SolSaviour

You get some for doing rescues, killing a boss, etc. through normal play. You get some for using the mission designer and testing your mission.

Nothing that you wouldn't get normally playing the stories and making your own. There's no "kill x number" badges for anything.

You don't get badge counts from AE missions, either.

Now, explain to me why the enemy will not buff their own teammates, and I'll believe that this is WAI, instead of just poor A.I. being written off as a "fix" by the devs.

Still no A.I. corrections toward buggy draw-power sticky usage. Drawn weapons cause the A.I. to get stuck on using one attack for the longest time, even when others are charged.

A few off the top of my head:

Headman Gunmen for the Lost have their Rikti Rifle power. The odd thing is that the gun will hum, but the blast itself makes no noise. Happens in Port Oakes all the time.

During ambushes in Arachnos Bases, the ambushers will sometimes get stuck and start sliding on the floor forward and backwards, almost like the powerslide animation. Happens with the ambush in Marshall Brass' second introductory mission involving the Gold Brickers, where you deliver the pack to that scientist.

Currently, Spectral Knights for CoT don't fade away when they die. They will go into their "death" pose, then become completely solid without transparency or dark "fuzz", then float mid-air rigid and dead, until the "body fadeout" occurs.

During Rikti zone events, when the Rikti teleport in, sometimes they will just appear in masse without the teleport sequence, become targetable, then fade back out, until they reappear moments later using the correct teleport sequence.

There's more, but I don't recall.

Any mob in AE that isn't a basic, in-game mob with no buffing features is currently buggy on power usage.

They still haven't fixed the "Oh no! I've been debuffed! Time to run away in terror, even if I'm an Archvillain!" issue, either.

I can confirm a custom critter AI bug regarding power usage. It's widespread. Critters will get locked in a cycle of waiting for one power to refresh and use only it. This seems to happen with any attacks that recycle quickly, most notably something like Parry, but I've also got one lieutenant that will do nothing but use Jawbreaker, even when he has two other attacks to hit with.

I've also noticed a recurring bug where critters will not properly activate their secondaries, when this should always be active for them.

I have a mission published that this occurs in, if any dev would like to test my observations.

Focus looks a million times cooler.

I think that's a win.

Thorn Tree is easy once you realize you need to sit out fighting it until the reinforcements stop coming.

Pretty much all there is to it.

Not bad. Did you have any problems with the main root?

I ask because I had problems keeping it from aggroing on me. Being a Mastermind, you wouldn't think you'd attract main aggro over your pets, but it happened all through the respec.

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I know I will be on with my Dominator a bunch this weekend.

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Pffft. You? Playing a Dominator?

I'd have to see it to believe it.

Why bother? The Nerf Bat temp power makes every enemy do 1 damage and have no def/res.

Because no challenge = tons of reward.

Just goes to show that you can't please everybody.

I like the changes to Slash and Swipe, but Strike still looks fugly to me. Barrage's animation was a bad choice.

Oh. Well, as long as bias is admitted, I don't care.

I couldn't get to level 45 in the time allotted, so obviously there's no need for further debate on my part.

This isn't really fair to people who don't obsessively level to the detriment of all other things.

Like food. And friends. And sex.

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And I mean it being 45+, not that it would be fair to those already 40. If they want to see a race from 40 to 45, then fine. But what about the people who tried all the ATs in CoV, and never bothered to grind up to 40? My highest in CoV, for example, is 34.

Alright! Something besides Regen gets nerfed!

At least you guys get global defense scaling changes.

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Well, considering he's been leading it for several decades and has kept it a prominent villain group for all that time...Even after the Whermacht was defeated...I think he has reasons to gloat. The 5th Coloumn IS his achievement, even if he didn't originally create it.

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You find out that Requiem isn't too happy being a Council lapdog. I forsee a 5th Column rising in the forseeable future.

I'm afraid I'll have to drop the Sitting power, as I can no longer six-slot it for Endurance Recovery. It doesn't provide enough under the new system to justify having it.

I'm thinking Lounging might have to go next.

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So, when are they going to put this on test? Anyone know? Or are they just going to launch and not even let us test?

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Test is for discovering bugs, not for discovering if a system works.

It will go live from test with no changes to the core system.

Just like I3, I4, I5, and numerous other inbetween changes did.

I don't quite understand. This may prevent me from buying CoV.

What are they thinking?

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I generally agree that the devs are reasonable and decent people. But with Regen they have just lost perspective.

Expect more nerfs.

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Nonsense, mi'lord. You SHALL lead us into the Regen promisedland!

So it is written, so it shall be! Fnargh!

Oh, and I fully expect QR to be knocked to just above Stamina. It makes sense, given the changes.

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and for the first time in ages, no one's complaining about how vastly superior it is.

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That's because everyone else got slapped with a little bit of cosmic justice in I5, too. Once they get over their little boo-boos, they'll be back to state that Regen can single-handedly solo the Hamidon while eating a Taco Bell burrito at the same time.

All without dying, or contracting flesh-eating bacteria.

All Scrapper primaries and the /Regen secondary will be mutually exclusive.

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Watch it once and demand your money back. It's a bad film.

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Oooohhhh how you will be flaaaaameeeed.

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I'd rather see something more classic comic based, but that's just me.

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The Shadow knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men...

The Shadow is the ultimate Pistol/Dark scrapper (or Stalker, perhaps...? Mwahahahaha....)

He, above all else, is most definitely classic.

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Just always been real curious how anyone can consider pistols to be a scrapper set. Unless the range is going tobe like 10 feet with maybe 1 longer range attack, to me a pistol set would be either blasters, like a wierd AR more based around single target damage, or a defender set sorta like trick arrow with fancy different type of cartridge loads.

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Watch Equillibrium, and read up about effective-accurate ranges of standard pistols. Unlike what you see in Follywood, people do not normally fire handguns from over 30 yards and expect to hit people.

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But im sorry at the level of damage scrappers can produce, along with the defenses they get(and i know they are not as great as they once were but are still more then a "ranged" AT gets) it seems to me that the balance of the ranged attacks in scrappers grasps already can kinda unbalance the world.

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Funny, they haven't nerfed Spines scrappers, yet. They have a bunch of nice ranged stuff. Search for the Gun-fu scrapper threads before you go further. Much interesting discussion in them.

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Energy torrent, laser eyes, impale and the claw thingy, already do comparable blaster damage and when criticles hit way over.

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Laser Beam Eyes -- 2.7779 energy (Single Ranged Short-Medium)
Energy Torrent -- .8332 smashing + 1.8334 energy (Cone Ranged ShortLength/MediumWidth)
Impale - 4.5556 Lethal + 0.2778 * 0-5 (Single Ranged Short-Medium)
Focus - 4.5556 (Single Ranged Short-Medium)
Shockwave - 2.7778 (Cone Ranged ?/?)
Throw Spines - 3.2222 Lethal + 0.2778 * 0-5 (Cone Ranged MediumLength/LargeWidth)
Spine Burst - 2.5000 Lethal + 0.2778 * 0-5 (PBAoE Short-Medium)

Compared to:
Fire Breath - 1.6250 Fire * 3
Fire Ball - 0.5556 Smashing + 1.9444 Fire + 0.2778 Fire * 0-5
Blaze - 5.8889 Fire + 0.4167 Fire * 0-5
Fire Blast - 2.7778 Fire + 0.2778 Fire * 0-5
Inferno - 2.7778 Smashing + 5.5556 Fire + 0.5556 Fire * 0-10 + 4.1667 Fire * 0-2 (25% chance of * 0, 37.5% chance of * 1,

All blaster powers have better recharge and a longer range, in addition to AoE's. Only Focus and Impale surpass them for single target, and that's just because Focus rocks your mom while Impale is raiding your fridge.

Notice they're both short ranged, though, and only one of them appears in the set. NOT A BLASTER.

Spine scrappers are not blasters.

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There are many spine scrapers that already build themselves as a quasi blaster, much like a blapper takes the melee strenght and no defense from the blaster sets.


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No, they build themselves to be minion killers. Unless you've got some righteous slotting, this kind of build will be MOST effective against mass minions, not bosses. Many will say differently, and I will hear their calls.

Still, NOT A BLASTER.

They don't die as often )

Gun-fu all the way.

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I think what both of you are obliquely saying is that Defiance is a stinker

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When I first heard of the concept on the beta board, I suggested instead that the power work off of the current debt that the Blaster has, instead of their current health.

My name for it was the Debt Cannon.

As a sarcastic aside, I stated that, unfortunately, it would make all Blasters overpowered.