Fleeting Whisper

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  1. Fleeting Whisper

    Targeted AoE KBs

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
    neither is punching a person from seven feet away, so I'd rather keep the utility over the realism.
    I don't know about you, but my real name is Reed Richards.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by GuyPerfect View Post
    Incidentally, you've correctly omitted the serial comma in the thread title.
    But even as your linked article points out, whether a serial comma is acceptable or not varies by media, reader, subject, and the color of a frog's leg hair.

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    Originally Posted by Rajani Isa View Post
    people who confuse a winged unicorn with a pegasus.
    That's 'alicorn', thankyouverymuch!

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by CaptainMoodswing View Post
    That is probably true. It's still no excuse! Homonyms are not interchangeable, dag nabbit!
    :P
    What about for depicting accents in dialogue?
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Vega View Post
    Seriously, If they hated villains then they would hate money. I doubt that is the case, so please drop this stupid devs hate villains crap. It's old, tired, untrue, and makes people think that CoV is second rate, when it is really superior.

    And to Quote Back Alley Brawler, they are the same damn game.
    Pretty sure BAB has said it in jest, just like GG

    Lighten up. "Devs hate ________" (usually "villains", but occasionally it changes as appropriate) is a board meme. Live with it.







    ...







    Devs hate Vega.


    >.>
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Sailboat View Post
    the long history of people getting erroneous information from Mids
    Eh? With few outliers, the only problems Mids' ever has are due to being out of date, since it's a third-party application. Considering the changes to flight are pretty old now, and Mids' is up to date, this assertion is silly.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by UberGuy View Post
    A prime example of a primary debuff powerset where the debuffs all self stack is Dark Miasma. The only debuff in that set which can't self stack is Darkest Night, which is a toggle, for which the concept of self stacking is mostly nonsensical.
    Howling Twilight only theoretically self-stacks its debuff. At the recharge cap, HT's recharge time is equal to the debuff duration. Add in cast time, and it's impossible to stack.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by SaintNicster View Post
    If you are specifically looking for the emote animations, the vast majority of them were copied to the ParagonWiki before his site shut down.
    It's only "Vast Majority" if you're counting the animations using Mantid and the animations using Ghost Widow. If you're just counting the emotes he had on his animated emote guide, then it's actually "All", not "Vast Majority". I asked him if I could transfer his animations to Paragonwiki when I found out he was leaving and that his site would shut down. After some discussion with other Paragonwiki editors, I uploaded the Ghost Widow animations in preference to the Mantid animations, filling in with Mantid when the GW version was missing.

    Along with the emote animations from Mantid, I also added an updated CoH Size Chart (along with detail images) which Mantid created. Eabrace also uploaded Leveling.gif, also created by Mantid:


    I've also added a number of emote animations to the Emotes page of Paragonwiki which weren't in Mantid's guide (either because the image was missing from his directory, or because the emote was released after Mantid stopped playing).
  7. Fleeting Whisper

    Slow stacking

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    Originally Posted by Aggelakis View Post
    A few powers, like Freezing Rain, are flagged not to stack with themselves from the same caster
    Bad example. The "caster" for the debuff from freezing rain is a pet; if you cast Freezing Rain a second time before the first wears off, you've got two pets: two different casters. So it still stacks.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
    One solution to the revamp-is-as-much-work problem is to clone the zone, and revamp the cloned zone leaving the original in place.
    That doesn't solve the problem, it just retains access to the old version of the zone.
  9. Sprint is not a travel power.

    Ninja Run suppresses just like SS and SJ.

    I don't believe Teleport suppresses in PvE (I'd have to check), but in PvP Teleport's range is suppressed to damn near zero. You're unlikely to find a skilled PvPer using Teleport in PvP.
  10. Fleeting Whisper

    Winter 2010

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    Originally Posted by SwellGuy View Post
    I'd like to see a return of the mission where villains steal presents.
    Wasn't that for Manticore's wedding, though?
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Silverado View Post
    Not quite.

    Most "Debuffs" (powers from a Buff/Debuff powerset which's main purpose is to debuff) don't stack from the same caster. Now, most "Secondary Effects" (powers from a blast or melee set which's main purpose is to do damage, but have a debuff attached as a secondary effect) do infact stack
    On the other hand, debuff powers which create pseudopets to do their dirty work will always stack, because the "caster" is the pseudopet, and if you stack the power, you're summoning multiple pseudopets.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Turgenev View Post
    Until they fix the bug.

    That's a clever use of the system, but man, I'd scream bloody murder if I saw 40B disappear after a patch...
    What bug? Level 53 set enhancements exist in the game. That's why you can view them on the market. There just isn't anything in the game anywhere that drops level 53 recipes.

    The same goes for the Black Market/Wentworth's teleport inspirations. The inspirations exist, but nothing drops them. Instead, you can buy a Black Market/Wentworth's teleport power.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Roderick View Post
    Julius wouldn't talk to me at all, not even for his non-arc street hunt, until I hit level 12.
    Not entirely bizarre. Julius leads to Talshak, who unlocks the CoT Trial, which is minimum lv12.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironblade View Post
    You realize that my point is that the site is broken, right? Some pages will come up with a dozen error messages.
    There are three current problems with CoD that I know of:
    1. It is not up to date (without checking, I want to say it's at I14, but I'm not certain of that)
    2. Damage graphs generally produce PHP errors (not a problem, since it's just a convenience - the actual damage is still listed, it's just not graphed)
    3. Some effects list the decimal rather than the percentage for the effect (not a problem in most cases, since common sense should be able to tell you when the effect is off by two orders of magnitude exactly)

    CoD isn't perfect. But then, it's also only managed by a single person. You're welcome to create a replacement if you wish. But it's far from "broken".
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Silverado View Post
    Fallout is also a runner up, with -40% def unslotted
    ...? Fallout is -30%

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    Originally Posted by Leo_G View Post
    My vote would be Quicksand. With -25% def, a 25' radius, a 45 sec duration, *auto-hit* and the ability to stack (does the -def actually stack? probably not...).

    Maybe not the biggest contender in the value of -def but being auto-hit is a plus considering you're making it easier to hit the target without a ToHit check.
    RI is also autohit, is a toggle, and has higher magnitude.
  16. Yes. It's also -damage debuff resistance. But neither of those facts are relevant to the topic...
  17. I think Liquefy (Sonic Resonance) has the highest magnitude Defense debuff (-37.5% for Defenders unslotted), but it only has a 30s duration, with a 300s base recharge (~150s recharge with slotting, 60s recharge at the recharge cap)

    Edit: Whoops, I forgot about Radiation Blast; Silverado beat me to it; Atomic Blast (the Radiation Blast nuke) has the highest magnitude debuff, but lasts 20s with a 360s base recharge, as well as a nuke crash.

    Radiation Infection (Radiation Emission) is probably the best Defense debuff over time, since it's strong (-31.25% for Defenders unslotted) and is a toggle.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Sailboat View Post
    Well, you can't enhance resistance debuffs.
    /thread
  19. Fleeting Whisper

    Booster Packs

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    Originally Posted by MindGame1 View Post
    So far we have seen 4 booster packs themed (mostly) along certain origins: Cyborg/Tech, Magic, Science & Martial Arts/Natural. This seems to indicate that the next booster pack will be mutation origin themed, but what comes after that?
    This is the intention for the Super Booster series, and yes, the next Super Booster (SB5) will be mutant-themed in some way.

    I suspect, though I can't say for certain (since I'm not a dev), that if they continue the Super Booster series past 5, they'll loop through the origins again, with different themes this time. There's more to Technology than cyborgs, more to Magic than witches and stage magicians, more to Science than the mad scientists themselves, and more to Natural than just kung fu.

    They may still release booster packs that aren't origin-themed, but I don't think they'll be under the "Super Booster" moniker (see: Wedding Pack)
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ninus View Post
    You can maintain your prejudice to make Martial Arts strictly describing the Non-Weapons Systems, but it is not strictly accurate except by twisting the definition to suit your PoV.
    I believe Oneirohero was referring to "Martial Arts", the powerset, not martial arts the concept. In which case, Martial Arts does not use weapons.

    More on-topic, I think I'd prefer to see a Seven-Section Staff than nunchaku. If the animations could be properly varied, it'd even be nice to see weapon customization for it in the form of samjitbin (three sections; similar to nunchaku with a third rod added, though the size of the entire weapon would be more akin to a staff than to a fighting stick), qijiebian (titular seven sections), and jiujiebian (nine sections).
  21. Fleeting Whisper

    Praetorian Sally

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Willowpaw View Post
    I'm sure some prefer to be called chefs instead.
    I haven't the foggiest idea what you're talking about!

    >.>
    <.<
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mylia View Post
    So one out of what one out of eleven clog it up? I think it could be put to better use.

    I know on my home server, it is always dead until Christmas or Valentine's rolls around and people come in.
    While I admit that I haven't played on every server, I've also never been to Pocket D to find it totally empty, either.
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill View Post
    After that, maybe it'd be cool if they added, say, a giant octopus to Independence Port!
    I just wish they'd let us go skiing for the holidays...
  24. Fleeting Whisper

    Praetorian Sally

    You're all kooks. Sally is just a myth!
  25. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Alexandria2000 View Post
    *waves from her character named Character Name on Virtue*
    Hey, I've got "Name Redacted" on Justice