Fleeting Whisper

y'see, it's more like a "Lore 3-ring Binder" than anything else.

*checks watch*

- teleporter

Nothing has happened to it. At all. That's why you don't know anything about it.

Kinetic Melee is based on the concept of using kinetic energy, and it does Energy/Smashing
(And, since Madam_Enigma said 'sonic damage' rather than any actual damage type in the game, I'll point out that Sonic Attack also does Energy/Smashing.)

I'm not exactly certain what you're talking about, since Kinetics doesn't have Power Boost. Power Boost is available in Energy Assault, Earth Assault, Icy Assault, Energy Manipulation, Primal Forces Mastery, Mace Mastery (Masterminds), and Soul Mastery (Corruptors/Defenders). Power Build Up (very similar to Power Boost) is available in Power Mastery.

While a Kinetics character could gain Power Boost in Soul Mastery, or Power Build Up in Power Mastery, it's not something that's specific to Kinetics. And, finally, to actually answer the question: no, neither PB nor PBU would affect MovementControl nor MovementFriction. And besides that point, Super Jump grants you enough control/friction that you don't really need more; Combat Jumping provides more control (but less friction), and Inertial Reduction provides the same control as CJ and more friction than either CJ or SJ. Ninja Run has the same control as SJ, and the same friction as CJ.

Answer to question bolded to separate it from m ramblings.

Your NCSoft account, or your CoH account? Your CoH account is the same as the one you use to log into the forums. IIRC, the first NCSoft game you register defaults to the same as your NCSoft master account, too, but you can change that.

While it's true that an IO build probably doesn't need any more +acc, that's missing the bigger picture. Look up one level, to Nerve Radial, and you'll see it gives +def as well. Similar to the thinking of getting perma-X on the cheap, Nerve Radial can help with softcapped defenses. Once I slotted Nerve Radial on my MM, my henchmen were finally softcapped.

I hadn't tried it without Nerve Radial, but I also noticed in one mission when my tohit was debuffed to base 30%, my final hit chance was still 95%.

Or you could go for fire damage

People on the forums like to talk about farming. Successful farming requires a high kills/time ratio. AoE accomplishes this.

That's what the 'goto' command is for.

Jordon, for a more full explanation:

Minions can see you at 45'.
Lieutenants can see you at 50'.
Bosses, EBs, and AVs can see you at 54'.
Turrets and GMs can see you at 100'.
Snipers can see you at 149'.

Stealth powers subtract from the distance a critter can see you at. [Stealth] subtracts 35', and the Celerity unique subtracts 30'. The two combined will make you completely invisible to most critters, and will let you get 65' closer to Turrets, GMs, and Snipers than you normally would.

Some critters have Perception buffs. For example, some Rogue Isles Police have Tactics, granting +per to all of their nearby allies. Vanguard Sword also have inherent increased perception.

As Deacon mentions, some critters ignore stealth completely. This list includes Rikti Drones, all members of the Knives of Artemis, and the Rularuu Sentries (the giant eyeballs).

Another notable exception is Longbow Eagles. While they don't have increased perception and they don't ignore stealth, they have a power called Positioning. It's a PBAoE auto power which makes them fly out of melee... but it's considered an autohit attack, so it will suppress your stealth, and then everyone else will see you.

If you're debuffed to 5% tohit, in order to get back up to 95% hit chance you need +90% tohit. If you try to do the same with just accuracy, you'd need +1,900% accuracy.

If you split the middle and get some of both -- let's say +45% tohit* -- you'd still need +190% accuracy. Splitting in two on the other side -- +950% accuracy -- means you only need an additional +10% tohit. It's much easier to recover from tohit debuffs by adding tohit buffs. I believe the reverse would be true if you were suffering from accuracy debuffs, except there aren't any that exist. (Things would really suck if it did exist, because there's no means in the attack mechanics to prevent you from going into negative accuracy.)

Hitting a target with defense is essentially the same as being debuffed yourself. Consider the accuracy formula: Clamp[AccMods * Clamp[SelfTohit - TargetDefense]]. By the time your accuracy comes into play, the difference between your tohit and the target's defense is your tohit, as far as the equation is concerned.






* A Blaster using Vengeance slotted for 56% tohit still gets +40.95% tohit. Other ATs get even more benefit; Defender, Scrapper, Tanker, Brute, Stalker, Widow, and SoA all get +35% tohit from Vengeance without slotting.

Computers are stupid. They always do exactly what you tell them to do. Erroneous output is still a bug, no matter how the erroneous output was achieved.

Debuff HOs enhancing buff powers is exactly the way HOs were coded. But it's still a bug. In beta testing, Touch of Lady Grey proc firing for billions of damage was exactly the way it was coded. That's still a bug. Players getting stuck inside geometry is exactly the way the game's physics is coded. It's still a bug. A Warshade putting all 67 slots into one power and one-shotting Hamidon was exactly the way the game was coded. It's still a bug.

Of course, none of my examples are things that were/are "Working As Intended". But the game's Real Numbers initiative is intended to show players exactly how their powers work, and telling them that ?Rain of Fire has a 2.00 accuracy is false, and is therefore a bug.

3yd = 9ft. Many PBAoE powers are 10ft, standard 'melee' powers are 7ft, and the only 'melee' power that's longer than that is Knockout Blow.

25yd = 75ft. Standard 'blast' power range is 80ft.

'gypsy' derives from Middle English 'gyptian', which in turn comes from Old French 'gyptien' (short for 'egyptian'), deriving from Latin 'aegyptius'. Gypsy itself is a pejorative exonym for the Romani people, used on the mistaken belief that the Romani originate from Egypt.

In the sense of swindling (or a person who swindles), 'gyp' does indeed derive from 'gypsy', in the same way 'jew' in the sense of defrauding derives from 'jewish', and 'welsh' in the sense of defaulting on a debt derives from the name of the Welsh people. Interestingly, 'gyp' can also mean other things (such as pain), with different etymologies, and it's also an abbreviation for the plant genus 'gypsophila' which includes the common Baby's Breath (US/Canada) aka Soap Wart (UK). The name of the genus describes the fact that the plant commonly grows in calcium-rich soil, such as gypsum.

I'm pretty sure it doesn't.

If you're a melee character, presumably you're in melee with Battle Maiden. You move outside the nanite radius, and presumably all of the other melee characters do, as well (if they don't they'll soon be corpses, ignored by BM). When BM is in melee AI mode and all in-range targets leave range, she'll follow them to get back in range.

Presumably at level 50, you'll have at least one ranged attack, too.

FarmVille (and clones) is specifically designed to make players spend as much of their time as possible either playing FV, or thinking about FV. FV developers don't want you spending time doing anything else besides FV, except possibly telling your friends about FV.

And that's not even an exaggeration, it's the actual design philosophy of the game.

I don't know what you're talking about:
http://tomax.cohtitan.com/data/power...venomed_Dagger

• 70.68 Lethal damage
• 5 * 14.99 Toxic damage over 5.00 seconds (after 0.5 second delay)
• Regeneration -2.5 for 10s PvE only [Ignores Enhancements & Buffs]
  Effect does not stack from same caster
• -1.211 Regeneration for 10s If target is a player [Ignores Enhancements & Buffs]
  Effect does not stack from same caster

This is for all of you who lost the game due to this thread:


I'm as surprised as you! I didn't think it was possible.