What does the Dimensional Ground Ray actually do to Reichsman?
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Agent White,
Posted on: 2012-02-25 03:05 in Player Questions
According to old topics on the subject, it removes his Untouchable state and deactivates his Aura of Domination and Sap Will abilities. It only needs to be used once, at the start of the fight. After that, he's just a wall of HP.
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I never ran a Surveillance scan on him, so I can't say for sure.|
Originally Posted by Thunder Knight
According to old topics on the subject, it removes his Untouchable state and deactivates his Aura of Domination and Sap Will abilities. It only needs to be used once, at the start of the fight. After that, he's just a wall of HP.
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But on several runs I witnessed his health dropping for a while, then stopping and slowly rising back up with no change in our attacks, until the ray was applied again. Using the ray more than once seemed to produce a stacked effect (i. e., his HP dropping even more rapidly), which would be consistent with it being a res debuff. So, I think using the ray only once might make the fight harder than necessary (unless your team can finish Reichsman off before the ray's effects wear off for the first time).
10joy
Maybe so, but I was just going by what's in the thread I linked to, which includes a quote from a former redname (Horatio, who desgined the Task Force in the first place) also saying that the ray only has to be used once and never wears off: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...07#post1211407
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Horatio's post was two and a half years ago, though, so things may have changed.
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Originally Posted by Horatio
There seems to be some confusion as to the use of the dimensional ground ray in the final fight of the Task Force. Before Reichsman’s hit by the ray, he is in a phased state and is running a rather nasty debuffing aura. When he is hit by the ray, it “grounds out” some of his power and he returns to a normal state and his aura is shut down. This will persist for the duration of the fight. The dimensional grounding ray isn’t intended to be used at specific points in the fight; it should be used early on, and one hit will do.
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It's still the same.
When hit by the Dimensional Grounding Ray, it revokes those powers
Okay. (So Reichsman is listed in the "Soldiers of Arachnos" category? No wonder I couldn't find him in the City of Data...)
He probably had something like Unstoppable running which happened to wear off at the time we used the grounding ray again.
Then it's the same with the SF (the redside version of the TF), I assume?
10joy
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That only lasts for two and three quarter hours... if the fight is longer than that, another shot will have to be taken. |
Originally Posted by Tylerst
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Reichsy also has: Unbreakable and Unstoppable to contend with. When they're on, you may think that his Untouchable status is back and then be tempted to use the Grounding Ray again... but it has no effect. It's coincidental that god-mode powers wear off when you use GR again.
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No, he's under 5th column, it's only showing solders of arachnos because CoD doesn't have enemy groups in the dropdown and it's just defaulting to the first in the list.|
Originally Posted by Tenjoy
Okay. (So Reichsman is listed in the "Soldiers of Arachnos" category? No wonder I couldn't find him in the City of Data...)
10joy |
The same thing happens for many things that aren't in the dropdowns, like manually setting class and level in the url.
Example:
A level 54 Archvillain using brawl:
http://tomax.cohtitan.com/data/power...villain&lvl=54
Even though the info is correct, the dropdowns show Corruptor Level 1
Question in the title.
Finally got to run the Dr. Kahn Taskforce and see what a brick wall of HP the Reichsman is. Anyhow, the previous mission gives you the Dimensional Grounding Ray temp power to use on him.
So, what's it do? The detailed info is no help, it just says basically to use it on Reichsman. When we did the fight I started off nailing him with it and periodically re-applied it, but I can't really tell if it made a difference or not. Naturally, I'm curious.