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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Papaschtroumpf View Post
    I was playing with a build on mids and I have
    5 LoTG +7.5% rechg
    Sting of the Manticore set +7.5% rechg
    2x Basilisk's Gaze +7.5% rechg

    I would expected Mid's to warn me I was over 5 sets with the same bonus but it doesn't. Bug or do LoTGs really not add up to the "real" sets?
    An lotg 7.5% is different from a regular 7.5%.

    Edit: the reason for the difference is on the LotG, the 7.5% Recharge is being provided by the IO itself, it is NOT a set bonus. A set bonus, you need at least two of that set. But with LotG, if you put only one of those in a power, it still works.

    They count in that if you had 6xLotG's only 5 of them would count. (Edit part 2: I'm not certain that it is even limited in this way, since the 7.5% is a function of the IO, not a set bonus.)
  2. For some reason or another the spikey-visual-effects-around-the-feet associated with Super Speed have started giving me migraines. Idunno how long it's been going on, several months at least, maybe a year. Idunno why, maybe I'm getting old, maybe the new computer.

    It's a shame, too. I find Super Speed to be such a useful power: it provides Stealth by itself which stacks with a Stealth IO, making you nearly invisible almost all the time. Nearly all my squishies have it.

    So, is Pool Power Customization:

    (a) Never going to be done
    (b) Definitely going to be done Soon(tm) (ie, less than a year away)
    (c) Definitely going to be done, but not planned as yet (ie, at least a year away)
  3. Dog says: You feed me, you shelter me, you love me; you must be God.

    Cat says: You feed me, you shelter me, you love me; I must be God.
  4. I'll be there.

    @GATE-keeper: N-TREPID (Rad/Sonic Defender)
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by GATE-keeper View Post
    Or that Blitz is the "formal" Marshal of Warburg, when they clearly meant "former."

    Seriously, Devs, you expect people to pay extra for this? Make an effort!
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle View Post
    But he isn't the former Marshal of Warburg, he's the current one, a position that is apparently formal. I'm not saying there aren't any typos here, but that wasn't one of them.

    If you click on Clues and read the dossiers you are given at the beginning, Blitz' dossier says:

    NAME: Marshal Jason Blitz

    OCCUPATION: Formal Marshal for Isle of Warburg. Current leader of the 'Rogue Arachnos'

    BACKGROUND: Marshal Blitz was once the marshal of Warburg, an island in the Rogue Isles that was infamous for its WEB system, which developed extremely powerful missile weapons. Blitz was charismatic and ambitious, thwarting every attempt by 'rogue' heroes to oust the control Arachnos had over the island.

    Edit:
    Also, if you target Blitz, then -> Actions -> Info -> Description, the first paragraph reads:

    "Marshal Jason Blitz used to be the Arachnos Marshal for the isle of Warburg, one of the western-most Rogue Isles, and is today the de facto ruler of it. Marshal Blitz commands a contingent of Rogue Arachnos that took over Warburg and uses its rockets to threaten Paragon City."


    The whole point of the story being that when he worked for Arachnos, they made him Marshal of Warburg; but (at least for purposes of this story) now he appears to have turned against Arachnos, so they probably no longer accept him as Marshal.
  6. Tuesday Nov 15th at 10 pm Eastern, Clamor and Destruction (aka Sister Psyche Task Force)

    Level 20+, 5 to start, 50 merits

    If you'd like to reserve a spot, please leave your global, toon name and AT.

    1. @GATE-keeper: Olivia Neutron-Bomb (Totally Rad/Totally Mental Blaster)
    2. @Doctor_A_Science: Doctor Taxibot (DB/WP Scrapper)
    3. @Asgardian Blade: Asgardian Blade (Kat/Regen Scrapper)
    4. @Saint Jon: Samantha Swiftbow (Archery/TA Corruptor)
    5. @Death's Collector / Dr. Watson1: ?
    6. @AngelicaVenger: Jamie (StJ/WP Brute)
    7. @AdAstra: AdAstra (Dark/Ice Blaster)
    8. @Ellscry: Simulacra (Ill/Rad Troller)

    Since the purpose of doing these is to help each other level alts, we're going after xp, so we won't typically speed or stealth thru the mishes. We won't treat every mish as a Kill All, but we will kill it if it's in our way.
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Xanatos View Post
    Stop using broken English.

    Stop repeating words.

    Check that all fields in both contacts are filled in.

    In other words - get an intern to proofread these horribly written missions.
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dark_Respite View Post
    Like a 'vile' of blood. *wince*

    Michelle
    aka
    Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
    Or that Blitz is the "formal" Marshal of Warburg, when they clearly meant "former."

    Seriously, Devs, you expect people to pay extra for this? Make an effort!
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zwillinger View Post
    - 50% off the Time Manipulation Powerset: Beam Rifle has been one if our highest selling items amongst Free and Premium players, so we figured this would be a good solid buy for our Premium folks.
    Is that colon supposed to be a period? Otherwise, it's confusing.


    iow, what's on sale for 50% off? Time or Beam Rifle? I'm guessing Time?
  9. Does it have chainsaws?


    cuz, imho, a REAL zombie survival pack would have chainsaws....
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Seek_Trouble View Post
    I think the real rumor was City of Heroes shutting down in a year, which of course would lead to the Wiki shutting down.
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by DarkGob View Post
    So soon after Freedom? That's a shame.
    I guess Freedom really is just another word for nothing left to lose.....
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Justice Blues View Post
    A Kender will steal anything that is not nailed down. And the ones with claw hammers will that that stuff too. Mine carried 2 claw hammers. And all the maps. always all the maps. That way when I got petrified, they had to change me back to get the maps to where we were going. (It took them almost 20 minutes to realize that me being quiet was nice, but getting to the required location was more important.)
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Eva Destruction View Post
    Edit: None of my GMs allow Kender in their games. Kender are either annoying or out-of-character. Don't forget, they used to have taunt as a racial ability.
    Reminds me of a great game one Saturday evening, sometime around Halloween many years ago. We players thought that the DM said the story was entitled "Redneck Relic." During the game one of our characters looked into a mirror and found out it was really entitled "Rednek Rellik."
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Beastyle View Post
    Clearly it's 3 Peacebringers on a Rocket Board, then one jumped off when they went behind the building.
    You heard it here first, Issue 22 will have mounts usable by more than one player at a time.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ad Astra View Post
    P.S. - Totally love the new char name Olivia Neutron-Bomb - wish I had thought of it first!
    Thanks!

    I'm very much a "concept" player. I can't make up a new toon until I have a cool name and/or background and/or costume.

    The only problem is that I sometimes have problems fitting AT and powersets to the concept.

    Take Statesdude for example. I think the concept, name, background and costume are perfect, I just can't figure out what AT and powersets to make him. Originally, he was an Inv/SS tank (because he's an alternate world version of Statesman). But I've already got one Inv/SS tank (my main GATE-keeper). So when Going Rogue came out - which gave those of us who refuse to play bad guys a way to play brutes - I re-rolled Statesdude as an NRG/WP brute. But the last two attack powers in Energy Melee are - imho - just too slow for a brute (slow attacks are not good for Fury and I spent too much time punching corpses). So I deleted him (yes, I deleted a level 43 character) and re-rolled him as Dark Melee/WP. Shortly after that, Street Justice was released and now I'm thinking that I wish I had rolled Statesdude as a StJ/WP brute.

    I don't think I'll have those problems with Olivia, however. Firstly, with a last name like Neutron-Bomb, she has to have Rad Blast as a powerset (because the power Neutron Bomb only appears in Rad Blast.) Which meant I had to make her a Blaster, Corruptor or Defender. I've already got some other concepts that I will roll as Corruptor and/or Defender. I've never gotten a Blaster past 20, so I decided to make her a Blaster. And since I solo a lot, my toons have to be survivable while soloing and Drain Psyche is such a good tool for that, so I picked Mental Manipulation. (Also, cuz Rads are a little Mental and Mentals are so Rad!)

    Edit: Oh, and I'd love to take credit for the name, but I think I first heard Olivia Newton-John referred to as "Olivia Neutron-Bomb" back on the old 70's TV show WKRP in Cincinnati. But if one is going to play a female Rad Blaster, I daresay there is no more appropriate name! ;p
    /Edit

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by AngelicaVenger View Post
    I will bring Jamie. Hoping to pick up Posi Part 2 before then. I felt badly about bailing out last night, but I was just completely spent. Went right to bed after that.
    I think Ironblade is planning Part 2 for next Saturday's TF.

    Yanno, we usually get thru both Posi 1 and 2 in about two hours tops. I don't know what happened last Tues night, but we didn't finish Part 1 till about 11:15 and right as we were gathering to start Part 2, Steel Canyon got hit with a Zombie Invasion which delayed our start. (That was my fault.) We didn't finish Part 2 til about quarter to one.

    Since Synapse is the longest of the TFC TF's, I'm gonna get to Skyway a little early next Tuesday. If we don't have 8 signed up, I'll start recruiting a little earlier. Luckily, it only takes 4 to start. Hopefully, we can try and get started no later than 5 after.
  14. Tuesday Nov 8th at 10 pm Eastern, The Fall of the Clockwork King (aka Synapse Task Force)

    Level 15+, 4 to start, 58 merits.

    If you'd like to reserve a spot, please leave your global, toon name and AT.

    1. @GATE-keeper: Olivia Neutron-Bomb (Totally Rad/Totally Mental Blaster)
    2. @.sketch: Lutari (Archery/Time Corruptor)
    3. @AdAstra: AdAstra (Dark/Ice Blaster)
    4. @AngelicaVenger: Jamie (StJ/WP Brute)
    5. @Deaths Collector: Botsekks (Bots/FF MM)
    6. @Asgardian Blade: Jaden Maldoran (SJ/EleA Scrapper)
    7. @Saint Jon: Samantha Swiftbow (Archery/TA Corruptor)
    8. @Green Wind: Skerik (SD/Mace Tanker)
    9. @Doctor_A_Science: ?

    Since the purpose of doing these is to help each other level alts, we're going after XP; so we won't typically speed or stealth thru the mishes. We won't treat every mish as a Kill All, but we will kill it if it's in our way.
  15. Yeaaay! Back to blueside!

    I'll bring N-TREPID (Rad/Sonic Defender)
  16. You should have done a Lambda first, then took that peekchur. :P
  17. Slightly related, I had heard recently that some of the clones in that mish are able to use Tier 9 powers. Is that correct?

    (My understanding was that this was the case for clones of characters with newer power sets like Time or Beam Rifle.)
  18. Ill/Rad Trollers and Rad/Sonic Fenders are generally accepted as being able to solo AV's and the occasional GM.

    Are there any Corruptor combos that can do so using SO's (this would be on a premium account)? Seems like Scourge is tailor-made for hard targets.
  19. OK, I know that a premium has to be at least Paragon Rewards Tier 2 in order to join an SG, but at what level can a premium:

    1) invite others into an SG,
    2) promote others
    3) modify storage permissions, etc.

    Is that included with the Tier 2?


    (I'm basically trying to figure out if it's worth the hassle to set up a premium account just to have a toon of my own to use to invite my other alts into my solo SG's)
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Caustic_Frost View Post
    Hi everyone,

    Quick question as I'm trying to figure this out but have been unsuccessful: If I transfer servers with a character that currently has items up in the auction house, does that all transfer as well to the new server or do I have to remove it all before transfer?

    Thanks!
    The Auction House is cross-server. So, kinda yes, kinda no.

    Say you have a toon on Freedom and you store a Ragnarok proc on the market. If you move to Virtue and go to the Auction House, you would be able to pick up that proc.

    So when you transfer to a new server, ur stuffz on teh market do not transfer with you, but they don't need to because they are already accesible to that server anyway.
  21. GATE-keeper

    Hami Halloween!

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by James_Donner View Post
    Thanks Gate,

    We have a regular Sat night raid and are very familiar with the strategy. If you would like to help out we usually gather in the Hive around 9:15 to sort out team leads.

    and we use the evacless strategy.
    Lol, oh no, I wasn't suggesting a strategy, just asking if that's the one you all used.
  22. GATE-keeper

    /Bind question

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironblade View Post
    Try:
    /bind button4 targetcustomnext "mark III"
    You can also try

    /bind <key> target_custom_next alive "<whatever>"

    so you don't target one you just killed.
  23. Ah, so by "merit recipes" he meant "certain recipes that - once upon a time - could only be aquired by completing certain TF's or trials, but now can be purchased with merits and also now drop from bosses even outside of TF's and trials"

    I was aware that such a category existed, but I've only ever heard them referred to as Pool C drops (didn't know Pool D was different). I never heard them referred to as "merit recipes."


    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironblade View Post
    Merit recipes are only given out on the basis of merit.
    That's why you haven't seen any.
    You might be right. I don't think any have ever dropped for me.