New Lightform crashless ?
I will crash.. it just wont crash to the point where it almost kills you and drains all your end..
The hard things I can do--- The impossible just take a little bit longer.
If numbers are so much more important than a teammate who is fun to play with, forget about the game altogether and go play with a calculator instead. -Claws and Effect-
Light Form's crash will reset your health to full and then remove half of it, leaving you at 50% HP. If you were at less than 50% HP at the time it crashes, Light Form's crash will actually heal your character up to having 50% HP.
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I have to wonder if this is really working as intended because if it is we are gonna have to stop calling it a crash altogether.
Light Form's crash will reset your health to full and then remove half of it, leaving you at 50% HP. If you were at less than 50% HP at the time it crashes, Light Form's crash will actually heal your character up to having 50% HP.
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Call it the Lightform Bifurcation then, since it leaves you as "half" the (wo)man you were when it "ends" ...
It's the end. But the moment has been prepared for ...
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Really it's an unintentional benefit due to the functionality of HP crashes.
I have to wonder if this is really working as intended because if it is we are gonna have to stop calling it a crash altogether.
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This wasn't a problem for the old Light Form that crashed you to 10% hitpoints, cause if you were below 10% hitpoints BEFORE Light Form crashed, whatever insignificant heal you got out of it probably didn't mean a hill of beans.
Hitpoint crashes have to function differently than End Crashes, cause a HP crash (without the hitpoint reset first) could directly result in your defeat, end crashes can't. --Defeat resulting from detoggling due to an end crash is different. That's a result of lack of situational awareness/preparedness, not the actual end crash killing you.--
I suppose they could remove the HP reset and just say "You're SOL if below 50% HP when you crash." but that would kind of defeat the purpose of the buff, if you have a chance of killing yourself every 90seconds.
I don't think there's a way they can "fix" the crash potentially resulting in a heal, without completely neutering/invalidating the intended use of the power. (Which at this point is intended as an analogue of Eclipse.)
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I think we can safely call the occasional Heal from Lightform wearing off WAI.
Wavicle, Energy/Energy Blaster, dinged 50 in Issue 4, summer of 2005.
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One thing you can say for the new Light Form and this odd heal. If you actually are below 50% health when it crashes, I would be surprised. We're rather tough with it up. We've debated elsewhere if we are too tough in comparison to other things, but I'll leave that to other threads.
The crash is definitely liveable, even midfight, and the change does help make my PB more viable.
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If you have very little in the way of set bonuses, yet have chosen to raise your difficulty to +1 x3 or higher, it is possible to get low even under Lightform.
One thing you can say for the new Light Form and this odd heal. If you actually are below 50% health when it crashes, I would be surprised. We're rather tough with it up. We've debated elsewhere if we are too tough in comparison to other things, but I'll leave that to other threads.
The crash is definitely liveable, even midfight, and the change does help make my PB more viable. |
Wavicle, Energy/Energy Blaster, dinged 50 in Issue 4, summer of 2005.
@Wavicle, mostly on the Justice server.
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Too tough in comaprison to other things? Two words for that: psi hole
One thing you can say for the new Light Form and this odd heal. If you actually are below 50% health when it crashes, I would be surprised. We're rather tough with it up. We've debated elsewhere if we are too tough in comparison to other things, but I'll leave that to other threads.
The crash is definitely liveable, even midfight, and the change does help make my PB more viable. |
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However PB's are improved with this but there is more to do with them.
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I don't take much damage with Light Form and my shields going on my Tri-Form build, and it doesn't really have any defense boosts. On a trial next to AVs and soloing at x2-x3, I haven't really taking any big dings. If anything, I notice when I forgot to turn it back on, as I notice I'm actually taking damage (separate from the crash, like if it crashed, and I ran to the next mob without turning it back on).
If you have very little in the way of set bonuses, yet have chosen to raise your difficulty to +1 x3 or higher, it is possible to get low even under Lightform.
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But yes, any tough AT can hit its limit if you dial up the difficulty enough. Peacebringers and Warshades with their Tier 9s going are in the upper tier for resilience of all ATs, though.
Whether it's worth it or a good design we can quibble elsewhere, but we are pretty tough.
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Too tough in comaprison to other things? Two words for that: psi hole
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I would agree with what Smoking Joe has said elsewhere, that Dwarf should have psi resists. Any of my tanks without Psi resists have many more tools to make up for that lack (and Dull Pain is only one such tool).
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He's just this guy, you know? Heard he plays Kheldians, or something crazy like that.
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Grey Pilgrim: Fire/Fire Tanker (50), Victory
Just wondering if the new lightform power is crashless ? I'm gonna guess yes, but I don't like guessing if I don't have to.
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