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And even with set bonuses... to-hit is multiplied by accuracy. You take a few to-hit debuffs, and they are multiplied by your accuracy in effect. If you have a total of 2.0x accuracy (+100%) on all your powers, and are to-hit debuffed to 40%, you're down to 80% chance to hit. If you have 1.5x accuracy, and are to-hit debuffed to 60%, you have a 90% chance to hit. If you have to-hit and to-hit-debuff resistance, you are more likely to be in the latter category or better off than that.

I love it. One of my favorite powers in any set. My /nin stalker made it to level 22 before taking the melee defense power (this was back pre-I19), and was fine, because nothing could melee me.

I like it a lot for stealthing, and also for improving effective defense by several percent.

Exactly.

Could be. Is that, in fact, being enhanced by teleportation range powers? If I three-slot it for range with level 50 IOs, will I get a 40-foot spread of team mates instead of a 25-foot?

It does help a lot. I'm still a bit unsure how to decide which powers I'll like (and I'm not a long-term vet who can just try everything and see), but I'll get around to levelling my poor litle WS someday.

I posted a /devices guide in the last couple of days which talked specifically about DP, since my DP/dev blaster (now level 43) was the one I used to research /dev. I'm guessing people are reacting to the fact that my guide doesn't provide proposed sample builds.

Yup.

CoH doesn't really rely on "the" tank, or the "main" tank, or indeed, tanking. Sure, it's a nice thing when it's available and works, but it's not really necessary, and it's not necessarily the case that the tank is "in charge" the way they typically would be in some MMOs. I usually view person-with-star as the closest a group has to the person in charge, and there's no reason that has to be a tank. In many groups, tactical decisions have been coming from, say, a troller or def. Or a scrapper, though usually only when the tactics are "punch dudes".

Okay, you're wrong because, in fact, at level 19 or 20, I run out of endurance less quickly than I used to. Even on characters who were taking Stamina, by level 19, I was consistently running out of endurance all the time. Now, I rarely run out of endurance that quickly.

The possibility of running out of endurance has not been completely eliminated, but it happens more slowly. In particular, keep in mind that you are not required to mash every button that isn't dimmed. Look at the rotation you had pre-I19. Now do that exact same rotation, with no changes, in I19. You'll have substantially more endurance. All you're complaining about is that if you are spamming two more attacks, you might be able to run out of endurance still.

Slotting on Stamina is sort of a red herring; maximum benefit makes it under 100% better, so completely unslotted and unenhanced, it still gives you more than 50% what you'd get from Stamina 3-slotted with level 50 IOs.

Prior to level 20, pre-I19, you didn't have Stamina, so the maximum real difference is two power picks -- you could have two attacks or toggles, now, instead of putting those two slots into swift/hurdle and health. But even if you do, you are not required to actually use those powers all the time. Furthermore, Health means that you have better regeneration, and are thus in less danger of dying if you don't kill things quickly enough.

The third party is not the one "making it look like your IP address is different". The problem is that ncsoft (or their payment processor) is using a fundamentally broken service to attempt to guess where IP addresses are, even though IP does not work that way.

There are millions of IP addresses out there which do not have any obvious way to associate the address with a geographic location, or where the "obvious" way is just plain wrong. Using such a service in a purely advisory capacity to raise flags and check on things could make sense. Requiring special staff intervention to process ordinary payment requests for this situation is stupid.

The game is great, but the ncsoft store is a nightmare to interact with, at least for me. I've had multiple rounds of various problems, credit cards disabled due to a "fraud alert" because I bought from ncsoft on more than one occasion, and so on. I don't know why this is such a recurring issue for ncsoft, but it certainly does seem to keep happening.

Ooh, didn't know that. I'll update that "sometime soon".

Makes sense. Doesn't do us dual-pistols sorts any good.