Fleeting Whisper

Well, Praetoria already has thoughtcrime police, even if they're called something different >.>

One, of the several creatures named "daddy long legs", only one is actually a spider, and none of the others even have venom sacs. The one that does actually has uncommonly weak venom for a spider that preys on insects; while no attempt has been made to test its effect on mammals, much less humans, it seems to me that a venom that has an extremely weak effect on insects would not be fatal to humans. Certainly not anywhere near "most deadly" spider venom in the world.

Two, MythBusters had an episode where they investigated the myth, and they found that the daddy long legs fangs are, in fact, capable of puncturing human skin.
(Though they do have uncommonly short fangs)

So, not only is it false that daddy long legs venom is particularly dangerous to humans, it's also false that they're incapable of injecting us with the supposedly dangerous venom.

Of course, since the game doesn't use anything higher quality, I'm not sure why that would matter

The streakbreaker NEVER causes you to miss. The system is designed to help preternaturally unlucky players from doing exceptionally poorly in reality when compared to their expected chance to hit. If you've got a significantly long streak of misses (where "significantly" depends on how high your hit chance is), the streakbreaker will force you to hit. The streakbreaker does nothing when you've got a streak of hits.

Also note, with a hit chance of 90% and above, a streak of *one* is "too long" according to the streakbreaker. If your hit chance is that high, the streakbreaker will never allow you to miss twice in a row.

Also note: No matter what stealth radius Shadowy Presence gives you, Rularuu Sentries and Rikti Drones ignore stealth completely.

From what we know, the process is:
Villain -> Rogue -> Hero
Hero -> Vigilante -> Villain

Villain: Access to CoV zones, Black Market, and Praetoria
Rogue: Access to all zones and Black Market
Vigilante: Access to all zones and Wentworth's
Hero: Access to CoH zones, Wentworth's, and Praetoria

The damage dealt by Backdraft is a multiple of your HP. It's not possible to survive being hit.

I've been spoiled by actual sites rather than dime-a-dozen "sign up now and get your own website+forum!" shlock. I've been a long-time member for both types. Hell, I've been a long-time administrator for both types, and even webmaster for the former.

I don't recommend any service similar to GuildPortal any more. While I understand free hosting and domains are attractive, I honestly think it's worth the expense. The hard part after that is being able to actually design a site.

GG uses emoticons (esp "") instead of punctuation.

On the other hand, KB resistance reduces KB in the same manner that damage resistance reduces damage. KB protection is the one that reduces KB like a mez.

While it's true that most anti-KB powers (Unyielding, Rooted, Integration, etc.) have 10,000% KB resistance (no, seriously, 10,000% and it works exactly like damage resistance does), a target could theoretically be given less than 100% KB resistance, and the KB would remain, but in a reduced form.

If Taunt granted 50% KB resistance, KB powers mag 1.5 and higher would remain KB, but with a reduced distance. KB powers in the range [0.75,1.5) would become knockdown.
With 75% KB resistance, the range of KB that becomes KD would be [0.75,3)
With 90% KB resistance, the range would be [0.75,7.5)
With 99% KB resistance, the range would be [0.75,75)

Offhand, I'm not certain what the highest magnitude KB players can achieve is. Without doing any power comparison, I think the highest magnitude player power is Nova from Energy Blast, at mag 20.771 for Defenders. 6-slotting lv50 generic KB IOs into that would yield 209.76% enhancement, or mag 43.5692496 KB.

In order to turn that extreme amount of KB into KD using KB resistance, you would need to grant a bit more than 98.278%, so we'll call it 98.279%. Of course, I believe that the KB resistance-granting would stack between different casters (they could add the "does not stack from same caster" flag to prevent stacking from the same person). Even if they implemented the same system as they have with Vengeance, stacking could occur if two Taunts were sent on the same server tick (which is more likely than accidentally stacking Vengeance).

Considering it's unlikely that anyone will slot Nova for KB, you could instead go for Nova's default KB magnitude (requiring 96.37% resistance) Or, you could go for a more common KB magnitude; Defender Energy Torrent @ mag 6.231, for example. Turning this from KB to KD would require 87.964% resistance. OR, you could ensure that double-stacking doesn't cause a problem, and halve any of my previously mentioned values (49.14%, 48.185%, and 43.982%, respectively). This would decrease the range of KB magnitudes that would become KD (none of which would exceed mag 1.5 without stacking), but would prevent stacking from becoming a problem. (I am fairly certain that a mag 0 KB would not be KD, but I have no means to test that, as all instance of KB resistance will reduce the KB to mag 0, and are also paired with KB protection. Reaching 100% KB resistance on the target would reduce all [resistable] KB to mag 0, and there is no player power that I know of which causes non-resistable KB. Any power which does cause non-resistable KB would ignore this system I am presenting alltogether.)




Note: This post is entirely about presenting the possibilites of the suggestion within the existing game mechanics, and does not necessarily support the OP's proposition.

But the lack of pirates in the world today is directly linked to global warming! O.O

Nitpick: Paragon Studios is the developer, and is a subsidiary of NCSoft.
I'm going to hell for this, aren't I?

Obvious solution: merge the markets *thumbs up*

Analysis of cake = truth proposition which implies that truth = lie.

But IOs originate from invention!
And HOs originate from Hamidon!

*pushes Sam's buttons*

You'll note that the hold in NG has a 0% chance to occur.

The most important thing about Posion that makes it stand out above the other Mastermind secondaries (against 1-3 targets) is, frankly, Weaken. Weaken's -Special doesn't just reduce their ability to heal and their mez duration. It also reduces the target's ability to buff just about everything. That includes auto-power self buffs. It's like a reverse Power Boost.

Yeah, like a steady subscriber base.





Wait, what?

Little known fact: Fleeting Whisper is psychic!

Assertion that Rikti have nothing to do with this thread.