EvilRyu

All I can say is if they allow this alot more Posi tfs will definately get run by me. I hate having to wait on other folks going afk for stupid [censored] like kids need to be put to bed, smoke breaks, house is flooding, house on fire, wife in labor, you know the usual bull crap folks go afk for. If I could solo it alot of my toons would finally get the TF commander badge instead of just a handful.

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Spine Burst, Thunderstrike...

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Spine Burst survived because they remove Damage Auras even faster, but its the only offensive melee set with a damage aura so that wont happen again.

Electric's Thunderstrike is a targeted AoE. The PBAoE was Lightning Clap, and it got removed.

[/ QUOTE ]Thunderstrike isnt a TAoE its a PBAoE. lighting clap was removed because it sucked for stalker playstyle.

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To be honest they should have given us fire. That would have worked out better than this so long as we keep fire sword circle and get rid of scorch.

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You realize if they did this they would get rid of Fire Sword Circle and leave you only with Breath of Fire for AoE, right? By default, PBAoEs are the first thing to be removed from Stalker ports.

[/ QUOTE ]I dont know about this, they almost did this to elec but then we explained to them we already had enough single target damage and how hand clap wouldnt help us so they changed. My hope is that they get rid of one of the single target attacks since we get AS. If they dont give us FSC then I just wouldnt play the set. It wouldnt be worth it to me. Just think of the crits from hide on that thing.

Castle, any chance doms will ever get illusion control? We have wanted this way more than the other sets. Its really the last thing that keeps doms from being equal to trollers. I just hope we at least get it by the time going rogue hits.

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If I can't change out the geometry for Spines then forget about it.

Just say no to banana melee!

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Apart from Spines being able to use the geometry from Thorns, and Thorns being able to use the geometry from Spines (both of which can be colored), there will be at least one other set of alternate geometry/FX.

As for Martial Arts, the alternate animations we have right now are mainly punches. The idea was to provide you guys with a way to make the classic, fights with their fists and feet, super-hero that many have been asking for. That includes a new animation for assassin's strike (Assassin's Blow?).

[/ QUOTE ]Do you not know how happy this makes me feel? I been begging for this one change since issue 6. Now no more potty dance when using AS.

From the numbers side of it how do each match up? How will fury match up against crits? For the most part on all my brutes I never have fury issues due to brawl being on autofire. The only time I get low fury is if I run out of endurance. But with Claws its damn near impossible to happen. So being claws/sr I think I would be damn near unstoppable at the higher levels. So if I had 90% fury all the time how does that compare to scrapper crits?

It could have worked back then, all they need to do is up the damage for its animation time. It would have to do damage closer to Total Focus though.

If only earth assault was like this.

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I actually think the opposite. I predict that a lot of people will leave the game to pursue something new (that other mmo) and the market will inflate drastically to compensate.

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My prediction: that other MMO™ isn't going to have anywhere near the impact on this game's population as some people seem to think (or hope) it will.

And yah, I'm not gonna make any calls until we get more details about the difficulty slider. Specifically about whether or not it's going to apply to MA.

[/ QUOTE ]I noticed everyone is calling it that other MMO or the MMO-that-shall-not-be-named. I just find this funny.

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Flaming Ninjas anyone?

[/ QUOTE ]Yes finally ninjas that dont get 1 shotted easily anymore. I might re-roll from paindom to thermal if they keep the same numbers on the powers as corrupters.

So what do you think prices will be at once we can set the missions for 8 people even solo? More people farming. I am thinking some might actually leave the AE to go back to regular critter farms.

To be honest they should have given us fire. That would have worked out better than this so long as we keep fire sword circle and get rid of scorch.

Well for now I am pissed because we get screwed out of illusion control yet again. Most of the other stuff looks good though. I cant see myself using Earth Assualt.

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I'm trying to get it to go off, but so far all my chat entries have been clear of wwwwaaaaasssstrash.

110020000110001000000Can anyone verify that this bug is gone?

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I hate this bug. It's a minor issue ultimately since it isn't crashing servers or corrupting data, but it is highly visible, distracting and annoying.

What's broken and why is it taking so long to fix? The key problem here is way back when, someone decided it would be a good idea to have three separate keyboard input interpreters and any changes done have to play "house of cards" game with the three. The current set of bugs began appearing a while back when we started making changes to implement the mission editor, which morphed into the Mission Architect.

I've no doubt that it will be fixed at some point; I just wanted to basically point out that, yes, we're aware of it and yes, we are trying to fix it. It's just an enormously more complicated task that it "should" be.

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It's pretty fun to wander over into programmer land and causally ask, "So what's up with the chat bug?"

They have said that not having reliable repro steps makes this particular bug nigh-impossible to track down, so if anyone can figure out a way of making this happen 100% of the time, I'm sure those guys would name children after you or something.

I'd even push for Posi to hand out the vaunted 'badge-which-must-not-be-named"

[/ QUOTE ]Lets say a person already has the badge-which-must-not-be-named, can they get it again on another toon? If so then I will try this weekend to get the chat bug to work again.

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Hello everyone,

I've recently rolled up a Dark melee/Ninjitsu stalker, and I have a quick question for those that are familiar with the ninjitsu set.

Which do you prefer in a battle, Smoke flash or Blinding powder?

I mainly PvE, if that helps any.

Thanks for your time!

-Doc-

[/ QUOTE ]Neither as they are both a waste unless you are slotting blinding powder to reach the softcap for set bonuses. Smoke Flash sucks because it doesnt give you any indication as to who it hit or didnt hit without reading the combat logs. Secondly it unhides you when done from hide. Blinding Powder was only useful to me back before they changed the ITF. Now the fraidy-cat romans run aways during the ambushes so its alot harder to use blinding powder, so I dropped it from my build. Caltrops are a much better choice overall for me.

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With the [presumed] disproportionate representation of Miracles in the rolls, twelve 40-45 rolls gives you considerably more than a 1/3 chance (I guess about 50%) of getting the Miracle ANYWAY, plus you have around a 1/2 chance of a Numie and a 1/2 chance of a LoTG. (I think the "weighting" goes from 1 to 5 depending on number of them slotted when they did the math, and I'm assuming that the average of those 66 recipes is about 2.5 because there's so much crap-that-nobody-slots there and the superjuicies are weighted at 5. No experiments have been done to support these assumptions. ) And if you figure the odds of an Impervium: Resist, an Obliteration Quad, a Blessing of the Zephyr: KB, and a bunch of "only" 20-million-inf items like Celerity: Stealth, it's lookin' pretty good to roll random.

[/ QUOTE ]Let me ask this, lets say a person manages to do every single story arc from levels 1-22. They save up their merits and decide to roll the 25-29 range. What will be the odds of getting LoTG and/or Miracle at that point versus saving all merits to roll in the 30-34 range?

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Either way she is still the worst npc in the game to ever have as a hostage/ally. Its like she is intentionally given AI to get you killed. So far I am like 5 for 20 on this arc on getting her out alive. Someday they will fix her.

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She's actually quite useful if you can manage to take out the CoT around her (not just with her) first. After that the trick is to be patient. The ambushes following her release come at 88 second intervals. If you wait for them you can start moving when you see their "$target has Lady Jane!" or "Protect the $object!" text and you can leave the ambush behind (these ambushes go to the area where you were standing when they spawned, not after you directly) and move on to the next group you actually have to fight. If you move along slowly like this you can successfully complete the mission every time with any AT.



[/ QUOTE ]I get what you are saying but that does me no good because she always chases runners which is what gets her and sometimes me killed. She often times will chase a runner to the ambush(es). Sigh...If they would make her aggro range alot lower this mission would have a better success rate than it does now.

Either way she is still the worst npc in the game to ever have as a hostage/ally. Its like she is intentionally given AI to get you killed. So far I am like 5 for 20 on this arc on getting her out alive. Someday they will fix her.

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That explains why I can get XP (64 bit) for 30 bucks. I initially thought it would be a cheap and easy solution!
How expensive do people think W7 is going to be?

[/ QUOTE ]FYI xp 64-bit was actually horrible. It has horrible driver and application support. Most people who went with 64-bit did it with vista or some other OS. XP 64-bit is just so not worth even those $30. Keep ind mind you can pre-order windows 7 professional for like $100 now in some places instead of the $200 when it comes out. The virtual xp thing will be a free add on you download and install. I use it now on my beta version of windows 7. The reason is there is an application that I have that I cant use because it doesnt support 64-bit but it does 32-bit if run from virtual xp.

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Hi,

I have an HP laptop (Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T5800 @ 2.00 GHz 2.00, 4G RAM, nvidia GeForce 9600M GT) and unfortunately, it runs on Vista. Blech.
I'm wondering if anyone has tried downgrading to XP on an HP laptop that came preloaded (without choice) with Vista? I've heard horror stories about Sony laptops coming wth Vista-specific drivers and licenses that don't let you downgrade to XP...

[/ QUOTE ]Let me ask you specifically why are you wanting to downgrade? Is it that some apps dont work? Keep in mind if you currently have a 64-bit version of vista installed going back to xp on your current machine means you wont be able to use all your ram due to the limitations on 32-bit OS. To be honest with you I would wait on windows 7 if you hate vista so much. If you get the professional or ultimate version you can install virtual xp which will allow older applications to run provided you have the right processor in your machine. Keep in mind this virtual xp wont run 3-d intensive games but it runs everything else just fine.

I am pretty sure repeated power will no longer be an issue. They have the technology to grey out powers so you cant take something if you take something else. Just look at the SoA venom grenade, Shields with claws/dual blades.

I might give this a try sometime. So whats needed to get this insane level of confuse stackage? How would I slot confuse for this?

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Being fair, he might find endurance costs more prevalent because he's killing faster.

[/ QUOTE ]Actually that would make it seem less because you kill more stuff between the time you rest or use domination.

[/ QUOTE ]Eh, I haven't found the experience of which I speak - but I hear it a common complaint about Stone Melee.

[/ QUOTE ]That just means your not thinking about it in the right way. If you are killing more stuff in between rests then its supposed to feel like you are killing more stuff for same amount of endurance. The issue is with doms is we have a ton of over kill damage. To be honest I like it better when all the tier 1s did more damage because I actually overkilled less and had reason to slot the tier 1 for damage. The tier 1 actually got used as opposed to now.

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Being fair, he might find endurance costs more prevalent because he's killing faster.

[/ QUOTE ]Actually that would make it seem less because you kill more stuff between the time you rest or use domination.

So far what I did was this, the first mission is has a minimum set for 15, second mission is set for 20, the 3rd mission is set for 35, the fourth mission is set for 45 and the final mission is set for 50. I did this so noobs can get a taste of all possible faction critters in the game. I added a few non-PToD elite bosses for flavor and a few AVs but these AVs are actually pet class and can be easily soloed by even an empathy defender with brawl.