Necrotech_Master
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Quote:yes, i believe all the presence powers require tohit checks vs NPCsOriginally Posted by Cuddlemuffin
Archetype taunt powers (Tanker, Brute, Scrapper) don't require a to hit check against critters, only against players. Do the Presence taunts require a to hit check against critters? It isn't mentioned in the power description, and I was curious why you have your taunt socketed for accuracy.
personally i dont like the presence pool powers as to get max effectiveness you have to dedicate almost 6 slots to the power -
i always love reading/watching people doing stupid things lol
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Quote:if you want something less obtrusive you could do robotic drones or polar lights both are incredibly small, and you could say the robotic drones were stolen technology or you mugged some scientists for them or somethingOriginally Posted by Thirty-Seven
Yeah, I understand your plight. I have an Ex-Skull Thugs/FF Mastermind... can't seem to figure out a Lore that fits his Mutant/Natural theme. So I went with Storm Elementals for that Darkness angle of the Bone Daddies... but it doesn't feel right.
edit: im not disagreeing with the idea of more options though, i always support more options -
i loved watching g4, although when directv dropped them i was disappointed, but this is just awful
i think the only gamer show that prolly still be worth watching would be attack of the show (aside from ninja warrior) -
Quote:i think this sounds much more reasonable than the original setup, and the aoe sounds right too, and actually better than a flat % chance to happenOriginally Posted by Synapse
Okay, here's what I've come up with. The differences are FAR less dramatic than my first proposal:
1) Increase the PPM value by 20-25% (So a 4 PPM proc would become 5ish PPM) NOTE: The exact amount is still being figured out.
2) Replace the Base Recharge used by the PPM formula to only take into recharge enhancements affecting that power. This means recharge boosts from powers like Speed Boost, Hasten, Chrono Shift and Global Recharge from Enhancement effects like Luck of the Gambler's: +Def/+Global Rech 7.5% are not factored in.
3) Procs will have a maximum chance to trigger. I'm leaning toward 90-95%. There will be a minimum chance to proc equal to 5 plus 1.5 per PPM. Only the most extreme instances of very low recharge, cast time and area factor will cause this to occur.
4) All non-PPM enhancements with a chance to trigger less than 100% will use PPMs. (Note: Enhancements like Numina's Convalesence: Regen/Recovery will not be affected by this change as they have 100% chance to trigger).
5) The formula will treat Area Factor differently. Instead of simply using the flat Area Factor of the power, it will use 1 plus 75% of the difference between 1 and its actual AF. I think I heard a couple of you say "Huh?" Let me give you an example and then explain why.
Let's take a look at Dark Regeneration shall we? It has an Area Factor of 4, base recharge of 30 seconds and cast time of 1.17s. Using current PPMs with Essence Theft (3PPMs) it has a 39% chance to proc per target.
With the new formula we'll treat area factor as being slightly smaller than it is now. So the new formula would treat this Area Factor as 3.25. (1+(.75*(Actual Area Factor-1)). The simple version is: Area Factor will have a smaller impact on proc chance reduction.
Now the why...
As many of you have mentioned it seems odd to penalize players' proc chances for strengthening their builds with global recharge. So, only recharge modification from enhancements and enhancement-like effects (like Alpha Slot effects) will modify proc chance. We also realized, after looking at a great number of affected powers, that we were over penalizing AoE powers with PPMs. So, we've lightened the impact Area Factor has on the formula.
Thanks for all the great feedback and really making me look for creative, but appropriate ways to solve this problem.
Thoughts?
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soul tentacles is awful for a melee toon because its a fairly narrow cone, elec fences is a taoe
for dark obliteration vs ball lightning i think they are about even, dark obliteration front loads all dmg while ball lighting is DoT -
Quote:my first hero was an ill/storm and it was awful end wise lol, about 2 years after i got the toon to 50 i rerolled it into the ill cold i have todayOriginally Posted by Kitsune Knight
You're making the mistake of comparing powers in a vacuum. Don't do that. Sets are balanced as a whole, not on a power-by-power basis.
One of my first Heroes (and my oldest remaining) was an Illusion/Storm Controller. The endurance is fairly heavy, but it's definitely managable (and I did this with only SOs! no IOs back then). Hilariously enough, it violated your rule of needing 1/2 SOs worth of endurance reducation (I slotted 2 acc, and then either went 3 damage 1 recharge, or 2/2 split), and Ill/Storm is hardly an... endurance fiendly powerset combo. Oh, and I ran SI pretty much 24/7
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your idea is not bad khorak, however i do have a problem with the tier 1 soldiers being fully single target dmg
if you look at it a little more realistically if you have 3 gunners shooting into a mob of 10 guys, bullets will miss/go through targets and hit unintended targets or multiple targets. the only way to guarentee they could all be single target shots is if they were all snipers, which regular soldiers in an intense combat situation are not gonna have the accuracy to do that
the tier 2 pets are fine doing lots of them, but it sounds like they should basically both be commandos as the commando currently is maybe little less dmg per attack
the tier 3 pet is good, sounds like it would take place of the spec ops and do a better job at it if the control get adjusted to have lower rech times since only 1 guy is shooting them instead of 2 -
flash is a good "oh ****" power, i dont really use it on my ill cold but it has saved me a few times (its also a mass hold not a mass sleep)
leveling up my ill cold was bloody awful because of the low dmg output, once i got heat loss end problems started to dissipate and now that i have a fully decked build with 218% rech, perma heat loss means i have 0 end problems and perma PA means i rarely take aggro
the phantasm ive found kind of meh, he actually doesnt seem to do all that much dmg and is your only pet that can actually die, but he is great for keeping the aggro while your PA is resummoning especially since he spawns his own decoy
just using blind->spectral wounds is prolly the best attack chain you will have till you get epic powers (and even then its pretty much one of the best attack chains illusions has) -
well if i understand how the stuff works the vip starter kit gives you 1 month of VIP access, or in other words he is subscribed for all intensive purposes, when that month runs out he will then become a premium player, which i believe can be invited back to get 1 additional month of VIP time
i have not messed around with it at all though just based on what i have read -
i was doing my best to promote the giveaway in game, i think i helped a bunch of friends who didnt have the costume sets get the costume sets as well as some free players who werent around for the GR release
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after some thought and reading what others have wrote, i do kind of agree that #2 might not be totally necessary
#3 is something that shouldnt necessary either, and i agree with others that this still screws over high rech builds
#4 is only in there because of #3, if #3 doesnt happen then #4 wont either im guessing -
Quote:i think thats been lifted since its been officially revealed nowOriginally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Didn't Zwill ask that we don't post Mecca pics from Beta or is that no longer in effect?
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Quote:i think the ATOs were what they were looking at since they basically are the only tradeable things, but thats technically still a roll of the dice with super packsOriginally Posted by Hopeling
Most of the stuff in super packs is not tradable. A dollar for a couple ATOs and whatever a level 1 character can buy with ~100 reward merits doesn't sound like a very exciting deal to me.
and lvl 1 toons cant do anything with reward merits, i think you have to be at least 10 to get IOs -
iirc all of the other purple sets are still in beta right now and will prolly be released as future items for the paragon market
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i dont think the 400 points would apply right away, but at the end of the free month which would be the next bill date if they continued the account
its been awhile since i looked at what comes with the VIP starter kit since i dont need it as im already VIP -
no, not currently
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ive actually already gotten a large majority of the storage increasers lol, i think im still missing some salvage ones and i plain dont care about the vault ones since i never use it
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the only thing im waiting for to go on the market is the team transport power, who wouldnt want a team mish tp thats useable every 30 min? lol
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if you still want a crab and want to *temporarily* remove the backpack
go to tailor and using one of the costume slots thats not the first slot, and load a saved costume that does not have the pack, do not make any changes to the costume and then finish the tailor, when you change to this slot it should not have any crab legs, however it will revert upon zoning, so if you have 2 costume slots you could just alternate between them when you zone
there was a thread about this, but it was from like a year or 2 ago, dont know if i could find it -
i am happy with this solution dr aeon
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for form of the soul i was getting almost 40% end discount, i did notice the first tier buff being counted twice which is why its around 39.5% end discount instead of 33% end discount
as for form of the body, the dmg bonus is kind of low but the -resist that eye of the storm deals is not bad although i have to say i use form of the soul more than anything, ive never really used form of the mind at all -
i was at almost no fury, i was just looking at my monitored attribute early in combat with 3 stacks of perfection, i will check the actual buff numbers when i get back on my staff guy
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the +dmg on my brute hits about 63% dmg bonus with 3 stack of perfection
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i think i get better aoe out of guarding spin and innocuous strike than eye of the storm, the animation feels kind of longish and i would rather have sky splitter consume perfection over the eye of the storm
i still have it and use it though cause it makes staff fighting set a aoe beast