"The game is balanced around SOs."
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Posted on: 2011-12-26 12:40 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion
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The original difficulty slider levels were heroic, tenacious, rugged, unyielding, and invincible. They very roughly corresponded to +0x1, +0x2, +1x1, +1x2, +2x1. However, *before* the slider came out difficulty scaled with team size. If I remember correctly, the critters scaled upward +1 with 4, +2 with 6, +3 with 8. When the slider came out, it *stacked* with this intrinsic difficulty and so if the leader was set to invincible and you were in a team of eight, you'd be facing +5s.
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Originally Posted by Dispari
Anyone remember when max difficulty was +2/x1?
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Originally Posted by UberGuy
Heh. You should spell her name right if you mean to give proper credit.
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I hastily banged out that reply before leaving for an errand but I appreciate you pointing out my error. I believe Arcanaville got the jist of my jibe even though I embarrassed myself in her said spelling...
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Originally Posted by UberGuy
Heh. You should spell her name right if you mean to give proper credit.
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| Originally by Arcanaville: Everything in Praetoria was designed during a drinking binge in which the devs temporarily forgot the rules. |
I myself tend to get the IO Procs at the lowest level possible, and usually as soon as I can (Steadfast Res/+3%, Miracle and Numina Procs, ect) and set IOs at their highest (Kinetic Combat at 35, for example). Until then I rely on SOs/Common IOs, and they often make a huge difference in what I can do.
If I'm playing a Firey Aura or Dark Armour build then I will get -KB IOs ASAP, even if I need to e-mail them from another toon.
But I would agree that, at standard difficulty, the game is balanced around SOs, or at least with SOs in mind. The higher difficulty sliders are there for those who want a challenge or with speced out IO builds.
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Its "i" before "e" and after the "c" along with the three "a"s.
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Originally Posted by Schismatrix
As in Arcanaville has three "a"s and one "e". (Also an "i", but that goes without saying.)
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Its "i" before "e" and after the "c" along with the three "a"s.
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No it's "I before E except after C".
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Holy crap! I legitimately corrected Arcana on something?
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i'm pretty sure she was referring to the rule specific to the spelling of Arcanaville, not the more general grammatical rule. The fun thing about most grammatical rules are the exceptions to those rules and the rules that apply to the exceptions.
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Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
No it's "I before E except after C".
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And the I before E "rule" isn't a rule anymore. There are actually more words in the English language that break the rule than follow it.
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Originally Posted by Schismatrix
i'm pretty sure she was referring to the rule specific to the spelling of Arcanaville, not the more general grammatical rule. The fun thing about most grammatical rules are the exceptions to those rules and the rules that apply to the exceptions.
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Right, but my correction wasn't about general grammatical usage. But just about the usage of the mnemonic itself. |
Originally Posted by Schismatrix
i'm pretty sure she was referring to the rule specific to the spelling of Arcanaville, not the more general grammatical rule. The fun thing about most grammatical rules are the exceptions to those rules and the rules that apply to the exceptions.
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Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn
And the I before E "rule" isn't a rule anymore. There are actually more words in the English language that break the rule than follow it.
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Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle
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But yes, that is what I was thinking about when I said that.
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How weird.
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Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn
And the I before E "rule" isn't a rule anymore. There are actually more words in the English language that break the rule than follow it.
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Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle
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Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn
And the I before E "rule" isn't a rule anymore. There are actually more words in the English language that break the rule than follow it.
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Originally Posted by Siolfir
How weird.
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People seem to agree that the next part goes "Or when sounded as "a," as in neighbor and weigh." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_befor...fter_C#History,
http://www.educationbug.org/a/i-before-e.html, or just Google "i before e full poem"
After THAT, there seem to be a lot of different versions that try to list some of the exceptions in rhyme form as well -- but there's a LOT of exceptions.
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Sadly you missed to what Arcanaville was refering, which was the spelling of their forum name and was evoking the rhyme of the mnemonic and thus you failed at reading comprehension.|
Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
No it's "I before E except after C".
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I kid, I kid. Sorry I just couldn't let that lie without a rebuttal because it was too funny to me. I'll go back to lurking now.
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