Hellguard

Nicely done.

Just go ahead and give her the car already...

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You fail to point out that you can't slot these powers for accuracy and that Set Bonuses don't apply to them either.

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Set Bonuses most assuredly *do* apply to Vet Reward attacks. Try 'em and see!

EDIT: Accuracy & Recharge Set Bonuses work, that is... honestly not sure about Damage, but it's not the damage that's lacking on Vet attacks anyway. Powers like Aim and Build Up also boost Vet attack accuracy and Hasten lowers their recharge. And of course, yellow inspirations and any Defense Debuffs will help with their accuracy also. In short, there's lots of things that can help with Vet attack accuracy, so complaining too much about their 75% base is a little silly.

EDIT2: Also, as stated in the post you replied to, the lowbie accuracy bonus ("beginner's luck") definitely applies to Vet attacks as well, and it's those levels where you arguably gain the most from having the extra attacks anyway.

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il be working on prestige for my 1 person sg/vg, and waitng to see how many times a certain 2 servers crash.while low pop servers stays up

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I don't really remember any servers crashing last time around... they were locked out to new logins after they got to a certain number of players, but that's not the same as crashing.

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So... it being from the Collector's Edition makes it off-limits? Then how come the Arachnos Helms can be retread and the Attacks can be re-treads?


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The Arachnos Helms were from the CoV pre-order, and so didn't cost anyone anything extra (the money paid towards the pre-order was taken off the actual purchase of the game when CoV came out).

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Would make for an excellent speeder style hero thats for sure

As for the Staff/Wand natural thing I'm taking it to the experts. Still gonna hit test and do some creating to test it myself.

Valor

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Go ahead; you'll see that what the others have said is quite true. Natural origin characters get the bonus for both the Nemesis Staff and the Blackwand.

I'll be working all weekend.

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after typing /synch and several tries

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Were you using /synch or /sync ? The second one is the actual command... (unless they anticipated people misspelling it, in which case maybe both are supposed to work?).

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EDIT: Darrin Wade's arc can't be 25+ either... my level 21 SoA just started it.

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It is 20-29.


Fuzun's guide was correct in Beta (he even corrected mistakes in my guide), this must be simply a typo.

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Ok, but...my SoA is 21 and he says to come back at level 20. Is that supposed to be 30? I did the first bit where I get the 8 relics.

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If you have the Thief of Midnight badge from doing Darrin's arc, that's all he has for you. He'll keep saying "come back when you're 20" but that's a bug.

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Ashley's arc which makes you a member of the Midnighters and gives you access to the club is 30+.

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Thanks! I'd read somewhere that it wouldn't make any sense if you were able to do Ashley's arc before Darrin Wade's (implying Ashley's arc *has* to be 30+), but a lot of confusion seems to exist about the Midnighter arcs, especially villainside. The guide here saying Ashley's arc is 20+ doesn't help with that.

EDIT: Darrin Wade's arc can't be 25+ either... my level 21 SoA just started it.

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Is there an error in the guide?

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Villains talk to Ashley McKnight who's standing outside the Villains' Midnight Club Entrance. She's standing by a set of stairs outside of the University in Cap Au Diable. It's the west end of the building that's in the NE corner of the University plaza area. You need to be level 20+ to be able to do the "Midnight's Hand" arc.

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Well, I'm 28, and speaking to her nets "I have something, but i don't think you can handle it. It's pretty far out there on the insanity scale. Come back when you are level 30."

Typo in the guide, Fuzun?

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I'm getting the same thing on my newly level 20 SoA. Ashley's listed as an Inactive contact, and when I talk to her she tells me to come back at 30. I did her Origin of Power arc around 15 or 16 or so.

So... does this thing start at 8pm EST like Lighthouse states in the OP, or 7pm EST as it states on the main SI Radio page ?

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Lighthouse and Ex Libris are design support?

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No, the (Design Support) tag was only referencing Blue Steel. BaB didn't feel the need to qualify LH's and Ex's jobs since, well, we're pretty familiar with what they do.

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Sorry - you are correct I've been reading the boards since 10 this morning. It's exhausting.

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Yes, I know. The silliness and paranoia from the in-game ads thread has been rough on us all.

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The key issue, as is the case with respeccing Patron Powers, is that they don't have a way to remove badges from the game.

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Sure they do. There might not be a way to automate the process, which there would have to be if side-switching were implemented. But they have removed badges before, so we know that removing badges is a possibility.

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And obviously you know that it's exactly the same process.
Which is why we can change Patrons. Oh wait.

We can't. Because it's NOT that simple. If it were JUST a badge, don't you think we'd have this feature by now?

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Calm down, I didn't say it was easy. Just pointing out that "the Devs can't remove badges" isn't exactly a true statement.

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The key issue, as is the case with respeccing Patron Powers, is that they don't have a way to remove badges from the game.

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Sure they do. There might not be a way to automate the process, which there would have to be if side-switching were implemented. But they have removed badges before, so we know that removing badges is a possibility.

Given that we've been told that sales of the Wedding Pack enabled the Dev team to get the VEATs done in time for issue 12, I say anything that brings in additional revenue to allow for more content more quickly is a great thing. As long as it doesn't detract from the actual play experience, I don't see how having real-world advertisements in the same places as the fake ones can hurt, especially since players can turn them off if they don't want to see them. I'll be watching with lots of interest to see how this will pay off for the game.

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just because today is april fools day doesnt mean its not true, and just because it was on wikipedia doesnt mean its not true... anyone can edit that... im not saying i believe it, because im about 90% sure its not because this would be an SOE style move and i think ncsoft knows better. but just because its april fools day doesnt mean its not true, because no one from nc has commented on it yet.

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Yes, they have .

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This is without doubt the dumbest idea ever perpetrated. Comic book writers had no choice, they had no sound option to work with and now even though you have sound you want to return to the dark ages and have no sound to save hard drive space! You've got to be kidding, that is the lamest marketing ploy I have ever heard. If someone is foolish enough to build a computer with no sound they don't play games anyway. There is nothing that has the faintest trace of truth in anything you have said about this abysmally absurd idea. Scrap it now before you drive people away! This is just plain dumb! dumb! DUMB!

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QFLOL

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lighthouse you're my fav redname but come on, lets hear about the VEAT's :P

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Hopefully we'll get info on VEATs this Thursday, but they have already announced one i12 tidbit this week, in the form of the improved character creator, so we might not get anymore until next week.

Our April Fool's joke is *much* better than Blizzard did with WoW...

Nice one, Lighthouse! (or whoever came up with this)

I just hope we don't have DOOMsayers complaining about the time someone spent on this. Cause, you know, the whole hour or less this took to make could have been the breakthrough needed to get Power Customization done in time for i12!

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A 'tidbit' about a zone that most ppl avoid now and only spans 5-10 levels on only one faction was hardly anything to get our hopes up about.

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Unless something got changed, Hollows covers up to level 20. I know my Rad/rad was getting the end mish for the zone at level 20. Frostfire caps at 15 I believe(diff setting not included), but you still have half the contacts to go in that zone after him.

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The Hollows is a 5-15 level zone. It's just that all of the missions that the contacts give you are all parts of story arcs, and if you've started an arc you'll always be able to get the rest of the missions in that arc, no matter how high a level you are. You must have started the last contact at some point before you hit 16 on that character, or you wouldn't have been able to get missions after that point.

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Each of those features has more posts just in the dev corner than the rest of the other features COMBINED. And if we counted all the various threads out in the other forums, it's clear that interest in those two features dwarfs anything else.

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You're absolutely, 100% right, EvilGeko.

So, those will almost certainly be the last topics to get more detail. Because they want us speculating and discussing and frothing about it, building buzz in the process.

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By this logic, we'd better hope the Major Gameplay Improvements thread suddenly grows exponentially or else next week's "tidbit" will be "How to Convert Inspirations."









Disclaimer: Hellguard does not really think that the size of any thread is what determines the release date of issue 12 info. The above should be seen as purely a joke.

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I'm curious, wasn't there mention of some sort of hospital in the Hollows in a previous dev post?

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It was in the main issue 12 update page . Probably just overlooked in WW's Dev Diary article.

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I really hope this is not all the info we are getting today.

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As I stated in an earlier thread, we are still weeks out from closed beta and more weeks out from open beta and then launch. So, expect to get something on a weekly basis from now till then. If we just dumped it all out now, well we'd be sitting around going "that's nice, but when can I play it?" So, thanks for your patience and understanding that it won't all come at once.

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Yeah, even though knowing how WW changed the mob spawns and mission doors is nice, it's not really much in terms of actual new information.

Oh, well. Posi and Castle have already talked about some Powerset Proliferation-related stuff in posts, so maybe we'll get lucky with some more "tidbits" than will appear in these weekly official info releases...