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Your attitude isn't really putting me in a position where I want to bother uploading the other clip because the first clip already disproves your claim. I think we are at the stage you need to provide some evidence beyond "cause I say so".

Suffice to say the gap is longer than 4 seconds and less than 5 seconds, which is what one would expect with knowledge of how the power actually works.

It's not at all odd that the power doesn't force a despawn with it recharging at 60 seconds. It would need to recharge at 59.7 seconds or faster to do that and even then it would only be forcing the final remaining pet at that time. 58.7 or less to force the despawn of two of them and 57.7 or less to force all three to despawn.

My APP powers have no bearing on this discussion, but:
iceblast - 5 piece decimation, 1 smash proc
hibernate - 5 piece doctors wounds
icestorm - 5 piece positron's blast
frozen armor - 3 piece lotg incl. 7.5%

Here's the absolute most simplified explanation I can give of PA.
Last pet is summoned at 3 seconds in, 60 second duration.
Cast time 3.3 seconds.
63-3.3 = 59.7

Now look above to see where that figure fits in.

Really cause every debate I've ever seen where people talk about it they don't actually know for sure. I'm telling you and showing you for sure. Science > speculation. Proof > belief. Not much to say beyond that.
Unless you are suggesting I edited the video for some hidden gain then it is pretty easy to see in the clip that I have 135% rech before clicking hasten. It then goes up to 205%. I cue the power and the game activates it as soon as it is ready. I then proceed to open my character in the video and show how the power is slotted (4 piece expedient+ 2 soulbound)

It's not a high res video (was taking forever to upload so I just went with low res), but it is all there if you look.

The only one that surprised me on this list is BAB vs Marauder.

Hasten and AM both replace their effects, so do not stack. Unless of course you have zoned between uses.

If you have a 63 second recharge on PA you will be without PA for ~4.2 seconds.

Those comments were based on the premise that champions wouldn't be terrible though. Champions could still be turned into a solid showing, but it was released in a very rough state, just like this game was. That just doesn't fly anymore. CO still managed to take a nice bite out of us though. If anyone is going to release a fairly polished product is is SOE and the time they are taking on DCUO seems to support that. That does not reflect how they will handle the game further down the road of course.

Definitely, but that doesn't change that I'm pretty sure you guys were talking about two very different things.

That said, I haven't looked that closely at the different offers they are doing through the various vendors, but I imagine they are all fairly similar. Extrapolating meaningful data out of the sales records will be a challenge to say the least. One will first have to eliminate such variables as the vendor itself, which is an extremely difficult task to do with enough accuracy to proclaim the relative value much beyond red, or black.

I doubt they are doing any tracking and analysis that is in-depth enough to determine the relative success of each different GR offer at each different vendor. That requires a very strong marketing department and/or a lot of resources dedicated to the task. If PS marketing had that on hand I think they would be doing a lot more marketing. I know we like to bag on the marketing department, but I'm pretty sure the deficiency is caused by it being the "pvp of departments" within the company, which is to say - neglected.

If you feel like Guardian is empty (and it is) then don't move to Victory as it is more of the same and you may as well just stay on Guardian.

Freedom and Virtue both have solid populations. By far the strongest at any rate. If as you say the MM part of the MMO is important to you then Freedom is the best choice. There are times I'd prefer Freedom to have even more people, but you can usually find people doing almost any activity that you might want to partake in, so it is pretty good.

Freedom (and Virtue) are night and day from the other servers, but don't tell any of them that they are ghost towns or the diehards playing on them will attempt to tear you a new one. But should you ever make such a mistake it isn't that big of a deal because there are only a few people there to even bother yelling at you

Welcome to Freedom and make sure you check out the thread that lists the main channels and you will never run out of teams unless you choose to.

Pretty sure you guys are talking about two different things.

Houtex was talking about the listing not being a form of marketing, which is true. It is a fine line though. If they paid to be a featured item on the listing it would be marketing. However, just a standard placement probably doesn't qualify.

You are talking about the gamestop offer attached to that listing being a form of marketing, which is true.

However, it isn't until you click a level further on the game stop site where it describes the gamestop offer and links you to a cox video.

Unfortunately it is a tough issue to tackle. The kb is visually great and it is even fun provided you can get past the negatives it brings. I personally wouldn't want to take the effect away from the power, but I would make it more reliable and increase it up close to 100% chance of occurring. I don't think you can change what CK does without taking a lot of the flavor away from the power. So ideally we shouldn't.

Despite the earlier misinformation, CK presents a much larger overarching issue toward MA as a whole than CAK. One that I'd solve with CAK as mentioned, but I remain open to ideas of course. I know as of now CK is one of the main reasons I went fire app and now include ring of fire in my attack chain. While not actually a terrible DPA attack if the target lives long enough for the long duration dot to complete it does tend toward lowering MA's dps even further if used (better than when the only option was web grenade). But it is still higher than if I have to keep chasing the target down.

Good. Well, not good in the sense that I'm glad TA's are also experiencing this negative in their play, but good in the sense that the more powers this bug affects the more likely it is Castle will eventually fix it*

*Assuming it is the same cause, which it sounds like, but who knows.

haha, could you imagine. That would be like if the Praetoria versions of each dev took over.

Solo: I do the same thing. I let them make their way back to me and deal with the other enemies.

Team: I'm a st specialist and as such usually going after high ranking threats. Having two bosses run around with 10% hp is just as dangerous as having two bosses at 100% hp. If I were an ma/inv or shield I would continue with the strategy of switching targets because they are going to be under a long duration taunt and will come back to me. Other secondaries, the risk of a squishy doing pretty much anything to get their attention is fairly high. Especially since I likely just knocked them out of range of the punch-voke tank or anyone else helping with agro control.

That says nothing of me knocking them out of my own preferred areas such as away from my rttc, or powersink, or damage aura, or dragon tail.

Crane Kick's high kb actually gives solid support for the idea of adding some -regen to the set. If the dev's really intend for us to switch targets after crane kick then it would be nice if said target didn't go and heal back some of that damage in the time it takes them to make their way back to us. Or the devs intend for us to have near zero dps due to knocking the target away all the time, which I hope isn't the case.

It also lends support to the idea of adding 2-3 seconds of -kb to CAK. That way you can combo in to CK without worry of zeroing future damage. Which as of right now if you lead with CAK into CK it takes even longer for them to come back to you due to immob and/or slow, which is further contrary to synergy. The short duration -kb would allow CK to still function as it does now unless you combo into it. win, win and would mean less disruption to powers if people like them the way they are now.

But then again I've been told
by the all-seeing prophet, so I'm not sure why I'm even talking as this thread has already been blessed by her omnipotent vision.