Fleeting Whisper

I don't even know you, but you're just speaking opinions.

Have a good rant?

Here's an interesting comparison:

Flash Arrow, against a level 50 AV, is about as effective as all of Dark Miasma's tohit debuffing combined (without Dark Servant). Level 1 power in "the weak set" vs. all but the final power in "the tohit debuffing set" results in about the same -tohit effect against a lv50 AV. Against Lord Recluse and his Lieutenants in the STF, or against the Freedom Phalanx in the LRSF, FA comes out ahead.

Disclaimer: I realize Dark Miasma brings more to bear than -tohit, but Trick Arrow also contains more than just Flash Arrow. I also admit that adding Dark Servant tips the balance in favor of DM.

I think it can transport some immobile things, but not all. Bizarrely, if I recall correctly, TTP can transport Spirit Tree, but not Triage Beacon, despite the fact that they're the same thing mechanically.

Also, it seems that immobile pets don't actually become locked in place until the animation finishes. One of the people on the Traps superteam a while ago had picked up TTP, and we realized that if you started laying a Trip Mine at the same time our teleporter began the animation, the timing is almost perfect to explode the mine right on top of the enemies at the end of the teleport. However, TTP wouldn't move a Trip Mine that had already been placed.

Her proof isn't gross.

Team Teleport is not a travel power. Team Teleport is a 'ambush the enemy with an entire team of players and pets' power.

There is an appeals process. You can submit a support ticket about the issue, and escalate it to someone able to arbitrate a decision. As for fairness in enforcement, well... part of the enforcement, as far as we know, is simply the discretion of the GM that answers the petition. You may not like it, but I personally would prefer such discretion to a rigid set of rules laid out.

No it doesn't. CYA means doing what it takes to keep the company out of trouble.

It is the case. Anyone who gets genericed has the opportunity to get a new (non-generic) name. Anyone who walks around with a generic name has it entirely through their own fault.

The Quartz emanators grant all DE in the radius +100% tohit... You would need 145% defense in order to ignore that. It's much better to just kill the emanators ASAP.

Sorry, MOO. While you normally make very intelligent arguments (whether I agree with them or not), this demand is just naïve. Primarily because being specific on the rules followed by the GMs allows people the chance to pour over the policy to find all the loopholes to exploit. And don't think they wouldn't.

Currently, players will break these rules (intentionally or accidentally), and then someone might report them and they might get genericed. If the genericing policy is made public, we will see a rise of players who follow the letter of the rules, but not the spirit. I think this would hurt much more than the possible threat of maybe getting genericed for something you did on accident. Possibly. Sometime.

The other issue is that I'm sure part of the genericing process is, quite simply, at the GM's discretion. You may not think it's fair, but that's also probably the only way for NCSoft to properly cover their ***: no set of rigid rules and policies will correctly enforce name/costume violations.

All in all, I'd much rather have a vague definition of a violation and be genericed for it, than to accidentally break the spirit but not the letter of the law and force the GMs to exert the "we can ban you for any reason at all" rule.

Spirit Potion (temporary power obtained from Archmage Tarixus' mission "Deliver puzzle box to Hardcase") is also a click phase power.

Spirit Potion has 3 charges, lasting 60s each, making it the only phase power lasting longer than 30s. Unfortunately, the mission to obtain it cannot be reacquired by Flashback.

Which Earth?

You may be protecting Earth from Rikti, but you're obviously incapable of protecting yourself from Atlas!

Personally, I think there should be a CheatAtDice emote available only to villains, from character creation, which is the same animation as Dice7. It's the same way heroes get ListenPoliceBand, and villains are capable of unlocking ListenStolenPoliceBand, both with the same animation.

On the other hand, some of the unlock suggestions in this thread are pretty darn appropriate for Dice7, too...

I don't think KoA ignore stealth like the Rikti Drones do. KoA (and Vanguard Sword) just have increased perception, meaning you need to have extra stealth to be effective. I could be wrong, though.

Rikti Drones (and Rularuu Sentries - the eyeballs) ignore stealth entirely. They don't have increased perception (which would mean that, like Vanguard Sword, they aggro sooner), but they will always see you, even when you're at the stealth cap.

Acute, right, or obtuse?

Protector Bots each apply a force shield to your other robots for 7.5% each (totaling 15% on Battle Drones and Assault Bot, and 7.5% on each Protector Bot), as well as one force shield on the MM himself (7.5% total)

Also, Enforcers' Maneuvers grants 8.5% defense, not 6.8%.

Also also, Enforcers' Maneuvers is applied to all Thugs in range, not just your Thugs.

Guess which country won the civil war?

I also wish GW had more Margonite-style armor choices than just gloves, but that's a thread for a different forum, I think

+Acc does NOT affect the soft cap in any way.

To answer the original question, 45% defense is the soft cap for all enemies up to +5. +6 (and above) enemies start getting tohit bonuses against you, and +tohit does affect how much defense you need for softcap.

While 45% defense is still the soft cap for +5s, enemies which are higher level than you, or higher rank than minion have their hit chance floored at something higher than 5%.

Essentially, enemies get +10% acc for every level they have over you (until +6, where they get +tohit instead of +acc). Lieutenants get +15% for being lieutenants. Bosses, EBs, and Snipers get +30%. Monsters, GMs, and AVs get +50%. The accuracy provided by the critter's level difference is multiplied by the accuracy provided by their rank (and also multiplied by the accuracy of the power they're using, but for simplicity, assume they're using a 1.0 acc power).

As such, a +5 AV still gets his hit chance floored when you have 45% defense, but their hit chance will be 1.5 (level difference) * 1.5 (AV rank) * 0.05 (floored from your defense) = 0.1125 = 11.25% chance to hit, rather than 5% chance. On the other hand, a +0 minion is 1.0 * 1.0 * 0.05 = 0.05 = 5%


Edit: Paragonwiki's page on Attack Mechanics is a very good resource for this.