Hammerfall

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Erm I did actually say that.... it's in your quote and everything.

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Damn, sorry.. too many words!

Deleted cause I am a nub.

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Bases are a CoV feature, if you wish to enter them as a hero you'll need to have CoV as well.

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To be more precise, you need to have your NCsoft account containing City of Heroes upgraded with City of Villains code. There is a possibility for a screw up and having COH and COV addded to the account as separate games so pay attention to the procedure if you need to do it.

Summary: you need to have either COV or City of heroes Good vs. Evil edition to have access to supergroup bases. Mere COH doesnt give access.

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And, on a bit of an unreated topic... does Power Boost also "boost" de defense granted by Personal Force Field or the resistance granted by Temp Invulnerability?? If so... woohooo! Here comes the Blanker! (Blaster+tanker) At least for 15 secs... ^_^

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Power boost boosts defense yes, but not resistance. PFF does not have a timer, its a toggle and not a costly one. You can keep it on indefinitely. It will allow you to hit the 'soft' defense cap anyway even without power boost. Drawback is that you cannot attack with it on. Temp invulnerability could use at least 2 end red in it. And you can 'tank' with force of nature on for a bit.

Conserve power is great, definitely not a 'waste'. A pve blaster can live without most stuff but stamina is simply nice to have for an enjoyable game experience.

My energy/energy blaster went long without stamina, trying to survive with slotting and conserve power. It didn't work. Currently I have 3-slotted stamina, conserve power, and 1 end redux in the most costly attacks and I run out of endurance in prolonged attacking unless conserve power is available. He is a PVP-specced blapper.

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There's no option to turn off Temp Powers, unfortunately. All we can do is ask people not to but those powers in their powerbar for the battles. Or encourage it.

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Actually temp powers don't work inside arena at all (except arena temps bought from the shop) but vet reward powers aren't temp powers..

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If you want reliable aggro around a mastermind as a brute, you should be taking taunt or some PBAoE aura that has a built in taunt effect. The only other way is for the MM to play beneath their potential, which is hardly fair.

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Does anyone spot the mistake in Max's comment there? Of all people on these boreds? I'm shocked!!

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Brutes have a singletarget variation of gauntlet to themselves, although I don't think it should be called gauntlet as such.

You had best slot it for 3 defense 1 resistance to be on safer side. And don't use it if your enemy does psionic attacks.

Hmm I havent tried all that much against different EBs, but I noticed with snaptooth that confusing seems to work well. So my mind/en will stack confuse from distance (no aggro) until EBs prot is broken ( can continue it until domination is ready) amd then just attack normally and keep EB permaconfused. Looks like triangles offer no extra confuse prot, thanks to whoever that was that tipped me off.

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Wonder what currently happens if your rent is due and this patch goes live.


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You will propably need to pay the old amount and only in next rent payment is the new method used to calculate it.

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Hell yeah!
That's what I've been suggesting for ages - it's so much fairer for smaller SGs, and for ones who have ups and downs in their membership and activity.

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And if the SG has trouble with dwindling memberships, they can downgrade plot to get less rent.

I think this fix has been long in coming. Good stuff.

Just realized.. 0 rent for the starting plot!!

AWOOOGAH! AWOOOGAH!

They are finally changing rent, heres the link:
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I havent calculated how does this work actually but at least the basic idea sounds good.

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Ill be at tomorrow nights arena event from about 8.30 if you would like a duel. Ill proberly be there as Bitter Ice but ill be happy to fetch my /dev for a few 1v1s

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On saturday evenings I usually can't make it. Try throwing a tell to me or try defiant pvpers global channel at times.

Thanks to all participants, especially all the volunteers to pull off this impromptu raid. Mr ?, Miss Manners, PA team members, Empath prime, Captain alpha 01,

The people in my team, Cunundrum, Miss Tega, Orion star, Red Noise, Kooma, Jessica Winthrop, uh, right now my brain is still sleeping and I can't remember all the people who I'd like to thank.. sorry and thank you all!

Also I'm sorry for apparently bit flaky Hami aggro handling at times. I don't know why it happened. Possibly moving out of taunt range.. I had to move around a fair bit cause Mitoclearers were spread apart at times and moved in a bit random pattern.. Im sorry for the deaths I caused (save for bubble clearing phase, meh)

The PA setting and Mito clearing phases were more than a bit chaotic, but we got there in the end, and luckily we had enough holders for the holding phase. Mission accomplished. ^^

Hmm well, its even better than I thought of then.

From my experiences during the test server event,noxious gas has the unenhancable uptime of 1 minute, and with hasten a downtime of about 55 seconds.

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2) can be hellishly difficult to trap someone in in the first place.



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Pre epic yes it can be but ive cold epic so its easy. snowstorm + web nade means they arnt moving fast anyway. After that you can trap them easy.

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Well thats one of the few possibly working combos that I can think of. Anyway, I'd be interested to duel /devs on defiant or test server to check them out. Cloaking device is pretty pointless in arena on its own however, and combined with smoke grenade the -percep lasts only a few seconds. (from my duels with Trix)

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Noxious Gas: (City of Data)

1000 Held to Target for 4 seconds (0% chance) if (target = critter)
(Human and target.HasTag?) [Ignores Enhancements & Buffs] [Non-resistable]

the 0% chance seems a bit odd.

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I wasnt aware that it had hold component in it, although Ive only tried it in pvp during the test server event.

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Although I still say PB doesn't boost -res

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It doesnt. -res is another form of +dam and damage is not a secondary effect. PB does buff a whole lotta other things, like other debuffs in that build.

Despite lot of moaning after the epic damages, I think controllers are still quite good. For a duel controller I guess flavor of the current month is almost anything /rad , except earth. Particularly grav, fire or maybe ill. I think /storms still ok too.

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yeah and then when you un-invis to deliver the AS you'll just be seen anyway, so seems a bit pointless to me :P

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There is a difference between being seen a mile away and when opponent just realizes youre behind him and poised to strike..

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Nice, but instead of Invis and Grant Invis fly could be a good idea, for sneaky AS'ing of hovering blasters/defenders/controllers in RV.

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'instead of'? You know you will be seen a mile away without invis or grant invis

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/poison is an awesome secondary for ST debuff. The 38 power is awesome against Statesman, it's a mag1000 hold for 4 seconds.


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Excuse me, what power is that again?

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Ok post some events which yhou want to be in this Arena Evening please

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Tonight? what time was it again?