Stormbird

Level 22 Peacebringer, Radiant Strike (which does knockback.)

Level 3 Clockwork minions - who have less resistance to knockback than normal mobs.

"Parking lot" area on the map. They may as well just have been getting knocked down -they should have gone flying away from me with that level difference and the KB in that attack. They didn't even go all the way (the short way) across a "parking space."

Nova, bright nova detonation, vs lvl 1-ish Hellions. Flying at ground level, so it's not "KB into KD." They just fell over - no knockback at all.

And?

Say what you're trying to say. If this is the sum total of it, I have to ask why you bothered posting it. Otherwise, it's like going into a thread about Stalker issues and saying "Well, I never experienced that, but I only play defenders."

Trying to word this not to sound rude or confrontational. But I am curious what the point of posting something that essentially says "This doesn't affect me" is.

I have yet to have /releasepets not work. (Unfortunately, I think we can *all* say "in all the time since this bug has been around.) Haven't had it happen "each time I zone," maybe 1 in 10. That said, it is annoying and should have been fixed by now, yes.

... yeah.

If we were looking at a launcher issue - something that would (to the way I read it) affect "every product in the West (read: non-Korea) NCSoft supports" - something that screwed up Lineage, COH, GW and Aion - that would make sense.

I'm not sure how saying "This patch is not ready to go live, do not release it" would affect any *other* game NC supports. Would it keep Abyss raids from happening in Aion? Keep Lineage players from... um... doing whatever they do?

The statement makes no sense to me.

/this.

<snipped the rest, no offense.>

What they should have done, then, if they wanted to keep it from being farmed - and, really, did they REALLY believe a strictly-worded note was going to do that? - would be to have a limit of 1 arc a week submitted, and have to go through review before being accepted and posted to the system. Yes, it would mean extra manpower to do so. But it would certainly have short-circuited all the nonsense that's happened "because of farms."

Yes.
And yet I play AE with lower level characters (sub-25, smaller insp trays.) Being able to maximize the time I have with inspirations, especially if I'm looking at someone's mission with custom enemies, or finding it's a mez heavy group on one of my squishies (for instance) helps me out.

So I'd grab some inspirations ahead of time, take some, restock and run in.

It's one thing if I'm on a 50 with a full insp tray - I don't have to worry about it as much, even if I'm exemped down. But that's not where I tend to play much. I cycle through my characters. When I have only 10 insp slots, stretching those out is *important.*

The farmers *don't care.* They'll just go on to the next thing. It's just another hamfisted, lock-the-barn once the horse is gone nerf that affects anyone actually interested in playing AE.

Given it's a reduction in capability, it's a nerf.

And yeah,t he inspirations stayed when tested with a newspaper. I was saying I'm not sure if *barrier* (and the like) would stay going into AE - but hasten and other self-provided "power" buffs stayed in that case, so I don't know if barrier would be affected if popped before going into an AE mission. I'm assuming it would.

Hmm, let's see:

"Custom enemies." Given I don't know where things will spawn, and my system can load slowly, I'll grab a breakfree (especially on squishies,) possibly some purples, eat those and restock, especially on lowbie to mid level characters that don't have a lot of inspiration room. Just so I'm not killed while loading, and am ready to go as soon as I enter.

Yep.

It could be anything from "Mez heavy enemies" (grab a breakfree and take it before goign in so you don't get mezzed by something waiting at the door) to yellows (high-defense enemies, or a map with stealthed enemies) - top up again so you have enough to get through a longer map, then go in.

Getting swatted down at the door before my system has finished loading in got me to start doing that with some missions/groups. And with custom enemies in AE, as well.

Haven't tried with incarnate powers. But it had no effect on regular buff powers, just inspirations. (Actually, the Incarnate trials bore me to the point I'm not sure I have any that have barrier/clarion/etc. to test with.)

...

You mean the same Vikings who took over and colonized parts of England? (Area of and around Yorkshire, known as the Danelaw.)

It's supposed to throttle excessive rewards. Which means, really, "who cares" if you go in with full defense/damage/etc. from inspirations - if you go above their threshhold, it shouldn't be awarding you anyway once you trip it.

So they wouldn't have to create such hamfisted nerfs.

Result for me: If I see "Custom enemies" in any arc, I'll now be skipping it. (Or, more honestly, I'll just start acting like AE doesn't exist other than as an inspiration vendor in most zones.)

It's the equivalent of dealing with speeders on the freeway by having spike strips placed every ten feet on the interstate.

Result: Farmers find another way, everyone else gets their experience ruined. Wasn't this the sort of thing MARTy was supposed to prevent? Kneejerk changes (even if this was fairly slow) that hurt more than they help?

Just tested this. Picked a mission, took three different insps (red/yellow/purple.) Entered mission. All of them were gone from the buff bar.

Went out, took another purple, had the combat attributes window open. As soon as I entered the mission - gone.

To be thorough, grabbed a newspaper mission, did the same thing and the buff stayed.


BOOOOOO devs. /thumbsdown to stealth nerfs. You have just hurt people playing legitimate missions - AGAIN. If I know I've got a big fight - like, say, I've just come back from the hospital after getting stomped on - you've just removed my ability to buff up ahead of time and still have a full insp tray.

I was giving my reasons to counter your assumption, implied in your other reply, that "tedium" was a major reason people don't run it. Frankly, I think more people don't run it because (a) they don't know about them and (b) they don't care.

As far as respec recipes - so what?

Quite honestly, most of my characters (and I have a fair number of alts) only respec when there's a major change - and the devs hand out freespecs for those. And the times I run respec trials, I don't hear that many complaints between the waves. People are too busy goofing off, buffing, BSing with each other and the like.

Another assumption. You shouldn't make those. If my second build is, say, a solo build versus a team build and the team build is what needs to be respecced, "Then use it" isn't exactly a solution, is it?

Ever hear of "Who cares" or "Why should I respec if my character's perfectly fine?"

I don't think I've ever run out of space. My "detailed" bios run between 600-900 characters, and you'll get the character's origins, what got them to be a hero/villain, and other pertinent information.

The rest of their "story?" Look at the badges. Watch what I do in game. I may stop to wipe out a group of -20 Family - but you'll see why in my bio.

I don't need to write a novel. But...
The blurb in the bio is that core. If I wrote out some of my characters full "stories" - and I have a few that spread across 2-3 characters, actually - I wouldn't need 2048 characters. I'd need 2048 pages.

The flip side being, you can try to stuff so much that's really "fluff" and doesn't tell me anything about the CHARACTER. It gets buried under all the other "stuff."

When reading a bio, I don't need to read 10 years of adventures. I want to know specifically why this character is who they are.

We'll have to disagree, then. I take it more as you have a hard time actually defining the character's motivations if you can't trim it down. Now, yes, you can trim it down TOO FAR, I agree - but that doesn't necessarily mean one or two sentence bios are worthless.

Better tell Virtueverse, Unionverse, the various SG sites and Ouroportal they're wasting their time and should just shut down then.

... oh, wait, I know people read those. For the simple fact *I* do on occasion, and I'm not that "hardcore" into them.