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The fact you're working on the "Cloak Attack" is awful good news. Do get that up and running. I'll have my wife bake you cookies.

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Its already been nixed, eliminated, called off, canceled, ended, nullified...oh you get the idea.

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Logged Ikube onto test. Unless this is just something I missed ages ago, it looks like they're trying to apply a pseudo assassin's strike functionality to Cloaking Device.

It doesn't work yet though.

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Don't get attached to that. It got nixed and sent back to the drawing board.

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Ahhh man... Got my hopes up with that one.

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Oh... and if you get the full test server notes, some other archtypes are getting reigned in bit as well. (Impale range change to 40', Fire Imps summon at -1 level to the controller).

Blaster's getting buffs, some getting nerfs... I think... *slowly backs up* this is... *backs up some more* a good time to hide. *Bolts for his bunker and slams the hatch* CLANG!

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*cell rings, answers* Outrider, hello....Hey Fusilier, whats up? *brow furrows* What? Are you kidding? *jaw drops* No way! Are you serious? Uh huh....yes...thats understandable? Scrappers?!?! Controllers?!?!...Corrupters AND Stalkers as well?!?!? *nods* Damn, good idea to get out of Paragon until the heat dies down *listens* Until, the next Ice Age is over...uh huh *frowns at the horrible joke Fusilier made* I got to get going, later *closes cell and looks around, sees an angry mob comming his way* Oh crap, looks like they got pitchforks and torches...is that...no, they can't be serious....TAR AND FEATHERS! BOILING OIL! I am allergic to those! *runs to this bunker, slips down the steps nearly going DEFIANCE!, covesr the entrance with camoflauge tarps and foilage* CLANG! CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! *looks around and takes a deep breath* Good thing I stocked up on SlimJims, Twinkies, and MRE bars....damn it I told them to not confuse those with the toilet paper cubes *sigh* At least I paid my cable bill in advance *turns on huge army-surplus Bat-Screen* *static*.......KHHHAAAANNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!

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Shout + Boost Range + (3) Dmg/Range HamiOs = The most beautiful thing I've seen in a while. If you haven't gotten on Test, go look at these changes.

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So the range effects went in but the /Device didn't? Damn you *shakes fist* Stop tormenting me! *sets off string of fire crackers* Wake up! Get to work! Stop lolly gagging around!

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Praise the lord and pass the amunition!

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7.62 mm, 5.56 mm rounds or 155 mm howitzers? Hollow Point, Full Jacket, or Teflon coated?

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Blaster Devices Taser: Increased Range to 20'


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Thats a nice twist. Not working on test yet though.

CLOAKING DEVICE
Toggle: Self Stealth, +DEF(ALL), +DMG

The Cloaking Device allows you to use an LCD body coating to become partially invisible. While Cloaked, you can only be seen at a very close range. If you attack while Cloacked, you will be discovered. Even if discovered, you are hard to see but will retain some of your Defense bonus to all attacks. Your first attack in combat will recieve a damage bonus. Unlike some stealth powers, the Cloaking Device has no movement penalty. The cloakcing Device will not work with any other form of Concealment power such as Shadow Fall or Steamy Mist. Recharge: Fast

TARGETING DRONE
Toggle: Self +ACC, +Perception, Res(Debuff Tohit)
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Targeting Drone?

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How so? A damage spike on the first attack from cloaked?

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*watches as the Test server crashes from a mass influx of /Dev blasters wanting to see if its true*
*watches as stalkers kvetch about cloaking device*
*watches as Ice/Dev becomes the new FoTM PvP build awhile should this come true*
*wonders, "What about PvP 30% unresisted?" combined with psuedo-assassin strike?"

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yea, I ran a safe-guard with superspeed on and all mobs could see me like it wasn't running

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Were they mobs that shoulted something like Longbow do in villian mayhems? That indicates its an ambush and they know where you are. Are the standard group standing around not doing any thing attacking you as you walk up to them? I haven't had the chance to do hero missions yet, but I assume every so often your going to get Resisted Arrest!....0:30 Seconds! type messages which do occur at random intervals I think. You don't have to kill anything, when I have reached certain distances with my stalker it would trigger the mission or it was a certain time persoid.

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Intersting that Lighthouse used the Castle post in this thread to indicate why there will be a free respec after I8....hmmm

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More then likely, other plans are in the works too, possibly good or bad. Hopefully, not bad, as Castle did post some of his ideas here first and should they bad, the mobs will likely look to burn blasters at the stake first.

*Straps on his helmet* Luckily, I am prepared for the worst should it happen. *slams door on his underground bunker* CLANG!

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*mutters* Dam it Fusilier, locked me out AGAIN! *finishes setting detonation cord* Hope you like the new door chime I installed *sets timer and runs for cover*....*waits*....*waits* Damn Timebomb takes forev..*BOOM!*

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Blasters: Rawr!
Dev#1: The Blasters are revolting!
Dev#2: Tell me about it.
Dev#1: No, no. Look, they've got torches and pitchforks and everything. They look quite upset.
Blasters: Rawr!
Dev#2: I see. *presses button on desk* Deploy Countermeasure Alpha.
Redname: We're looking into improvements for the AT... soon.
Blasters: Joygasm!
Dev#1: There we go. Now they're focusing on what changes we may or may not have in the works that may or may not happen anytime soon.
Dev#2: Works every time. Let's go get some Funyuns.
Dev#1: Mmm... Funyuns.

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Too funny, that deserves four smilies.

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And its so true.

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We'll get them to use countermeasure beta one of these days. Wonder what that'll be.

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I think it involves pushing the boob-slider to eleven.

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And another pointless nerf to /Gadgets(?!) so the other blaster secondaries look even better. Think somewhere in these notes I stole from Cryptic HQ after I raided them last week mentioned something about making Caltrops immune to teleportation, Targeting Drone un-targetable, and adding a self -perception after smoke grenade.

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AR...doesn't it have the same deal? I don't know, never played one.

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AR/s secondary is it's ability to be massively resisted toward the upper game.

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Along with a piddly -defence on burst and random knockback on 2 single targets of which one is interruptable. Hey Fusilier, I knocked that guy upside his [censored]. Outrider you fool, you forgot his 10 other buddies!

Buckshot, well its like a close friend and then there is M30. Its like that annoying ex-date you were seeing that keeps calling you back and filling up your answering machine with messages.

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What is given as a gift must be shafted from another secondary and for blasters, thats /Device. All I can say is, "BRING IT ON DEVS! HUZZAH!"

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Yea know, I agree. AR/DEV is already the lowest of the low. They can't make it any worse (or can they?... BUM BUM BUMMM!) and if have to take yet another one for my fellow blaster breathren, I say, IS THAT ALL YOU GOT?!? I still have Web Grenade, Caltrops, Taser, and Time Bomb in the secondary and anything you want in AR. YOU NERF LIKE A GIRL!

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/emote batsmash Fusilier. Don't encourge them to nerf Web'nade or Caltrops you fool, they actually work! Taser works for its intended purpose, melee ranged stun and is purely optional in my opinion. Anything else is fair game. *yells at nothing* "You hear me Devs. Anything but 'nade and 'trops is fair game. Bring it on! I dare you to nerf the hell out of Auto Turret again! You can have my smoke grenade...but you will never take, my web grenade!

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Silly Outrider, that's what the altiverse is there to explain away

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Wait? This is an altverse? Is this altverse real or is it an illusion of an altverse you thought was reallity? Is reallity an altverse of an illlusion or is this illusion an alt verse of reallity? The Red pill or the Blue pill? I am so confused...or am I really just confusing myself thinking this altverse of reallity is an illusion when infact its a confusing reallity?

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Yes.

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That answered my question simply.

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(like my dam car's transmission that just went out. GRRR!).

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Fusilier, did you ever stop and think the AT nerf was some kind of cosmic clue your going to get screwed? Like, I don't know, your car becomming immobile? Recall Friend it to a mechanic before it gets nerfed!
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The range boosts on 20 footers (TM) I bet will be to 30 feet, which is only two more steps then 20.

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I think they will get at least 40-50, with ice getting a slight boost to still keep it ahead.
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Fire I think will be the best, but I bet the their only gonna halve the dot components and make up for the damage on the remaining ticks.

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You mean like adding the dot ticks to the attack itself so its not random, like Gloom from Dark blast? That would really make up for its lack of secondary and it has more reliable damage. Not a total DoT attack, but the damage is something like 97%/1%1%/1% as an example. High damage upfront, with a couple small ticks behind it and they are not random.
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They still won't address some of the key issues (Defiance) or other issues I'm concerned for (Snipes, Devices (Gadgets!?).

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What is given as a gift must be shafted from another secondary and for blasters, thats /Device. All I can say is, "BRING IT ON DEVS! HUZZAH!"

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Silly Outrider, that's what the altiverse is there to explain away

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Wait? This is an altverse? Is this altverse real or is it an illusion of an altverse you thought was reallity? Is reallity an altverse of an illlusion or is this illusion an alt verse of reallity? The Red pill or the Blue pill? I am so confused...or am I really just confusing myself thinking this altverse of reallity is an illusion when infact its a confusing reallity?

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Deuce saved my bacon again last night....

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Ohms, you got to name that AT something else as its already taken by your Elec/Dev. Your AR/Dev AT needs a new name...Ace, Charlie, Steve, Bob, Bert..if you need a few reccomendations

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And all the comments about the Gadgets / Devices mix-up are just getting old. It's really time to let that one die.


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When a near useless power like AT which the majority of /Dev does not take gets nerfed, lackluster compared to Total Focus or Shocking Grasp, call it by the wrong name, and do not even bother finding some way to compensate for it in the patch note, its kinda personal in a way that reduces my favorite blaster. If they can use time to make it immobile to TP, its not that hard to bump the base damage, reduce the timer, and reduce endurance cost then run some tests. Add in the same patch note "Auto Turrent from the /Gadget secondary is now more user friendly" and I could careless if it was called by the wrong name.

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Taser be anything other than a slightly better stun with less range than my origin one?

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Tech: Taser Dart is a hold, states it in the power when you hold the mouse of the button. An incredibly short hold which half the time doesn't work.
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Fire/Fire? I don’t think I have seen many blasters say Fire/ was lacking anywhere

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At least my blaster brother and sisters are getting a tweak. Hopefully they add some kind of reliable secondary effect.
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Oh, and I really bet when devs up blaster range on novas, they still will ignore the fact Full Auto has nothing to make up for having a much smaller target cap or overly long rooting or which RoA kicks its butt in every aspect for the same recharge rate.

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Its improved range on the short range powers like Blaze or Power Burst, not the 32 powers.
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You know, looking thru this thread there's quite a bit of dev hate going on, then as soon as _Castle_ posts it's nothing by joygasms and happiness.

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Devs visiting the blaster boards is like looking for Sasquatch. You kvetch and moan you can't find it, but when you finally see it your happy. The devs had said they would look at blaster secondaries over a year ago, many blasters got pissed nothing was being done, and when something was finally done. Wouldn't you be happy?

And I have never bashed Lighthouse. He is the new guy, gotta cut him some slack
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1. Giving targeting drone an inherent damage boost to make up for the fact that ED destroyed its purpose in life.
2. Fixing Trip Mines so that they actually explode when stepped on.
3. Making Smoke Grenade not unhide you, defeating its entire purpose
4. Making Time Bomb remote detonatable (say by damage?)
5. Tweaking Autoturret in some way to make it useful or at least worth the time and endo it takes to set up

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Wait? I thought /Gadgets!?! was supposed to act like it currently does? *is so confused* (and being humorus)
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When everyone else is on lunch. Or I suggest giving Positron something to sign towards the end of you office Christmas Party. After he's had a few "refreshments" of course.

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Yeah, make sure he has had alot of "refreshments" and isn't distracted by Sister Psyche and Ghost Widow.
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Yeah, but then you wouldn't be able to use it with AR/*.

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Isn't that the current problem when you theme AR with /Gadgets!?! .

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Increased minimum ranges for attacks like Blaze.
Some improvements for */Fire (No, no powers were switched out. No Fiery Embrace, I'm afraid. )
Some improvements for Fire/*
A very minor improvement for Gadgets...I mean, Devices! (Yeah, it was a dumb mistake -- typing in haste and all of that.)

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My faith has been restored! /faint

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*struts his /Fire Dominator with Firey Embrace through the thread teasingly*

And he wasn't wrong to call Devices Gadgets. That's just the internal developer nomenclature for the set. Kind of like what we call mobs they'll call critters.

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Yes, but if your going to talk to the public get it right. There is no /Gadgets secondary so it took awhile for community to get a confirmation he ment /Device. When the players ask for a buff to say /energy, they don't say "The pink pom poms of sissy-ness needs a boost" They call it /Energy, /NRG, /Eng. If I suggested /Device fixes, I don't call it "The /brokenthingmawhatwhoists" I call it by its proper name.

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Lighthouse dosen't even know...

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Hell, he apparently didn't get the memo that Nov 11th stopped being about the end of WWI in, oh, 1954.

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You got it wrong Ohms. It ended in the 9415.

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And seeing as the Trip Mines nerf was not only not even mentioned in the patch notes it was never admitted to after I3 went live, I suppose I should be happy for at least getting a head's up. [/sarcasm] For the record I dropped the whole issue when _Castle_ posted and would've left it dropped if not for [censored]hats that insist on dragging it the [censored] back up. It was a slip. That's very true. Exactly how Freudian a slip it was has people, myself included, concerned.

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I am just pissed that can't even get the name for /Device right when nerfing a power that wasn't even spectacular to begin with. Double insult to me. "Auto Turret was never ment to be mobile and goes against the mechanics of the game."-Dev *looks at Dark Servant and Voltaic Sentinel* Both were non-mobile before being made mobile were they not? And its not like 90 seconds of random burst level damage is over powering, like say Total Focus be used every chance its up. /rant off

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Calling it Ifinity attaches the common "infinity" (despite being only a part of the word... it lets our minds wrap around the concept)... to the typical I for issue.

The joke being Issue Infinity (as in never going to happen... or at least not while we still have more hair on our heads than in our ears)

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That does sound better and makes sense. Kinda like how fusilier pointed out "Finite" as being set. But Abysmalyia also points out infinity as endless. Sorta of sometimes between now and never, which ever comes first! I will go back and fix it but have two versions of Ifinity

edit: I-finity sounds cooler anyway Fusilier. Go smack you head against a wall to sharpen you wit and you might find it to be funny

Ifinity+1 !!! *falls out of chair laughing*