Kitteh

Per Cryptic...

School of Sharks
* Unenhanced damage @ lvl 40: 23.375 (N. Energy, DoT)
* Immobilize
* Range: 50 (Cone)
* END: 13
* Recharge: 20 secs


Per my experience part 2...

Test subject #2: Fortunata [Arachnos minion]; Level 40 (-1)
Fury: None or extremely minimal
Enhancements: Base slotted for accuracy

Initial damage: 3.86 (log) / 4 (on screen)
DoT (per hit): 2.52 (log) / 3 (on screen) [8 DoT ticks total]

Total damage (log): 3.86 + (2.52*8) = 24.02
Total damage (screen): 4 + (3*8) = 28

Brawl: 15.49
Shadow Punch: 27.50 Smash / 40.44 N. Energy
Smite: 21.80 Smash / 68.13 N. Energy


Test subject #3: Bone Spider Commando [Arachnos minion]; Level 40 (-1)
Fury: None or extremely minimal
Enhancements: Base slotted for accuracy

Initial damage: 3.86 (log) / 4 (on screen)
DoT (per hit): 2.52 (log) / 3 (on screen) [8 DoT ticks total]

Total damage (log): 3.86 + (2.52*8) = 24.02
Total damage (screen): 4 + (3*8) = 28

Brawl: 10.84
Shadow Punch: 19.25 Smash / 40.44 N. Energy
Smite: 14.77 Smash / 65.98 N. Energy


Test subject #4: Mu Striker [Arachnos minion]; Level 40 (-1)
Fury: None or extremely minimal
Enhancements: Base slotted for accuracy

Initial damage: 2.52 (log) / 3 (on screen)
DoT (per hit): 1.86 (log) / 2 (on screen) [8 DoT ticks total]

Total damage (log): 2.52 + (1.86*8) = 17.40
Total damage (screen): 3 + (2*8) = 19

Brawl: 15.49
Shadow Punch: 27.50 Smash / 25.88 N. Energy
Smite: 21.11 Smash / 42.22 N. Energy


Now I gotta figure out what the heck this all means
Any number cruncher should feel free to jump in.


One things seems clear...Mu Strikers resist N. Energy pretty well.

School of Sharks (SoS) pics in order of occurance...


Activation

Incoming!

Buzzing the Tower

Take'er Down Captain

Gotcha!



Verrrrry sexy and

Crappy damage though

Roger that on both accounts.

Brutal (heehee...Brutal) day at work...ummm I mean my home office.
Haven't been testing since the daily maintenance window.

I'll finish up SoS tonight.

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I believe the melee AT version duration is 30 seconds? That's not too shabby, if so. Of course, the melee version has 1/2 the recharge, but that's not too surprising.

Any idea on the per-foe damage buff?

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My two DM's concur.

heehee...yeah, I've never been a fan of immobs and as an /EA Brute (i.e., no aura) having a mass immob is difficult to leverage.

Whatever the case though, I didn't want to duplicate Cosmic's testing for the community's sake.

2 EA Brutes on relentless ran into Swan as a Hero.
She ate right through our Overloads.

We knocked her health down maybe 5%

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You have to do five Newspaper missions (or three at low levels) to get Mayhems in the first place.

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You miss my point. You have an option of doing mayhem missions or normal storyline missions. Who's going to bother doing normal storyline missions when they could just as easily do mayhems?

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The new content will be attractive to many.
Temp powers to receive. New baddie factions. An AV/EB tussle.
Completing arcs before you outlevel the content/contacts.

Mayhems will always be awesome and will always be there, but I suppose that some will make a living out of them...at least early on.

Hit 41 last night with help from CosmicRiftsaw and other Test VG buds.
I took School of Sharks.

Per Cryptic...

School of Sharks
* Unenhanced damage @ lvl 40: 23.375 (N. Energy, DoT)
* Immobilize
* Range: 50 (Cone)
* END: 13
* Recharge: 20 secs


Per my experience...

Test subject: Crab Spider Slicer [Arachnos minion]; Level 41 (even)
Fury: None or extremely minimal
Enhancements: Base slotted for accuracy

Initial damage: 3.48 (log) / 3 (on screen)
DoT (per hit): 2.58 (log) / 3 (on screen) [8 DoT ticks total]

Total damage (log): 3.48 + (2.58*8) = 24.12
Total damage (screen): 3 + (3*8) = 27


Recharge...confirmed
END...confirmed
Negative Energy...confirmed.
Immobilization...confirmed.
Range...unconfirmed, but assumed correct at the moment.
Cone effect...unconfirmed, but worthy of confirmation.

Also...Activation Animation ~ 3 seconds.


At issue (1): Do Arachnos' resist Negative Energy across the board?
At issue (2): If not, do Crab Spider Slicers resist Negative Energy?

I'll get more information this afternoon to include comparable numbers for Brawl, Shadow Punch, Smite (both Negative Energy) and Air Supe (smashing). I will also use at least 2 additional test subjects.

Also, the animation is pretty neat. I will post screenies later.

Nice! So when 'Sammy' hits the baddie does he encircle and gnaw on him a bit?

And what a random solution to that bug, but it sounds like the team chat messages help the server threads keep the synch between the mission 'object' and player 'object'...conceptually, at least.

I'm gonna try that with a team to see if I can zone faster.

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The actual mission bug (you get stuck outside of the mission map inside the mission) starts after the first half. After you get the accolade.

But man, I can't continue the arc.. I was getting into the story too!

That timed mission has 2 wardens holding 1 hostage each and an Elite Boss (longbow) right in the middle of it.

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Based upon forum input, it appears that there are at least 3 separate level 40 Mako arcs.

FWIW, the arc I had seemed a little easy. The bosses were each unaccompanied.
I bugged one of them, maybe they'll look at the entire arc. As I've already said, the arc EB, Ace McKnight, is a bad [self-censored].

Note: My Mako arc had 5 or 6 missions to it. Got an SO. Mako told me to come back at level 45. I gotta either do "regular" missions, paper missions, team up or figure out if someone else gives out Mako missions for him (I doubt the latter) until then.

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Three?

Wait, so after fighting McKnight, did you get the "Interrogate 5 CoT" mission?

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Nope. After "McKickYaInDaFace" I called Mako, he let me choose an SO and then essentially told me "that's all punk..come back when you are 45."

Before "McKickYaInDaFace", I had 4 LB missions, which were your typical "gather information/clues/intelligence" types of missions.


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So maybe the multiple lvl 40 arcs aren't exclusive, but rather there are X number of outcomes that are each comprised of X*Y missions.

So some arcs will be similar from player-to-player, some completely different (other than the EB, perhaps) and some will be exactly the same.

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Hm, that doesn't seem fair though.

Did you fail the first timed mission? because I did.

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I was successful on the first mish.


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Also, I think I did have 4-5 LB missions too.. wait let me see if I can remember..

One was get the files..
One was clear out all the Longbow..
The other was clear out all the Longbow too..
And I remember there was another one somewhere in the middle of those three.. I think..

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Yes, I remember those 3...files, LB and LB.


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The last two of the first half of the arc involved me planting bombs vs Knives of Artemis and after, fighting "McTOOEASYKnight". (Ofcourse I fought him with a Brute by my side.)


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YupYup...KoA on a container ship.

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After that, I got an SO and my Bloodletter accolade from Mako aka the Patron accolade.


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Affirmative.

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Then he praised me and told me something about learning more about what he's about. That "black scorpion likes to.." blah blah.. "lord recluse likes to have statesman's head on a platter".. blah blah.. "On the other hand, I like to.." blah..


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More or less...yup

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And then we're back to the ever so wonderful story of Cthulhu.. I mean.. the Leviathan sleeping under Sharkhead. Hence, the "Interrogate 5 CoT" mission after the "McWHOSYOURDADDYKnight".

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Ok, so this is the only point at which we differed.
This was where Mako said to me come back at 45.
When I log on this afternoon I'll see if he changed his mind or gives me another ctc.
Logically, there should be another Mako arc contact before 45 since we all pick a power at 44.
I would expect one each level at the very least.

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I got my shark baby!

The animation looks kinda like Fulcrum shift with a pause towards the end to release the shark.

When it hits there is a chunk of damage followed by light DoT, kinda like fire blast but with Lethal damage.

I'm gonna do more testing and post some damage numbers and see what I can do with that 1 slot it has :P

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Screen Shots NOW!!! I demand it of you!!!

(I got 5 bubs to go. )


Edit: Did it check out against the Dev numbers?

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The actual mission bug (you get stuck outside of the mission map inside the mission) starts after the first half. After you get the accolade.

But man, I can't continue the arc.. I was getting into the story too!

That timed mission has 2 wardens holding 1 hostage each and an Elite Boss (longbow) right in the middle of it.

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Based upon forum input, it appears that there are at least 3 separate level 40 Mako arcs.

FWIW, the arc I had seemed a little easy. The bosses were each unaccompanied.
I bugged one of them, maybe they'll look at the entire arc. As I've already said, the arc EB, Ace McKnight, is a bad [self-censored].

Note: My Mako arc had 5 or 6 missions to it. Got an SO. Mako told me to come back at level 45. I gotta either do "regular" missions, paper missions, team up or figure out if someone else gives out Mako missions for him (I doubt the latter) until then.

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Three?

Wait, so after fighting McKnight, did you get the "Interrogate 5 CoT" mission?

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Nope. After "McKickYaInDaFace" I called Mako, he let me choose an SO and then essentially told me "that's all punk..come back when you are 45."

Before "McKickYaInDaFace", I had 4 LB missions, which were your typical "gather information/clues/intelligence" types of missions.

[typing out loud here...]
So maybe the multiple lvl 40 arcs aren't exclusive, but rather there are X number of outcomes that are each comprised of X*Y missions.

So some arcs will be similar from player-to-player, some completely different (other than the EB, perhaps) and some will be exactly the same.

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Not sure where to put this, but currently I cannot complete the Assault Malta base mission in Black Scorpion's arc. I think its the 6th mission in. The "Find Location of Quatrexion" objective cannot be met, because it either isn't spawning or isn't triggering correctly.

By the way, Malta never spawn below level 41, meaning this arc is inherantly mean if done at level 40.

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For you and for Cryptic...

I just took down Quatrexion with the help of 4 MMs.
(FYI - he may only be S/L if my log is correct).

Anyway, again, I was helping, so wasnt my mission, but the owner I would assume had to have completed the mission you mention above to actually get to him.
At least that makes sense to me.

So if it is bugged, it may not be global/pervasive.
HTH a little.

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Reference for Corruptors...

Dark Embrace
* Self +RES (S/L, N. Energy, Tox)
* END: 1 unit/sec
* Recharge: 4 secs

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Dark Embrace costs 1 End/sec!

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How do you arrive at that conclusion? Has anyone actually tested that yet? 'cuz all that quote says to me is that one "unit" of endurance, whatever that may be, is taken away every second, and that they really need to try harder on this "hard numbers" thing. The endurance/second numbers we're used to seeing on the forums mostly have little relation to how the devs probably think of toggles because lots of toggles don't tick once per second. They tick anywhere from several times per second to, in the case of Cloak of Fear, about once every five seconds.

I suspect that in devspeak CoF would be represented as 1 "unit"/5 seconds. This is as misleading as it is unhelpful.

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Based on replies to my PMs to Castle, those units do not mean end/second. In the case of Dark Embrace, he quoted to me a value a little over 0.3 end/sec, which compares directly with EPP armors on the Hero side.

Note that I agree that giving us the information in such a format (on the plaque, not Castle) is particularly useless.

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*shakes her head*

Note: The inclusion of "unit" was from me. Valid, I say, because "1/sec" as was listed on the plaque on Monday (I don't know if it's been changed since) means nothing.
"1" what? Tick? Foot tap? Dollar? 'Mississippi'?

Having said that...How can they screw this up?

It's simple. It's straight user documentation.
Nothing to do with design, integration or testing.
Unbelievable.

Cryptic: Provide the numbers...completely and accurately, please.

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The actual mission bug (you get stuck outside of the mission map inside the mission) starts after the first half. After you get the accolade.

But man, I can't continue the arc.. I was getting into the story too!

That timed mission has 2 wardens holding 1 hostage each and an Elite Boss (longbow) right in the middle of it.

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Based upon forum input, it appears that there are at least 3 separate level 40 Mako arcs.

FWIW, the arc I had seemed a little easy. The bosses were each unaccompanied.
I bugged one of them, maybe they'll look at the entire arc. As I've already said, the arc EB, Ace McKnight, is a bad [self-censored].

Note: My Mako arc had 5 or 6 missions to it. Got an SO. Mako told me to come back at level 45. I gotta either do "regular" missions, paper missions, team up or figure out if someone else gives out Mako missions for him (I doubt the latter) until then.

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I agree. Well, at least ONE Patron Power.

I hope they fix this by tomorrow so the minority who did pick Mako WILL get to finish the Patron arc.

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I chose Mako, cuz of the not often resisted damage (NE & Tox) and also because it sounds so goofy it has to be cool.
Doesn't it?

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Whenever I attempt to zone from warburg to another zone my client crashes. It could be to a mission, from grand to St. Martial, Nerva, or even RV.

I can't test the pool unless I unlock it

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Aw man...that's stinks

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While I had LBs, most of the arc I had dealt with taking down Ace McKnight (MA/SR scrapper). He is a +2 EB on solo relentless.


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Its more like Ace McWowyouhithard.

He came close to 1 shotting me when i was running overlaod (so i had 1000 more HP then non overload running brutes would have)

Has anyone been one shotted by hit yet?

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I agree...he is a bad, bad man...but WOW that much damage and through Overload???

His opening Crane Kick connected to my chin for +950!

I'll save everyone the drama, but he went Elude at about 1/4 HP remaining.
I went Overload about 20 seconds later, and of course, he crashed first.

He couldn't do anything for the last 15-20 seconds. He couldn't even run.
I finished him off just before I crashed myself.

He was the most challenging (and fun at the same time) EB to date for me.

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No you'll probably just see the Mako logo (the one on his statue) glowing on your chest or something. At least that's what it looked like in the I7 preview with a supposed Black Scorpion shield (the hourglass looking thing.)


Anyway, does anyone know if Captain Mako's first mission impacts your "path" in any way if you fail it or pass it? or does he give you the same set of missions regaurdless?

I failed it and I got a "get the file from longbow" mission after. Anybody else?

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I can't remember and my screen shots of all of the mission orders, instructions, etc are all messed up.
It would be nice though if the arcs were indeed a little dynamic and not so linear.

"Get the file..." doesn't sound familiar though.

While I had LBs, most of the arc I had dealt with taking down Ace McKnight (MA/SR scrapper). He is a +2 EB on solo relentless.

And more CoT? FTLOG man!
Just make 'em go away, cuz a lot of people will continue to avoid them anyway.

Knives of Artemis is/are back...again, Mako's arc.
Much more villainous/evil/etc. than CoT.
More creative also.

Beware of ambushes...not after you battle the mission Boss, but during.
Such was Mako's 3rd mission.

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Shark Skin
* Self +RES (S/L, Cold)
* END: 1 unit/sec
* Recharge: 4 secs

I don't understand, Shark Skin is auto like the "fitness" pool? Why does it have a 4 sec recharge or is that a typo?

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FYI - If it's a typo then it's Cryptic's. I'll check the statue again today when work cools down.

Is that a 'normal' END value for an auto?
If it's indeed an auto then I hope the actual RES value is more 'togglish'.

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Confirmed. 4 second recharge, indeed.
Gotta be a toggle, but I'm basing that on the APPs.

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just gotta get our hands on one and see what it does, soon as I figure out how i'm gonna get to lvl 41 by only street hunting i'm grabbing soul drain and jumping headfirst into a mob.

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Are you crashing when entering missions?

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Do these defense scalings affect monsters as well players?

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Positron, Castle, Pohsyb, anybody else I might have mentioned it to in the past? I might have been joking before, but consider this my formal petition to change the name of this thing from the I7 Defense Scaler, to the I7 Critter Accuracy Scaler. It is going to be a lot easier explaining to everyone how the change to critter accuracy will help defense sets, than it will be explaining for the next six months *what* this change affects.

I know I'm not supposed to petition the devs in the forums, but this is a special case situation where I think a large chunk of the player base is about to get really confused about what's going on (in spite of fifty billion forum posts about it).


* This change does not affect Defense at all. Its a misnomer.

* This change does not alter any Player power, at all

* This change does not alter any critter power, at all

* This change does not, and cannot affect Player accuracy in any way

* This change does not, and cannot affect PvP in any way

* This change only affects Critter Accuracy. Only Critters are affected. If it doesn't have a Player directly controlling it, its a Critter.

* In I6, different critters had different Base tohit, based on Rank (LT, Boss) and Level Difference. In I7, Players have base 75% tohit, unless they are attacking another player, in which case they have base 50% tohit. Everything else has base 50%, period.

* In I7, instead of getting higher Base tohit, critters will now get Accuracy Bonuses instead, for all Ranks, and for all level differences up to +5 (beyond +5, they will start to get tohit bonuses again).

* Accuracy Bonuses are different from tohit increases in that tohit increases just add to Base tohit. Accuracy is multiplied after all tohit and defense is factored in. Accuracy is fair to Defense, relative to Resistance.

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I think you've earned the right.
But in case you get booted, can I have all your Hami-Os??

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Sorry IBM I meant Cryptic, I should have been more clear and I appreciate you posting the (available) numbers on all the threads.

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FYI - If it's a typo then it's Cryptic's. I'll check the statue again today when work cools down.

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Oh np at all. I was just taking ownership on any correction(s), if necessary, since I ported the information.
It's the mistakes that are mine that I never own up to.