Fleeting Whisper

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  1. Fleeting Whisper

    What is it...

    IIRC, the buff pets come with 45% AoE defense, and -1000% resistance to all (and, like... 1 hit point).
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kyzock View Post
    What was it - the 5th Anniversary event where they spawned all those GMs and AVs in Atlas and Galaxy?
    They do GM/AV spawning for many anniversary events. That's how I got the badge for Caleb on my super-speeding MM; getting it for realz would have been tricky
  3. No.


    I do turn hide on in a PvP zone, or when I'm doing something where I don't want to be disturbed at all (such as recording demos).


    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Frosticus View Post
    You mean people had /hide turned off in real life?
    It's called staying inside. But you should know, There Is Life Outside Your Apartment!
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight View Post
    Edit: It looks like there is indeed no resistance to -damage or -res! Huzzah!
    Incorrect; Damage Resistance is the resistance to both -res and -dam.

    (Note that despite the fact that res resists -res, a -X% res debuff still causes you to deal +X% more damage)
  5. Rock and Crystal DE similarly are weak to smashing damage, but resist lethal. On the other hand, the Plant and Mushroom DE are weak to lethal, but resist smashing.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rush_Bolt View Post
    We could always just hire them so they can make some Meet the... vids for our ATs.
    So long as they don't ever say "we're finishing up these videos now"
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kheldarn View Post
    Well, if you shut off XP and keep them under 20, then none of their Enhancements will expire... :P
    And how many sub-20 damage procs do you have?
  8. Fleeting Whisper

    What is it...

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Derangedpolygot View Post
    The buff pets used to be different. They buffed the whole team, and could attack.
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Schismatrix View Post
    Was this in closed beta?
    Ditto on the 'wuh?'

    To my knowledge, the buff pets have never done anything but buff the owner.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aggelakis View Post
    Holy crap, this is the first time I've heard the "recharge shuffle" in such a way that I understand it the first read through.
    So good I wikified it
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kheldarn View Post
    IMO, those "enhancements" are only good for new players. They don't really provide much to Vets. Plus, every character you make will get them. That's 5 of your 10 enhancement inventory used up at character creation.
    I disagree. Five DO-strength Dam/Rech enhancements (with damage proc or KD proc) usable from level 1 to 21? For free? That don't need replacing? Sign me up

    Slot them into your first few powers and then just overwrite them with SOs/IOs at 22 (or DOs if you buy those)
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mega_Jamie View Post
    It doe smake tanks have to try a little bit harder to ensure he gets all the agro at the start of a fight
    Actually, it doesn't. At all. Shadow Fall (and Steamy Mist/Arctic Fog) has no affect on any character's ability to generate Threat.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel View Post
    The stacking vengeance is indeed cheap, namely because it just works far too differently from the player version.
    Well, it works exactly like the player version used to

    (Okay, not 100% exactly. The player version used to be usable while you're dead, the Nemesis version activates on death. But the player version could be activated multiple times, and a player could conceivably activate it immediately on dying.)

    Also, if Nemesis Vengeance worked like the player versions, you'd be even more screwed. Right now, it only happens with a lieutenant dies. If they had our version, you'd get it when anything Nemesis died, so long as a lieutenant was standing.
  13. Won't you give me three steps,
    Gimme three steps mister,
    Gimme three steps towards the door?
    Gimme three steps
    Gimme three steps mister,
    And you'll never see me no more.


    Gimme Three Steps - Lynard Skynard




    This applies to every "Stop X from escaping!" mission. Especially when they spawn close to an elevator.
  14. Ever listen to the radio and think, "Hey, that's just like a mission from ______!" or "I wonder if ______ likes this song?"


    On my way home today I got hit by it. I was curious who else gets it from time to time.


    Hurt so good
    Come on baby, make it hurt so good
    Sometimes love don't feel like it should
    You make it hurt so good


    Hurts So Good - John Cougar

    I'm certain she'd love to get up on the stage at Pocket D on karaoke night to sing this one
  15. Fleeting Whisper

    HP debuff?

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight View Post
    all the Heals in the game are attacks that do damage of a special type to you, but a negative amount...
    That's kind of a semantic argument there. By the same token, I can define damage as being an absolute effect, and say Taunt effects deal Taunt damage. After all, both healing and damage* are absolute effects (as opposed to current, maximum, strength, or resistance effects), and once you get down to the level of analyzing individual power effects, there is nothing else really differentiating them.

    Of course, by this definition, other things are special kinds of damage, too: debt protection, PvP endurance drain, toggle dropping, and IO procs (not just damage procs; this includes Achilles Heel, Absolute Amazement, Analyze Weakness, Coercive Persuasion, Dark Watcher's Despair, Decimation, Force Feedback, etc).

    Also, since knockback is a current effect and yet it breaks sleep just like the absolute damage and the damage heals, we have a problem with both of our definitions of 'damage'. Honestly, I think it's safer just to consider healing and damage separate, realize there are multiple things which can break a sleep, and not get into the effect classifications, which most hardcore players haven't even heard of.

    * Actually, not all damage is an absolute effect. Backdraft (the attack used by the Steel Canyon burning building when it explodes), uses a current effect. This is how the damage it deals is always a specific multiple of your maximum HP.
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aggelakis View Post
    You can only bind chord keys with other keys. Chord keys are *ONLY* CTRL, ALT, and SHIFT.
    Mousechord!

    (I'm used to Ctrl/Shift/Alt being called modifier keys, tbh)
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bull Throttle View Post
    I assumed you wouldn't be able to visit Praetoria once you'd left...but I've already seen where my assumptions got me in this thread.
    Supposedly Praetoria has endgame content, too.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    Plus the Resistance would be likely to attract some bad types to it anyway.
    Like GG, for example
  19. Fleeting Whisper

    CoH 2

    If you don't enjoy CoH, why would it matter whether things transfer over? If you do enjoy CoH, why let your subscription lapse? If you have no choice but to let your subscription lapse for financial reasons, why ask the question?
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mike Bentley View Post
    "Trial Account - Buy Full Version" window/button that floats in the center of the screen. Yes tou can move it, but as soon as you load a new zone/instance it pops right back to the center of the screen. Drives me nuts.
    Totally agree. I don't think it'd be an issue if the window would just stick where the player puts it. Like all the other windows in the game. I like to hope it's just a bug that hasn't been fixed; if it's intentional, it's moronic.

    I may have joined long before the trial account restrictions were put in place, but that doesn't mean I can't look at them and see problems.

    Another big issue I see is that there is no means for trial account players to reply to tells, so when a team leader is polite and sends a /tell before inviting to the team, the trial player can't respond, and the team leader assumes you're AFK.

    Also, trial players can't create teams, no matter the circumstances. Not even with other trial players. There have been several cases where a couple or a group of friends get trial accounts together, but are unable to team together when they get in the game, because none of them can create the team. The only way they can team is if they get an extra player to invite all of them, and then quit; god forbid if someone disconnects.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bossa_Nova View Post
    The actual use of the elipsis (...)
    Of course, on teh computrz, we have an entire character to use for ellipsis. No more need to type three whole periods when you can use a single ellipsis!

    …
  22. You can get into a lot of trouble reading emotion into text. For my input, though, if I write a trailing elipsis, I'm generally intending to convey the sentence trailing off without ending properly. If someone read my intent correctly, the sentence might come off as aloof.

    I dunno where they got "hostile" from, though. His exclamation mark is much more hostile than a cute little elipsis
  23. Fleeting Whisper

    Alienware FX?

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Father Xmas View Post
    I think we are in trouble, my keyboard just conned purple
    Isn't that where the fun begins?
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by je_saist View Post
    I can see one potential problem... that of lack of resistance
    I'm not sure what you're saying? Hell, Assault gives Taunt (and Placate) resistance.