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I was quite annoyed about the stealth nerf to MoG too. I used it to tank against Carnies and Countess Crey, ya think I don't know it had Psy defence? The only reason I used it was so the damn carnie bosses couldn't sap me and then kill me with their psy powers and it actually made Countess Crey miss me the entire time it was on.

Oh well. I'll go enjoy my Mastermind.

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This is a great guide to follow when planning your powersets.

But neither do I understand, or appreciate, all the SMASH!!!es. Some defenders heal, but they don't go around yelling HEAL!!!.

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If your brute isn't appreciating of their SMASH! then they are doing something terribly terribly wrong.

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We know Jack was States, but who was who else?

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Oh I was SO there, too!

WW

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I hope you enjoyed being on the receiving end of my Darkest Night for about 20 minutes before you all poofed on us.

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I bumped into War Witch right away (for me, not right away for her, I'm sure). She came at me like a rocket and took me down quickly. I couldn't even hit her (aren't our to-hit calculations supposed to equalize in PvP?).

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Actually, I managed to score a critical on Synapse.

Did a point of damage.

I decided to just try to get some screenshots after that.

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I probably did about 500 points total between Sister Psyche and War Witch. I had Darkest Night running on War Witch for a good 20 minutes or so, until they all vanished on us.

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So there really isn't a 10 - 15 SF? I looked high and low for reference to one, but nothing. I even PMed Alexa about it, but she didn't seem sure, either. Hmm.

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As far as I know, nobody ever found one. It could be there, and nobody's talking, but I'm guessing it's not in yet.

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Who was playing Sister Psyche? And am I the only one who thought it was cool that War Witch was there?

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I loved fighting against War Witch. Even if she did cheat and somehow manage to completely fill her endurance bar after casting Blizzard.

I got some sweet pictures of her and Sister Psyche. Have a picture of Synapse mid-whirlwind (which he did ALL FREAKIN NIGHT).

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OK - here's the most likely outcome...

If you own both games, you get all options - the new CoV sets will be accessible for your heroes.

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I'm sorry. I can't type the first thing that popped into my head, but if you read the cape thread on the beta boards... you could guess...

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I became for to giddy and excited when I finally saw the CoV capes.

o_o

I really really really really really really really really hope this happens.

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And that is why we need to do testing, gather data and present arguments in a calm manner.

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/signed - We also need all Loungers to PM States, Posi, and Gecko on this fact so they are sure to hear it. The unenhancable portio MUST go in light of this new code.

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Well, my last PM to states was me calling him an effing liar (with more words), and he hasn't even read that one yet. So I'll wait until he reads that before I scald his inbox again.

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It does help. What it doesn't help, is the lower damage and lowered resistances, people are gonna have cause of ED. While the enemies still do just as much damage, hit just as easily, and have their damage resistance, unaffected.

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Actually, it'll be easier for them to hit us. Defense from powers went down due to ED as well. As well as Accuracy debuffs from them.

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With Enhancement Diversification comes a benefit for ALL City of Heroes powers.

Every power, across the board, is getting a 13.33% reduction in its Endurance cost.

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A for effort.

E for execution.

Token "buff" not accepted.

One would hope. But then, one would hope the Devs wouldn't lie to us either.

I was just about to say...

Defenders weren't crazy. Devs were. Shocker.

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Exactly which support AT could pull a team out of quicksand?

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Team Teleport or Recall Friend (so any AT) or Speed Boost (Kine/* or */kine) can help quite a bit.

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Speed boost won't do squat when 6+ of these guys all lay down quicksand on you at once. Believe me, I found this out last night...

Wow! That's really cool! Now I won't feel quite so bad if my alts get trampled regularly!

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Hmmmm, so I see this happening...

Kin throws Speed Boost, FS, Transfusion, then drops due to AoE. At 55 seconds down, pops a rez, drops three seconds later but re-sets the shot clock. Rinse and repeat. The question is, how much does the XP from the AV/whatever counterbalance the debt?

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I don't think it would counter it well at all. I solo'd Terra (ruh roh, scrapper admitting to soloing an AV, bring out the pitchforks!) and the XP from her defeat didn't match the debt I got for the two deaths at her, er, appendages? I don't think the mission complete even cleared it, but it's been a couple weeks so I could be wrong on that. Terra was 40, I was 40.

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3. If you are killed (i.e. "defeated"), and have been dead for more than one minute, you will not get any XPs for the mob, regardless of your distance from it, UNLESS you did damage to it before you were defeated.

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If a player is in a zone, did NO damage in a combat and has dead for more than a minute, he receives no XP. If a player is more than 300 ft. away (an increase of 100 ft.) from the mob when it’s defeated and did NO damage, he receives no XP. Otherwise, the player receives his full share of XP.

If players are on a mission map, they always receive their full shares. There’s no distance limitation. Teams can split up in maps – players can be separated by elevators – everyone receives their XP.

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Does this mean a Kinetics defender who, say, Speed Boosts the entire team, lands a FS and maybe a Transfusion, gets caught in an AOE and faceplants in a battle with a Giant Monster or AV in a door mission gets xp when the Giant Monster or AV goes down 70 seconds later or not? Statesman's response looks clear, but then looks confusing.

"If players are on a mission map, they always receive their full shares."
--Okay, cool, mission map not a problem.
"There’s no distance limitation."
--Er... Does that mean the time limit still applies?

And what about the same scenario when fighting a Giant Monster in a Hazard Zone? Speed Boost, Fulcrum Shift, and Transfusion do not deal "damage", although Transfusion could be argued to cause "damage" due to doing END drain, so lets take that out of the picture.

Say the Kineticist uses Speed Boost and FS and then drops due to AOE. Not an unlikely scenario given a particularly aggresive Kinetic playstyle. Hopefully, there would be a rez from another Defender or Controller available, but if not, that Kineticist is going to stick around to see the outcome since there's virtually no way to make it back from a Hospital in time. Giant Monster goes down 70 seconds later. What then? 70 seconds later, the Speed Boost they used is still active on their team. It's a two minute buff.