GuyPerfect

A bit sore are we? I'm sorry you're not as resourceful and actually lolpvp for your rewards.

The way I see it, since the devs made PvP suck so bad, equally sucky measures should be taken to achieve the PvP badges. It's the only way to keep the universe in balance.

Was going to, but only half the people from the night before came back, so I figured scheduling it in advance would be better.

PuGs aren't a problem in practice. We only had 1 defeat on each attempt, and both were for dumb reasons that weren't PuG reasons.

I'm in danger of achieving Master of 1 Defeat in Statesman's Task Force, so I'd like to get this cranked out with some dedicated players who need the badge or just want to help out.

Tentative schedule is as follows:


February 18, 9:00 PM Eastern

• @Guy Perfect (Poison)
• @Vanden (Invulnerability)
• @B Samson (Force Field)
• Fireflyte (I think that was the character name; ranged damage)
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Requested:

• Thermal Radiation, Pain Domination or Empathy
• Radiation Emission
• Additional melee support (damage is a bonus)
• More damage, preferably with buffs. Cold Domination Corruptor would be awesome.

Pretty sure Infernia's the one that can't shut up.

Yeah, me too. Holy cow, what else is in there?

Patcher notice as well:

URGENT!: Server Downtime - Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
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You only get one level shift from the Alpha Slot, no matter how many Abilities you create.

CoP is on, maaan!

The less your character looks like Slash Ragequit, the better. He's even got black/dark red flames in Fiery Aura.

Technical Info Time!

Powers use effects that apply to a particular combat attribute. Each damage type is just one attribute, and you can mutate it in different ways:

• Subtract it from target HP. This is what we call damage.
• Resist it (positive/negative). Damage resistance buffs/debuffs
• Boost it (positive/negative). Damage buffs/debuffs

By this definition, Heals are also damage. They're just negative damage. They can be boosted and resisted just the same.

Any modifications to the base attribute will affect all mutators. For example, the same Enhancement that boosts an attack's Damage also boosts Damage Resistance and Damage Buff. There's currently an exploit where it's possible to use the Hamidon Enhancements to slot a Damage into a Damage Resistance power, which grants 33% rather than 20% which is typical for Damage Resistance.

Obviously, slotting a Blaster attack (as an example) for Damage will not increase the damage buff that the power also applies to the caster via Defiance. This is because all damage buffs and debuffs in the game are flagged as "not affected by buffs" for just this very reason.

In the context of "damage buff buffs," it isn't possible with the current powers tech. A buff mutator is already applied to just "damage", and you can't apply another mutator on top of that.

In order for a "damage buff buff" to exist, the devs will have to introduce all-new tech and rework all existing powers that buff damage.

There was an error in Titan Sentinel's manifest data for today's patch (1900.201101180036.0) that will cause badges to be tracked from the info window incorrectly.

As of this post, the error has been corrected. Users who already updated the data files should delete manifest.dat in their Titan Sentinel folders and re-update the data files.

At first I didn't think it was going to work. Surely there are people who will grief us. Surely someone will find out what we're doing and sound the alarm to draw more attention. There's no way we can get away with it.

Well, we did (click for larger version):



We = B. Samson and me, by the way.

The oldest of those badges in my list, Destroyer, was earned on January 2 when we first started gathering these. B has two badge characters, so when side-switching was introduced, he needed them all again. I have one badge character who needed all of them. And there they are.

No griefing or anything. You Triumph guys minded your own business for a whole month and let us get our PvE badges in Recluse's Victory. Really, I can't thank you enough.

Um... I also appreciate you guys not griefing this one either:

Wanna guess what just happened to me? (-:

All of the children are getting poisoned by Westin Phipps.

Good thinking. Is that allowed?

That's approximately 28 Alignment Merits more than I've ever had at any given time.

Though it does beg the question... Would you have been able to sell off lesser recipes and get 2B to buy that one on the market in less time than the 30 Alignment Merits?

The underwater moon base, where we defeat Blue Steel as a combat NPC to unlock the City Vault.

Ow ow ow! The same thing every five seconds over and over and over and over and over and over and over! My artistic sensitivities have never been so sore. )-:

Might we try something with a semblance of a melody next time?