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  1. Katie V
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironblade View Post
    I imagine this change took place when the forum was down for maintenance yesterday.

    I find it harder to read also.
    I'll third the reading problems. I've switched to doing most of my forum browsing in Lynx (a text-only browser that ignores most formatting) to avoid the problem.
  2. Katie V
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect View Post
    I'm guessing from context that you meant to say "don't" instead of "do"?

    If so, you would be correct, but it works like this: You will ALWAYS gain in total enhancement when slotting a full set of something over SOs of the same level.

    But, you will occasionally lose out in a specific aspect of enhancement. Example: Obliteration gives you 66.25% Accuracy, 96.30% Damage, and a whopping 89.93% recharge enhancement, but the cost of the damage and recharge enhancement being slightly higher is that the set only provides 18.55% end reduction. Still an overall advantage in total enhancement, but you lose some end reduction to gain more recharge.
    The big one here is Kinetic Combat. It's a good thing that the important bonuses come from four-slotting it, because it only gives 22.94% accuracy.
  3. Katie V
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
    I hate to burst your bubble, but Paladin is just a level 10-15 GM... and you're Level 50+3. Yes, I know about the combat scaling of GMs, but still, a low level GM has a lot less resources in other regards (like HP, e.g.).

    If you get enough Defense or Resistance or -ToHit or Healing or Regen to survive the attacks, which are easy to survive... then it's just a matter of focusing firepower on taking them out one at a time. Especially since you're Dark Miasma... if you keep them tightly grouped, they're gonna miss a lot. Team Insps can help with that, but many MM builds have ways of doing that without needing them.
    Three at once is a bit of a challenge. My bots/traps can usually hold the attention of two of them, but if I tried to take on a third, there's a good chance that one of them would get free and start attacking my pets.
  4. Katie V
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lucky666 View Post
    C reminds me of the Cricket from Men in Black. It gets my vote.
    C reminds me of the hot glue gun in my art supplies box.
  5. Katie V
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Erhnam View Post
    Thought we were talking about stealthing. Or are you stealthing a mish at x8?

    Anyway, you can just pop a purple, or seeker drones for -tohit, or both
    Depends on what I feel like doing. I've stealthed to an AV fight before.
  6. Katie V
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by GPBunny View Post
    Are the drop rates higher on Exalted? the reason i ask is I get a ton more drops on this server than any other. Seems like every other ITF I get one and almost every Warrior farm.

    On Freedom or Virtue I've had months without seeing one. But on Exalted from day one I get 1-4 a week easy; and a few weeks even more. Had 3 ITF's were I got 2 purples.

    Am I or is this server lucky? Is it because its VIP or a smaller population?
    I've never gotten a purple recipe while playing on Exalted.
  7. Katie V
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    Originally Posted by Deacon_NA View Post
    I sincerely hope for a tip mission done for speed, which means running at 0/1 (or -1/1) you're not waiting for all bots (and you) to be bubbled before engaging.
    If I were running a tip mission for maximum speed, I'd be running it at -1/x1/no bosses, and I wouldn't even bother summoning pets: Trip Mine can take care of anything I need to defeat, and I don't need pets out to click on a glowie.
  8. Katie V
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Erhnam View Post
    You dont need to wait for that. They will keep bubbling in combat
    They bubble me last. I'd rather soak an alpha at 45% defense than at 33%.
  9. Katie V
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Deacon_NA View Post
    Really the key is a willingness to dismiss and resummon, which for some reason, is anathema to many MMs. Yes it takes 10-15 seconds to resummon and upgrade. That's a lot faster than defeating all.
    For some pets, maybe. For Bots/Traps, I just timed it at 87 seconds from first summon to when the Protector Bots finished bubbling everyone.
  10. Katie V
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    Originally Posted by Beauregard View Post
    While you've made your choice, I thought I might clarify some problems you might run into.

    Kinetics is a very 'active' set. That means you're ultimately going to spend an enormous amount of time doing Kinetics powers... and have very little time for any other powers.

    What that means is that as you level, you'll be laying in those -resistance debuffs for Sonic less and less. Moreover, the generally poor damage/animation of the set will become more and more of a problem because you have so little animation time to use in the first place.
    Kinetics is far less active than it used to be, since Speed Boost and Increase Density were turned into AoEs. Prior to the change, I'd estimate that I spent half my time using Kinetics powers; now, with the exception of AV fights, I think it's closer to 20%. Against AVs, the massive amount of single-target debuffage you can put out with Siphon Speed and Siphon Power makes focusing on the Kinetics side of things worthwhile.
  11. Katie V

    Pet AI Potential

    POST-ACTION

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    Originally Posted by Black Zot View Post
    If they don't port this over to all range-oriented pets after demonstrating they know full well how to make the appropriate coding changes, they might as well pull out a 60-foot-wide hand and slap the playerbase with it.
    The Mastermind pet AI is a hugely complicated mess, and is not the same code as that for the uncontrollable Controller pets. If they make that change to keep Mercenaries at range, they risk it leaking over and keeping Ninjas or the Thugs Bruiser at range as well.
  12. Katie V
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by LBHouse View Post
    I need some help figuring out which incarnate to go with.
    Here is my build,     I am open to all suggestions and comments on the incarnate and possibly my build
    I'd start by changing your text color. Sienna text on a navy background is very hard to read.
  13. Katie V
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by xRenx View Post
    This will now patch my existing installation and will start the "loading" splash, but then it just hangs there.

    The terminal displays:

    Running City of Heroes
    Preloading DLLs...done. (0.02)
    CityOfHeroes client count: 1
    num cpus = 4 / 4
    Skipping verify step due to -noverify command line option
    Fast validation cancelled.
    Loading message stores...done. (0.30)
    ERRORLOG STARTING IGNORE_

    Don't suppose anyone has any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
    Whatever you've done, it sounds like the script is no longer passing the "-renderthread 0" option. That's exactly where CoH hangs if you need it and don't provide it.
  14. Katie V
    According to http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Protection, a Giant Monster has 75 points of mez protection.
  15. Katie V

    The new Que

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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Wicked_Wendy View Post
    Right.. and then let's say I am on my 14 level blaster fresh from DFB and wanting to continue teaming to advance quickly and tp start working on my TF Commander ASAP. I start the queue and it puts together the MINIMUM number of players required fora Posi part 1 TF.. 4. As we gather to begin the TF we discover that we now have 4 (14 level) blasters that all had the same idea. So the four of us, with minimal powers, and not one person on any sort of character that can even think about controlling aggro, debuffing, buffing or healing are supposed to face off against COT, Vahzilok and Clockwork... or to put it another way against one villain group that resists damage and is a major PITA at that level (COT), a second that has a ton of toxic damage which even higher level character have limited resistance to (VAHZ) and a third that can fire off holds leaving most if not all of the team helpless while they tear us to shreds (Clockwork).
    The minimum for Positron 1 is three, not four, and minimum-sized Posi is much easier than on a team of eight because you don't encounter bosses. That means no Ruin Mages, no Eidolons, no Clockwork Princes. The only point at which a small team is likely to have trouble is the fight against your duplicates, and there, a support-heavy team will have much more trouble than your hypothetical four blasters.

    Except for Sutter, all the low-level task forces are like this. Having a full-sized team with a good mix of character types is nice, but it's far from essential.
  16. Katie V
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    Originally Posted by AresSupreme View Post
    Is it possible to get the arc at 50 to unlock her?

    Also, what is the best way to get 200 masks and 100 illusionists?
    Two things about the illusionists:
    1) When a Master Illusionist summons three Illusionists, you'll get defeat credit if you simply damage them before they despawn -- you don't need to defeat them.
    2) If you've got a good book and a way to drop aggro (I did this on a Stalker), you can farm a single Master Illusionist for the badge: her summon powers are on a (IIRC) four-minute recharge, so 20 brief periods of fighting over two and a half hours will get you the badge.

    If you can wait, the best way to get the badge for the masks is to wait for Issue 22 to come out. Masks are much easier to find and defeat in the new Dark Astoria.
  17. Katie V
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    Originally Posted by EnigmaBlack View Post
    Yes it effects the endurance drain. I use it on my Elec/SD brute, but I have to tell you, IMO endurance drain in PvE is pretty much useless.
    The endurance drain from electric *melee* may be useless, but electric *armor* is a different story. I've got a katana/elec scrapper with Musculature Radial Paragon, T3 Preemptive interface, and both Lightning Field and Power Sink slotted for endmod. I can jump into a group of enemies, hit Power Sink, and watch them stand there doing nothing. It's almost as effective as a controller's AoE hold, and it has a much better uptime. The only problem is that after a while, the enemies will get tired of being debuffed into helplessness and run for the hills -- not something you need to worry about with an AoE hold.
  18. Katie V
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    Originally Posted by Zemblanity View Post
    I always assumed "Vanessa DeVore" was just Sister Psyche with a fancy mask on, always struggling with the dominant (and unaware) Shalice Tilman persona for control over her own body. If so, she's at least 80 years old, and probably alot older than that.
    Play thorugh Harvey Maylor's arc. It's stretched out over too many missions, but gives Vanessa's background in considerable detail.
  19. Katie V
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan View Post
    As a professional developer myself, I had doubts about their reasoning behind why the City Vault was scrapped. There's just no way a simple SQL read query would affect game performance.
    It's not a simple SQL read query.
  20. Katie V
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by SlickRiptide View Post
    Yeah, maybe it's because she grows up off-screen, or because you can still go to Faultline and visit teen Penny, but either way it just feels a bit slimy to be looking at at her as a "sexy" character.

    ***EDIT***
    Eighteen? There's no way that Faultline Penelope looks or acts eighteen. I always figured her for about fourteen.
    If Primal Penelope is the daughter of Vanessa DeVore the way Praetorian Penelope is, then being 18 in Faultline says...unfortunate things...about Wu Yin's taste in women: Vanessa was somewhere between the ages of 9 and 15 when Penelope was conceived.

    If she was 14, that's better: a 30-something Wu Yin being involved with a college-student Vanessa is far less disturbing.
  21. Katie V
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Suspicious_Pkg View Post
    So Lts and Bosses don't have a greater chance to drop purple than Minions? For some reason I thought they did. Hmmm
    Yes and no. A boss or LT has a higher chance to drop *recipes in general* than a minion, but the proportion of those recipes that are purples is unchanged.
  22. Katie V
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    Originally Posted by GuyPerfect View Post
    If I'm on an ITF forming and there's a bunch of Tankers on the team, I'm going to think twice about going through with it--I've seen too many encounters with Romulus fail due to insufficient damage.
    If you've got two tanks on the team, you can have one of them pull the healing nictus while the other holds Rommy. Once you've got them separated, about the only way you can fail is if you don't have a third person to add to the second tank's DPS.
  23. Katie V
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker View Post
    it logs me out overnight as a matter of course... I think that's policy
    Fortunately, that's easy to circumvent: just set the page to autoreload every 30 minutes.
  24. Katie V
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    Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven View Post
    The real question is why are they using 32 bit signed integers to represent combat level?
    Ease of programming, mostly. Saving individual bytes hasn't been a worthwhile effort for 20 years or so; using a smaller datatype is only worthwhile if you've got a *lot* of data of that type (eg. pixel color values).
  25. Katie V
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bright View Post
    Over-all, though, my real favorites are always the ones that completely suit the characters who are wearing them...
    Same here. There's a reason why one of my scrappers has "Poor Impulse Control" as a warning label...