Ostrakon

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Well, I'm getting back into drawing humanoids after many years of doing nothing but tribal tattoos and regular designs.

Here's a work in progress I'm doing of my MA/WP scrapper and a close friend of hers. It'll take me a bit to get it up to teh way I want it, but any comments/suggestions you have, I'd be more than happy to get the response!

Deaths Dance and Friend
Gobbie Fae

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Whenever I see posts like this, I fully expect some 14-year old with no artistic talent or ability whatsoever to post some crudely drawn stick figures or recolored Sonic the Hedgehog or Pokemon drawings.

It's nice to be pleasantly surprised. A little rough, but still pretty nice considering you haven't drawn in 6 years.

I lol'd

That's pretty helpful, thanks.

This issue is ridiculously awesome.

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That guy was dumb last night *while pvping of course* I teamed with a regen/spine stalker and he never died and killed everyone in Bloody Bay at least twice and called it out.

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You sound like an 8 year old talking about his favorite wrestler.

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been suggested use search before you post please

gl all and have fun

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But I totally designed one that's easier to use.

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So this is a regurgitated post with a little extra to make it 'different' Didn't Memphis Bill make the 'How to Search Guide'?

Oh, he did.

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His was a guide to work the existing one.

Mine provided a better alternative to the boards' search function.

I think that's different enough to warrant the creation of a new thread.

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Thanks Ostra, going to sticky this thread

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Oh no you didn't.

When you post a crappy idea for the fifth time today because you didn't read the big (GUIDELINES ARE HERE - READ FIRST) sticky, you deserved to get condescended too.

And if this thread gets locked for bumping, then I don't see why they won't start locking reposted idea threads.

Or the third. Someone PM Ex to sticky it, I don't think we're allowed to ask the mods to sticky our own threads.

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This thread really should be stickied.

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It IS recommended that you figure it out first, before trying to proclaim a new thread about anything. Blindly posting whatever 'seems good to you'

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I must have been typing too quietly again.

Post as seems good to you. Let the rest sort it out.

Storage per byte is actually very cheap now.

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Not when I'm reading the same damn idiotic "gotta have x and y" threads every week. It takes up MY time, and yours, and everyone else's. When there are already good, well thought out and complicated threads about the subjects, bringing up whatever often can or needs to be brought up... Why do it AGAIN?

Why not just DO what the forum rules SUGGEST you do? And what those 20 people suggest? And what all other forums I've ever, ever been on suggest? Search first. Post after you've searched. That will make the OP wise enough to post something DIFFERENT.

I do like it when there's something slightly tweaked - but the truth is that most if not all the "unique twists" have been brought up after months of arguing about the same thing, "I looked at this thread and the other and realized if you did z and d things, you'd have this other result what do you think of that?"

That's a worthy thread in the making. But one which is simply put NOT researched whatsoever.... will almost always be shot down because it will fall into the long-lamented "why didn't you search for that, it's brought up every other day" routine.

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Somebody holding a gun to your head forcing you to read each and every thread or something? Why read them at all? Just look at the title, roll your eyes, and skip it and your time won't be wasted. If people would just skip the repeat posts and not feel obliged to reply with some flippant comment or demand that all posters do things a certain way, then it wouldn't take long for them to scroll away into the forum's nether regions, never to be seen again.

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By that logic, nothing needs to be modded because you don't need to read my offensive posts.

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That's so devastating clever that my mind struggles in its attempt to form a sentence that adequately describes it.
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Humor me for but a moment. Let's take a look at the rules:

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4. Know the search function. Use the search function.

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Now that, my friend, is a nice piece of advice. I know your idea is so original, but... it wouldn't hurt to check to see if someone beat you to the punch.
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"But Ostrakon, that's too hard! Clearly, its difficulty absolves me from having to follow the rules, allowing me to post the fourth thread about power customization today!"

Yeah, you would say that. Well, kiddo, I'm not letting you off the hook. But it's okay, I learned the Navajo so you won't have to.
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Yeah, that's right. You can use Google to search the CoX boards. You know how to use Google, right?
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Wanna take your chances and submit without searching? I wouldn't. The new mods, Koschej and Niviene, have actually been enforcing rules lately. Constantly regurgitated idea threads will likely be next.
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Let's put it this way. Take a d20. (That's a twenty-sided die, in case you didn't know.) Roll it. Did it spontaneously combust in a blaze of white fire?

I'm guessing not. The odds that your idea is actually original are roughly the same as rolling a d20 and having it come up "deific flames." Which is pretty low, to say the least.

Know the search function.

Use the search function.

'Cause you don't have an excuse anymore.

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This post, while encouraging of an important posting practice, has quite a negative, condescending tone to it. In its current form, it's simply too offending to actually be persuasive to the reader, let alone be worth a sticky. Remember, you attract more flies with honey than with vinegar.

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It's not a matter of attracting people to anything.

I, like more than a few other people, have been getting heavily modded for rules that have never been enforced before.

Now, I can't cry about that, because, well, the rules are there for a reason. Sucks (for me) that they're getting enforced for once, but then again, good for the mods for actually doing something.

But if we're gonna have a set of rules, they should all be enforced. This thread was designed to make it easier for people to follow one of them. If they don't like the tone and disobey it, they're still disobeying the rules.

That's why this guide needs to be stickied.

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been suggested use search before you post please

gl all and have fun

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But I totally designed one that's easier to use.

So, you have an awesome idea. You want fire blasts to be green on some characters. You want a secret moon base. You want Villains to get more SFs.

That's so devastating clever that my mind struggles in its attempt to form a sentence that adequately describes it. Sure, you could post it right now, but...

Humor me for but a moment. Let's take a look at the rules:

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4. Know the search function. Use the search function.

Before you ask a question, please check the “Important Information” section of the message boards and the Customer Service Knowledge Base. If your answer is not there, please use the “Search” function located at the top of every page of the boards. Your question may have already been asked and answered elsewhere on the forums. Look in the Player Questions, Dev Digest, Developers Corner, and Guides sections as well!

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Now that, my friend, is a nice piece of advice. I know your idea is so original, but... it wouldn't hurt to check to see if someone beat you to the punch.

Now, how do you use this "Search Function?" Well, there's the tricky part. The search function itself is a product of a world of demons: a dimension in which Kafkaesque nightmares maraud through the minds of its inhabitants. To use it, you will have to master multivariable calculus in Navajo. And some quantum physics, but that'll breeze by after four semesters of Navajo.

"But Ostrakon, that's too hard! Clearly, its difficulty absolves me from having to follow the rules, allowing me to post the fourth thread about power customization today!"

Yeah, you would say that. Well, kiddo, I'm not letting you off the hook. But it's okay, I learned the Navajo so you won't have to.

Let me introduce you to Ostrakon's new and improved search function. You can thank me later.

Yeah, that's right. You can use Google to search the CoX boards. You know how to use Google, right? Just keep the "site:boards.cityofheroes.com" tag in the link above, and add your idea after a space. Hit the "search" button. Ka-zam! You'll find exactly what you're looking for!

Sometimes it helps to add quotes to what you're searching for. For example, you might be searching for "power customization" or "Pyre Mastery for Scrappers".

See? It works great, and it's pretty darn easy to use.

Wanna take your chances and submit without searching? I wouldn't. The new mods, Koschej and Niviene, have actually been enforcing rules lately. Constantly regurgitated idea threads will likely be next.

Let's put it this way. Take a d20. (That's a twenty-sided die, in case you didn't know.) Roll it. Did it spontaneously combust in a blaze of white fire?

I'm guessing not. The odds that your idea is actually original are roughly the same as rolling a d20 and having it come up "deific flames." Which is pretty low, to say the least.

Know the search function.

Use the search function.

'Cause you don't have an excuse anymore.

FTA:

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Rather than retreating further back into their libraries, they are stepping out of the shadows and throwing their pipes and monocles into the fight against the Rikti.

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I think I'm gonna love these arcs.

This seems like a very fair way to do it.

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Osakatron

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I lol'd.

As for attacks in an Illusion primary, I'd say

1- Mental Blast
4- Spectral Wounds
8- Psychic Scream
18- Group Invisibility.

I'll PM Ex to sticky this list.

Wow, that's a pretty freakin' sweet addition.

We also know Psychic Blasters.

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Champions Online *is* going to do it. Full power customization better happen really quick for this game's sake. You have competition now.

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No, they have competition in a year.

IF they implement P.C.. A lot of the crap that gets promised never makes it in.

For all we know it could get canceled.

Interesting.

"Most" ATs.

"an" additional primary and secondary.

I see Blasters and Doms not getting an additional secondary.

Also, I wonder -which- powersets will get ported if it's not going to be all of them.

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Ostrakon is right, Bonesmasher isn't an auto stun, its only 60% chance.

I never claimed Bonesmasher was auto-stun, though, re-reading the Stun entry, I suppose I could have been a bit clearer.

Basically my point is that Stun is basically overkill in this type of build. My only non-mezzing power is Shout. I've found that if what's attacking you wasn't mezzed by Screech, Bonesmasher, Total Focus, Scream, Shriek and Siren's Song, then perhaps mezzing isn't the best idea. I've encountered very few things that weren't mezzed by a combination of Screech and Bonesmasher.

On the other hand though, that's more than enough for me usually making Stun superfluous. Pre-38, I had a 60% chance of perma stunning any boss I faced from the get go by stacking screech and BS's chance to stun. If the BS-stun didn't connect I'd just keep him on his butt with power thrust until screech was back up. After 38 its a non issue because I can simply TF the boss perma.

I tend to agree.

Another point of clarification: Power boost DOES NOT have any effect on the magnitude or duration of any of the -Resist effects of any of the Sonic blasts. The duration is fixed for each attack with Dreadful wail being the longest, then screech, shout, howl, scream then shriek in that order of length. Siren's and Shockwave do not have a -Resist component. The magnitude is always 13% and is resistable unlike the defender versions in PVP (having resistance shields lowers the absolute magnitude of the debuff for blasters in PVP, but not the relative magnitude)

In my testings of the Sonic Primary and it's interaction with Power Boost, I noticed that mobs fell faster when Power Boosted then without. I chalked this up to Power Boost extending the debuff. The only remaining answer is that Power Boost doubles the -ResDef value(So, -13% to -26%). If that's not it, then what possible benefit can Power Boost bring to Sonic?

Personally, as a matter of taste, I saved myself a power choice by dropping Acro and just slotting 3 -Knock IOs in CJ and Frozen armor. Karma in each and a steadfast in the armor. I also slotted the +defense IO from the Steadfast resist set. It adds defense to all damage types and that single IO adds more defense than a single Defense IO would add to only smashing/lethal. Also, I wouldnt recommend slotting any +resist enhancements into frozen armor, it grants a miniscule amount of Fire resist and only a small amount of Cold resist.

The +Resistance slotting in Frozen Armour is more for the set bonus then the resistance bonus.

Also, I'd like to know how exactly you are getting your Amplify to be perma. You stated that with 66% recharge you had it "still perm" Doing some math and number crunching that isn't possible. With a duration of 10 seconds and a recharge of 60 seconds and a total recharge bonus of 216% counting Hasten and set bonuses, you only get a recharge of 20seconds (10 seconds from perma).

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My answers in red.

The only answer I can give you for Amplify is that your mistaken, or my copy of Mid's is off. Mid's has Amp's duration as 120s.

Link of my Mids: Here

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Yeah, it's like BU. It lasts for 10 seconds.

Who cares what Mids says? Don't you think you'd notice if your Blaster had a perma Aim on?

Something I'd like to point out:

Bonesmasher isn't an auto-stun. It's a chance to stun, and with a relatively short duration at that.

I'd recommend taking stun for a guaranteed ability to stack stuns on a boss until you hit 38. But that's just me.

Letting your kid learn through responsible use of video games. Absolutely brilliant.

I hope I'll be as good a parent as you.