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Originally Posted by Eek a Mouse

I like the idea a lot. It's good to provide incentives for people rather than punish them. However I can just hear the howls of outrage from players who want the goodies (badges, costume pieces, emotes, whatever) without having to delete a cherished or even a shelved character.

Also, I imagine there'd be a number of people deleting characters named "SG Mule 1" or "Archery Test Man" in order to get the reward. I can't imagine there's anyone who will give up "Avenging Angel" or "Cobra" or "Captain Awesome".

Originally Posted by Electric-Knight

To be fair, there are plenty of names tied up on inactive accounts so old and long-inactive that they do not have a global name (/friend a name and then add/edit note to see the global name of that character).

I wasn't around during the time that I've heard global names hadn't been made yet, so correct me if I have misinterpreted that.

Originally Posted by Aggelakis

Hey, J_Y...all of the wiki links in your website go to Wikia. You might want to change that to ParagonWiki ( http://www.paragonwiki.com or http://wiki.cohtitan.com ), since Wikia is out of date and full of ads.

Originally Posted by Call Me Awesome

On a Defender Tactics is VERY useful, with one Acc SO in an attack you can still be capped on your chance to hit higher level mobs... and it affects the entire team. One defender can give, slotted to ED cap, over 19% tohit buff to the entire team. That will have everyone on the team reliably hitting +4 mobs, seeing stealthed/invisible mobs and generally working more efficiently. TWO defenders running Tactics will give the team ~28% tohit effectively capping hit chances against nearly anything you'll be fighting.

Controllers are nearly as well off providing ~15% to hit buff from slotted Tactics. Don't forget that even the lower amounts you get from melee characters will stack with the rest of the team... there's a reason Leadership is a staple of most superteams.

Tohit is more effective than accuracy since it's a direct addition to your chance to hit while accuracy is a percentage increase of your tohit chance. To put it more plainly, you have (for most powers) a base chance to hit an even level mob of 75%. Adding an even level accuracy SO to that attack gives you a 33% boost to the 75% base moving your chance to hit an even level mob to 95% (100% capped to 95%). Now if you're facing higher level foes your base chance to hit drops quickly, and as your 75% base chance is lowered (I forget the formula but it's something on the order of -10% for each +1 level of the foe) that SO will be giving a proportionally lower benefit.

What To Hit buffs do is modify your base chance to hit BEFORE the accuracy SO is added. That makes your accuracy slotting more effective as it's giving 33% more of a higher base number.

Another benefit is facing mobs with defense... Rikti drones, Sky Raider force field buffs, Vengeance buffed Nemesis and the like. The mob's defense is subtracted from your base chance to hit FIRST, then any to hit buffs are added and finally your accuracy slotting is added. A 15% tohit buff will directly eliminate a mob's 15% defense.

All in all tohit buffs are considerably more powerful than simply adding more accuracy enhancements, and they affect all your powers. That's the reason why the Kismet +6% tohit IO (mislabeled as +6% accuracy) is a unique... tohit is that powerful.

Originally Posted by Finduilas

You should consider getting the Kismet +Acc instead; despite the name, it provides an additional 6% ToHit, nearly as much as Tactics for Scrappers and Tanks.

It'll improve your HitChance a bit without costing a power slot or any endurance. (And Tactics is a fairly high-cost toggle.)

Originally Posted by Gammos

This was a very enjoyable read. I love the way you added comic infusion with hard data and stats so that we could more easily understand the dreaded "hard numbers" :P

Im actually gonna respec my main to become a walking AoE destructor and I stumbled accors this piece of art.

Thanks!

Originally Posted by je_saist

... my gut reaction is... no.

Now, I haven't actually run the numbers, this is just from playing experience. First, To-Hit buffs are Schedule B enhancement, which means an even con SO will deliver a 20% buff. If you cap this into ED you'll be pushing a 50%~60% boost.

On SO builds, even if you slam tactics into ED (on a tank) you'll only have about an 11% boost. This is actually a lot of to-hit. Only thing is, in my play experience, it does not replace slotting powers with an accuracy boost. There's also another reason I would not skip putting at least one acc boost in acc-check powers: most builds have no protection to to-hit debuffs.

This is one of the key differences between Focused Accuracy and Tactics. FA offers a high to-hit debuff resistance, which means that powers that lower your to-hit are much less effective. In high level play you'll encounter multiple enemies with accuracy / to-hit debuffs. Tactics lacks this protection.

That being said, on SO builds, there are very few powers that I'd invest more than one accuracy enhancement in to begin with. For the most part I wouldn't try to push the performance envelope of an avatar on SO's, so I wouldn't be looking to get into situations where I would need an extra to-hit or accuracy buff.

Against SO's, on it's own, Tactics won't change your base states enough to drastically change most of your personal slotting choices.

On IO builds most powers that have an acc-check also have IO sets that combine accuracy checks with recharges, endurance reductions, and effect boosts. Ergo, if you are slotting for sets you'll pick up some accuracy boosts anyways on most powers that have acc-checks.

Against IO's, on it's own, Tactic's again won't really change most set choices.

That being said, one of the problems with IO's is that you may not get the enhancements you actually want, or you may want to focus on a different aspect of a power. Say, you have a set like this:

• Effect / Accuracy
• Effect / Recharge
• Effect / Recharge / Accuracy
• Effect / End
• End / Recharge

if you only have 4 slots available, you could drop the Effect / Accuracy enhancement. Tactic's will aid in giving the attack a greater chance to land as you focus on the other powers for a Recharge boost and ED-capped effect.

For these types of situations I like to use the term Edging.

Tactics, from my point of view, is an Edging tool. On it's own it's not a replacement for any particular slotting choice.

When coupled with the possible boosts from IO sets it enables me, on a situational basis, to round out a build for the effects I want to have.

Does that answer your question?

Originally Posted by Fireheart

In Mids, click 'View Totals' and the 'Misc Buffs' tab in the resulting window. It lists Run speed, Jump speed and height, and Fly speed. Then, toggle on the power in question, Hover, Fly, G-Fly, Energy Flight, whatever you have, even Swift, and you can see the numbers change, dynamically.

Originally Posted by je_saist

ToHit is the direct answer to Defense, and thus is more important than Accuracy in determining whether or not you actually hit something.

However, because of the way the game engine works you'll always have a 5% chance to hit something and a 5% chance to miss no matter what your accuracy and to-hit numbers are. This means that there is a practical limit on how much to-hit and accuracy can help you hit something.

Originally Posted by Ironblade

I would guess you have the AT dropdown box set to 'Tanker'. All of the pool power attacks taunt when used by a tank.

Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight

I frequently use the following bind to toggle the UI on and off:

/bind o ++disable2d

That makes it so whenever I press 'o', the UI will be toggled. Perfect for recording video at a moments notice (and if you're using FRAPs, you should also do: /bind F9 nop so that you don't spam local whenever you start/stop recording a video using the default key).

Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight

What binds are giving you issue (/showbind KEY will tell you exactly what a key is bound to)? What are they doing, and what do you expect?

I'm not having any issues with my henchmen binds.

Originally Posted by PSLAnimal

No worries. My business requires travel all over, and I've logged into the US servers from Canada, Japan, China, Germany, and South Africa, just to name a few.

Even California.

Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill

Necessary watching before traveling to the exotic land of Canada.

Originally Posted by Decorum

Well...maybe not China (VERY restricted internet). Heck, even Google is having an on-again/off-again fight to stay available to China.

Originally Posted by Emberly

My mistake, I thought the discussion was about adding more data to the market interface. I agree that anything like a 60 day limit on items being held should be right there in front of you, probably best displayed right beside your item as a countdown timer.