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I think it's more of a case that the description doesn't say just how minor the tohit debuff is (and they're too lazy to check the real numbers), and some people hate speed buffs.

Um... you mean Conduit of Pain, the ally rez that grants a 90s buff followed by a 45s debuff? Just like Radiation Emission's Mutation and Poison's Elixir of Life? The only difference between those 3 powers is that Conduit of Pain puts the buff/debuff on yourself, and Elixir of Life adds a 4s hold to the debuff.

Not particularly useful to monitor, IMO. It's actually Threat multiplier, not your actual Threat level (since Threat is on a per-critter basis). You have an inherent Threat multiplier, and there is very little that alters your multiplier; Super Speed, Superior Invisibility, Group Invisibility, Invisibility, and Phase Shift are all I can think of, each reducing the multiplier by 1.0.

True for GW. But we also got into a tangent about the Healing Nictus in the ITF, where it does matter which effect you apply to what target.

Yeah, the fact that they're DO-level enhancements available for free at level 1 makes them worth it. They'll stop working later, but I'll have access to better stuff then, too.

All of the holds will stack. But with or without your suggestion:
- Lieutenants and lower are held with a single application
- Bosses are held with two applications
- Archvillains in triangles-down phase are held with two applications
- Elite Bosses are held with two applications (your version), or three applications (current version)
- Archvillains in triangles-up phase will take an extreme amount of recharge

In order to affect a target with a mez, you need to beat their mez protection.
Minions and players have mag 1 protection
Lieutenants have mag 2 protection
Bosses and Archvillains have mag 3 protection
Elite Bosses have mag 6 protection

AVs have "Purple Triangles" mez protection for 2/3 of the time, granting +50 protection.

As you can see, except for EBs and triangles-up, your suggestion doesn't make any practical difference. And even with triangles-up, making a practical difference requires a substantial amount of +recharge considering that you have to beat 53 mag protection.

A better action would be to send a PM to one of the devs with a link to this thread. War Witch would probably be best.

Dual Blades does not rely on long attack chains. Dual Blades' "secondary effect" is combos which are three attacks long. Three is a pretty short attack chain, if you could sustain just those three. Which is unlikely.

That's why attack chains were brought up in the first place. You've designed a set with only three attacks; that can't be maintained unless either the recharge/cast time ratio turns them into a terrible chain, or else you have a ton or recharge. Either it's a bad attack chain, or the attack chain isn't obtainable for most players.

You can. In fact, Mesmerize (same set) is mag 3.5 sleep. And since boss critters have exactly mag 3 protection inherent to their rank, an effect above 3 (even by a fraction) will affect them, while exactly 3 won't. Mesmerize sleeps a boss in one hit.

However, on your suggestion for Dominate, it won't do much. There are only two cases where it will make any difference at all (and I mean ANY): natural EBs (not AVs that scale down to EBs, I mean actual EBs, which aren't particularly common), and fighting AVs on super-high recharge builds.

That why you should play redside

Quaterfield. Quater, not Quarter; Field, not Main.

I mean, if you went for Quatermass, I'd let it slide, since the character is based on Professor Bernard Quatermass...
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They're randomly-generated filler missions originally designed to help you get to the next tier of content if you don't level fast enough.

Newspaper/Radio missions aren't content. Go talk to your contacts

The EU servers are located in Germany, and Germany is close to France. And the forums you guys moderate cover both EU and NA servers.

Note: Don't try going to the Eiffel Tower on Bastille day. The line is ridiculous

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I wasn't going to mention it, but since Bill brought it up...

Repeat Offenders Network. Largest coalition of supergroups in the game, with 38 SGs across 3 servers (both hero and villain SGs). I don't think any of them fall in the "Top X SG" category on their server, but we've had several of them hit the SG membership cap before (of course, less commonly since the cap was raised).

RO is about teaming and doing crazy stuff, not grinding presitge. To paraphrase Castle, 'Repeat Offenders has publicly leveraged the game mechanics to do stupidly difficult things easily.'

Yes. "Top Supergroup" generally means top as listed by the SG registrar, which is purely by prestige earned. And to keep the top spot, they have to get people grinding prestige constantly. I definitely advise against joining groups claiming they're the top on the server.

Join a SG if it's full of people you enjoy hanging out with, whether it be people you've met in-game, or some real-life friends you play with. The Supergroup & Villaingroup Recruitment forum can help you find SGs full of actual players, rather than just prestige grinding. Or, ask around in your server's forum.

In actuality, the only thing a SG can give you that you can't get from a friends list is extra storage space for enhancements, inspirations, and salvage, but that's storage you share with the group, not personal storage. (And some zone teleporters go places you'd have to run/jump/fly to rather than taking the train.)

1000-mag hold and dam/tohit debuff, actually.

Pretty sure they are giving a box, since the GameStop deal also comes with a Razer Sphex(?) Desdemona mousepad. IIRC, the same type of mousepad (different art) costs $15, so that's not a bad deal, either.

Hmm... I could've sworn Kheldians got access to the Kheldian auras as separate aura pieces when they got access to the kheldian costume change emotes, but Paragonwiki says I'm wrong

What he said

PFF starts above the 45% softcap. The only reason to go any higher if if you're fighting something with substantial +tohit (note: higher-level enemies only get +acc until they're +6 or more to you). Offhand, I can't think of any enemy with enough +tohit to need defense slotting in PFF (and especially not more defense than just a single SO in the default slot), though you'd probably need it in PvP.

As above, there's no need for so much defense. Gunslingers don't have any +tohit, so even unslotted PFF alone is enough to floor the Gunslinger's chance to hit.

Gunslingers' attacks have inherent accuracy of 2.0 (most attacks have 1.0, Archery has 1.155, Assault Rifle has 1.05, most nukes have 1.4, etc...). So, while unslotted PFF will floor the Gunslinger's chance to hit, it will be slightly above 5% (10% for a +0 Gunslinger).

Right, I've got no problem with the Zombie Apocalypse being available all the time. It doesn't matter how many people are interested in the zombies, you can still kill more zombies just fine (same for Rikti Invasion, which is basically the same event with different opponents and the addition of the bomb phase).

The Deadly Apocalypse, on the other hand, requires a lot of coordination and/or teams in order to succeed. Which simply doesn't happen when it's a common occurrence and has little reward.

Well, I suppose you could set it up like the bank vaults: you can target them, but not with [tab]; you have to actually click on it.

Of course, it also brings up the issue that the game has a hard limit of rendering only 100 entities at once, and inanimate objects count as part of that.

- 8 players
- 20 critters (current spawn)
- 40 critters (visible spawns)
- 2 Dominator pets
- 6 Mastermind henchmen
- 4 Pseudopets
(80 entities total)

That's not an uncommon reality for a Villain team. Of course, things change depending on the powersets and team composition. A Plant Dominator could add a bunch more, depending on dead enemies. A Thugs Mastermind could add an additional 13 from Gang War. A Traps Corruptor/Mastermind could add Trip Mines, Force Field Generator, Caltrops, Poison Trap, Seeker Drones, Acid Mortar...

Hero teams can do it, too, but they don't have Masterminds automatically adding 6. Of course, come GR, we'll have Hero/Vigilante/Rogue Masterminds, too. (Or, play in a co-op zone.)

It's not quite so dramatic to have the cardboard box explode as you run by if the cardboard box isn't being rendered at all. Or worse, the Malta Sapper you were trying to kill disappears because you got too close to the cardboard box.

Unlike the server friends list, global friends have to accept the friend invite.


You can stalk characters, but you can't stalk players

Invulnerability and Shield Defense both have taunt auras with a longer Taunt duration than other sets (and Taunt duration does far more for your Threat rating than any other factor).