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300% DEF debuff will neutralise the DEF of any character except possibly an SR scrapper/brute/stalker in Elude.

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or with external buffs - there was no need for Elude when I tanked Ice Mistral on my SR Scrapper - with 2 bubblers on the team I hit hard cap without it.

and AVs have 75% chance to hit not 50%, also mobs higher than your level have higher chance to hit.
Also remember defence debuffs.

The same as all my other characters - to be fun to play.

The taunt effect replaces a previous application when calculating threat so I suspect this may apply to the debuff as well but you could always get a friendly blaster in the arena to test it.
I am curious as to how many ranged squishies are taking it now.

You get the content you would otherwise outlevel.

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If anything the movement suppression, in addition to the increased melee base range, makes it easier to get off more attacks in melee.

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Whoever tried to chase and target a bunnyhopping ranged char as a meele char and get more than 1 attack of before the other players is jumping away knows what i mean.

Before I13 that 1 attack dealt way more damg , now with 40% resists to all PLUS defensive patron shields that one attack you get off once in a blue moon doesnt matter at all for the fight, during which the ranged toon easily shoots you from range while staying out of yours.

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and now that one attack will cause movent suppression on the target so he can't run off - so you get your second, third and if you need them all the rest you need

As you say it may be you already have a temp power, there are also some that give inf or prestige. It could be giving you an insp but your tray is full, rocks will appear in your temporary powers but may not be obvious if you don't have a free slot in an open tray and won't give a message.
You're not missing anything with lumps of coal but Build Snowbeast and Snowball can only be gained once (until you use the former or the latter runs out).
Stocking Cap was extremely rare last year but they did drop - many people finaly only got it nearer the end of the event.

If its just around WW/BM then its probably down to lag on the AH servers - they are handling traffic from 15 servers rather than just 1 as with the map servers it also gets exascerbated by people leaving graphics intensive powers running when selling. You could try a different branch Kings Row tends to be quiet as do most redside except Cap.

Got some +7s in Sharks with one of my kin/sonic - dropped one of them then decided after looking at my yellow health bar that I really should act like a villain when faced with uneven odds in the other guys favour - flee.
At least this year I haven't seen WLs camping the exit from PD - being killed before you finished zoning wasn't fun.

The lvl 6s in Mercy should be doable for most characters present - the lvl 8s otoh aren't really feasible for a lvl 2 - they weren't in the red or yellow areas of the zone by any chance - those areas are supposed to be a higher threat.

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Doesn't enhance slow just affect travel speed rather than recharge time? (I don't know, I've never played a cold/ice toon)

Also, why would it be overpowered to debuff resistance? We can debuff defence?

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Definitely debuffs recharge - at least where the power description says it does which I believe is most.

And we can debuff resistance - most sonic attacks do as does tar patch from dark - if it was enhancable the base debuff would have to be significantly reduced - a sonic/sonic def or corrupter should be able to stack over 100-120% debuff easily as things stand now.
Remember though that resistance resists resistance debuffs so the initial debuffs may not have a large effect but as they do start to debuff the resistance they also debuff the resistance debuff resistance and so stacking is extremely effective.

From my Dom

Psi Dart - Ranged
Mind Probe - Melee
Drain Psyche - AoE
Psychic Scream AoE

Powers from Mind Control otoh don't show any positional type on the detailed info screen - although the basic description from mouseover shows them as ranged.

A single heal enhancement in rest iirc should cap it except for tanks and brutes (they need 2)

I've had over 130hp/sec om my WP tank just from the mobs and that wasn't capped.
I've also had my mind/psi dom hit max number of mobs - helth bat dropped to about 2/3 and then didn't move even with 20 or so LB wailing on me. That was before we could see the numbers but I suspect that had hit the cap, needless to say it was no surprise that when it dropped so did I - instantly - so I suspect that was a lot higher than 100 hps

1:17.25 with fly and no external buffs, the time I got a SB I was slower 1:18.88

Considering that the loader has had the message up saying that the winter event is live all day there's not really any excuse for not knowing irrespective of when it was stated on the forums

Still going on - I've dropped Neuron 3 times and AM twice so far on the same mish getting really annoying as I cant complete it as its defeat all and it mpservers before I can clear the last few mobs - at least its old so not really a major risk of debt.

Make that 4 Neurons - you'd think he'd give up on sneaking out of the Zig by now

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Ok, I've destroyed every trace of my sent and received messages, bought a disguise and a one-way ticket to South America, where I will wait for further instructions from an NCSoft agent

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Is it me, or are you starting to think like a villain?



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Didn't you know - she *IS* a villain - she only plays a hero

/e ducks

Would love to see the expressions of the players on a team raiding that base, zoning in and seeing that facing them.

Dual screen setup here 1600x1200 primary screen+1024x768 for the secondary here
although I have been known to use 1800x1440 on the primary on occassion.
If I'm running CoX I'd expect to run mids in the secondary but would have it on the primary screen when not in game.

From the patch notes for Dec 9

Invention

Fixed a bug that caused the +recharge components from Recharge Intensive Pet enhancements to carry over to the pet attack speed. These enhancement sets are designed to speed up the power's recharge time, not the pets' attacks.

so they should no longer boost the attack rate - just the power's recharge

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I've heard some people saying you get a faster connection when downloading the US client and then changing it to point to the EU servers.

Also, its alot quicker to install CoH, then CoV, THEN update.

Do you have CoV installed already or just CoH?

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You don't need to install it twice - CoH and Cov use the same client so install it once, let it update and you can access both games.
If you want to access the test server or the US servers installing to a seperate location is a good idea as they may be on different versions at any one time - Test usually will be and US can be depending on the times of programmed maintenance. - Install it once, start the install for the second and immediately cancel it after setting locations, then copy the entire folder structure across then edit the copy of the shortcut for test as described on the test forum or download the US client as appropriate (you can use the US client to connect to the EU servers by renaming it but you won't get support for other languages which you will get with the proper EU client. That way you only need a small download and not the full 2Gb for each.

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Happening upon a 'doom thread' and deciding not to play it is not making an informed decision, playing the game for a couple of weeks and finding out what it's like whilst looking up as much info as you can is making an informed decision.

And there are not hundreds or thousands of these threads, there are a few.



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There have been between 1 and 2 of these created every week for the past few years - that is hundreds and certainly not a few.
And coming across large numbers of negative threads will put people off - it is an informed decision just that the information they are getting is heavily biased negatively. Peoples time is a limited resource so everyone cannot try out every game available by properly playing it for several weeks they need some way to filter that number down to something managable.

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Golden Girl
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Was that for never playing on Union?
Defiant legend or Forums Legend without a doubt - not convinced about being a Union one though.

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the Def isn't as high but the end cost is lower.


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tbh once you have transference the end cost should be pretty much an irrelevance, having said that I took CJ on my corrupter and took SJ rather than IR. My def I didn't bother and took IR and Stealth pool
I'd suggest Manouvres would probably be the better option for a Defender but would probably suggest CJ on a Corrupter or Controller

Very nice artwork on that gallery - here's one of my tank - she's the one with all the cash on the right

http://pub2.bravenet.com/photocenter/alb...54302/1/131765/

and here's another showing more of the costume - the others in that gallery are mostly from the back

http://pub2.bravenet.com/photocenter/alb...54302/1/131766/

I'd echo Stryke's comment extremely generous of you - good luck finding any free time now that you've posted this offer.

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I'm sure there will be single missions that could be completed in 30 seconds or less.

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I think the fastest I've done one is under 5 seconds - about 10 if you include the time to zone, other than deliveries where I've had it when I've been talking to the contact I've had to deliver to. I've also had one where it was tell that guy 20 yards away such and such - you'd think she could have raised her voice a bit.
As it is the merits being awarded appear to be largely based on how popular the TF/SF is presumably as an incentive to run the less popular ones - seems to be working for Posi at least but then 55 merits for 2 hours is definitely a bit high. - The 90 for SSTF1 is probably about right though.