Dersk

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I submit my 1st born to the one who makes new AS animations.

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Aid self? Assasin strike? Air superiority? Animate stone?

Well, at least you didn't just say "SS"

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Now lie back down and get some debt

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wait, someone has died to the brawl of a tsoo sorcerer?

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You want proof of suppression exploits? Turn on SS, then Snipe, run away, Snipe again. You can kill mobs forever and mobs can never counter-attack. THERE. An exploit that supression fixed.

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No. The animation time for snipes is so long suppression has ended before the snipe fires. Suppression didn't affect what you describe. Another example, perhaps?

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Actually, didn't the devs first correct the problem by introducing -tohit, switching to suppression only after player outcry?

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Fly had a sizable tohit penalty from launch to i4. Superjump didn't have any penalties until suppression. Superspeed... had enourmous +def and -tohit before launch, but I think it was changed to not have any penalties but providing minor stealth around launch.

If I haven't been banned, then the mods aren't strict enough.

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Fix our agro control then give us defiance and give blasters something else

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Give the blasters gauntlet and tanker defiance. Blasters wouldn't even notice a change in their agro

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I have 3 taunts slotted and can stand in a group of grey mobs without them caring a whit.

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As a tanker: I can walk up to grey minions with invinc. They will give their text message that they've been engaged, use 1 attack, then stare at me with those yellow tohit decorations floating around them.

Them standing there, staring at me is the result of taunt working. Turning invinc off allows them to eventually run away (coinciding with the tohit decorations dissapearing).

It's not doing anything to grey lieuts or bosses, as mentioned by _Castle_.

If brute's invinc aura doesn't even affect minions... this is incredibly amusing.

I love bugs.

scrappers and khels are able to take "agro" from invincibility, blazing aura, and tanker melee by simply attacking. I'm looking at it right now. the mobs are in range and being hit by the aura. Taunt, the power, still pulls agro (though I've seen instances lately where taunt didn't pull agro).

borked

probably because they're 2 years old?

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Are you serious?
Normally I know but this time I can't tell.


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your BSometer is seriously broken.

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kid - "Now we know"

Sargent Slaughter - "And knowing is half the battle"

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Isnt the other half kicking a$$?

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paraphrased:

"And as you know, suprise is half the battle."

"Yes, suprise is half the battle. Winning is half the battle. Many things are half the battle. Let's try to focus on what is the whole battle."

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Energy Blast/Energy Melee
Fire Blast/Fire Melee
Archery/Super Strength

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I approve of this statement

I love seeing people argue about what someone else meant.

It gives me a warm feeling inside. Kinda like being irradiated.

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So unless we're all ready to start screaming for more people to work on stuff in exchange for paying for our free issues (and I do NOT want that!!!1) then we have to learn to be a bit patient

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True to an extent. But, it does not apply in most circumstances.

The time invested to prevent autoturret from being ported by recall friend is not less intensive than preventing cloaking device from supressing from using various devices.

The time invested in making defiance increase damage as health drops is not less manpower intensive than making defiance increase damage and mez protection as the blaster suffers from mez (or any of the other dozens of suggestions)

There is a very meaningful difference between wanting more done, and wanting something done differently.

The "developer hate" is simply a common sentiment among the masses in any MMO. It's to be expected.

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I really wish people wouldn't use "newb" and "n00b" interchangably. There's a very useful distinction to be made there.

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...one that is not readily apparent to those not bathed in the internet's popular culture. My highschool literature classes failed to prepare me for such distinctions.

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When you're relaying information to your customerbase you use publically used terminology, not insider terminology

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That sounds very reasonable. That must be why in over 2.5 years of this game the developers have been using the term devices in every patch note and every forum post, except in one instance, and the 1 forum post was an apology for the 1 test server patch text mistake.

Didn't you get the memo? Blasters will get nothing because they're afraid to ask.



Castle called devices "gadgets" mistakenly, and people have been ragging him and the other rednames in general for it since.

They'd probably rather stay in silent apathy rather than talkative apathy.

Who's more newbish? The newb, or the person who follows him?

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but not any resulting status effects

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reduction to the overwhelming abundance of status effects in this game is past due, and anything that is done to reduce the frequency of "squishies" being hit by an AE knockback or AE sleep would be wonderful. So, it won't happen.

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Code:[/color]

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Katana -                                        Energy Blast

Golden Dragonfly - 12.35                 Power bolt - 5.4

Soaring Dragon - 9.75                    Power blast - 8.9

Sting of the Wasp - 6.28                 Power Burst - 10.2

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Dont't forget DPA. It takes the scrapper about 4-5 seconds to fire those off compared to the 12ish for the blaster.

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the activation times of those 2 sets of attacks are either identical or nearly identical

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I would guess they now get taunt resistance during the up arrows the same way they ignore attempts to mez them. You can probably taunt them just fine during the down arrows - if they aren't held at the time :P.

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I've never had any experience that suggests this is the case. I have never had an AV fail to attack me after I use the power taunt.

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Well, my Tri-Icer turned 49 today and I took Taunt. Was wanting BoI but you gotta do what you gotta do

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going by what others are saying, block of ice would probably taunt av's. You should still be able to be tauntless if you wish.

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So....to sum up....the system working precisely the way it was supposed to was considered OVERPOWERED!? And now to "balance" it they made some AV and GM fights completely random?

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to sum up, agro got screwed and dev's never realized it. there hasn't be a red name specify what isn't as they intended, but it can't be working properly as it is.
[*]taunt, brute auras, and tanker pool attacks pull agro[*]tanker auras, tanker 2ndary attacks, and all brute attacks don't pull agro.

it's so completely random it's comical.

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A new twist to add to this thread, which explains the results seen by Dersk against Eochai: the inherent taunt of Pool Powers (Air Superiority, Kick, etc.) works on all critters for tankers. Brutes do not get any inherent taunt from these powers.

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ahahahahahahahah

that made me laugh so hard

pool... pow... ahahahahaha

edit: ahahahahahaha

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It's possible this Eochai (as opposed to the one in Croatoa), since it was created 2 years ago, doesn't have the explicit immunity to gauntlet and/or taunt auras.

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the one in croatoa was no different (fought him just before the event). Although, the one in croatoa wasn't created 2 years ago either.