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  1. Ms. Mesmer
    First to the OP: 11/30/2010-04/05/2011. That's 4 months and 5 days. Pretty generous rounding up there to get to 5 months, no? And it isn't really any longer than previous years. The December holidays slow development down. This is why we get the Winter and Valentine Events right on top of each other, to give us something to do to distract us, and is also why the first Issue of a calendar year pretty much always comes after the longest gap.

    11/28/06-05/01/07: Issue 8 to Issue 9 gap.
    11/28/07-05/20/08: Issue 11 to Issue 12 gap.
    12/02/08-04/07/09: Issue 13 to Issue 14 gap.
    09/15/09-04/28/10: Issue 16 to Issue 17 gap. (actually the longest gap in Issues since the game was released.)

    That last one was an outlier, as proven by this year's 4 month and 5 day gap. This one is tied for the shortest since the 2004-2005 gap, which was also a special circumstance, since Issue 3 got held up by lengthy balancing debates, and ran into the holiday vacation time, so it sat on Test for 2 weeks in the same form that went live because nobody was going to pay the programmers who could fix any showstoppers holiday pay.

    About ED and subscription losses: CoV did far more than just cover the losses to ED. It pushed the reported subscriber numbers for the quarter in which it was released to the highest that this game would ever see. Rather than merely covering the loss from ED, it increased the subscriptions by 33%, from 150k to 200k.
  2. Ms. Mesmer
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by xeaon View Post
    Ok so here a little montage displaying Marauder Numbers
    It was a bit a mess to try catch him, w/out debuff applied on him, but at least i have 2 good shoot at his resistance, which is really what matter here, since when Enraged only his resistance seems to change.

    Defense :
    The Defense seems to be pretty flat (0%) sorry i was not able to take a good print screen , but I saw it with no debuff , at 0%.

    Base values:
    from the base value i look at the regen, again my print screen is lame, but i got the info i wanted. his regen is low, and get in negative numbers easy.

    Resist:
    At least i got 2 good shot at resist, Enraged and pacified.
    I also saw his resist getting lower then 100% with debuff, when enraged.
    So my conclusion ... yes we should only stress about resist.
    Those numbers look off. I know that when he's Enraged, and not in Unstoppable, the fire damage from my Reactive Interface still ticks, but in very low numbers. It is big 0s when he's in Unstoppable, though.

    I'd love to see the status protection and resists, though. At first I thought he, Nightstar and Siege were immune, but then I saw Siege look like he was very briefly held. My guess is that they have purple triangles up or higher protection at all times, along with a very high resist to all, which cuts any that do land very short.
  3. Ms. Mesmer
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bringer_NA View Post
    Just going to put this out there, but Psi seem to be completely unresisted in Enrage.

    IE. My Fort's Psychic Wail will hit 415s + Additional Procs.
    This is contrary to my experience, and that of OV_Ohms, from this thread. It looks to me like Enraged status gives him about 95% resist to everything but Smashing and Lethal. He gets 100% or more to those. I have no Toxic damage to check with, but I have plenty of Psi, some Smashing, some Fire from the Reactive Interface, and some Negative from Void Judgement, and it seems to hold true across them all.
  4. Ms. Mesmer
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zyphoid View Post
    I have been on that team multiple times on virtue this past weekend.
    I think "that team" is happening on every server, to some degree or other.

    I've only been on a couple of Lambdas where we got all of the acids and all of the doors were taken care of immediately. Most of the time, we get all of the acids, but at least 1 or 2 doors remain. Last night it was one. After explaining where to find the power on League chat, it still took us 2 extra chambers destroyed outside before someone who was paying attention got the acid and used it. Either the powers aren't granting consistently, or people just aren't paying attention to League chat. I'm betting on the latter.
  5. Ms. Mesmer
    I think it's more a matter of having tons of resist debuffs and damage that isn't Smashing or Lethal.
  6. Ms. Mesmer
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Eva Destruction View Post
    The Path of the Dark, that creates the Warwolves, has also been retconnned to involve the Nictus, and dates back to ancient Rome at least, so the Nictus do fit into the Roman context.
    That arc has talked about Romulus Augustus merging with a being of pure shadow since release. Requiem's bio has always explicitly called it a Nictus. This isn't a retcon.
  7. Ms. Mesmer
    A couple of things that I've thought about with that cutscene:

    1. I think I know what's in Enriche now. My theory is that they're pumping Mother full of hormones to produce mind-controlling breast milk to put in there.

    2. Oh, look! An upskirt shot of Nightstar. That's... really weird. Screen focused on metal crotch.

    I assume that angle in the Nightstar shot is due to how massive Siege is, and lining things up so that he fits on the screen.
  8. Ms. Mesmer
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ms. Mesmer View Post
    I'm inclined to believe this for the 10 Threads or 1 Super! Insp table. I got an important call that took me away during a long loading screen into Lambda, and didn't get back to the game until the Raid the Labs/Warehouse section was almost over. I fully participated once I got back, but sitting out half or more of the trial limited my contributions, and I got the bad table as a result. The other tables might be random, but this one seems to be the "punishment table" for those who don't contribute, for whatever reason.
    ... or perhaps not. I did a Lambda Sector Trial last night and contributed roughly what I would on any normal run, and I got this "Consolation prize" reward table of 10 threads or 1 Super! Insp again. Now I think that it might just be the other end of the bell curve, but one chosen at random. Sometimes you get really lucky, and receive a Very Rare table, and sometimes you get the shaft.
  9. Ms. Mesmer

    Issue 20 badges

    POST-ACTION

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master View Post
    highly doubtful, me and the same group who did the antacid run then attempted to rerun but not use a single temp, even with debuff heavy team, we only got him down to about 70% before the timer was half gone, by that time as well, we started getting overrun by the 10 portals we didnt close so we eventually just ran out of time

    edit: at least 14/16 of our league was triple level shifted too
    With only about 1/4 of our League at 50 (+3) we managed to take away at least 16% in 4 minutes, possibly as high as 20%. Factoring out everything else, that would mean 20-24 minutes just on him. The jumping around, and having to regroup every time he does, plus the new mobs at each location, would make this difficult, for certain. Resistance debuffs might help, at least to let the smashing and lethal users contribute some damage to it, but it's going to take some doing. Perhaps if everyone, especially smashing and lethal users, slotted a high-tier Reactive Interface (the ones with the high chance for fire DoT, especially) there might be a better chance.
  10. Ms. Mesmer
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironblade View Post
    Invite meh!
    Of course, after this, we managed to do some BAFs together and fail, but that was because we were trying to be cute and get some badges. Siege sure likes to take off.
  11. Ms. Mesmer
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Nemzzz_NA View Post
    I had this table twice. A fellow player came up with this theory "the less you do, the less you earn" so I just leeched the whole BAF (ie 2 recovery + 2 regen auras, a couple of fortitudes, no damages dealt, and I probably cast a Barrier).

    Of course, getting kicked from BAF twice b/c of these damn crashes helped me a lot to achieve my goal !
    I'm inclined to believe this for the 10 Threads or 1 Super! Insp table. I got an important call that took me away during a long loading screen into Lambda, and didn't get back to the game until the Raid the Labs/Warehouse section was almost over. I fully participated once I got back, but sitting out half or more of the trial limited my contributions, and I got the bad table as a result. The other tables might be random, but this one seems to be the "punishment table" for those who don't contribute, for whatever reason.
  12. Ms. Mesmer
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironblade View Post
    They give you an Astral Merit for sneezing. I have succeeded in exactly ONE incarnate trial but have about 20 Astrals.
    That's because that was the only trial that you did with me.
  13. Ms. Mesmer
    It isn't quite 0 damage across the board, either. Enraged status gives him something like 95% resistance to Psi damage, for instance. I haven't run these on anything but my Mind Controller, so I haven't tested with many damage types.
  14. Ms. Mesmer

    Issue 20 badges

    POST-ACTION

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Nericus View Post
    One would like to think that they wouldn't, but as some of them such as Synchronized or the "do not move Siege/Nightstar from their spawn point badges would require teamwork/cooperation and the law of averages usually indicates that there is one person on a team that just won't "get it" in terms of instructions.....
    Our League got Synchronized on my third failed run last night without really trying. It's going to be luck of the draw on that one, of course, since there's not some kind of interface that tells you that each team has engaged a destructible object, and shows their comparative health, such as the obelisk things in the Cathedral of Pain.

    I can hardly believe that I just praised an element of the Cathedral of Pain design.
  15. Ms. Mesmer
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight View Post
    AFAIK, your whole team would have to not use any of them (otherwise it'd be damn hard to get TEN of 'em!). It sounds more like a Master of run than anything.
    Exactly. You can complete the trial itself just fine on a PUG. Getting the Master of badge for it will likely be a thing to attempt at a later time, when you have the 4 new powers that give nice buffs, debuffs and damage, and up to 2 Incarnate content level shifts, so you'll only be facing +1s.

    Think of those Master badges for the trials as giving you some kind of challenge to shoot for when you're all properly buffed up with all of this new power.
  16. Ms. Mesmer
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood View Post
    Yes... and no.

    You only get components from a completed trial. However during the trial you will get threads and Astral Merits (which can be exchanged for threads). You will also get Incarnate XP (which unlocks the new slots). It is possible to build up common and uncommon components using threads alone. Rare and Very Rare components are available through threads alone but it takes a LOT of threads.
    This might be the way that it was intended, but I definitely had an Uncommon Component drop during a failed Lambda Sector Trial. It wasn't something that I crafted, since it doesn't appear to be in any of the recipes for things that I'm looking at crafting right now. This might just be new release bugginess, like a wrong call made for what was supposed to be an Incarnate Thread, but it did happen that one time.
  17. Ms. Mesmer
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Snow Globe View Post
    Actually it isn't 1,275, more like 1,235ish with vet rewards/passport/bughunter.
    For a Primal, the grand total possible now would be 1226, I believe. It was 1208 prior to Issue 20, and it looks like only 18 were added with this issue.

    Praetorians are up 4 on that, but down about 15 with anniversaries and Gladiators, from what I can tell. 5th Columnist plus the one for their 25 badges earned badge, and the potential 2 each for their level 10, 20 and 30 badges that Primals can get if they switch sides. This is assuming that Passport for NA to EU transfer accounts was an account-wide badge that granted for all transferred characters and for every character made after the transfer. I have no idea about how that works, to be honest. If so, a Praetorian's total possible would be 1215.

    Obviously, this doesn't count 1-8 Times The Victor, if you decided to go back and run a Katie TF after getting Ten Times The Victor, and quit after defeating her 8 times, just to have as many badges on you as possible, or Member of the Scorpion Clan and associated Legacy Chain Gladiator, which, last I heard, some people still had on characters from way back before Issue 7.

    I honestly want to use the Katie trick to spam the Most Recent tab with all 1-8 Times The Victors once I get everything else there is. It should only take 7 runs.
  18. Ms. Mesmer
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Scythus View Post
    >Implying I knew what a Kroger's was or noticed said products.

    As far as I recall, all the generic brands simply have "Fred Meyer's" stamped on them.
    Fred Meyer would be one of the "several other chains" that Kroger purchased out West.
  19. Ms. Mesmer
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by angelo55 View Post
    Is any one else feeling the same aggravation I am. What I mean is 'The weekly strikes are killing all other activities in CoX'.
    I got back into CoX late November for issue 19 and I only had two 50's at the time. With the introduction of weekly events I've seen regular events get pushed to the side. For instance the winter events, how many people took time out of their shard hunting and incarnate building schedule to do this. On 4 different servers is where I house my chars and on each it was a hassle to find people to do them with at any lvl.
    Move onto spring fling - Again people are to busy grinding away shards and such to really give their time for it. I had four separate times where I would join someone we would do their part of the mish and then they would find some excuse to quite or just log off (I chalk up most of these to people who are D*%^@).
    And the final annoyance - Task Forces that have nothing to do with shards! No one wants to do them?... Unless they are attached to a weekly strike, hence why Manticore was such a successful campaign again.
    Does any one else feel getting a group together for a TF (super groups not included) a royal pain! I have so many alts that joining a SG on one of the four servers would not be kind to them because sometimes I just don't come back to those chars for some time. And if I joined one on each server that's to much time i don't have to give to keep from being kicked out for inactivity.

    I think this all I have to say with out some feedback.
    The Events have been like that for the last couple of years. People run them very early, like the first week, then it becomes more difficult to get a team together for them. It doesn't help that the more recent ones, Banners and Lord Winter's Realm, take more people to complete successfully.

    Task Forces other than the WST or ITF are harder to get teams for, for certain, but joining a large public Global channel for your server definitely helps. I was able to organize a Sara Moore Task Force on one of Infinity's public Globals in under 30 minutes on Saturday, for instance. Becoming part of the community on one of those channels can also benefit you by putting you in contact with players who share your interests. By doing this, I was able to get 5 of the 8 people for a successful Master of Barracuda Strike Force run quite late on a Wednesday night, getting one other from a conversation a couple of days prior about the badge, another from my Global list that probably didn't care much for the badge, and the final from a random team search. That's a Strike Force that most players don't even like to do as a WST, given the time sinks built into it, and certainly doesn't hold much greater appeal for the kind of methodical play that a Master of attempt generally requires.

    To sum up: The people that like to do the things that you do are out there. You just have to use the tools at hand to get into contact with them.
  20. Ms. Mesmer
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Scythus View Post
    What's a Kroger's?
    They're the largest supermarket chain in the United States. They mainly exist in the Eastern part of the country, but their presence is nationwide, thanks to their purchase of Ralph's and several other chains out West. About the only area in the continental U.S. that doesn't have Kroger-owned grocery stores is from Maryland through Maine, the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions.

    And the retcon, later explained away as an overzealous copy edit, did change the plaque in Atlas for a time. Player outcry led them to change it back.
  21. Ms. Mesmer
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Xzero45 View Post
    And according to CoH novels, they were assembled by Hitler as a covert super team. They were originally sent to the US in 1939 to spy on and sabotage ships. They might not be Nazis in their present incarnation, as they might have new views in terms of political structure and what not, but they definitely have Nazi roots.
    There are no references to Hitler, Nazism, or the 5th Column in the CoH novels. There are a few oblique references to Italian Fascism in the first of the two novels.
  22. Ms. Mesmer
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Anti_Proton View Post
    How'd that that end again...Oh yeah
    With an a**-pull, but at least Darkseid's a god, and could believably have that in an orifice to pull it out.
  23. Ms. Mesmer
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Father Xmas View Post
    It was on 6:30 PM EDT on CN Friday night.

    It was an episode based around Superdickery.

    Lex exposes Superman, without his knowledge, to Red Kryptonite. Hilarity ensues as various classic SD covers are recreated until the effects wear off.
    They also referenced the many transformations of Mr. Action himself, Jimmy Olsen, and Lex was flying a green Supermobile. Fun episode from a fun series.
  24. Ms. Mesmer
    You can also call either of them, as well as the old version of Maria Jenkins or Primal Earth Calvin Scott, right from when you start the Flashback, or at least I've been able to when I've done those.
  25. Ms. Mesmer
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by docbuzzard View Post
    I don't imagine the notion that those names were likely in use on the NA servers before you even started playing occurred to you?

    I don't think you have any idea how fast the good names got snatched up in the first year. Names as obviously appealing as those were probably gone in the first 3 months.
    As character names, they probably were in use. Globals, however, didn't go live until almost a week after the EU servers went live. February 4th, 2005 was the live date for EU and February 9th, 2005 was the date for the Global Chat initial release for the live servers.

    There was a period beforehand here on the NA forums to change your forum handle to reserve your Global handle, but that would have only been known to those who come to the forums, or had heard about it from friends who did. With the option to transfer accounts from NA to EU, some of these players might even be losing their Globals to the ghosts of their former accounts.