Johnny_Taxibot

Indeed, the developers would have better motivation by selling it as new expansion that allowed all archetypes for both red- and blue-side. Perhaps call it something like, "Uneasy Alliance," or such.

-Johnny

Yes, I remember that. Good to hear that she's doing okay.


Cheers,

Johnny

For Paragon Protectors, I find that draining their endurance to zero (i.e., as close as you can) prevents them from going Unstoppable, which makes any missions involving Crey to go much faster. The trick is to get their endurance down *before* they take a lot of hit points, otherwise they'll go Unstoppable and take longer for your team to bring down.

I mainly use Short Circuit to do this endurance drain fast, which I slot for +EndMod, though I find the Energy Manipulator: Chance for Stun is nice as well.


3 slotted Efficacy Adaptor:

+EndMod +Rech
+EndMod +Rech +ACC
+EndMod +ACC

3 slotted Energy Manipulator:

+EndMod +Rech
+EndMod
Chance for Stun

With the above slotting, I get the following stats:

End Cost = 15.6
Accuracy = 1.82x
Recharge Time = 13.32s

5 ticks of 15 energy damage over 4s

-66% endurance on target

41.6 energy damage against electronic targets only (great for Clockwork)

-189% recovery rate for 10s on target

+5% strength to all damage for 10s on self

Good to have you back, Slax.

-Johnny

Ha ha, no I actually slot my Recall Friend for range to ensure that I can pull people across those huge zones to the mission site.


It definitely does not stack, though that would be nice (and make a bit of sense). In a recent example, we were doing a city tour and I was trying to help the fares that definitely didn't have fly. However, others were complaining that the group fly was slowing them down.


Hey Lothic, can you run off a quick list of improvements, or provide link to previous notes? Another thing I felt odd was how if you were already flying, then you will drop for a couple seconds when toggling on the group fly, which just feels awkward.

-Johnny

Yes, if the team has any altitude, then you need Group Fly in order to provide time that accounts for lag. Even so, I've found it necessary to watch the mini-map to see when everyone has been "ported," then pause another 2-3 seconds before the next jump.

This seems to be a minimum requirement to avoid inadvertently leaving someone behind. Case in point, I once had a team where someone else had Team Teleport, and they were frustrated by my pauses (however brief they were). So they started teleporting the team and prompted started losing people. <urg>

-Johnny

Team Teleport is more of a tactical tool for your team, such as performing a coordinated strike on a specific foe. However, be wary of firing off a string of teleports in a row, since lag can cause you to lose people.

-Johnny

On Test Server last Thursday night, Positron mentioned that War Witch was fairly overwhelmed both work-wise and downtime-wise. This might not bode well for a last-minute fix to the Eden Trial.

With respect to rewards for the Eden Trial, I recall that farming of this trial seemed to be overdone, particularly when rare recipe drops were still part of the reward. That would explain the low merit reward, since it would be too easy nowadays to keep a toon at perma 39-41.

Might make more sense to remove both the reward and level restriction, so that people can have more freedom to participate with the adventure, without dealing with, "Gee, we don't have anyone to start us off."

-Johnny

Oh, and all the history plaques are included, so people will get their History badges as well. It will be a *great* night. As I've said, Belle's tours are a real treat, and this is one of those rare times when she's providing a tour of the *entire* city.

-Johnny

Years ago for the 1st blue-side respec, I could have sworn that there was at most a two minute delay between spawns, whereas the delay is much more prolonged now.

With a coordinated team, the respecs were quite doable and challenging on Invincible, whereas now it just feels tedious.

No, no. At the player auction, people were being auctioned to provide four hours of game time.

Belle was offerring a blue-side tour of all the exploration badge sites. She's done the tour before and found that it takes perhaps a couple hours.

Please note that for this Saturday, this will be an updated tour that includes the new exploration badges that have been added around the city. TonyV and Belle put in quite a bit of effort to make certain that all the new sites are plotted out for the tour.


Cheers,

Johnny

I suspect that's about the best a hero can do. Otherwise, there are so many people, each with their own quirks, that it would be too stressful to be overly serious. <smile>

With respect to silly/rude Tells, I suppose there's another side to the story, in that these people have been "griefed" in the past, and their defensive reaction is to try and make "offenders" have regret. However, that's something for them to work out on their own, to essentially recognize that sometimes there are issues that interfere with one's plans.


Regards,

Johnny

Well, there was trivia at the PERC Player Auction this past Saturday, which was a mix of both real-life trivia intermingled with Paragon trivia. I think the trivia leaned towards the real, for the most part.

-Johnny

Hey there, Rebirth. I recognized your forum name. Indeed, the night was solid fun.

Have you just been getting back from an absence? I just returned a couple weeks ago, so I'm still getting a handle on the taxis' status.


Cheers,

Johnny

Hi Bill,

Sorry, I organized the post into a list in order to make the details easier to read. Apparently that had the opposite result.

You had appeared to be honestly trying to propose some thoughtful points, and as a precaution I reiterated the points as a means of confirming with you that I'd understood them. By no means was I trying to construct a straw man argument, though I might suggest you look up the term.


Regards,

Johnny

Nice. Thank you for keeping the info updated. I'd been gone for a bit, and it's useful to browse your archive to refresh my memory.


Cheers,

Johnny