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I think pets summoned by critters generally get an effective +25% ToHit. Malta auto-turrets certainly do. Critters that aren't pets - such as those Rikti Comm Off summon - don't get this, just pet class critters summoned by other critters.

If you're running anything with the new Praetorian critters in it - which includes Imperial Defense Forces, Clockworks, Warworks, Seers and the Devoured Earth that appear in tip missions - then you are far more likely to run into +ToHit than you were in the past. The DE always had Quartz eminators with +ToHit, but now some have a personal ToHit buff as well. Most of the IDF not only has something that grants +ToHit (Seer Fortitude/Tactics and the Battle Orbs) but -Def as well, and some Clockwork have a power that actually causes you to attack yourself and anyone near you. Seers in particular are murder, as all of the minions have either stackable +ToHit (Seekers have weaker versions of Fortitude and Tactics) or nasty -Def (Scryers).

Yes, an oversight on the Devs part. I first noticed it when I tried to use a Power Analyzer to look for the -END Res of some mobs when beta testing Electric Control. I'm pretty sure I reported it as a bug at that time. I encourage others to do the same, as it certainly should be in the CA report somewhere.

It doesn't scale by level, as being a self debuff the caster is always the same level as the target.

Actually, Spines DoT is cancel-on-miss. The 80% chance on all Spines attacks is. Essentially what's happening is the initial attack has an 80% chance of applying a delayed tick of damage, which in turn has an 80% chance of applying another delayed tick and so on till the maximum is reached. So if any tick fails to apply the next the string is broken.

As far as I know all DoT powers that say they have a chance of DoT work this way. It is certainly true of the "bonus damage" of both Spines and all Fire sets. Powers that say they do DoT without mentioning a chance don't do this.

The Reactive Interface DoT appears to be a chance to proc with a 100% chance of DoT if it does, rather than a 100% chance to proc applying a chance to do DoT. That is, it doesn't appear to be cancel-on-miss. All Interface procs lack the 10s lockout, but instead have a stack cap of 4 applications of their effect on a given target even if the effects come from different casters.

Correct.

Yikes, no, don't spend tickets on SOs. Buy salvage with the tickets and auction it. There's no real risk in that compared to making Bronze rolls and you can work the process with as little as 10k to start. Buy L26-40 Arcane Uncommons such as Alchemical Gold and Symbols and sell those at WW for 200-500k (depending upon your patience and the current market). At the low end of that range it's really better to get Rares than Uncommons, but with Rares down to 2M or less the 500k per Uncommon yields a better return (about 80% better) and you don't need 540 tickets to start the process.

For example, one decent ticket run of 480 would allow you to get 6 Symbols which sold at 500k yields 2.7M INF, which is more than enough to keep you in SOs for a while. Even sold at 200k that's 1.08M. Enough for about 20 SOs compared to the 450 ticket return of just 6.

So, taking the time and trouble to auction off salvage will get you about 3 to 8 times as many SOs as using the tickets directly. Or more importantly, 1/8th to 1/3rd the pain of playing AE without the SOs long enough to get them.

Was this on Guardian? My SG co-leader said he had a League come visit him in a Tip mission yesterday.

I have to say, the bugs in I20 are some of the most novel yet.

Reading the announcements won't tell you anything about that. It's in the monthly Producer's Letter in Dev's Corner or the News Archives of the main site.

They nerfed the lava? I guess I need to go do some more testing.

That must have been early beta. I didn't notice any changes to him while I was in there. But then I didn't really test that mission till after the buff range change on live.

Lord Acton was actually his title, his surname was Dalberg (though I believe he used Dalberg-Acton too).

At 45+ you get the level boost, at 44- you don't.

LOL. Or, for some of those of us who are older: one is too tiny to tell what color it is, and the other is too tiny to tell what color it is.

Extra range could change the behavior of pets, particularly those with Cones, as it may alter what range they think the power will work at and therefore could affect their movement and attack choices in some edge cases.

It shouldn't affect their aggro range however, as that is a matter of PER. +PER can cause the affect the OP mentions, as anyone playing Imps while a teammate is running Tactics can attest.

Only the Mistresses have the nasty, NASTY -Def power Mental Scramble. They get it at L40+. It's not autohit though, it's Ranged/Psi. However, both have Mind Link, as do the higher rank Fortunatas. I think it's +5% ToHit, and can stack from several of them, but fortunately I think only one uses it at a time. However, a lot of the lesser stuff does minor -Def too, and Night Widows get a hefty +ToHit of their own. Throw in Executioner's Strikes from the Banes and Arachnos can be murder for Defense reliant builds. Those L40+ Tarantula Mistresses are the key though.

Especially in a slot in Health where an L50 Common is 17% Regen.

Well, some of it I just know from in game experience or from older sources (such as the Purple Patch info and the Council's and CoT's -Def), but much of it I verified or looked up at ParagonWiki. Some is a rough estimate from experience, like the estimated percentages large Council spawns can be expected to debuff a soft-capped toon. Anyway, here are some of the links I checked:

Purple Patch - this tells how effects scale with level differences.

Arch-villains - this tells you why AVs sneer at many debuffs.

And the various mobs can be found by searching for the group name such as... Longbow

Another source of good data is City of Data.

And, Mids' Hero Designger can be handy too when you're talking about your own numbers. Some of the numbers it gives are off, such as those for Lysosome HOs in Rad Inf (something I noted recently when respec'ing my Rad Def and saving money by using Lysos instead of Enzymes). But then so are some of the numbers Real Numbers give, such as the average damage for Jolting Chain.

Council have some light -Def from those that use Assault Rifles or Submachineguns. Note that all of the -Def is from Ranged attacks.

CoT can have significant amounts from those using Earth powers (Earth Thorn Casters, Ruin Mages, Ruin Arch-Mage, some Possessed Scientists), but the typical high level Ice Thorn/Behemoth/Death Mage crowd has none. All the -Def is from Ranged attacks or location powers (Quicksand and Earthquake) which are autohit debuffs.

Longbow has a ton of critters that do small amounts of -Def with their guns plus the Officers and Empathy Wardens can buff ToHit and the Rad-using Longbow Wardens can shred Defense. Most of the -Def is Ranged, but there's one AoE in there from the Rad Warden (Electron Haze).

So, at +2 you're Darkest Night is about a -13.5% ToHit debuff. At capped Ranged Def you can probably avoid taking more than about a 9% DeBuff from the Council, most of which you'll resist. But they could spike you a couple of times and so I'd want a little margin with DN. So against Council and CoT (the latter unfortunately don't like to melee, and will probably have to be herded) you can probably get bye with around 37-40% Melee Def, but will want soft-capped Ranged.

The Longbow are a different story. First, they have more -Def, and second, once they start hitting you they have -Res and can put a world of hurt on you in a hurry. Most of the time you can probably make do with that 37-40%, but if there's a Officer, Emp Warden or Rad Warden in the mix, things can get ugly fast. If you're not inclined to slow down to identify them before attacking then you're going to want a larger margin of error. Probably that full 49% plus Darkest Night.