Roderick

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Huh. You're right. Most powers (at least, most that I've used) that grant -Recharge resistance also grant -Speed resistance. I didn't check; I just assumed it followed suit. City of Data agrees with you though.

The game decides which three NPCs (or groups of NPCs) come to visit you before you have a chance to decide Hero or Villain. They may (and probably do) vary based on whether you do the Resistance or Loyalist portal mission.

In fact, the first time I bumped into Reese while leaving Praetoria, it was on a blaster that went to the redside.

Sure it did.

Power Boost effected an increase in the buffs of my other powers.

Yeah, he used it wrong. But "effect" is a verb, just like "affect" is a noun.

If all you use it for is vertical movement, then the Steam Jump would have been a far better choice. It gives 30 seconds of unlimited vertical movement, and recharges in 30 seconds, so it's very rare that you need it before it's recharged. It doesn't detoggle you or prevent the use of any powers, and it costs 200 points, instead of the carpet's 600.

Except... I had an enemy targeted, and got instant redraw.

The way it actually works is this: If you do something that causes you to draw a weapon, but aren't actually attacking (enemy blocked, out of range, etc), then the weapon is put into your hand without rooting. If you aren't currently doing any other animations, the weapon draw animation plays, otherwise, the weapon just appears. If the attack is valid at the moment you press the button, then you root and play the weapon draw animation before attacking.

You aren't actually speeding anything up, and as Ultimus said, you're probably slowing down your attack chain and lowering your DPS.

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It's too bad that you can't kill Reese. Even if you beat him senseless and leave him in the middle of a building that you blow to bits, he still miraculously survives. In fact, the only choices you have concerning Reese are to either let him live to continue his douchebaggery, or to try to kill him and have him pop up as you leave Praetoria so that he can say "Hey, I know you hate me, and tried to kill me, but I'm a good guy now, so you aren't allowed to try again."

Personally, I don't give a crap about his personal epiphany. He's a jerk and a murderer, and has long since given up any second chances he may have once deserved. Having him show up and forcing me to forgive him - at least enough to let him live - was the singular most aggravating thing forced down my throat in Praetoria.

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I regularly use a bind that targets an enemy and follows them, and I usually queue my attacks as I'm approaching an enemy and this didn't sound right to me, so I tested just now.

I hit Esc twice, to make sure my weapon was sheathed, found a group of enemies, positioned myself about a block away, and hit my "Target and Follow" button. Once I was moving, I hit an attack. On pressing the attack button, I got the "Out of Range" popup. Once the popup vanished (about a half second later), my weapon appeared in my hand, with no rooting or redraw. When I got to the enemy, the queued attack fired, with no delay, just as it should.

I haven't tested extensively, but whether or not you have anything targeted should have no bearing whatsoever on redraw.

I don't drink alcohol at all, and I would still end up hospitalized.

Before you panic about this difference, note that in i24, all IO procs will be changing to a PPM version just like the SBEs. Synapse is currently doing a lot of tweaking and testing to make sure that the change isn't a significant nerf to either version of the procs (and in many cases, the math he showed was an overall BUFF to most players with a minor nerf to some). Once i24 hits Beta, you should be able to log in there and see exactly what the changes are.

All travel powers are available during Trials and Master runs, including non-purchased temp ones like the Raptor Pack and Zero-G Pack, unless you also set the "No Travel Powers" option.

In the case of powers in Primaries and Secondaries (For example, Oppressive Gloom in Dark Armor and a couple different Epic sets), you are right. There is a different version for each AT.

In the case of powers that are available to EVERY AT, like Pools, Temps and Incarnate Abilities, everyone gets the same power. The fact that there are Pool powers that benefit from Containment (and possibly some other AT Inherents) should have clued me in to the fact that powers can indeed check your AT.

Edit: Yeah, what Tyler said. Didn't even notice that he had already commented on this until after I posted.

Power Boost has not affected Knockback since May 20th, 2008, and therefore will not boost Acrobatics either.

Interesting that that change was in the same patch as the change to Acrobatics. I never even considered it before, but I wonder if the two changes were in any way related to each other...

The Market is set up so that each item is flagged as either Limited Purchase or Unlimited Purchase. Unlimited items can be bought as many times as you want, and are generally consumables, like inspirations. Limited items can only be purchased once each, and are permanent items, like powers and costumes. Storage items have multiple entries because they are intended to be limited, but aren't intended to be limited to just one. Since the software doesn't have the ability to limit purchases to any number other than one, we get flooded with dozens of virtually identical items.

There is ONE way that I know of to buy a costume part you already own: If you buy a costume part individually, then later decide to buy the full set, you pay full price for the set; there is no discount for the already owned parts. Once you buy the full set though, all the individual parts are flagged as owned, and cannot later be repurchased.

Really? Just about every LRSF I've done has had this discussion:

Roderick has joined the team.
[Team]Roderick: Hi guys.
[Team]Roderick: Do you have the SF unlocked? I can take the star if you need me to.
[Team]Leader: Nah, we're cool. Thanks.

Edit: "Since that stupid requirement came along"? I thought that the requirement had been there since the SF was introduced?

I suspect that's the hat that M_I_Abrams was talking about near the top of the thread.

That's what I expect it to be, too. There was an offhand comment a while ago (on a Coffee Talk, maybe?) about "historical" hairstyles... maybe we're getting a powdered wig too?

I hope there's some nifty sales too, but if there are, I hope they're not the 24 hour variety, because I have less than 400 points left, and I don't get paid until Thursday.