Generalissimo

Thanks, I'll be in contact later

Howdy I have a baby tanker on Union that I'm looking to get inf'ed up. If anyone is interested in swapping some of their Union influence for Defiant influence could you let me know here or in game @Gen 2. I'm looking for about 5 million but would be fine with getting 1 or 2 million if people don't want the hassle of transferring so much at once. Ta muchly

I have Aid Self slotted with 2 interupt/2 heal/2 recharge and I'm usually able to use it successfully even under heavy fire. In my experience Invincibility provides enough defense in a large group to enable you to use it (if not on the first attempt then on the second) and once the numbers have thinned down the rate of fire at you is lower so you're less likely to be interupted. I have both Aid Self and Tough in my build and I have pretty decent survivability. I don't have Weave (didn't think it gave enough bang for my buck) and I don't have all my passives so your build with all those included will have excellent survivability

The mace side of things seems fine - the disorient on whirling mace and the knockback on crowd control will add damage mitigation to increase your survivability further and will draw good aggro to you. All in all a very playable, effective and fun build. The only change I might make to it if it was my build would be to pick up one of the ancillary pool holds in place of one of the passives - they're very handy versus Malta.

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Hey sweet, Steam Punkette got a Convention Sketch posted.

http://www.mmoart.com/gallery/steampunkette.php

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Ha! Funniest sketch ever!

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To add an insult to injury, my Plant dominator's Impale doesn't get the -jump. Do Spines scrappers need it more?!

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Huh, my scrapper's impale must be broken because I'm pretty sure I remember villains jumping away from me after I impaled them in PvP.

I'll be there if I'm online at whatever time you choose.

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Tank with other tanks as little as possible, learn how to tank from other tanks from the perspective of all your squishies and then in your knowledge of how all your ATs should interact go nuts at people who only level one toon at a time and are on their very first toon and know nothing about other players perspectives or requirements when they interact badly.

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So in a hypothetical situation where a newcomer to the game, who's playing their first character (a tank), is in the same team as you (also on a tank) you wouldn't give them any benefit of the doubt and would instead "go nuts" at them if they didn't meet your requirements for how a tank should be played?

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In arena you can buy 10% sturdy or 25% luck id rather fill up on lucks and not need any sturdys. Or is that a fair balance of 10% res or 25% luck on offer i wonder.

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The in-game text is wrong (was wrong?) apparently. Lucks aren't actually 25% defense - they're 12.5%.

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DEF
S - 12.5%
M - 25%
L - 33%


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Link to thread on US forum

Castle posts on thread

I haven't seen any mention of the inspiration text being updated so I assume the in-game text hasn't been updated yet?

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If i manage to get another respec (it will have to be a free one [img]/uk/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img] im not bothering to choose an EPIC, and tell you what cryptic should be done under the trade description act just for calling them that.

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They're actually called Ancillary power pools now [img]/uk/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

an·cil·lar·y
adj.
1. Of secondary importance
2. Auxiliary; helping

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Gratz to Xanthus for leading another succesful raid and a big thanks to Archy and Generalissmo for testing and designing a new Phantom Army tactic, which was the key to our succes this time.

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I was just there to have ideas bounced off me and to add a second set of decoys to the testing - Archy deserves full credit for getting the PA droppers focussed and following a workable plan [img]/uk/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

It was a nice satisfying raid (up until the lack of HO's anyway). Many thanks to the kins for speed boosting us hovering invised illusionists - bless your eyesight [img]/uk/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Edit: In response to Raziel_DX, whereas Union seem to have a history with people not getting HO's to the best of my knowledge Defiant has never had an issue in the past with people not getting HO's when they should.

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And in Pink and Green too... [img]/uk/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Congratulations on dinging in style [img]/uk/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Congratulations! [img]/uk/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Even though what you say may make sense you still shouldn't take it upon yourself to do your own thing during the raid. One person not following the raid leader's directions leads to more people not doing it too. Even though it may be a little frustrating for some people it's best if everyone follows the raid plan.

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Oh forgot to mention many thanks to Half Breed for our base he is he decorator of the SG [img]/uk/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img], and a bloomin good job he has done.

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He also seems to be in love with your SG symbol [img]/uk/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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My God, it's full of stars...

If I'm available I'll definitely join in

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I think I will pick: Save Me - Remy Zero. It's from the smallville TV series so hero related and seems to fit: I was hoping someone would come and save me at about 4am...

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And then the brave Generalissimo 2 stepped forward and heroicly said "Me too tired - me go bed now"

I don't have a well developed taste in music (I only listen to about 5 bands in total) so anything by my favourite band Barenaked Ladies would be nice (Who Needs Sleep might be an apt one ) or maybe Forca by Nelly Furtado - that's a nice song too. If that stuff doesn't fit in with the video than you can put anything you want in instead - I'm not fussy

I've been looking forward to gaining two more levels on my scrapper so I can go into RV and do some PvP. When I do go in there I'll be following the rules of the zone and the rules of the game - not the "rules" set by other players who want to restrict how others can play for their own enjoyment and gain. See y'all at the pill boxes...

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These are suggestions, not criticisms.
Nice Build!

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Thanks, I have to rethink my sloting.

End cost.. mm. are this correct base values?
-0.08 Combat Jumping
-0.22 Hover
-0.77 Integration
-0.45 Maneuvers
-0.375 Stealth
-0.53 Super Speed
-0.23 Tough
-0.27 Weave

It seems that Combat Jump doesn't need endurance recuction at all. Other hand Integration seem to use a lot of endurance. Anyone know what's the base value for Focused accuracy?

One Endurance reduction SO would drop Integration -0.58, 2 -0.46 and 3 -0.39

Also how much effects one attack speed increase does in attack powers?

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Red Tomax has the cost of Integration as being 0.13 end per tick, with a tick every 0.5 seconds so per second the cost would be 0.26 end.

LINK

You can have a poke around the various pool power tables to see what the other powers cost:

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EDIT: And here are the Epic pools:

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and Body Mastery in particular:

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Congrats!

I think BuffyASummers' scrapper information thread on the US forum will provide you with a lot of good information:

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If you can determine how many attack powers you need at a minimum to be happy with your attack chain and then set aside sufficient slots for those attacks you can use the scrapper info thread to maximise your return for the other powers and slots.

Righteous Bob signing up for some PA dropping

From CuppaJo:

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I just sent a PM to cuppa asking if purposefully giving a player debt is considered griefing. Will update when she gets back to me


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The Devs say - No. (Unless something is occurring over and over with the intention to harass, then it may be actioned.)

Ultimately PVE mobs in a PVP zones are hazards of a PVP zone. Players do have control (and options) that will prevent them from being victims of the TP Foe tactic.

Regarding being held, immobilized, slept and then being teleported into a PVE mob: griefing? No.

If a player uses TP Foe and teleports another player into a mob, so that their health is reduced, and then finishes them off with a killing shot….griefing? No.

If a player intentionally uses a knockback power (or Repel or Dispersion Bubble) on another player from the top of the roof to the street below where there happens to be a PVE mob, and the player’s presence draws mob aggro and dies…should the player who knocked back the target player off that roof be actioned for griefing? No.

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Just to make things clear here -

If someone attacks you in a PvP zone and you are having an RP event (like FC) that is NOT harassment.

If you are in a PvP zone you can attack another player repeatedly.

However - you cannot trash talk someone using vulgar words, racial slurs, sexual slurs or other UA violating actions (something is occurring over and over with the intention to harass, it may be actioned.) That IS harassment and can be actioned against by the GMs.

You could also be actioned for exploiting in a PvP zone - for example - by hanging out as a villain in a hero hospital to gank heroes as they respawn. This is not as designed and may be actioned.

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The key phrase for me is "The Devs say - No. (Unless something is occurring over and over with the intention to harass, then it may be actioned.)". If someone is repeatedly tp'ing the same person into mobs to cause them debt than this could be petitioned and actionable as harassment.

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Kin and Archy are correct - it is possible to grief other players in PvP, and victims of such behaviour should /petition with full details.

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It is fascinating why the red name posts are contradictory to this. According to them, there is nothing we can do tp other players on PVP zones that can be considered griefing.

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Unless you use an exploit, in which case it is griefing.

Strange use of Teamspeak excerpts at the end Nice, fun video though - the choice of music for the start was perfect