nucleon_oz

to-hit debuffs have the side effect of benefitting the whole team you are in. Also the more def you already have the more potent to-hit debuffs are.

With your DM attacks, they give 10% to-hit debuff. That gives a net 26% to-hit debuff when combined with CoF.

For example you already have defence of say 3.9% for combat jump (tripple slotted). The net defence on a minion is 50% x (100-(16+10)) - 3.9% = 33.1% def.

With COF + CJ, A net reduction in dmg potential from a minion is 33% (i.e 1- 33.1/50). With just CJ on, the net potential dmg reduction is 7.8% (1 - 46.1/50). An extra 25% dmg potential reduction.

With teams when you could start getting a further def of 5-15%. Things get rather interesting.

Say your net def is 5%, net dmg reduction becomes 36%, for 10%, it is 46%, for 15% it is 56%.

And things start getting uber once you throw in a dark miasma power set (darkest night etc..)

-- nucleon

Some points for me, note: this is from my perspective, and I live in Australia.

- Hearing about CoH, and going wow cool, I love Superheroes, sounds awesome. I wanna try it out for a month and see how it goes. (I've been playing to this day since a week from release

- After hearing about it, ringing every computer game shop near me to get a copy.

- Hearing some shops say '2 weeks', and some checking with their wholesaler to say it wasn't released in Oz.

- Remembering myself going "[Censored]".

- Remember reading International websites saying that they wouldn't ship the product to OZ.

- Remembering that I emailed CoH tech support asking if I could purchase the product online.

- Remembering them telling me that it wasn't possible. (I should still have the email around here somewhere if you don't believe me)

- Remembering myself going "[Censored]" x 2.

- Asking people I know that had MMOG experience tell me that usually MMOGs are availble to purchase online.

- Spending a number of hours searching and searching to see if I could get it online. Finally some luck with COH's publisher's website.

- Remembering myself going "F'n COOL".

- Remember reading the manual going way cool.

- Remember doing a little dance 'cause I was excited.

- Remember convincing my flatmate to start playing.

Some in game mechanics:

- Remembering saying that Cryptic sure knew how to dress up a polygon (with reference to the female superhero chars)

- Remembering how long it was to get my original superhero outfit "just right".

- Remembering a teammate asking me why I didn't have Invincibility up. (I was stone/stone tank, he hadn't seen a non-Invulnerability tank before

- Remembering getting teleport for the first time and being dissappointed it wasn't like click teleport, then click somewhere on the map to teleport. But then realising later that would make the power too uber compared to the others.

- Remembering my fellow SGs using the phrase 'tp for my bunghole' when after teleport friend. (Beavis and Butthead reference)

- Remember street sweeping so I could hurry up and get to lvl7 to get into Parez.

- Remember reading IP and TI thinking, it's going to be ages before I check out these cool places.

- Remember seeing police bots at lvl40, and thinking I doubt I'll ever see that lvl. (My tanker is at lvl45, and I have a troller at lvl38).

- Remember going into Dark Astoria for the first time, and seeing the 'ghost effect'. Still to the this day it "trips me out". Devs - nice touch btw. I love those little things that add to the overall atmosphere.

- There are a number of others that pretty much have been said before.

-- nucleon