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Quote:Both should only affect yourself.Originally Posted by Bluepulse
Firstly, thank you for posting this guide (it has been a major help).
My question involves a couple different items
#1. Speed Boost- (Blessing of the Zephyr: Knockback Reduction) I was curious to know whether this would give the protection to myself as a passive effect, or bestow it to the teammate i use it on?
#2. Recall Friend- (Time & Space Manipulation: +Stealth) will this grant stealth to my teammate or myself in the same manner as my first question (passively/proc on myself or on my teammate when I tp them)?
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Quote:Originally Posted by Gulver
It would be simpler for everyone if the devs got off their butt and made it that all damage counted, not just the one effected by Base HP.
Or dare I say that a reevaluation of certain badge requirements is not out of the question?
Dropping the zero from Empath was a great start. However it can still only really be obtained via the Arena, just a lot less Arena time.
Damage badge 3 and above (especially Immortal) are best obtained to only obtained via AFK farming.
The money badges: only via normal game play, transfers and marketing do not apply nor does money from AE mishes/farms/arcs. Yet the requirements for money badges 5 and 6 (Popular, Leader) do raise a question of their accuracy. 1 billion and 2 billion respectively.
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Quote:At 125% recharge from IO sets you don't need hasten, so if you keep Hasten you don't need to slot it unless you plan to PvP and thus put up with the "diminishing returns" that will slowly sap the recharge out of you.Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Come on, 15 attacks slotted specifically for recharge, a trio of LOTGs?
145% Recharge? What could be better right?
Tack in 3-slotted hasten...for PermaDom and PermaHasten.
(And hope your End bar doesn't self-destruct.)
215% Recharge? Anyone? Anyone?
Also the attacks aren't slotted specifically for recharge, 4 or 5 purple sets, plus at least 3 to 4 LOTG Global recharge boosters and a couple of other sets that have recharge as a set bonus. -
Quote:In Dragonball Z there are three levels of the Super Saiyan (fusions are ignored along with DBGT)Originally Posted by Agonus
Looking to see if I have this right. Please correct me if I'm wrong here.
To achieve Perma-Dom, you need about +125% Recharge. This can be achieved -without- Hasten.
Bonuses also stack a little silly. A "particular" bonus can only be stacked 5 times. Now for example, does this mean that you can slot +6.25 Recharge 5 times, and +5.0 Recharge 5 times and get a full effect, or am I missing something?
In COV there are 3 levels of Permadom.
Permadom a.k.a. Permadom 1: 70% recharge from IO bonuses plus 6 slotted hasten. Your build will likely be a bit clunky and you risk frequent dom/hasten power crashes.
Ascended Permadom a.k.a. Permadom 2: 90% recharge from IO Sets plus 6 slotted hasten = Permadom+Permahasten. A better build, fewer power crashes.
But just wait ..it gets better ..
Cut to a scene of Recluse and his henchmen
Ghost Widow: "Has he really found a way to surpass an Ascended Permadom? Is that possible?"
Scirocco: "Nah he must be bluffing, I mean what would that make him, double ascended?"
Cut back to the dominator as he starts building power: "And THIS ..!"
Lord Recluse: "What's he doing?!"
Dominator: "IS TO GO .EVEN FURTHER ..BEYOND!"
Insert gratuitous 10 minutes of yelling and screaming from the dominator as power levels build to unprecedented levels while every watches in shock and awe
"Sorry that took so long, it takes time to power up. In this form, hasten isn't needed ..and you can call this Super Permadom 3" -
Quote:Originally Posted by Sardan
This is normal for them. I'm reasonably sure they've been working longer than a year on Going Rogue. They're working on new end game stuff and ways to make level 50 characters more powerful (per video from Comicon) that they can't talk about either. I believe one of the devs mentioned that the AE system took "only" 8 months, and he was totally impressed at how fast that was. There's always new stuff in the pipeline they can't talk about.
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Good to see it will be per costume as well. Nice to see they are going the distance.
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Quote:Needs 8 still.Originally Posted by Leandro_NA
Thanks, that's really not how I expected it to work. Any similar tricks for Swiss Draw or we still need 8 people for that?
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Quote:If Khelds can't get the Ancillary powers then they shouldn't get Patron powers, either. Let em take a patron if they want for the sake of getting the Patron badge and presumably Usurper for taking down Recluse at the end of the Patron's last arc.Originally Posted by Thirty_Seven
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They don't. However, "need" is not the topic of discussion here. It seems that the issue really stems from whether or not a Kheld will be able to earn the badge associated with the Patron arcs, and if so, if that will give the powers. And if not, then one needs to ask why that "villain" is cut out of a portion of the storyline and a badge that every other villain can presumably accomplish? -
Quote:Can't join you but set it to the Septad setting and you should then be able to get Epics in and get the Pentad badge.Originally Posted by Leandro_NA
Is there anyone interested in getting the Tournament Victor and Pentad Victor arena badges tonight? I've been trying to cross out those suckers for a while now. Swiss Draw requires a minimum of 8 people, and Pentad Victor requires one of each AT (minus epics).
If you're interested, post your global and the AT of the character(s) you want to get the badges on. We're going to have to run this several times, as each side needs to win once, and besides we're probably going to have to do a lot of AT juggling to get the Pentad working each time.
I'd like to do this tonight, but if there's not enough interest in the next four hours, it gets auto-rescheduled for this weekend; saturday or sunday afternoon.
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Quote:This is the happy helmet......this is the control........Originally Posted by bAss_ackwards
Hrm, people peeing on each other over the Electric Armor buff. Reminds me of Don't Wiz On the Electric Fence.
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Quote:Shame too, at first Brainstorms did count. It was great.....Originally Posted by Snow_Globe
Doesn't work, and hasn't since the beginning of the year. Brainstorm conversions are specifically excluded from counting towards the crafting badges.
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Quote:Hmmmmmmmm.....Originally Posted by anachrodragon
If this is true, then I'll have to rework my build. Also, if this is true I might have to make a ton more Electric oriented alts when I16 goes live. Oh darn, more alts....
(Wonders how a Spines/ELA scrapper would fare...)
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Quote:Be that as it may, Empath is indeed water under the bridge. Still wouldn't mind though if they reevaluate certain other badges though.Originally Posted by Lothic
I still have my doubts about Posi's "explanation" about Empath. Many people had been screaming bloody murder about the stupidity of Empath's 1 billion HP requirement in the forums for literally years. He could not have -just- learned about the problem recently. And as a software engineer IRL the idea that it would have been difficult to change a single value in a piece of code from 1 billion to 100 million is completely ridiculous.
Basically I consider the whole "typo that took roughly 4 years to fix" story to be an insulting joke, but hey that might just be me.
I still believe Posi always INTENDED to have Empath set at 1 billion HPs and it simply took many years of math and commonsense to finally convince him of his mistake. I think he dragged his feet on it because he thought the 20 or so people who first AFK farmed for Empath (because NO ONE ever earned it via natural play) would be upset with it being lowered, like 20 people's feeling were more important than 1000s of others. I think only after a bunch of people who had Empath claimed in the forums that they would -not- actually mind it being lowered did he finally decide to do it.
If he needed to save face by telling us that this was some kind of "typo" then that's his deal for what it's worth. I think he should have just been honest with us, but again that could just be me.
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Quote:Take your stone/stone and IO slot it to compensate for stone penalties so that you can sever your need for a kin.Originally Posted by maxtsorm
Ok...
I want a fun brute....massive damage...great survivablity...and plenty of FUN!
Just tell me why you think what...
I have altitis..been going through different things. Now back to my fav brutes. I have a SS/WP, Stone/Stone
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I Just ran a damage soak for a villain that needs the badge for the accolade, using a 53 CoT like usual.......the badge meter isn't moving at all and I know I'm taking enough damage. Bug or stealth fix?
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They may just add some random Day Jobs if they can come up with locations that make sense. The only way I could see real justification is if Going Rogue adds a specific building for transportation to Praetorian Earth. If so, then it would likely have a Day Job associated with the location - maybe something like Portal Technician since the Portal Corp one is just 'Intern'.
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Now that would make sense much like the architect dayjob was added in. still I hope they don't go hogwild, or if they do they contemplate the wisdom of dropping it to a 14 day time requirement. -
Also they say that if we switch sides we can switch back again, so badge loss from side changing may not occur. Emphasis on the word may.
As to day jobs, I think there is more then enough of them, I can't see anymore being added even with GR, regardless of any "exclusivity" of some badges only being on blue or red side. -
I suspect that the upcoming new slider for difficulty combined with the auto sk of the AE will BE the "fix for bridging".
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Shield can be a bad stamina drain. Fire armor has the self heal and consume to recharge with.
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Make a bot/dark and a bot/trap MM and have fun with both.
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About the only thing we can hope for, especially because of the power customization coming, are new form *graphics*, but not powers themselves changing. So instead of only being able to take squid form, you might have a choice between squid, a vaguely humanoid energy form, and a lightform-esque ball of energy. with the same exact 4 energy blasts no matter which form you choose for that costume slot power choice.
In fact, I *really* hope they allow us to choose between 2-3 different forms per shape change power we have, as I really loathe the squid form's looks, however I love the Dwarf form, so 1 out of 2 ain't bad.
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Lately I've been on teams with people who are in the late 40's or even 50 levels and just don't know how the hell to play the game. Then you ask them and they are like 'Oh I got the game 4 days ago and farmed AE to get these levels. Also, what's an enhacement?'
Some of them really seem to know how to play and I give them credit for it, but some play so stupidly bad its actually funny.
One team I was on with my 50 tank, the leader and team was so dumb I actually had to stay on the team just to be amused at how stupid some of them really play.
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Here's a shining example of a new player that was PL'd:
He was broadcasting a "Giant Monster Hunt AE team! 8 spots open, make 50,000+ at L48!"
He was a 20 something character, no vet badges, and showed clear signs of being an AE PL. Also of course:
1. Can't have 8 open spots on a team since you yourself are a spot already taken.
2. I don't see the GM's in the AE yet, last I'd heard was they were trying to set them to be used only on outdoor maps due to their size.
To be honest I do have some plot ideas revolving around the GM's so they day they show up in AE is the day I'm a happy author.
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I rather say that was a special kind of fisherman, and you took the bait.
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Oh I didn't join his team at all. Me and others were having fun pointing out the humor in stating 8 spots open and that GM's werent in the AE. -
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Lately I've been on teams with people who are in the late 40's or even 50 levels and just don't know how the hell to play the game. Then you ask them and they are like 'Oh I got the game 4 days ago and farmed AE to get these levels. Also, what's an enhacement?'
Some of them really seem to know how to play and I give them credit for it, but some play so stupidly bad its actually funny.
One team I was on with my 50 tank, the leader and team was so dumb I actually had to stay on the team just to be amused at how stupid some of them really play.
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Here's a shining example of a new player that was PL'd:
He was broadcasting a "Giant Monster Hunt AE team! 8 spots open, make 50,000+ at L48!"
He was a 20 something character, no vet badges, and showed clear signs of being an AE PL. Also of course:
1. Can't have 8 open spots on a team since you yourself are a spot already taken.
2. I don't see the GM's in the AE yet, last I'd heard was they were trying to set them to be used only on outdoor maps due to their size.
To be honest I do have some plot ideas revolving around the GM's so they day they show up in AE is the day I'm a happy author. -
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...then I'll have all the current Day Job badges
................yay
but I'm sure I'll be cursing the Devs w/ new locations in Going Rogue
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I really hope that Going Rogue doesn't add to the dayjobs.
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If we're allowed to keep badges when we switch, GR is pretty much guaranteed to add more DJ badges since since some are unique to each side in that they're earned for different things and don't have corresponding badges on the other side:
Villain only:
Pilot
Arachnos Agent
Demagogue
Crey Employee
Smuggler
Arachnos Official
Hero Only:
City Official
Commuter
Shopkeeper
Dimensional Explorer
Intern
Law Enforcer
Some of these would work thematically as counterparts of each other (City Official/Arachnos Official, Intern/Crey Employee, Smuggler/Commuter), but a lot of it would depend on how they set up the areas where each DJ corresponds to...
This, and future one-side only TF/SF badges and two of the big reasons why I don't plan on switching sides at all... at least with my main badgers, of which I have one on each side.
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I don't plan to switch my main badgers either at this time, but I need more data on GR before I make a final decision.
I'm also still of the opinion that there are way more then enough badges in the game as it is already and I was for the most part glad when the bulk of the AE badges were stripped, and I'd still like to see Synapse since he seems to be the badge man nowadays to at some future point review all the badges and their criteria. -
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Day Job badges: worst badges ever.
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Only thing I can say I like about them is it gives my retired alts something to do and keeps them logged in to maintain VG/SG rank status