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1) IOs provide a bonus of 7.5% at level 10 through 40% at level 53. Is there a chart showing this progression by level? At what level would an IO out perform an SO?

2) What determines the level of an IO you invent? I was guessing player level, but if L53 IOs can exist that can't be it.

3) Since you don't out level your IOs (you can still get benefit from an IO 4+ levels beneath you) is there also no upward limit to IOs you can slot? If my L10 character had an L53 IO could they slot it?

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There are no level 53 Common Inventions. Commons only exist at 5 level increments starting at 10. Uncommons and Rares can go to 53 though.

It's based on the level of the enemy you defeated to get it.

You can still only slot Enhancements that are 3 levels higher than yourself, so your L10 character can't twink with an L53 IO.

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Ok, now I'm confused. I thought with the lvl 30-50 IOs if you slotted them it would mean you wouldn't need to reslot those powers with new enhancements as you progressed because the IO would scale with you. Is this not the case?

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You don't have to slot in new IO's but the higher lvl ones give a bigger bonus so you will more than likely want to slot them.

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Wait... Posi goofed?

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I take credit for the mistake, but blame the fact-checker for being sick that day.

I think I can now safely say that I have forgotten more about this game than most will ever know, and I proved it.

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Yes, you've obviously also forgotten about that Carnie Mastermind set you promised a couple of months back as well.....

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Hey gang. Here's what happened. Matt's been swamped with Inventions and I9. He approached me a few days ago about helping him write this article as I was the one who wrote the original design doc on all of the changes we're making to Hamidon in Issue 9. I wrote out the article for curse-gaming and at the very top, I left a blank section to talk a bit about Hamidon's back story, the history of raids over the years, and reveal what Geko's original idea as far as player strategy was.

I'll admit, I was a bit hazy on the back story. I've done the arc myself and I had the vague memory that it had something to do with a mutated scientist named Hamidon, but couldn't remember the details. All I could remember was his creation of the Devouring Earth, and part with Terra and the love letter. I didn't want to mess anything up and get the facts wrong, so I just left that section empty and set it back to Position for him to fill in. When I read over what he'd written, I didn't think that sounded like what I remembered. "But he's Positron," I thought, "Surely he'd know.

Well, he got it mixed up obviously. Between his own hazy memory and more importantly just being really busy fixing things for Issue 9, he came up with something about an ancient god. Brian, one of our mission/story writers, set out an email shortly after the article went up that that basically said "The Hamidon is a what what of what?"

So Brian, who actually knows what's going on in the story and was conveniently ill the day we sent this article out, has rewritten the backstory and we've asked curse-gaming to update the article.

Other than that, I hope everyone enjoys the article. I had a lot of fun writing it.

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You do realise you've ruined the City of Heroes Gods Death Match I was lining up don't you? and I was gonna bet on the Hamidon owning them

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To be honest, this isn't an official site so the reviewer are probably under some misconception about Hamidon.

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City of Heroes / City of Villains: Redesigning the “Hamidon”
By Christopher Bruce, Cryptic Developer

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Yeah, I actually found it a little annoying that one of the Devs knows so little about the game (even if he were trying to use "elder god" in a figurative sense) that he referred to defeating Hammi as sending it (him) back to the dimension from which he came.

Duh, read through a story arc of the game you code for once in a while.

It just looks bad to me. Cryptic's own developers (at least this one) know very little about the background of something that they are writing an article on... one that said dev knows full well is going to get published online and read by actual players.

I mean, come on, spend the 1-2 minutes it'll take to skim through the text of the arc and find the part about Hamidon being a scientist who mutated himself.

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What if it wasn't a matter of "just" a mutation? What if when he mutated himself, what actually happened was that it opened a gate to the Elder God Hamidon who then uses his body as a way into our world? What if this Elder God consumed the scientist's body in such a way so as to not require the scientist's actual body to reform here, which would explain the lack of such a body each time the Hamidon is defeated, or assuming this, repulsed from this dimension?

It's possible there is more to this than we currently know.

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I like the theory, but the fact that the scientist's name was Hamidon Pasalima before his transformation is a bit problimatic.

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We fixed the issue with the article's backstory to match the game's lore.

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Let me guess you mixed the Hamidon up with Rularuu?

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What if it wasn't a matter of "just" a mutation? What if when he mutated himself, what actually happened was that it opened a gate to the Elder God Hamidon who then uses his body as a way into our world? What if this Elder God consumed the scientist's body in such a way so as to not require the scientist's actual body to reform here, which would explain the lack of such a body each time the Hamidon is defeated, or assuming this, repulsed from this dimension?

It's possible there is more to this than we currently know.

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I like the theory, but the fact that the scientist's name was Hamidon Pasalima before his transformation is a bit problimatic.

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Well, consider that usually Elder Gods actual names are frequently quite unpronounceable to us so we had to "name" that Elder God with the name of the person who released it!

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There is no evidence that any Elder Gods were involved, just a horrible accident.

From the actual story arc (thanks to Red Tomax):
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Tanya Tyler's story

When you rescued her, Tanya Tyler told you:

'It's true, I did know Hamidon. back then, he was Hamidon Pasalima, the molecular biologist. he was so passionate! So concerned about the world! We fell in love.'

'But I haven't seen him in years, not since our first raid on Paragon Technological Institute. Yes, I was there. Hamidon used the facilities to create something he called 'The Will of the Earth'. A colony of sentient bacteria with the ability to warp living material on a molecular level. When the heroes came to stop us, I lost track of him. I guess I always assumed he had been killed.'


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Hamidon was transformed because he became infected with the "Will of the Earth" when several heroes attempted to stop him from making it. Now exactly who those heroes are is the real mystery.

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The "Will of the Earth" may very well have been derived from something Hamidon found in nature, it's possible that some of his research may have, unknown to him, been some sort of bio mass from some "god" that inhabited the Earth eons ago, think of it like some sort of ancient version of Shiva.

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All corrections have been made to the list, if you're still missing from the list please post your link. Also anyone know who these people are on the forums?

http://speakrussiantome.deviantart.com/
http://skysaurus.deviantart.com/
http://tdue.deviantart.com/
http://themaskedshrike.deviantart.com/
http://angelcrusher.deviantart.com/
http://brazilian-ninja.deviantart.com/

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You seem to have missed Aerones from your list

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Whoa! How'd you find me?
>.>
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...I wasn't ready yet.

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My time in the secret service has served me well but seriously, I was running a search for something and saw the piece you did for me and so I clicked on it and found your little hideaway

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lol, it seems to certainly be exploding in membership. We'll have to make a splinter group at this rate. :P A commission with all the members would be sweet, but it would be way too massive now.

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Just pick the core members, there's only a handful of them

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All corrections have been made to the list, if you're still missing from the list please post your link. Also anyone know who these people are on the forums?

http://speakrussiantome.deviantart.com/
http://skysaurus.deviantart.com/
http://tdue.deviantart.com/
http://themaskedshrike.deviantart.com/
http://angelcrusher.deviantart.com/
http://brazilian-ninja.deviantart.com/

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You seem to have missed Aerones from your list

1 Million Prestige? must of taken awhile to earn that

Thanks guys

Nice, the sword reminds me a little of Ashkandi, Greatsword of the Brotherhood.

This is freakin' cool

Sovereign-1

Impressive, as always

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Since so many seem to be asking for multiple powers, how does this sound:

No more than 20 points can be spent on one power.
There's no limit to how many points can be earned.
After 50, each point is awarded when you've gained enough XP to level.


To get two "maxed" powers would be the equivalent of getting to level 72. No easy feat, but would be an incentive to keep playing your level 50's - being able to wow n00bs under Atlas with a string of customised powers would be an acceptable substitue for the legend system, methinks?

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Um, no.

No matter how long it might take to get enough points for 10 such powers, it will happen. Our coal could start doing 3 LRSFs a day, and Doors in WB or farm RV if not enough for the LRSF. That would be a maxed sig power per week, maybe two, could be less even.

And then I could make a 10 power attack chain and prolly solo AVs and Heroes on any char. I'd say keep it to one maxed power, tho maybe you could make more then one power, but you'll have to divide those points among those powers.

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Yeah, this was my issue with it initially, but people kept asking for it. I'm not sure they'd "be able to solo an AV" tho...

Let's assume the maximum 20 points:

[u]Range of Power[u]

1 point / 15 feet

We'll assume this is a tank for the moment, so 0 points here, as this will be a melee attack.

[u]2) Area of effect[u]

1 point / 3 feet

If it's for taking on AV's, it only needs to be single-target.

[u]3) Effect[u]

2 points / damage level, 1 point / per magnitude other effects

10 points of an extreme damage attack, of course, and another five for the maximum -regen.

[u]4) Duration of effects[u]

1 point / second

5 points used here on the -regen, for a 5-second duration.

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Extreme damage, single-target melee attack with a -regen for 5 seconds, using 20 end, with a 20-minute recharge and default accuracy.

To be able to chain them non-stop, you'd need 240, and they have probably approaching a 50/50 chance of landing (I can't remember what the base to hit would be against a same level'd (ie. purple) AV), so nearer 500 to keep it constant.

At only 5 seonds of -regen you're not going to see much difference unless you can constantly spam these and if you couldn't solo the AV before, you wouldn't be able to without keeping it constant. To say nothing of the endurance cost of 20 end every 5-seconds.

So I don't actually think it's a problem, and one reason why I kept the recharge so damn high to start with.

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As a thought, how would you construct a signature power like "Bodyguard" using this system?

"Leave them to me, I will deal with them myself!"

The gates to Hazard Zones have a pretty dark background to them.

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It looks good so far

A littlse constructive critique would be that the left breast looks a little "soggy" for lack of a better word, It´s sort of weirdshaped, especially to the allmost perfect circle of the right one.

Poul

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I believe the word is "saggy" rather than soggy

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For some reason it wouldn't let me register Sovereign-1 in any form, so I settled on Eiyuu instead.

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It's okay now I edited it after I registered, it also looks like Sovereign-1 will be joining up soon as well

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Ugh. I really hate this, but things took another turn for the worst at work. Unless things change, I'll be putting in too many 80-hour weeks to get started.

Guess I was premature on the casting call.

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You obviously work for Lord Recluse

For some reason it wouldn't let me register Sovereign-1 in any form, so I settled on Eiyuu instead.

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I created an Invuln/Fire Melee Tanker called Eiyuu, got him to level 6 and he seems to be fine, so I might stick with him instead.

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Thats cool! I love Undead Champion though. Great look on that character, plus I love the Broadsword Scrapper set.

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Oh I'm sure I'll have ups & downs with this character too, I have with every other blasted Tanker that's for sure

I created an Invuln/Fire Melee Tanker called Eiyuu, got him to level 6 and he seems to be fine, so I might stick with him instead.

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...and who is this TA character?

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Look behind you! he's probably stalking you as we speak!

I think the big problem is we have all these events this time round within a very short space of time, it just feels like burnout to me.

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Well get a tank in there. Memphis Bill can use one. Because he seems to think his scrapper is one

We had what, 2 warshades, 1 scrapper, 3 trollers and 2 defs on that team. It was pretty fun, even with a maxxed out instance and lots of nazis to go around, we were very effective when we all stayed in one place.

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He's only level 3 though, he'll be squished