Derangedpolygot
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Patron Pool Customization....yeah not impossible, but apparently not going to happen regardless...
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Likely no patch, just maintenance before the holidays. I imagine none will be done between tomorrow and New Year's.
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Quote:Mine has been 2. no joke. Two.Originally Posted by DocArcus
huh... I get nice about 50% of the time. The longest streak of nice I got was 16 presents. I've never gotten that many naughty in a row though. -
So far, it's been like this:
Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Nice, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Nice, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Nice, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Nice, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Nice, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Nice, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty, Naughty...
I think a strikebreaker might be, well, nice...
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Quote:The AFK bubble isn't the same as your chat bubble. As far as I know, you can't mess with the color.Originally Posted by Fairy_Heal
What if you want to ADD color to your chat bubble & change the size of the font of your chat when its above your head?
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One of our co-founders is at 1396...*sigh*
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I go for Concept most of the time. Sometimes the combo comes first, and concept later. I never make a 'flavor of the month' intentionally. I usually find out after I've made and played for awhile.
Blaster:
Energy/Energy
Elec/Devices
Arch/MM
Fire/MM
Defender:
Kin/Rad
Sonic/Sonic
Kin/Elec
Controller:
Grav/FF
Ill/Emp
Tanker:
SS/Inv
DB/WP (reroll of a Kat/Regen Scrapper)
Stone/Elec
Scrapper:
Kat/Regen
MA/SR
BS/Shield
Corruptor:
Ice/Storm
Sonic/Sonic
Dominator:
Psi/Psi
Brute:
SS/Inv
Elec/Elec
Stalker:
Claws/Nin
Mastermind:
Bot/Traps
Thugs/Poison
Bots/Pain Dom -
The answer I remember the devs saying was server stability. The servers can only handle so much speed with full 3-D movement.
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On exception of note are healing powers that grant a duration of Damage resistance:
Reconstruction (Toxic Res)
Healing Flames (Toxic Res)
Earth's Embrace (also Toxic Res)
etc.
Such powers do not benefit from the healing set bonuses. Why? no idea. -
As it has been from the beginning:
You can make your own original Superhero. No other video game before allowed for this. You'd play Superman, Spiderman, Hulk, or (God forbid) Aquaman. -
Quote:Def buff does indeed enhance the DDR(at least the Combat Attributes reflect it). Also, recharge enh will buff Recharge Debuff Resistance!Originally Posted by Sailboat
My Shielder is taking Grant Cover for the defense debuff resistance. Any reason to slot more than the default slot? I put a def buff IO into it and it did not appear to increase DDR at all.
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How does this affect set bonuses?
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Quote:With Fire and Machines, perhaps a blacksmith type of character--someone who forges steel. Perhaps the powers are shared by multiple people share the technology of the traps(Science Origin applies to Fire/ , but the /Traps are Tech?), and they share the villain name (as it's the name Dread Priate Roberts that invokes fear)Originally Posted by Rothb
Hi everyone. Normally when I make a character I make it because I have a concept in mind, this time is difference. I am going to make myself a fire/traps corruptor and I'm lacking concept. I'm really wanting to use the science booster pack (changing sex/body shape from different costumes) and the whole science stuff fits good with traps imo. So, please, any ideas of a good concept? If you've got a name for it, I'd love to hear that as well, but if I don't hear anything superb I won't have trouble picking a name for it, when I've gotten the concept. So please! Fire/traps corruptor, with different bodyforms.
Another possibility to use different body types is a shapeshifter. One who "forges" their own body into new forms as needed. -
Quote:As I understand, Procs in an Aura powers are tough to fire. They only roll when the aura is interacted with by an enemy(I could be wrong about this), and then only every ten seconds of interaction.Originally Posted by Noyjitat
I had this on my ss/inv tanker and figured I would give it a whirl on my ma/inv scrapper that I recently rolled. But it appears to not be procing anymore.
To test I setup up tab for healing delivered and I'm monitoring my damage bonus and to hit bonus but it does not appear to work. To further test this, I tried just standing in a large group of enemies and its like it just doesn't work anymore.
I do find that when I logon other characters that have it slotted in targetting drone and tactics that it still works. Now I can't really comment on if I'm having this issue or not on my tanker as well since I haven't played it in a long time but it does appear to not be working on a scrapper.
Did they change the way the io works in this toggle? Or is it just outright broken / bugged?
Another thing is the Chance for Build Up proc rarely ever fires at 5%. When I slot that proc, it is never for the proc effect itself. I only slot it to get the +2.5 positional def for the full set. -
I ran the arc, and received the badge at--I believe--the 3rd mission. I completed the arc for the merits(something like 26-29)
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Quote:I still check it out, quite expansive database for (I believe) one individual to update.Originally Posted by Aggelakis
http://www.redtomax.com/data/powers/ - however, it is out of date, so some of the numbers will be wrong.
It lacks the newest inventions sets and updates to them, but most all of the power sets. Only the newest changes to the Epic pools are missing. -
Quote:That is a fantastic idea.Originally Posted by EarthWyrm
I only have one character that I know for sure is going to change, and I can sum his reason up in two words:
Miss Francine.
A villain who is moved by her motives. Someone who gives the compassion so many villains never had the chance to receive.
As far as my villains go, RP reasons. Many will stay villains. Some will go renegade to spy on Paragon. Most of my new villains will run through Pretoria instead of the Rogue Isles.
I do have a couple heroes that might go Vigilante, but unlikely to go full villain. Granted the way pretoria runs that could change. Pretoria appears to turn Good and Evil on its ear. The Resistance is good but breaks the law, The Pretoria Regime is the law, but wicked. -
Quote:Khaaaannnn!!!!Originally Posted by Umbral
Not quite. Apparently BABs is experiencing some problems with his previously incredible solution, so he's retracted his statements on the matter. It's nice to know he's working on it. I'm kinda curious as to whether Castle is pushing him to find a resolution, or if the removal of redraw is going to require Castle to remove the redraw "bonus" (5% higher base accuracy) from weapon sets.
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Quote:Khaaaannnn!!!Originally Posted by backalleybrawler
head's up, i've had to retract my previous statement. I've run into a complete roadblock related to shields and weapons that makes this method i was using un-workable. So it's back to the drawing board with the whole thing.
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Quote:Spontaneous recharge/ That's a sign of a connection issue. powers will look recharged on your screen, but are not as far as the server is concerned. Happened a lot in the old Hamidon raid when the Hive was so full players would mapserve left and right.Originally Posted by Grey Pilgrim
Well, when it happens... it's quite long. More than 1.5 seconds, for instance, as a few of my powers recharged while this happened (and they take longer than 1.5 seconds to recharge).
Visually, it doesn't act like when the server or my connection gets laggy and jumps, either. Everything is perfectly smooth, I just won't fire while Held.
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Quote:I get murdered by them a few times before I take them down. 7-8 if I can't keep them split.Originally Posted by Lazarus
People actually find Kadabra Kill to be difficult?
Despite the "Hero" tag, he's hardly tougher than a Red-Con LT really. I've always found him and Sigil to be pushovers. -
The Backslash key pops open the menu.
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If you're going to take Focused Accuracy you should also make room for Physical Perfection. Extra End Recovery is never a bad thing(SR can be a tad End heavy too).
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Quote:Depends on the toon:Originally Posted by Post_Apocalypse
I've taken it once with a toon to see what it was like, and never again. Just like Sands alot better. Curious if anyone actually ever took it as their first choice because they liked it?
Dark toon? Sands.
Mostly Smashing damage? Axe for the Ghosts
Toon already uses a sword/axe/mace? Axe. Looks like a master of arms.
Hovering ranged blasty type? Axe for Ghosts that fly into melee range.
Strong concept that a funky axe would look stupid with? Sands.
Toon that would never pick up a weapon? Sands.
Despite this, Sands of Mu will make it into my tray as I use it more often. The Axe I bind to G should I need to activate it, and keep it out of the tray. -
Quote:The one change I was hoping for with the advent of IO's: Restoring HO's to the 50% enhancement they once had. IO sets could easily replace HO in strength plus the set bonuses. Also with ED, the 50% isn't quite as nasty as it once was.Originally Posted by BackAlleyBrawler
Probably a bit of both.
Here's some of the things that I wrote up that didn't didn't make the cut (good or bad, you decide):
- Splitting the reward up using the soon to be added invention system, so that you had to be there for the whole raid to get all of the components to make an HO of your choice. Idea here was to discourage people from just showing up at the end for the reward. That got axed long before the details could be hashed out
- Originally, the raid was designed to instance at 75 and cap at 100 players. That got lowered by programming to 40/50 for server performance reasons (particularly for Masterminds).
- Originally designed as a co-op raid, with both sides having access to The Hive. That got veto'd in lieu of impending Rikti War Zone/Invasions and stealing some of the co-op thunder from them. That in turn prompted The Abyss being built.
- Number of GMs needed to spawn Hami was much lower. The basic idea for this was that players could trigger a raid rather than waiting around for Hamidon's spawn timer. It also gave people something to do rather than waiting around for "minimum" number of raiders to show up.
- I don't believe Essence of the Earth (hambrosia) was my idea. I can't remember if that was added before or during beta. But that in turn prompted Monster Island being built and futzed with the GM/spawn formula even more.
- More blooms than asked for. Technically, it's the maximum (I wrote down "2-3", they scripted 3 plus the starting bloom...so 4 total). Total time-wise, 4 blooms ended up being about where we wanted it to be but in a much more repetitive way.
Me personally writing up a re-design aside, Hamidon was going to change and change radically for Issue 9. And if there's one thing I've learned in the time I've been here it's that any change will be perceived by some people as a good change, others as a bad change, and most as the wrong thing to mess with entirely.