Fleeting Whisper

The cap was indeed raised, to 10,000%. I was the one that organized a group of Rads and Sonics to test the new value.

Technically, I can't say the cap is exactly 10,000%, because the value was extrapolated from the Combat Attributes window. The CA window says you've hit the cap when you're at 0.99% mez duration, which translates to 10,001.0101...%, but the CA window also isn't the most precise thing in the world, only going to 2 decimal places. It seems likely to me that the actual cap is 10,000% (0.9900990099...% duration), despite the calculated cap being 10,001.0101...% (0.99% duration).

Edit: Just think, at the status resistance cap, the infamous Malta stun grenades from a +4 lieutenant last 0.42768 seconds

I can understand people who want to be competitive. But whoever wrote that whole 'play to win' thing seems to be writing from a perspective that being competitive is the only true way to play. Which is really offensive to me, as both a generally noncompetitive player, and as someone entering into the game industry.

This is what the code for [Agile]'s resistance component looks like (in Reverse Polish Notation):
60 kHitPoints% source> - 0 100 minmax 60 / 0.2 *

Translate into more readable notation, and you get something like
minmax(60 - hitPoints%, 0, 100) / 60 * 0.2

Where minmax(a, b, c) is the linear interpolation from b to c by amount a (a being clamped between 0 and 1, or 0% and 100%).
If your hit points are at 60% or above, 60 - hitPoints% ≤ 0, so minmax results in 0, and you get 0% resistance from [Agile].

If your hit points are at, for example, 50%, 60 - hitPoints% = 10% = 0.1, minmax results in 10, and Agile gives 3.33% resistance.

If your hit points are at 10%, 60 - hitPoints% = 50% = 0.5, minmax results in 50, and Agile gives 16.66% resistance.

As you can see, Agile (and the other SR passives) operate on a simple function. While they can access existing variables (source>kHitPoints%), they don't store variables, they just return the result. Swapping hit points and endurance would require storing the value of one or the other temporarily during the swap. As far as I know, the powers system is not capable of doing this.

Edit: It is possible to swap two values without storing a temporary variable:
a := a + b
b := a - b
a := a - b

But this still requires using the set operator, which I don't think the powers system is capable of (at least, not directly; a power effect can return the result of a function, which depending on the type of effect may then set some stat on the caster/targets)






On the other hand, I do think -MaxHP fits the theme of the set well, and works better mechanically than -HP. It's a good suggestion for improvement. -MaxHP is functionally equivalent to some amount of -Res, while not interfering with actual resistance (and the resistance to -res, resistance to -dam, and the -res floor that follows from that)

Um, you do realize that all MM pets (including the GW Posse), as well as all enemy critters amount to "Draw character model #12345"? On the other hand, players consist of "Draw player model A, with hair B colored with C and D, head piece E colored F and G, face H, face pattern I colored J and K, detail L colored M and N, detail2 O colored P and Q, detail3 R colored S and T, chest U colored V and W, shoulder X colored Y and Z..." (not to mention body scales and physics-enabled cape systems)

8 MMs each with 6 pets and 13 Posse (Gang War summons between 9 and 13), and let's say 3 spawns of 15 NPCs currently visible. Heck, let's make them /Traps, each with 2 Acid Mortars, 2 Caltrops, a Triage Beacon, a Force Field Generator, two Poison Traps, two Seeker Drones, and 6 Trip Mines.

All of that amounts to 325 NPCs of some sort, and 8 PCs.

...

Those 8 PCs require about the same storage as 1300 NPCs in order to represent their models.

And while Stalkers need extra sources of stealth to be safely invisible in PvP, their opponents need extra sources of perception in order to force that upon the Stalker in the first place. Nobody can see a Stalker in PvP unless they have some kind of +perception (Hide gives 500ft StealthRadiusPlayer, and player base percetion is 500ft).

All stealth powers stack. Most stealth toggles are set to be in the "Stealth_Group" power grouping. Activating a power in a power grouping will deactivate any active power that shares the grouping. (As another example, each armor toggle in Stone Armor has it's own grouping, allowing them to be used together. Granite Armor belongs to all of those groupings, and is therefore mutually exclusive with the rest of the armors in the set)

Hide is set to "Hide_Group", rather than "Stealth_Group". (The only power in Hide_Group other than the various copies of Hide is the Raid Deploy Pylon temporary power, but since base raids are inactive...)

Don't forget, however, the stealth powers which are not toggles (Grant Invisibility [Concealment pool], Grant Invisibility [Empowerment station], Group Invisibility); these are not part of any power grouping. The other side of it is stealth powers which, while they might be in Stealth_Group, don't necessarily have to be activated by you: Shadow Fall, Arctic Fog, Steamy Mist.

Yes. VEATs cap perception at 1260.6ft, other ATs cap perception at 1153ft. The Stalker stealth cap is 1143ft in PvP, so a stealth-capped Stalker can be seen at 10ft by a perception-capped Blaster, but can be seen at 117.6ft by a perception-capped VEAT.
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Summoners will, in general, keep summoning (I think there are a few with limited summons), but the summon power itself is almost always on a very long timer. (Not all, though. Consider, for example, Arbiter Sands' drones or Captain Castillo's FFG)

No, but given enough time, the comm officer can summon another portal.

Gang War's Posse do not die when the summoner does, either.

Those articles are... really bad. The writing quality is fine, but... the writer is simply an idiot.

False; knockback does have duration, it's just that the duration is usually 0. For a counterexample, Repulsion Field applies a 0.75s knockback in PvE.

Knockback is not an exception to the magnitude-vs-duration rule, it's just that the mechanics of knockback are such that magnitude correlates with distance moved. Similarly, the mechanics of knockback resistance match the mechanics of damage resistance (final = initial * resistance), rather than the mechanics of, say, hold resistance (final = initial / [1 + resistance])

On the other hand, both Swift and Sprint (and Hurdle, if you want to add that to the mix) come with one slot by default, so you really only need to spend slots if that's still not enough

Hey, you're the one who asked for a non-game mechanics reason why EMPs don't ignite Oil Slick.

But... doesn't successful use of your AAO buff kill your fuel for AAO?

Make that Battle Pope!

The accuracy on the power that summons the pseudopet means diddly squat (same goes for real pets). As such, you've got to actually go look at the stats of the pseudopet itself, and find the power used by the pseudopet which actually does the damage. In the case of Ignite, that pseudopet is Flames, and the power that deals damage is the last one in that list (Flame Thrower). The accuracy, then, is 1.0.

I believe what they've actually done in the past is to shut down the originally bought account, and give you an account code for the correct side of the game. So if you wanted the US version, accidentally bought the EU version and created characters before realizing it, you'd lose those characters.

You're remembering the fact that an enhancement cannot increase both magnitude and duration of anything - no exceptions.

This has no bearing on the effects of buffs.

I don't know what the exact procedure was, but what I gathered after they took xp away from the portals was that people would go into RWZ, aggro the Comm Officers in a spawn so that they summon the portals, tag the portals with some damage, and then run off. A minute or two later, the portal would despawn, but since they had damaged the portal, it counted as a kill and they'd get full xp from it.

Repeat for multiple spawns throughout the war zone.

They don't have any license to uphold at all. They bought the Champions IP outright.