Fleeting Whisper

How much hurt does it take to "bring him in" to a breadbox?

While I would agree with your assessment of the combos for a high-level character, it's not so true for a low-level one. On the one hand, the two powerful combos aren't available until later anyway. On the other, Weaken and Empower combos can help a lowbie a lot before the character is fully fleshed out. Empower also helps out with the lack of a real Build Up in the set.

In later levels for a DB character, I would respec to go from Weaken/Empower towards Sweep/Attack Vitals. The latter two are more powerful combos, use some of the better powers in the set, and if you try to get all four combos, you're forcing yourself to take all 8 non-Taunt powers (or all 9 powers for Stalkers) rather than giving yourself room to choose.

It's been that way ever since I6 gave us Masterminds.

Can I have a TP animation where I walk into a police box?

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I think it's also worth noting that the major benefit of the Leadership pool in general is being able to stack the buffs together between multiple players. Arachnos Soldiers/Widows can stack with themselves. I know my Fortunata runs 6 Leadership toggles.

Secondary powersets don't require bare hands...
Tanker.Battle Axe
Tanker.Dual Blades
Tanker.War Mace
Defender.Archery
Defender.Assault Rifle
Defender.Dual Pistols
Controller.Trick Arrow
Corruptor.Trick Arrow
Mastermind.Trick Arrow

Also, while it's not a secondary powerset, some ancillary powersets have weapons, most notably Mace Mastery.

Except in actual gameplay, that's not what happens. That reduction is only true if you're alternating between a weapon animation and a non-weapon animation each time you use a power, or if you're returning to neutral stance after each attack (hit escape twice, or use /em none). In normal gameplay, you're going to build up an attack chain of several powers using the same weapon. Since there's no redraw between powers in the same stance, the reduction is, in fact, negligible.

You shouldn't be looking at damage/cycle for performance statistics, but damage/activation. And in the case of weapons, the redraw time only matters after using a power with no (or a different) weapon, or when you first start your attack chain. Most non-weapon powers you're going to use are either going to not be part of your chain (eg, a support power), or are on a longer recharge time (eg, Practiced Brawler). You're not designing your attack chain around those powers, and their interference is negligible.

Oh, well it's good to know you've looked through the animation scripting code to be able to confirm how easy it is to fix.

That entirely depends on how you define "poor design". To you, any part of aesthetics interfering with mechanics is poor design.

But by that philosophy, Fire Blast and Katana should have the same damage type. Katana does lethal damage because aesthetically, it's a sharp object, while Fire Blast does fire damage because aesthetically, it's fire. But many more things resist lethal damage in the game than those that resist fire, and therefore it's a mechanical downside to play Katana.

Because the animators spent extra time making extra animations for each power that could be paired with a shield. This is why the Shield Defense set was delayed and we got (IIRC) Dual Blades instead. The playerbase was polled on what sets they'd like to see; SD won the poll, but because of exactly this animation trouble, it was delayed. On the other hand, it was during the development of SD that the devs discovered how to make weapon customization work, so there's that.

The Rikti are trying to impress the Well, too. The zombies are dead, brainless, and don't know that they should hold onto those shards in order to get goodies.

There is not a single NPC Warshade on the ITF.

It's like they wanted the Calibrated Accuracy set to give you extra Accuracy, or something...

In chat. For character names (and I believe for biographies as well), you're limited to a subset of ASCII.

It's the direction opposite the prevalent gravitational force. Or, in cases where there is no noticeable gravitational force, such as in a space shuttle, you may consider "up" to be the direction designed to be "up" while at rest within a stronger gravitational field. If you are not within a perceptible gravitational field, nor near enough to any structure designed with an "up" in mind in order to use it as a frame of reference, I'm sorry but you've lost your ups. On the bright side, you can't get down, so there's that to look up to-- oh, sorry. Slip of the tongue.





No, I don't have anything more useful to contribute to this thread, why do you ask?

I have some pictures that could prove you wrong...

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IIRC, it's more of a licensing/legal issue than a technical one. Unfortunately.

It's hard to call something a 'lousy MM'. Even petless MMs can be useful characters.

By most quantitative measurements, a Merc/TA will be pretty low on the totem pole, but it's still a MM. Presuming a reasonably intelligent build, it's still going to slaughter hordes of enemies.

The only thing that the x8 difficulty did for farmers was remove the need to find fillers. With or without x8, farming teams are going to be running on a map spawned for 8; without the new difficulty setting they're also going to be bothering people who don't want anything to do with farming.

x8 difficulty helps farmers by making it more expedient for them, but I would say it help the non-farmers more, by cutting down on the spam they receive in the form of private tells and blind invites.

The only change I know of is that you have to enter one of your character's names in addition to your password.

IIRC, the tables that the game uses for looking up values (such as resistances for PToD) doesn't go past 54, either. While they could certainly add to those tables, that would be another thing to stack onto the workload.

Also, since a level-shifted character is still technically 50, they'd have to change up the difficulty sliders again to allow you to go higher than +4.