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  1. Draeth Darkstar
    You must have six-slotted that video with the Very Rare Stun set, because I am Absolutely Amazed (ba dum tish) (yes, I know that was awful).

    You did a better job of making me want to play First Ward than any of the developers did, too, by the way.
  2. Draeth Darkstar
    You aren't actually BUYING tokens, you just GET them for buying points.
  3. Draeth Darkstar
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by LeoninProtector View Post
    During development of Going Rogue, Positron stepped down as Lead Designer to work full-time as the leader of the Incarnate Strike Team. After the launch of the Incarnate System, he resumed his mantle. (IIRC)
    I would love a red comment on this, because I don't recall any announcement of it or any such a thing, and the wiki currently has Positron listed as "working on Game Design" and War Witch as "Lead Designer." Official confirmation one way or the other would be nice.
  4. Draeth Darkstar
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Freitag View Post
    Matt “Positron” Miller
    Lead Designer
    City of Heroes
    I'm confused... is Positron the Lead Designer again, or is this an error? I was under the impression that War Witch was the current Lead Designer.
  5. Draeth Darkstar

    Facts on MARTy

    POST-ACTION

    The facts:
    1. It hasn't been tested on the Live environment yet.
    2. The players are never intended to be able to reverse-engineer the exact parameters that trigger it. Expect results to be vague at best.
    3. On the Beta environment there was, I think, one person claiming to have triggered it, using an AE farm.
    4. Zwil's posts indicates that, yes, it is intended to curtail maximum leveling speed. I believe he used the term "trivial amount of time" to describe what they don't want.

    This almost certainly means the "CEBR" movement 1-50 in 6 hours is dead. I would personally venture to guess that hitting 50 in the span of 20 hours is probably also dead, but that's not what you asked, I suppose.
  6. Draeth Darkstar
    For the slow-and-steady approach, there's not much that a prepared and well built Mastermind can't handle. That said, a lot of this game is about speed-this and speed-that, and the archetype really falls apart in a lot of ways when you're rushed and forced to ignore enemies.

    For a character capable of doing pretty much whatever? Top end Brutes are pretty ridiculous. I'd personally probably pick a Dom or Controller over one though, but that's more because I like the ability to manipulate a battlefield more than SMASH.

    That said, this is kind of a silly question to ask about this game. A lot of the fun for me is making and exploring new characters.
  7. Draeth Darkstar
    I was actually sort of thinking about a Traps/Beam Defender over a Beam/Traps Corruptor. I've heard that the damage difference only tends to average in the order of 10-20% favoring the Corrupor, counting Scourge, and Traps on a Defender has 6.6% better -Res debuffs per Acid Mortar, which can be triple stacked if I'm not mistaken. That should, in theory, do a lot to make up the damage difference. I'm also fairly certain the damage on Trip Mine is the same on all ATs, which does more to slant the set in favor of Defenders.

    Thoughts?
  8. Draeth Darkstar
    Elec/Time Controller.
    Definitely considering a Beam something (maybe beam/energy or beam mental Blaster, or traps/beam Defender)
    Also considering a dark/dark or dark/mental or fire/dark or... something... dark... Blaster.
    Ugh. New powers and proliferations in the same issue make my altitis explode.

    Edit: As much as I love Masterminds, a word of warning for anyone considering a Time MM: One of the biggest draws to the powerset is it's insane +recharge buffing, both targeted and personal. Those aspects are hugely wasted on a Mastermind - your pets can't benefit at all from Recharge buffs, and most Mastermind builds don't personally benefit from global recharge to nearly the extend that other ATs do, either.
  9. Draeth Darkstar
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dromio View Post
    This is poor. If Paragon didn't KNOW that was the way it was going to work, then they shouldn't have been "sharing" it as a certainty with players. This is real money stuff here, not virtual currencies, and anything dealing with subscribers' wallets should be treated cautiously. I hope anyone that changed their sub to get those tokens can still change back, or get refunded.
    This is my big issue here as well, except that I already paid for another year of sub time based on this misinformation (I'm being generous here by not calling it a lie, point blank).

    And refunds? Yeah right. The only refund I've ever gotten for an MMO subscription was from a game that got permanently shut down, and even that took a lot of work. It's a pipe dream to think anyone will get their $140 back because of this, sad as that may be.
  10. Draeth Darkstar
    Sort of dropping the ball on that "we care more about our veterans than potential new subscribers," bit.
  11. Draeth Darkstar
    For a character actually capable of doing stuff when not AFK, I cast my vote for WP tanker. Mine can afk in groups of +4x8 as long as they don't have -def or -regen and never die, and I didn't use any purples or PVP IOs in his build at all.
  12. Draeth Darkstar
    I'm actually pretty impressed at the dedication being put into getting the Mac issues ironed out as quickly as they are. A second publish within a week of launch to fix the remainder of the problems should be good enough for anyone.
  13. Draeth Darkstar
    Dual Blades is way better on a Scrapper than a Brute. The set is heavily dependent on the +damage from Blinding Feint and that is basically worthless on a Brute's low base damage.
  14. Draeth Darkstar
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ultimus View Post
    That sucks for Mac users but there is a reason some call it Macintrash. Macs aren't for gaming and that is one fact. The majority of games are built for Windows.

    Macs are for photo editing and other type of editing software. It is the best at it. Personally, if I were a graphics designer, music composer, etc, I'd be using a Mac.
    This is actually many many years an outdated belief.
    PC hardware is equivalent-to-better than Mac and has been for years, at a substantially better cost-to-performance ratio to boot.
  15. Draeth Darkstar
    Decided to find as exhaustive a list as possible of the benefits of being a VIP to assuage the naysayers.

    Courtesy of ParagonWiki:
    Quote:
    VIP Exclusives
    • Access to Incarnate content, powers and drops.
    • Access to VIP Server
    • Monthly Stipend of Paragon Points
    • Ability to Create or Moderate Global Chat Channels
    • Create Supergroups
    • Edit Supergroup Bases
    • Ability to access Tier 9 VIP exclusives within the Paragon Rewards Program
    • Post on the Official Forums
    • Priority Server Queueing
    • Premium In-Game Customer Support

    Included
    • Immediate Access to 10 Archetypes (Blaster, Brute, Controller, Corruptor, Defender, Dominator, Mastermind, Scrapper, Stalker and Tanker)
    • Access to Epic Archetypes: Peacebringer, Warshade, Arachnos Soldier and Arachnos Widow Archetypes (once unlocked)
    • 150+ Power Sets
    • 12 Character Slots on each server
    • Create costumes from billions of combinations
    • Play as a Hero or Villain from Level 1 to 50
    • Play in 50+ different game zones
    • Join Supergroups
    • Access all Communication Channels
    • Inf cap of 2 Billion per character
    • Player-to-Player Trading
    • Reward Drops including small, medium and large Inspirations, Training (TO), Dual-Origin (DO), Single-Origin (SO) and Special Enhancements
    • Ability to earn Reward Merits
    • Ability to earn Vanguard Merits (subject to Prerequisites)
    • Invention License
    • Mission Architect License
    • Auction House License
    • Alignment system access
    • Praetoria access
    • Praetorian Character Creation
    • Going Rogue Power Sets: Dual Pistols, Kinetic Melee, Electric Control, and Demon Summoning
    • Going Rogue Costume Sets
    • Ability to buy anything from the Paragon Market
    • Read the Official Forums
  16. Draeth Darkstar
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Captiosus View Post
    1 signature story arc would matter if there's a new arc every month, but there's no way that's going to be the case.
    That is going to be the case actually, it's been said numerous times.

    VIP status also gives you access to things you can't buy: Incarnates.

    Additionally, it's a monthly 'license' purchase for Premiums to get IO access, Market access, and AE access (and rewards) until certain points in the Paragon Rewards shrubbery.

    VIPs also get an upgrade to 550 points per month somewhere in, IIRC, tier 8.

    VIP also includes 6 ATs unlocked, $15 apiece (that's six months of sub time), four of which never get unlocked by the Shrub. All the Going Rogue content (including 4 powersets) which I haven't even bothered to total in points (but it's a lot). Access to some new powersets for free (Time Manipulation for now). Access to all the new First Ward content for free. Access to two of the new costume sets for free. Access to the VIP tier of the Shrub. There's a lot to the subscription that you aren't counting here, and this is by no means an exhaustive list.

    By the way, the rewards for completing those sig. arcs are sick.
  17. Draeth Darkstar
    To the people accidentally vendoring stuff:
    If you send in a support request with the name of the character, the server, the item (as exact as possible, I.E., a [Level] [Set] [Bonus Types] Recipe and the approximate time of your error, they should be able to help you with item recovery (note that this does have a 'statute of limitations' per se... it's best to do it immediately if you expect any kind of result. Otherwise you're pretty likely to get a 'we can't go back that far into the data logs' response).
  18. Draeth Darkstar
    Bump for day 4 of hoping.
    I would really appreciate any time anyone would be willing to invest in build review.
  19. Draeth Darkstar

    Scrapper or Brute?

    POST-ACTION

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Moonlighter View Post
    The Brute's extra health is very noticeable. In most cases I'd go Brute. They level better, they are much more survivable, and in secondaries where their specialty resistance can max they are much better at farming.
    ...
    You should include some stipulations about sets with pseudopets or built-in damage buffs providing more benefit to Scrappers than Brutes, such as Elec Melee (Lightning Rod), Kin Melee (Power Siphon), Dark Melee (Soul Drain), Dual Blades (Blinding Feint), and Shield (Against All Odds and Shield Charge).

    Damage buff powers are largely desaturated on Brutes because so much of their total damage comes from Fury, their base values are fairly low.
    Pseudopets are strictly better on Scrappers because they have damage caps of 400%. I believe this even applies to Burn, but Fiery Aura being resist based doesn't do Scrappers any favors with that set.

    At the very least you should include an "if you want to play Shield Defense, go Scrapper" line, because that one stacks both mechanics against the Brute.
  20. Draeth Darkstar
    Just realized I forgot to post the Data Chunk as well as the link. Sorry!

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  21. Draeth Darkstar

    Fire/SD question

    POST-ACTION

    I'm no expert (I actually have an open thread a few down asking for help with Fire/Shield myself) but just an initial couple observations: You have more ranged and melee defense slotted than you really need and could probably get some more helpful bonuses by changing some things around there; also, if you really want Hasten, drop Super Jump for it, you can get by with sprint and ninja run fine (and ninja run looks awesome with a shield anyway).
  22. Draeth Darkstar
    Was the name 'Animorph'? Because I'm pretty sure that's copyrighted. XD
  23. Draeth Darkstar

    Fiery Embrace?

    POST-ACTION

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by SinergyX_EU View Post
    Proc basicly is unrelated to the chance of getting such, it merely is a 'procedure' (several meanings of it differ, but boil down to the same thing) of something that can occur. By default indeed its often used with a 'small' chance of getting such.
    Possibly the original meaning, or at least an old one, of the term PROC is Processed (or Programmed) Random Occurrence, so it is no mystery why people are confused by the idea of non-random procs, as the term pretty heavily carries that connotation for a reason.
  24. Draeth Darkstar
    I was personally thinking EM/Fire brute for biggest orange number on one guy, but also not a scrapper.
  25. Draeth Darkstar

    Willpower Slotting

    POST-ACTION

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by DoctorWhat View Post
    Not quite. Fireball has three tags on it, AoE, Fire and Smashing.
    Sorry, but you're patently wrong.

    Look in game at the detailed information on Fire Ball. Second section, below the Effect Area, it lists Attack Types. These are the defenses the power checks against. You'll note Fire Ball only checks against Fire and AoE. This isn't unusual either, for example, many psi damage powers only check against the Psi tag, not the position of the attack.