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Do we have a confirmation that the range component is 50% or could it be less since normally Range SOs only offer 20%?

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If the normal range buff is 20% then it would be a 30% buff for the range portion of Damage/Range. I seriously could be wrong though but I dont have a toon to effecitvely test this on.

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Thank you for the listing of powers things are useful in. I'm still not convinced that there is anything that can really use all three powers in Membrane Exposure (ToHit, DEF, Recharge). You list Elude, but I don't think that benefits from ToHit.

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Well, you have to remember it has 3 parts for a reason. You can put it in any power that affects either all 3, 2 parts, or just 1 part (like recharge). I listed Elude as a big benefit because not only do you get a big defense boost but it will recharge faster too. I think right now with 5 Hammy tohit+defensebuff/atk rates it recharges in 70 seconds (100 second duration) and gives me roughly 160% defense. Monsters? AV's? /em laugh

So not every power has to use all 3 parts. If you get ahold of 4 Hammy recharges, put them in Hasten and its perma easily without needing 2 extra slots, plus you get a pretty decent defense bonus.

The tohit portion of that power isn't used as often because of the fact that the tohit defbuff+reduce ends's work much better in things like Tactics or Invincibility or SR toggles/Ice Tank toggles, etc..

Good luck

This guide is meant to clear up most confusion on Hamidon Enhancements and other various things you may or may not have known.

There are 11 varieties of Hamidon Enhancements. I am going to provide a small run down of what a Hamidon Enhancement (for the rest of the guide referred to as Hammy O’s) is, how to obtain one, and their effectiveness. I will also give a brief rundown of what Hamidon is for anyone who doesn’t know who this amoeba, or commonly referred to as Jello is and basic info. on The Hive.

Hamidon is an amoeba that has 34 mitochondria around him. These mitochondria vary from Yellow, which are the “damage dealers”, Blue which do stuns with a little damage, and Green which are the healers. Hamidon is in the center of this primordial soup.

Where is Hamidon located? Well, he is in a zone called The Hive. To access it, you have to be at least Security Level 45. To get to The Hive, if you start at Atlas Park, hop on the tram to Steel Canyon, then go to Talos. Next go to Founder’s Falls, then head into Eden. At the far western edge of Eden is the entrance to The Hive.

The Hive is full of level 48-level 50 Monsters. They range from Quarry to Thorn to Lattice to Mushrooms. These beasts are not solo friendly anymore and the XP given by them is, as I say worthless. Devouring Swarms also exist in the zone if you fly really high but awhile back the developers made it so they don’t “insta aggro” on you like they previously did. They have a –fly and –teleport component to them if you do get hit by any, so be careful!

What is a Hammy O? Well, they are a special enhancement that enhance 2 parts (ie: Damage/Accuracy) or 3 parts and are given by Hamidon buds. These buds spawn 1 for each hero in his “shell”. You obtain an enhancement by defeating a Hamidon bud. If you defeat more then 1, you get more enhancements but can only obtain 10 because of the obvious limitations of only holding 10 enhancements at a time.

How “special” or effective are these enhancements? Well, the ones that buff 2 parts are a 50% buff to each. So you get a 50% buff to damage and a 50% buff to accuracy. For the ones that buff 3 parts, its rumored to be 30% and seems to be true.

Now, you’re probably wondering, what kind of enhancements are given. As said above, there are 11 varieties.

Nucleolus Exposure - Damage and Accuracy: This enhancement can be used in a variety of powers. Pretty self explanatory

Centriole Exposure - Damage and Range: This enhancement is a big thing for Blasters. If you 6 slot your snipe for it, you get some really sick range on your snipe. Also helps quite a bit for anything that uses the range portion but not damage portion. Also is great to stick into teleport

Peroxisome Exposure - Damage and Mez: This is a common thing used in a power like Total focus or any powers that have a mez attached to them (ie: Hold, sleep, stun, etc..but NOT knockback)

Endoplasm Exposure - Accuracy and Mez: This is very helpful for Controllers and a lot of Defenders. Self explanatory.

Golgi Exposure - Heal and Endurance Reduction: This is something a lot of Regen scrappers can use in things like Instant Healing or Integration. Also, very helpful to Empathy Defenders and Controllers.

Ribosome Exposure - Increase Damage Resistance and Endurance Reduction: This is very helpful to a majority of Tankers and some Scrapper secondaries.

Microfilament Exposure – Travel Speed Increase (Run, Fly, and Jump) plus Endurance Reduction: This is helpful in most travel powers. The Travel portion does not affect Teleport, only the endurance reduction port.

Lysosome Exposure - Increase ToHit and Defense Debuffs, and Increases Accuracy: This one can be used in a variety of powers. If it does any of the 3 mentioned, it can be slotted. This is the MOST effective in Smoke Grenade

Enzyme Exposure - Increase ToHit and Defense Debuffs, and Endurance Reduction: This can be used in any powers that do either of the 3. MOST effective in Radiation Infection

Membrane Exposure - Increase ToHit and Defense Buffs, and Increase Attack Rate: This can be used on powers that either increase the tohit buff, defense buff, or take recharge enhancements. This is VERY awesome in Elude (trust me )

Cytoskeleton Exposure - Increase ToHit and Defense Buffs, and Endurance Reduction: Same as above. Very useful for Ice Tanks and other various things that enhance defense in the form of a toggle and reduce the endurance cost.

These Hammy O’s can be slotted even if it can only use 1 part of the power. Example as said above: Damage & Range. You can slot it in Teleport just for the range portion or you could slot it into a scrapper attack like Hack on Broadsword just for the damage portion.

I hope this guide has helped clear up any confusion on Hammy O’s and other various questions you may have been wondering but never bothered to ask. If there are any errors/mistakes in this small guide, please feel free to make a post and I’ll look it over and make the change if needed.

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I think it's down again. Still gives the "thank you for testing message," but no channel access once it's turned on.

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There's a patch on test that fixes the crash bug mentioned earlier. Hopefully its put live shortly (ie: Tomorrow)

Now GC is down again (Pinnacle at least)

Working now

Same problem here. GC not working on Pinnacle

Found a new bug.

If I type /t @<handle>, and then after comma, if ANY word, ANY has a quote or " " in it, like "test", it says Wrong numer of parameters SendUser.

Sweet stuff there Posi

Thanks for the update

Did you retype /chatbeta 1 everytime you switched servers night? It looks like you didnt

/em Goes to google Myopic

I like those changes. Don't have a character with ST but they sound good.

I'm still waiting to find out if States will be at E3 this year

Looks like the issue where people weren't showing what Shard/Server they are on in the Global Friends list was fixed in this mornings server maintenance!

The /chatbeta 1 will be gone when they are done beta testing GC. They did it this way (as mentioned) for people to test it if they desire.

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Still seems to need work. However once its functioning it will be revolutionary.

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The thing is, is that GC is working. It is a BETA, as it implies. Report bugs, etc..as this is a BETA.

Also, the renaming of Shard/Status would be nice and also another bug is under Shard, it doesnt show what server my friends are on. Its completley blank.

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Quick follow-up post.

Yes - we had issues with the message board name pull we did yesterday and some people did not get their reserved names. However, we just fixed it so your name should be what your forum name was at 11 am yesterday.

That is why GC went down and handles and channels were lost - we reverted it and applied the correct reserved name list. This is not something that can happen with a random crash.

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Well, I do have to thank the people who did that, oddly enough! Someone on Pinnacle created chat channels with my SG's name and needless to say, were private and unable to find out who..but then the light came with a complete wipe and thus, We got our SG's name for the channel

/em walks off wondering why I told that story

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I found another small bug. Under global friends list, where it shows what map they are on, it says the filename for the map, not the mission name.

Example: Someone right now is on Outdoor_Forest_01c.txt when it should be saying the mission name I'd think?

Good stuff. I just hope you dont keep penalizing Kheldians too much with HP changes and whatnot

I saw a bug when the Chat Server "crashed" for a few minutes on Pinnacle earlier (ie: I couldnt do anything in GC).

Right after it "crashed" and came back, ALL channels and people on the Global Friends list were missing. How often the GC "server" crashes is unknown but this could become a real pain if its not fixed where we have to keep reinviting people to GFriends list and recreating the channels.

Global Chat works on Pinnacle now! Thanks devs!

On Test I was using the /send <name of channel>, <msg> and it worked for me. Was there an undocumented change on Live?

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I have a question.. is this meant to REPLACE current chat, or ADD to it? If it is a replacement, it might be frustrating trying to work with the names from the board rather than character names. If it adds.. nifty.

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It's an Add On to standard chat.

As for the / command to send to different channels, its /send <name of channel>, <msg> if you read the PDF it solves 90% of whatever questions you have.