FitzSimmons
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Well it's a new feature that sorta works!
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I haven't played my masterminds since i16 but I heard that all you have to do is buff them with something like a heal and they'll be under your control again. I have also heard about a nasty mayhem MM pet bug but I haven't checked it out myself.
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Someone else reported this and didn't want to see the profanity at all. The current workaround is to turn off the chat bubbles in the Options.
I don't know if this is a confirmed bug, but report it, it can't hurt.
However to see $#@!!! over someone's head, just ask them to type just that, $#@!!!. Problem solved. -
Quote:Geese, here we go again. Ironblade TALKING DOWN to someone AGAIN. (I'm joking).Originally Posted by Ironblade
Geeze, here we go again. Maybe so that you have to make CHOICES in your build. Go for uber performance or keep your set bonuses when you exemp - YOUR DECISION.
And they're not the "best IOs". If you want the best, get purples. They *DO* keep the bonuses no matter how low you exemp.
I should've rephrased that. I meant the highest IO available for the bonus you're going for.
Purples are hardly the best IOs. They're the most expensive, yes and only really required for +rech builds for perma dom, perma PA, etc.
In this case it was the lvl 50 Aegis' I had that bit me in the ***. Easily fixed on this toon.
And you're right I have to decide on which way I want to go. I was just a bit miffed that I was getting tore up on the Tina arc. I generally don't mal/exemp so I doubt I'll make any changes.
Thanks for the feedback gents and Ironblade.
Regards,
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I know the answer to this but was curious what the general consensus was.
I was on a Tina McIntyre team auto mal'd to 45 and my defense numbers were in the *******.
Turns out it still follows the +3 rule for set bonusses when mal'd.
However since we now get +5 powers shouldn't we also get +5 set bonusses?
I never understood this rule anyway. Why get penalized for having the best IOs we can get our hands on?
I confirmed that being SSKd to a lvl 47 didn't change my numbers at all.
Below are the numbers (yellow text denotes a change).
Regards,
Fitz
Auto mal'd / SSK'd to 45
Smashing/Lethal Defense - 33.43%
Combat Jumping - 2.65%
Weave - 5.76%
Tough Hide - 5.76%
Huge Increased Lethal/Smashing/Melee Def Bonus - 15%
Tiny Increased Lethal/Smashing/Melee Def Bonus - 1.25%%
Steadfast Protection: Resistance/Defense - 3%
Base Defense - 0%
Fire/Cold Defense - 17.18%
Combat Jumping - 2.65%
Weave - 5.76%
Tough Hide - 5.76%
Steadfast Protection: Resistance/Defense - 3%
Base Defense - 0%
Energy/Negative Energy Defense - 28.43%
Combat Jumping - 2.65%
Weave - 5.76%
Tough Hide - 5.76%
Large Increased Rangted/Energy/Negative Energy Def Bonus - 3.13%
Tiny Increased Energy/Negative Energy/Ranged Def Bonus - 5.00%
Steadfast Protection: Resistance/Defense - 3%
Large Increased Rangted/Energy/Negative Energy Def Bonus - 3.13%
Base Defense - 0%
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Level 50
Smashing/Lethal Defense - 34.68%
Combat Jumping - 2.65%
Weave - 5.76%
Tough Hide - 5.76%
Huge Increased Lethal/Smashing/Melee Def Bonus - 15%
Tiny Increased Lethal/Smashing/Melee Def Bonus - 1.25%
Steadfast Protection: Resistance/Defense - 3%
Moderate Increased Melee/Lethal/Smashing Def Bonus - 1.25%
Base Defense - 0%
Fire/Cold Defense - 34.05%
Combat Jumping - 2.65%
Weave - 5.76%
Tough Hide - 5.76%
Steadfast Protection: Resistance/Defense - 3%
Large Increased AOE/Fire/Cold Def Bonus - 3.13%
Large Increased AOE/Fire/Cold Def Bonus - 12.50%
Moderate Increased AOE/Fire/Cold Def Bonus - 1.25%
Base Defense - 0%
Energy/Negative Energy Defense - 34.68%
Combat Jumping - 2.65%
Weave - 5.76%
Tough Hide - 5.76%
Large Increased Rangted/Energy/Negative Energy Def Bonus - 3.13%
Tiny Increased Energy/Negative Energy/Ranged Def Bonus - #6.25%
Steadfast Protection: Resistance/Defense - 3%
Large Increased Rangted/Energy/Negative Energy Def Bonus - 3.13%
Huge Increased Ranged/Energy/Negative Energy Def Bonus - 3/75%
Moderate Increased Ranged/energy/Negative Energy Def Bonus - 1.25%
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Hahaha, I just read the bit about Manticore being bugged again. Fantastic, ******* fantastic. We're supposed to be taking 2 steps forward here.
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LOL this has been broken and fixed several times. I haven't run a manti since the last patch. A shame, it's one of my favorites.
I don't think we'll ever see the day they don't break the same things over and over again. -
Same thing happened to me autoexemped on a low level mayhem.
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Quote:I don't think there are 7 energy blasters on at one time on Liberty.Originally Posted by Master-Blade
I dare you to run it with 7 NRG blasters (and one tank to round them up). lol
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Yeah we saw it in quite a few more spots than on lag hill. It even happened several times in the crystal mission and quite a bit in the last mision.
There could be multiple reasons for it. It happened more with this team then with any other team I've run the ITF with. -
I ran an all shield and 1 kin ITF earlier today and there was an unusually high amount of lag for 5 confirmed (myself and 4 other SG mates in Vent).
Someone had told me that the reason why the TF lags at certain spots is because of Grant cover and all of the calculating / recalculating it does.
So when there's a large number of Romans herded up that's where we see the worst of it. Apparently they all have Grant Cover.
I don't know if it's true or not but I thought it was interesting that with 7 shields on the team there was lag in a lot more spots than just on lag hill.
It'd be nice to see a fix for this Soon(tm).
Regards,
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Quote:This build was for an ice/dark but I changed it over to fire just for you! The changes I did were pretty quick so some of the slotting can be moved around.Originally Posted by Smoore
Could you possibly toss out a sample build that's at the ranged cap? I'm currently playing with a fire/dark in Mid's, and even _with_ the fighting pool, I'm only at 31.6% ranged so far. I assume you meant without purple sets, since you said it was easy to achieve, so I can only assume I'm missing some sets in non-blast powers that carry good ranged defense bonuses.
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If you're only getting 31% then something's wrong. I'd be interested in seeing your build. And no purples needed, they don't offer +ranged defense.
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They ****** up, after making the apology post they should've locked this thread again.
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Quote:If I had to guess the new options for turning off the email system broke this!Originally Posted by Synapse
I just wanted to let you know you can probably stop recording data, a fix for this should be making its way to the training room fairly soon. Your drop analysis there, when this patch hits the training room, would be very useful. Thanks for everyone's diligence, and believe it or not the bug had nothing to do with team size, what map you were on, whether you were in taskforce mode or not or anything else mentioned in this thread.
Regards,
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Quote:I'll make it!Originally Posted by je_saistI'm having to bite my tongue to keep from making a really smart-rear-ended remark on this. I take it you are taking the time to make the system consistent now?
[speculation]
The truth probably is that the company doesn't want to invest the time or resources to untangle the code. They'd rather crack the whip on the developers and they're smart enough to untangle the code they're working with without breaking too much.
So many companies are in this position. It's even the case with enterprise class software. If it ain't broke don't fix it. The thing is we're not talking about enterprise class software or some big company. It's a game so this may be standard-ish.
Remember all the reluctance to changing the email system or giving us the option to disable it? If memory serves me right (and it probably does) they didn't touch it back then because it was legacy code and they were afraid it would break something else.
It's pretty darn bad when one piece of "unrelated" code breaks something completely different.
Skipping an issue and putting a lot of effort into cleaning up their code would go a long way and make the developers happy, but you also have to weigh that against whether or not it's worth it to their bottom line. We are talking about a 5yr old game here. Things work well enough and all in all customers accept bugs with this game.
They could also hire some consultants to come in and do the work. India's cheap, check 'em out.
The customers wouldn't see less bugs right away but there would no longer be things like animations breaking when colors changed and I'm sure parts of the staff would be happier.
One can only hope that over the last several issues they've put code standards in place and that this code mess is from some really old stuff.
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Regards,
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This has been beaten to death here.
Chances are you're part of the vocal minority.
You only get 25% experience if you only use bosses. Just use all 3 tiers and you get full rewards.
Plus you have the new difficulty settings.
I'm a fan of all the changes even though I did a lot of farming myself.
Now it takes 2 days to go 1 to 50 farming whereas before it took 8 hours.
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Quote:Not good.Originally Posted by BackAlleyBrawlerIt's been a constant struggle with untangling many years of work that's gone through many different people, all with different ways of setting things up...none of which has been very consistent.
Spaghetti code ftl. FTL!
EDIT: OMG OMG OMG!!!! First after a redname! And not after any redname! First after Back Alley Brawler! OMG OMG!!!
OMG! -
It is possible though that the maps got deleted for another unrealated reason and that's why it went unnoticed. The developer who made the change could've been given bad information about it not being used anywhere else and they don't have a system in place to verify it.
Maybe the system picks the next closest match.
Even Castle speculated. It's what everyone's doing.
In the end no matter what the reason there's a process that can be improved here. -
What's funny is first we had jumping Rikti Pylons then we had jittery Rikti drones. This turned into shake and bake teleports. Now we have unfinished animations.
It certainly is manifesting itself in interesting ways. -
QR, Paragon Studios or Entertainment or whatever they're called now is not a Fortune 100 or Fortune 500 company.
Mistakes happen.
It's not the end of the world.
Hopefully they learn from it and their process improves or changes. -
The show to watch is Dancing with the Stars. Chuck Liddel is gonna be on it.
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45% is easy to acheive and you don't have to dip into the fighting pool for it and you don't have to make any big sacrifices.
So 45% is my recommendation. I've played a blaster, kin, fire/cold and ice/dark all with softcapped ranged defense 45-47% and the difference is tremendous. The only purple insps I have on me are those that happen to drop. Otherwise I carry oranges and greens.
Regards,
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Same thing happened to my team of 8 on Friday night. No crash this time. Petition logged and still waiting for an answer.
Hopefully we all get the badge. -
Aside from the broken mission what's wrong with a challenge and some change?
It's amazing how easy this game is. 30 minute Master ITFs, 50 minute master RSFs. It's silly. SILLY! -
The mob I lay quicksand under does not move. This was on a team of 3, I haven't tried it solo. In all cases I've done it I was the first to attack and my opener was quicksand from around a corner.
Was just curious.