Release notes for build 1600.20090930.0 - 10/5/09

Well, that temp power is different. In beta, it would be broke/fixed/broke/fixed/broke/fixed/broke/fixed/broke/fixed/broke/fixed depending on the patch.

Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle it has gone from unconscionable to downright appalling that we have no way of measuring our characters' wetness.

Originally Posted by Brillig It's hard to beat the entertainment value of Whackjob Wednesdays.

I seriously hope they got this in before the DXP (&/aka 4x Inf) weekend... *shudder* - otherwise the forum might get a little bit.. well = icky.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville City of Heroes didn't fail, City of Heroes was killed. If a 747 dropped on your house, you'd say you were killed, not you failed to find a safer dwelling.

Don't be ridiculous! We all know that changing hair color to a darker shade is too powerful and is gonna be nerfed.
Besides, the exchange rate has always been ludicrously high in order to tempt the weak minded and fat walleted among us who haven't blocked the emails and who can't seem to play in SG Mode and just run up the groups prestige totals through normal play and run on sentences...

Just tell me this is going live fast. This loop drives me nuts. I've stopped using the toggle just to keep form going a bit batty.

Huh? Am I missing something?

Bwuh?! This was already a rather beefy AoE attack, recharge time notwithstanding. If this makes it as strong as I think it does, then you really DO get a payoff for fragile defenses.

Sometimes eighteen can't you those errors by off avoid.

Wait, it's a stupid move for them to put the rewards up by 18?

Or do you mean it was a stupid move of whomever keyed in the new value to accidentally switch the order fo the digits?

Originally Posted by Back Alley Brawler Did you just use "casual gamer" and "purpled-out warshade" in the same sentence?

I can only assume the latter. Justin Augustine does not strike me as an eminently farmable TF.

There are still a few inconsistencies around - to be honest, when they ported Electric Melee over to Scrappers and Tankers I assumed that it'd be given the same treatment that it did for Stalkers: that is to say, it would be left alone and would be similar to how Shield Charge was treated at that time.

When there were new pseudopets made, I was rather annoyed that it was changed for Scrappers and Tankers and not for Stalkers - it seemed rather obnoxious to me, and I made a post saying that if they were going to bother making new pseudopets for Lightning Rod that they should finish the job and update the Stalker version, as well as Shield Charge since it was originally a copy of the power.

Well, imagine my chagrin when they actually did it. I'm happy about the change to Lightning Rod for Stalkers, but really was surprised to see Shield Charge change. There are other pets than just Blizzard for the non-Blasters that are somewhat problematic that I'd just as soon they left alone as well; I'd rather those powers - in sets that I'm far more likely to use - be left alone than to see the corresponding buff to Corruptor Rain of Arrows, which was nerfed only for their version of it (it does less than 3 points of base damage [49.49 / tick] more than the Defender version [48.77 / tick] - less than a 1.5% difference in base damage, when the correct values to the .75/.65 modifier (15.3%) difference would be 56.27 / tick).

I suppose I should keep my mouth shut about pseudopets entirely now since most of the rest of the changes I can think of would be straight-up nerfs... but I'm still unhappy with the comparison between Lightning Rod and Shield Charge and would like to see the AoE expanded to cover the entire radius for the longer-animating, attack set version of the power. A buff to Corruptor Rain of Arrows (and Oil Slick Arrow, but that's never going to happen) would be nice, too - but not at the cost of Blizzard, Rain of Fire, Ice Storm, and Ignite.

Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle it has gone from unconscionable to downright appalling that we have no way of measuring our characters' wetness.

Originally Posted by Brillig It's hard to beat the entertainment value of Whackjob Wednesdays.

This enables my Broadsword/Shield Defense Scrapper to make even bigger orange numbers, and as such makes things even better. A fully IO'd /SD Scrapper is truly a thing of beauty, and this fix is just icing on the cake.

No doubt... I mean out in the Shadow Shard and all?

Originally Posted by Arcanaville City of Heroes didn't fail, City of Heroes was killed. If a 747 dropped on your house, you'd say you were killed, not you failed to find a safer dwelling.

DOH! >_<

I retract my previous statement... -_-;

Yes, yes they do want to be.
I now will not mind the slightly lower values on Shield def, because I'll have already ground the mobs into fine paste

Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

One Shield issue down (I may have been more comfortable if it'd been a moderate damage increase for Scrappers and a moderate decrease for Brutes (with Tankers getting the corresponding change), but this is a definite improvement), one (or more, depending on how you look at it) to go.



Grant Cover gives a 30% Recharge (debuff) resistance.
The thing is, this resistance is affected by Strength modifiers, both from enhancements and from outside sources.

This means two things.

1) The Recharge resistance is increased by Recharge buffs (from */Rech enhancements slotted into the power, or from buffs such as Hasten or Recharge set bonuses)

2) The Recharge resistance is *decreased* by the very Recharge *de*buffs it's intended to resist.
This leads to a recursive decrease in Recharge resistance as the effective Recharge debuffs increases for every server tick (as the resistance goes down).

Here be math. The specifics aren't really all that important (the general behavior is), so if you'd like you can probably skim the next part.

Example:
A 50% Recharge debuff (D).

After one tick, the effective debuff (E) is 50%*(1-30%) = 35%
This reduces the Recharge resistance, and after two ticks the debuff is 50%*(1-30%*(1-35%)) = 40.25%
After three ticks the debuff is 50%*(1-30%*(1-40.25%)) = 41.04%
After four ticks the debuff is 50%*(1-30%*(1-41.04%)) = 41.16%
After five ticks the debuff is 50%*(1-30%*(1-41.16%)) = 41.17%
After six ticks the debuff is 50%*(1-30%*(1-41.17%)) = 41.18%

This is to where the resistance will converge.

We can calculate the effective debuff (E) for a given applied debuff (D) by:
E=0.7D/(1-0.3D)

(much like how Accuracy buffs stack recursively in Combat Training: Offensive, and used to in beta i13 Focused Accuracy)

For D = 50% this gives us E = 41.18% (as mentioned above), which is an effective 1-41.18/50 = 17.6% Recharge resistance (down from the base 30%).

The stronger the Recharge debuffs on you are, the lower your effective Recharge resistance will be (i.e. the more you need it, the less it'll give you).

Note that the formula is only valid up to an applied Recharge debuff of 81.08% (at which point you'll reach the 0.25 StrMin for Recharge). This also means that at an applied Recharge debuff stronger than 81.08%, you'll get no benefit from the Recharge debuff in Grant Cover.
(at a 81.08% debuff, the effective Recharge resistance is 7.5%)

If you want to know the Effective debuff (E) from an applied Debuff (D) when you also have a Recharge *buff* (R),
E = D*(.7-.3*R)/(1-.3D)

(with Hasten, a 50% Recharge debuff is reduced to a 50%*(.7-.3*70%)/(1-.3*50%) = 28.82% debuff, for an effective resistance of 1-28.82/50 = 42.35%)

bottom line:
The Recharge resistance given by Grant Cover increases with Recharge buffs or slotting, and decreases when you're affected by the very Recharge debuffs it's intended to protect against.

To me, this seems strange.
It's a potentially interesting mechanic, but I don't think it was intended to behave this way.

I'd suggest making the Recharge Resistance unaffected by Str modifiers.

Hahaha... I just thought I was reading it wrong somehow. Cool.