Fleeting Whisper

You're making PCFP socks?!

I can say the same thing about a few others, such as Mirror Spirit and Foreshadow (though they do beat Hequat by getting to stand around doing nothing as trainers); Mirror Spirit even gets two signature powers, Mirror Trap and Mirror Shield.

But what about:

• t3h S00p4rFr34k! (Destroy the SuperFreak)
• Bile (Rescue Vivian van Dyne)
  (In fact, the Freakshow in general get cool stuff we don't, but Bile at least is around our model size)
• Dr. Quatrexin (Defeat Dr. Quatrexin)

There are also a few who only show up during a TF/SF/Trial, but those can be repeated outside of Ouroboros.

Counterpoint: Engine does work like that in PvP.

No, but it's used in a level 1-4 natural origin (Atlas Park) mission: Stop Skulls' attack on party

1. Create a natural origin hero
2. Go to Atlas Park
3. Do your origin contact missions

You'll get to see the map.

Ever played the Starship Titanic PC game? Part of progressing in the game was discovering/memorizing chevrons, and I'm pretty sure the Resistance/Sergeant chevron was one of them.

Obviously, CoH is stealing from Starship Titanic, which is stealing from a single line in Life, the Universe, and Everything*! =O

* Okay, Douglas Adams wrote the book** and helped design the game. Work with me here!

** IIRC, the line was something like, "...the Starship Titanic, which underwent Sudden Massive Existence Failure, or SMEF..."

Is it an invasion if the people you're attacking invaded you first?

I mean, here we are, with Steven Berry, our wonderful Praetor of Automechanicalcyberneticclockwork Affairs, working with his long-time friend Raymond Keyes, Praetor of Researchanalysisexlporationexplosionsradiationandu nrequittedlove. They discover a new dimension, and while Raymond is peacefully exploring it with a small clockwork security team, he gets attacked! Steven is relieved to know that his friend is all right... but since then, super-powered beings from that dimension have been attacking us left and right, for no reason at all! THIS, loyal citizens of Nova Praetoria, is WAR!





Also, we prefer to be called "keepers of the peace" than "mass-murderers".

You asked for it!



You see, it's not a strict rule that primaries be 'better' than secondaries. Each effect that a power has (damage, buff, debuff, mez, etc.) is a scalar multiplied by an "attribute modifier", which is dependent on the AT and the character's level.

For example, [Charged Bolts] deal scale 1.000 * Ranged_Damage energy damage. At level 50, a Blaster's Ranged_Damage modifier is -62.562, so the base damage for a Blaster's Charged Bolts is 62.562 at level 50. Blaster's Ranged_Damage is -10.250 at level 1, so Charged Bolts is 10.25 damage at level 1. Defenders range from -9.300 to -36.147, and Corruptors range from -9.500 to -41.708.

For a counterexample, look at [Entangling Arrow] for both Defenders and Controllers:

• mag 3 immobilize for 15.000 * Ranged_Immobilize seconds
• -0.100 * RangedSlow% recharge for 15s
• -0.100 * Ranged_Slow run/fly speed for 15s

At level 50, Defenders have Ranged_Immobilize of 1.490, while Controllers have 1.863. Both Defenders and Controllers have Ranged_Slow of -1.250 from level 1 to 50. Although Trick Arrow is a Defender primary and a Controller secondary, they have identical -rech and -spd, but Controllers have a longer duration immobilize.

As long as you admit it

There are no accuracy inspirations; there are tohit inspirations. Additionally, tohit does not follow an inverse formula (1 / x), unlike recharge.

Because of the widely sought-after recharge bonuses between enhancements, powers, and set bonuses, and the fact that recharge uses an inverse formula to determine its effects, a recharge inspiration would have an unnoticable effect on a mature character build unless you either eat an entire tray of inspirations, or the buff from the inspiration is a ludicrous value. In the former case, the inspirations are useless, and in the latter case they become tremendously overpowered for the characters that aren't matured, and may even lead to players stockpiling the recharge inspirations and replacing their other recharge buffs with other effects, making themselves even better while using the inspirations.

Fluffy was also black, until Power Customization came along


*runs away from threadlock*

At least in the original CoP Trial, 'Aspect of Rularuu' was just Ruladak the Strong with a different name.

Cooperate meaning both have him as a TF contact (Heroside) and as an in-mission ally (Scirocco's story arc and Efficiency Expert Pither's story arc)

But we already knew what the Praetorian Clockwork looked like. These just look like damaged versions of those.

Actually, gaystar made a surprisingly helpful post, compared to his usual fare.

AFAIK, there's no way to trigger and effect when the toggle is turned off. However:


- Toggle has a short activation period (eg: 0.5s)
- Toggle has a long-duration non-stacking effect to self (eg: +20% def to self for 120s, ignores enhancements and buffs)
- Toggle has a short-duration non-stacking negative effect to self (eg: -20% def to self for 0.55s, ignores enhancements and buffs)

The net effect would be nothing while the toggle is on, and some time between shutting the toggle off and 0.5s after shutting the toggle off, you'd get +20% def for somewhere between 119.5s and 120s.



This is similar to the way enhancements in Hover are made useful. Hover has -flyspeed which is unaffected by enhancements, and +flyspeed which is affected by enhancements. Since the +flyspeed is a larger value, enhancements do more to your actual speed than would normally be expected.

Rogues are still 'bad guys' and Vigilantes are still 'good guys'. Their morality just kinda leans the other way a bit.

Also consider the very small absolute gain for somebody with recharge enhancements and Hasten running, not to mention +rech set bonuses.

You must admit, it is a quality box. It's made of cardboard and yet it supports an 8-foot tall musclebound supersoldier, plus his equipment.

If it isn't worth it, why did you do it?

You can always use my Red Tomax Categories list. I haven't updated it (except for correcting the links and some formatting) since I added it, but offhand the only thing it might be missing is stuff for the Deadly Apocalypse.

Unlikely. 'Serverless' might work for the entire game at once, or for PvP, but not for Praetoria alone. Not to mention, Praetoria has, what... lv1-20 content and 'endgame' content (lv50 and [b]maybe[/i] lv45-50)?