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OMG that is awesome. Be sure to check out the Victorian-era DC and Marvel pages. The steampunk Iron Man is a work of art.

The Old West Star Wars line is pretty amusing too. What a fascinating hobby. I wish I had that kind of free time, lol.

Come to think of it I don't recall seeing combat spam from any of the interface procs, except maybe the DoT.

All of them have a visual effect though, so you can at least see if the guaranteed effect is going off. For the 50% one you can craft a power analyzer mk3 temp power to see the combat numbers of one of your test subjects.

That's what I mean, without his base 30%, if you don't use grenades, he'll "only" resist 95% smashing and lethal. That's the same amount he resists fire, cold, energy, negative energy, toxic, and psi damage when you don't use them.

When he pops unstoppable while enraged, he'll still resist 100% of everything except Psi, which he'll resist 95% of.

Should assault rifle be listed in this as well? The trailer used AR sounds for showing off one of the rifles, but I'm not where I can get on test and check if it got a customization too.

Smash and Lethal should now be on-par with all other non-psi damage sources for the Marauder fight (95% resisted while enraged). The only advantage that psi has is that Unstoppable doesn't raise it to 100%. OTOH, the reduction of the Unstoppable duration from 2 minutes to 1 does make having a lot of psi slightly less important.

Healer, obviously.

I wholeheartedly support this endeavor.

Don't underestimate the power of the RDF.

EDIT: Editing to avoid spamming a new post.

I have to say I'll be interested to see what the Q2 numbers look like. I'm assuming those will include sales of the steam punk pack, which from the trailer and the reactions I've been seeing look like it's going to be a home run.

Yes, Short Circuit does have a large -recovery debuff. In my time playing storm/elec, it was the only endurance drain power that actually seemed useful, as you can drain them to 0 all day long (even that can be tough to do before they die anyway), but they'll still attack the instant their recovery ticks... unless you Short Circuit.

No, when you switch sides you remain in your SG, you just can't access the base or earn prestige, as mentioned earlier. You can still use SG chat and... that's about it. You do not get kicked out when you switch.

If you want to join a villain group, you'll have to open up your supergroup window and manually quit the SG first, as you can't be a member of more than one supergroup at a time.

While that could be an issue in Incarnate Trials, it can't actually happen on an ITF. Teams work like they always did, even when part of a league. If you set a normal mission while in a league, only your team sees the active task and can get into that mission.

Similarly, if you start a TF while in a league, the team who started the TF is automatically locked in the league window, and stays locked as long as the TF is active. IIRC the only thing the league leader can do at that point is to remove the entire team from the league.

Interestingly, I noticed that a player who disconnected during a TF did rejoin the team as usual after logging back in, but did not show up in the league window from that point forward. I don't know if that was a fluke or a bug in the league interface. This was in a league made of 3 teams running separate, independent TFs.

When it comes down to it, a league is really just an interface to see the HP/End/Buffs of select people who aren't on your team, a handy automatic chat channel, and nothing more.

Amen. Of all of them, this one irritates me the most. I already know that the $*(&^ teleported away, because I suddenly can't hit him anymore. I don't need the game to rub it in.

Temblor and Fusion's special attacks are similarly redundant to red text-ify. They're pretty obvious, and you can't really avoid them, so what's the point of announcing it?

If you're comparing damage to blasters, you're missing the point of defender blasts. Yes, they do some damage, and yes it helps the team. Sometime, take a look at the real numbers info on the Defender blast debuffs and think about what they offer.

Dark: -9.375% tohit
Electric: Endurance Drain (less useful because the computer cheats)
Energy: Powerful damage mitigation through knockback
Ice: -25% recharge and movement speed
Psy: -37.5% recharge
Rad: -25% defense
Sonic: -20% resist
AR: -def, kb, etc
Dual Pistols: Selectable based on ammo (kb & -def, -dmg, -rchg)

Oh, did I mention that those can stack? So if you're a */dark defender, you can easily keep up 2 applications of your tohit debuff on a target or even a whole spawn (night fall + tentacles), reducing their tohit by 18.75%. That's almost as good as putting a DO-slotted Fortitude on the entire team! Hell, that's exactly as good as unenhanced Darkest Night.

Sonic's -20% res is like having an [Achilles' Heel: Chance for -Res] slotted in every single attack, except that it's guaranteed to go off rather than a 1 out of 5 chance. One hit from a /sonic attack increases everyone's damage by 20% in many cases and is about as good as putting Fort on the entire team. 2 hits is better than Fort.

Psy's -recharge is a huge damage mitigator. Everything except Archery has some useful effect, and Defenders get the best debuff values of any AT on their secondary.

Any defender who doesn't use their secondary and stands in the back twiddling their thumbs between buff cycles is a detriment to the team. I'm not saying you're one of those, as you implied that you do use them in between buffing, but I've seen too many who do exactly that.

That one is just an oversight. The server clock is frozen during the cutscene (at least as far as powers and combat go), but it doesn't instruct the client to do the same. So the client continues to recharge your powers and expire your buffs and gets out of sync.

Wow, the to-hit dropoff for higher level enemies is a lot steeper than I thought it was. Never really did the math before, but without Tactics or any other to-hit buffs, you need a whopping 2.44 accuracy to hit +4 enemies at 95%.

That's 144% accuracy enhancement for a base 1.0 acc power (i.e. most of them), which isn't even possible without set bonuses.

For +3 enemies, you need 1.98 accuracy to reach the ceiling. Adding in Tactics makes it a little easier (never realized until today that the to-hit amount varied per-AT for that power), reducing it to around 66-73% enhancement.

So, the answer to your question is: It varies wildly depending on how high level the enemies you're going to be fighting are. For even-cons, you don't need much. If you like to run on high difficulty settings or do STF/LRSF/Apex/Tin Mage, it's hard to get enough!

For Incarnate Trials it depends how many level shifts you have...

I respecced my Elec/FF troller into detention field when we got inherent stamina and I have to say it's a lot more useful than I thought it would be. Besides the "OMG overwhemled, take one boss out of the mix" situations, I find myself using it on summoned pets all the time, especially the ones that despawn anyway when you kill the summoner. Things like Carnie Dark Servants, Animated Stones, or buffers like DE Quartzs and Cairns...

It also came in handy on the alpha unlock mission when you get 2 AVs at once... Just kept Captain whosherface in a bubble while we beat down Hero1.

That or "saving" a Nemesis lt. from my aoe-happy team before he buffs the fakes and warhulks to even more godlike levels

No, I know about that option, and it's not what I want.

For one, many debuffs that can affect members of your team are considered auto powers and hidden by that option. Random examples: An enemy Dark Servant's Chill of the Night, CoT crystal auras, pseudo-pet spawned flame and mez patches (*cough* Malta), etc.

I'll have to check but it might also hide Supremacy (which on a mastermind you definitely want to know if your pets are in range of or not).

Please don't call it that, WoW has a much better group/raid UI than the new (or the new "classic") team and league UIs.

Plus it's scriptable so if you don't like it there you can always change it with addons.

The old team interface was at least decent, if not terribly flexible. The new "classic" is ugly, and the team numbering is so tiny that it's unreadable.

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/would LOVE to have a customizable interface in CoH

//would WRITE the thing for Paragon if they asked