Redlynne

Received a reply from Arbiter Warrant on this issue. It will have to be resolved by Customer Service, and will require Server/Global/Character/Costume Slot info because Arbiter Warrant says that they weren't able to reproduce the bug either on Live or Beta.

So fill out a Customer Service Ticket for this problem if you have it too ... and take a Census Of The Empire first so you can specify which specific characters and costume slots have this problem to Customer Service for a resolution.

Not in any words worth repeating. There was "a look" but it's hard to characterize those through plain text, so I won't even try.

Best use of Cognitive is by a Mastermind (lots of Pets) or an Illusion Control or Storm or similar powerset. Cognitive is best advantaged by "buzzsaw" builds that pile on lots of attacks very quickly with very short animations or involve tremendous amounts of "dice chucking" from multiple sources on a single target (ie. Pet builds). Get enough simultaneous attacks going and you can actually start stacking up that Cognitive Interface proc ... even if you're pairing it with World of Confusion.

I was offline, watching my Farscape Season 3 Disc 1 DVD. It was totally awesome.

The funny thing for me, watching this video, is that this is "kinda sorta, but not exactly like" the way I've been playing my Peacebringer after my latest respec ... which is pretty whack. My Warshade, Ms Terry, tends to be a lot more "stable" on forms, even though she's a Tri-former ... which is ... odd ... in that on my Warshade I don't feel a compulsion to keep switching around on forms all the time (including multiple times per fight).

18 * 100 = 1800 items in Enhancement/Inspiration storage
18 * 30 = 540 items in Salvage storage

I'd be perfectly fine with them giving us a max of 12 storage items (Enhancement, Inspiration, Salvage and Vault) that each held 100 items (with the exception of the Vault, of course).

Something that I've been noticing on my most recent visits to the costume editor lately is that apparently I no longer have access to the Wedding Tux in my Jackets listing for Female. Somehow, the Wedding Tux selection under Jackets has been "replaced" on all of my characters by the Pocket D fluffy jacket and I no longer have access to the Wedding Tux in Jackets. The only thing I can figure for this is that there has been some sort of "data collision" as far as the database is concerned that is quite possibly an outgrowth/side effect of how all the backend servers that take care of these things for different departments don't "cross-talk" with each other very effectively (witness problems with getting the Paragon Market to recognize any Perks that have been previously bought for your account).

This sort of thing is particularly noticeable on characters which HAD a Wedding Tux/Deluxe costume piece prior to the release of the Pocket D costume pack. Now I feel severely disincentivized to do ANYTHING to those (specific) costumes, since it is very likely (and no way to know without doing the "Do Not Back Up, Severe Tire Damage" test) that I will be *denied* access to the Wedding Pack costume parts which I paid for (with real money) long before the launch of the Paragon Market and Freedom.

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I'm going with Pre-emptive Interface on my Peacebringer, for the Energy DoT (and End Debuffing, but that's incidental) to mix with my Storm Elementals Lore Pets. For Destiny, I'm going to be going Clarion (of course). Still trying to decide what I want to do for Judgement.

Well, I've got my plane tickets and hotel room and badge ticket for the next Player Summit ... so I'm sure we'll be "having words" again on this topic (if I can corner him again).

Far back in the mists of ancient time (ie. mid-2000s) I was presented with the choice of what are now Veteran Reward Buff Pets ... and I really had no idea what my choices were, what they looked like, how they worked, what they meant ... etc. So I just picked something and have now lived long enough with this game to wish I'd picked something else ... especially now that we have Lore Pets and I'd like to thematically (re)synchronize my Buff Pet to my Lore Pet options.

But I can't.

That's because almost everything else about our characters can be respec-ed into different choices, but any Veteran Rewards you pick from the lists ... you're stuck with FOREVER.

Any possibility of making it possible for us to "switch around" which Buff Pet we're using from Veteran Rewards? In the old days, where the Buff Pet was a Click, it was understandable not giving us access to ALL the Buff Pets (simultaneously) ... but now that they're run by Toggles and are all mutually exclusive with one another, is there really *still* a good reason to not give us access to ALL the Buff Pets and then let us pick and choose which one(s) we want to make use of one at a time?

Finally assembled the 50-or-so Enhancements I needed to invent to respec into the new build I posted above, and took it for a spin in the new DA last night. First things first though ... the all important resistance values, as per in-game Real Numbers reporting:

Unbuffed, auto powers and set bonuses only

• Smashing: 7.58%
• Lethal: 5.08%
• Fire: 6.02%
• Cold: 6.02%
• Energy: 15.24%
• Negative: 15.24%
• Psionic: 5.70%
• Toxic: 5.70%

Use of Essence Boost (only) increases Toxic Resistance up to 20.70%.

The interesting part, of course, is what happens when engaging Light Form:

• Smashing: 82.46%
• Lethal: 79.96%
• Fire: 80.90%
• Cold: 80.90%
• Energy: 85.00% (capped)
• Negative: 85.00% (capped)
• Psionic: 5.70%
• Toxic: 80.59% (with Essence Boost)

The reason why this result is "interesting" to me is because the loss of 7.1% Resistances across-the-board (except for Psionic) is apparently ... not all that great/important ... when seen in the context of the rest of the build, when solo, relative to using a frankenslot loadout for Lightform. The difference is quite literally all of:

• Smashing 2.5% below hardcap
• Lethal: 5% below hardcap
• Fire: 4.1% below hardcap
• Cold: 4.1% below hardcap
• Energy: hardcapped
• Negative: hardcapped
• Psionic: not helped by Light Form
• Toxic: 4.4% below hardcap (with Essence Boost)

Note that those deficiencies can be "easily" made up through Empowerment Buff Stations inside of SG Bases if you want something more "permanent" than use of the Cimeroran Day Job(s) which add 5-8% Damage Resistance for their duration. And of course, any Scrapper/Stalker/Brute/Blaster on your team is going to give you +10% Resistance to All anyway, so is the "shortfall" all that crippling a loss/difference? My point being that the tradeoff of a little bit of Resistance lost from Light Form seems to pay off pretty well for a 4-slot Reactive Armor set bonus with only minimal losses.

And I do have to say that the combination of Inner Light + Photon Seekers + Dawn Strike is absolutely devastating to ... pretty much everything. And since I can use these powers every couple of minutes, I find myself checking the status of my NUKE powers and deciding whether or not I want to just rush in and blow EVERYTHING up fairly frequently now. My melee attack chain of Radiant Strike + Incandescent Strike + Brawl + Brawl sounds really ... anemic ... when I'm Brawling, but the interesting thing is that Brawl doesn't require Endurance to use, which makes Brawl (marginally) useful after deploying Dawn Strike. And having the extra Range in Bright Nova Blast is already making a difference in the sorts of pulling tactics I can engage in ... which when combined with the Kinetic Combat set in Bright Nova Detonation makes for some rather interesting pull tactics that yields a few more volleys of attacks before Foes can get up to me.

Suffice to say, so far I'm *really* liking the second, more defensive, build I posted up above.

I'm not sure what to think about this.



The Fog of the old Dark Astoria was zone wide (and in its way, kinda cool, even if it was a graphical "cheat").

The Fog of the new Dark Astoria seems to have left the city/streets ... and moved into all the Instance Missions.

That's why it's called a MURDER of Crows ...

I can imagine that the problem is that your "old" worktables didn't have the recipies, but once you replaced your worktables with "new" ones, there the recipies were.

At the moment, Autumn only has a Tier 3 Alpha (Spiritual) and hasn't even finished unlocking the Destiny and Lore slots, and has no Interface or Judgement crafted, let alone slotted. Right now, she's kinda "parked" because I'm orchestrating her big respec to add ATOs to the build, which I anticipate to be finished this week ... and then it's just grind grind grind grind through iTrials on Virtue for the next couple of weeks. Fortunately, there's ALWAYS something getting started in RWZ on Virtue.

I've got 10 server transfer tokens burning a hole in my character selection screen. I might as well make arrangements to be there with Autumn Turning my (currently) 50+1 Peacebringer. Hopefully I'll have her all respec-ed by then and using the new build I've posted in Diggaroo's Tri-form PB thread. Ought to make for an interesting "road test" of the build.