Stargazer

Mea culpa.
Boss_Mitos have a base Hold of -100, so even with the +50 from their Resistance, Green Mitos still have an effective Hold protection of 50. That's less than a "base" Boss_Mito, but still quite significant.

I think it's just a stealth bug-fix. Not everything gets patch notes, and I think this just happens to be one of those things.

Both. Sort of.

The effect Mez Resistance have on Mez duration is:

Effective_Duration = Base_Duration/(1+Mez_Resistance)

So, 50% Mez Resistance gives an effective duration of 100%/(1+50%) = 100%/1.5 = 66.67%, or a 33.33% decrease in duration.

Often it's better to look at the Resistance values than the duration changes, since the values for duration changes essentially assumes that there is only *one* Resistance in effect.

If you have two powers giving 50% Resistance, you have a total of 100% Resistance, cutting duration in half.
However, if you attempt to add together the duration changes for both Resistance sources, you end up with 2*33.33% = 66.67%, and this is wrong.


This leads to some apparent weirdness in the Combat Attributes, since the per-power descriptions show the duration changes that would result if you *only* had that power, and the totals show the *actual* duration change (it takes the total Resistance value, and calculates the duration change from this). This means that if you sum together all sub-entries, it won't match what the totals say. In those cases, the total is the one that's correct.
(looking at per-power values is usually the source of people claiming the Combat Numbers are "wrong")

I am.


For some reason there have never been patch notes tied to the changes to /chan_timeout (the patch notes "introducing" /chan_timeout was added a long time after the command was actually added).

You have the wrong numbers for End Discount and +Regen (when looking at the right-click info from the buff bars, the base value (100%) is added to the buff value, so you're showing 130% instead of 30%).

EndRdx bonus: 30% (-23.08% End cost)
+Regen: 30% (0.125%/s)
Mez Resistance: 50% (-33.33% Mez duration)

You appear to be looking at the right-click info from the buff bar. This won't give you the correct values in this case. Some buffs show up as <base value>+<buff value> instead of <buff value> there. Looking at Combat Attributes will give you the correct values (at least if you know how to read them).

In this case, this is the case for the End Discount and +Regen bonuses.

The EndRdx bonus is actually 30% ("-23.07%". 1 - 1/(1+30%) = 23.08%).

The Regen bonus is also 30% (normally 30%*100/240 = 0.125%/s).

The Mez resistance bonuses are 50% ("-33.33%", 1 - 1/(1+50%) = 33.33%).

Especially on a shop where people can have legitimate reason to buy products not associated with the region their IP is tied to. At least it makes some sense on stores where you're only allowed to buy from your own region...

Google (fortunately) allows you to opt out of their IP redirect. By going to www.google.com/ncr , you set a cookie that prevents the IP redirect from taking place.

(I'm not sure if it's a backronym, but I've heard it being refered to as No Country Redirect)

There's a workaround that allows you to reach the NA versions of the store pages from a EU IP, but it involves some manual editing of a link target.

First, click the "More Info" link for a Booster pack. This will take you to the EU version of that booster pack. You'll find that the address of that page ends with "&item_id=" followed by a number. Click the address bar, subtract 2 from that number, and hit enter. You should now be at the NA version of that booster pack.

For instance, the address of the EU version of the Martial Arts Booster pack ends with "&item_id=152". Change that to "&item_id=150", and you get to the NA version of the MA Booster pack.

It's not guaranteed to always work, but last time I checked I believe it worked for all the Booster packs.



side-note: I really dislike IP-redirects that you can not opt out of.

You'll just have to try a third option.

How about keeping the prompt, and once people have clicked yes/no, another prompt shows up and asks "Are you sure? (yes/no)"? Answering "no" at this prompt would bring up the first prompt again.


Alternatively, adding a setting where we could choose if we get the prompt or not would probably make most people happy.

Hmm. Did you intend to make the raid version of the Green Mitos perma-held?

[Mitochondria Healer Powers.Resistance] is now at +50 Hold, and there's a new _Mission version that gives -57 Hold, for a total of -7 (+base) for the "Mission" Mitos.

I haven't checked closer, but unless the raid Mitos also get the _Mission power, then it seems like they would be perma-held. If, on the other hand, they too get the _Mission power, then why create a new power in the first place?

I'm always imagining things. Life becomes much more interesting that way.
I'm pretty sure I'm not imagining this though, because the space-penguins explicitly told me so! Have you ever known a space-penguin to lie?

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There is no reason that a server list merge *must* cause increased lag for European players. The servers could remain in their current physical location, and "just" be added to the current list of NA servers. Players could then choose if they want to play on a West Coast server, an East Coast server, or an EU server. EU players playing on a WC/EC server would probably get increased lag, but if they play on an EU server there should be no difference from before.

This would also benefit current EU players who play the NA game, since they'd now be able to play on a server that is located closer to them.

Of course, merging the server lists would still be non-trivial, and there's still the issue of Global IDs...

*If* there is no difference between how BoP behaves and what can be done in this game, then for all intents and purposes, BoP is possible in this game.

If Castle said that BoP is not possible in this game, then either
1) There is some difference in what is possible to do with BoP and what is possible to do in this game
2) Castle was making a meaningless distinction
3) Castle was wrong
4) Castle meant that it's not possible to do BoP on enhancements(/recipes), and something has changed (subset of 1) )


Different games implement BoP in different ways. The thing they have in common is what BoP *means* (behavior-wise), not *how* they implement it.

If there are multiple ways to cause the exact same in-game behavior, and you're claiming that only one (some) ways of them count as BoP, then you are in fact claiming that there is a One True Way (or Some True Ways) to implement it.


There is a difference between saying "we don't have a BoP flag we can set" and "we can not do BoP".

If there is no actual difference in how they behave, then that's merely a semantical distinction.

It also implies that there is a One True Way to implement BoP, and that doesn't seem plausible.

Is there any actual difference in functionality?

I've been wondering about that. It's possible that they meant "level 20 IO strength", but it's also possible that they've been truncating the value when they've been talking about it (such things are fairly common).

I'm actually not sure which alternative is more likely.

If you use "standard" IO scaling, then you make them weaker at lower levels (the very area where they're intended to be helpful), and stronger at higher levels (where they're not intended to be a significant benefit).

If you set the scaling so that they keep their current strength at low levels, then they'll become more powerful at higher levels (which again is somewhere they're not intended to be a significant benefit).

Doing that doesn't seem to be consistent with the design parameters.

The intent with these enhancements is apparently to make the starting experience more convenient for new players. I highly doubt that giving these new players 120 hours of 2XP is something that's desirable.

Further, they are apparently not intended to be seen as "must have" for veterans. I think this suggestion fails to fulfill that condition too.

The Yin-Os give a higher enhancement value for a given attribute, but the total enhancement value is the same (for even SOs. +level SOs would give a higher bonus). In addition to this, the GROs have a proc effect (yet to be seen how powerful this will be).

Either way, the GROs are a good complement, since you are unable to gain both Damage and Recharge from the Yin-Os.

The Yin-Os are also limited in that you need to update them, and that you need another character to give them to you if you plan to start using them at level 10 (to unlock them you need to complete an arc given by a contact that starts at level 15). Getting them from another character has become trivial with the new Global email system though...