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Discussion: Update to the Issue 21 Overview - Sorceress Serene

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By Agent White,
Posted on: 2011-10-27 09:28 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion

 

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Animated hair...
Ghost Widow has had animated hair for years.

True they've yet to make that a player option, but for all we know dresses like Sorceress Serene's may be easier to provide us than that.

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Originally Posted by Lothic View Post
Ghost Widow has had animated hair for years.

True they've yet to make that a player option, but for all we know dresses like Sorceress Serene's may be easier to provide us than that.
I know, I was just teasing a certain person who used to request it with every single post back on the EU boards. With winkies.

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The devs have said that it's a "double cape" rig, and would cause too much lag if it was given out to players.
Making it a new Tier 9 VIP Reward would solve that problem, I bet.

 

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It looks like she has a Ta moko to me, not a blood smear . I hope this link works ( my.opera.com/AOTEAROAnz/albums/showpic.dml?album=605292&picture=8299221 )

 

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Making it a new Tier 9 VIP Reward would solve that problem, I bet.
All joking aside that was actually the main reason why they used to limit capes to level 20 and auras to level 30 - they wanted to reduce the overall number of characters who could have these things to reduce the stress on the system.

So your suggestion of making graphically intense costume items be limited to the Tier 9 VIPs actually has some validity as far as that goes. Of course you know as well as I that if they released items like this which only Tier 9 VIPs could have there would be people screaming bloody murder about it forever.

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Holy Pancakes, I need that dress!

Even if they can't make the dress a palyer option, I'd probably settle for just getting that corset.

 

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Most interesting part of that article: "Autumnal Control/Autumnal Assault". Sounds like the first taste of a hint on what's coming for Dominators?
Was thinking the same thing.

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Most interesting part of that article: "Autumnal Control/Autumnal Assault". Sounds like the first taste of a hint on what's coming for Dominators?
Serene has two dual blade (one fire, one ice) attacks. They do fire/ice/lethal. She has an Autumal Hold and a Blessing buff (don't know what that does). And an Ice Sword attack unique to her. The rest of her powers are all Talons of Vengeance which is a mishmash from lots of different sets, especially fire and ice and weather related (thunder clap and lightning.)

It's not really enough powers for a fully unique Dominator's sets. At least, not yet.

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Serene has two dual blade (one fire, one ice) attacks. They do fire/ice/lethal. She has an Autumal Hold and a Blessing buff (don't know what that does). And an Ice Sword attack unique to her. The rest of her powers are all Talons of Vengeance which is a mishmash from lots of different sets, especially fire and ice and weather related (thunder clap and lightning.)

It's not really enough powers for a fully unique Dominator's sets. At least, not yet.
Well, she's in a 20-29 level range, so she might not be using powers in the 30+ range.

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The devs have said that it's a "double cape" rig, and would cause too much lag if it was given out to players.
They could solve this problem easily by letting players with crappy computers disable rendering of capes, wings, all particles, auras and all the other things that put alot of stress on 10 year old computers.

Bottom line is that's not a good enough excuse anymore.

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They could solve this problem easily by letting players with crappy computers disable rendering of capes, wings, all particles, auras and all the other things that put alot of stress on 10 year old computers.

Bottom line is that's not a good enough excuse anymore.
That's not a trivially simple solution: I don't know if it still happens on older systems, but in the old days skirts would sometimes disappear at certain distances and under certain load conditions, and while that is a computationally satisfactory solution to a rendering problem, there are non-computational issues with that solution that make it not a good idea to implement deliberately.

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That's not a trivially simple solution: I don't know if it still happens on older systems, but in the old days skirts would sometimes disappear at certain distances and under certain load conditions, and while that is a computationally satisfactory solution to a rendering problem, there are non-computational issues with that solution that make it not a good idea to implement deliberately.
There are hardware configurations (certain ATI boards and/or drivers, I believe) where skirts still to this day vanish underwater.

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Well, she's in a 20-29 level range, so she might not be using powers in the 30+ range.
Mob level has never correlated to what level of player available powers they have had access to before. Level 15 outcast bosses have been able to summon Fire Imps for years.

I don't see why it would suddenly start mattering now.

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If Autumnal Assault has the Greater Fire Sword and Greater Ice Sword as a focal point, as well as doing split Fire/Cold Damage, and we get it and Autumnal Control? I have a new main power set, even if it sucks horribly.

I would totally play a set that allows me to dual wield the Greater Fire and Greater Ice swords.

 

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These things are cool, but they are GIANT SPOILERS for people who haven't run the arcs yet.

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I just wonder if this will be a paid powerset? if for now on, issues will be content and any new powersets will be have to purchased?

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These things are cool, but they are GIANT SPOILERS for people who haven't run the arcs yet.
/agree

Also when they post something in the announcements with a title like "Update to the Issue 21 Overview - Sorceress Serene", it sounds like they've added new content (issue 21.01) when actually all it is, is a description of what's already there. Gets me all excited for no reason

Avatea, is there any chance you could post more informative titles like (in this case)
"Update to the Issue 21 Overview - Sorceress Serene BACKSTORY"
so those of us who'd rather learn about these characters in-game can skip the post and do so?

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