ED -- that's as much as a Ragnarok: Damage!

Had you used AS from Hide just prior to not seeing the ring? I think this may be related to the power substitution that it's doing for the versions of AS with and without the windup. The hidden version does not have the orange ring, so if it's still recharging it might not show up.