Codewalker

I'm not too happy that they spoiled this ahead of time. I mean, I know Zwillinger said that it will be worth playing the arc just to find out how her legs get cut off, and why only her legs attend the funeral and not the rest of her body, but it just takes away from the surprise of playing the arc the first time...

I don't think anyone is saying that it's not Praetorian Penny in the MoM trial. The Praetorian version is also a bit crazy still, and has her hands full between Metronome and the Resistance.

It's not unprecedented for Primal and Praetorian characters to have very similar costumes, sometimes being effectively palette-swaps of each other.

Oh, hello, mmorpg.com interview:

Nah, it's primal. Liberty even references the "years since the events in faultline".

Statesman is dead but he's still standing in IP handing out his task force.

Either he's just really dedicated to his job, or they haven't had time to implement all the changes yet.

A stubborn ghost.

AFAIK she's not a member of the Phalanx or the Vindicators though.

Maybe she's in the Independents with BAB.

Numina's not really dead, she's an astral projection who managed to lose her body.

Plus, she actually does things rather than just hanging around Eden moping all the time. :P

I don't count Woodsman since he's dead and all. Maybe he's hanging around but only to start Eden trials...

Infernal?

This. She was hinted as being "grown up" in Ms. Liberty's dialog from SSA#4, and also as fairly well connected -- she knew about Malaise and wanted to be involved in the efforts.

I have a feeling that she'll have a part to play in the rest of this particular arc, and maybe more.

Most likely it's hardcoded into the script that spawns that mission, which is something we can't do with MA.

The instance stays populated and "running" as long as you have the mission active. Time may freeze if no one is inside -- this is difficult to verify however as enemies tend to simply not attack allied NPCs when no players are around. It doesn't actually despawn the instance until you abandon the mission or log out for a certain amount of time.

Maybe. I don't know if spawn points can actually be created dynamically. It might be limited to picking from spawn points that already exist in the map (which would still be much better than having it be random).

Even if it were possible I doubt we'd get it, as entering coordinates by hand is a very user-unfriendly way to place things.

This, along with all the quotes above about using Storm powers, just goes to show how much controllers get shafted on Incarnate trials. Think about it, the answer to "What do I do in trials?" is consistently "Use your secondary".

What does that say about the primary powers?

Okay, so that's not completely true. Controllers are useful against the regular spawns in trials that have them. They're probably most useful in Underground due to the sheer length and number of enemies.

However, a significant amount of time in all iTrials is spent fighting AVs that are completely immune to all control effects -- i.e. your entire primary powerset. They're also immune to recharge debuffs, which is unfair to Ice-based powersets, but that's another matter.

BAF is worse due to one of the phases having Lieutenants that are highly resistant to controls. Contrary to popular belief, they're not immune, and can be overcome if you manage to stack a mag 50 hold or stun on them. However, it's much easier to just kill them, and BAF is so easy in general that it hardly matters. So again, use your secondary!

BAF also has adds that ambush you during the AV fights. You might think that Controllers would be useful there, except that the adds are designed to get a stacking buff. If you just control them and don't kill them, they'll eventually break free and overwhelm everyone.

It's bad enough that in Issue 22, Controllers are being given automatic Containment on trial bosses. So yay, more damage, but really it's just a band aid for the fact that the devs have absolutely no idea how to balance Controllers in endgame content.

Dominators, you're in the same boat. You have attacks, and damage is the best thing you have to offer in an Incarnate trial, so the message is clear: use your secondary.

The answer is: it depends.
SOs, including the Cosmic Ray exposure you had in your screenshot, do increase both Terrorized and Afraid. So do generic Fear IOs.
Endoplasms and Peroxisomes also increase Afraid and Terrorized.
So that means the enhancement window is wrong when it doesn't show it increasing anything.

Set IOs on the other hand (Horror, Unspeakable Terror, Nightmare, and Glimpse of the Abyss) only increase Terrorized. So those really will do nothing when slotted in Arctic Air, except for the endurance part.

Not really sure what the intent is, but it's definitely going on the "power system oddities" list.

I've never seen enemies cower while in Arctic Air unless affected by someone else's Terrorize. Maybe they were confused either feared each other or just played a similar animation?

As far as I can recall it's always been Afraid -- which just makes them run away; it's the same effect that Hot Feet has in it. I made my first Ice dom around Issue 11-ish I think, so it's possible it might have been different before then. It was definitely before the purple bubbles were added. It was also before the bug causing Contagious Confusion in AA to confuse your pets was fixed. Since the IO itself was added in I11 that sounds about right.

It should work. The server knows where the enemies are, so it doesn't matter if you can see them or not. Pretty sure that autohit debuff auras on Tankers will pull stalkers out of hide, though they may have added a specific workaround for that one. I know blindly spamming PBAoEs works sometimes, it just misses a lot because most ATs with stealth have lots of AoE defense. My PVP experience is almost all pre-I13 however, so I have no idea if any of that still applies.

*snicker*

Resolve is right, there's more PVP in the market and on the forums than there is in the zones.

Especially since it's part 5 and people weren't really expecting it until part 7.

Grrr, why'd they have to spoil it? Probably still would have heard about it on forums / global channels before I got a chance to play it, but still.

R.I.P.

I thought it was the Praetorian Malaise who was in the high-level missions? Or are there some others?

You have the support pet, which means that you have either one of the Radial T3s, or the Partial Core T3.

Core T4 doesn't have Hurricane. Radial T4 does.