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Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect

This is a good point.

I would have been VERY surprised if Brutes got an ATO proc that increased anything significantly.

The AT is a little overpowered already. It's perfectly fair that the ATs that are already borderline overpowered don't get as much of a boost as some of the others. Scrappers go from 5% crit chance to 6% crit chance and that's being seen as far better than what brutes get?

And for the record, Stalkers are getting shafted again. How? They are getting changed to be able to use Assassin Strike as a Superior damage regular attack when not in Hide, and their ATO will put them in Hide when it procs. So, you'll run through your attack chain and instead of the fast Superior AS you thought you were going to use, the proc fires and you get the 4 second interruptible AS instead.

Originally Posted by Lothic

Well if it's just that one arc then I'd be more likely to consider it a unique bug. If you couldn't see any of them with a Praetorian then that might almost be expected. Report it and see what happens - still might take them a few months to fix it regardless. I reported a bug where one of the "gold stars" from an Ouroboros arc would not trigger when you finished the arc and it took several months to fix. *shrugs*

Originally Posted by Lothic

Yeah that might be the operative phrase here. I haven't bothered doing much with a native Praetorian in Ouroboros so I don't really know how they might react to the unlockable redside arcs. Could be bug and/or a known issue with Praetorians. Is this same Praetorian having any trouble accessing any of the other badge unlockable arcs or just this one?

Originally Posted by Lothic

Does your Praetorian have the Bling badge?

Originally Posted by Zwillinger

The one we used for last year's anniversary invasions.

Giant Monster and level-less.

Originally Posted by Nericus

Despite their differences, one would think that Recluse would be a bit furious at Darrin for killing Statesman, if for no other reason then Recluse was saving that pleasure for himself.

But, Statesman and Recluse are truly immortal/eternally young (ok States isn't anymore), these two were fated to outlive the entire human race if it came down to that, yet in the end they'd still have each other.....imagine Earth being a desolate wasteland and only Recluse and States were left alive simply because of their immortality? Quite possibly that could be considered a fate worse then death. All their hatred and attempts to destroy each other, and what is left? A desolate planet, the human race gone.....

Originally Posted by mauk2

Incorrect.

Unless this has recently changed, you cannot slot two half-sets of catalysed ATO's. You can slot 3 of the catalysed (purple strength) and three of the regular strength.

Honestly, I'm looking very hard at the split slotting for all three of the melee sets: I tend to be recharge insensitive and 7.5 percent S/L defense is REALLY NICE.

If the ATO specials remain as they are now, the Tanker special is VERY nice, the Brute special is potentially 'okay', and the Scrapper special is 'meh'. I personally am likely to go for splits on all of them, proccing the tankers and maybe brutes, and definitely not proccing the Scrappers. (I like mitigation.)

Now that said, a case may be made that single-setting the Scrappers would be better, as it averages out to roughly 9 percent global damage boost with the purple Scrapper set. Still pretty meh, but maybe enough to offset losing the extra 2.5 percent S/L defense.

For brutes, the difference depends strongly on where fury decay settles out to be. As I add up on my fingers and toes, it looks to me like brutes will be skyrocketing fury so fast the 'buildup' time approaches inconsequence, and the 'steady state' may be above 90 percent. If so, then the purple brute set with proc may come in at 25+ percent global damage boost, which is...not bad. Maybe not as cool as 2.5 percent S/L, but we'll see.


EDIT: Oh, wait, I see what you're getting at....


No, I still think it's better to go with half purple and half orange in a single power. This lowers your opportunity cost in lost slotting of other things, and let's you veer away from the Dual IO's to get more total bonus. The extra 2.5 percent S/L is nice, but I think you'd be paying too much for it.

Now, if there was another set that gave decent bonuses at three slots that could complement this..... But KC's/erads/obi's tend to be the sweetest spot defense-wise. Probably the best slotting would be halfsies in PBAOE's with erads in the other three slots.

Hmm. That could free up some KC's. Hmmm.

(Pulls out paper and pencil.) Grrrr......

Originally Posted by Aggelakis

The darker colors (not that fiery auras choices are all that dark) are the least visible due to the way the game does color in its auras.

Originally Posted by Baryonyx

Hi everyone,

For: I just wanted to let you know that we're aware that MoM is not currently counting for Dimensional Warder, and we're working on a fix. We will let you know more when the fix is implemented.

However, the Praetorian Invasion version of Mother Mayhem will not qualify for this badge.