Katie V
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Quote:I soloed that one on my claws/SR scrapper at +0/x5 a few days back. After about ten minutes of scrapperlock, I described it in one of the global channels as "a worthy challenge".Originally Posted by Mirai
Let me guess: "Malta Gunslinger Action Figure" mission, Hero version. Even solo on standard difficulty, you get rapid-fire ambushes from Hell. (The Vigilante version is much more reasonable.) -
There are set bonuses that can give you psi protection (but not enough to be worthwhile without weakening the other aspects of your build). The Elusive Mind accolade power gives you 60 seconds of basic protection, but it's on a 25-minute recharge. Other than that, your best bet for dealing with psi is teammate buffs: Maneuvers, Dispersion Bubble, Regeneration Aura, and so on.
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Quote:My priority would be:Originally Posted by Inno
Fulcrum Shift (but when to hold for next pack?)
Control (Char ST, Fire Cages. Flashfire AE)
Transfusion
Keeping People Speed Boosted*
Transference (if teammates blue bars look sad)
Damage (Recasting Dead Imps, Hotfeet on, Fireballing)
Keeping myself Siphon Speeded
Keeping myself Siphon Powered
Fulcrum Shift whenever I see a decent cluster of enemies around someone
Control
Keeping myself Siphon Speeded
Damage
I've got a fairly good feel for "two minutes", so I re-cast Speed Boost whenever it feels like time towards the end of a fight. If someone isn't within range at that time, they miss out.
Once I get Fulcrum Shift, Siphon Power is only used on teams as a debuff -- since I tend to be within scrapper range of the tank, I'm usually at the damage cap.
Transfusion is very situational: I use it as a regen debuff on AVs, and if someone's health is low, I'll target through them, fire off Transfusion, and hope it hits something worthwhile.
Transferrence doesn't get much use on teams. It's part of my attack chain for AVs, and if someone's fired off a nuke or had a godmode crash, I'll use it to get their endurance back up. Other than that, Speed Boost tends to take care of endurance problems. -
The 10.8 Linux drivers fix the AO/FSAA and DoF/FSAA problems for me, but they've got their own problem: they'll crash on X startup if there's a CRT monitor plugged into the upper DVI port. A CRT plugged into the lower port works just fine.
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Quote:Same thing I thought the last few times this came up:Originally Posted by Party_Clown
What do you think of a policy for inactive name being reinstated for Going Rogue (or just in general)?
The good names aren't inactive. The inactive names aren't good. A name purge isn't going to free up "Dark Steel" and "Silver Bullet", it's going to free up "xXx Bob xXx" and ".P U N 1 S H E R".
Incidentally, there are still plenty of good names out there. I picked up "Dr. Frankenstorm" on Virtue the day after Going Rogue came out. -
For those of us who don't play that other game, what is a "daily", and why is it considered a bad thing?
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Quote:Fine by me, so long as either a) runners are counted as "defeated" for the purposes of mission objectives, or b) enemies that are part of a "defeat all", "defeat boss", "defend object", or "rescue hostage" objective don't run. When you need to defeat someone and they run off (or worse, run off and phase), it slows the game down for no purpose. When it's someone who's supposedly tougher than your entire team (say, Babbage or Romulus), it's immersion-breaking as well.Originally Posted by Castle
You should also know that runners are a part of the game and eliminating that aspect of the game isn't really likely to happen.
I've had team leaders call a ten-minute break because Romulus took off on a grand tour of the map, and I sometimes need to avoid using my Storm debuffs on Babbage to keep him from jumping all over the place. Neither is an experience I want to repeat. -
How so? I don't believe Sprint is mutually exclusive with any other source of stealth.
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I'm guessing it's one way that the servers deal with load: the more players there are, the fewer pedestrians the game generates.
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The "plus plus minus" you're seeing is a trick to make flyspeed enhancements more effective: the big increase is affected by slotting, while the decrease and the small increases are not. Net result is that flyspeed SOs give about a 45% increase to flight speed each.
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Quote:This seems to be resolved. Power descriptions contain phrases like "begins the Empower and Weaken combos" or "is the finishing move for the Attack Vitals combination attack". The "detailed info" window on the finishing moves has notes like "5 ticks of 2.05 lethal damage over 4.1 seconds after 0.5 seconds delay (only when Attack Vitals combo is completed)".Originally Posted by Stupid_Fanboy
Wishlist: Would be nice if each power's description explained what combos it was a part of and in what order. Combos are a vital part of DB attacking and should be explained in game – CrazyCorsaire, 2009-02-17
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Known bug, see the thread at the top of this forum.
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Quote:Are you actually needing to run Rooted all that often when you're in Granite? With my tank (9 mph in Rooted+Granite), I only turn it on when I'm fighting an archvillain or giant monster, and even then, I usually don't need it.Originally Posted by Gashes
Sorry to reply 5 days later on a near dead thread ...
I fully slotted my stone/fire for +run speed bonuses. While in granite, it felt like (non sprint) running, as soon as I clicked rooted .... All those bonuses were wasted.
What were you fighting that was knocking you down? The only thing I've found that can do that is the Crystal Titan, and Rooted doesn't help there.Quote:Just saying, granite+rooted, no speed bonus, and only a friendly kin, will help you. WHy rooted? regen and knockdown protection (I have been knocked down quite a few times in granite). Just a thought -
Arcanatime says that the Slash -> Focus -> Swipe series will run in 3.95 seconds.
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Assuming that Mids is correct, you need Flash Freeze to take Hoarfrost. Ice Blast won't do it. Presumably, this is a bug, so you should report it.
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Dual Pistols/Trick Arrow/Mace Mastery.
No idea if it'll be any good, but it'll certainly be rare. -
Quote:Specifically, you'd get:Originally Posted by Dersk
The check happens independently. One, neither, or both knockdowns can fire. That means the proc can add to the secondary effect of the power itself, in this case turning knockdown into knockback.
60% chance of nothing
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If you're installing from anything except a Going Rogue DVD, the first time you run a newly-installed copy of City of Heroes, it needs to download about 3 GB of game files. This does take several hours on anything except the fastest internet connections.
There are two ways around it:
1) Install from a Going Rogue DVD.
2) Copy the City of Heroes directory from a computer that has CoH installed. -
Quote:Send a /petition to the GMs, then.Originally Posted by Darknessking
Well its a story arc ender so i can't abandon it.
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Quote:If the devs make changes to powers, they'll give out free respecs so that players can adjust their characters to the new powers. For example, with Issue 18, the base fly speed was increased. Now, Fly with a single enhancement plus Swift with a single enhancement will put you just under the speed cap, whereas prior to Issue 18 you'd need two enhancements in Fly. The free respec lets players move a slot from Fly to another power, where it might be more useful.Originally Posted by OPTICAL_ILLUSION
why do we get freespecs?
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Are these genuine bosses, or bosses that have been downscaled to LTs? If you're facing (for example) Devouring Earth at +0/x8/no bosses, you'll be facing Greater Devoured with LT class hitpoints and damage numbers, but with their full boss-class selection of powers.
Incidentally, it's not the bosses that are giving you problems against Devouring Earth. It's the Quartz emanators summoned by LTs: they give +100% to-hit to everything in range. -
Quote:It appears to be Mids. Looking at my build:Originally Posted by JakHammer
Katie V the problem is not how to reach the DDR cap, the problem is Mids saying a build will reach the cap and finding the in game numbers substancially lower than Mids Predicted. The build I am reporting on was shown by Mids to have 95.5% DDR, and as you taught me in a prior thread anything over 95% is wasted, so that is all I built for. This freed slots for other powers.
The problem appears to be in the two powers with large bonuses and multiple resistances. Those being Focused Senses and Evasion.
Evasion: 21.86 actual, 23.9 Mids
Focused Senses: 21.81 actual, 23.6 Mids
Focused Fighting: 21.35 actual, 21.8 Mids
Lucky: 10.81 actual, 11.2 Mids
Agile: 10.90 actual, 11.8 Mids
Dodge: 10.80 actual, 11.1 Mids
It looks like Mids is not applying ED when computing DDR numbers. -
Quote:That sounds about right. 14.54 seconds for my plant/storm controller; 15 exact for my kin/ice defender; 13.7 for my bots/traps mastermind. The big slowdown is the leadership toggles at 3.67 seconds each.Originally Posted by _Pine_
Added up we get : 15.27 seconds of toggling, that is not taking into account server ticks, or making sure to queue the next toggle.
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Quote:I've created two Praetorian characters. One of them was created first thing upon starting up CoH, and had zowies visible on the map by default. The other was created after logging out of a non-Praetorian character, and didn't have them visible by default.Originally Posted by Oliin
Oddly the option to have them show up on the map doesn't always seem to be on for a new character. I've had two folks that I've run through some of those missions and for one of them I had to go into the map settings and turn it on. The other one had it on as a default.
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Defense debuff resistance caps at 95%. A SR scrapper can get there by putting the equivalent of three SOs worth of enhancement into each of your defense powers.