Mr_Right

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let me know what you think peeps.

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First of all, I am not a marshmallow chicken.

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That's discrimination, peeps are also marshmallow bunnies.

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Can we settle with "sugar coated marshmallow puffs shaped like animals"?

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That power won't be of much use for me in a mission. I routinely end up lost and use the FoW so I know what area's I've been in already. I hope it only reveals for the caster.

Outside of missions in actual zones I'd use this power just about every chance I get!

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This. I know I'll be using it to unveil entire zones, especially when I suddenly, and without warning, must have every Exploration badge from that zone, and only vaguely remember where they are, and vidiotmaps doesn't quite help yet because I haven't uncovered enough of that solid black map.

Or for maps that are just plain neat.

Edit: Thank you for the video, JayboH! This is the first "look at this new stuff!" thread I've posted in, and want to give proper thanks!

The day badges came out, my Main (Super Villain, Ill / Emp Controller) got 3 of the Damage Taken badges. Then a couple days (weeks?) later when the "Epic" badges came out, I got the other 3.

Somehow I managed to get all six damage taken badges, but didn't get any more then 3 of the Healing badges. Still haven't.

I have got to admit. I'm surprised by the conviction and varying results regarding what color Sally cons. I personally love Croatoa, and I've seen Sally con every color available. From Grey to Purple, to everything in between (I distinctly remember seeing her con Blue once).

Which is why I am solidly confused by the discrepancy.

That's highly unusual. It certainly isn't some form of limitation on the Trial Accounts, and it's usually standard to have access to all the normal windows and such at creation.

I suggest creating a new character, to see if it was a one time issue.

If it isn't, and the problem progresses, I hope someone else can give you the commands to open back up your windows. I know they exist, but I'm useless with most of those slash commands and have no idea (i know that "c" opens the chat window, "t" for the target window, "m" should bring up the map (and Nav bar)).

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Hide -> Critical Strike -> Placate -> Critical Strike

It lets you get two Crits on an enemy almost immediately.

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Whow,....you mean I can use both of those hidden powers TOGETHER?,...hmmm I thought I read that you can only use one concealment power at a time but then maybe this is different?

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Placate isn't really a concealment power. It's a "-aggro" power, so while it places you into the Hidden state, it doesn't actually create stealth.

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On a somewhat unrelated note, I just want to take a second to thank you guys for being so positive and excited about this feature that's consumed so much of my life for so long. It's been a very long haul and tremendous amount of work from many people on the team. Your excitement about this feature is making it so much easier for me to continue to be excited about it, and that's making it a lot nicer to get through the final stretches of finishing this issue up and into your hands. I can't speak for the other people who've done a tremendous amount of work on this feature as well, but for me personally...it's a huge deal.

The handful of non-glowing responses I've seen have been very reasonable and more in the realm of disappointed but still understanding. For that I'm exceedingly grateful.

So thanks for staying positive and constructive, it makes reading the forums so much easier and working on this game so much more rewarding.

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Anyone who is not happy can SUCK IT.

This feature is GREAT.

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I never thought I'd do this to one of P_Ps posts, but


QFT

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When something is so good, everyone can come together around it.

But yeah, I never really thought I'd go, "Wow, P_P's totally saying what I'm thinking!"

I doubt there's more then one version of her, it wouldn't make much sense to do that. There's never more then one, it won't spawn if there's another one, so having multiple spawns of the same NPC would be like having two kinds of Kraken. Plus, it would mean that for the most part, the Developers went out of their way to code two separate types of Sally, and coded them differently enough that one could end up bugged, and the other not (or coded them differently, all together now).

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There are 4-5 spots in the lake that she wanders around/near. She does spawn pretty often, and she is NOT part of the bulletin message "Unusual monster activity in Croatoa".

She will just be there, and if you're above the levels for the zone, she's going to appear gray.

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I Think she always cons yellow unless they changed it recently

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No, she's always been a "Monster" at a specific level (30?), so she can con anything from Purple to Grey.

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Sally always cons as Yellow. I'm on a lvl 50 toon and she is yellow.

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Then there must have been a relatively recent change, because I was on a level 40-ish, and she conned grey "recently". I've also seen her con purple, most notably when Croatoa first came out.

In any section of the forum, look for a thread stuck close to the top titled "Message Forum Rules and Guidelines".

In the Player Questions section, it's about three above the most recent thread.

Edit To Add Linky. AKA- Etal!

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There are 4-5 spots in the lake that she wanders around/near. She does spawn pretty often, and she is NOT part of the bulletin message "Unusual monster activity in Croatoa".

She will just be there, and if you're above the levels for the zone, she's going to appear gray.

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I Think she always cons yellow unless they changed it recently

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No, she's always been a "Monster" at a specific level (30?), so she can con anything from Purple to Grey.

She does tend to spawn hourly, and I wouldn't focus too much on trying to get both kills in one sitting because of that.

But every time you log on, swing that character by the southern part of the lake.

I think, and someone will correct me if I'm wrong, that if you're Monitoring certain stats, Surveillance will allow the enemy's stats to show up there.

Of course, if not, then you can right click any Monitored stats and open the window. Not really the best solution, and there should be a relatively unknown slash command to bring the window you want up. There usually is.

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Themes. If you customize a Zombie's appearance, is it still a zombie? Can the powerset still really be called Necromancy if you're summoning catgirls that happen to have zombie powers?

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Now I'm picturing several Catgirls using variations of vomit attacks.

"Uh-Oh. Looks like someone set up an open bar too close to Otacon again..."

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Might be interesting but I'd probably make it a bit more like the Lab Equipment explosions if they were auto-hit. Chance for buff, chance for debuff, and chance for nothing. All of them are passive, but noticeable.

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This should have been the Super Science power

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[...]and taking something that's only of limited usefulness to me seems a waste.

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Unfortunately, during the time you're talking about, it's really a matter of picking powers that are "less of a waste". The Medicine Pool has two powers that can help out a team that you can't duplicate with a WS (I don't do PBs well for some reason), so does one power in the Stealth Pool (Grant Invis).

So put a priority on how useless the powers are to you, based on when you can use them, and how useful they would be. For me, it goes like this:

Toggles are usually right out. I can't use them while shifting, so any combat based toggle I get is going to be useless. Also, I'd have to turn them back on again every time I shifted, which knowing how I play, would be a lot.

Auto Powers are a bit better, but now I have to factor in how useful they are. The Fitness Pool is the only source, and I know Endurance and Health aren't an issue for my WS. Ever. And moving around in combat isn't either, because of Nova form.

Click Powers are the only ones I take seriously, and it's these that I have to start comparing what they do VS how many slots they take up to be 'useful'. Add onto that that some click powers have effects that last longer (Grant Invis vs Boxing, for example), and I need to figure out which effects are worth having (would I rather give someone invisibility, or mez protection?)


That's why I tried to suggest things that help you out of combat. Your combat is covered. Nicely, I might add, by your Warshade powers. Power Pools aren't going to buff your combat abilities any better then what you have, so look for things that help you when you're not blasting the crap out of things.

I tend to wait before changing any difficulty settings. Usually by the time I have the Nova AoE attacks slotted up with IOs (or the Dwarf Form and the Dwarf Mire).

No sense in getting ahead of yourself and facing more enemies then you can handle when you don't have the powers to handle it (Mires, AoE attacks in Nova, Eclipse, or a Corpse power or two, etc). In other words, wait until you have powers that like larger spawns before you get the larger spawns.

Well... I kind of picked powers that allowed me to ignore them as far as slots went. I ended up picking Combat Jumping, Super Jumping and three from the Medicine pool. I put no slots in them, so I kind of got free slots for other powers, since everything I picked works just fine with no enhancements on them.

I'd look for powers that while you may not be excited about them, they still provide a minor function you couldn't do before with no slots. Things like Grant Invisibility or the like. I kind of used a couple of them for IO procs or sets (Super Jump is going to get some Zephar, Combat Jumping got a LotG, etc) so that while I do get utility from it, it makes the 'not so exciting powers' a bit more exciting.

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reading comprehension FTW!

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I believe that qualifies as a "Burn". From a technical standpoint.

A PB has a harder time reaching Resistance, Damage, and Accuracy caps solo. Due to the nature of their buffs, they get more constant but lower spiking buffs.

A WS can reach the Damage Resistance, Damage, and Accuracy cap solo when surrounded by 10 foes (only six or seven are needed for Resistance, fewer for Accuracy, but Damage needs a bit more).

Really, it's not that PBs are slower, or can't handle more enemies, it's that Warshades are designed to spike higher because they have a harder requirement to meet.

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This. NAO!

-Rachel-

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I'm quoting this as hard as I can. For Emphasis.

In all honesty, Dark Extraction always targets dead bodies for me, even if I'm in the middle of a fight with several live ones. So I've been hitting that (even if it's not recharged yet), then using Unchain Essence.

To be honest, it confuses me why one can target, and the other can't (surely that wouldn't be a design choice, would it?), but I use that to my advantage. You know. When I actually pick that power.

It's most likely not going to happen. The power sets and origin you picked at creation are one of the few things you can't change. That doesn't mean in the future we won't be able to (after all, name changes can be bought, server swaps can be done, and now even the gender of the character can be altered later on), but it's very very unlikely they'll allow us to change what Power Sets we have access too. Origin, maybe, but Power Sets I can almost certainly set down as a "not going to happen".

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I love how so many people read "we need a break from nerfs" as "there shall only be buffing from now on." And then proceeded to belittle me because of their poor reading comprehension. Bravo!

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You must have no idea what you typed them. "Why no more nerfs?" I don't know, you tell me. You did in the OP, why not re-read it and figure out what went wrong with your logic.

Thank you Wolfwood82. For a minute there I was worried I was the only person who read it right the first time.