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I suspect that one just slipped through the cracks, since defense strength buffs are fairly rare outside of PB/PBU itself.

I think we can safely say that it wasn't the motivation for the HO change, however. That particular problem has a much simpler fix, and it wouldn't surprise me if we found in a future patch that the Defense part of PB/PBU was flagged to ignore enhancements and buffs just like Damage and Resistance buffs are.

^^^

I *WISH* clicking the glowies made them spawn more / faster... Then the last part wouldn't be so boring.

Haha, you beat me to it.

At the very least it needs a slow component in the AoE to keep bosses from simply walking right out of it. Even that is problematic when it comes to Warwolves that are nigh immune to both slows and immobilize.

Synapse, instead of a pseudopet, have you tried a toggle that grants a power to enemies which causes them to phase/intangible themselves? The activation period and grant power effect would need to have a duration longer than the maximum amount of time the toggle can stay on. I think it should work (i.e. the power gets revoked when the toggle drops), but of course can't promise that and it would require testing.

The underlined part is not true. I tested it, and was able to phase a Giant Monster with Dimension Shift. The mag 3 intangible didn't affect it, which meant that it didn't get the visual effect, the "Dimension Shift" orange text, or the hint to the AI that it couldn't attack me. But when it tried, it did no damage and was not able to affect me.

Nothing except for trial bosses and a few objects with special-case powers has any phase protection whatsoever.

The problem of course is that Eochai also wasn't affected by the immobilize, and happily waltzed right through the field and after me.

It's definitely not autohit. When I did my testing vs. Eochai I saw several hit rolls in my pet channel, and some of them missed. It looks like the pulses have a normal hit chance, and if they miss a target it'll unphase until the next pulse (approx 1.75 seconds later).

So better slot for accuracy still...

Umm, ours already does.

When you start an Incarnate trial and leave the league open for people to join, you get Warmth of Prometheus applied, which gives everyone in the league +7.5% damage, healing, and recharge.

The Master Lambda teams I've been on usually leave the league open just for this, to get the extra damage.

You also get an extra astral merit I think. I don't know if you still get it if the league is at max size. You may, which kind of defeats the purpose, but I deliberately avoid league leaders who sit there for 10 minutes waiting to fill spot #24 rather than just hitting 'Go' with 20-23.

Based on how it's implemented, I don't think it will work in Mind Link (i.e. only the defense part will be enhanced by Membranes). All of the HO effects were tagged with the enhancement type, not just the defense ones.

Which is a little annoying since IOs do work there, and will continue to.

Combat mods (aka the Purple Patch) are not related to resistance. They're a separate calculation and even unresistable effects are modified by them.

There is a flag for whether or not a particular effect applies combat modifiers, however it's extremely rare for a player power to not have it set, excepting summons and buffs to self. I checked Flash Arrow and it is set to be affected by combat modifiers.

This should be fairly easy to verify in-game with a power analyzer and a higher level enemy.

I suspect that one of the reasons the debuff in Flash Arrow is so low is because the power doesn't aggro enemies. Personally I'd rather it be set to notify and have a bigger debuff than be able to use it as a poor man's stealth, but that's just my opinion.

That's correct, each of the HO's effects are now strictly limited to powers that accept that type of enhancement.

I think everybody's too busy playing with the beta to be reading the forums.

For reference, the new Dimension Shift summons two psuedopets, one stays in the caster's phase, and one phases along with the targets in order to pulse there and keep them phased.

Last I heard drag-to-a-point (or reverse repel) is not currently possible and would require programming a new effect. Which means that it's not impossible, but I wouldn't expect to see it created just for a Gravity revamp. Perhaps if another (pay-for) powerset were being developed that used it, it might be justified, and could also be used for Gravity down the road...

Right, I meant if that didn't work

I don't know if simplistic terms exist as it gets into some of the more obscure details of how the engine works. Here's a 'quick' breakdown.

Intangible is treated like any other mez. Your character has an "Intangible" attribute that starts out at -1. Intangible effects add their magnitude to this attribute. If it gets pushed above 0, you're considered Intangible. As it's an attribute, you can have resistance to it, you can have strength buffs to it, and so on.

Phase is a special effect. These effects don't have an attribute associated with them, so you have no "state" of being in phase or not, other than the fact that you have a phase effect applied to your character. This also means there's no such thing as Phase Resistance, or Phase buffs. Phase does have a special parameter that tells the game which phase to put you in. So it's entirely possible that different powers put enemies in different phases that can't affect each other.

It also probably means that separate Phase effects don't add their magnitude together, though that depends on how the code that processes them is implemented. From the evidence I've seen so far, my current conjecture is that the Phase with the highest magnitude 'wins'. If two have the same magnitude, it may be possible to be in two phases at once. Dimension Shift for example has two mag 3 phase effects -- one for "Phased" and one for "NoPrime".

Phase does have a magnitude. Every effect has both a magnitude and duration, it's part of the design of the engine. For damage effects, the magnitude is the amount of damage. While it's true that some effects don't use the magnitude for anything, I believe that Phase does, since different powers that use Phase have different magnitudes.

Trial Bosses and the Crates/Containers have a high-magnitude (9001) power that forces them into a specific phase, that's why DS/Black Hole don't work on them.

Maybe on Doms. I've seen more Controllers using it in PvE, probably because with a support set to fill in the gaps, the shortcomings of Gravity are less of an issue.

*cough* PowerRedirect *cough*

(the upcoming valentines event arrows do exactly this, with different target types and effect types based on if your target is friendly or not)

They sent him in first for veng bait.

[Local] manticore.: hahaha, he actually went!

Yes, you do. And since you have to be a VIP to unlock those anyway, the solution is simple, unlock 1/3 of it each month.

It was in the build, but was not in the official patch notes.

Not sure if it was just an oversight or if they were trying to stealth it in somehow (odd thing to do it on though).

It's a ground-targeted power that is also a toggle.

Yes, no powers currently do that, but there's no reason AFAIK why it wouldn't work.

(though technically the toggle vanity pets are also, they're not AoE though)

Beta seems more like the test server these days than an actual beta.

Which is fine if it is, just somewhat mislabeled. My guess is that it's easier to publish to or something. I'm not sure if Test has ever been fully fixed with regard to the store and account data post-Freedom.