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Quote:...Basically, this is going to be a new issue where I have to spend more time in MIDS than in game. At least with inherent fitness I just had 3 extra power picks that I could choose blindly, since my builds were optimized without them.Originally Posted by Agent White
Yeah seems that way, there's stuff they still haven't told us about. And all the legitimately new stuff too.
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Quote:...Psychic Wail has no Crash. And Banes are melee so 40' is fine.Originally Posted by GuyPerfect
Kheldians and VEATs aren't seeing the blast improvements (Poisonous Ray isn't becoming 80 feet, Psychic Wail isn't becoming crashless), so I'd say wait on the customization as well.
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Quote:*Facepalm*Originally Posted by Android_5Point9
Yep. Answer is "nope."
...Maybe it's time for a break. I DID just buy the ME3 Strategy Guide last week... -
...Did anyone ask if Kheldians and VEATs were getting customization?
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Still holding out hope for some new alphas - my Defense based characters are positively BLEEDING endurance as it stands.
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Quote:I actually don't remember ever getting something in addition to the new SSA. Two months between installments doesn't make sense, since I thought the month off was to try to build up a buffer to allow monthly installments. ...Then again, I haven't played SSA 2.1 yet, so I guess it's all the same to me.Originally Posted by Doctor Roswell
Just going from memory again, but I swear that a week after another powerset (Beasts?) was released, there was at least one thread about "why is the new SSA installment the ONLY new thing on the market this week? I get that automatically as a VIP!"
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Quote:Same way players farmed PVPIO recipes - get a bunch of freebie accounts and get the characters (opposite morality to you ) to level 15 - then kill them for easy credit. Shouldn't take more than a few hours - though you'll probably have to bring them back from the hospital since self rezzes aren't till 26/35.Originally Posted by Ultimus
Ok I got the Arena badges... what about the PVP rep one? Any suggestion?
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I haven't gone through XKCD's archives for the same reason I haven't cracked 200 Misfiles yet - there's a LOT to work through. And I can barely keep up with the OTHER 300 comics I'm subscribed too (I'd link my Webcomic list, but there's some NSFW stuff there). I find XKCD amusing as long as I got enough sleep to follow the train of thought.
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Quote:Do it. I have an Ill/Time and it is AWESOME. I also threw most other procs (Neuronic, Impeded Swiftness, Ghost Widow's Embrace, Unbreakable Constraint) to allow it to pump out damage as well.Originally Posted by Power Armour
Lockdown is for hold sets, Living Shadows is an immobilise, but I have thought about putting it into Distortion Field.
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Quote:I noticed that slotting the controller ATO proc worked out to about the same as the Neuronic Shutdown proc it replaced. Considering Synapse said that the AoE formula IS being changed for the better I'm going to wait until i24 hits the Beta Server before I decide what to do.Originally Posted by Cheetatron
D field is a bad place to put that proc it will account as if its a 10 sec AOE which PPMs are aweful in
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Quote:...Then why don't we have more insanity Apex/Tin Mages if their builds are so powerful? Surely their godhood wouldn't crumble to nothing by unslotting their alpha, right?Originally Posted by Grendar
It's all about the bragging rights. If the game let players run at +10/x24 you know some players would be trying to find builds that let them pull it off, even if it scaled the rewards so you got the same exp and drops as you would from +4/x8. It's the same reason people try to solo GM's and AV's, even though with how long it takes you could have rounded up a few people, killed the monster, and done two more missions. Just bragging rights.
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Quote:It's a ''Does not stack from same caster'' deal - my Fire/Ice Tanker can and HAS double stacked Ice Patch and knocked enemies across the room.Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex
There's an oddity with Ice Slick vs Bonfire I hadnt thought of until just now.
Knockdown is weird. At least based on the visuals, there is a period after a knockdown where the enemy is immune to another knock. What this means for Ice Slick is that although it has a ~57% chance to knockdown a standing opponent, opponents who slip and fall have a lowered chance to fall again, because they are immune to some of the knock pulses while they are down.
If that period of immunity is one second (thats the value I've tended to assume in the past), then Ice Slick's actual knock rate over time is reduced by about 30% (I'm too lazy to compute it exactly), to right around 40% total.
Bonfire avoids this issue entirely. Because of the timing of the knockdown, the enemy is never immune to the next pulse. Its full rate of knockdown is always in effect, unlike any patch that ticks faster.
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Quote:With Lockdown 6 slotted in Soul Storm (Fixed) that's 75.51% Recharge time (Level 30 enhancements), which works out to around an 85% Proc rate. This means that I have to stick with my Nerve Alpha Ability, since the only other +Defense option has recharge. Yet again, the ONLY reason I ever used this power was A) Green Phase on Hamidon Raids, and B) Shutting down a boss momentarily. Since the second one is no longer reliable, I'll simply move the power out of standard rotation. It still means I'm going to dissect the character for the THIRD time since Rolling him to try and make him work.Originally Posted by Hopeling
The current SBE Lockdown proc is 2 PPM, which will become 2.5 PPM under i24 rules, which means it will have a capped (90%) proc chance in any power with a cycle time of at least 21.6 seconds. Char is the fastest-activating stalker epic pool hold, at 1.07s, so you need its recharge to be no less than 20.53s (counting only slotted recharge). With a 32s base recharge, that means slotting no more than 56% recharge into the power. This is not an impossible constraint. The other epic holds have slightly longer activations, and could thus slot slightly more recharge while still having a 90% chance. Soul Storm, at 2.17s, is the slowest, and could slot up to 64.7% recharge while still having a 90% proc chance.
Now, granted, 90% is significantly less reliable than 100%, but it's still pretty reliable.
Or I could just cut my losses like I did with my CEBR (Transferred to another server, never to be used again) and my Beam Rifle toon (who is being prepped for PVP on Freedom). I just don't have FUN with him anymore, and since the stealth proc is worthless to me if I can't rely on it (Fun fact, if you have a Stealth Proc/Stealth effect OTHER than hide on, you can't actually SEE the proc go off so you have to scour the healing delivered channel - and by the time I see that I'm hidden I've already been hit about 75% of the time, Soft-capped or no).
And I'm saying it right now - the Recharge Build Up Proc is a slap in the face to me. Yes, I said it - it's completely, utterly worthless since my Build up is ALWAYS recharged. -
Quote:Uh. I had a set of lockdown BEFORE the SBE became available. I was fine with a 15% proc rate but I was given the impression that Lockdown firing guaranteed in a patron hold was WAI so I bought an enhancement from the store (and this was the ONLY one I bought) so I could use it to lockdown a boss, which I only did if I was fighting two of them.Originally Posted by dugfromthearth
if your build lives or dies by 2 enhancements, they were clearly overpowered
And the stalker ATO required a MASSIVE investment of resources to cycle Build Up every 10 seconds, a huge amount of endurance management and not particularly stellar ST Damage. It also required a COMPLETE reworking of my build/playstyle, and in the end I was only barely able to keep up with Brutes and Scrappers on incarnate Trials, while having less survivability than either. -
Quote:...It's a 10% chance of a stun for like 6 seconds. The only character who slotted it for stun was my dominator, and he threw the Absolute Amazement set in it for MOAR RECHARGE. He promptly removed Boxing from his tray.Originally Posted by Kirsten
I have a Blaster that makes extensive use of it, largely for extra stun potential.
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Quote:In all honesty the change to Lockdown means that my Proc will drop to around 60% fire rate, at which point I have wasted 3 dollars on an enhancement that is actually worse than the enhancement I replaced it with (A Level 30 Lockdown Proc). And I can't even use the Devastation proc without needing to retool my ENTIRE build. Between this, the change to the Stalker Stealth Proc, and the new Proc being utterly worthless, I'm basically 50/50 on whether I'm going to keep my character or not.Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
I'd love to hear some examples of how that will be 'huge.'
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Quote:...You guys DO realize that enemies with level shifts have the same rewards as those without shifts, right? Taking down Siege (54) and Shadowhunter (54+3) give the same rewards. So it's basically asking to fight for the sake of throwing yourself against a more dramatic purple-patch encounter. We'd get the same results with a reverse Ultimate that can be stacked at will.Originally Posted by Stone Daemon
Now there's an idea. Call it Incarnate difficulty, or perhaps Pandora's Outbreak, and add additional levels of difficulty in which the enemies get level shifts.
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Marianas Drench - Water/Cold Corr.
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Quote:You're not SUPPOSED to be able to, but that 12 days of Coralax event had one batch where the NC site crashed - I was in the habit of submitting two or three codes to hedge my bets (hadn't worked prior), and when I inputted them the server crashed from around 200 people trying to input at once - when it came back up I had 3 codes applied to my account. I only get one power though.Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven
Also, I don't think you CAN apply two codes for the same thing.
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What were the codes even for? I can't remember.
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Quote:...You're saying you can/will be able to farm 54x8 Knives of Vengeance with the same level of mind-numbing boredom I get farming Council Empire at 50x8? (Trick Question - I turn it into a Time Attack so I'm not bored) What build are you using? ...You know, just curious.Originally Posted by Little_Whorn
Is the difficulty too easy? Should it change and if so, how?
Personally, I hope they let us up the difficulty past +4 or something like that. With incarnate levels, we're already maxed out fighting mere +1s in Dark Astoria. I'm all for more difficult factions such as those in Night Ward, but implementing more difficult challenges in this way limits what enemy groups we can sink our teeth into, further relegating old enemy factions to "Council" status (i.e. good for farming, but not any challenge for most). -
Quote:But I can't WAIT for i24 to hit the beta server to see what the devs forget to disable this time! A new powerset? A new [Redacted]? The Powerset and [Redacted] that they slipped last time? Super Packs 3? Instant level 50s?! Mind? T5 Incarnate abilities?Originally Posted by Agent White
Seriously. i24 is the LEAST of my anticipation right now. Also if we could get a hint as to the next T9 VIP set so I can AGONIZE over it not being released every 3 months. -
Quote:I scrimped and saved for my first two 50s. Never. Again. *TwinkTwinkTwinkTwinkTwink* Heck, I've been farming like crazy to fill my upcoming Doctored Wounds needs! (Water/Cold Corr, Something/Bio Something, and Plant/Nature Controller... that's... 8 sets? Maybe 9?)Originally Posted by Tenzhi
I could go all the way to 50 without ever getting a recipe that would readily sell at the AH, much less sell for a significant amount of Inf. I drop all salvage that will readily sell for at least as much as I'd get from a vendor plus the AH fee at the AH, the stuff that won't readily sell goes to the vendor - which is most of it. At higher levels I find that the largest amount of steady income I get comes from vending all the basic IO recipes I get.
Generally speaking, this doesn't get me enough to fully slot out a character with IOs. When I'm really lucky I might get enough to slot one power - or just one slot depending on the IO. Of course, depending on the set I'm looking for, several pieces of it might be practically non-existent on the Market, which is yet another impediment to the process.
And at that point, there's still the part where I have to go about crafting the IOs in question, which is not "natural" gameplay for me any way I look at it. Unless I spend (what is usually, IME) a bit extra and buy already-crafted IOs. -
Quote:I skipped Dreadful Wail cause it meant my toggles dropped. Also there was Fallout. I'll probably fit it in at some point.Originally Posted by Shadowblaze
Yeah, was gonna say, I think this buffs Cors and Defs more than Blasters. Always felt uneasy about using a crashing nuke when I had buffing/debuffing/healing responsibilities lol.
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Quote:...I would've thought it would be one half OnDemand and one half live broadcasts?Originally Posted by Lazarillo
Isn't Twitch.TV essentially already a "channel"?