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And if he has already used the AE pack for one of the boosters, he wouldn't be able to use it a 2nd or 3rd time, either.

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"Diversionary" is the word you are after.

Send him enough money to purchase.

Alternatively, if it's Booster I or II, you can also purchase the AE box from a store (Amazon, a brick-and-mortar, etc) and not online, and send him the code from inside the box - it will give him a month's sub AND either Booster I or II.

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I noticed these are considered Temp powers. So just how 'temp' are they?

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Like the Veteran Sands of Mu or Ghost Slaying Axe .

A "Temp Power" is something that isn't in your Primary, Secondary, Pools, or Inherent.

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Is there a process for retrieving the password for an account if the person no longer has access to the e-mail they signed up with?

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You probably need the CD key code from your original activation and the credit card you opened your PlayNC master account with. NC customer support will probably ask you for them for verification.

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Specifically the last four digits of (I believe) card used for the first subscription payment - which is not necessarily the one you used to open/verify your account.

Unfortunately, if you used a time card for the first sub payment, they do want the entire number from that.

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Soft Cap: The point at which a large amount of Defense is about as good as it possibly can be, where you'll only get hit 5% of the time. It is 45% Defense, and each category (either melee/ranged/AoE for 'positional' defense, or Smashing/Lethal/Fire etc for 'typed' defense) must be capped separately to get all-round defense.

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The reason why it's called "Soft Cap" is because you can have higher defense - about 100% defense until 21 where the median max is about 200% and these values are the hard cap. The game will not let you put the values higher. - but it normally doesn't benefit you due to how defense and to-hit work UNLESS you regularly face purples-con NPCs.

Also, if you are worried about defense debuffing mobs, it helps as well, since if you get a 20% defense debuff an you are at 80% defense, that takes you down to 60% which is still over the soft cap of 45 when facing non-purple-conning mobs in the game.

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That's odd; it doesn't continue with where it was before, it goes back and starts from scratch. One time it got almost done (over 2 Gb downloaded) before filling it's diaper and starting over...

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So every time you restart, it says it's downloading the whole 2 gigs again? The progress bar always resets but amount being downloaded will change (listed next to quit button).

What where you burning?

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And if you have the default keybinds, then you can move the camera to the front, if you hold down <Page Up> while moving the mouse.

<Page Down> resets the camara.

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Alternatively, if you have a mouse3 button (aka scroll wheel button for those with scroll wheels) you can hold that down to and move the mouse to rotate the camera.

In addition to <Page Down> resetting the camera, so does zooming all the way in to 1st person view.

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Apart from Spines being able to use the geometry from Thorns, and Thorns being able to use the geometry from Spines (both of which can be colored), there will be at least one other set of alternate geometry/FX.

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Is that the steel-y spines that whats-her-face uses? Uh, Silver Mantis? I always thought that'd be a keen look for a spiky hero and/or villain...

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No. It never occurred to me that Silver mantis had spines. The ones I made are very basic, conical, metal spikes.

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Now that you been refreshed about it, how about adding them in?

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That may be dubious - other weapons have been excluded from our use because they were unique to an enemy.

Ex: Shadow Spider's broadsword ("Shadow Blade", or something like that) was added during Weapon Customization's initial pass, but was removed before it went live. To be honest, I didn't even know she had a broadsword, let alone that particular model.

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Don't you mean the Death Knight broadswords?

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Just to clarify, they are STILL on their trial accounts and are ready to buy the game. I just want to make sure I get the credit for them coming over without them having to change their Username. Heh.

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If they buy within three months (and upgrade their trial, not create new) you should get the credit.

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If you're uncomfortable grabbing ther crotches, many will let you in for a mere grope of the left armpit. But the crotch, for some reason, is a sure bet.

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You can usually click on the guards' shield, too. Much less intimate.

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Depends on the angle - I usually have to turn off fly to be able to click them too.

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Also. It would be nice to be able to change the animations of the vet powers. A "Hand Blast" instead of the nemesis staff would be nice.

I think the power pools will have the color change options eventually, but have my fingers crossed for the vet powers.

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Why? The vet powers represent us picking things up during our journey to veteran-ness!

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You need to click on one of the guards to get into the zone. The clickable area is generally somewhere around their crotch for some reason.

I think the idea is you're showing them your 'credentials' to be allowed into the zone.

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You have to click on the guards.

Frequently I end having to grab at their lower bodies for some reason.

And NP - welcome to the game

Wednesday's.

It was fun logging into AE, and being filled with wicked glee when I saw people looking for Bubble Farms because they hadn't read the patch notes.

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Need I remind everyone here that with MOST other MMO's you have to pay seperately for these expansions. If you dont see something yet that you want, be sure it's more then likely coming down the pipe at a later time. After all, it isnt like they're almost done with issues. The game has a long long way to go.

[/ QUOTE ]That's not true at all. In most MMORPGs you get routine free updates just like we do. In some the updates come more regularly.

The stuff you pay for in other games is generally significantly more than we've gottten in any Issue. Our own forthcoming paid expansion is about the same as any other paid expansion, too, from the sounds of it.

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My only real experience with MMOs other than City of is Everquest, and WoW.

I played EQ - the only significant update I recall them giving for free happened after I left the game. They opened up the Plane of Knowledge to the entire game even if the player didn't have Planes of Power - which basically gave you a zone where you learn real well and always know where the spell vendors, etc where. And of course linked pretty much every zone in the game WITHOUT having to wait for the boat trip or the every-15-minute port to the moon.

WoW - my friends played this, so I kinda kept up on it. I can't ever recall them talking about additions for free like we get here. Just round robin nerfs and buffs. And sometimes wholesale class re balancing when they have upped the level cap.

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Nope. It's not overpowered. I've played Kinetics MMs.

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You have? Would you please tell us the secret of playing a combination that doesn't exist yet? I'm really curious!

As to claiming that they're not overpowered, would you care to actually show any data supporting that conclusion?

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Sure. I've played a Corruptor with Kinetics and no primary while two-boxing a Mastermind who just used his Primary.

Want to watch me do it? Want to watch a video? I can assure you I can play those two together as well as anyone could play a Kinetics MM. It's the same thing. You can go on and on about how I had two life bar totals, two endurance bars, and two toons taking aggro but it's the same thing. At no point on a MM, especially kinetics, would I be in danger of death. I can spam Transusion/Transference on myself the whole time.

Data? How about actually watching me do it? Wouldn't that be even better? How about you team up with your friend. One of you on a Kin and the other on a MM. Are you two somehow "overpowered" compared to other duos?

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The only thing I have to say about Kin MMs would be - would it's heal/buffs be left alone (ala Pain Dom) or reduced like Twilight Grasp is for MMs vs other ATs?

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If double XP is applied to AE - I hope they at least fix the current exploit farm first. That thing is just insane XP per time-unit for the non-existent risk of it all.

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You mean the bubble farms?

Which are already fixed?

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Maybe next time.

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Semi-related: Castle, can you at least confirm or deny that the list shown on the site (Rad Blast for Blasters, etc) is comprehensive? Is it just a 'these are some of' list, or is that all the ones being ported? Just to direct the speculation from here, so we don't get several months of "But there could be more!" if there isn't going to be.

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If it is the same list I saw last week, and I am 99% certain it is, then it contains everything being proliferated in I16.

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You guys can probably blame me for these sets. I specifically asked them to proliferate sets that wouldn't require new animations or VFX, as we're already swamped with supporting power customization. We had to make one new animation for Broadsword Stalkers, but other than that they were able to directly port everything over or at least pull powers and visuals from existing powersets.

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SS and EM are that difficult to port?

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no, but they tend to not port over more than one of a set type per AT.

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Wow this is so obvious. Do they even play the game they make? Or maybe they don't bid at the BM or Wentworths then chat with someone. Or maybe they don't use the keyboard to move then chat with someone.

So silly.

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Please tell me you are joking?

Otherwise, why didn't you figure this out for them before hand?

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but other than that they were able to directly port everything over or at least pull powers and visuals from existing powersets.

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Then I really don't get earth assault for doms. I know we have the melee attacks from stone melee... but where are the stone blasts coming from?

Or are they using the same animations as other blasts with new particles, which you don't consider different animations?

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heya Bill

Anyway - my guess? From various other NPCs we have some earth blasts, I think... so they could snag from there.

And we have the Rock throwing animation already...

They are inspirations.

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You sure you didn't have those from a previous rikti raid or zombie raid? Those will drop level 30s as well.

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Duh! You're right.

I was just testing... yeah!

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Oh! Testing! Do I get a cookie?

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Not if you are a Hero, villains stole them all.

You can have a fig newton, though.

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How soon is very soon? Is that like the "Forum Migration Soon" that Ex, Lighthouse, and then Niv have posted? Isn't it your turn to post that now?

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Meanie.

Forum Migration is also Very Soon<sup>Tm</sup> but not as Very Soon<sup>Tm</sup> as the Vet Reward announcement (I'm trying to get the finishing touches on that one done as we speak).

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How lazy and sloppy, Ocho

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