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Since the power the Tornado uses to apply the defense debuff is auto, I would expect it to check once per 10 seconds, like a damage aura or rain power does.
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Volcanic Gasses is a funny little power, just about up there with Carrion Creepers in terms of complexity. I'm trying to figure some things out about it; for the purposes of this, I'll use the Dominator numbers, because that's really what I'm interested in. As far as I can tell from its City of Data writeup...
The power actually summons seven pets.
Volcanic Gas
Pet #1 is Volcanic Gas, which just sits there and spams the AoE fire damage attack. Nobody cares. Next!
Volcanic Geyser
The rest of the pets are Volcanic Geysers. One Volcanic Geyser is summoned at a time every ten seconds the patch is down. Each Geyser lasts 15 seconds and has a single power, Thermal Vents.
Thermal Vents
Thermal Vents is a ranged mag 3 AoE hold with a 6 second recharge and a base 7.45 second duration. The hold component isn't flagged as being unenhanceable, so with 95% hold enhancement, I assume that this becomes a 14.5s duration hold. Thermal Vents is listed as having a blank cast time, so I assume that it casts instantly.
So, various thoughts and questions:
Performance versus a single target
As far as I can tell, if there's only a single target inside Volcanic Gasses, every casting of Thermal Vents will be directed at it. Assuming none of them miss, this can get nasty fast. If my math is correct, by the 16 second point, the target will be under a mag 12 hold, and it proceeds to waver between mag 12 and mag 15 for the rest of the power's duration.
0s: Geyser 1 spawned, target hit with 14.5s mag 3 hold (Geyser 1). Now has mag 3 hold on it.
6s: Target hit with 14.5s mag3 hold (Geyser 1). Now has a mag 6 hold on it.
10s: Geyser 2 spawned, target hit with 14.5s mag 3 hold (Geyser 2). Now has a mag 9 hold on it.
12s: Target hit with 14.5s mag3 hold (Geyser 1). Now has a mag 12 hold on it.
14.5s: First hold from Geyser 1 fades. Now has a mag 9 hold on it.
15s: Geyser 1 despawns.
16s: Target hit with 14.5s mag 3 hold (Geyser 2). Now has a mag 12 hold on it.
20s: Geyser 3 spawned, target hit with 14.5 mag 3 hold (Geyser 3). Now has a mag 15 hold on it.
20.5s: Second hold from Geyser 1 fades. Now has a mag 12 hold on it.
22s: Target hit with 14.5s mag 3 hold (Geyser 2). Now has a mag 15 hold on it.
24.5s: First hold from Geyser 2 fades. Now has a mag 12 hold on it.
25s: Geyser 2 despawns.
26s: Target hit with 14.5s mag 3 hold (Geyser 3). Now has a mag 15 hold on it.
26.5s: Third hold from Geyser 1 fades. Now has a mag 12 hold on it.
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Does this look correct?
Procs
Since Thermal Vents is a click power, it appears to me that any hold procs in Volcanic Gasses will be triggered every six seconds per Volcanic Geyser. Carnifax's post in this thread suggests this is true--does anybody have enough experience to confirm it? -
Quote:This, plus, if you run those tip missions at level 50, you have a chance for purples to drop. Over the course of doing tips to get my Dominator her last couple of purple sets, I've had two purples drop.Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
The easiest way to get them is to get alignment merits (either through tip missions or running TFs and converting merits). Now don't use the alignment merits to buy purples directly, it's not worth it. Instead use them to buy high value rare recipes (level 25 LotG 7.5%s are often a good choice but check the market) craft those and sell them on the market. You can often get 200 million for 2 A-Merits this way which, given the cost of purples works out to needing about 4-6 alignment merits for every purple recipe.
Now most people only slot 5 pieces of the set and the proc is generally a bit cheaper than the others so you're probably looking at around 50 alignment merits per character to get 10 purples this way.
Also, note what other people have said: Purples aren't necessarily the be-all-end-all IOs. The recharge bonuses are great... if you need recharge bonuses. But they mostly lack other popular bonuses (*cough*defense*cough*). -
Quote:... y'know, the entire post was a joke (if "These threads just don't list petty enough things for me to be proud of" didn't make it obvious) but apparently not having any catgirls really does make people think they're better than everybody else.Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
I have no catgirls, so I win. Or I would if this was a contest and I actually cared what you play.
Also, the OP should just say the following:
Quote:Over 93% of CoH players have tried farming. If you're one of the 7% who haven't and proud of it, post this on your Facebook status. -
Characters: Aisha A., An'chai, Blazeknight, Dancing Phoenix, Empress Xhan, Entropy Dagger, Erica Strauss, Field Supervisor Orr, Freelance Rose, Hail Striker, Jessica Reid, Kaelinia, Kai-Lian, Kelenar, Liora Kate, Magatama, Naira al-Jamil, Qiao Huang, Quicksilver Shadow, Reisa Cobblestump, Rogue Arcanist, Scrap Dragon, Shardwave, Shatterware, Silverbuilt, Smashflower, Sorrow-Weave, Translator 0x04B
ATs
Defender 6
Scrapper 6
Corruptor 4
Dominator 3
Brute 3
Blaster 2
Mastermind 2
Stalker 2
Favorite AT is Defender, followed by Dominator and Brute in no particular order.
Levels
50: 13
40s: 4
30s: 3
20s: 4
Teens: 2
Single-digits: 2
Alignments
Hero: 15
Villain: 8
Rogue: 4
Vigilante: 0
Resistance: 1
The numbers should be...
Hero: 12
Villain: 6
Rogue: 6
Vigilante: 3
Resistance: 1
I'm just too lazy to get a lot of characters to their proper alignment.
Origins
Magic: 12
Mutation: 5
Science: 5
Technology: 4
Natural: 2
About half of my Magic-origin characters could be Natural by the game's definition--it covers things like fire elementals with innate fire-shooting capabilities.
Powersets
Electric Blast: 3
Traps: 3
Dark Armor: 2
Dark Melee: 2
Dual Blades: 2
Fire Armor: 2
Ice Blast: 2
Katana: 2
Radiation Emission: 2
Regeneration: 2
Stone Melee: 2
Storm Summoning: 2
Unrepeated powersets: 30 -
I vaguely remember, from the distant past, thinking that the speed of the comet thingy's rotation was directly related to how much end/second the toggle used, but I have no idea if this has any basis in fact.
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Quote:*brofist*Originally Posted by Nethergoat
I'm proud I don't call any of my characters "toon", whether I use them to farm or not.
These threads just don't list petty enough things for me to be proud of.
I'm proud that I have a bunch of level 50 Defenders instead of Corruptors, because it's a nobler AT.
I'm proud that I always pick Shield Drone or Blue Wisp for my vet pet, because I don't think the oscillators or fairies are aesthetically pleasing.
I'm proud of giving all the poor unloved Detonation, Air Burst, Crushing Haymaker, Essence of Curare, and Ruin pieces a home.
I'm proud my main Blaster is Elec/Elec, because raw damage is so passé.
I'm proud that I have exactly one FotM build character and exactly one catgirl, or otherwise I'd go around acting better than everybody else. -
If you work for alignment merits, each of those recipes are 4 days of tip missions, tops. That's how I've gotten them on my characters I want them on--tip missions are a nice way to level up anyway, and getting good recipes out of it is just gravy. I wouldn't call them all worth having in every build, either. My /Elec Brute has no need for more recovery, and most squishies won't get that much from +25% regen (it would be a whopping 1.3 hp/sec for my level 50 Dominator.)
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Quote:Bated breath! It's bated breath, damn you! Unless you're friggin' sticking a fishing lure in your lungs!Originally Posted by That articleEvery season, Chuck fans wait with baited breath to see if the show will return, so why should 2011 be any different?
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"Of course I want to work here! I love CoX!"
"Where do I see myself in five years? Doing whatever I can for CoX!"
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Quote:Your local gaming store is probably the best start, yeah. The site Pen and Paper Games also lets you register yourself, along with the systems you're interested in. You can see what other players are in your area, and invite them to games. I actually got invited to two games through the service, so it apparently works... although it definitely works better if you're the one doing the inviting, since that was two invitations in about 18 months in a dense residential area.Originally Posted by Quantum_Knight
As this seems a good place to ask where people might know, anyone know of ways to find new groups for the "not sure where to start looking" crowd?
If you're interested in play-by-post online games, Myth-Weavers, Plothook.net, and The Tangled Web all have forums for that. A lot of game companies' sites also serve to hook up players and GMs for online games, and there are also some fan sites for specific games, like Pattern Spider for Exalted or Dumpshock for Shadowrun.
If you're interested in non-play-by-post online games, the site rpgloop helps hook up players and GMs for online games played over gaming software like OpenRPG or MapTool (both free.)
Pff. Batman would probably be a starting character in Exalted. On the Celestial power scale, at least.Quote:Originally Posted by Dr_Mechano
Been thinking about finding a group for Exalted.
Especially since Exalted seems to be a fantasy/super hero weird kind of crossover where everything is over the top to an almost comic book level. -
Quote:Yeah, I've never been quite sure about how I feel about the Freakshow's direction since the earlier issues. Hell, as I remember, they get a lot of their members from bored successful twenty-somethings, but most of the missions portray them as borderline illiterate. I think there actually are a couple missions with jokes about Freaks being illiterate. Maybe Excelsior causes brain damage.Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
The level 30-40 range has always been a little dry.... Please, can we have another Freakshow arc where they are portrayed as dangerous, violent nihilists rather than leet-speaking comic relief? Remember when their stupid names and the funny things they said only served to underscore their casual attitude toward killing people?
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Quote:"I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is loaded with Fireball, the most powerful third-level damage spell in the world, and would fry your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk? "Originally Posted by Beastyle
To get around that, I started scribing spells onto tiny scrolls that I could use, as I could place the magic onto a scroll and then read it. I put the scrolls into tiny capsules housed in a custom bandolier.
And then I built a gun. A gun with a revolving chamber that housed the miniature capsules containing the scrolls.
And then I shot fireballs.
It was glorious. -
Quote:Ooh, I forgot about that. Follow-up on Cimerora, getting a bit more into Romulus' master.Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
But then I'd have to play a Kheldian
Requiem travels back in time to ancient Rome and becomes his own grandfather or something after the Kheldian storyline anyway, so he's obviously trying to take over the world again, and the Nictus are somehow involved, as Romulus is so fond of telling us. -
Quote:I'm partially convinced the game's existence isn't an elaborate hoax now...Originally Posted by TheSummerEvening
<evidence that people actually play L5R>
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Quote:All of these. Dark Astoria and the Shadow Shard are the two zones that always come up whenever this topic is raised, and something needs to be done with the Blood of the Black Stream. Also, the Council/Column war. The Kahn/Barracuda TFs re-introduce the 5th Column, but right now, they don't really have any sort of in-game presence outside the TFs and a few street spawns. Give them some story arcs or something to explain what they've been doing all this time and what their plans for the future are.Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
*points to the S&I forum*
Dark Astoria. Yes, not "a storyline," but a zone with a ton of atmosphere AND story elements in it (COT trying to keep "the sleeper" bound, the BP waking it, and the Tsoo looking for "something" - I know I've made a number of suggestions on it, as have others.)
Darrin Wade, yes. And, again, if we're going "All team, all trial Praetorian invasion," hey, why not some solo/small team stuff fighting another godlike being - y'know, kind of incarnate level appropriate - in the Shard? Ruularu has just been hanging out for quite some time.
See how the Shivans tie into the Coming Storm. They just kind of hang out (and get controlled, sort of, by Aeon.)
Even if we're not getting them as an EAT because of the shapeshifting or whatnot, going through Gadzul Oil, the Blood of the Black Stream and everything they're doing (something about a worldwide techno/magic computer of some sort) would be good for teen to 30s, at the least.
Giving VEATs a decent storyline instead of the travesty they have now might get me interested in actually playing their storyline again.
Redoing (and making somewhat clearer, more "investigative" and easier to follow from contact to contact) the Skull -> Trolls -? Family -> ... ? and Hellion - Outcast - Tsoo messing with everyone - ? lines would be good. -
Quote:True, I'd forgotten about the wrapped-up thing. It's one I noticed a few weeks after Praetoria came out, myself... by the time you leave, most of the storylines are resolved and it seems like you're up there in the upper echelons of power. Which is good for a standalone experience, but makes it hard to tie into the rest of the game as a whole.Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
The way it's been written it's a self-contained storyline, with nearly everything neatly wrapped up by the time we move on to Primal Earth. The only things left to do are to get rid of Tyrant and get rid of their Hamidon, which would provide content for two issues at most, unless they get more creative than they seem to be able to of late.
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0010 Does my build have important, long-recharge powers?
0020 If YES, go to 0040.
0030 If NO, don't take Hasten.
0040 Does my build have significant endurance problems after slotting Stamina and frankenslotting all attacks for endredux?
0050 If NO, go to 0070.
0060 If YES, don't take Hasten until endurance is under control. This may be never.
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Quote:Also, Fitness couldn't really cause any problems: You take it, it gives you a free benefit. The Fighting toggles have endurance costs associated, which some builds are much better off avoiding.Originally Posted by Jophiel
Fighting is only useful if you're going to actively build around what it provides. A blaster who isn't building for defense isn't going to benefit much from Weave and would probably be better taking almost anything else. Melees already have the foundation to make some use out of the pool, ranged characters require a commitment to using it (at the potential expense of other build focuses) to make it worthwhile.
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Quote:I'm curious, what were your issues with Praetoria? Was it solely mechanical stuff, or on the storytelling level too?Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
One who hates [. . .] Praetoria
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One thing that's been apparent to me in my time here is that a good chunk of CoH players are also pretty avid tabletop gamers, but I've never really gotten a good overview of what people actually play, since half of the threads have just turned into D&D 4 vs. D&D 3.5 (don't do that in this one, seriously.) I was actually short player or two for an online Exalted game a while back and went, 'well, I know a few folks in CoH play it, maybe I could ask them...' only to realize I couldn't remember most of the specifics on who played what.
So, I'm curious. What d'you play?
Me: (and feel free to format your lists differently)
Currently Playing
Exalted 2e (Infernals): And getting close to delicious Devil-Tiger-ness after playing weekly since the Infernals book came out. I'm thinking my character's Devil-Tiger title will be The Apocalypse And What Comes After, since she agrees that a lot of prominent people need to be horribly incinerated according to the current Reclamation's plans, but also thinks that Primordials need to shepherd and protect Creation instead of just rampage in it... since the current batch doesn't seem up to this job, the idea of replacing Malfeas as head honcho is starting to look mighty tempting...
Exalted 2e (Lunars): Well, a game that'll be starting soon. High Conviction, low Compassion Lunar assassin! What could possibly go wrong?
Eclipse Phase: A PbP game, also starting soon. I'm playing a jack-of-all-trades freelance reporter for the Hypercorps. In a liquid metal body. Who infiltrates Martian separatists. And with a literal addiction to viewing other people's memories. God, I love Eclipse Phase. Being wise to its ways, a good chunk of my starting points went to a backup body.
Currently Running
Nothing! Because after running Changeling for six months, then Exalted for a year, then Eclipse Phase for another four months, I deserve a break. Especially since each year of running Exalted is as much work as seven years of running something else. Just like with dogs! I'm leaning strongly toward running Changeling again soon... if I can find players. My normal group is down to about three players, only one of which actually knows Changeling.
Also Own
Changeling: the Lost: Probably my favorite game of all time... conceptually, at least. I've never really played in a game of it that lived up to the game's potential, but I still adore it.
D&D 4e: Was my beer-and-pretzels game for about a year and a half, but it eventually died after too many people had to drop out.
Gamma World: I was supposed to run this for my friends, but nah.
Geist: the Sin-Eaters: I like this conceptually, but reading it didn't really give me any campaign or character ideas. Which is weird, because usually I come away from a book with fifty ideas. Especially weird since most people report the opposite, that this was one of the most idea-inspiring books they ever read.
Mutants & Masterminds, 2e and 3e: Makes a nice game for introducing people to the hobby, in my experience. I've created about four characters for 2e, but never been in a game of it that lasted more than one session.
BESM 3e: BESM d20 was the first system I ever ran a game in (yes, it's a trainwreck,) but nostalgia aside, I seem to be one of the very few people who like BESM. It makes a nice light, flexible system if you're not playing with min-maxers. Just ignore all the fluff.
Shadowrun 4e: Shadowrun interests me on a general level, but every time I look at the core book, I get the strong sense that it requires a lot of commitment. Since, you know, it has like six different sub-systems of rules for different things and a good chunk of backstory. (I already have a game that pretty much requires you to write a doctorate thesis on it before you can run a campaign. It's called Exalted.) Still, I give it a try now and then.
Serenity: Never really read it or played it. It's a game that I think I'd enjoy both playing and running, though, so I'm not sure why.
Paranoia: My friend ran a brief campaign of this after I bought the book, and everybody seemed to enjoy it. A great game to introduce people to stuff with, especially if your friends are a bunch of devious backstabbers like mine.
I'm also very curious about L5R, but I have zero evidence that people actually play this game. It's kind of hard to work up enthusiasm for reading a game I'll likely never get to play. -
Quote:Glad I'm not the only one annoyed by this.Originally Posted by Luminara
"Diffuse the Nemesis threat"
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Quote:Well, that's why I said for 'diversity of powers.' For a more standard definition of versatility, I'm not so sure, but if you just want to make a big list of different effects you have at your disposal, Controllers probably beat everybody else hands-down.Originally Posted by Clouded
I don't agree that controllers in general win by default. Damage is very important and is the ultimate debuff.
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Well, it'd go something like this.
Days 1-6: Lay around in a fugue, trying to get into various single-player games and offline activities and finding myself just instinctively trying to log in to check to markets or run a few tip missions.
Days 7-20: Try out different MMOs and remember that I hate all of them.
Days 21+: Eventually just spend more time on the other stuff I enjoy. Probably read a lot more and start watching more than five anime series a year. Almost invariably, I'd start running a new tabletop game, as I got bottled up with character ideas that would have to go somewhere. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Luminara
Nothing would make me happier than to see an entire Issue dedicated to cleaning house. There's a distinct feel of quantity over quality lately, and I don't like it. Poor QA, grade school writing and a complete lack of action on long-standing bugs is not the way to attract new players, or retain the existing ones.These. Unfortunately, with the Incarnate system eating up development time, I suspect low-level content revamps are a really low priority.Quote:Originally Posted by Eiko-chan
Revamps of blue-side might make me actually play blue-side. Revamps are new content.