ChrisMoses

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We just received tech that will allow players to pass buffs onto certain powers (such as Blizzard).

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Blizzard apparently doesn't benefit from +dmg buffs applied to the user - so, Build Up, Aim, Fortitude, Fulcrum Shift, etc, don't do anything for it.

I could be mistaken, though.

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Thats exactly what it means. All "Summon" type skills that require a reticle can not be buffed from Self Buffs. Blizzard, Ice Storm, Trip Mine (I believe), Burn, etc. If it shows up in your Status Bar, then it wouldn't be affected by Build Up, I believe.

Fiery Embrace buffing Burn? Now you're talking.

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We're tweaking with toggle dropping...mostly decreasing its overall effect.

We just received tech that will allow players to pass buffs onto certain powers (such as Blizzard).

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Toggle droppign was a bit rough with the lowered defenses now, this coming from a PvP Toggle-Dropping Blaster Fool. I would make it that the Blapper punches only have a 75% Chance to drop one toggle for one of the punches, and a 50% chance on the other. So its possible no toggles will be dropped, and the Tank/Brute/Scrapper can do something during the fight, rather than re-toggling everything.

BUFFING BLIZZARD?!?!?! I thought this day would never come! I'm so glad I rolled another Ice Blaster now! (After having deleted my original at level 42).

Good job States.

Good to hear, its quite annoying.

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In order to incentivize larger teams, Positron is going to add a bonus to AV rewards!

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What kinda bonus you gonna add Posi? More XP? How bout some sort of super Salvage drop? Dual SO-type things? Special Inspirations?

Nice work States.

I enjoy the AVs, so I'll still be fighting them, but this is a great way to avoid getting stuck if teammate resources are unavailable.

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One thing I seem to remember from somewhere (and it's what my SR does) is that 4 slots in the toggle defense and 2 in the passive is more defense than 3 in the toggle and 3 in the passive. Basically what this does is it capitalizes on the higher base of the toggle to overcome the effect of ED slightly. You get more defense for the same slots spent.

If you're able to do this with your slotting, or sacrifice an Endurance Reduction in your toggles to do so, I would recommend doing it. Just for a heads-up, my SR has the 4 defense toggle/2 defense passive strategy with no Endurance Redux at all. He also runs Weave and Tough on top of it and I don't have endurance issues most of the time. The trick I did was I slotted most of my Martial Arts attacks with Endurance reduction. I'll see where I'm at on the Endurance front after I throw Focused Accuracy into the mix though.

That's pretty much all I have to say for getting the most defense for equal slotting. Of course, you can always slot more defense in either as it isn't technically wasted if you have excess slots, just the defense bonus will be pretty minor.

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That's interesting... the 4 in toggles, 2 passives being greater than 3/3... Guess that goes to show that the Passives really are weak... I guess 5 Def in the toggle would then put you below if you did 4/2?

Also, I was curisous on your plan to take Focused Accu... is this PvP motivated? Focused Senses also grants +Perception, and if FA and FS stacked, I believe thats +Percep through Hide/Stealth...

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Anyone know if the amount of WL Babies you killed last year (Without getting the badge) counts towards the badge this year? I'd be interested in knowing how close I came on a few of my heroes.

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I believe they do.

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Thanks Positron.

Anyone know if the amount of WL Babies you killed last year (Without getting the badge) counts towards the badge this year? I'd be interested in knowing how close I came on a few of my heroes.

So you're telling me if I placate any mob in a group, and see "Hidden" on my Status bar, even if say, two other enemies are swinging at me (And not connecting), then I can get a Critical on any of them, not just the one I actually placated?

If that's the case, 34 levels with that either not working for me, or me just not trying it enough.

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Ya know what gets confusing sometimes? Lets say you attack 4 enemies - you AS one, dead. You ET another, dead. You placate the 3rd - He can't see you anymore, but the other still can, yet in Status it says "Hidden", even if you are only hidden to that one guy.

Know what I mean?

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Your trying to think about it too logically... Instead of trying to think about who you are currently hidden to... Instead its simply a state that you exist within, using placate activates your hide powers.. You are either hidden, or you are not, at no point are you hidden to some and not to others..

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Sure you are...

In the situation I described, you are "Hidden" to one, but not the other. It says "Hidden" in your Status Bar, and one guy stops aggroing on you (He'll do the relaxed animation thing), but the other guy will still be swinging at you.

In essence - you are hidden to the one you placated, and can get a Critical on him. But the other can still see you - if you hit him, you will not get a Critical, and then the other will be alerted to your prescence.

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Can some explain exactly under what circumstances a stalker will not lose health when using Energy Transfer? I've been seeing some health losses when I shouldn't be losing health.

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If you have "Hide" status, you can get a critical hit with your powers. Energy Transfer's critical eliminates the Self Damage property of the attack. So, if you use Energy Transfer while you have the "Hide" status, ET will do no damage to you.

FYI:
Hide gives "Hide" Status.
Placate gives "Hide" Status.
Smoke Flash does NOT give "Hide" Status.

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Ya know what gets confusing sometimes? Lets say you attack 4 enemies - you AS one, dead. You ET another, dead. You placate the 3rd - He can't see you anymore, but the other still can, yet in Status it says "Hidden", even if you are only hidden to that one guy.

Know what I mean?

Its not over. Maybe whatever is supposed to happen on the 19th actually involves more about "Creeping towards Paragon City".

And I would love it if we got to actually smack around the "Gamester"... with a name like that, you know he needs it.

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Working on it.

Both Cryptic and NCSoft check the forums for issues (as in this case), so your postings are helpful.

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Thanks Recluse. You 'da man; the "Spider"-Man if you will...

Lets not dredge all of that up again!

CuppaJo in the now locked thread on Infinity "The Game is Afoot, and the Hour is Nigh" at 8:34 p.m. CST, 12/13/05:


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TPing someone into a tower IS griefing and you can be actioned for it.

*The More You Know Star Shoots Across the Screen*

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So there is your official word, for all of those that took the stance, "Its a valid tactic until a GM tells me otherwise".

I am happy this day.

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well I agree for the most part except drones should be having tp foe aura protection. i strongly would be against that, because those people who use tp foe into the drones wouldnt have much of a counter. it's always fun to find those lamers who tp people into drones, to tp them into a 8on1 beatdown

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TP Foe has a limited range, and requires a ToHit check. If you are close enough to the Opposing forces base to be TP Foe'd, it is your own mistake. The drones do not cause debt, so people that do it are not grieving. They are simply trying to cleanse the oppossing forces out of their base.

If that is not suitable, I'm fine with an entire TP Dampening field (Like in the Council and CoT Prisons) being put on the place. Sure, it would be a little bit of a pain for people with Teleport as their main mode of transportation, but they would only have to walk a few feet (Out of the radius of say, the +Perception boost now) to regain their porting abilities.

I like that Dampening field idea... if you've ever been trapped in their, you know that it interrupts all attacks susceptible to interruptions. That would stop the Sniping, the TP Foe-ing, and the Assassin Strikes while in one's base, their "Safe Zone".

I had this happen to me for an hour straight by two Stalker's in Siren's on Infinity today. The 3 Towers close to the Hero Safe Zone/Hospital - Villains TP Foe Heroes in there, and there is no way out, outside of a Teleport or death. I had it happen on my /Storm controller, when it had been made clear they could not kill me unless I shut off my Hurricane, yet they still did it.

Anyone who does this... its more grieving than a valid tactic, especially when its known that the Hero can't die in there.

Firstly, Drones need to be given a TP Foe Aura protection. Secondly, those Towers need to not be Reticle targettable.

Fix it - Petition those who do it. They do not want players taken out of their Safe Zones... it is grieving.

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I'm not sure if the size of his summons varies with group size. If it does, well, it's just stupid. [/color]

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I'm just going to confirm that, yes, the spawn size increases with team size... you list that you got an ambush of like... 12 with half bosses? On a 7-man team, that entire room filled completely. It was the most horrible thing ever. After one team wipe, we then spent 20 minutes just pulling as many from that room as we could. We ended up beating him just fine after that. That is a ridiculously hard final encounter though.

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Speaking of missing patch notes, I swear I downloaded an update this morning, but no patch notes on it? What's going on there?

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Its for the Holiday Surprise thing.

They don't want to spoil it. Notes will be up in the morning tomorrow I imagine.

In one of Velata Lunata's arcs (Before the mission "Defeat Rauscher and his men") you are given 2 Temp powers. 50 Shots from a Shotgun, and 6 Spirit Grenade things. Can anyone tell me if they autom atically go away upon mission completion/talking to the contact, or if I can keep them indefinitley?

I'd like to keep them, but if I can not, I'd like to use them all up before they're taken away.

Thanks.

Hey guys, a friend and I were hunting for these Ghosts tonight, and it was just frustrating. I was a level 39 Robo/Trap MM, he was on his lowbie Robo/FF MM. We tried all manner of things from TP Foe-ing them to the Traps to trying to lure them there with the lowbie... after many deaths, and many, many Ghosts either getting away or killed out of range, we stumbled upon a great area...

In a little enclave right on top of the Trap on the West side of the Ruins, at -3925, 264, -1225, the Ghosts run a patrol right on top of. We also had many spawn at that very spot, on top of the Trap spillover thing.

It took us about an hour to get 30 or so. We found that spot, and got the remainding 70 in a good 15 minutes.

Good luck!

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Did first respec awhile back, did 2nd last night. Took respec as reward for both, haven't used either. I am level 35. Went to Leery tonight, he has mishes available, haven't done any yet.

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I've done both Respec missions, used both, and he will not speak with me. I am level 35.

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OK, with 5 minutes remaining, a GM shows up, and completes it for me. I tell her the mission is missing the glowy, she doesn';t say anything, and then I get a Mission Complete.

But... I don't get a Temp Power, or Storyarc completion bonus, or SO. I ask her about this, and she says "Sometimes it happens". So I'm SOL on the Blackwand it seems. I hear it was cool too... Dammit.

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Just did this for a VG mate... He didnt get a reward either.

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You're saying his mission was bugged, and he had to get GM support to complete it? Or he could complete it,b ut still didn't get the Temp power reward?

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Did this last night with a VG mate myself, after 3 attempts... there was a damn behemoth portal in the middle of the corridor not far from the entrance... i died muchly, i dont know how anyone without a decent map/invis/PFF could do that mission.
anyway, he used his pff, i used combat invis and flew to the end room where there was a glowie and 2 portals (which started spawning and going for me ) my mate clicked the glowie and mission over. He got the blackwand, i got nothing, at all, nada.
so i think its bugged in that the person to click the glowie gets the temp power... and its one of the missions that doesnt give a souvenir atm.

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Sounds like if the Glowy WAS actually somewhere in my mission, and the GM found it, and clicked it, then she got my Blackwand... How nefarious. No wonder she sounded so amused. I was robbed by a GM Drone!

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OK, with 5 minutes remaining, a GM shows up, and completes it for me. I tell her the mission is missing the glowy, she doesn';t say anything, and then I get a Mission Complete.

But... I don't get a Temp Power, or Storyarc completion bonus, or SO. I ask her about this, and she says "Sometimes it happens". So I'm SOL on the Blackwand it seems. I hear it was cool too... Dammit.

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Just did this for a VG mate... He didnt get a reward either.

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You're saying his mission was bugged, and he had to get GM support to complete it? Or he could complete it,b ut still didn't get the Temp power reward?

OK, with 5 minutes remaining, a GM shows up, and completes it for me. I tell her the mission is missing the glowy, she doesn';t say anything, and then I get a Mission Complete.

But... I don't get a Temp Power, or Storyarc completion bonus, or SO. I ask her about this, and she says "Sometimes it happens". So I'm SOL on the Blackwand it seems. I hear it was cool too... Dammit.

Did you have to kill all, or just the altar?

I cleared the whole thing, couldn't find any glowies. Petitioned an hour ago, reset 3 times... I'm pissed.