Oedipus_Tex

Well you have to be careful. Fireball does Fire/Smash damage and is purely Fire/AoE tagged for defense. But Ice Bolt and Power Blast do Cold/Smash and Ene/Smash damage and are tagged Ranged, Smash, and Cold or Ene for defense. It depends on the power. Levitate is pure Smashing damage but can be defended against only with Psi. So it is kind of all over the place in terms of what you can expect to deflect even if there are some general rules.

Someone else will probably reply before I can finish typing, but here goes anyway.

You always dodge/deflect using the best value you have for that attack type. So if a power is flagged Smash/Ranged/Energy, and your defenses are 10/45/10 as in your example, the defender uses the highest value, which is 45. (If you also had 0 AoE defense, and the next attack was flagged Smash/Energy/AoE, you would use a value of 10, since that is the highest defense against that attack).

[EDIT: Sorry, bad example above, got the numbers wrong. In your case you have Smash/Ene/Ranged defense of 45/10/10. So a Smash/Ene/Ranged attack or a Smash/Ene/AoE attack directed at you faces a defense value of 45. If something attacked you with a power that was pure Ene/Ranged, you'd use a value of 10.]

The only thing that makes it sort of confusing is that tags are not necessarily tied to "damage." Powers that do no damage can still be flagged for an elemental defense (e.g. I believe Freeze Ray has a Cold defense component.) And some powers that might look like they have one kind of tag have something else or lack normal tags--e.g. Mind Controllers lack Ranged or AoE tags on their powers, which is why they can mess up Super Reflex characters or punch through Cold/Force Field shields.

There really needs to be something. I had to explain to a friend today why he should try this game versus the other 4 or so free ones he was optioning. I decided to lie about chat (or at least conveniently leave off the fact that CoH has a very freebie unfriendly chat system versus at least some of the games he was looking at). We'll see how long he stays after he experiences it; I may have blown my cred as the reliable "gamer with good taste" whose advice he will actually follow though. I have avoided recommending the game to many other friends until this is cleared up somehow. I just can't see them sticking around under this system, and once they are gone I'm sure we'll never get them back.

The /generic hammer can be a little intimidating.

Technically, the name "Oedipus Tex" is copyrighted--it's apparantly the name of an album or something written by P.D.Q. Bach (who at that time I had never heard of). I didn't know anything about this when I created the character, but occasionally someone will ask about it. The name actually got generated for my first character using a brute force method; I started with the name "Tex" because I knew I could use the cowboy hat and cycled through a list of rhymes until "Rex" came up, and I made the character using that.

Anyway I run the risk of one of my main characters getting /generic'ed at any time. I can't blame them because they have to protect themselves from lawsuits, but on the other hand my luck does suck that of all the random phrases in the world, that one happens to have an album associated with it. :P [There is also at least one other player who uses this name and has posted videos on YouTube, but is not me.]

I think it is this way because it is considered a vanity service and it makes them money, sort of like reserving a seat in first class versus coach. I've spent--well I'm not sure I'm comfortable admitting what I've spent on renames, transfers, and server slots over the years, but its enough at least to pay for an extra two years of subscriptions. Too bad there were no reward tokens back then or I'd be a lot further ahead.

A few months ago we got teased with this very cryptic promo:

http://coh103.gtm.cityofheroes.com/s...d.php?t=259964


Have we heard anything about it since? It looks really neat. Maybe something for issue 22 or later?

Welcome to the game.

Solo Storm builds tend to split 2 ways:
- The kind that intentionally minimizes knockback to leverage damage(many Controllers, especially the ones with aoE immobilizes that stop knockback)
- The kind that concentrates on scatter

On teams, scattering stuff, esp. with Tornado, Gale or Hurricane, is often frowned on.

Controllers often start out slow. Plant Control is a little less slow to start than the others (and monsterous later on) but not exactly fast at first either. Fire starts slow but has great damage later, along with a lot of endurance use. Earth Control starts with much lower damage but has very powerful control abilities and is probably one of the loudest and most visually dramatic combos you can play, with constant CRASHes and screen shake effects going off.

Among Corruptors, Ice and Dark tend to be popular.

I wouldn't say that this issue makes me angry. However I agree that it is important to frame it as a limitation for paying players and not a violation of rights for the freemiums. Not allowing freemium players to reply to my tells or chat occasionally in Broadcast limits me, the paid player, because them not being able communicate back is a hassle. I end up having very silly conversations where I /tell the person "please reply to me in the Help channel" and then the whole world gets to hear whether Suzie Q Hero wants to join Oedipus Tex's team.

There are ways to limit the ability to advertise RMT services. Some of the most obvious, in place already in many other games, is a 30 second timer on the ability to send a private message, creating a second set of global channels for each zone that paid players can choose to turn off, allowing settings where paid players can ignore tells from free players, or allowing players to easily right click to ignore and/or report messages directly from the chat box. IMO the system we have right now throws the baby out with the bathwater, along with the house, the car, and the homestead tax exemption.

Furthermore, chat is not mail. A person can run a 48 hour script that gradually emails every player in the game, and they will eventually see it because email has a duration. Tells do not work like that.

The issue with Fly specifically is not that it is a bad power on its own, but that you can replicate it using a very available temp power that lasts a very long time and is close to as good. Because of this you can enjoy all the benefits of Super Speed most of the time (which does not have a temp power that can replace it) and use the jet pack for short bursts. Super Speed is so much better than the other 3 travel powers that it's really kind of silly, mostly due to the ability to turn invisible when combined with Stealth IOs.

I actually have Super Jump and SS on one character (SJ as a pre-req for Spring Attack) and took Super Jump off my action bar entirely because with a jetpack it is worthless. The power even detoggles Combat Jumping, which is just obnoxious since I can run around super speeding invisibly and leaping off ledges with the jet pack without that happening, but I lose immobilize protection if I actually try to jump far--just silly.

Thanks for the compliments.

FYI you may want to slot procs in Distortion Field. That power is basically equivalent to Caltrops in a lot of ways. It has 5 chances to proc per enemy per cast due to its long duration, and you can stack it on itself, so you can have many procs firing very rapidly after a period of time.

So call me lazy for not reading all 15 pages of the thread, but did the OP actually ask for a refund and was denied, or not? Because what seems oddly missing from this discussion is the part where someone tells him/her that the company doesn't do refunds.

Perma Power Boost isn't possible to my knowledge, but even if it was you'd be losing a lot of animation time just reactivating it every 15 seconds.

Mids does not consistently reflect which powers can be PBed vs not. In every case where you can slot Resistance in a power you cannot PB, I think though. It does not work with Frozen Armor because you can slot Resistance in it. It does work with Force Fields because despite the Toxic Resistance component, you cannot actually slot Resistance.

It exists and it drives me crazy. I consider this a major item that I would like to see fixed, even if it means killing off the cutsie and unnecessary weapon draw animation and the weapon just appears from nowhere.

You could just pretend the pay-for powersets don't exist.

Because that's what everyone would have gotten if they didn't charge for them.

Small note: the chance is actually not exactly 40%. The way to calculate the chance of at least one proc firing are to calculate the chance of each individual one NOT firing, multiply that together, then convert back.

For example:

Step 1:
Proc 1) 20% to fire chance means 80% (0.80) chance to NOT fire.
Proc 2) 20% to fire chance means 80% (0.80) chance to NOT fire.

Step 2:
0.80 * 0.80 = 0.64 (64%)

Step 3:
A 64% chance to NOT fire means a 36% chance at least one fires.

[Note that when two procs both have the same chance to fire, you could skip a step above by using exponents, but the method above works for any proc values, and for an unlimited number of them.]


The chance of BOTH firing is found by just multiplying the chances of them both firing by each other. In this case, it's 0.20 * 0.20 = 0.04, or 4%.


In any case, I think these procs are very poor. In fact even with a 100% chance to fire I'm not sure whether I'd consider slotting them.