Carnifax

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Plus the PlayNC website is going to be down from 3pmish for maintenance.

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Hmm I wonder what that's for?

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Well that just kind of peeves me a lot, normally things in the EU work to an EU schedule unless it's a major Issue release which they need the devs onhand for so it kind of makes sense that they would wait.

Can't help but feeling the recent shakeup is also affecting this but that might just be my paranoid mind going into conspiracy theory mode <shrugs> and probably is.

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Servers in the EU work to an EU schedule.

But the EU Boards and Website servers are hosted in the US, for some bizarre reason. So we've to go by their timeframe.

Don't ask me why a company which constantly made a point of being seperated from its US counterpart, in the form of NCEU still had its servers in the US.

The Guide thread is still on the US Forums though.

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Great for those difficult AV fights, get someone to self-destruct for decent damage, then use the debt-free corpse to buff/debuff off of.

I'd almost be tempted to take Fallout on my Fire/Rad in antipication of lots of "ammunation" being easily available. I can always Mutate them back to life (and buffed too boot) afterwards.

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The video didn't show much of a body left... There might not be anything targettable to prevent just that. I can't believe that the devs would overlook such an obvious exploit.

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So how do you rez them so?

Hmmm. I've just realised the Power this pack gives is a great way to exploit / leverage Rise of the Phoenix, Fallout & Vengence easily and without debt.

Great for those difficult AV fights, get someone to self-destruct for decent damage, then use the debt-free corpse to buff/debuff off of.

I'd almost be tempted to take Fallout on my Fire/Rad in antipication of lots of "ammunation" being easily available. I can always Mutate them back to life (and buffed too boot) afterwards.

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Won't be buying this then.


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Oh go on, you know you want to for the eyes

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Yes. My robots could do with blinding themselves by projecting light out of the bits of their bodies where light is meant to go IN.

My Grav/TA cyborg has a laser-sight on his bow, like a sane person

By the gods that cossie is ugly. Maybe its the colours used in that link but it looks like a rejigged ExProto.

Won't be buying this then.

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Ahem... and then I log in with another toon just to see that the number of villains doesn't show anymore. Strange.

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What mission did they show in?

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i would take it since you lack aoe control with ill besides the horribly slow flash

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What about Spectral Terror? Fantastic AOE control, much better than Flash.

Unless you're fighting damn Nemises of course

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Whats up with Black Market? It's been broken for at least an hour today...

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US Server maintanence? Although usually GR posts if Wentworths is going to be affected.

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I always AFK when I hit the Exit Mission button, straight away. That way part of the time I'm away is downtime anyway as people decide what to do next.


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I bet that's gotten you killed a few times from ambushes!

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Meh. It's not like I'm great at staying alive anyways

If its a flying toon I tend to float straight upwards just in case. TPers are just left at the mercy of the game until I get back.

The worst is when someone calls to the door and you've to bail mid-mish. I hate doing that to people. Silly RL friends. Go away!

I always AFK when I hit the Exit Mission button, straight away. That way part of the time I'm away is downtime anyway as people decide what to do next.

People entering a mission and immediately AFKing can annoy me, especially if they take a while, after a few minutes I tend to start asking if they're back yet and so on.

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They don't stack from the same user. However, they stack from different entities in the sense that a Mercs/Traps MM, for example, could slot it into its pets, each of whom is a seperate entity that can proc it with their rifle attacks, and in Acid Mortar, which is also a seperate entity. All of these summons can stack the Achilles Heel proc with each other, and with the MM if he/she (for some bizarre reason) chose to take his or her AR attacks and slotted the IO in there.

Short summary: If you can slot this into pets, it'll stack with your own procs. But it won't stack from different powers of your own.



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Are you sure about this? Have you tested it? Last I'd heard it wasn't stackable at all, even from different entities

A lot of this stems from pre-IO days. Even with 6 SOs they aren't the I Win button they used to be (it used to be silly, nearly every mob held straight away).

With IOs though you can get decent Acc and maxed out Hold and Recharge on them now, well worth it in my opinion.

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The HEATS are well known as being two of the most difficult AT's to play. So difficult, in fact, that most people just give up and declare them "rubbish" or "broken". Of course, the simple truth is that they're neither of those things. They're just... Different.

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I don't know where this reputation for being difficult came from to be honest. Pretty easy if you ask me, at least Warshades are, and PBs don't seem any harder (if anything they seem less complicated).

My WS dies a fair bit (mainly due to wanting to stay in double-mired Squid form for one blast too many) but levels much, much faster than my Grav/TA ever did.

In terms of grindyness, late-blooming and painful to solo, especially at lower levels my Grav/TA was the toughest to stick with. Worth it post 26 though, every power from 26 onwards is great.

Although the sort of toons I've given up on are Scrappers and Tanks. I dislike wasting half my power choices on boring shieldy things and pressing 1-2-3 over and over again until something falls over.

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i love shape shifters, so i would like to see such a power implemented. But i agree it is techniqally difficult to get with the current engine. You could try (this is just a brainstorm) a mystique like character for a stalker, the hide is a form which makes you accept him (or her) so you shift constantly, again how this could be implemented in the current engine is a mystery for me!;-)

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Actually this exists ingame in one of the Faultline missions, where you get the Widow disguise (changes the character model) and Arachnos won't aggro to you.

Not sure if that applies to just that mish (in other words heavily scripted one-off) or to all Arachnos though.

The shapeshifting (changing character model) bit is already ingame though. There's the halloween eventy cossies as well (although they don't actually do anything ingame),.

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A wise man once theorized there should be a third degree to the concept of positive and negative reactions, specifically he was talking about the concept of YES/NO
Now the concept that he proposed was a third word with which to answer a question 'PO' is what he refered to it as.
So the system would go something like
Yes-I confirm
No-I deny
PO-While I am interested in what you are saying I need more information to make an accurate determination for myself. ie I reserve judgment but tell me more.
Having learnt of this a long time ago I find that I still find it useful in making decisions (Do I go round saying PO to people all the time, well no they just wouldn't understand me, but I do often then rephrase the concept into an understandable question)
I think what has caused the temprature to rise in this thread has been that Praf has misinterpretted my 'PO' like replies as 'NO' and become defense as he feels I'm questioning his validity, which is really not the case.
I thank those who felt the need to 'defend' me in this matter though I do feel somewhat that it was in a way unnecassery as I'm believe that I am well capable of holding my ground if necasery or retrearing if I believe I have more to gain by doing so.
But thanks again all I really have enjoyed our disscusions about the maths of tanking, though I reckon my brain is defentaly less agile than it used to be, and look forward to further interesting talks with you all.

*Note sorry can't remeber the name of the guy who came up with the 'PO' idea

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Eh?

Why didn't he just use "maybe"? Or "I'm not sure, let me check"

Isn't Po one of the Tellytubbies?

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I'm sitting here in Cologne, visiting friends who are going to be wed this weekend (I will be back in the office on Monday)...

I want to thank you all for your wonderful words and your votes for me. Saxtus: It is overwhelming - I have tears in my eyes. Thank you all!

Alas, this is the way of the world. I have a couple of days left until the final decision will be made and until then I will still be here for the City of Heroes Community.

However, if Fate decides that I have to take a different way, so be it.

Thank you all - over and over - I know now for sure that it this is something worth fighting for.

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Boo! Hope you stick around K, I always liked your bizarre interludes into threads, I remember your Reign of Terror over us fondly If fate does make you move on I know you'll find something else suitable!

And enjoy the wedding! Forget about it all until Monday and have a ball!

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Probably the same reason they know who is attacking the base before you reach them. Obviously once they know who you are they head off to the scattered weapons caches and pick up the appropriate weapons - why they don't head over when the group next to them starts taking fire is another issue.

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*BOOM* *SLICE* *CRUNCH* "Aaaarrgh, my blood. Stop punching out all my blood, hero*

Hellion 1 : "You hear something."
Hellion 2 : "Nah, probably a cat or something. Nice purple gun by the way."
Hellion 1 : "Thanks. I just had the oddest feeling I should bring it to work this morning"

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so can you just simply port powersets across from one side to the other?

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No, you can't. And that is not what they are doing. Power sets are being changed, to a greater or lesser extent, to make sure they are not overpowered on thier new ATs. They are clearly less worried about powersets being underpowered, since we got Electric Armor Stalkers.

Take the example of Regen. Since the number of hp/sec regenerated depends on base hp, if left unchanged this would clearly be better on a brute or tanker than it is on a scrapper.

This means they will have to do alternative versions before they proliferate this set. Which in turn means it needs more work, which pushes it down the schedual.

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Other examples include sets with lots of Placeables (like traps). To port them they sometimes have to create new versions of the placeable entities with correct stats for that AT to get them to work correctly (or, in the case of Masterminds not really bother for some reason ans instead tweak end costs or recharge times). Traps would be far easier to port to Controllers rather than Defenders, for this reason (controllers could use the existing entities with Corrupter costs).

Yes, usually I get a rich alt to fill the SG base with suitable SOs for levelling lower toons.

They really should let us trade between alts without ridiculous workarounds though.

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Wouldn't a Thermal make a more attractive healer, since it has... more heals?

And if you're going for group support then the only primary you'd ever need is Sonic Attack.

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Sonic or Ice would be decent choices alright, mainly so you can stick to single-target attacks to avoid excess aggro, provide decent attacks with good secondary effects and both have nice support / control tools in them as well in Stuns, Sleeps and Holds.

Rad is a fair bit more offenderish than thermal, but a Sonic/Rad is going to be a fairly decent "jack of all trades", very useful solo or on teams. Thermal is going to require teams a bit more.

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and my Warshade has 4 keybind files to himself I think, hehe

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Only 4? I've 8 (thanks to the 255 character limit), 5 are a chain of switch on shields binds.

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Main thing to bear in mind is not to use a folder name with spaces or longer than 8 characters as I found out a while ago that can stop binds working


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Hmmmm. I think you just solved something for me. One of my binds in the Warshade files refused to work properly and made me work around it. Now I think I know why.

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Thanks Carnifax, I figured it would be duration for the Holds etc but it's good to know that Power Boosted Smoke isn't totally going to waste (I've slotted for debuff, plus almost-double power boost should give me around 15%?)

Edit - oops, aren't percentages cumulative? So it'll be (roughly) slots +100%, Boost +100% = triple not quadruple effect? Shame.

Having said that I'm sure I don't fly twice as fast when I use Boost, so does it really give around +100% to the effect? It does accoring to Redtomax. Also I wonder, does the power boost affect to-hit for the 15 sec of Power Boost, or the full 60sec of Smoke? Hopefully the latter

Thanks again.

Cheers

G

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The full 60 seconds of Smoke as far as I know.

That's one reason Castle hates Power Boost so much, a Force Field defender or Controller can slap power boosted shields on a teamie and they'll last 4 minutes.

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Happy Birthday MC (even though i totally forgot )!

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Ooh, hello stranger!

Ain't seen you in yoinks!!

Happy birthday MC! Must be getting ancient now