LORE: Back Alley Brawler: Oil Slick? WTH?
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8_Ball,
Posted on: 2007-04-03 21:13 in The Market and Inventions
As someone who has a 50 dk/dk, when is the next Hami raid on Test? I'm fairly itching to get me some Howling Slick.
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Honestly, I burst out laughing when I heard about it. Makes perfect sense in the 'how' it works. Brilliant thinking, guys.
Is it what we intended the power to be used for? Not even close...but it's a great idea.
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Yeah, like teleporting your auto-turret or acid mortar around.
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/em throws Castle's dogtags into the ocean from the carrier deck
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For those with memory problems, the change was made because some players were griefing by teleporting Malta Turrets, dropped during zone ambushes, into areas where they were killing lower-level players. Auto-Turret and the like seem to have been caught by the change because all of the summonable turret pets share the same teleport properties (ie either on or off).
Fixing turrets so that "friendly" turrets can be teleported while unfriendly turrents can't be probably isn't a particularly high priority fix.
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As someone who has a 50 dk/dk, when is the next Hami raid on Test? I'm fairly itching to get me some Howling Slick.
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That's even funnier if you say it like a hillbilly. 
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Honestly, I burst out laughing when I heard about it. Makes perfect sense in the 'how' it works. Brilliant thinking, guys.
Is it what we intended the power to be used for? Not even close...but it's a great idea.
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Yeah, like teleporting your auto-turret or acid mortar around.
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/em throws Castle's dogtags into the ocean from the carrier deck
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Stick in the mud!
Oil slick rez been used live since it was implemented.
Still, funny to see the dialogue at a raid.
@bpphantom
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Friggin' BRILLIANT! I'm typically a strategist, but I never considered this as a possibility....I have interesting PvP strategies coming to mind now 
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Too bad you can't make a TA/DM TA/Kin (or vice versa)
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For those with memory problems, the change was made because some players were griefing by teleporting Malta Turrets, dropped during zone ambushes, into areas where they were killing lower-level players. Auto-Turret and the like seem to have been caught by the change because all of the summonable turret pets share the same teleport properties (ie either on or off).
Fixing turrets so that "friendly" turrets can be teleported while unfriendly turrents can't be probably isn't a particularly high priority fix.
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I must have memory problems, because I remember being told by a dev that auto-turrets and acid mortars were never intended to be recall friend-ed around. Yet that makes more sense than kinetic/dark buffs hitting oil slick.
(P.S. But it's not nearly as awesome!)
Well you're a Devices user. It doesn't sen to far off any point to think that you might be able to teleport them. What's less believeable is that you can use a puddle of Texas Tea to bring back a party from death.
Is one more cool than the other...Oh Hell yeah! 
But believeable.... 
I don't think so.
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Meme's name for it is good, but 'twilight' is also the name for the heal (which can also be powered by Oil Slick and other attackable entities). So I think I'll call it....
Howling Slick.
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Howling Slick; wasn't he a blues man from the 1940's? I seem to remember he had a few really big hits, like "Boresight Blues," "You ain't worth a 5 inf recipe," "Hamidon ate my dog," "Sold my soul (down at the Wentworths)," "Statesman don't want me for his Taskforce," "I'd fly away (If I only had a billion inf for the wings)," "Ain't no invention that can cure the blues," and of course, the immortal: "My woman left with all my salvage (Oh how I want that salvage back.)"
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Howling Slick; wasn't he a blues man from the 1940's? I seem to remember he had a few really big hits, like "Boresight Blues," "You ain't worth a 5 inf recipe," "Hamidon ate my dog," "Sold my soul (down at the Wentworths)," "Statesman don't want me for his Taskforce," "I'd fly away (If I only had a billion inf for the wings)," "Ain't no invention that can cure the blues," and of course, the immortal: "My woman left with all my salvage (Oh how I want that salvage back.)"
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em/grabs Dark/Sonic or TA/Sonic Def named Howling Slick on every server.*
Awesome, man!
*Note: Not really.
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Howling Slick; wasn't he a blues man from the 1940's? I seem to remember he had a few really big hits, like "Boresight Blues," "You ain't worth a 5 inf recipe," "Hamidon ate my dog," "Sold my soul (down at the Wentworths)," "Statesman don't want me for his Taskforce," "I'd fly away (If I only had a billion inf for the wings)," "Ain't no invention that can cure the blues," and of course, the immortal: "My woman left with all my salvage (Oh how I want that salvage back.)"
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em/grabs Dark/Sonic or TA/Sonic Def named Howling Slick on every server.*
Awesome, man!
*Note: Not really.
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A blues man as a defender? Nah; he'd have to be a blaster or a dominator. (Those being the two AT's that are most likely to give you the blues...)
Thread necromancy for a worthy cause
Time+pixels = HAMI WARRIOR
ROFL.
A winner is you!
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I love the command options .
Awesome! I love it!
=^o^=
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That's an amazing tactic TAs are getting their glory!
. . . .Now theres sonic. >_>
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Oh I'm so sorry I didn't see this post days ago Street_Wolf.
Y'see, villain side we were looking high and low for a /Sonic Corruptor and there were none to be had! /Sonics have Clarity which is the only Fear protection villain side as a targetted buff. Hamidon's Blue Mitos throw Fears around. Now that changed with the last patch giving Fear protection to /Therms and /Poisons, but at the time we had to make do with lots and lots of Breakfrees.
Also, Hamidon's Green Mitos throw Toxic damage. /Sonic has the only really good Toxic resistance buff in the Corr sets. /Cold has a tiny bit in Frostwork but it's hard to put Frostwork on an entire team. Masterminds have a smidge in Alkaloid from /Poison and the same value (22%) in FFs Deflection Shield but our few MMs were tied up in other duties and I didn't see more than a couple /FF MMs anyway. We -really- wanted a /Sonic in Closed Beta and no one had one.
Also try: First ever defeat of a new-Hamidon Yellow Mito came at the hands of a Stone/Fire Brute (Sotark5). Fire's gotten some love recently in Healing Flames but many still look down on it.
new-Hamidon is setting a lot of things on their ear.
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That's an amazing tactic TAs are getting their glory!
. . . .Now theres sonic. >_>
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Oh I'm so sorry I didn't see this post days ago Street_Wolf.
Y'see, villain side we were looking high and low for a /Sonic Corruptor and there were none to be had! /Sonics have Clarity which is the only Fear protection villain side as a targetted buff. Hamidon's Blue Mitos throw Fears around. Now that changed with the last patch giving Fear protection to /Therms and /Poisons, but at the time we had to make do with lots and lots of Breakfrees.
Also, Hamidon's Green Mitos throw Toxic damage. /Sonic has the only really good Toxic resistance buff in the Corr sets. /Cold has a tiny bit in Frostwork but it's hard to put Frostwork on an entire team. Masterminds have a smidge in Alkaloid from /Poison and the same value (22%) in FFs Deflection Shield but our few MMs were tied up in other duties and I didn't see more than a couple /FF MMs anyway. We -really- wanted a /Sonic in Closed Beta and no one had one.
Also try: First ever defeat of a new-Hamidon Yellow Mito came at the hands of a Stone/Fire Brute (Sotark5). Fire's gotten some love recently in Healing Flames but many still look down on it.
new-Hamidon is setting a lot of things on their ear.
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Oh, 0_0, well then, I stand corrected! All hail the TAs and Sonics!
And the thermals and poisons.
Thaw and Antidote protect v fear and confuse now too.
Read the patch notes please:
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<ul type="square">[*]Added Fear and Confuse Protection to Thermal Radiation "Thaw"[*]Added Fear and Confuse Protection to Poison "Antidote" [/list]
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Sonics aren't the end-all-be-all. The devs finally made Thermals the "evil empaths"
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Read the patch notes please:
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<ul type="square">[*]Added Fear and Confuse Protection to Thermal Radiation "Thaw"[*]Added Fear and Confuse Protection to Poison "Antidote" [/list]
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Sonics aren't the end-all-be-all. The devs finally made Thermals the "evil empaths"
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No, still not even close to comparable.
If I'm on a hero, and a Brute comes into the zone with a pocket Thermal, I probably won't leave as quickly.
No no . I mention that in the post Street_Wolf was replying to and the buffs to Thermal Radiation and Poison are wonderful. What we were talking about is the out-of-favor Powersets like Trick Arrow and Sonic Resonance becoming suddenly sought after in presence of new-Hami (and Sonic Resonance isn't limited in use to just Clarity either ).
Oh. I was wondering why it seemed like you forgot. Apologies for failure, I guess.
Thanks, RushBolt, *dude*.
So, the relevant quote actually is:
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Screaming Meme: Time to give us some slick twilight.
Techbolt3: Ready, Zom?
Zombie Man: k, since no one else is inviting me for tp and rez, oil slick plz
Back Alley Brawler: Oil Slick? WTH?
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Meme's name for it is good, but 'twilight' is also the name for the heal (which can also be powered by Oil Slick and other attackable entities). So I think I'll call it....
Howling Slick.
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