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The Katana powerset is two handed. The Hilt of the Tsoo katana is too short to be gripped with two hands.

NB the Rikti katana is different to the rikti broadsword.

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Thats like saying your arm changes shape because it's bent. From a modelling point of view it's a series of connected verticies that are always connected in the same order.

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Your arm does change shape when it bends. However it has far fewer places where it can bend than a whip, so its far easier to animate (unless you want to do the muscles in detail).

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And a whip doesn't change shape

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Yes, a whip changes shape. It can be long and strieght, or or all coiled up, or anything in between.

As far as animation is concered, thats much harder than keldian shapeshifting.

Also, in the poll we had on "which melee sets would we like" Ball and Chain was tagged onto the end, with the caviat that it would take much longer to do than the other options (the same warning as was on Shields).

Last time we looked at this idea, a couple of problems came up.

1) Debuffs do not scale well with level. You would be in the same position as def sets before they changed the way the to hit calculation was done: good against lower level, weak against higher level.

2) Who needs a squishy defender when you can have an unkillable one?

3) Stacked debuffs = invincible superteams (unless you had the powers affected by diminishing returns).


These considerations make it unlikely that the devs would go for a mostly debuff defense set.

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Shouldn't be much harder than other powers.


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Most powers (swords, arrows, energy blasts) don't change thier shape when used.

This storyline, and the existance of the Siren's Call Ghosts mob type, suggests that at one time it was planned to do a SC story arc, in which you would have had to clear the name of Sunburst.

The Aeon Bomb was either:

a) A bomb intended to mimic the effect of Sunburst's powers going out of control; or

b) A bomb which utilised Sunburst as an unwitting component.


Whichever, it is no doubt named after it's creator.

TG is the key power for low level suvivability on Scrappers/Brutes, that's why it was moved during I13 beta.

Don't get to spend a great deal of time playing, but I did get my dark/shield scrapper from 29 to 36.

Repost, or click report to moderator and let GR move it.

It has been suggested before, but I wouldn't be as optomistic as Archy about seeing it any time soon. The animations would be very tricky to do within the game engine.

There is a gap for a "Natural" control set.

WSs can be hard work at low levels.

Old missions got looked at in issue 5 (but nothing was cut, because they didn't have unlimited missions then), I think now would be a good time to go over them all again, and this time actually cut out the dead wood.

Only crab spider have the backpack.

Banes will only have it if they have a crab duel build.

I noticed a little slowdown of mission loading last night. It's what you would expect when you had a large number of people trying to access the mission server at the same time.

Have you got TG slotted for +hp yet?

News to me, but the maximum level for the mission is 25, so I imagine you outlevel it at 26, regardless of if the mobs still give xp.

But if you can't solo Heracles on even con, then you are playing a team orientated character.

Noticed the Pocket D map has been changed slightly. Also valantine related?

With no new issue to gawp at, and the character tool offline (until a couple of days ago), there hasn't been many people playing on Test.

Patrol XP is not used up during DXP time.

However, since the xp to next level increases when you level up, the Patrol XP bar will appear to shrink.

From the US:

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URGENT! - Do NOT Use Witch Leather Top Costume Piece


It has come to our attention that the Witch Leather Top - a costume piece from the upcoming Super Booster II-- has inadvertently made its way to the live servers as part of the latest patch. Because this piece comes from what will be a paid Super Booster pack, we will be forced to revert it out of any character that has had it placed on their costume. This reversion is to keep the integrity of the Super Booster intact for those players who wish to purchase it when it becomes available.


Please DO NOT utilize the Witch Leather Top for any of your characters!!! If you do so, no refund of Influence or Infamy will be given to your character when the reversion occurs.


We greatly appreciate your cooperation and understanding regarding this matter.

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-Niviene

Source.

Does this mean any charcaters who use this will end up topless?

It only happens if there is a patch between you taking the mission and completing the mission.

Just ask someone level 20+ to help you with it. Most players will jump at the chance to fight a "secret" enemy type.

What files?

Jay said it was done. It's just waiting for marketing to release it.

Yup, it appears to be a leak from the magic pack, especially since the rest of the outfit and the other variants (i.e. lace, top with skin) aren't showing up.

ohh, you got the Sirens Call Phantoms! lucky you.

Sometimes, after a patch Newspaper missions no longer point at the correct enemy group. Sometime this leads to groups that never made it into the game appearing, and this is one of them.

Enemy groups usually only exist across a limited level range. If they do not exist at the level the newspaper mission is set for they will spawn at the lowest available level instead.