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Here's Arbiter Hawks post about how Pseudos are supposed to work within Dimension Shift.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...7&postcount=11

He's talking about Dimension Shift only here and specifically uses the word "pseudopets" so i'd guess the fact that other Phase powers do the same thing is a knock-on effect and the fact that true pets are affected the same way is some sort of oversight / bug.

Yeah, I know, but it's most likely that this change is related to the changes made to Shift (specifically the ones posted by Arbiter Hawk in the Dim Shift feedback thread where he mentions that pseudos now share their masters state)

I suspect it's an across the board change rippling from that (and which seems to be overzealous as the wording the Redname used seem to say that it was for Pseudos only). Hopefully it's not WAI since it makes no sense for a lot of other characters to force this change on them just for the benefit of one niche power like Dim Shift.

This 100%. I like the community feeling having separate servers generates, it's like each is it's own town with it's own populations and ways of doing things. I don't like the idea of lumping it all into one giant faceless city.

I've always been for the idea of Cross-server teaming though, possibly using Portal Corp as a means of jumping between "realities". But I'd accept just a purely mechanical way of doing it (ie join a team on a different server and be teleported to whatever map the leader is on)

I'm not sure to be honest. My NW isn't high end at all, middle of the road at best (frankenslotted mosly with a few set bonuses and one or two LOTG) and she's got excellent single target damage.

I think the difference is the ridiculous single target DPA attacks she has. I mean you get most of the attacks from Claws, which all have decent DPA, and then you get Lunge on top of it.

So I wouldn't say she's got better DPA than a scrapper, but it's very, very nice overall.

To be honest there's not much point trying to separate between the two, Forts sit somewhere between Blasters and Domis (and where depends on playstyle), and then get the aforementioned Team Buffs lobbed in on top.

Night Widows are again somewhere between a scrapper and a stalker in terms of playstyle (although in fairness the scapper/stalker playstyle gap has narrowed a lot recently). You do get the option of sticking some cone attacks on top of that too

Both are pretty fun though, especially with Dual Builds allowing to to flit between them.

All the SoAs get access to Tank and Brute APP/PPPs I think (or is it just the PPPs?). My Fort build has Gloom and Dark Oblit as well as Darkest night. Her NW alter-ego went with Mu (but honestly doesn't use it much)

I'm pretty sure that Wiki information is very, very out of date. Chain powers have been inheriting buffs & enhancements for around 10 issues now as far as I'm aware.

4 months isn't an unreasonable amount of time for a piece of development to stay in alpha/beta. Especially considering they only got around to fixing / updating the sounds this week. Their big mistake was letting it get seen way too early, thus resulting in this orgy of want.

I hope they learn from that and get better at withholding their secrets for longer going forward (but looking at the current leaks on beta I doubt it).

One of? How many 5 year old sons do you have?

Incidently my 5 year old made her first CoH character over the weekend. As a responsible parent I do have to complain about the amount of skin the default Witch outfit setting shows : "You're not going out dressed like that young lady". Quickly fixed and 'Nessa the Witch' was born (Nessa being the name of her imaginary friend)

So essentially when the Pet is spawned it uses it's base value, but then gets an enhancement / buff modifier from the caster which is basically any applicable Enhancement values + other buff values like from Power Boost.

That makes sense alright. I thought this was the case, but was confused by what I was seeing happening with Power Boost & Synaptic Confusion.

So why do people give out about some sets not getting much from Domination if it's made up by the fact they're casting the Controller versions at all times? Is it just a perma-dom thing?

No they won't

I will though, gives me another week to play my Domi before I have to roll my next Controller alt (if the entire city is going to be filled with staff wielding melee types I'm going to roll a Plant/Dark so I can stand well back and do my own thing)

And good afternoon, lazy bones. Some of us have done a full days work while you've been sleeping.

Pseudopets are the controller ones, for the most part. Certainly Ice Slick and Earthquake seem to be one and the same and I thought it was nearly always the case that Domis get Controller pseudos? Pseudos use their own modifiers (although I know from experience that Power Boost effects them so maybe I'm wrong here and misreading City of Data?)

For Arctic Air The "fear" effect is still there, at least the old fashioned one (ie Afraid, which is the run away one which was the original Fear effect). But Arctic certainly needs a Domination effect to make up for the shorter duration of the Confuses. An extra Domination dependent 30% of a mag 3 confuse for 2.98 seconds would be fair (although due to the way they'd work it'd actually be slightly different to other Domination effects in practice and be more useful against minions and lieuts rather than bosses)


As I've written elsewhere I'd make Flash Freeze far more available and useful by reducing the recharge and removing the delay and damage, making it a proper alpha move.

I'd also stick some -damage into Slick and Shiver, probably 10% apiece. Between the two they'd equate pretty fairly to the AOE -10% ToHit quake gets and the AOE -18% ToHit Dark can stack up. It'd also make them useful in AV fights to some extent.

I know Ice Slick is slightly better at making things fall over than Quake but it could still do with something extra for when it gets nullified or resisted.

I'm fairly sure that Controller Ice Storm has a 50% containment rate. It being a pseudopet doesn't really matter as it's a Controller specific pseudopet (in the same way Corruptors have Scourging pseudopets for their Rains).

Just checked City of Data and it still seems to be the case. Dominators get the same version, which I thought sucked until I looked further, it seems to be the Blaster version, but the Cold Damage also being Containment friendly.

For a cone loving Dark/Dark I'd probably take Frost Breath over Ice Storm though.

Overall I'd actually take the Stone epic personally, it's got some nice goodies (but the armour looks awfully usually)

No, incorrect. You have to answer them every time you log in via an IP Address which the server hasn't seen before for your account.

So yes, basically you're whitelisting IP Addresses.

I've been quite down on Ice but Ice/Thorns is fun. Arctic Air & the melee & melee friendly cone from Thorns is a nice combo, as are Thorntrops.

The main issue I have with Ice overall is how Domination unfriendly it is. Arctic Air should really benefit from Domination, Shiver should be given something and Flash Freeze should at least remove the damage and the delay. Ice Slick could also do with something.

One thing you could do is give Shiver and Ice Slick -damage debuffs (10-15% apiece?), say it's the frigid cold sapping peoples strength or something, and maybe weasel in some Mez to Shiver (say 6 or 8 second mag 2 stun, dominationable).

Also I'd love the holds to lose their -knockback (mostly to deal with locking down a boss on an Ice Slick without granting them 4-6 seconds of knockback protection).

The -Damage would be unique to the set which would be nice too.

This is pretty much why my Fire/Dark has Spring Attack, it's my "tp in and knock em down" opener.

The recharge on it is annoying but it just feels right for the character.

Still at 29 but I'm planning to take all 5 powers from the Ice APP, the Rains are decent powers and hopefully Hibernate + Ice Shield + Hoarfrost will go a fair way to keeping me upright. The Mu set looks to be a decent choice as well though, God mode power and a resistance armour, a decent AOE, a pet which can heal you and an End recovery power.

Sniff crotch?
Hump furniture?
Avoid b-a-t-h

Actually, assuming that a nice chunk of that 10% is active ingame and uses ingame channels like Help a lot (a reasonable assumption), 10% as a seed group for spreading information throughout the player base is pretty good.

Word of Mouth (or Word of Keyboard) is a pretty useful marketing tool.

We're getting Bag-Cat Assault in Issue 23?

Sweet.

It generally doesn't matter in terms of the internet. Basing a security system upon IP Addresses is/was a laughably pointless thing for them to do. It's pretty much meaningless given that they can and do change and are often shared in an organization where multiple machines are using one gateway.

Then going ahead and basing the security questions on the bog-standard ones banks have been asking for years just added to the Failheap really.

A pointless irritation, nothing more, but I suppose the web munkies can tell the suits they implemented a dynamic, multileveled security system (technically true)

The greatest part of the Failheap is whomever decided that forcing people to use the same password on the Forums and in-game was a clever idea. I hope that person was fired. From a cannon. Into the sun. Especially now considering peoples CCs are accessible ingame...