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Shinier windows and prettier water don't fix things like players losing e-mails every Thursday, or heal procs healing inanimate destructible objects (crates, barrels, etc.), or Lingering Radiation's Slow not working for corruptors unless another Slow is used in conjunction with it, or "Diffuse the Nemesis threat", or the AI bug which causes enemies to run away and never come back, or any of the other things that have been stuck on a shelf and left to rot because they aren't crashing the servers.

A player who gets killed in a newly redesigned Skyway City because of buggy powers isn't going to remember how nice it looked, he/she is going to remember that he/she died because his/her powers didn't work as intended, described or expected. A player who goes looking for an underlying story to those nifty new missions isn't going to remember that unique mechanic in that special mission, he/she is going to remember having his/her eyes start bleeding after reading mission text rife with spelling and grammatical errors.

Things need to be fixed. Not covered up with more shiny, fixed. Revamping zones is just adding more content to cover up the problems with the existing content. That's not what this game needs right now. It needs a serious focus on quality: fixing bugs, addressing AI problems, cleaning up mission text, etc.

The flight speed cap is 58.6 mph.

You actually gain more flight speed from a single 5% +Movement bonus than you get from a third Fly Speed enhancement in Swift, or a fourth in Hover. In fact, with three level 50 Fly Speed IOs in Hover and two in Swift, putting a third in Swift is almost exactly the same as having a 2% +Movement bonus. Six-slotting Hover and Fly, or even Hover, would give you less than you could achieve by using the extra slots to accumulate +Movement bonuses. Six-slotting Swift with Fly Speed enhancements wouldn't even be as good as a single 5% +Movement bonus.

As for other ways to increase Fly speed, there are numerous other options. Kinetics, Radiation Emission, Quickness/Mental Training and other clones of that type of power, Mayhem/Safeguard +Movement power, Commuter/Pilot day job, GvE Jump Pack, the Nerve Radial Paragon Alpha boost, Heightened Speed from the Mutation power (Mutant booster pack)... and I'm not even trying to list everything that improves the speed of flight, those are just the ones I remember off-hand.

My Fire/TA corruptor will be over 41 mph with Hover if I get her the Nerve Radial Paragon boost.

With the recent increase to flight speed overall (faster base), in concert with the buffs to Hover over the past few years, even without IO sets, Hover is once again a viable alternative to ground movement. As Lothic noted, it's not a travel power, but it's ten million times better than it was after ED and before the buffs, and it's definitely fast enough for use in missions.

A mere two level 50 Fly Speed IOs in Hover, one in Swift and a single 5% +Movement bonus will put you at 35.5 mph. And that's not even working at it.

Glue's AoE is persistent. It's a 30s duration AoE which leaves the debuff on enemies for up to 30s after the AoE expires*. It has area persistence and per-target persistence.

*Barring bugs, of course. Corruptor version is bugged, the debuff is removed if the enemy is inside the AoE when it expires. Need to remind myself to test my mastermind.

Glue's debuff is persistent after enemies leave the AoE. Tar Patch's is not.

Disruption most certainly be stacked. I'm available on Liberty if you need a demonstration.

It isn't.

Glue remains on targets after they exit the AoE or after the AoE expires, which means a target (or targets) will continue to suffer the effects of the debuff for up to 60s (30s duration of AoE, 30s additional debuff time). Tar Patch is stationary and not persistent. When Tar Patch ends, the -Movement ends. When a target (or targets) leaves Tar Patch, all debuffs are lost.

Disruption's -Res pulses have a duration of 5.25s, so targets which exit the AoE will remain debuffed for up to 5.25s, whereas Tar Patch's -Res has a duration of 0.45s per pulse, which results in the debuff being lost within a fraction of a second after enemies exit the AoE.

Both Glue and Disruption have a base recharge time of 60s, thus permitting them to be used more frequently and/or stacked, as opposed to Tar Patch's more restrictive 90s recharge time.

Essentially, a TA's debuffs last longer outside of the AoE locations or after the AoEs expire. Additionally, no power exists in a vacuum, all powers within a set are balanced in comparison to the other powers within that set, not across sets. Glue and Disruption's debuffs are balanced versus the availability of Acid Arrow and OSA, not against Tar Patch, or Sleet, or Acid Mortar + Caltrops, or anything else. Yes, there is some balance work done between sets and within the AT as a whole, but at no point is any one power "better" or "worse" in relation to another power in an entirely different set. Ever.

Bottom line, context matters. Specifically, the context of how a power works in conjunction with other powers within the same set, not how a power works in comparison to a completely different set with a totally different focus and no real directly comparable powers.

In my experience, an offensive corruptor plays identically to an offensive defender. The increased potential rate of defeating enemies offsets the lower potential buff/debuff values. Meaning, you kill stuff faster, so you don't have to work as hard to protect yourself via other means.

All things being equal, you're going to be using the same powers in the same sequence, and in the same way, between both ATs. I'd even go so far to say that for identical powers, you'd be slotting them identically. The only perceivable difference is going to be when you gain access to different powers, so in the very early part of the game, some different tactics or choices might be necessary, but in the long run, it's two sides of the same coin.

There's a difference in how you play if you're going from defender to blaster, or blaster to corruptor, but offensive defender to offensive corruptor is really just the same thing with slightly different numbers under the hood.

That's what I'd like to hope for. As I said previously, I'm not too upset about the number of shards, but the additional inf* expense rubs me the wrong way. First, because there isn't an inf* cost anywhere else in what's been revealed of the Incarnate system, so this one stands out as deliberately tacked on with the intention of adding another gate to slow players down, and not very well thought out; and second, because the player on the WST is quite likely to be generating inf* at a faster rate than the solo player, plus getting an additional Notice of the Well for "free", so the solo player is not only progressing along the Incarnate path more slowly by default, he/she is also being slowed down even more by an inf* tax. High shard/component cost or high inf* cost, one or the other. Both is unnecessary and overly restrictive.

I run my main, TA/Dark/Dark, at +0/x6. I'm not interested in a challenge, so I don't bother going above +0. x6 gives me target saturation for TT and NF. I tend to leave bosses off if I'm farming, but sometimes I'll wander around PI and pick out spawns of two bosses (Death Mages or Warhulks, for example), just for the heck of it (best time: 38s).

It's efficient enough. I generated over 5 billion influence, and 160+ shards, in two weeks with Parthenia. Paid for my Panacea set, plus proc, and 5/6 Hecatomb, getting me over 200% global +Recharge.

Pursue it diligently, and with haste. More than a single response would also be advisable.

The behavior I'm seeing is that DWM's usage jumps while I'm dragging, then drops back to normal when I stop moving. I don't have to release the click to see the usage return to normal, it's only increased during movement.

The outline of the power bar is... laggy, as well. It trails behind the mouse movement, flickers in and out of visibility and doesn't appear at all unless the mouse is in motion. Like trying to move an open window with a low (single digit) refresh rate or extremely high HDD activity.

I understand that. But it's still abnormal.

It's not displaying the bonus in the Info window. Prior to this update, toggling Domination on resulted in the Info window showing an increased duration for controls in the Info window. Now it doesn't.

Not the Effects window, the Info window.



Domination is on, mouse pointer is on Mesmerize, but the Info window doesn't indicate an increase to the duration of the control. It used to, it doesn't now. It's not just Mesmerize, it's all powers, just like Scourge, Containment and Vigilance aren't showing a damage buff for any powers.

Temp powers and veteran rewards benefit from global +Acc and +ToHit. +Recharge as well. Same is true of accolade powers.

Alpha boosts only affect things which can be slotted for the things which they affect. Meaning, you can't slot Domination with +Recharge enhancements, therefore Domination doesn't benefit from Spiritual X Alpha boosts. Intentional, by design, working as intended and properly reflected by Mids'.

I know the Alpha slot is going to be the high point of this release for a lot of people, but this feature deserves just as much attention and appreciation. Really wonderful improvement to the program, going to be very useful. Thank you very much.

The powers are fine. Hurdle's bonus to jump speed is balanced by the lack of control. Without using an additional power, you can't stop instantly, change direction instantly, reach top speed instantly or even turn effectively, as opposed to running.

No. Sprint's 0.1 buff translates to 10% of base jump height, less than .5'. That 0.06 provided by Hurdle, however, equates to a 166.8% increase, effectively almost tripling jump height at level 50. Hurdle's JumpHeight buff is almost as high as Combat Jumping's (200%).

Modifiers matter. Sprint uses Melee_Ones, Hurdle uses Melee_Leap.

Devices.

No. Smoke Grenade requires a hit check for the -ToHit property. Smoke, from the controller Fire Control primary, is autohit across the board (in PvE).

Flash Arrow.

You can definitely go higher and still have a viable build. My main is at 133.75% before factoring in Hasten.