Codewalker

Well, Link minds is unaffected by outside buffs, so PBU won't have any effect on it, if that changes your plans at all.

Those aren't IOs either.

Heh, I guess it kind of makes sense that you'd be able to command ghosts while "dead".

Honestly I think the best way to look at those enhancements is to completely forget that PPM stands for "Proc per minute". Because that's not what it's there for. IMO the design shouldn't take recharge bonuses into account. PPM is more of a "roughly how much should this proc fire" measure, and based on Arbiter Hawk's other comments in that thread and some PMs I've exchanged with Synapse about them, that seems to be the design intent.

If you think about it, if the PPM calculator took recharge enhancement into account, then it would mean that the procs effectively ignore recharge, since their rate would go down the more recharge you slotted to compensate. This would make the procs that use PPM vastly inferior to crafted procs which do scale with recharge (the more you use a power, the better the odds it will go off in a given time frame).

The one big difference is of course AoE attacks. With crafted procs, the odds of a proc going off in any given activation dramatically increase in AOEs. PPM does some extra math so that they do not. I've done a bit of testing in this area (see the Dominator ATO thread) and while I still believe that it's not working right for unstackable self-effects, the rate seems about on par for things like damage procs.

That of course makes PPM-based procs inferior to crafted procs for AoE attacks, but they have a much higher proc rate in single-target attacks, probably to split the difference.

All of this of course doesn't apply to slotting in autopowers. For those, the PPM rating should be dead on for how often it actually goes off. I suspect setting Performance Shifter to 3PPM was a mistake.

No, the percent chance of the proc is simply calculated based on the recharge of the power you slot it into, as well as other factors like target cap, AoE size, etc.

"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence." - Debatable

The "entire Issue" was created by developers at Paragon Studios, located in Mountain View, CA. Their primary focus is City of Heroes. There are rumors of some other project in the works there, which may or may not be CoH-related, but most of the studio seems to be hard at work on CoH.

Billing is handled by NCSoft, whose primary interests are focused on several much bigger titles in the Korean market. It doesn't surprise me that we get the short end of the stick on billing issues. Unfortunately, the vet rewards and Paragon Rewards system that replaced it is handled by Billing. The only thing the devs on this board can do about it is call their bosses and tell them that we're unhappy with the situation. Which I hope by now they've done.

The tables actually already exist for level 55, you can see some on paragon wiki. A hypothetical level 55 boss would have 2770.10 HP. But you're right in that no critters exist that are defined for level 55. I'm not really sure why, they just don't use it.

Level 56 on the other hand literally does not exist. Trying to spawn a level 56 enemy could do anything from simply fail to crashing the server.

It's possible that the consequences of doing that are either dire enough or unknown enough that setting up even a level 55 critter was deemed too high a risk. I could see something like the random +1 spawns that sometimes show up in missions unexpectedly trying to create a level 56 critter and causing Bad Things(TM).

I tend to disagree. I think the existing system works quite well from 1-49 in my experience. Sure, I can level solo if I want. However it goes so much faster on a team that there is a good incentive to do so. I find myself teamed most of the time that I play, either with friends or even with random PUGs.

The trick is not falling into the trap of thinking you need a full team or that you need specific ATs or powerset combinations. While it's true that I prefer to have a number of support (defender/controller/corruptor/mastermind) sets on a team, by no means is it necessary and I'll even run with a full team of selfish melee ATs from time to time. The content is easy enough that it's rarely an issue, and even PUGs who don't know how to play or people randomly going AFK isn't that detrimental.

It's the level 50 trials where this falls flat, however. A lot of times you do need a specific group, especially for the harder or more gimmicky ones. If it's a +3 level shifted trial, you had better preform a group with enough +3s or chances are you'll lose just because you can't do what you need to numerically. The same thing goes for trials like UG or MoM where you had better have enough people packing Clarion or otherwise prepared, or half the league will be perma-mezzed. The original Keyes design basically required healzors and/or lots of Rebirth. The LFG tool certainly isn't going to do a "gear check" for you. That trains most people to avoid using it, for any content.

The one time I've used the tool to join a trial outside of a preformed group was right after the first trials went live. After a long wait, it tossed 8 people into a Lambda, mostly scrappers and blasters, maybe a brute and a VEAT. No support, no control. Plus nobody had ever done it before and had no idea what to do. We stood there for a minute and the team dissolved before even pulling a single group of IDF.

Well, the one really nice thing about global channels is that they are global, so you can see what's happening even across servers. That's really handy if you're playing a character on one server, but see a TF starting on another that you want to take a different one to.

So if something was introduced to try to reduce reliance on global channels for team finding, it would need to be cross-server at the least to come close to being able to replace them.

Do you allow use of the Pocket D or base teleporter?

I figure getting a teammate to grab a door mission in a shard zone and then mission teleporting is probably cheating so I won't include that.

Even that run isn't as bad as it used to be thanks to the black helicopter on the north side of the Longbow base. Doesn't really make a lick of sense for it to be there, but hey.

Also, I *know* I had a vigilante get either the purchasable or day job black market TP power and was able to use it while blueside. It doesn't work anymore so I'm not sure when or why it was changed.

Interesting, check out the French version of the announcement: