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As the others have said, this isn't a technical problem, it's supposed to do that.
The message should say which arbiters specifically you need to talk to; it's not the normal trainer arbiter. You need to talk to Arbiter Lupin by the Nerva AE building, or Arbiter Sawyer near the Port Oakes black market. -
Once upon a time, when I was new to the game and anything seemed possible, I thought Ice Armor would look like some kind of fantasy plate armor, but made of ice. I was rather disappointed to see what it really looked like.
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That's true too, although the 2 PPM proc has some good uses elsewhere. Notably, it should have a 100% proc chance in the 32-second epic pool holds, which means the power will always hold a boss in one shot. You could do a similar thing with the 4-minute AoE holds in control sets.
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Quote:It's a fair question. I don't necessarily expect everyone to agree with me that VIP is a better deal, but there are at least some good reasons to be VIP.Originally Posted by American_Angel
< why subscribe as vip? >
I, too, have t9 filled out, so I would be giving up as few features as possible by going premium. For the sake of argument, let's also pretend I do not care at all about any of the VIP-exclusive features, and just compare the things points can buy.
I bought the 12+2 subscription deal at Christmas. That was... what, $150? I don't recall the exact number, I'd have to check my bank statement, but it was around there, and that's a nice easy number to compare because it's a $100 bundle and a $50 bundle, for a total of 14200 points. But the subscription gets me 7700 points from stipends. So already, Premium's advantage is reduced to 6500 points.
I'm also only going to look at the Freedom server, because I don't play elsewhere often enough to be worth mentioning. I would lose 10 character slots on Freedom by going Premium. Even buying those 5 at a time and with this week's sale would cost 2400 points. This cuts Premium's advantage to 4100 points.
Then, I'd have to buy Time Manipulation and Dark Control, since I like and play both. 2500 points left.
Then, I'd have to buy all 6 SSA arcs, since again I like them and they're very useful for gathering alignment merits. 2400 points, unless there's a bundle deal on them now, I'm not sure. At this point, Premium's advantage has basically disappeared just trying to get back the features I would have lost by dropping from VIP.
How about VIP costume sets? I'm not using Olympian Guard much, at least not yet, but I'm using almost every piece of Imperial Defense on at least one character I play regularly. So that's at least 400 points.
I'd have to pay extra to retain access to my Widow. That's 1200 points.
I'd lose my VIP salvage/recipe storage bonuses. Getting that back would be about 2400 points.
I might be forgetting some other things, but as Premium I'd end up paying several thousand points (around $50ish extra) just to keep all the stuff I already have. Buying more features for the same money is out of the question. And I haven't even counted the features my sub includes that I personally don't really care about (First Ward, Kheldians, etc).
This is all before we even consider that the VIP sub gets 2 extra reward tokens in that time, and has the option to spend them on t9 vip costumes, not to mention Incarnate powers and content, the Exalted server, SG creation and rent, and any other power sets/costumes/etc that will come with my subscription over the next year!
Of course, each person's list of VIP features they care to retain will be different. If yours is shorter than mine, and/or if you're buying VIP by the month instead of with the multi-month deals, you may find that Premium gives you more of what you want. And hey, that's fine, that's the point of being able to downgrade to Premium. VIP definitely has advantages, but how much you value those vs the other things you could spend points on is totally subjective. -
I would assume so, but like I said, precisely zero PvP experience, so take that with a grain of salt.
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I have precisely zero PvP experience, so the following comments are regarding PvE only:
Stalkers have just recently received huge buffs. For one thing the HP cap was raised, which is nice for sets with +hp powers, but moreover Assassin Strikes now activate very quickly when not Hidden, and your other attacks grant stacks of Assassin's Focus, which gives +33% crit chance to Assassin Strike per stack. In other words, you have fast-activating 600+ damage crits on command even when not hidden.
The Stalker's Guile proc is cool, too.
All in all, Stalkers are incredibly awesome now, and have a strong single-target niche where they rival or surpass Scrappers. -
The 15% chance is always a 15% chance. It is specifically only the PPM procs that have a reduced proc chance in AoEs.
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Quote:In a single-target attack, you'd be correct. AoEs get a penalty, though. That penalty varies by AoE size, target cap, and cone arc, but we don't know exactly how.Originally Posted by T_Immortalus
Well, PPM means procs per minute, so I would suspect that's about 1 every 30 seconds.
Good question. Nobody has figured out the formula behind it yet. If you try it, tell us what happens >.<Quote:Originally Posted by MechaCrash
Good to know. As a followup question, which is going to fire more: the 2 PPM of the store bought version, or the straight 15% chance of the regular version? -
Quote:Only if the formula posted earlier is correct, which it definitely isn't, although it may be a decent approximation for at least some powers.Originally Posted by Vimes_NA
Correct?
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The Achilles proc does not stack, even from different casters.
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Exactly how viable this is depends a lot on the build. Willpower scrappers/brutes shoot for 32.5% defense often, for example, because combined with all the other layered defenses WP has that's plenty for most situations, so you only need to pop purples in exceptional cases. It's also useful for leveling, because I find that my characters often have the firepower to deal with large spawns before they have the durability to withstand them, so I use inspirations to fake my way to the softcap and leverage that firepower. Even if I can't fight enough dudes fast enough for it to be self-sustaining, loading up on purples before entering is generally enough to last at least one whole mission.
Quote:Honestly, I just don't find that this happens often enough to be worth mentioning. AVs don't generally show up by surprise, for one thing, and if you blew through all your insps on the way to the AV, you're either playing a much harder game than I am or you have terrible planning abilities ;P There's also lots of tools you can fall back on other than inspirations, like Kinetic Dampeners. If you have the Return to Battle vet power, that's a full set of large insps waiting for when you need it most. It's not perfect, and of course being softcapped without insps is preferable, all else equal, but no build is totally invulnerable, and relying on inspirations isn't much of a vulnerability considering how they rain from the sky.Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker
Except, what happens when I don't have one and I'm getting my backside handed to me on a shiny silver platter courtesy of whoknowswhatnastynesswrappedupintheformofanAV? -
The number being blue in Mids means it only has a chance of happening. You can mouse over it and see that it's a 30% chance. This means it's impractically difficult, if not outright impossible, to make it return more endurance (on average) than it costs.
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Male WP scrapper does it too.
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I apologize if it was not abundantly clear from my wording, but I was saying "the people who have points and want to spend them to obtain converters".
So, obtaining them with other kinds of merits (and, for that matter, with RMs from things other than super packs) would be for the people who want converters, but don't want to spend points to obtain them. -
A pet is an NPC that fights for you. A confused enemy is obviously not literally a pet, but acts in a lot of ways very much like a temporary pet.
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Again, they've been live for like two hours. The community team (you know, the people who would be posting to tell us about it) probably arrived at work half an hour ago. The featured items thread for the week went up twelve minutes ago. Give them a chance to respond before you start pointing fingers for not responding.
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Quote:Well, a Super Pack is 80 points or less, and on average contains, what, about 50 reward merits? So, even if we pretend there's nothing else in the super packs at all, they wouldn't be able to sell converters for much more than 10 points apiece. Far less, once you consider the value of the other stuff in the packs. I think they maybe looked at that and thought "whatever, anyone who has points and wants converters will just buy super packs".Originally Posted by SwellGuy
I honestly thought they would sell converters in the Paragon Market. I am a bit surprised.
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They've been live for like two hours. Hold up a bit on the "if they'd just fess up" angle.
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Note that you can trade the enhancements, which will strip off the boosters. So if you can find someone to sell off-market to, or just a friend who can give them right back, you can transfer the IOs, although not the boosters.
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Quote:Maybe it's a synonym for "annihilate the spawn while invulnerable", I'm not sure.Originally Posted by ItsJustJake
Re .... Treat? I do not understand the concept. Is that where you furiously throw yourself back at whatever you were fighting?
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Since this trait isn't specific to or new for enhancement boosters, I doubt it's an intentional feature of boosters. Combined enhancements have never been mailable or auctionable. Maybe it's a technical limitation they've never cared to solve. It's not a bug, but I'm not exactly sure it's a feature.
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I totally agree that Resurgence was terrible. I haven't played Regen enough to comment much on Revive, but being impervious to death seems like it should address some of the set's problems. I just meant that /WP has been a high-performing set for years even without a usable rez. But I'm still happy to have it ^.^
By the way, both Mids and in-game detailed info (on beta, since live servers are down) list 15 seconds for the untouchable in Stygian Return and Soul Transfer. I don't have a Warshade or dark armor character high enough to confirm that empirically, though. -
I'm not totally convinced Willpower needed any buffs, but I'll take it
It's nice to have these powers be more than glorified Awakens.
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Enemy rank does not matter. Your hit chance will be the same against a +3 boss as it is against a +3 minion or a +3 Archvillain, barring one of them having a defense buff.
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The difference in accuracy is because the Mako's quad in CB is +5'ed. There's no drawback at all to using boosters, other than having to obtain them
A few other things in that build are also booster'ed, because like you I had a bunch laying around and a few powers with not-quite-capped enhancement.
Armageddon is a wonderful set, but given its cost it's some of the lowest bang-per-buck in the build, and swapping it out just gives up a bit of recharge and the proc, not a defense bonus or something else critical. 5 pieces of Oblit, Scirocco's, or simply frankenslotting would get almost the same result for a small fraction of the cost.
I see you softcapped S/L defense, very nice!