Obscure Blade

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Undead robots???

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Undead, with laser bolts coming out of their eyes.

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Undead robots are stupid, to be sure (how can something that isn't technically alive be "undead", lol) but they've already been done before. I believe Warhammer has a faction that's undead robots.

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One of Katherine Kurtz's Adept novels included a WWII submarine that was animated by the same spell as it's undead crew, and Roger Zelazny wrote a short story with a vampire robot ( it sucked electricity ).

When you mouse over day jobs badges in progress, you see the time involved listed in hours, not seconds. Much easier to read.

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and /Trick Arrow seems a bit of control overkill

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Plant is a bit lacking against enemies that resist Confusion; /TA helps a lot. And you can reduce enemy resistance and defense without reducing their damage output, which makes Seed more effective. There's a lot of synergy between the two.

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Besides, currently, Dom attacks are a little bugged in pvp, so most likely they will be getting "toned down" just a bit with the next patch, which is very soon.

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To clairify this a little, from Sunstorm :

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Yes, sorry all, this is a bug. Before the changes, Dom's had a slightly higher then normal PVP damage bonus. This was to compensate for the low damage outside of domination, and the domination damage bonus being perma with heavy set bonus slotting.

Since the changes permanently apply the damage bonus and add a little extra, dom's are now doing much more then intended damage.

The damage will be brought a bit more in line with other AT's. Should look more like this after slotting:

Charged Bolts after changes: 181 damage at lvl 50
Charged Bolts for Blasters: 191 damage at lvl 50

Wanted to give everyone a heads up so no one gets attached to it and keep it from becoming an unpleasant suprise.


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Never mind many players didnt want the changes.

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A few people with exotic, generally bug exploiting builds who never played lower than 50 after they powerleveled their way there. Most people wanted the changes; most people like them.

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Someone has speculated that they're Praetorian salvage from the GR expansion later this year.

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That would be me.

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Replace 'Earth' with 'Gravity' in the thread subject and it would work better.

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Actually, against Longbow, Plant would be a better example. I discovered yesterday the hard way that some Longbow bosses with Leadership buffs provide strong Confuse protection. After two faceplants I finally noticed the little buff icons around them.

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Has anyone else had problems with pet emotes? I have tried and cannot get any emotes to work anymore. I was having good luck playing with them a few days ago but, now I cannot get any to work.

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BaB broke them I'm afraid :

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Just FYI, I did a massive overhaul on emotes and encounter animations during I15. Both to get emotes set up so they could work with the various combat modes and also to fix many broken encounter animations (used by spawns and MA custom animations). I'm sure there's a number of bugs with various things, and I just realized that I didn't update the zombies, beasts, or robots to the new format...which means that Kheldians in dwarf form and mastermind henchmen are a lot less emotive than they were before.

I'm going to try to get that fixed in a timely manner, but it's obviously lower priority than a lot of other things in the works right now.

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Let's see; Masochism, Hound of Souls, Pain Machine, Lady of Wrath, Mistress of Torments, and the Apostle of Agony become Hedonism, Flesh Kitten, Pleasure Machine, Tramp of Lust, Mistress of Ecstasy, and the Priest of Pleasure - and the game rapidly leaves the Teen rating behind. Or they just all go and hang out with Dominatrix.

Sky Serpent becomes the Stone Mongoose.

Darkness That Burns become Healing Light.

Entropic Girl become the Queen of Order.

Dark Unification becomes Shattering Light

Flora Fatale becomes Healing Herbs.

Malignant Flame becomes Cold Balm.

Radiance in Darkness become Dark Glory.

Shredder of Sinners becomes Sinslice.

Flame of Paradise become Cold Damnation.

Howling Dog become Silent Panther.

Feloni become The Lawgiver.

Swiftshred become Slow Smash.

Personal Combat Unit becomes Public Healing Utility.

Unseelie Sprite become Pepsi Pixie.

I have a few with Team/Solo builds, especially on Controllers with team centric secondaries that get no benefit from them pre-pets. I also have a Crab/Bane, and a Bane/Huntsman.

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I don't remember if this was in the patch notes, but I did notice that toggles seem to stay on after you log off. I just logged in and all of my toggles were still on.

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It's been like that for quite some time, if you log back on pretty fast.

So far I haven't noticed any endurance issues with my Doms; perhaps the problem is that people never properly slotted them for endurance reduction.

As for /Psi being nerfed; my pre-PS /Psi doms are much stronger than they were; it feels almost like playing pre-Issue 15 /Fire. The changes induced me to make a new one because now I won't have to grit my teeth until 38 and PS.

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If you actully believe your responses to the paraphrased post by myself I feel sorry for you. You and many other players like you missed out on alot of fun simply because you are lazy, crybaby, whiners. The fallout is the lazy,crybaby,whiners got their way. The people that actually played hard and had fun even with uneven odds got the shaft.


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Patronizing, insulting, and arrogant all at once. Yup, a PvPer.

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Not some pissant crybabies that give up at lvl 50 after they realize this great "buff" makes the late game dom potential fullout gimped as compaired to dominators prior to the revamp.

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In other words, you have some over expensive build that lost a few percentage points and you think it's 'gimped'. Most of the game is BELOW 50 in case you didn't notice.

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As a vet dom I no longer enjoy the feel of the archetype. I am sorry that I do not like it. It's ok if others do. I am one player . Sacrificing one is certainly worth making 10 happy .

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If the "one" in question is you, then yes it is. Us whining crybabies will just have to stagger along without you.

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As to your remarks on pvp........ plenty of people pvp'ed before the developers decided to "revamp" that portion of the game to entice the "casual" player.

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It's more like a minuscule number of people played PvP, and the devs decided to roll the dice and change things in hopes of attracting more. There's never been "plenty" of people playing it. In no small part because PvPers tend to be people like you, who call everyone crybabies, whiners, pissant, carebears, and similar insults and can't quite grasp why most people don't want to associate with you.

Same here. I was very tired of killing everything by inches.

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Dominator's were only underperforming for those that didnt know how to play a dominator.

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Ah, the "you just weren't playing it right" line. No; they WERE underperforming; that's why they were changed. And they are quite a bit more fun now, I'll add.

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I personally see the AT going the way of pvp. But thats my own, selfcentric opinion.

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Ah, yes; because people fleeing in droves is the normal effect of a damage buff.

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P.S. Do you all really think a casual player knows what the hell you are talking about in regards to the psw changes? If you do y'all are more clueless than I originally thought. The reference to ss being a bug was the best I could think of at that moment. It was left in game for 12 issues. Labelled a "bug" to justify travel suppression in pvp. If you people cannot connect the homegenization dots? Not my problem.

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What are you babbling about ? Castle is the one who called it a bug; one known for a long time. And travel suppression has nothing to do with it.

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The cocnundrum: People farm to pvp.

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No, they don't. Almost no one PvPs; very few ever have done so more than casually if that.

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But pvp is in such a silly state who even wants to put in the time and effort anymore?

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Almost no one ever did.

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I saw Lost moving rocks in wheelbarrows, and sleeping during their "sermons". Don't remember seeing that before.

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Lying flat on the ground.

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How else are we going to craft the new Praetorian recipes that only work in Praetorian world?

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Makes sense. We will be living in a Praetorian world, and we are Praetorian girls!

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Ha !

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Big f'in deal.... superspeed was also a bigass"bug" left in after 12 issues of gameplay so nanner fo fanner. Amazes me how people can't wrap their mind around the basic facts of the developer reaction in this game. Basically? If players figure out a way to make something work better than the developers could think up for themselves it gets called a "bug" and nerfed to kindom come.

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Incorrect. What happened was that Doms in general and most of Psi Assault in particular were underperforming; they deliberately left the bug in because /Psi without the bugged version of PS would have been complete garbage, instead of mostly garbage. Now that Castle had the chance to go over Dom powers, he rebalanced the whole set so you won't suck from 1-37 anymore.

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*reads*

"Undamage Android Brain"

*sighs*

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Yes, I Bugged that.

I've found Praetorian Salvage listed in the market; Android Blaster, Plague Spores and some others. It's right after Arcane Salvage and clearly a bug. However, the fact that it's already listed makes me wonder if Going Rogue is coming sooner than a lot of people think. I've seen stuff like Winter's Gift show up early; but not multiple-issues early. Perhaps the speculation that it's going to be simultaneous with Issue 16 is correct ?

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I figured this topic was in respect to going rogue.

As in...

What makes a dominator more preferable to a controller when you can pick?

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More damage ( especially with the changes ), especially at lower levels ? No need to lay down buffs/debuffs after you lay down the controls ? Mezz protection and higher magnitude controls when Domination is up ?

Controllers/Doms are actually fairly different.

According to the server status page, servers apear to be going up.

Most likely you've outleveled him; he gives the same message when you do that as for finishing them. And you can do most missions in the game after you outlevel them by using Ouroboros which you can enter at level 25 if you have access. You get access by doing time travel related missions, or by using some else's Ouroboros Portal and getting the location badge there ( it's on top of the arch ).

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Sacrificing yourself to stop the evil whatever isn't all that unusual in fiction. If the RP aspects bother you, just tell yourself they are willingly sacrificing themselves, while an evil mastermind sets the bomb off too fast for them to escape just to get his jollies.

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So you're going to cry out, "HENCHMEN #3! DON'T DO IT!" every time you use Detonation?

Because ORDERING one of your fanatic henchmen to become a suicide bomber isn't really considered heroic these days, and some people will get seriously offended.

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If they get offended, too bad for them. And dying to stop the end of the world/the conquest of the world/end of someone else's world is quite heroic, and we do that all the time.

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You know after going through this, I see why power customization was put off for so long, some powers just wouldn't seem right being another color... Pain Domination Blue? Dark Miasma Green? Hot Feet Pink?



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Yes; I was just thinking of my Ice/Dark corrupter, the Wolf of Fimbulwinter. Pure white /Dark powers would probably work really well thematically; Tar Patch is snow and so on. A white Dark Servant would look pretty cool I think.