Dispari

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The one thing I fear about Going Rogue is the number of tanker/defender/controllers who are going to be considered mandatory for RSF.

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You can't stop people from being stupid. There are people who swear that a healer is mandatory for ANY content, even if you have a team with a Tank leading who has 90% RES and 45%+ DEF. I know, because I've argued with them. Several times.

People are just going to stick with what they know. If they don't know any better than to throw Granite+Kin at every situation, they're going to continue to try and do that everywhere they go, including redside. But those are just some players. I tend to avoid any teams who call out for "Granite Tank" or "healer." I'll take any tank (even if the tank is a Brute) and any support set.

Personally, I'd rather throw a handful of VEATs at any problem I may have than go look for a Granite Tank with a pocket Kin.

Victoria Noir, the classy French assassin.

Now featured on her VV page -- not that I keep it up-to-date like Toma's.

Artwork once again done by Syrae-Universe at http://www.my-endlessimagination.net/

I'm probably going to start looking up artists in this thread and around the forums for pictures of Tomatre soon. But it's going to be at least two weeks, if not four. I have some other expenses I need to tend to.

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Stalkers are now a full fledged AT, instead of a crappy rip-off of Scrappers with the concealment pool. (oh, and don't forget the Patron revamp!)

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Solo, Scrapper damage looks like 118.125% vs a Stalker's 110% for base damage and crit rates.

In a team, a Stalker's damage can go up to 131% with crits, and still has the guaranteed crits in hide. The best a Scrapper sees is 123.75% against lieutenants or higher with the occasional 129.375% for tier 9s.

Yeah, if anything you're using less endurance now than you ever were before.

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I think the Titans always had those powers, they just didn't work properly before.

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Ding!

The tinkering with AI that we've been doing has caused some powers that previously NEVER got used to start showing up in the attack rotations.

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Any hopes we'll figure out why 100% of all custom critters that take more than 5 seconds to kill will spend the entire battle fleeing from my widow? I think it's from the recharge debuffs. No matter how many ranged attacks they have, they'll just up and flee and not fight back. Makes a lot of them easier than they should be, but also way more annoying.

It's not just the normal AI that makes some baddies run. I'm telling you it's absolutely 100% of any boss or higher rank custom critter, no matter what their powers are. They run every time, for the whole fight. They will only stay if someone has taunt powers. If I'm solo, every single boss runs.

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Hmm. I guess for the forum avatar it would have to be Impervium_Imp_With_a_Goatee_That_Means_He's_Evil.

I toyed with a Praetorian version of my Sonic/Sonic defender as a Sonic/Sonic corruptor, but it felt too much like playing the same powersets over again. (Neurophon vs Battlesong, btw).

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Since I already have a goatee, does this mean my evil version is clean-shaven?

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No. The evil you just has a goatee on his goatee.

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Nah, in Hindsight the devs just wish they hadn't made the epic pools for Heroes so *good*. Hence watered down Patron powers.

Maybe they'll Force Respec you? Maybe nothing will be impacted at all and you'll just unlock both blue and redside epic pools if you betrayed your side.

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Hey, I like Patron Powers >.>

Edit: And I think they will keep Villains with PPPs and Heroes with APPs. They would have to make 4 new epic pools for every AT (except PB/WS) if it wasn't like that, because heroes don't have PPPs and Villains dont have APPs at the moment.

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except scrappers, they'll only have 3 PPPs(Sry ghost widow fans!)

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And all three of them will have Focused Accuracy!

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At least I said a few things differently to add to what you said so it wasn't a total waste.

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I've been scooped already twice today. I gotta win sometimes!

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Yeah, expect PVP'ers to cry foul at this, what's left of them anyways. Super-powered level 50 enters PVP zone and own all the regular level 50. I don't see why the devs are so afraid to raise the level cap.

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They aren't "afraid," it's just a bad move for this particular game. Castle has said that players at level 50 are really powerful already. We're at a point where we can already do almost anything as far as powers, slots, and inspirations go. Giving us more of those things as level-up rewards would just make the normal game content silly.

Besides that, this game isn't built on a system that would allow for easy leveling-up past 50. Way too much of the game already "caps" at 50. This game isn't WoW where we can just tack on more levels. Tons of things in the game are "maxed out" at level 50. What would happen to all the signature heroes and villains who are level 50-54? The most powerful gangs in the CoH universe that cap out at level 50? What would happen to mothership raids? Purple IOs? Hami-Os? The game just isn't designed to handle a level increase.

Plus, what about all the people who are level 50? This is a game based on alting and having different characters. I know people who have 20 level 50s. They now have to take all those characters and gain 10 more levels? Yuck.

Nobody is "afraid" to raise the level cap. They just realize it's a dumb thing to do in this game. There are plenty of ways to add end-game content and give players stuff to do that don't involve increasing the number next to your name.

CF is the easiest place to find ALL the things needed for the mission. You can, however, kill Freaks on your trek through Bricks if you want. Once in CF, I tend to kill Rikti Monkeys and Devouring Swarms. Both are found in large groups, and are underlings so pose no threat.

Just as a note we got a couple more donations, bringing this week's total up to 232,000,000. Next CC will be sponsored by Fortified.

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That would be fun.

...I wonder what they're going to do about Accolades?

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I'm curious about that too. The +HP/end accolades and Magus are all really annoying to get heroside. So much so that I've never gotten them all because of the farming and time-investment required. Redside at least 3 of my characters have the full set.

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I think the problem (or cure) is with Went. I think it may be some kind of power suppression to prevent people in Wents from spamming powers (like AOE heals). When you get enough people in there doing all kinds of things it gets really annoying.

Tho the black market is far worse at times with this. Since you have all those PSW doms that fail to turn it off.

I noticed this effect on Boost Range on my Energy/Energy blaster. After WW it would no longer auto click, even after I left the zone. However hasten worked when I made that auto instead. Never went back into WW tho, so dunno if that woulda borked it as well.

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It doesn't have anything to do with power suppression at the markets. It's a known bug and it has something to do with zoning. i.e. when you zone, the power stops auto-firing, and doesn't start again until you enter combat next.

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It's not even that, because I can hit my button for "target nearest enemy" and it will trigger, even if there are no enemies to target and nothing comes up.

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I personally find going the perma Mind Link route to be pointless. Using just set bonuses with Foresight and Combat Training: Defense, I am at 42 to melee and ranged and with Mask and Manuevers im well over the cap.

There really is no expense involved in capping Night Widows sans Mind Link or Hasten for that matter.

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It should only take about 40% global recharge to hit perma ML, with Hasten cycling. And 20% of that comes from an auto power you already get anyway. It's not very expensive to perma ML.

And probably a better investment in the long run than slotting for defense bonuses with IOs. If you slot for +DEF bonuses, you can hit 45%. But if you slot for recharge, you can still hit 45%, plus have powers like Placate, Build Up, and your attacks all coming up more often. My widow is currently sitting on about 52% global recharge and loving it.

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* You would lose all your inf.
* It would have other costs associated with it. {Note: speculation included loosing all of your enhancements.}


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Honestly, these two things would be really stupid.

Nobody would be dumb enough to let it take their influence. They could just transfer to an alt before doing it. It would just result in complaints when people did it by accident.

Losing enhancements would be even worse. In fact it would punish people for actually investing time in their characters. The best candidates for side-switchers would be people who have no enhancements? Imagine if you had rare IOs or even purples, and the game tried to take them from you if you wanted to switch. That would be even more complaints from accidental switches.

Alternatively you could buy Halloween salvage to get another costume slot, but you may be looking at a mil or two for a full set.

Dispari's 11th Weekly Redside Costume Contest

Eleven is my lucky number. So it's neat that we got a whole lot of donations and attention today. We got 212,000,000 in donations total. 80m of that was used up immediately because we had double rewards! Of all the people who came out, we had a lot of nice people show up to donate. Hopefully next week will be as good!

Prizes:
1st: 20m
2nd: 10m
3rd: 5m
Runner-ups: 2m

Male Runner-ups:
Hexapoda
Static Mugg Shot

Third place:
Askarius

Second place:
Fatal Aura - level 1!

First place:
Zulrak Var'oun

Female runner-ups:
Unseelie Childe
Mistress Acacia

Third place:
Stab Happy Sally

Second place:
Captain Skadi

First place:
Eldritch Marvel

That's all for this week. I'm going to shoot for Saturday at 11:00 next week, to get some nighttime players. Maybe the week after I'll do something a little earlier. See you all then!

CC in one hour!

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Since Reichsman is the Axis Earth version of Statesman, is there an Axis Earth version of Ms. Liberty? and if so, what is her name?

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Reichbeitch?

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I nominate this for post of the year.

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can you cap def on a crab??? has anyone seen a crap tank ?? if its possible i would love to try it. that more my play style any way. i dont care how the crab legs looks as long as the build is solid.

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Prob can soft cap crab defense, at least for ranged. As for tanking, forget about it. They do some nice damage, and get a mix of defense and resistance with decent mez protection though.

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Forget about it? One of my friends has a soft-capped Crab with Tough for over 50% S/L resist and a good 40% for the others. Also has perma Serum for +80% HP. That's a crazy-durable character and has tanked numerous AVs for us across several SFs.

And if by "decent mez protection" you mean "mag 14.4 which only Tanks get; more than Stalkers, Scrappers, Brutes, Widows, and Banes," then yes.

Gaussian +2.5%
Steadfast +3%
Sprinkle recharge to get ML perma, with (easier) or without (harder) Hasten.
Use CJ or Hover (doesn't even need to be slotted).

My Widow sits on 47%+ DEF to all when hide-suppressed. It wasn't too hard to hit, or very expensive.

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The devs are never going to reveal what the objective criteria are. As soon as they do, someone will be doing something that comes within a hairsbreadth from the line they're not supposed to cross, the complain "I wasn't doing anything wrong!" when the hammer comes down on them for violating the spirit of the rules.

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Of course, without strictly spelling out the rules so that people can skirt them, people will complain that they're completely incapable of understanding how building a map called "FARM FROM 1-50 IN 20 MINUTES HERE!" is exploitative behavior, and rally for everyone to boycott the MA because the devs are unfairly banning people for no reason.

Or something like that, anyway.

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Wow, never expected this to get the huge response it has. To clarify....realistic in a comic book sense? I mean that personally I hate the "Up, up and away" feel of all those Siver and Golden age groups, and on blueside they are many! Then you look at the next possible set in themed or atleast in RP groups and you get either the tecnicolored ninja squadrons or the school girl /cat girl anime SG.

Not eveyone that has powers is out saving the world for the fame and glory. Not all super powered people go to hero high.

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Pardon my saying so, but you're asking for a realistic version of something fictional. You say "not everyone that has powers..." Well, that's fiction. If you want realistic, nobody has powers.

But in response to your question, only a couple of my characters are what I'd consider "Superman rank." Most of my characters are naturals. And all of my characters have some sort of inherent weakness or flaw.

The main problem with roleplaying weaker, natural characters is it works the opposite way for realism. It's hard to explain why my girl with a sword can withstand bullets or not evaporate when some all-powerful magician in Pocket D decides to zap her with fire.

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havent really loooked into the new booster..can anyone give a clue to some of the higher points of it?

theres a few threads on test section and people going crazy ..i gave up trying

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It's ten dollars and you get to be a transsexual.

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But... but... I can already do that! And I already did it! Quite a long time ago!