Codewalker

Standard code rant definitely applies, as positional resistance would require a complete overhaul of how combat works in general.

The reason is that resistance isn't implemented as a separate attribute. It's a modifier for other attributes. By the time resistance kicks in, the game has already decided what you're going to be affected by and which attribute is going to be touched. It can either be a damage type (Lethal, Energy, Psi, Toxic, one of the exotic types, etc), or a buff or debuff like a modifier like your defense values, endurance, regen, mez status, etc. You can technically have resistance to Fury or other oddball things, but there's no reason for anything to give you that.

I don't think the attack type is even remembered anymore by the time individual effects are being applied.

Changing that would require changing the way every power in the game works :-/

Ah, a challenge!

count | attacktypes
176 | AOE, Psionic
5 | AOE, Smashing, Psionic
4 | Melee, Lethal, Psionic
35 | Melee, Psionic
4 | Melee, Psionic, Negative_Energy
5 | Melee, Smashing, Psionic
162 | Psionic
1 | Ranged, Lethal, Psionic
263 | Ranged, Psionic
50 | Ranged, Smashing, Psionic

Well, let's see what we're dealing with here...

Carnies
Circle of Thorns
Council
Rikti
Tsoo
PPD
Snakes

... Dollface... Oh, wait.

And of course plenty of signature characters and AVs.

Overall though, most enemies that have access to those typically only have one or at most two, and the damage usually isn't too bad, so keeping some purple insps around is a perfectly viable solution.

That's the point I was trying to make above.

The login cookie for the forums is only good for the forums -- it can't be used to access my CoH account or my NCSoft master account. It's a hash created by vBulletin and does not contain your password. The rest of the NCSoft Empire doesn't recognize it as a valid login.

By not maintaining the session, they're forcing me to constantly re-enter my game account password, putting it at risk of being captured by malware or a man-in-the-middle attack. That password can potentially be used to gain access to my billing info.

The only way staying logged in is a risk is if they create some addon for the forums to let you manage your account through it, which I don't see happening for a variety of reasons.

I was wondering as to the motivation.

But to play devil's advocate to your devil's advocate...

Is retyping my account password every 8 hours into a browser that could possibly be compromised by malware and re-sending it across the network more or less secure than using a cookie with an ID token to keep me logged in forever?

If somebody steals my session, what's the worst they can do? Troll the forums and get me banned? Copy my characters to the test server?

Just as a shortcut to be invisible, since their perception drops dramatically once you outlevel them. They should still aggro when notified, just like if you run through Atlas Park with a debuff aura running, or miss one with an attack.

Since you have high stealth, a normal mission should be fine. Preferably against council or something that doesn't have any mobs with extra perception / ignore stealth.

I have a couple ideas that may be able to tell if it's that or something else, will test tonight. If it really is the Fury check that's causing it, IMO that's a bug. The power has no effect on the critters it targets; it should not be set to notify them.

I kind of think I've used Recall Friend on one before, just for kicks. They do tend to move reeeeaaallly sloooooow when they're not charging an enemy.

Has anyone tested that by standing next to some gray mobs for > 10 seconds?

It's set to notify, but all of the effects are on Self, so it may not affect the targets at all.

The DoT stacks up to 8 times; the -MaxHP debuff stacks up to 4.

It *should* proc off pet attacks as well, if it doesn't then /bug it.

And also whether or not source.owner> can be used in mag expressions or not. I'd assume it uses the same evaluator as it does for Requires, but until we actually see it used there's no guarantee. Even if it does, it could still be accomplished with separate pets. There's often many ways to skin cats with the powers system... *blinks, looks at Siolfir's avatar* Errr, no offense.

But yes, you're right that power redirection would be completely redundant to use in this case. It's only necessary if the base attributes of the power need to be different, as the effects themselves already have quite a lot of things that can be done conditionally.

Strange you were told that, since AFAICT that's exactly what Defender Vigilance does for the damage buff, once per second.

I have no doubt that it checks all entities in its range (0 = infinite?), but it apparently isn't that much of a performance hit.

The power itself also has an extra flag set on it to tell the game that the power uses redirection and it needs to check the effects before activating the power. It's possible that other attributes of the power may be able to be changed on the fly that way also, such as endurance cost, range, target type (actually I know for a fact this one is possible -- look for a temp power in the spring that can be used on friend or foe and has different effects), or possibly even the icon, but how exactly the engine handles it is still unknown.

City of Data doesn't (yet) handle PowerRedirect completely correct -- on the linked page it uses the wrong modifier tables for damage numbers for instance. In the future it will show a dropdown box to allow you to select the different verisons of the power and view them in place.

It would be quite possible to do it that way, but it's not even necessary anymore. At some point pets grew the capability to reference properties of their owner. See the implementation of Spring Attack which uses this to simulate AT modifiers despite being a pseudopet.

In theory, even chain-pets like Electric Control uses could pass along the information that way. They'd just need an autopower with an effect that used a magnitude expression:

(source.owner.kStealth) Stealth on Self for 10s [Replace stacking mode]

To set their own Stealth value equal to that of their creator. The only catch is that the psuedopet would have to be designed to outlive any other pets it spawned so that they could refer to their owner to find out if Domination was active, but with a long enough activate period that would be doable. All without having to create a jillion different pets.

Store bought enhancements aren't technically IOs, and do not require VIP status or an Invention license to use.

This is working as intended and has been confirmed by a red name post. Can't find the reference at the moment but I'm fairly sure it was one of the community team responding to a question about them.

Fairly sure the suppression is gone, the wiki entry lists it under "Historical" and the linked post talks about it being gone.

Also, City of Data doesn't show anything on the power that should cause it to suppress.

Minor correction, the effect lasts 8.3 seconds, but the power itself only lasts for 8 seconds (see Lifetime in-game, just above Number Allowed on the left).

The effect goes away when the power does -- typically effect durations are set slightly longer than the power duration or refresh for powers that have them, to ensure there isn't a gap between re-applications.