Dechs Kaison

None of this is beta testing, this is simply server upgrades.

The past few unexpected outages are most likely due to the high volume of players that only comes with a live environment. If enough of us would have participated in the Beta, they could have anticipated these issues.

Someone has to be inconvenienced more than others. No one someone is more important than another, but the largest group of someones is.

Therefore, it sucks to be in the *** end of the world.

Perhaps I wasn't clear. According to my "experts" (friends), I did expect you to win that matchup, thus why your match is one of the upsets. Unfortunately, people get hurt, and Clockwork gets lucky.

As far as the influence bets go, I'm still accepting them. If the email or PM is dated by midnight tonight (and I'll even give you 'till Pacific time), I'll accept it.

Well, I won't argue that Praetorian enemy groups are more difficult than the garden variety Skulls, Outcasts and Mooks we fight on the Primal side.

I'm just sure it's not due to base tohit values. I ninja-edited my previous post to mention that some goldside groups (Resistance comes to mind) do have +tohit powers.

DE doesn't show in tip missions until the high level ones when we have the powers to deal with them anyway. I won't complain here since the softcap is so easy to reach. It's inconsistent with other groups, yes, but I think the proper correction would be to bring the others up.

Are you absolutely sure about this? I was sure that only the Preatorians in iTrials have that value of base accuracy.

Now, tohit buffs seem to be common enough amongst some of the enemy groups, particularly Resistance, but I am very sure their base accuracy is not any higher than normal.

*Quickly registers 50 forum accounts who all happen to share the same bank account# and sends PMs.

Dude, that's exactly what we...


Ohhhhhhh.

Kin's Increase Density does not apply mez protection in an AoE. It only grants the S/L resistance. This is why CM is not AoE.

Asking for Fortitude or AB to get the same AoE treatment completely destroys their balance. Fortitude and AB were never meant to be placed on a whole team at once. Fortitude's duration and recharge time are drastically different proportions than Force Fields and the other former single target buffs.

My mistake. I haven't ever done it myself. I know friends who claim to have reached capped DDR and I've seen cited many times that it is possible.

I'm going to defer to your findings here.

Indeed it is. The difference between 90% and 95% will be hard to notice because, at 90%, most things can't debuff you already.

Ah-HA! Now I can pester you in game.

Are you seriously going to argue that the core powers I listed in the two examples you provided are not worth using? Rage? Lightning Reflexes? The damage aura? The makings of an attack chain?

I have not addressed exemplaring at all. I have only been talking about a simple pair of statements about where the majority of "useful" powers lie in the level progression.


This issue is your inability to read words.

No no no, you're bringing a different argument around here. I simply replied to a statement that said "the majority of powers worth using are after 25."

I can see you're done here.

And that is not a point I even attempted to refute.

Then let's play with your examples. That SS/ELA brute relies on at least Rage, KO Blow, Haymaker, Charged Armor, Lightning Field, Conductive Field, and Lightning Reflexes. That's a majority of the powers mentioned so far.

Ice/Cold Corruptor: I'll bet he makes heavy use of Ice Blast, Frost Breath, Aim, Freeze Ray, Ice Storm, Bitter Ice Blast, Infrigerdate, Snow Storm, and Arctic Fog. Again, I've listed a majority of the powers mentioned so far.

Nice try. Would you like to keep playing?

That's what I just said. Your opinion isn't wrong, I agree. The reasoning you used to reach that opinion, however, is flawed.

No where have I mentioned my sense of fun. In discussion with you, I haven't even mentioned my preference to exemplaring.

I am simply saying that 1) the "vast majority of powers" are not granted to you above level 25 and 2) the majority of "powers worth using" are likewise not granted to you above level 25.

You don't have fun exemplaring, that much is obvious. I can't argue with fun. What I can point out, however, that your reasoning is flawed.

Incorrect. I'm pointing out obvious flaws in the logic used to justify his opinion.

Again, please don't twist my words. I'm not belittling anyone for the opinion. I'm pointing out terribly flawed logic and incorrect statements.

I don't know which one you're thinking about, but you did remind me of another. Whatever the SG raid you did to get an Item of Power was, it had an "end of mission bonus" when you turned in the mission at the computer. Someone realized that you could keep talking to the computer and keep gaining the end of mission bonus indefinitely. Infinite XP, inf, prestige, you name it.

Oh shi-

Mids on Monday? I think not!

Oh sure, because Fire Blasters only use their snipe and Inferno.

Or did you mean the tanks that only take a self revival and godmode power?

Or the brutes/scrappers only survive based off of the last three powers of their secondary?

Do you even realize what you're saying?

Vast majority, eh?

Exemplared to level 20, you have all the powers up to 25. That's half the level progression, and the levels after 30 don't even give you as many powers/level.

You have more than half your powers exemplared to level 20.

Oh $deity, this is some Grade A stuffs right here. I hope somebody does try this and I get to hear the tale.