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Yes, Ghost of Scrapyard and the other Giant Monsters of CoV are currently not working right. They are not auto-scaling their damage taken/received to your level.

We have a fix for this in the pipe.

Thanks for your feedback on this.

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Are they giving badges?

Have taken down Deathsurge and no badge was given to anyone, have held off on Scrapy cause of the same worry. Also seems there are no SF badges being awarded either? or at least for the VG SF.

Cheers!

We ran the Silver Mantis VG Strike Force on Saturday. What a great SF! Not to long, fun missions, and a great final mission!

Highly recommend.

Cheers!

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For those players who have reached the Salvage Limit with one or more pieces:

Is your SG capable of making a Worktable so you can consume some of that Salvage into the raw material? (Raw material has a limit of 99 currently).

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No but soon, with 50 of us all playing in VG mode all the time we should be able to afford the final component to be up and running. At least that will help, now if we could only afford enhancements. Damned if you do, damned if ya don't.

Cheers!

Ack, so much math!

This to me is becomming more of a headache then fun. How is anyone not associated with a massive SG/VG all playing in SG mode all the time supposed to afford all of this?

We have about 50 people, all in VG mode and have done well for ourselves this first six days of COV, but if you were a small new VG, it seems it could be years before you could actualy utalize this function of the game.

Well back to farming ore and fletching arrows, or maybe fishing for hours on end.

Cheers!

Ahhh thanks so much for this. I have been struggling to figure this all out. We currently have a base, table, control console, generator etc, but have been unable to get off the ground and start building stuff with Salavage.

I will have to refer our head architect here to take a look.

Cheers!

Not really a Virtue SG, but would like to extend it to the Virtue population.

After the sucess of our All Empathy, Storm, Kinetics and Bubble/Sonic SG's on Freedom in COH, I am helping start up the all Corruptor VG on Freedom.

So keep an eye out on the defender forums and corruptor forums for more info.

Cheers!

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[ QUOTE ][*] PVP: Darkest Night debuffs base damage rather than enhanced damage, crippling it in PvP. A power with a base damage of 100 would do 265 damage with 5 SO damage enhancements. Using Darkest Night would only reduce this damage to 235, a decrease of 11% rather than 25%. (LastHumanSoldier, wording by Quason)

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I wonder if all debuffs are calculated this way? -ACC debuffs would basically be useless if that is the case.

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-acc debuffs basiclly are useless in PVP.

Cheers!

Defender scondaries are all but worthless in pvp, and the devs do not care. We are the most balanced archatype. I don't think they will fix anything.

Cheers!

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4 Buff!
If Fortitude is recharged. Hit someone with it. All too often I am on a team with an Empath, and no one has a red head. Even if you hit the same person, it's a big buff and it needs to be continually recharging. Every time you rest, check Fort. If it's recharged, hit a blaster with it.

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Fortitude is awesome.
I'm very happy you mentioned this.

It's sad that some Empaths are so focused on healing, that they forget about our 'preemptive heal'.

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Agreed. But if Fortitude is up and no one needs it I am not going to toss it out just to toss it out. I usually have a rotation, and the next in the rotation will get it or if my prime suspect has it up and the buff is ready to go I wont toss it on for the heck of it, I will toss it on when he needs it again. This is especially true for PVP when deaths can really screw up recharge times and buffs, a whole other monster. Want fast and furious game play? Play a defender of any sort in PVP, especially in a large team.

Cheers!

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I can verify this. I did numina's TF about a month and a half ago and did not get the badge for defeating Jurassik.

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Same. Did it about a month ago with two different characters about a week apart. Neither got the Solution badge.

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And same here. Couple of months ago. I was rather ticked at the lack, myself.

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Did Numina awhile back on an alt., didn't get the badge, petioned for it and they gave it to me. hehe

Cheers!

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How exactly does that indicate they don't want to be lazy by not handling each individual petition request. All they need to do is require a souvenier or 'exact' date/time that the taskforce is done. The problem of mining 'all' the data from 'everyone' then because a moot point and unnecessary.

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Because unless you were the leader you didn't get the souvineer, or if it was done in the last two months, there is no souvineer, or if it was completed oh say last December, how am I supposed to remember the date and the time? Let alone these requests comming from thousand of people, ontop of the regular everyday requests. I can imagine trying to sort various claims comming from thousands of people would be quite time consuming. I don't like it, but I would rather they spend the resources and money on something else.

Cheers!

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I'll pop in here so you guys have a new target.

The original Task Force Datamine took 3 months to finish. That was to go over 2 months worth of data.

We now have 18 months worth of data. We looked for a more effecient solution, but our estimates still come out at 2 years to datamine and get you your badges.

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Thanks Posi. I still don't like it, but this is better than thinking it's because you guys are lazy, or don't care. Answer/Reason is always nice to stem the speculation.

Cheers!

Glad I spent 20 hours slogging through the Shard TF's.

Cause the stories were so interesting. Especially the part going from the Storm Palace to Founders Falls and back. Or the part where you kill x number of Rularru on Bastion X for several hours. And click on monument after monument. Whoohoo. Can't wait to do that again.

/end sarcasm

Cheers!

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We can, I've been told, be a supergroup of one.

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Sure I suppose you could just make an SG, do not invite anyone, wear your SG colours or Emblam and then make your own private base. Not a bad idea actually.

Cheers!

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I was very afraid when I looked in on this. I should have checked the poster name. There's not a thing here I disagree with.

Good job, Cat!

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Hahaha Same with me Lady. Then again I can't imagine how many posts the two of us have made in response to empathy. Gezze I need more work at work.

Cheers!

Nice suggestions Fire Cat. Stars for you.

Cheers!

I sure hope that changes. We never use SG mode, we have a seperate costume slot four SG uniform. As mentioned I don't want to have to log into a mission and stand there in SG mode all night and all day to earn prestige.

Cheers!

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..wha...?

you lost me.

you said 'imagine if CM' and then I was agreeing saying 'imagine if AP!' and now you're saying you didn't take the power and defenders need to heal self?

I'm confused.

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If CM worked on me is what I first said, then you said I think, what if Absorb Pain was a self heal? Which is of no use to me, since I don't have it, and if it was a self heal it would take your health, then heal yourself, then you wouldnt be able to heal again for 40 seconds? I think we confused eachother.

Cheers!

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to say nothing of absorb pain self. Free healing much?

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Don't have absorb pain. Being unable to heal yourself in the arena is death for a defender.

Cheers!

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I've never actually seen a resaonable explantion for why defenders can't use some of their primary buffs on themselves. I seriously can't see it making them overpowered, esepcially in the case of the defensive buffs.

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Take another look at empathy and see if you can still tell me that. Run the numbers. I have. More gating would be required than just letting people self target.

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If I could just cast CM on myself I think I would have a heart attack. It would actually let me play in the arena without the required 20 Break Frees and phase shift ::drool::

Cheers!

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A debuff set like the Dark Defender?

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Cheers!

Is there any plan to put some meaning or organization into the Shard TF's other than empty numerous amounts of caves or click a bunch of stones? I love the zones, especially the Storm Palace, and the AV fights for those TF's are great, but the other over all play of them seems to have no rhyme or reason. I don't feel like I am helping anyone, I might as well deliver newspapers then fight an AV at the last house on my route.

Thanks for all of your work!

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