Fleeting Whisper

Can you guys change it so the spawn point is just below the ceiling? >.>

If it ends up with them looking like they're floating in air, just add geometry to the ceiling right where the spawn point is to close the gap!

Doubt it; it's more likely he meant i16 as in "before i17's release, after i16's release"

I think a reasonable comparison to the whole BBC charge-you-money/no-commercials setup in the US is channels like HBO, Starz, Showtime, and Encore. Those kinds of premium channels usually have packages starting around $30/mo ($360/yr), which is close to the ~$230/yr charged for BBC, and depending on which one you're buying, you may be getting more channels than the BBC offers, or on-demand movies, or a TV package targeted to your interests (like sports packages, giving you all sports, all the time )

What set bonuses do people go for aside from +rech? Um... +def. Seriously. You've got people making Blasters with 45% def nowadays.

+res is less commonly sought (fewer available than +def, smaller values), but I've built a Brute (in Mids', not in the game) with 90% res to all (including Psionic and Toxic) while in Power Surge. Outside PS, he's at 61.71% Sm/Le, 38.6% Fi/Co, 90% En/Ps, 33.66% Ne, and 4.58% To. In PS, it would take more than 1,013.5% resistance debuffing to get his Energy resistance below the cap.

PS is on a 588.2s recharge (~70% rech), with neither recharge enhancements nor Hasten. The build concept (capped to all in PS) worked before purples and PvP IOs, but adding in Hecatomb and Shield Wall makes the build more gameplay-viable. (Previously, I had Dark Watcher's Despair slotted in the attacks... =/) Shuffling things around and making use of the City Traveler vet reward also allows for Energize
Click this DataLink to open the build!

The build has unfortunately gone overboard on the 2.5% recovery set bonus, but it's unavoidable to get the +psi resists.

And yes, Power Surge is slotted with 5 and a half Resistance enhancements. But that's required to keep the Toxic and Psionic resistance capped.

Edit: Come to think of it, those out of PS resistance values would be pretty nice against Arachnos, who are mostly Sm/Le/En/Ps, with a few small Toxic DoTs...

Stealth Radius does not affect your Threat rating*. Ergo, stealth powers (whether they suppress or don't) do not affect your ability to tank a spawn. When you engage with an enemy they start ignoring your stealth radius and pay attention to your threat rating, as do their buddies in the same spawn (though your threat rating to them is not necessarily the same as your threat rating to the first; but that's the case even if you don't have stealth).

Stealth does two things for a tank:
1) Makes it more likely that you get to hit them first (stealthy Foot Stomp > alpha strike)
2) Makes it less likely that you'll get additional spawns to join the fray (which could be dangerous to you or your team)

And, with respect to the second advantage, if you do want an extra spawn, you can still attack them and they'll ignore your stealth. So, having unsuppressed stealth is strictly superior to having suppressed stealth, or no stealth. The only possible disadvantage to stealth is that you won't get a second spawn to attack you, which you can work around by simply attacking the second spawn first.



* [Group Invisibility] does reduce your Threat rating (by reducing your Threat Level stat, which is a part of the Threat rating calculation), but that's an effect of the power, not the stealth. The same applies to [Super Speed], though the -threat from SS suppresses while the -threat from GI does not.

To be fair, the bartenders in PD only sell inspirations in the Tiki Room (only available to VIPs who bought the GvE edition of the game). The other bartenders either don't act as vendors, or only sell temp powers, and then only during the winter/spring events.

As to the suggestion: I think it would be amusing for the hospitals to sell Awakens. "Oh you died? Here. Take this so you don't need to come back."

If I'm just trying to dump things on the market for a little cash, I always list for 5 inf...

Huh?

Need to build up that muscle memory to know the difference between 2 and F1. *sagenod*

Well to be technical, there "have been" 10 doctors. Matt Smith hasn't aired in the role yet, though they're filming stuff with him.

7% was thrust upon you because it's an actual number in the game right now.

Gray rep simply means the rep giver didn't have high enough rep themselves to move you one way or the other.

Another issue I haven't noticed specifically mentioned:

One advantage of DoTs is that you can shoot one enemy with a DoT you know will kill them, and move on to the next, letting the first die. DoTs do deliver higher total damage, so you could possibly deliver two DoT attacks to two targets in the same time it takes a burst set to deliver two attacks to one target. In both cases you're attempting to kill one target, but the DoT character is also damaging a second.
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Think about it for a minute. Consider a Blaster shooting everything in sight. Just like a Blaster tossing off AoEs recklessly, shooting everything with single-target attacks once or twice generates a bunch of Threat the Blaster doesn't need. And while target A may be about to die due to the DoT, he's not dead yet...

Bad taste, arrested by the fashion police?

WTF kind of Empath skips Adrenalin Boost? O.o

Even healers should like it; it's got a huge +regen buff.




Also, if you've got two Empaths each with Hasten and Adrenalin Boost, they can cast AB on each other to get perma AB (~82s recharge, 90s duration; well... you may end up with periods of ~36s downtime because you need a bit more recharge for perma Hasten). A full team of Empaths can certainly get AB on everyone

Individuals? No. The way cutscenes work doesn't make that feasible.

Teams, by unanimous vote, like Guild Wars does? Sure thing.

Sell for less, or wait. When there's a purchase above your list price, you always get the highest purchase regardless, so it's best to list for whatever you're willing to get for what you're selling, rather than what you think you might be able to get. If you still can't afford 5% of what you're willing to get, um... run a mission.

Seriously, the most you could possibly list something for is 2,000,000,000 inf; 5% of that is 100,000,000. Nothing is worth 2B, and very very few people would be able to afford 2B anyway.

A more realistic high-ticket price is 100,000,000 (not entirely unreasonable for a decent purple recipe/IO), 5% of which is 5,000,000. At level 50 when you'd likely have such an item to sell, earning 5M inf is just a few missions away.

A more middle-of-the-road item could sell for 5,000,000 (like some rare salvage), and the list price for that would be 250,000; if you can't get 250K in a short time at level 50, you're doing something wrong. It's a bit more understandable at lower levels, but still not hard to do. I spend more money on enhancements.

Yes, that's intentional. That stick is there to encourage you to list lower the first time.

But only sometimes.

The worst part about the OSA bug is that it's difficult to reproduce with reliability, which makes it harder to find the cause.

It's what we in the 'biz call a "double agent"

I think it was Lighthouse, and the specific phrase was "Dumber than a box of rocks".

However, speaking on the 100% achieved by certain AVs...
Rularuu bosses have a Resistance cap of 200%

So yeah, avoid any MArc that has Rularuu bosses teaming up with Sonic Resonance custom minions and lieutenants

Night Widows tend to have lethal damage (and toxic DoTs) more than psi. It's the Fortunatas that are loaded to the gills with Psionic damage.

Night Widows have 2 powers in their set that deal Psionic damage; one of them is a T1 blast, and the other is a slow-animating cone. Fortunatas have 8 Psionic damage powers. 2 are the same ones held by Night Widows, and 1 only does very minor damage, leaving 5 Psionic attacks that Night Widows don't have.

The Raptor Pack is exactly the same as Fly without any enhancements. If you have the Good vs. Evil edition of the game attached to your account, you have the Jump Pack as well, which you can turn on for 30s at a time, and it will boost your flight speed (with Fly or Raptor Pack) up to the cap, or near it.

Personally, I love Tactics, and Leadership in general. If I could control everyone in the game, they'd all have Leadership in their builds

Of course, I can't control everyone. But Leadership is a good pool if you like to team, since it buffs everyone. Stacked Leadership is even better. I mean, if everyone on an 8-man team were running slotted Maneuvers, they would have in excess of 27% defense (depending on the AT composition of the team). For comparison, an SR Scrapper on SOs has about 30% defense, and the soft cap for defense is 45%. If all 8 people on the team were running Assault, you'd essentially be doubling the damage enhancement in your attacks.

On my characters, I try to fit in Tactics whenever I can (yes, including Scrappers/Tankers/Brutes/Stalkers when I can find room). Whether I lead into Tactics with Maneuvers or Assault depends on a lot of factors, like what sort of build it is, but I rarely have both Maneuvers and Assault. Vengeance I usually only take on characters I'm setting up for more of a support role. Sometimes, I can't find room until late in the build. I think my Thugs/Dark's current build has Tactics at 47, for example.

Your pets do more damage than you do, as a Mastermind. However, your pets can attack at the same time as you, so taking attacks on a Mastermind doesn't reduce your damage output. At the same time, it doesn't increase your damage output as much as adding a pet; but then you only get so many pets. I'd have to do some number crunching to be sure, but I think Tar Patch is a greater increase to your damage output than Empty Clips is. That's certainly true on teams and more than likely true once you've got all your pets, but I'm not sure about the low levels (when you've only got a couple of pets, and when the blasts become available).

For my MMs, I like to take one or two of the blasts in the low levels and respec out of them later, simply because I think it's boring to stand around doing nothing while my pets kill things. This is especially true for /Force Fields MMs.

Edit: Also, until they give us a Dual Pistols blast set, the three Thugs/ attacks are the only way to get Dual Pistols, and they do look cool

Alternatively, "The Rule Of Not Sucking". Because you know there would be boatloads of complaints if you couldn't call normal contacts while in Cimerora, or Cimarora contacts from the normal time stream.

Ĉi tiu viro parolas la veron de ĉiuj aferoj.

I think Steiner was looking into making CoHRadar more real-time, but because of the way demorecording works, no matter what he does it would be useless for PvP, and not particularly useful for patrol spawns.

No idea if he'll get the changes he wants, or is even able to make them, but yeah, it's hardly what No Pants thinks it is.