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Quote:But hey, we stopped that dastardly Emperor Cole from dosing his populace with fluorine! We'll get the chemtrails next! Wake up, sheeple!Originally Posted by Xaphan
Nah, that'd make too much sense.
I bet that everyone in Praetoria is going to start mutating into Devoured, because the Resistance decided that it was a good idea to knock out the water treatment facility... forgetting that the Will of the Earth can be spread through the water supply, as the Primal Devouring Earth attempted once. And of course the water treatment facility would be the only safeguard against that. Oops. -
Quote:Does the Recall Friend trick still work for players to stack Vengeance? I haven't seen a team try it in years, but hard to say whether that's just a lack of opportunity and necessity.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
It didn't start that way: the rumor goes all the way back to the original beta test of respec when that was not an issue.
And on the subject of Vengeance stacking. Yes it does. All it takes is one x8 Nemesis mission to confirm that one. When all their attacks start looking like they are autohitting through Elude and a couple of purples, and they all seem to be shooting out of a PFF bubble, it'll become painfully obvious.
People have been wrong or misguided about all sorts of things over the years, and sometimes it's just bad strategy or bad assumptions - saying that the best way to fight Ghost Widow is to leave only a tank in melee range, or that the Blue tower should be fought last because it's just endurance - but my favorite bits were always when the game itself lied to you. "Granite and Eye of the Magus debuff accuracy! The tooltips say so!"
I've also heard "Rain of Arrows is autohit!", "Dominator Block of Ice doesn't do any damage", and "Stolen Immobilizer Ray does a Hold", but those were all from a single idiot in IRC. -
You don't even need Hasten. With 3 SOs, it's up before the crash wears off.
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Can someone help explain how some of Electric Control works? There's some stuff I can't quite figure out from the in-game descriptions.
First, Static Field. Now, I'm led to believe that this works similarly to Earthquake, except doing Sleep instead of Knockdown. Which is fine. What I don't quite understand is the "Foes may also be drained of some endurance, and some of that endurance may be transferred to nearby allies" part. What are the actual mechanics of this? Does it proc little mini-transferences on enemies in the field? Do allies just get pulsed end boosts, at (presumably) a slower pulse rate than the sleep? How rapidly does the sleep pulse, while we're at it?
Second, how does Synaptic Overload play with the purple Confuse set? Does the proc's effect carry through the chains, so every time it arcs there's more chances for 8 second mini confuses?
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Quote:I've been proposing something similar to that for set IOs a long while now. I think the levels of individual IOs should disappear entirely, while the level ranges of sets should remain. Instead of 21 versions of Touch of Death: Acc/Dam, from level 20 up to level 40, there would just be one. One that you can start to slot at 17, enhances by the table at whatever your current combat level or 40 (whichever is lower), and contributes to set bonuses as long as your combat level is 17 or higher. Get rid of the lose/lose choice of having weaker enhancing at 50 or no set bonuses when you exemp, get rid of the situation of a level 34 IO being worth an order of magnitude less than the level 50, increase the effective supply of every IO by significant amount, and make it easier both to buy and to sell - instead of guessing which level of Miracle +Recovery is going to go on sale and putting up a bid for that, or spreading smaller bids among multiple levels, there's only one to bid on.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
I have often wondered if inventions should stop, or rather start, at about level 25. Which is to say, if you get a drop when you are level 12, it will be a level 25 drop. If you craft it, you will be able to slot it, but it will function as a level 12. As you level, it will scale up with you until level 25, when it will stop at its native level. This would make it much more beneficial to craft and slot inventions below level 25: it would be a slot it and forget it until at least level 25, and level 25 inventions (single aspect) are natively about as strong as SOs and don't expire.
It would basically kill off TOs, DOs, and SOs except as filler enhancements for slots that don't have inventions yet, but I'm ok with that. It would also eliminate all those low level weirdos that no one uses, but I'm ok with that also.The fact that level 25s would never disappear under exemplar actually creates a strong incentive to slot them: they would be a weird analog to purples. In fact, this is so useful a feature that the cutoff might need to be level 20 rather than 25, so they are slightly less strong than a standard SO natively.
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What happens in I19 to Praetorians that are already in Supergroups? Do those SGs just get 100k bumps?
Also, will there ever be a system to automatically pay rent as it becomes due, instead of having to truck someone over to Galaxy or Oakes every couple weeks? -
Quote:One of the things I've noticed, leveling a recent Blaster, is that my defense on that character is essentially my offense. I survive mobs by killing them fast, before they can kill me. If I'm fighting DE, and one of them drops a Cairn, my primary means of not dying is negated - you can't kill fast through a Cairn. I have to kill the Cairn first, and then try to salvage the rest of the fight.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
So that basically takes a defence-capped entity (assuming it's not too far above the cap) and essentially floors its defence entirely? Why is this not considered broken? I... Guess stacking Elude on top of everything else might make up for this, but... Will it? Because I haven't noticed it helping too much in the past.
Another thing I've noticed, when playing my Controllers, is that my defense on that character is essentially my mez. I survive mobs by mezzing them, so I can drop their killing ability down to nearly nothing while I mop them up. If I'm fighting DE, and one of them drops a Fungi, my primary means of not dying is negated - Fungi give mag 10 protection to Stun, Sleep, Immobilize, Hold, and Confuse to all DE in the radius. I have to kill the Fungi first, and then try to salvage the rest of the fight.
I guess Trees of Life aren't a big deal, but other than that, DE Emanators are ruinous. Those characters will get wrecked by their particular weak points as bad as a Quartz wrecks an SR. Not everybody gets to be strong against everything, and sometimes there are enemy groups that are bad matchups for specific characters. -
Knives of Artemis have a great-looking sword. I'd love to see that for the sword sets. I wouldn't mind seeing the Ballista helmet either.
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Quote:Wait, what? We can fight these guys now, in I18. Those storyarcs were already updated.Originally Posted by Noble Savage
To reiterate what was said in the panel: we've redoubled efforts to take all newly-developed npc groups and make the vast majority of those options available for players. It's a pretty common request, so we're spending the time to make it happen. Will an IDF-themed set be available for players at some point? That's the hope, yes. But stay tuned--when and how is not something we've announced yet.
The actual announcement at hand is that you'll be able to fight these guys for the first time as part of I19 (updating the Maria Jenkins and Tina Mcintyre storyarcs). -
Quote:Grav isn't Ice. There's -move, but not -rech. Here's her power list - notice the no -rech in any of 'em.Originally Posted by warden_de_dios
Isn't Dominatrix a Grav Controller? Pretty sure she is, which means she has -rech in her holds and immoblizes.
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Quote:Knockout Blow, on the other hand, is in the same set as Rage, and does the same damage as Seismic Smash. Under the very specific and difficult circumstances you describe, it does about 2/3rds as much as the easily reproduced Build Up + Aim + Inferno. Try again.Originally Posted by Soozi
Double rage, fully saturated fury, seizmic smash!
What's that you say? rage and seizmic are from two different sets? Come'ere and say that! *SMASH* -
So, Heroes have a set of names and descriptions for their badges. So do Villains. If you have a Hero, and turn them into a Villain, their badge names and descriptions change to that of a Villain, and vice versa.
However, Praetorian characters ALSO have a set of badge names and descriptions, and keep them when they transition to Hero or Villain the first time. My question is, do those Praetoria-themed names and descriptions stick with you if you change sides again once you're in Primal Earth? If my Praetorian goes to Paragon, her ten badges badge is still Lead-Follower, not Tourist, but if she then switches over to the Rogue Isles through Morality Missions, does it become Visitor or stay Lead-Follower forever? -
Quote:That's fine. Just don't start saying that Strike shouldn't be better than Swipe, because then you're forced to use the uglier attack.Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
Arcanaville,
I'm going to continue using strike in my attack chain until I-19 strictly for numerical reasons and I'm going to continue to complain about its appearance.
And both decisions are correct. -
Quote:That word "available" has me a little worried. Are all four powers automatically granted at 2, or does this just open them up for choice without involving prerequisites or using one of your four power pool choices?Originally Posted by Castle
Yes, they are enhanceable and you can add up to 5 additional slots to them, just like the current versions. The powers are all available either at level 1 or 2 (I forget at the moment) -- no waiting 'til 20 for Stamina.
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Inherent how? As in, Hurdle and Swift are automatically granted at 6, Health at 14, and Stamina at 20, and remain slottable with their current sets and at their current strengths?
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Quote:I believe the difference is that with a Magnitude debuff, -Regen resistance applies to how much -Regen is applied, rather than how long it lasts.Originally Posted by SpiderTeo_OC
So wait, you mean those debuffs are working on a different mechanic that most of us are usually familiar with? How are magnitude debuffs different from kinds of debuffs?
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Quote:Just to be clear. The only places to find Siege are the old arc, and the random mission from Maria Jenkins, right?Originally Posted by Positron
Dimensional Warder as of I18:
Anti-Matter, Battle Maiden, Black Swan, Bobcat, Chimera, Diabolique, Dominatrix, Infernal, Malaise, Marauder, Neuron, Nightstar, Siege, Mother Mayhem
Pulled that from the badge-data that's on Live right now, so that's the accurate list. -
Ah, poop. That was an inventive balancing method.
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At one point during Beta, a lot of the Kinetic Melee attacks had big disparities in their Cast Times versus their Animation Root Times. So that while, for instance, Focused Burst might have a 2 second animation, and so take 2.244 seconds to use with Arcanatime, it had a .3 second Cast Time and so would start recharging .3 seconds after you started using it.
Is that still true? If so, anyone know what the exact numbers are? Because that might make building chains a bit easier. -
But not better than if you, say, throw down Focused Burst from Hide, and then follow that up with Concentrated Strike.
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Quote:Be that as it may, I'd still like to see the animation be significantly changed. What they have now just looks goofy. Maybe use ...Originally Posted by Leo_G
It's a high kick feint > axe kick. It's actually a good way to perform one as, if you're just going to bring your leg down on someone, you have to be blindingly fast or the target isn't seeing it coming.
I'm not arguing the opinion of the look of the power, but it *is* an axe kick. Personally, when you've got legs flying, alternating feet, etc., them come in with CAK, it makes the character look faster than the target, IMO...at least now that the entire set flows so quickly.
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I've got a submission for the AE writing contest. Earth For Humans, Arc #4827. It's all about loyalty to Earth in the face of an encroaching alien threat, and not allowing our way of life to be destroyed by external agencies. Very patriotic.
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What if, instead of a cone, Crippling Axe Kick was a 5' radius targetted AoE? The final bit of the animation certainly could be seen to pulse damage outwards from the point of impact, ala Foot Stomp.
Also, instead of just fiddling with the crit chance, how about if Eagle's Claw went up in base damage to bring the DPS to acceptable levels given the long animation. I'm thinking KO Blow or Seismic Smash levels, here.
I'd also like to see it tried that, instead of doing a damage boost, Focus Chi gave a ToHit bonus and then added additional base Energy damage to your attacks, the way Enchantment of Serafina does with Psychic damage. -
What restrictions apply? I'm guessing character-bound stuff like the Gamestop preorders, and maybe whatever's involved in the Incarnate system?
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I seem to recall buying a name change wiping your friends list, and other things. I need to know, will changing your name break a level pact?