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Quote:Hahaha!Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
It's one of those useless little "Why did they not put something else with it" set bonuses - Debt Protection. Admittedly they've done more to the game that makes debt even more of a non-issue since I9, but even when they were introduced, I don't think anyone was jumping for joy at seeing Debt Protection bonuses. (Especially at 1%.)
Still, out of curiosity (and boredom,) has anyone ever tried throwing together a "Debt protection" build - just to see how high you could get on it? (No, I don't think anyone would do this in game, this is more of a "Play with mids" item.)
I've been thinking to make a build with all these awesome powers: Group Fly, Team TP and Whirlwind, and built to maximize debt protection bonuses, but never came around to actually spec it in mids
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Quote:I think, something got borked with Will of the Earth around the end of i17. I've been running this arc in Ouro on my different toons, and in the middle of i17, I had normal size ambush spawns (6 or so per Crystal). Last time I ran this arc about 2 weeks prior to i18 release. These ambushes were much larger than before. I don't have numbers, but it was something around 12-15 per Crystal.Originally Posted by Lazarus
Unless something has happened in the week since my Stalker ran that arc I don't know what the OP is going on about. I never saw spawns or ambushes that big on +0/x1.
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I edited my previous post to include base accuracy numbers for LTs and bosses.
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Quote:It isn't mine accuracy and to-hit in combat monitor. Comabat monitor mirrors numbers from combat attributes window.Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
I find it odd that his tohit and accuracy are identical to yours.
I'm more inclined to believe that surveillance itself is messed up.
If he actually had a 64% tohit buff on top of a 1.3 accuracy, he'd be hitting my SR scrapper a hell of a lot more than he does, and I've fought him quite a few times over the last week.
Edit: You say that surveillance shows most critters have base 50% tohit? That'd make sense as they do. IF this is accurate, then the Demolisher would have a 14% tohit buff which I could see as working as intended. Still don't get that accuracy buff.... unless he conned as an LT instead of a boss. Do you have bosses disabled?
I have 1.77 accuracy bonus and 97.6% to-hit without build-up and placate
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Quote:Do you have vengeance, and have you used it?Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
So I just noticed that my Scrapper has over 42k points of credit towards the first heal badge, and I can't figure out where it came from. I've never used an Amy, I've never completed the Katie Hannon task force so I've never even had an Amy, and I've never done a gladiator match. I don't have any ally heals, and I haven't used any ally heal or rez temp powers, at least not to the tune of 42k points of healing. I do have Siphon Life but it shouldn't be counting.
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Quote:Were no pets spawned. Besides that, I've seen the same in another tip mission with DE. Nevertheless, I'll try to get another screenie without damage proc going off in surveilance.Originally Posted by Mandu
Are you sure the GD wasn't being affected by a quartz crystal at the time? I don't know if the bonus would be added into his reading or not but that would certainly explain it.
I really hate eminators of all types. -
Greater Devoured having 64% To-Hit bonus. Is it bug or WAI?
Almost every NPC in the game including AVs and GMs have to-hit bonus 50%. So, I was kind of surprised to see 64% for Greater Devoured
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Quote:Heh, YMMV. But i'd recommend you to try it again. Just grab Frostfire before talking to Longbow and move out of LOS for incoming ambushes. It should be cakewalk. BTW, make sure that your difficulty settings are set to "want to fight bosses when solo". The rank of ambushes isn't affected by this, but Frostfire will be spawned as a boss.Originally Posted by Hube02
Watched it and I can guarantee that the timing of my ambushes was nothing like what is in that video. There was at least 2 times where 2 ambushes showed up at the same time for me (the speech bubbles of the ambushers both appeared at the same time). I remember the second ambush appeared before I could hit the first sapper once, the third one appeared before I took out that same sapper. Before I'd taken out the first group the room was practically full of Malta.
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Quote:It was discussed in this thread: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=236165Originally Posted by Hube02
With the rate at which the sappers were sapping my endurance I could do nothing. All my toggles were down and I could barely attack. And this is with the diff turned down and sucking down blue insp till I had no more to use. I really don't think that the sappers ever missed with the sapping.
You might also want to look at this video:
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Longbow base maps were always laggy for me. I guess, it is somehow related to textures used on these maps, because similar crey lab maps are much better lagwise.
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Quote:It happens to all powers set on auto-fire not only Active Defense. Hasten, AOE heals, domination... you name it.Originally Posted by T_Immortalus
Hmm, maybe I know why it does this.
Maybe, instead of being categorized as "self, single target" like it says int eh detailed info, it could be trying to target the npc and activate as a "friendly target" power with a coded in clause that will only let it affect the "friendly target" if the friendly is "self".
They probably just need to remove the "get target" check and set it to automatically "target self and activate".
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It would also suck if you ever wanted to use the /assist function.
You can't have your mez protection then.
It was around for few issues now. I think I noticed it around i14 or so. So, I wouldn't hold my breath that it will be fixed anytime soon. -
I don't think it is a client related issue, rather forum server is getting bounced.
When you got logged off, just log back in and hit "NEW POSTS". It will show less than 1 page of new posts. Usually it shows tens or even hundreds pages of new posts.
So, Dear NCSoft please stop bouncing forum server every 30 minutes. kkthxbai -
It seems, when getting this power, a pseudo-pet is created. It supposed to follow you around. But, it looks like, this pet uses [Walk] as travel power and it is getting easily stuck in the geometry.
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Quote:Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uza1bsKVNpQOriginally Posted by NordBlast
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Frostfire spawned as a boss was very strudy and was excellent as a meatshield. During whole encounter his health was never below 95% and he pwnd incoming vawes very quickly.
Maybe, I'll FRAP it next time
I did exactly the same thing while FRAPing this mission, just to show that Frostie is a great helper while solo.Quote:Originally Posted by Stormfront_NA
Mmm, Giggles...
I had a lot of difficulty with my Emp/Psi Defender and the TIPs that envolves ambushes. The Panther 952 is very tough, mostly because of the fast coming spawns, and the hevey handed use of Snipers with questionably long range zapping, are these snipe ranged? It sure appeared to be.
What I have done to mitigate the aweful Zapper range, is to instead of fighting in the middle of the room, I stay in the same lab area where the Longbow Commander is originally located, and go to the right side edge of the door that provides access to the room. Frosfire, will follow you and stand between you and the ambush mobs, thus giving you a little bit of a buffer from being ground zero for all the attacks. I also engage hover and fly beyond melee range; that also decrease the number of attacks on you, and giggles, places more on Frostfire. That so far, has been sufficient to let me focus first on the 4 Malta Zappers as they come, and then deal with the other nuasances as time allows. So far this Strategy has been very effective for me. At least for this TIP mission, the ambush spawns elsewhere and the mobs have to travel to you. You could take advantage of this feature, to go to another room, use Super Speed and Celerity Stealth to stay away from ambush, which will eventually go to the final room defeat Frostfire whose survival is not a requirement and stand around there, wait for the raid leader to spawn, use a snipe to kite-him out of the room and to your area and then its a one-on-one event.
Sadly there are a few TIP missions, where spawn occurs right on you, freaking me out so much, but also its very nasty when you are a Defender and a mass of status effect spammers appears on your face out of the blue.
Hugs
Stormy
I am usually too impatient to wait for ambushes there, so I would grab Frostie, summon my disruptor pets and start moving toward ambush spawning point, defeating all waves on the way. I would usually get Blackhawk 5-X near mission entrance room. It saves me about 30-60 seconds, so instead 3.5 minutes I spend 2.5 minutes
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Quote:There is another Maria's Black Swan mission (standalone, not the part of the arc) on the same map. In that mission Black Swan was not too far from mission entrance, not inside of The Chantry.Originally Posted by Angelxman81
I was able to enter the chantry with no travel power, only ninja run...
I used those purple volcanic gases that propel yourself in the air, and done!
Black Swan is inside The Chantry, u need to use one mini portal of light to go inside, and then run in circles till you fin her. -
Quote:Well, I just did it again.Originally Posted by Finduilas
Hmm, I could have sworn that I got more foes than that in a wave, but that could have been just the perception on my part since the waves were so close together. ("Oh #$%@, MORE of them?!?)
Next time I do the mish I'll try to keep better track.
I was wrong about 5-6 waves. In fact it was 10 waves + boss in the end. Each wave started with NPC dialog. In addition to sappers and operation engineers, I had tactical operatives in the mix. Still waves consisted of 2 foes with 1 wave consisted of only one Operation Officer. Frostfire spawned as a boss was very strudy and was excellent as a meatshield. During whole encounter his health was never below 95% and he pwnd incoming vawes very quickly.
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Quote:In my experience based on 5-7 runs with settings 0/x1/yes/no, every ambush wave consisted of 2 foes (in random combination: 2 sappers, sapper and operation engineer, 2 operation engineers). In total it was 5 or 6 waves, sometimes 2 or more spawning in very quick succession.Originally Posted by Finduilas
By "two at a time", do you mean two foes, or two spawns? Because I was getting a least 4 or 5 foes in each ambush wave, with a sapper in each one, and almost no time between waves.
Now granted, Tanks don't kill super-fast, but still, they were coming so fast that I could only take down one or two in a wave before the next one arrived. -
Quote:Just run it with bosses enabled, then Frosty will be boss himself and he wouldn't die in 10 seconds.Originally Posted by Call Me Awesome
Two reasons. First, I was a soft capped shield scrapper, and that character has zero difficulty in main tanking the ITF. Second, Frosty got killed inside of 10 seconds. Somehow his meatshield abilities weren't overly impressive.
I was surviving until one of the four sappers got lucky and drained me dry; after that I faceplanted within a few seconds.
Well, anyway, this mission is in the middle-to-bottom part of my list of tip missions, I would still do it, if it were 5th tip mission for the day.
My favorites are:
- 2 DE missions (bombs/scientists),
- Polar Shift,
- Agent Freymuth (or whatever his name is).
Missions I would always dismiss (I hate escorting multiple NPC that are 1/2 mile away from exit):
- carnie debutants
- Sister Jocasta
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Quote:Why wouldn't you use Frostfire as a meatshield? He hits them pretty hard. I've done this mission multiple times on my bane without any problems. Well, YMMV.Originally Posted by Call Me Awesome
I just got this mish on my soft capped BS/Shield scrapper. Dif set to 0/1 and in about 30 seconds I had about 15 Malta on me, in 60 seconds I'd faceplanted thanks to FOUR sappers (that I SAW; there could well have been more) and I didn't even count how many other mobs. In fact, I saw at least two more ambush spawns charge in while I was face down before I used the base rez.
This is a character who normally cruises through +2/8 missions of pretty much anything including the occasional Arachnos or Malta mission. After all, typically I only have to deal with, at most, one sapper per Malta spawn and my 45% def is more than up to the task. Four of them at once however and they're entirely too likely to get lucky and when the end bottomed out so did I almost instantly.
It's a broken mission where my best solo character has massive problems on a mission set to the base difficulty level. I wouldn't even consider trying this on my squishy characters, it would be completely pointless. -
Quote:Yes, I know that others run too. IMO, Boss and higher shouldn't run at all.Originally Posted by Leandro
It's not just Nosferatu. There is at least one repeatable instance where if you attack a group of four enemies, one of them will take off running even if it's several levels above you. I'll post a video of that in a few hours; look for a thread called "Run Leo Run".
But my post was specifically about Nosferatu. Out of 108 AVs and 2 DE Monsters I have in these 2 arcs, Nosferatu is only one who refuses to fight at all. -
Quote:I've seen this Nosferatu behavior since i14. See my post here: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...9&postcount=76Originally Posted by Janlee
And, yeah, before i18 Nosferatu would pop in and immediately start his attacks, not run.
Has anyone tried this issue in the Nemesis Arc with Nosferatu? And seeing the same thing? Since super-sidekicking hit I now try and out-level that mission and turn down the difficulty just to clear it, because you can't drop the mission itself. -
Quote:Reading NPC dialog from that mission makes me think it is WAI:Originally Posted by Ironblade
Yeah, I think the spawning is borked. It's not consistently bad but, when it's bad, it's REALLY bad. I was doing that mission (solo) and the first ambush had a Sapper. Okay, that's reasonable. The second ambush had a Sapper. That's a little annoying. The third ambush was TWO SAPPERS. All we need next is a mission where every spawn is all Sappers.
Code:09-04-2010 22:43:28 [NPC] Operation Engineer: We've breached the base! Move! 09-04-2010 22:43:29 [NPC] Operation Engineer: We've found some resistance, alert the rest of the teams! Bring the Sappers! 09-04-2010 22:43:47 [NPC] Operation Engineer: Charlie Team has arrived! 09-04-2010 22:44:06 [NPC] Sapper: Move move move! 09-04-2010 22:44:25 [NPC] Operation Engineer: We've got multiple MHIs! Identified as Hellmeister and Frostfire! 09-04-2010 22:44:44 [NPC] Operation Engineer: Hit them with everything! EVERYTHING! 09-04-2010 22:45:03 [NPC] Sapper: Initial team is down, I repeat, the initial team is down! 09-04-2010 22:45:23 [NPC] Sapper: Blackhawk 5-X is nearly here, put down Hellmeister! 09-04-2010 22:45:42 [NPC] Sapper: Overwhelm them! 09-04-2010 22:46:01 [NPC] Operation Engineer: Set them up for Agent Blackhawk! 09-04-2010 22:46:20 [NPC] Blackhawk 5-X: Hellmeister, you've put up a good fight. But now it's time to put you down! 09-04-2010 22:46:26 [NPC] Blackhawk 5-X: Do you think Malta is afraid of you, Hellmeister? Malta fears no one! 09-04-2010 22:46:30 [NPC] Blackhawk 5-X: We don't take traitors lightly. Especially not ones within our higher ranks. 09-04-2010 22:46:33 [NPC] Blackhawk 5-X: You helping him will only lead to more destruction! Your kind never considers that! 09-04-2010 22:46:35 [NPC] Blackhawk 5-X: I won't be beaten here by someone like you! 09-04-2010 22:46:39 [NPC] Blackhawk 5-X: No...!
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Quote:Heh. That reminds me, I observed similar behavior few issues back...Originally Posted by Leandro
Then Nosferatu spawned.
I was ready to die against him, because I remember he was very hard to fight in an Ouro arc. So imagine my surprise when he started running all over the map. He didn't even attack me! Nosferatu has some really nasty attacks, but he decided to practice for a marathon instead.
Nosferatu: 1 2 3 4 5
Players of COH know that the above quote does not reflect the reality of the game. Critters run away whenever they feel like. Maybe you could somehow break the morale of a level 10 minion by killing a boss next to him, but come on. Nosferatu? A level 50 archvillain? I didn't even attack his minions! I was too busy running all over the place to try to get his attention.
He eventually found the entrance of the room and ran away towards the exit, until I lost his targeting reticle. I hate fighting in caves, so I didn't follow him, knowing he'd eventually be back. He did, and just stood there in the room looking at me (I swear: I moved location, and he turned around to face me). But he didn't attack me at all. So I dropped Phantom Army on him... and he immediately started running all over the place again!
After he disappeared out of the room and I lost target of him again, I started Fraps to record a video of it. While I was setting up, he came back and one of my pets attacked him, so I had to start the recording rather quickly in the middle of the fight.
Here is a link to the video. I added an introduction to it (basically what I said above) so it would have some context on YouTube; his crazy running starts at the 30 seconds mark.
Maybe I should have used the Crey Pistol.
When AE was just released, I made two MA arcs called "AVs, AVs, AVs..." Part 1 & 2 to be able to fight AVs on my ill/rad without doing flashbacks.
Each arc has 5 missions on the Demon farm map. Each mission has 11 named crates you can destroy. After destroying the crate, corresponded AV will be spawned on the map.
Spawned Nosferatu exhibited exactly the same behavior. He started to run from me without attacking, and I couldn't make him to start fighting. (IIRC it was Council version. I don't remember whether 5th column version exhibited the same behavior, I probably fought him on different (small) map)
Initially, I thought, that maybe I somehow screwed up the settings for Nosferatu. So, I exited arc, opened editor to see whether flee flag was set (it wasn't), saved arc, republished, went in... and the same behavior again. After that I decided to put Nosferatu on old Hess radar map where he has no place to run. Only there I was able to fight him. -
Quote:I remember doing 2 different missions with Black Swan, both in Chantry.Originally Posted by Alexandria2000
Quite familiar with the Chantry - found the door, popped in, nothing but the imp mobs in the main room. Does she ever appear outside, or is this a bug?
In one case she was in the main room, in another case she was not too far from the mission entrance.
Edit: Also, by some reason she was -2 (level 48) in second mission.