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Or, here's a fun idea : Pay attention to your combat log.

If you're only getting hit by one of his attacks (let's say, the Head-mounted Laser), instead of say, all of them, he's probably held.

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What other attacks?

Hamidon has one attack.

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Hmm interesting, my ignorance on the matter shows, yes.

My point more so came from the phrasing of the supposed patch note of "use one of its attacks", but that was assumption on my part.

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How did you know he was held at all if you where still taking damage? I thought the way you tell if he's held is because he stops attacking

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As others mentioned pay attention to the graphical queues.

Or, here's a fun idea : Pay attention to your combat log.

If you're only getting hit by one of his attacks (let's say, the Head-mounted Laser), instead of say, all of them, he's probably held.

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Except in the Magic pool. Positron I have petitioned the stupid rescue 21 magicians mission EVERY SINGLE TIME I FIGHT IT.

The mission description NEVER SAYS DEFEAT ALL. If the mission is DEFEAT ALL IT SHOULD SAY - DEFEAT ALL.

I went thru late one night on my Emp/Elec defender for 3 stupid hours in this mission. I defeated all of the mobs holding the 21 magicians. Guess what? IT WAS DEFEAT ALL.

Missions clues tab is mostly useless. It often does not tell you what to do.

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The Rescue 21 magicians is a Mayhem Mission now?

Sweet. I want to run a Mayhem Mission in Oranbega.

Hehe, the CoP... A longer wait than even I7!

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Dang it. I didn't think that'd be a problem which is why I incorporated both Warshade teleport powers into that bind. I will look that over and try to fix it soon. I'll have to bug someone to test it for me. Volunteers?

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*channels the Necro-Post Epic AT*

Any happy fun progress on this yet or no? Simple enough to get a new bind to handle it for Human-form, but .

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Wow, ye of little faith.

Isolator is marked as "Hero Only". Villains can kill the contaminated for 100 years, and never get the badge.

Only Heroes can get the badge.

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You realize that this is the first badge that I know of to have this functionality (Hero only)?

There will be Villains camping with and competing with Heroes for a badge they can never earn? That sucks for both sides.

How will this work when side switching is enabled. Will a Villain-turned-Hero be able to earn Isolater? Will a Hero lose his Isolater if they 'go rogue?'

And I'm sure everyone is aware that the text on Isolater doesn't make even the slightest bit of sense if it's earned in Recluse's Victory.

Also, what about villains that didn't earn 'Jail Bird?' Will there be a spot in RV for them to go to get that?

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There are other badges like that. There are also Villain only badges. Kinda frustrated some folks in Siren's Call that .

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um... how is your average villain going to know that?
I can forsee a lot of villains trying, stealing kills from heros in the process, and then raising a fuss when they wonder why their efforts aren't being rewarded.

Just move the one Contaminated over to Peregrine or somewhere so Villains will never see him.

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Out of curiosity, why would the average Villain know that they give a badge in the first place?

Is that City of Spies I see? Hmm.

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Gah, and I hope I just misread it, but does that mean we only have I7 and I8 to look forward to this year?

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I think you're letting your ATist rhetoric blind you to the point that Castle's list strictly discusses solo PvP, which he explicitly qualifies. Furthermore, he goes on to vaguely suggest that PvP-performance hierarchy is wholly different on teams -- which is ostensibly what PvP is built around.

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In team play, most AT's are within 30% of one another. The few exceptions should be looked at. Defenders, Controllers, Corruptors and Dominators are NOT at the bottom of this list, by any stretch.

"Release the numbers" -- I can't. It really is proprietary info, and the generalities I'm providing are about as far as I can go.

"OMG! He's nerfing EM!" -- Nope, at least not for I7.

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So... 2/5 of the ATs aren't at the bottom (or arguable, 1/3, depending on how you view the EATs).

Two of the ATs at the upper sheath were mentioned, that means (Scrappers and Blasters)-1/6th, so that means that roughly, those ats fit in the 2/6th to 2/3rd bracket ...

Which leaves, Tankers at the bottom! .

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Then its back to your boring old lunch breaks where you're not buried under power bugs!

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Naw, then I'll just go back to making PCGen .lst files for my own fun and amusement.

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Gimme!

Sure, I don't know the campaign at all, but I must have. Just for the twisted stalker-esque component.

That and to encourage me to make a picture of Meowth with a PCGen mockup.

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The second requires new design, new code and would probably mean a direct nerf to all Negative Energy, Fire, and Cold attacks, since those resistance types are less common than Smashing, Lethal, Energy and Psionic.

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Err... do you mean that Psionic is more commonly resisted than Negative Energy, Fire, and Cold? Or that it is more commonly resisted than it should be given it's adjustments?

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So, we obviously keep our badges when we turn good or go rogue. Here's the big question, what about accolades? It would be kind of abusable to have both hero and villain accolades (assuming villain accolades are roughly equivalent to the hero versions) so it's safe to assume they'll be taken away somehow. Do you just flag accolades X, Y, and Z as for one side only, and remove them as part of the trial?

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Where two Accolades have the "same" power, Hero or Villain...

You can have both Accolades.

You can NOT have both Accolade powers, you lose the older one when you get the newer one.

Like I said... if you think its abusable... it's not going to happen.

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So, umm, Villains are going to have access to all the same Accolade Powers as Heroes and vice verse?

Just the means to achieve them, will be different.

Or will sides have specific Accolade Powers that are unique to each side?

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That and I doubt badges would disappear.

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I am actually hoping that they will. It'd prevent heroes and villains from changing sides willy-nilly for badges, and it'd also prevent a single toon from having badges from both Recluse and Statesman, which seems silly to me.

If a hero becomes a villain, I'd imagine that he'd throw away all the badges awarded by the Care Bears and work on villainous marks of esteem. By the same token if a villain becomes a hero, I imagine badges awarded by Recluse would be a source of shame, and he'd dump them while attempting to earn renown with the Good Guys.

In the Cold War, if a soldier/spy were to defect from the USSR to the United States, I doubt he'd still wear his Soviet commendations proudly on his new uniform!

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Given that some of the really hero-only badges (the Hero TFs for instance) have villainous version names coded for them in certain files, I suspect that they will transfer over as well.

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I swear, if we got that Sword/Gun combo as a powerset, I'd be the happiest man *ever*

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It's fun to be envious of Signature Powers isn't it?


Sigh...

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It's pretty much what other posters already suggested. Many effects in the game are actually temporary pets (Blizzard, Fulcrum Shift, Caltrops, Burn, Ice Patch, etc). Since they are distinct entities, they are spawned fresh and buffless. This change allows the designers specify that a pet should get copies of buffs on the creator (Damage and To-Hit inspirations, Power Boost, Build Up/Aim, Accelerate Metabolism, Fulcrum Shift, etc). So yes, you could potentially Power Boost an Ice Storm, and having Fortitude could increase your Burn damage.

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Consequently, doesn't this make Mastermind's ability to give their henchmen inspirations a bit pointless? Since, they could just pop the inspiration and give the benefit to all their minions?

Well, except for single instance inspirations (Respite, CAD, Break Free sorta).

This confuses me...

Mostly because I don't quite get how Defense powers don't already provide the same boost to your defense. It's just that the attacker's base chance to hit is better...

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Nice change. Since I've been [censored] about use of development time with regards to the stealth change, this AV change is what I call a great use of development time.

And a question for Positron. Whats a World Spawn?

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A World Spawn is a spawn that takes place in the game-world, not in an instanced mission.

The Hamidon Mitochondria are an example of an Arch-villain World Spawn, and thus will not be reduced in any way by this change.

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I'm assuming the monster spawns are also unaffected, but just for giggles, what would you consider the Kronos Ambush to be?

I wonder if the level based adjustments will come into play for the AVs...

+2 AV is the only possibility solo, is kind of an amusing concept.

Conversely, if you group with 2 people on the 4th setting, you get a +1 AV with a larger group of twerp minons...

And doesn't a 4 person group create a +1 level modifier anyway? Or is that 6 person?

Just Oi Oi.

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I don't know what you're talking about.

To be clear, there are extremely limited ways for any AT to completely prevent a boss from firing their first attack. We have knockdown (which can miss and is guaranateed only on a few powers that cause it), toHitDebuffs (which bosses often hit through anyway), and Domination-powered holds (which doesn't work on all bosses, but is probably the most reliable of the ways) are among the most common tools used.

Or were you just not understanding what I meant we had limited ways to do?

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Quite understood, but you pretty much placed two Archetypes primary powers to be considered extremely limited. There are options available, sure they don't always hit, but then again your opponents attack options don't always work either, and with a diverse group you can tilt the odds in favor of stuff not hitting you and you hitting stuf.

I do understand your point, but it's still kinda stings when you say that 2 archetype's primary power sets are extremely limited.

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There are extremely limited options for stopping a boss from actually executing attacks, and attacks like this can flat out anhillate 4/5ths of the ATs in this game on the basis of raw HP and damage mitigation.

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I'm not sure what to make of two entire ATs being labeled as extremely limited.

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A lot of the victims the CoT takes I assume are used in their demon summoning rites. Some of those people become CoT mages, but a lot I think are just used for human sacrifice. One soul for one Spectral Demon Lord or Behemoth Master, for example.

So, my theory is the women are just used for human sacrifice, and some of the men they take become mages, because the CoT is sexist like that.

Or maybe all the female mages are elsewhere. The Rogue Isles branch of the Circle has some enemies that don't appear in Paragon City. Maybe for reasons unknown the female CoT hang out elsewhere.

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Well, except there are nice examples (some rather explicit ones mentioned earlier) of the Circle Thorning women.

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Now, now ... be nice.

I don't yet have a theory on why the Circle is male-only, unless it's a fraternity type of thing. And really, when plumbing the depths of orders like the Templars, Golden Dawn, Lovecraftian cultists, and whatnot, my recollections are that they are pretty male-dominated.

Not that we shouldn't have female mages ... but with the fiction I try to support the game, which in turn supports the CoH universe, which in turn leads to the fiction...
Something like that.

cheers,
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Here's the thing I don't get, they kidnap and hold female citizens hostage and threaten them in a very specific way that implies there should be female CoT members.

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Do you expect to uncover all the game's mysteries on the first time through?

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Yes. I don't care if it's hard, that's fine, but it should be *possible*, because there are those of us who are completists who get our fun that way. I could care less about PVP. I don't give a crap about getting to level 50 as a goal in and of itself. Getting all the badges? Getting all the new badges as each expansion comes out? That gives me my jollies.

Don't talk to me about lack of replay value and unsubbing, either. It's hogwash. Across the games I have 70+ alts, most of whom are nearing level 10 and all of whom are meant to be played to 50 eventually. My completism demands that I use all the powersets, see.

Making it impossible for my designated "badge characters" to get all the contacts, badges, and souvenirs is a surefire way to make me lose interest in the game, and I doubt I'm the only one that feels this way.

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Still bitter about Isolator?

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Is that Longbow agent a member of the Freedom Phalanx? Just because Longbow is aware of Wyvern doesn't mean all the heroes of Paragon are.

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Admittantly, Longbow isn't a member of the Freedom Phalanx (I believe that's just the Alpha Group of States and Co, anyway). But, that Longbow Agent sure as heck is a member of Freedom Corps.

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They're not? A bunch of crime-fighting archers, named after a mythological beast, and they didn't immediately make that connection? My villain is smarter than the entire Phalanx put together?

Have you read the Top Cow comic?

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Not since it became downloadable instead of portable to my workplace thereby diminishing my reading material at lunch.

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So, you haven't read it since next month?

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Speaking of missing patch notes, I swear I downloaded an update this morning, but no patch notes on it? What's going on there?

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NO PEEKING!!!