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It doesn't do enough damage to get the target in trouble, and it only does damage if the target was at full health when you cast EM.

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Sounds kinda like one I heard few weaks back, was buffing team with my pain corr, and a stalker said not to use enforced morale on him as it kept him goin stealth.. this have any basis in reality?

[/ QUOTE ]Yes. If he's at full health and you use Enforced Morale on him, his Hide is suppressed for 8 seconds.

(Enforced Morale isn't really woth using on melee characters anyway, since they get mez protection, many get +Per, +Per isn't often needed, and the +Rech/+Spd is very small)

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Why does Enforced Morale cause Stalker to un-hide? Is Castle fixing this?

[/ QUOTE ]Hide suppresses when you're damaged, and Enforced Morale deals minor damage if the target is at full health.

It buffs you, not your target

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Sounds kinda like one I heard few weaks back, was buffing team with my pain corr, and a stalker said not to use enforced morale on him as it kept him goin stealth.. this have any basis in reality?

[/ QUOTE ]Yes. If he's at full health and you use Enforced Morale on him, his Hide is suppressed for 8 seconds.

(Enforced Morale isn't really woth using on melee characters anyway, since they get mez protection, many get +Per, +Per isn't often needed, and the +Rech/+Spd is very small)

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MMs are and in Dev's words meant to be strongest AT in game.

[/ QUOTE ]Prove this. I'm not going to argue that MMs are powerful (they are), but I've never heard of any of our devs ever saying any AT was "meant to be strongest AT in game", MMs or otherwise.

It's not autohit, so if it doesn't take Accurate ToHit Debuff, I'd say it's an oversight

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Though Crabs/Banes cannot be helmetless, IIRC, because they have a non-standard skeleton.

[/ QUOTE ]Pretty sure that's not true.

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Aside from that, I'll definitely say that if there was any defensive power set that could afford to take on such a Tier 9 short changing and survive, Regen would be it.

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Hooooooo boy, if you think the current version of MoG is shortchanging the set...

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Ok, I'm intrigued. What is it that you're not saying?

I know that the original version robbed the character of almost all HP, turned off the character's regeneration based powers and left them with nothing but defense and resistance to keep them alive, and finally ended with the standard crash PLUS the fact that the character's HP is still bottomed out which seems to total up to the ultimate in inappropriately mismatched power to powerset flop. (not to mention anti-climactic seeing as how one would think that the entire point of the Regeneration set IS TO REGENERATE) But is there something else that your inferring or does that about sum it up?

[/ QUOTE ]That sums it up, but that's just the symptoms of the disease. The net result of all of that is that the old MoG does almost nothing in most situations, and as I said in my post, is the equivalent of -300% psi resistance.

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Also, Blackavaar, how are you able to "usually predict" the "big AV attack"? That would definitely be useful, but it seems to me that the only way to do so would be to familiarize yourself haevily with that particular AV.

[/ QUOTE ]All NPCs will try to use their biggest attack at the start of battle if they can. AVs with nukes are specifically prevented from using the nuke until they're at 50% or 25% hp.

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I could see a 'Spy' AT as you say (Epic available to both sides) and introduced with GR would make sense, but I'd almost expect that it would be the Hallmark of the Expansion and showcased even more than Maelstrom and Desdemona. Of course, it's still a good way down the pike... apparently. So there's plenty of time to give a new Epic its props.

Still, I'd really wonder what a 'Spy' AT could/would do that would make it a whole lot different than a Bane. I just dunno.

To reiterate the answers to the OP for staying 'on topic': it's an Expansion not and Expansialone, and links to the Announcement have been given. All else is hearsay.

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Oh! Oh! Can I guess about the presumptive Spy AT powersets?

How about.... All primaries across all AT's are available as primary and all secondaries across all AT's are avialvable as secondaries?

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Well, you have to admit.. it would be fun.

[/ QUOTE ] Yeah.. an Invul/Invul spy would be kinda redundant though. lol

[/ QUOTE ]Nonsense! Spies are Ninjutsu/Dark Armor/Munitions Mastery

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What is this supposed to be, a defensive version of Build Up?

[/ QUOTE ]Actually, yes. It is.

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Are you supposed to try to plan out when your enemy is going to take the big shots you really don't want to get hit by?

[/ QUOTE ]NPCs are dumb, and with few exceptions (ie: AVs with nukes), will use their strongest attacks on you first, like when you first engage them.

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The only good application I can think of for that would be absorbing the Alpha. Is THAT what they wanted to do with it?

[/ QUOTE ]Yes. The alpha strike is the moment when Regen is weakest; MoG helps to protect you.

Re: Where's the "glory" of Moment of Glory?!
The Glory is the fact that your defense is capped and your resistance nearly so. The 15s duration makes it a Moment of Glory.

Edit: The previous version of MoG actually did very little for a Regen's survivability against non-Psionic damage, and was the equivalent of a -300% resistance debuff against Psionic.

Each map has spawn points placed manually by the devs.

You'll always get the same number of spawns in a mission, and team size/difficulty affects how large each spawn is.

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Looking at the data that I could find more closely, it looks like all the Mitos have 100 resistence to repel. Which says to me that if we can get 11 Force Fielders together, they can overwhelm the repel resistence of the Mitos....


Any thoughts on this, or am I reading this data wrong, as I am prone to doing?

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Like Knockback, Repel does not stack to overcome protection. Get your eleven Force Fielders together. If for nothing else, I'm sure it'll be a nice test of everyone's graphics cards.

[/ QUOTE ]Except KB can stack (though you need to hit on the same server tick), and Repel has a duration. Are you sure about your assessment of Repel?

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Which means that the whole raid can be over FAST

[/ QUOTE ]beat 9 minutes or I'm not interested

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Holy friggin hell! That is bloody impressive! Though I'm not surprised to see Sandolphan running the show. Next time Victory whines about raid times, I'm linking that video. I knew under an hour times would come soon enough, but under 10 minutes? Dayum!

[/ QUOTE ]To be fair, it required dozens of people with 3 nukes and a plethora of temporary pets each, but it's still friggin' cool

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Okay, so why not make Power Boost just not enhance resistance?

If +/-Special was just one global attribute, I can understand this, but then why does the power break down what attributes it is effecting in game? If it is all separate attributes, then the power should be castable without effecting resistance powers at all.

[/ QUOTE ]PBU doesn't buff resistance. The problem is that allowing +res effects to be buffable means that any source of +damage (Fulcrum Shift, Siphon Power, Fury, Defiance, Build Up, Aim, Power Build Up, any red inspiration...) will buff the +res. If the +res in the sonic shields were buffable, for example, a Sonic defender could just eat a few red inspirations before passing out the buffs, and be able to res-cap everyone on the team by themselves. A medium red would be like adding another SO resistance to your power that isn't affected by ED.

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Otherwise, make the resistance in the ice shields not enhanceable. I doubt anyone is slotting these for resists, and if they wanted to buff cold/fire resist more, that's what Arctic Fog is for.

[/ QUOTE ]You could certainly make the case that the CD shields don't need to be enhanceable. I have no opinion on that matter, but if you could convince Castle to make the CD shields' +res unenhanceable, they would then be affected by PBU.

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Would it ever get changed for this? Well, I can't think of any other powers that would also be impacted, so this is Cold/*/Power Defenders only affected, or at most and ideally, >0.5% of the Heroes population (ignoring HEAT). I wouldn't imagine such a small percentage to get much attention.

[/ QUOTE ]Dark Miasma and Storm Summoning are also affected, though to a lesser degree. Some healing powers are also affected (Healing Flames, Reconstruction, Hoarfrost, Earth's Embrace, for example); while the ATs that get those healing powers don'thave access to PB/PBU, they do have access to +Heal set bonuses, which don't work for them. Certain APP powers (like Frozen Armor) are also affected.

Short Circuit is the only power in Electric Blast you should even think about slotting with Endmod. And even then I'd still say damage it a bigger priority.

PBU will also boost the -special in Benumb.

To go in to detail on why PBU doesn't boost some things you think it probably should:

Every power has one or more effects. Each effect can be flagged with "Ignores Enhancements and buffs" (buffs being things like PBU). The entire power itself can be flagged as "Ignores buffs", which applies to all effects of the power.

Damage Resistance power effects are NEVER buffable, because allowing buffs on +res (or -res) means that they're buffed by +damage. This was shown during I11 beta, when High Pain Tolerance's +res was set to be buffable, and Willpower Brutes became incredibly good as their Fury buffed the resistance of their HPT. That's just the way the game works.

Therefore, all +/-res effects must be flagged to not accept buffs. As mentioned, there are two ways to do that; make the effect unenhanceable, or make the entire power unbuffable. It's not a problem for -res, since we're not generally allowed to enhance it anyway. All the -res effects can just be unenhanceable. But if the devs want a +res effect to be enhanceable, such as in the Cold Domination or Sonic Resonance shields, they must make the entire power unbuffable, so that the +res can be enhanceable.

The unfortunate side effect is that the +def in Cold Dom shields or powers like Arctic Fog, Shadow Fall, and Steamy Mist is unaffected by PBU.

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If you use the /playernote feature to keep notes for yourself, I recommend using names that players can't use, so that you're not accidentally putting a note on someone named "@favorites", or what have you.

An easy way to do this is to include an underscore in the name, since only NCSoft employees can have underscores in their name at all. For example, "/playernote fav_arcs"

You can certainly make an angel glow with the current auras. "Death glow" could be tricky, since dark colors are less visible, but I think a Tendrils aura with a mid-dark purple would work well.

I saw Hickman on the list!!!





Oh wait, wrong Hickman

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Sometimes patches break published missions, and when that happens there's no indication to you as the Mission Player that the mission is actually broken. I think that's probably what's happening. If you were experiencing this phenomena with the same mission, that would be a different problem, I think.

[/ QUOTE ]Apparently, the game is supposed to detect when an arc is invalid, and remove it from the public list when detected, so people won't attempt to play arcs that they can't play. But either the detection or the actual removal from the public list is broken.

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I'm sure many players would love having the ability to build objects from scratch, but yes I wouldn't hold my breath.

[/ QUOTE ]It would be cool, but I wouldn't even try to guess how quickly we'd end up with at least one "League of Extraordinary Genitalia"

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Which means that the whole raid can be over FAST

[/ QUOTE ]beat 9 minutes or I'm not interested

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I would feel swindled if buying the third box alone gives you access to all the current archetypes, even if you can't play around in the zones inherent to Heroes/Villains.

Or am I completely missing some obvious point?

[/ QUOTE ]You're missing two obvious points:
1) There's been nothing that I've seen saying Going Rogue can stand alone; it's been billed as an expansion to the City of Heroes franchise, not an "expanshalone" like CoV was.
2) For some time now (a year? something like that), anyone purchasing JUST CoH or JUST CoV still got access to both sides of the game. So even if GR was a standalone product, granting access to both sides wouldn't be any different from the CoH, CoH:CE, CoV, CoV:CE, GvE, CoHMSE, or CoH:AE versions of the game available now, as far as access to the game goes.

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All you would need to do is start the updater, it downloads a file manifest.. and then confirms that the files are accurate.. and doesn't need to install or do anything of that sort.

[/ QUOTE ]Not necessarily. The only people who would know whether the updater could reliably work without the applying process are the devs. It isn't a given that a torrent system would remove that need.

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it takes up bandwidth and stresses my family that uses our security enabled wi-fi when all of the sudden it takes 3 minutes to load facebook. Not to mention, I don't like having unnecessary programs running that are just hogging memory.

[/ QUOTE ]A torrent download would use more bandwidth than the current updater (as you would be uploading fileparts to your peers as you download the fileparts you don't have), and would use up computer processes just the same as the current updater.

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With a torrent, EVERYBODY will be able to download new patches quickly

[/ QUOTE ]Assuming you've got seeders, sure. I've torrented a lot of things in my time, both legal and illegal. If you've got hundreds of seeders, you can download hundreds of hours of video in just a few hours. If you've got a piddling seeder pool, it could take weeks to complete the torrent. Or worse, if there are no active seeders, you get stuck at X% completion with no end to the torrent in sight. I recall torrenting an anime movie last year and I was stuck at 96% for two months before someone came along to seed me the last 4% of my file.

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less stress for those who don't have high-speed internets

[/ QUOTE ]Torrents don't magically make your connection faster.

*/Recharge IOs in a toggle will boost the recharge of the toggle. Most toggles, after turning off, must recharge before you can use them again. Most toggles don't have very long recharge, though, so it's rarely a concern.