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Originally Posted by Angelxman81

I got ati 4650 1gb, and performance was not good at all at test.
But today live, and with catalyst 10.4, the game looks amazing.
I turned everything on at Ultra, except AO at medium quality.
And i had a smooth performance.
I love this. Thanks devs for the great work.
I gotta say that I switched characters from blue to red, and red side UM is less noticeable... And at tailor, the metallic reflectives pieces didnt show any texture, not even the old one. But first time I logged in, everything was working perfectly.
Anyone knows how is this?

Originally Posted by JeNeSaisQuoi

I mean, I was flat out told tonight that no Scrapper combination could out perform /Shield, in any arena.

Originally Posted by Tokyo

Force a needed repair? Nah. Let it tank, I get to say "I told you so" then.

Originally Posted by Werner

Mine just hit 50 yesterday! Yay!

Now to figure out what I want to do with the guy.


While the game doesn't give rewards for it, I've always felt pretty rewarded by damage mitigation. Just not quite enough to find a Tank satisfying. Think I'll go the opposite direction on my Fire/Shield, though. I've made too many survival machines. Time to put out some serious damage.

Originally Posted by Gaidin

The Numinas has already been fixed. The Miracle, among others, has yet to be fixed. They are making their effects unenhanceable. So, for example, slotting the Miracle unique in PP will be the same as slotting it in Health. It will make achieving sustinable endurance a good deal more difficult for some of the top-end builds.

Originally Posted by Castle

Hopefully, you'll be pleased. I've been playing the set in our internal playtests the last couple weeks and I'm having a blast.

Originally Posted by RiggsMcClane

We ran against warriors, sky raiders, and arachnos mostly.

Originally Posted by MonkeySpirit

Hi, everyone!

I came up with an idea for an Intangibility-based powerset that would let us mimic the fighting styles of characters such as Shadow Cat or Miss Deep.

The logic behind this concept is based on:

- Being able to shift into another dimension is a pretty selfish ability, so the powerset should work better when solo than on teams. Taken to the logical extreme, every bullet you let shift through you should still be able to hit a teammate who's standing behind you. This last point doesn't sound like a fun mechanic to implement, but a solo focus should still be there.

- A controllable phase shift toggle belongs in this set like Improved Invisibility belongs in Illusion Control. I know the devs changed Phase Shift to a click with a long recharge for PvP reason, but is it that bad that we couldn't make an exception for one powerset?

- Characters who can become intangible actually spend most of their time NOT being intangible so that they can actually affect their foes and eventually defeat them. At the same time, attacks that you do shift through, shouldn't deal any damage at all (defense set instead of resistance set) regardless of what kind of attack it is: you're essentially *not there* to take any damage so you don't care if it's a fireball of a bullet (positional defense instead of typed defense). This makes the set similar to Super Reflexes, but with the opposite priorities: the power order for SR is ranged-AoE-melee, since it's easier to out-maneuver a projectile coming at you from a long distance than it is to dodge a large object trying to hit you in close quarters. For a phase-shifter the order should be the other way round: you're just going to stand there and let stuff go through you anyway, so what you need to do is mostly to detect incoming attacks, which is easier for big melee attacks than for bullets coming at you from all angles of the room (so the order is melee-AoE-ranged).

- New and exciting mez-protection mechanic: A character with intangibility powers shouldn't have to worry about freeing himself from any hold the enemy throws at him if he can see it coming, but he should at least be held for a few seconds until he reacts to it. I've therefore decided to split mez-protection into two powers, an inherent power that confers some mez protection, like Widows have, and a Self-Clear Mind-like click power on a very short recharge that lets you raise your mez protection higher for 30 seconds in case you do get held. This power would stack with itself if used multiple times during those 30 seconds, since a character that can become intangible should never ever be held if he really wants to regardleyy of magnitude (I'm looking at you, Ghost Widow). Essentially, you trade the ability of having a high-mag mez protection all the time for the ability of having high mag when you do need it plus the ability of having really really high mag in case it's necessary.

- I haven't tried this, but I seem to recall someone saying that if both a critter and a player become intangible, they can interact with each other but not with tangible foes and critters. This may be wrong, but I hope it's not because it could make a very interesting mechanic possible for this set: the ability to choose your own fight by shifting phase together with an enemy of your choice who's dangerous to the team, dealing with him on your own in the other dimension, and then returning to the regular fight with all your friends. This would make solo'ing incredibly comfortable and would work great with single-target damage sets, which usually seem inferior to AoE melee sets.

And now, without further ado, the powers:

Tier 1: Fold Space - Toggle, self intangibility: You can't really be an intangibility specialits without phase-shifting at will.

Tier 2: Not Quite There - Auto-power, moderate mez protection that is always on, +Perception (explained above)

Tier 3: Incorporeal Brawler - Toggle, self +def melee, knockback protection: Paying attention to your foe lets you phase through any close-range attacks or attempts to trip you.

Tier 4: Wrest Free - Click, self buff, more mez protection, short duration (30 seconds), very short recharge, stackable (explained above)

Tier 5: Blink Out - Toggle, self +def AoE, defense debuff resistance: You can momentarily shift out of phase completely to avoid the burst of an explosion, immediatly returning to reality to continue your fight.

Tier 6: Ghostly Touch - Toggle, PBAoE Taunt aura, smashing damage, self +damage, chance to fear enemies: Your limbs become partially intangible, dealing damage to the internal organs or circuitry of enemies as you move around in combat, making them either focus your attention on you or tremble in fear at the terrifying experience. Any attacks you perform will also deal added internal damage.

Tier 7: Uncertainty Principle - Toggle, self +def ranged: If they can see you, they can't hit you; you learn how to make exactly those parts of you intangible that are in the trajectory line sof projectile attacks.

Tier 8: Banish - Click power, enemy phase shift: You can bring an enemy of your choice to the dimension you shift to when you become intangible. If you then become intangible yourself, only that enemy and you will be able to fight each other. (explained above)

Tier 9: Erm... haven't thought of one yet. What do you guys think? I wanted to leave at least one power open in case a glaring weakness comes up during discussion.

Thanks a lot in advance for any comments!

Originally Posted by Kioshi

I'm fine with that as long as the tier 9 makes you turn into a 50 feet T-Rex.

Originally Posted by Sarrate

I had two major thoughts on Shield back when it was first released:

*) Unremarkable to squishy with SOs
*) IOs will make it silly

The only thing I wasn't sure about was whether people would be able to create softcapped Shield Scrappers and Brutes that didn't make any substantial sacrifices. It goes to show me how good some of the build wizards out there are.