Fleeting Whisper
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Quote:Well you're right about one thing... that's very off-topic.Originally Posted by pyrite
As an off topic reply, the best way to "store" inf is to bid 500mill on pvp 3%ers
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Quote:It's not lying. It's an average, one which is heavily skewed by pre-formed teams.Originally Posted by OutaControl
the queue system LIED about how long I would have to wait.
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Quote:I can't quote it any harder than this, sorry.Originally Posted by Pole
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The only difference that the level-based accuracy makes is that an enemy with floored hit chance (when you are softcapped -- at 45% def) has a higher hit chance (specifically, 5% * acc bonus)
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Not that it actually tells us what participation really means.
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Quote:Four times regardless of source... per target. A Mastermind should have no trouble capping their Interface stacks on multiple targets.Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
The important limitation on interface is that it only stacks four time regardless of who is using it.
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Quote:Enemies only gain tohit due to level if they are +6 or more to you.Originally Posted by Aggelakis
1. 45% defense is the soft-cap against even-level enemies. You may want more defense if you are fighting higher level enemies (they have a higher base tohit)
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Quote:PA takes damage from Hamidon, too. And I've seen someone screenshot a PA that had taken damage on an STF (during the fight with Scirocco, IIRC)Originally Posted by NordBlast
Strangely enough, I've seen PA taking damage during Lambda
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Quote:You mean you don't think the devs count in nonary?Originally Posted by Lothic
Just seems suspiciously much more likely they didn't want to make room for "eight+one" super inspirations in their data structures and decided it'd be easier to drop one than to make extra room for the oddball Ultimate.
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Quote:Willpower had One With The Shield during beta?Originally Posted by Diellan_
When it comes to looking at what players complain about versus truth, I'm regularly brought back to my experiences with Willpower in beta. Almost everybody was complaining that it was an underpowered set and that the forced downtime of One With The Shield made the set unplayable in high content
I never tested Shield Defense, but I do recall Willpower being overpowered during early beta, especially for Brutes. HPT's resistance was being buffed by damage buffs, including Fury...
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As far as I can tell, it's 'any power that accepts damage enhancement'.
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Quote:It should be noted that while the commandos are effectively immune to most mezzes and to slows, they seem to have no special protection from KB/KU. I've seen them get knocked down by pistols and I've seen them slip around on an Oil Slick.Originally Posted by Ammon
The Minions can be held, slept, immobilised, and very easily killed so are not your main worry. The Commandos are effectively immune to all mez effects, including, well, everything except damage. You must focus on killing the Commandos.
I haven't seen anyone on a BAF using Force Bubble or Hurricane, so I don't know how they respond to repel. -
And what about someone who is halfway through an Alpha power using shards?
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Quote:July 4th, from the OPOriginally Posted by Gaspard
Ok cool, when is the deadline?
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I find it unlikely that the 'participation score' is sifting out henchmen messages from the cobat log, and using everything else. And it's obvious that it's not simply using every message in the log. Which suggests to me that the combat log doesn't haven't have anything specifically to do with rating participation. (Though there may be a correlation)
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Quote:But henchmen damage goes to the combat log, and we've been told henchmen damage isn't being counted (at least for the Praetoria zone events, and I'm assuming the same 'participation' score is being used here).Originally Posted by Dispari
If it's tracking combat log information, spamming AoEs would fill that up really fast. But if your character relies on pets or powers that don't need to be used very often (Traps and FF for instance), the total number of entries in your combat log per run is going to be very low.
This is all theory of course.
If it was just the combat log entries, MMs should be getting Very Rare nearly every TF, unless they're sticking the pets in Passive stance. Pets damage spams up the combat log more than anything else I've seen, even AoEs (6 pets, most of them have AoEs of their own). -
On the other hand, even if it did exist, you have to be out of combat for 5 minutes before changing an incarnate power, so in order to exploit such a loophole, you've have to never fight and never gain aggro.
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Or perhaps they didn't feel an instant 100% heal was a good idea? *shrug*
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Quote:Originally Posted by tanstaafl
I wish I could find that demotivional poster of a number of people who all clciked "skip' on some cutscene for some game with one hold out.
And as a solution, we have henchmen:
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Quote:Clearly, Interface favors MMs - but nothing new really.Originally Posted by rsclark
Now, in terms of maximizing the effectiveness of the powers, they do seem to strongly favor AoE and damage auras, so many stalkers are kinda getting the short end of Interface - but nothing new really.
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Anscillect
Freedom/Hero, @Fleeting Whisper
Radiation Emission/Dark Blast
Proud member of the Faithful Fans of Fallout
(See also: my avatar)Bio:ANSCI-1 "I can't even classify this thing! Missing scalp, mutated legs, heavy scarring... I don't know what this went through, but I'm glad it didn't happen to me! This Anscillect has seen battle, sure. I just don't know where, when, or how."
ANSCI-2 "We tried to remove the cloth covering its head, we found a third eye. And when this Anscillect stripped down, we discovered... gills! And it's now calling itself 'The Bold Anscillect; Devilfish'!."
ANSCI-3 "Since the last time we saw Anscillect, it's legs have swollen, the leaves on its shoulders have wilted, the remainder of the face mask has been torn to shreds, and the spikes around the brain were replaced by tubes. Who knows what they do. I've got half a mind to close this file for good."
Other info:
Anscillect's bio is a progression of PPD reports on this increasingly bizarre mutant (in the purest sense of the word). Anscillect started as a human (presumably), who got caught in the Terra Volta reactor; this is the result.
While Anscillect uses the female character model, its gender is indecipherable. -
Sally Lee Brown
Freedom/Villain, @Fleeting Whisper
Thugs/Dark Miasma
Proud member of Malicious Multiplicity
Bio:Billy Lee Black saved the world, and stopped it from becoming a weapon due to the machinations of Deus. I've always HATED Billy, and his father Jeremiah. They're both goody-twoshoes pretending to be bad. "Oh, look at me, I found the Godson gun, I can do anything!" Big whoop, Billy. You're nothing. Your father left your mother to die, at the hands of the reapers that his country created. Did you know that? Your father lived in another dimension for a long time, and his countrymen gave Deus the raw material it needed to transform the world. Your and your Anima, your Animus. That's how you saved the world. With technology from a civilization dead for 4,000 years. While I have built all I've got from scratch. I rely on my own abilities. And now that you've gotten Deus out of the way, I can take you down. And the rest of the world, too.
Other info:
Sally was designed as a foil to Billy Lee Black from Xenogears. Her defining feature is hypocrisy; while she claims to have climbed to the top on her own merit, rather than 'simply' finding a powerful gun like Billy (though she glosses over the effort he had to put into learning his marksmanship), she accomplishes her goals with an army of lackeys to do all of the real work for her. Sally will steal the P.L.O.T. Device while the punks under her command deal with two rooms full of very angry Longbow.
Sally has also bonded herself with an unnamed demon (the 4th costume, above, is for when she releases the [Demonic Aura]), from whence she gained her Dark Miasma powers. And yet she still claims to have gotten to where she is entirely from sheer force of effort... and claims to be a Natural origin villain, too!
Having fought Sally (Army of Me badge, whee!), I can say that even a single copy of her as an opponent can be rough, with tohit chances plummeting and an army of Thugs to fight off (and that was at Boss rank). On the other hand, her performance as an ally in the "Me, Myself, and my Other Selves" morality mission has been less than impressive. -
Quote:Other sets do more than simply using their powers?Originally Posted by Nihilii
The problem is that every other powerset can do the same, and then more.
Sure, ET/TF can be frustrating if you pick a target that's going to go down fast under the fire of your team/leaguemates. But against a target that's not going down so fast, other people aren't 'doing more'.
Now, then. Try playing an EM/ Stalker, and add Assassin Strike to the list of long-windup powers
(My EM/ Stalker didn't have an attack chain until TF. And most of that time was before ET's animation was lengthened.) -
Read the rest of the thread. Using Ultimate on yourself does not affect your pet summons. If you want to raise the level of your pet, use the insp on your pet. Then, when the 3 minutes are up, the pet will go to its normal level.
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Quote:You... have no idea what you're talking about.Originally Posted by Stormfront_NA
I expect a few of you, will be very quick to challenge, how dare I categorize the work? What knowledge or experience I have to base such judgments?
And you may be very correct to do so, I do not know the OS used to run and program the game, but I am fairly certain that regardless of the OS and development format used the overall "good-practices" are essentailly the same. I actually can program in several computer languages, I do so as a hobby, but I do have many friends who are professional programers for NASA and DoD, and they do critique and teach me on such practices. Among those practices, is the concept of modular programming; a wonderful practice. Thus once you have a module completed, you then have central code which serves as a traffic control system and you use flags to regulate the traffic control system as needed. Thus a "GUI" is a means to control those regulatory flags and where to "point" the program to collect information to be displayed by yet another software module. With this in mind, you have to decide how difficult is to do any given component of the process. The GUI usually is more intellectually challenging to do than a module, I said normally, modules can get pretty hairy at times. But in the case above, setting a data storage matrix is not particularly difficult. Loading the data into said matrix is a bit more intellectually challenging, but again not that difficult since its a matter of pointing the loading mechanism to the correct module containing the data and being instructed on how to collect it. Once more these efforts are not that intellectually challenging, they are every day occurring events, but they are mildly tedius to do.
No, let me correct myself: you've got just enough rope to hang yourself with.