Dispari

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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by BBQ_Pork View Post
    Just wait.
    You never know what the future might hold.
    I'm holding out hope. But I've heard that one of the reasons he's gone is that it's a pain to do his voice. Hopefully the fans can convince them anyway.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by The Grim Heaper View Post
    Agreed. We're all minions, but some of us are are like numbers 21 and 24. That rare blend of expendable and invulnerable that makes for a better henchman.
    Poor 24...
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill View Post
    The Codfish Avenger!
    What about The Codfish or Codfishman?
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by DumpleBerry View Post
    One AT being significantly better than all the other ones, that you have to unlock? That sounds terrible.
    It'd kinda be like if VEATs started at level 30 when you made one. You get an AT that could be percieved as being better than others, while also starting at a high level to avoid all the low level stuff.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mandu View Post
    Walk speed 3.09mph

    Time to achieve badge 323 hours 37 minutes 29 seconds.
    You could knock that out in two weeks worth of autowalk in a mission!
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by hedgehog_NA View Post
    I watch the server global channels. If I am on Infinity and see no activity for 1.5 hrs in an average evening, I am inclined to believe that we have lower server activity. Go stand at Imperious and watch how many fewer TF's are starting. The frequency of hami raids and Mothership raids.You can see for yourself.
    We're not making up our observations any more than you are. Many, like me, don't see the decline you claim is easy to see. I don't see any fewer people running mothership raids, or standing around at the market, or RPing in the D.
  7. Dispari

    Ninja Running

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
    Yeah, but we need them to be used in REGULAR travel, not just unenhancible, novelty prestige powers. That is to say, I want to see customizations of the ACTUAL travel powers, along with customization of our base run styles. Booster packs are good, but I'd like to see these added to the base game's base functions.
    Preferably something everyone has, like Sprint powers. I'd hate for them to add a cool run I want, only to hear it's exclusive to SS.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Moiread View Post
    Wow. Talk about limiting concepts with no explanation other than lack of imagination.

    Any powerset can be classified as any origin to better flesh out your character. That's why they gave us origins in the first place The only limits are the ones you place on yourself.
    I have a character that I have 5 versions of.

    Energy/Energy/Force Blaster
    Electric/Invuln Brute
    Radiation/Traps/Mace Corruptor
    Energy Melee/Willpower/Mu Brute
    Super Strength/Elec Armor/Mu Brute

    She's natural in all her forms. For her race, it's natural to be able to form and manipulate energy in a variety of ways. She can fly, she has super strength and super speed, and can form energy into all sorts of physical attacks (energy, radiation, electric) as well as use it to shield herself with forcefields or more solid energy barriers such as with Invuln. She's also a bit of a tech-head so she has a few gadgets and toys she throws around.

    I could still make more versions of her that are Martial Arts, Super Reflexes, Electric Blast, Devices, Fire Blast/Melee/Armor (hot plasmatic energy), Force Field, or Shield Defense (with energy/elec shield). I could even make her a human-only Peacebringer for the visuals. And if we ever get female minions, I could make her a Mastermind with groupies.

    And that's a very wide variety of sets, with just one character concept.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Carnifax View Post
    Why on earth do you want it fixed? It looks well cool.

    We need more escapees from Silent Hill in this game damn it!
    I thought it was intentional at first. From the front, those ears look like eyes, or nostrils. If you tilt the right way, the eye on her cheek looks like an eye with the ears being nostrils... I thought she was a weird rikti or some other kind of mutant until I saw the entire face on her side.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    And we know how that co-op ended

    EDIT: That reminds me - I have a feeling we might see that untargetable-to-targetable tech somewhere else in the game - it seems like a lot of work to have done it just for a one off event that ran for only a few hours.
    I doubt it was any complicated tech. Probably just a dev flicking the PvP zone flag on.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Master-Blade View Post
    ^ This

    Reason being.. Only Heroes can do the Hero arcs, and only Villains can do the Villain arcs. They aren't Co-op.
    I'm waiting to see what wacky antics are involved when I bring a home-grown villain over to blueside and try to do my Ouroboros introduction arc.
  12. In this particular scenario though, both values yield a minimum hit chance, so it wouldn't particularly matter.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mr_Hellcat View Post
    But where're we going to find another medicinal 2x4 that quickly?
    No, Pinkie!
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
    That settles that.
    In the immortal words of B_I, those don't count.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Jophiel View Post
    Well, you're welcome to that opinion. Personally, I did take several years off from the game and lost some names I had from back around launch during the name purges. I completely understand and have no ill feelings towards NCSoft nor whichever lucky folks snagged my abandoned names.
    Some? Or all? And another poster suggested that your names would even be genericed, meaning you'd either have to petition a GM and try to get the stuff changed which they may not do, pay for a rename, deal with having crappy names, or make new toons.
  16. Dispari

    Toggle question

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood View Post
    As for why it isn't exactly doubled, it's becuase of the way AAO works. It provides a static 12.5% damage bonus (as long as at least one enemy is in range) and an additional 6.875% per opponent (including the first one).

    When the power pulses it doubles up the buffs for a very short period however because the 12.5% damage bonus is tagged as not stacking from the same caster only one of the 12.5% damage bonuses is applied. (if you realyl want to get into the mechanics it actually attemts to apply a 12.5% damage buff for every enemy in range with onyl the first one counting)
    Yeah, was going to explain this but here it is. Toggles and some clicks like this are "frontloaded" with a certain amount so that the first target gives a rather large boost, and each additional unit after that gives a smaller amount.

    So the first target will give you somewhere close to 19.38% damage because of the frontloading, while the next one will push it up to around 26.25%, which isn't anywhere near double. But that also means you get better performance than the number of targets warrants at low numbers of enemies.

    When the flicker occurs and you get the overlap, it effectively doubles the number of enemies in range for the buff, which doesn't affect the frontload amount. So it doesn't quite double.
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Niviene View Post
    We still would like to find a way to implement it so the comments are viewable however we will not do it unless we find a way for those not interested in it to turn it off.
    Confirmed: Mods will bring rep comments back if and when it becomes possible.

    Suggested new topic: bring sexy back.
  18. Sounds like Arc got stuck in the TVTropes dimension sometime recently.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by firespray View Post
    1. The majority of the new powersets released recently have been 'natural' feeling ones (willpower, dual blades, shields). The only non-natural ones we've gotten are pain domination and earth assault, one of which is for only a single AT, and one is for 2, compared to willpower which is for 4, dual blades for 4, and shields for 3.
    In all fairness, all the sets you named were requested by players. The devs made a list of new sets that they were willing to make. Among the list were things like electric hammer, psi melee, and forcefield defense. The players chose dual blades and shields, with willpower slightly behind shield.

    You can hardly blame the devs for making too many natural sets when they actually left it up to players to decide, and players chose natural sets.
  20. Dispari

    Imps?Gun Drones?

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Maleficent View Post
    Technically I think Triage Beason and Oil Slick are classified as pets, but they are more limited. Controllers with Plant Control (primary) also have access to a Spirit Tree with +regen aura. It falls under that gray area of limited, stationary pets.
    As far as that definition goes, there's a TON of extra stuff that's tecnically a pet. Like Caltrops for instance. Though in the context of "helper" it's harder to distinguish. Is Triage Beacon more of a power... or a helper? In my definition I pretty much included pets that actually move and/or make decisions like which enemies to attack. A pet that's stationary and just pulses an effect isn't really a helper, I don't guess.
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    PVP IO Drops

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man View Post
    Per character. And it would be more like, "Kill target, alt, kill target, alt, kill target." Getting killed gets you two things: Jack and squat. And if Kurt Russell is to be believed, Jack just skipped town.
    No, I know that. I'm plotting ideas for farming with a friend where they kill and I alt.
  22. Dispari

    PVP IO Drops

    Is that by character or account? Could I get killed, alt, get killed, alt, get killed, and rotate like that?
  23. Let's make a deal to stop saying deal. Deal?
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironblade View Post
    Ah hah!
    I want my sword to have a cape! How about that?
    Only if my sword can have a sword and shield.