Obscure things you may not know about playing the game

Resistance debuffs increase the effect of damage debuffs.

The amount of bombs needed for a RWZ raid varies.

Certain attacks, like dominate, do not have a positional vector and only check against typed defense.

If you rest and are hit with a mez, it will last a really really really long time.

Cimeroran traitors do not have any more mez protection than normal until they notice an enemy or are affected by the 'shout of command' power that many of them have.

On the LRSF, during the vindicators mission, if you kill valkyrie last you don't have to kill her again and can simply move on to the code/miss liberty.

World of Confusion (at least the defender version) does damage but does not alert enemies to your presence. Assuming you have sufficient stealth, they will just stand there and take damage.

For certain ranged attacks, you can get two attacks to land at the same time. This works if you have one attack that moves slowly (and only hits with the damage once the projectile gets there), and another attack that does not depend on distance from the enemy (dominate for instance). This is useful for spiking, particularly for fortunatas - subdue then dominate.

You can click glowies out of line of sight of them (underneath the surface they are on, behind a pillar near them, etc)

With practice, you can use jumping and line of sight to make it impossible for enemies to retaliate when hit with mesmerize (or any sleep that does damage).

The Lotg 7.5 is in its own category for set bonuses, meaning you can have 5 of it as well as 5 normal 7.5 recharge bonuses from other sets.

Certain enemies can on occasion aggro on confuse. Miss Liberty on the LRSF is a prime example.

Using benumb on the healing nictus in the ITF is extremely effective (the mire nictus is also a good choice).

These threads crop up from time to time, but I always try and remember some seriously interesting things to post.

The slick from the wreck of the Cairo Queen forms the Eye of Osiris.

That's Baldwin P. "Bulletproof" Vess!

Edit, Sniped by the Vess!

A few not mentioned.

-There is a portal to Faultline in Pocket D. It's a manhole in the hall leading to Talos island. I didn't know that for quite some time.

-Toxic Tarantulas in Warburg wont count towards the Venomous badge since they are actually Rogue Arachnos.

-The Ouroboros badge can be earned as early as level 15 from the contact Penelope Yin. I'm not sure if you have to complete her story or if its a specific mission, but I was able to obtain the badge from her. You still wont be able to get into Ouro until level 25 but you will gain access to the portal.

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Here are some more. Some might be repeats. All are a little long winded.

- All of the powers in Mind Control, and some of the powers in Illusion Control, are tagged only as "Psionic Attacks." Unlike other control powers, they do not list a positional component, like "Ranged Attack" or "AoE Attack." This means positional (Melee/Ranged/AoE) defense does not offer any protection from them, and they will completely bypass added protection from Force Field and Cold Domination shields (but not Manuevers, Hover, or Stealth).

- Except for Earth Control, all of the Controller AoE holds are almost exactly the same power with a different graphic. The main variations are as follows:
- tagging (fire attack, cold attack, etc.)
- Ice/Glacier does -Recharge
- Illusion/Flash has a slightly shorter duration
- Some powers are PBAoE w/25ft radius, others targetable with 20 ft radius
Despite the similarities, it's still common to hear players complain about one AoE hold while praising another.

- Arctic Air, Snow Storm, Radiation Infection, and Enervating Field all auto-interupt interuptible powers even though they do no damage.

- Illusion's single target hold, Blind, has a small radius AoE sleep attached to it.

- If you confuse a Mastermind NPC (mostly encountered in the AE) he will use his pets to attack each other and himself, even if they are not independantly confused.

- If you think you might be lagging, but aren't sure, tap a power. A good one to try is Sprint, since there is no recharge time. If you are unable to activate or deactivate the power, it means lag is blocking you out. (You can also use the /sync command, but this doesn't tell you much if lag is indeed happening.)

- Use the /stuck command when you get embedded in geometry or trapped in an awkward position.

- Use /unloadgfx or /reloadgfx if your graphics glitch out. This sometimes fixes the issue without restarting the game.

- You can see your combat stats in-game by clicking Powers > Combat Attributes. (It took me a year to figure this out).

- Any character, not just Masterminds, can open the Pet window, although you will not be able to command your pets. The trick is that you have to first go into the options panel and turn the Pet window option on, then go to the Team window and click the "Pets" label to open the window (this, too, took me a year to find out about).

- Intangibility and Knockback enhancements increase magnitude, not duration. Force Bolt with 3 level 50 Knockback IOs is mag 51.1.

- Control powers that do -Knockback only provide this benefit for the base duration of the power. If you extend the duration of the hold/immobilize, the -KB duration is not extended. This can be used to your advantage. For example, an Ice Controller can use Frostbite to establish Containment, and as long as she doesn't refresh the duration, enemies will begin to fall on Ice Slick starting 12 seconds after the power is applied.

- Your toggle powers are suppressed when you are mezzed. This used to be obvious, and isn't now.

- Although the Arctic Air, Arctic Fog, Steamy Mist, and Shadow Fall graphic implies these powers affect a flat circular area, in fact they affect a sphere. At 25ft, Arctic Air is about as big as Dispersion Bubble. The rest are all 40ft powers; considerably bigger than the graphic implies.