Zombie Man

Ebil-o FTL June-21 & Feb-22-2010
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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Blue Rabbit View Post
    This post is seven shades of Westley crazy.

    Also, eschew obfuscation.
    I extirpate your hegenomical proscriptivistic deontologicalism!
  2. The current calendar begins with the year 1, not 0. That means year 10 was part of the first decade. This means that 2010 is part of the 'aughts' and not part of the new decade.

    Happy New Year of Internet Pedantry!
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Twisted Toon View Post
    Just yesterday I saw (in my Events messages tab)

    The Ghost ship appear in Independence Port.

    The Ghost ship appear in Independence Port.

    The Ghost ship disappear from Independence Port.

    The Ghost Ship disappear from Independence Port.



    I think that maybe, there might possibly be more than one Ship ghosting around Paragon. Or else it was beside itself with joy because it got its Holiday wish...

    It could be worse....

  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
    Wow, you got four people to answer to that horrid excuse for a cheesy pun.

    Good job!
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Eisenzahn View Post
    You may feel free to use written language with whatever degree of imprecision suits you....... I can't imagine why I should care enough about your words to attempt to interpret their intended meaning.
    Five!
  5. Here's a vid of my set up.

    I put the main city zones by level and paired them with the hazard/secondary zone that's associated with them.

    Atlas - Hollows
    Galaxy - Perez
    Kings - Pocket D
    Sky - Faultline
    Steel - Boomtown
    Talos -Astoria
    Independence Port - Terra Volta
    Croatoa - Striga
    Founders - Eden
    Bricks - Crey's
    Peregrine - RWZ (Rikti Crash Site used to be off of PI)
  6. Zombie Man

    Vet Rewards

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rajani Isa View Post
    Nope. While it doesn't always get updated to the NC Account page in a timely fashion, the website has always had them as soon as announced, and nothing so far.

    Not sure about any badge titles from the data diggers though.
    69 Month is "Are You Still Here?"

    72 Month is "Your Estate Hasn't Canceled your Cards Yet, Right?"
  7. I believe the mission is still bugged. Snaptooth dives into the ground and comes back up an untouchable friendly EB. You can't kill him and thus, the mission can't be completed.

    That was this summer. Haven't seen a Patch Note saying it's fixed.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Katie V View Post
    Only one of them actively buffs you, but the 322958 map has FF/Ice allies with Dispersion Bubble, a passive buff that stacks -- and the map has enough allies to stack to the defense hardcap if you're anything but a tank.

    Without the allies, it makes for an interesting exercise in juggling for my Plant/Storm controller. With them, it's borderline exploitative.
    Ah...

    That explains it.
  9. You can go to the Shard and pick up the Fly Pack and use it for short bursts of extra speed.

    Or, buy the GvE edition and get the jump pack which will give your Hover near flight-cap speeds for 30 seconds at a time.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zikar View Post
    "Alot" should be a word.
    You'd be a lone in that assessment. I can not figure out why.


    Quote:
    Originally Posted by RiOTWRAiTH View Post
    i think people need to stop sphincter-clinching over other peoples spelling and typing. when erudite psudo intellectuals begin looking down on people because they have better things to do than use spell check, it makes me feel like people are going out of their(the're/there) way to make themselves look better by trying to make me look worse
    its your interernet, you can do what u want with it.please grant me the same courtesy(sp?).
    were not all such cunning linguists.
    Wow, you got four people to answer to that horrid excuse for a cheesy pun.

    Good job!
  11. You might have a bigger boost with a Solid State Drive: Anand says...

    In about two weeks, I'll be getting my new rig (already ordered) that has a SSD as the boot drive and will be the home to CoH. I'll let you know how it goes.

    BTW, it's a bit more expensive solution.
  12. Well, it's Quickness on top of normal EB/AV speed which is pretty fast. If you've ever had an EB/AV as a companion/pet in a mission it's surprising how fast they'll move to catch up to you.

    Synapse, OTOH, is literally a blur. Mostly because he has a unique trailing blur aura (just like... <.<. ... .>.> The Flash).

    He's kinda funny to watch especially when he does things like go up a building fire escape and you see that blur zig zag up a building. And he does it with such precision and no halting in pathing... so why can't slower critters have just as good pathing?

    In Castle's MA arc, if you agro Synapse at the top of the set of double stairs and you turn left into the landing mid-way, Synapse zooms right by you since he's slightly airborne at that landing and can't alter course until he lands at the bottom.

    And... Synapse doesn't have any jump powers, so my MM stays on the top of a rack out of sight and sends the pets to kill him as he's zipping around trying to find a path to me.

    Synapse is funny.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Silverado View Post
    Crimson has Super Speed too
    Nope. He has Quickness.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Sailboat View Post
    I don't have Mids, and the long history of people getting erroneous information from Mids and basing their thinking around it (Phalanx Fighting, for one recent well-known issue) would lead me not to use Mids for this sort of information even if I had it.
    Except that Mids is 100% accurate in this regard. I've double checked Mids' info with City of Data and real in-game testing looking at real numbers.

    Mids was off on Hover after Castle boosted the base speed of Hover, but that is now correct.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Sailboat View Post
    We've discussed flight speed caps before, and as I understood it, the general conclusion was that two slots in flight (the base plus one) and the base slot in Swift, all filled with SOs or better, will cap flight speed.

    Can anyone tell me what total percentage enhancement caps flight speed? If I knew that, I could pick a given level of, say, Blessing of the Zephyr set and/or additional increase from set bonuses and arrive at the same flight speed cap by accumulating an equivalent percentage of flight enhancement.
    Base Fly Speed is 14.32 mph. Cap at 50 is 58.63. Therefore, to hit the cap at level 50 you need an extra 44.31 mph speed which is a 309.43% fly buff (in addition to base speed).

    Unenhanced Fly at level 50 provides a FlySpeed buff of 215.5%. The buffs in Fly break down as so:

    • FlySpeed +1.365 for 0.75s If NOT on a PvP map
    • FlySpeed +0.8 for 0.75s If NOT on a PvP map [Ignores Enhancements & Buffs]
    • FlySpeed +1 for 0.75s [Ignores Enhancements & Buffs]
    • FlySpeed -1.01 for 0.75s [Ignores Enhancements & Buffs]
    So, unenhanced Fly gives you 215.5% FlySpeed Buff which means you still need (309.43 - 325.5 = ) 93.93% FlySpeed buff to hit the cap.

    If you put a level 50 IO FlySpeed in Fly, it's FlySpeed buff (215.5%) is increased by 42.4% for only the enhanceable part of 1.365%. That brings Fly with a level 50 Fly IO to a total of 273.38%. And that gets you near the cap: 309.43 - 273.38 = 36.05% more FlySpeed buffs to hit the cap.
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Doomguide View Post
    Well while you can certainly wait them out or deal with the problem readily enough other ways >>> rikti drones, PP doing their MoG thing etc. come to mind. There is a certain satisfaction in having one toon that can just giggle and pound the snot out of them rather than "whiff, whiff, whiff"
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by NeverDark View Post
    According to Surveillance, even con Rikti Drones have somewhere in the realm of 30% defense. Add that to the effects of the purple patch, and it's not unusual to find yourself floored against them. Night Widows also have considerably high defense, which they always stack with their obscene Smoke Grenades. PPD have those completely broken Flashbang Grenades, which are something like 44% debuffs.

    When either defense or -toHit is present in NPCs, it tends to be pretty high. And the effects of the purple patch can be pretty steep, especially when the player doesn't have the enhancements to deal with it.
    Just FYI: Rikti drone have no special DEFENSE v. AOE. Use AoE against them and they burst like fireworks rather quickly.
  17. One solution to the revamp-is-as-much-work problem is to clone the zone, and revamp the cloned zone leaving the original in place.

    The revamped zone could then be from some other dimension. Or, the revamped zone could be the new Primal Earth zone, but the legacy version is accessible through a dimensional portal. This would allow the devs to create a hero and a villain version (a la Ouroboros) or a co-op version.

    And so, no legacy assets would be lost but there could be new zones that complement the story of an existing zone.

    There's no reason why we can't visit the old Faultline or Rikti Crash Site as they exist on another dimension.

    There's no reason why the Shard can't be cloned and the cloned version accessible to villians (with FBZ a non-entry point).

    After all, Peregrine Island was cloned so that villains would have access to Monster Island (and the rest of the city was walled off).
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
    Try uninstalling the parental controls of CAIS, others on the Internets have reported it causing problems with gaming.
    Any luck with this?
  19. Check out this thread, Common Solutions & Posting Guidelines


    Then post the results of these two programs:

    • CoH Helper - it will show us basic computer settings and your CoH configuration.
    • HijackThis - it will show us what's running on your computer concurrently with CoH. Click on "Do a system Scan and save a logfile." It will automatically open up Notepad and put the info there. Make sure Wordwrap is off in Notepad (Format > Wordwrap unchecked) before you cut and paste here.


    Try uninstalling the parental controls of CAIS, others on the Internets have reported it causing problems with gaming.
  20. Zombie Man

    CoV: RWZ

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Silverado View Post
    I know, I was just being cute by taking it out of context and adding the rest of the things they agree to hate on
    Awww. That's adorable!
  21. The AI is supposed to be that if you have more than one friendly buffer, only one of them buffs you.
  22. Zombie Man

    Slot my Fluffy

    Level 32: Dark Servant Damage Boost
    • (A) Cloud Senses - Chance for Negative Energy Damage: Level 30
    • (33) Cloud Senses - ToHit Debuff: Level 30
    • (33) Cloud Senses - ToHit Debuff/Endurance/Recharge: Level 30
    • (33) Cloud Senses - Accuracy/ToHitDebuff: Level 30
    • (34) HamiO:Endoplasm Exposure
    • (34) HamiO:Peroxisome Exposure
    ------------
    Set Bonus Totals:
    • 2.25% Max End
    • 6.25% Enhancement(RechargeTime)
    • MezResist(Confused) 2.5%
    • MezResist(Held) 2.5%
    • MezResist(Immobilize) 2.5%
    • MezResist(Sleep) 2.5%
    • MezResist(Stun) 2.5%
    • MezResist(Terrorized) 2.5%

    ------------
    Dark Servant Enhancement Stats
    • Accuracy: 55.05%
    • Damage: 33.3%
    • EndDiscount: 17.4%
    • Recharge Time: 17.4%
    • ToHit Debuff: 43.97% (44.41% pre-ED)
    • Hold/Immob: 66.6%
    Note: Clouded Senses is the only Damage Proc to use because it's based on ToHit Debuff and every power the DS uses has ToHit Debuff. If you use a Damage Proc that's from a Healing Set, it will only go off when the DS uses Twilight Grasp.

    If you have a lot of ACC from elsewhere, then change the Acc/Mez HO to the Dam/Mez HO.




    ================================


    Level 32: Dark Servant Tank

    • (A) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff: Level 35
    • (33) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff/Recharge: Level 35
    • (33) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff/Recharge/Endurance: Level 35
    • (33) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff/Endurance: Level 35
    • (34) HamiO:Endoplasm Exposure
    • (34) HamiO:Endoplasm Exposure
    ------------
    Set Bonus Totals:
    • 5% Enhancement(RechargeTime)
    • 12 HP (1.5%) HitPoints
    • 2.5% (0.04 End/sec) Recovery

    ------------
    Dark Servant Enhancement Stats
    • Accuracy: 66.6%
    • EndDiscount: 41.29%
    • Recharge Time: 41.29%
    • ToHit Debuff: 56.08% (60.5% pre-ED)
    • Hold/Immob: 66.6%
  23. Zombie Man

    Slot my Fluffy

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by UberGuy View Post
    Hm. I seem to recall Tomax showing his damage effects being flagged [Ignores enhancements and buffs]. Either I misremembered that, or it's changed, I'm not sure which. I noted it quite some time back, definitely before I9.
    I tested this this past July:

    I tracked a DS's damage with and without a HO: Damage/Mez. The Damage HO had no effect on the amount of damage done by Chill of the Night. But it did affect Tenebrous Tentacles.

    Tentacles only does about 18 points of damage. So slotting for damage will bump that to about 35, or 46 if their on a Tar Patch. Since it's a cone that is balanced around hitting 5 foes at once, then that's 130 points of damage if optimally used, or, about 70 if not slotted for damage.

    If you're running Assault, then that's 154 points of damage optimally cast and slotted and 83 points without slotting.