Droid76a

Did they also fix the issue where sometimes you can use temp powers, and sometimes you can't?

One of the Brute's Fury ATOs is incorrect. The IO listed as Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge is actually Damage/Endurance/Recharge ingame.

There is no direct way to change the inside colors of the bridal veil (female-->hair --> bridal veil) Like capes, it has inside and outside colors.

I messed around with changing hair, adding a cape, and changing those inside colors, but without any luck. I finally did it the easy indirect way by saving the costume, finding the part, and changing color #4.

All,

Thanks for all the responses, including those with a bit of sarcasm spice

.125s plus latency is good enough for me.

Thanks,

Droid

Gurus (and by Gurus I think of Arcanaville and TopDoc, especially):

Is anyone familiar with the implementation details of the +def from combat jumping? When it's toggled off, how long will the +def remain, and when toggled on, how long is the delay before your character regains that defense?

I looked at the numbers on redtomax.cohtitan, and it lists the power time of .75s, so I think that if toggled off, you will keep the bonus for .75s, but I'm also thinking that may be less depending on how often the game checks for if the toggle is still enabled.

Redtomax also lists an activation time of .5s. I am mostly certain that there's no animation delay, but can't login at the moment to check. Is that .5s the time it takes for the +def to take effect?

The end-goal is some speed-on-demand binds to incorporate Ninja Jump and Beast Run. As they are alternatives to SuperJump and toggle off CJ, I want to quantify and understand the details of how long that +def is lost if the binds are used in combat.

Thanks,

Droid.

All,

Is there a loss of DPS when a weapon character has to redraw as well as animate an attack, or is the game smart enough to decrease the animation time by the redraw time?

I don't know how the game would be smart enough, as I think that would mess with the faster animating attacks.

Also, what powersets are affected in ways other than redraw? For example, I noticed that Titan Weapons loses momentum if the weapon is sheathed (noticed from powexec_unqueue in the speed-on-demand binds); are other combo-based systems like dual blades affected as well?

Thanks,

Droid

aggressive --> goto door --> attack door works. Just have to park them right in front of it first.

Thanks for the suggestion,

Droid

Well, I guess I'll bug it.

One challenge with this game.. and arguably with all modern MMO's, is the lack of documentation. Without it, the obervant player doesn't know how things are supposed to work, so can't know what's 'bugged' vs 'working as designed: this power is different because..."

We don't have an instruction manual anymore, and if we did, it would be outdated, and IIRC the original CoH manual, it was incorrect before the game went live (my first character was a DM/SR scrapper, and the power order for DM was changed before live).

Droid

All,

Is it an oversight or design intent that the tier1 beast mastery pets don't take slow enhancements or slow sets? All of the tier2 attacks and 2 of 3 tier3 attacks have a slow component along with the -def, and I planned on slotting one for tankerminding (taunt while they're slowed and the wolves chew on them from behind).

I rechecked my old demon mm and confirmed that I did remember correctly that they take slow enhancements... what's up with beasts?

Thanks,

Droid.

All,

Are pets' health fixed, or are they a percentage of the mastermind's health? If the latter, will the accolade health bonuses, IO set bonuses, etc increase the pet's health, or are they at a fixed health period?

Thanks,

Droid

All,

I'm looking for comparison info on a beam/sonic corruptor vs a sonic/beam defender.

Toon concept will be blue-side with Praetorian origin. Corruptor is fine.

I'm going with sonic as a secondary, as it's low maintenance and lets me focus on the buttons of beam.

Does that combo prefer one AT over another, or will it be a toss-up?

I want to be able to solo effectively without being painful, but still darn impressive in teams

On the solo side: yes, I know that's harder with Sonic, as most of the powerset is useless when solo. Corruptors have scourge, and (I think?) a higher DF than defenders. Defenders have vigilance.

On the team side: defenders get bigger boosts from both the -res (30% x2) as well as the +RES in the shield. Corruptors still do plenty of -res, though, especially combined with beam.

Thoughts?

All,

Is there a known bug with getting MM pets to attack vault doors, or a trick to make it happen?

I'm levelling up a beasts MM to replace my (retired) merc/traps MM (first level 50 a number of years ago), and I can't get the beasts to attack vault doors in mayhem messages.

I tried aggressive, I've tried attack my target... nothing. They just sit there, and sometimes get stuck and won't attack anything. I'm left solo'ing the vault door with temp powers.

Yes, I understand the realism factor in wolves biting vault doors, but that's never stopped a pet before. They'll happily chew on robots, sentinels, apparitions... why can't it lift a leg on the vault door and do some damage?

Thanks,

Droid

Planned powers are Time's Juncture (autohit pbaoe toggle), Distortion field (autohit ground location aoe), possibly Time Crawl. I just noticed that the Wolves take a -tohit set; if that's in the same regular attack used with -def that Iuse for the Achille's heel proc, I may add one there, too: that's three additional pets with their fast attacks and ac hance to proc.

I need to check which power does the -tohit, but the -def with achille's procs on 1-2 mobs per group (when set to +1/+2), so with the perk of each pet giving a chance to proc, they could stack well.

Thanks,

Droid