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...unless the power is set to ignore buffs. For example, +heal is buffed by Power Boost, but +heal powers which also grant damage resistance (Earth's Embrace, for example) are set to ignore buffs, so PB won't affect it.

Technically, the 0.75 is just a guess. We only know for a fact that the threshold is between 0.7437 and 0.8174. I think 0.75 is a good guess, though

No player should have ever had an underscore in their name. Underscore is reserved for NCSoft employees and GMs; this is to help prevent players impersonating staff in-game.

Yup, that was a brain fart on my part.

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Nuh-uh!

How else are they gonna learn to make any new drinks? I'm getting really tired of this "Drop of Vitality" crap Chilly has been selling me for the past years.

With the exception of the part about ignoring repeats, that's effectively what a pseudorandom number generator does. Of course, the RNG uses a function to generate the numbers, rather then statically defining a table of billions or trillions of entries.

If you tried to use the M19937 algorithm as a table, you would need (2^19937 - 1) entries. That would take up more data storage space than the universe is capable of encoding. Alternatively, you could just use M19937 which requires just a handful of bytes and processor cycles.

That's good for you. Not everybody has such a thing. The minimum requirements for the game still say 512MB.

Um... they are balanced. Aside from damage type and secondary effects, blast sets are very similar. Not identical, but similar. Fire's 'secondary effect' is more damage, so when you compare a power from Fire to an equivalent power in another set, Fire almost always wins out for damage (though Blizzard can notably pwn Inferno in the damage department).

I haven't played Aion, but the cutscenes in Guild Wars are not pre-rendered. It's very easy to notice if there's a minion master in the party, as the cutscene scripting doesn't effect minions. They'll keep attacking any nearby enemies during the cutscene (though it seems they are prevent from doing any damage). Also, Guild Wars uses paper doll armor character appearances, so your armor and weapons are not set in stone; pre-rendering is impossible.

In fact, in the last mission of the Prophecies campaign, the effective difficulty actually changes depending on whether you skip a cutscene or not. If you watch the full cutscene, the final boss has to travel a long path to reach the staging area for the final fight. If you skip the cutscene, he's teleported there immediately. Considering the area has a number of tough enemies nearby, it's beneficial to watch the cutscene, so that you can pull the other enemies away before the boss shows up.

"Inferior" is true, in the strictest sense of the word, but the difference is miniscule. "Completely unworkable" is a blatant lie if you're simply looking at DPS. It requires more effort to care about the difference redraw makes than it does to overcome that difference.

Now, if the complaint is aesthetic, that's a completely different issue.

That's unlikely to ever happen, for multiple reasons.

The power animations without rooting look extremely silly, which is at least part of the reason why we have rooting in the first place. If you made it so that attempting to move would interrupt the power, I know that a lot of players would start hating powersets they previously enjoyed, which is not something a developer wants to do.

Drag the icons from the pet window to your power tray. Even without lore pets, you can do this with a non-MM when you participate in a gladiator match in the Arena. And, since the buttons are really just macros with images instead of text, you can edit them with a right-click.

Transfusion heals the same amount at Twilight Grasp, and (in the case of everyone but Masterminds) it has the same radius. The difference is that TG debuffs tohit and damage in addition to regen, while Transfusion only debuffs regen. Also, Transfusion fails if the target dies while casting. TG only fails if you die while casting.

TG also comes in a set with a pet that also has TG.

Sorry, 'vworp' is the sound effect of the TARDIS, not Ion Judgment.

While true, AVs rarely have damage resistance as high as the standard AV debuff resistance (85% for a lv50 AV), except when using a T9 defense power.

So, while Vandal may resist your -damage by 25%, he's resisting your -tohit by 85%.

Also, not all AVs have damage resistance in their own types. Requiem only has bonus resistance to Fire and Cold, but he mostly deals Negative.

Without spending the time to check, I'm almost positive that Gravitic has zero effect on Sonic Attack's debuffs.

A few. Not enough that you would normally worry about it. DE crystal emanators offer +100% tohit to all allied DE in the radius, so you're better off destroying the emanator than trying to build up an extra +100% defense. Other sources of +tohit that normal enemies get are much smaller, and occur rarely.

The only non-incarnate content I would seriously consider getting extra +defense in order to combat critter +tohit would be facing Soldiers of Rularuu regularly. On the flip side, though, you may also want to get extra defense to combat defense debuffs, and those show up almost everywhere Lethal damage is dealt.

Which is why my showers always take upwards of 30 minutes.

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No. Enemies only gain tohit due to higher levels when they are 6 levels above you, or higher. Below that, they gain an accuracy bonus (a softcapped character facing enemies with accuracy but no tohit will still floor their chance to hit, the floor simply won't be 5%).

Enemies in the Incarnate trials have buffed tohit, to help increase the challenge of the trials.