Obscure Blade
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Personally, I think the Katana animations look better; faster and smoother. But there are more and generally better custom Broadsword skins.
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A heads up for the people who are too busy spinning conspiracy theories to check the Dev Digest:
Quote:Originally Posted by Synapse
I just wanted to let you know you can probably stop recording data, a fix for this should be making its way to the training room fairly soon. Your drop analysis there, when this patch hits the training room, would be very useful. Thanks for everyone's diligence, and believe it or not the bug had nothing to do with team size, what map you were on, whether you were in taskforce mode or not or anything else mentioned in this thread.
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Quote:They are working on it..Originally Posted by SilentSpy
Does anyone have any idea when the online store will be back up?
Quote:Originally Posted by Niviene
This message is to give everyone a heads up that we are aware of the issue with the in-game store and are working to resolve the problem. Please note that you may experience up and down time (with the in-game store) until the problem is resolved. -
Quote:I disagree; it gets more damaging faster than the other sets, at 18 with Phantom Army. And Spectral Wounds is quite good at low levels.Originally Posted by Sigium
If you're trying out the 'Controller' AT, avoid Illusion Control unless you plan on teaming with the heavy damage dealers constantly... Slow set is sloooow (at low levels.)
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All my Fire Armor characters had their Blazing Aura changed to black since it's less irritating to me. And looks kind of creepy for a good bonus.
Queen of the Inferno now uses the Greater Fire Sword for all attacks in her max height armored costume; it just fits.
My Dark/Shield Darquesoul now uses blue Soul Drain, green punches and blood red Siphon Life for a more magic look; she also has the tribal shield.
Shatterstorm my Stone/Elec now has blue, purple and white electricity. His Stone attacks are grey with pale blue cracks lava themed, since he supposedly condenses them out of dust and debris using electrical fields.
My Stone/Fire got himself some nice lava hammers to match his fire armor.
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Quote:I believe it, and maybe not just Freedom; I noticed that we saw an unusual number of maintenance downtimes shortly before Issue 16 went live, and suddenly I almost never see any server reach yellow. Even when Issue 16 went live, when I expected them to.Originally Posted by Schismatrix
Are you going by load rating at login or by doing a /search and comparing the results to pre-i16? Allegedly Freedom received a hardware upgrade to increase its capacity, which would also explain why it consistently reads a lower load than Virtue now.
I don't know, but some people freak out at the idea of someone soloing. I've ignored people who started harassing and insulting me for soloing, and someone I know reports having gotten actual death threats for soloing.Quote:Originally Posted by Vega
Quick question, what exactly is wrong with soloing? I've been doing it for YEARS on the ghost town known as Protetctor. -
I've noticed random enemies sometimes gliding without moving for a few seconds, generally when I'd expect an animation change ( like attacking after getting up from being knocked down, or changing from idle to attack ).
All the Snake maps I've tried, the map in Bocor's last arc mission ( "SmoothCaves_60_Layout_05" ) and his retrieve Olivia Starr mission have that "faceted" geometric look. All the maps of the same general "smooth caves" style seem to. -
Quote:Justice perhaps? I understand that's the unofficial Australian server.Originally Posted by GrinningSpade
If everyone who is eager and willing to team go to the "unofficial past midnight server" then they could easily find a fun night of playtime.
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Quote:It won't hold a Boss, but you can stack a Patron Hold with it for that.Originally Posted by twelfth
I sorta like EMP as it is a stronger PBAOE burst hold/stun and comes in pretty handy in those ohshit moments when you have a large mob of critters coming at you. The fact that it will do some damage to robots (which includes odd things like freakshow and annoying things like Rikti Drones) makes it a little bit more utilitarian. I don't recall if it has mag enough to mez a boss, but you're not likely to use it on a single target anyway.
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Welcome to the game!
A little heads up: in case you missed it, when you reach level 2, you get a power called Rest that lets you regain health and endurance out of combat. It's supposed to be automatically added to your power tray but is presently bugged and has to be added manually. If you haven't, open up your power list by clicking on Powers, then check to the right and click-and-drag Rest to your tray.
Besides joining one or more global channels as mentioned, you can ask questions on the Help channel by typing /hc message. Make sure that you are looking at a chat tab that has Help in it so you can see the replies though. You can edit the chat tabs by right clicking on them. -
I game my yellow-and-brown clad Earth/Kin orange & yellow /kin powers. Her Earth powers are as close to yellow stone as I could get; her Hold is a yellow crystal effect. Besides making it easier to tell which is which it creates a nice geode effect, with the crystals embedded in rock.
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What the title says; is Snap Shot the first tier archery attack a good or bad pick for Corruptors? It's good on Blasters these days, and Defenders have no choice in the matter. Where do Corruptors fall?
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I on the other hand really like EM Pulse. It locks down a large area, and Corrs can get Power Sink from Scirocco to make up for the lack of endurance recover.
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Quote:Yes. ninjas do very good damage but are flimsy; you want a secondary that keeps them alive. /Dark has debuffs, mezzes and a great heal that lets you do so. /Storm is also good. I suspect that /Thermal would be good but haven't tried it.Originally Posted by Yogi_Bare
Thanks for everyone's responses so far; looks like almost everyone loves /Dark, so far...
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You say you solo a lot, so keep Hasten and get Mutation late if at all. In fact, I'd do that in a team build too. You'll want Phantom Army up as much as possible, and Hasten helps a lot with that.
With increased levelling speed and the ability to buy new jetpacks when you run out, you might want to put off Fly until 22 so you can fit Stamina in at 20.
As for invisibility; it's very useful. I prefer Superior over Group because I can turn it on and off as necessary.
As for builds; I got to 50 on my ill/rad mostly using this old guide. It's pre-IO, but by the time you get to 30+ and IOs get as good or better than SOs you'll probably have enough of a feel for what you want that you can decide on your own. -
Quote:I heard long ago that it's because the list of censored words was copied from one used by a filter for another game that was capable of recognizing phrases, not just single words. Like "god damn". So various words that are just components of longer "offensive phrases" got censored.Originally Posted by Sorciere
Yeah, I never quite understood why the word "god" is filtered.
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Quote:So do some Infected on Mercy; I saw a Stricken wandering around like that.Originally Posted by Quinch
Vahz zombies now do the Frankenstein shuffle
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Possibly older than Issue 16 but I'll mention it ( for the amusement factor if nothing else ). In King's Row near the AE building at about -1166, -42, 31 in an open ground level lot a Madness Mage was giving a captive the speech that goes: "There is a crossbow pointed at your forehead. I would suggest that you do not move. This roof is quite high."
Quote:I was unable to change a female character of mine from a Patent Leather top-and bottom with scarf to either the Trench Coat or Magic Bolero. The options didn't appear.Originally Posted by GibberingLunatic
Found another one, at the tailor on my wp/ss tanker (4 costume slots) on the male body type, theres no trenchcoat option... and I have the 3 month vet. I CAN however use it on female and huge body types, and apply it to normal male body types upon creation, however I cannot put it on any of my existing male type characters unless I originally designed them using it.
Slight correction, trenchcoat shows up on my rad/kin corruptor fine even though he had the biker jacket on as well before switching, I think just my tank is borked and I'll probally have to /bug it or petition it or something I dunno. Haven't come across something like this until now.
And now its come back, its a bit random... before the original toon was wearing the biker jacket, this time it was the armored top. But I was able to put it on one of my other costumes without a issue who was wearing a baron jacket... -
I'd like to see the Warriors stop grovelling to the Freakshow.
I'd like to see BIG Giant monsters, which may happen; the devs were experimenting with a giant Mek Man on Test a while ago. I14 beta I think.
More done with the Shard and Rularuu.
More power proliferation! Ice Armor and Ninjutsu to other melee ATs, Rad and Sonic to MMs, Axe to Stalkers. -
If you actually intend to leave, it seems kind of foolish to give away all your stuff. What if you change your mind in a few months?
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Quote:For Masterminds at least, get Scirocco's AoE immobilize Patron Power if it bugs you that much, it has -KB. And KB is both fun and beneficial in many circumstances; I don't want my pets nerfed just because some people freak out when they run into KB.Originally Posted by MalKontemp
However, I haven't seen anything concerning pet knockback, which is a lot harder for a player to control, especially when using pets like Phantasm. The only way i know to control pet knockback is to not summon the pet. Could a future issue remove the knockback components from pet powers? I don't much care if you replace it with some other effect or not, I just want the knockback gone.
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Darrin Wade's "Seek revenge for Darrin Wade" is another that has the "faceted rocks" problem, in the cave style section of the map. Scattered all over; one such rock was at 231.2, 65.4, -429.1.
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Quote:Heh; that caused me something of a doubletake when I clicked on a character I used the Science Pack body type change option on. I'd forgotten I gave it a female costume ( it's basic costume is technically male, with demon wings, monstrous head/legs; supposed to be a demonic entity ) and had forgotten. For a moment I thought I'd run into some costume scrambling bug.Originally Posted by Zekiran_Immortal
First thing I noticed was that in the character load screen, our last worn costume is on, instead of just the first slot. WOO HOO!
That was actually fixed earlier; the last pre-Issue 16 patch I think.Quote:Originally Posted by GlaziusF
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Quote:All of the Kalinda/Burke low level snake cave missions have the problem as far as I can tell. Throughout the entire mission, not any particular /loc; I did jot down two mission doors if that matters. -2929.1, 57.8, -1868.1 for "Get away with an op under Arachnos' nose" ; and -3582.6, 65.5, -3375.0 for "Learn more about Stheno". Both from Matthew Burke.Originally Posted by BackAlleyBrawler
Fixing the bug required re-exporting all of the affected geometry. Likely some of it just go missed.Quote:Originally Posted by Obscure BladeI understand that they were going to fix the bug that made much of the landscape look faceted, and it seems fixed most places unless my memory is deceiving me. But in the Mercy Snake caves all that rock and debris still has the faceted look.
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Quote:And it's blue...a traditional police color. You may have it! Perhaps Praetoria is policed by a vast army of Clockwork!Originally Posted by McNum
Maybe that's a diverting point? Blue Steel lost. Impossible here, but in a world where hings are opposite? Almost a certainty. The the Clockwork King became Chief of Police. Because that twist is too good not to do.