LordZ

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You all will get emails on it monday. It is happening.

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Well son of a ....

You just HAD to do this when I was heading out of town and will be stuck with the relative's dial-up didn't you? Dagnabit!

Just an FYI, when phasing you can get hit with something like a hold or debuff yet the animation still goes off. At that point you are phased but have "resisted" the debuff. Should anything drop your toggle that is resisting the debuff it will still hit for the length of time it normall holds for. And if it is a hold that is sitting there waiting to hit then it will drop your phase. It is likely that you either ran out of endurance, or something dropped your status protection toggle.

Very hard to say after the fight is gone and you didn't post any combat logs showing the attacks.

I run into stuff like this alot since phase is actually part of my combat string.

hide, build up, assassin strike, energy transfer, placate, total focus, my 2 minor attacks, followed by air superiority to knock them down during my phase animation. phase. Wait for build up to recharge, manually unphase after they swing and miss then repeat. +3 boss dead normally with me only taking 1 hit. But yes, i use phase alot.

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* This means that you can no longer “escape debt” by being defeated by a PC after taking massive damage from NPCs, nor will you be penalized with a massive amount of debt if you are defeated by an NPC after taking a huge amount of damage from a PC.


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Ugh, was that really happening? So if Statesman runs up and knocks me down to 1hp and then a player hits me .367 milliseconds later I get almost full debt? How is healing calculated into this? Regen?

Need more info here...

Is thunder strike supposed to require a target to be in range AND targeted in order to be able to activate? This is unlike any other brute/tank AoE power. Or is it just me?

Upside - it's not wasted when target runs away.

Downsides - Can not use it to hit stuck enemies in walls. Hard to use on mayhem missions, won't be able to still hit things when confused, blind, taunted.

Overall I think it's a mistake in the power.

Other than that I'm having a blast with it. Running solo and on Viscious since level 3. I feel a damage decrease coming...

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increase your Burn damage.

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1 question... brute + burn + fury + build up/soul drain + red insps???? That will work????

Sure wish I had that image last night... Might have got my 17 presents i had left before servers turned them off at 11:52PM. And yes I waited till the last minute on my hero. Wanted the jetpack for as long as possible and just assumed they would be nice and shut off at 12:00 PST for the west coast customers.

200 is a bit much for a badge though. I shudder to think how much debt was accrued over the past two weeks from people rushing about to get presents and leaving the spawns for the lowbies to "discover". A good peace offering for such a poorly planned and executed event would be to lower the amount needed to a more reasonable number. Say 100?

On a side note, am still amazed they let you keep an avatar with that word on it.

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Longbow Nullifiers do not have any such power. They do not have any attacks that remove buffs or any detoggle effects.

High level Longbow Spec Ops have EMP Grenade that drains a lot of Endurance which might have been what you experienced. They've killed me by draining my remaining Endurance which turned off Granite Armor. They're minions though so they're easily killed and should be dealt with immediately.

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Then I should have bugged that mob then... I ran into a 3 mobs worth (yes they spawned that close together) on a 6 man team and first volley completely detoggeled my energy/energy brute. 2nd volley = dead. had 1/2 end by the time i realized my toggles dropped.

Only happened once, i thought it was the fact that there were so many nullifiers that they stacked up and went through whatever defenses I had.

R.I.M.A. - Rogue Isles Mercenary Army

The purpose the Rogue Isles Mercenary Army is to collect money for services greatly needed in the Isles. Various other groups need the firepower that we can offer. Some need to increase their worth in the eyes of Arachnos or other organizations and we are the team with the power to do just that....for a price of course.

The founders of R.I.M.A. have paid a healthy price to acquire the blueprints of Crey's Power Tank robotic shells and have went to work perfecting them. What we have invented is the perfect armored shell for warfare no matter what the situation. We take finely honed military personal and equip them in these mobile units to win whatever war is needed to be won. Depending on our current roster we should be able to fill whatever order someone might need to get the job done. These units have several classifications, Assault, Ghost, Blast, Tactical, and Containment (for a full description of their capabilities please set up a time for a demonstration). You can mix and match or just order whatever we have on hand. While results aren't guarantied, loyalty and 200% dedication are. These men and women shall fight to the death, or at least our own teleportation system for whatever cause you think is right or against whatever cause you think is wrong. Your choice, we really don't care as long as we get paid.

Normal staple of services rendered include the following:
<ul type="square">[*]Increasing your prestige within the Rogue Isles.[*]Assisting on any strike force or trial for whatever purposes.[*]Securing an Item of Power for your base.[*]Defending your base against a raid.[*]Raiding another base and confiscating their Item of Power.[*]Collecting bounties on any who have done you wrong in Bloody Bay, Warburg, or Siren's Call.[/list]If you are in need or interested in our services feel free to fill out a request with our Sales Office .

If you wish to apply for membership into R.I.M.A. you may enter an application or request information in our Recruitment Center.

((In game contact information below))
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((R.I.M.A. is a Virtue based villain group. This is a strict themed VG with lite role play thrown in. Although we don't require you to role play your mercenary, it is encouraged. R.I.M.A. members are expected to offer services in the way of Strike Forces, Base Raids, or Prestige gaining to other groups on Virtue. They do this for a fee in the way of Infamy or Enhancements.

Your first costume slot MUST match our plans for the body type. Your name will consist of our own numbering scheme followed by a dash and a single word callsign. No special characters or spaces will be allowed. You also must have the same description as everyone else. There will be no exceptions to these rules. Pretty much any at/origin/powerset will be allowed. The only ones we are hesitant on are magic origins, mastermind ninja or zombies. The reason we say hesitant and not disallowed is that someone might think of a reason that type of character will be in a powersuit. For a complete list of rules and instructions please visit our website.))

Well if any of you that are suffering from little to no prestige are on Virtue hit me up. I might be able to work something out with you. Can't help everyone at once, but as long as you have "active" level 29 and up players we can make it worth your while.

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Ballista is a Toggle Dropping *******!

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Yeah, he is. He was designed to be as close to a Player Hero as we could make him. How do you guys like the Toggle Drop on him? Is it too nasty or does it add a nice challenge?

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I simply could not defeat him solo. Had to call in some robotic assistance to keep him off his feet. This was on my Dark/Fire brute of equal level and base difficulty. I've never had this much problems with an elite boss before. With that said I did like him though. I just don't think he should be miles ahead of the others we have to fight prior to him. Either drop him down or bring the others up. Maybe something in the mission description saying bring friends along...

I'm outleveling in Cap too as a brute. I have yet to team. Went to Cap as soon as i completed the radio missions.

Aparently failed the last mission on one arc (bugged it, never saw anything to protect nor goldbrickers trying to escape)

Finished 2nd contact

Got 3rd but wouldn't give me any missions due to me being level 15 upon completing the 2nd arc.

I'm scared to think what would happen if i actually teamed and did anyone elses missions too.

Move to the US!

hehe

Got all 7 here.

Pre-ordered from Gamestop.com. Not a local store.

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I just learned of this recently myself... we'll fix it. Keep an eye out for news on how- we're still trying to figure out what happened.
-Loki

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That's not good...it's the only reason i bought the collectors edition was for a guaranteed ghost widow...

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Oh I was SO there, too!

WW

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Till ya ran off! I chased you out to sea in MI10 then lost you. I think the lag monster got me... Hero's should never run away at half health. Shame on you!

--Krunk

Since the Faathim TF is bugged will you at least be datamining or whatever from I5 onward?

I really don't want to have to do that TF a third time...

One quick question...

When you datamine you do have the ability to just datamine characters of a certain level right? Say oh.... 44+? I mean no need to datamine EVERYONE when they aren't even eligible to do the tf's.

I personally don't mind doing "good" tf's over. Hell i've exemped down to do posi with friends when i was level 24 with no debt. Was still fun. But traveling the shard and doing that quarterfield *shudder* tf again just makes me ill thinking about it.

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I'll pop in here so you guys have a new target.

The original Task Force Datamine took 3 months to finish. That was to go over 2 months worth of data.

We now have 18 months worth of data. We looked for a more effecient solution, but our estimates still come out at 2 years to datamine and get you your badges.

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How is it that you awarded the kill X badges then when the different issues went live. I'm sure you didn't datamine that. If you track how many of each villain/monster are killed couldn't you just look for the end villain for the TF and award based off that?

I agree 2 years worth of datamining is insane for a badge. But there has to be some other way of doing this rather than forcing those of us that spent the time doing all the tf's to do them over again. Think outside the box here.

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Thanks for the suggestions...we'll definitely revisit the Shard to add new content (badges, missions, etc.), reformat current TF's (a little less grindy), make the teleporters fit the zone better, etc.

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Actually I'm more interested in archiving/keeping the OLD content. Such as bringing back the souverniers and adding badges to the EXISTING TFs already in the shard. As it sits now I will never bring another of my alts into the shard. There is nothing more for me to do there and without souverniers/badges I have no reason to even attempt those TFs again.

Monkey badge has been lowered. Never hunted monkeys before on live with my level 39 WS. Logged into test and was 3/4 there. That is from missions only.

My main problem is the Shard TF badges not being rewarded upon login. Now if they say it will be datamined and awarded on Live then i'm fine with that. I know for sure though I won't be doing those TF's a second time though. Especially that boring Quarterfield TF. Moonfire is right there too though on the excitement factor. At least it's a short duration...

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MIMES!

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Am I the only that thinks the words "beta" and "live" should not be in the same sentence?