ninjitsu doesn't get forge
Sorry, got sidetracked there. There's something wrong with my arc. The Fire/Thermal+ Ally refuses to use Forge on me. Both the ally and enemy AR/Nin+s refuse to cloak though do self-heal. Something's wrong...
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I think I heard that player allied NPCs don't use every single buff at their disposal; to prevent easy xp (rescue a number of these buff-bots and solo a number of good xp AVs with little effort)
So while they may have forge at their disposal, they've already (likely) buffed you with an armor, and the code says "ok - stop there, no more buffs for you! [/buffnazi]"
I could have easily heard wrong though.
"My inner mind has become a reality-cracking overgod. He torments me! Help!"
I distinctly remember the same ally, back on Test, happily Forge'ing my minions. Damn pity if that got taken out.
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Is it me, or are /Ninjutsu using allies just... not using it at all?
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Are you talking about Hide? It's possible the Dev's disabled Hide in /nin MA custom critters as a temporary fix for the overpowered criticals.
I haven't tested it out in a while. I should do that in a few minutes.
Not just Hide. I don't see the blue waves of the toggles either.
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Dont know about Nin, but i have a mercs/thermal Boss ally that a couple days ago at least had me shielded and CM'ed, and may have had forge on me as well. I know he liked to buff my phantasm too, though i did notice the last run i was getting crappy buff amounts, if at all, so maybe that is the change that came into place. Ill have to look into that (it also could be that he was simly buffing his own mercs more that mish).
Just got around to testing it. /nin seems to be working just fine, aside from the insane damage buff. Tried it on both enemies and allies.
Are you sure you weren't using Super Reflexes?
Or is it possible that the ally is set to Pacifist/Non-Combat?
Fight Defensive boss level ally.
And, great, now the /Therm is refusing to buff my duo mate. Grah.
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Is it me, or are /Ninjutsu using allies just... not using it at all?
[edit]...and not Forgeing me, huh?
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Is it the *only* ally, or are there others?
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I know the "kind of" answer here.
I set several ally's in my arc and after several runs through my arc the allies do the following...
1. Only buff their savior. So the person who kills their last caster gets the buffs.
2. Will buff your pets and handed them out at decent intervals. Not like a buff machine defender\corr.
3. Will take a chunk of xp for the amount of damage they have done to any enemy. Consider them confused enemies in this regard. So any damage they do to an AV will mean less XP for you when he's dead.
4. (This is just a personal exp and not sure about anyone elses arc's doing this but it's driving me CRAZY) Will cause anything above a LT to run like hell after the first slight bit of damage they do to the boss\eb\av. I dont' know what it is about this but I have no "Run at X interval of health" selected and as soon as my ally gets in the mix the target books it.
Exaulted -
Willow the Wisp - kinetic meleeSR brute
Aurablade - DBRegen Scrapper
Nichole Tesla - ElecKin controller
Yes, only ally in the mission.
And 1 should really be fixed it's obnoxious.
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And 1 should really be fixed it's obnoxious.
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Perhaps it's not a glitch. Maybe it's been changed to this way in order to avoid ally buffing abuse.
Personally, I think the enemy AIs running for the hills is the most obnoxious glitch. Especially if I have ally NPCs who take off after them...
Weird. It seemed to work on another critter, now it's not working again.
That one was Stay/Defensive, though. Hmm.
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One thing occurred to me - what are the enemy levels in the mission you're testing? If your allies have been dropped to a different level, they may have fewer powers available.
Good point. The mission is 10-20. Lemme experiment.
Well. Damnit. Suddenly, when I did a test mission at lvl 31, it works, uses all Nin toggles.
Damnit with extra damnit.
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Good point. The mission is 10-20. Lemme experiment.
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I've noticed my custom enemies, as both enemies and allies, using defensive sets in 30s, 40s, and 50, but not using them under 20. It's not that they stopped using some powers from the defensive set, but stopped using all powers from the defensive set.
Now that I think about it, this sounds like a bug one of my -other- creations ran into in the past. Hmm...
[edit]Okay, testing commences. Lvl 31 widow, CL2 running 30 mission. SS/Shield Ally at lvl 30 has shield out. Most of the time.
Mission changed to level 29. Shield still in use.
Back to lvl 30. Replaced with Ar/Nin boss. Toggles in use.
Lvl 25. Toggles still in use. There goes my exemplaring theory.
20. NO toggles. Hmm.
21 thanks to Infernal. No toggles.
22, Archer be thanked, no toggles.
23, Porter hijinks (had to use a 12 Corr), toggles up.
24, Run Mage. Toggles up.
Can somebody confirm similar experiences?
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Is it me, or are /Ninjutsu using allies just... not using it at all?
[edit]...and not Forgeing me, huh?
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