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As for the Fiery Aura secondary, that's tricky - Hide instead of Blazing Aura is obvious, but would they leave in Fiery Embrace as it is (that could make an EM/Fire pretty scary) and what about Burn? Probably less work than porting over Stone or Ice Armour though (Invul might be easier, but with Invinc replaced by Hide it would suck for stalkers).


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I can't see Stalkers getting Firery Embrace. A double build up AS would be critically umbalancing.

Castle doesn't seem to keen on the idea of GA stalkers:

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So, how would you do it? (implement Stone/Stone Stalkers)


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Granite and Hide are Mutually Exclusive.
Granite = "No Crit Chance"

Or, I'd simply say, "No, it's a bad idea."

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Ice/Ice stalkers on the other hand seem far more likely after the changes in issue 12: Mezzing primary no longer gives unfair advantage to stalker crits, CE could be set to not notify mobs, and hence not supress Hide, and Hibernate-Phase Shift cheesyness now eliminated.

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I would lay very good odds that you get your other wish in issue 13 too.

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Same, they'll most likely add BS to Tankers and Brutes to match thematically with the new Shield set

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This post yesterday From BAB:

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So... this is a broadsword that is all black and scarey looking and awesome. It would really be the perfect sword for a villain except that.. you know.. villains don't get broadswords... like... at all.


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My PB attack chain is Glinting Eye (proc cannon, including chance of -res)) IS, RS, GE again, Sands of Mu, Solar Flare. With Pulsar (which has -acc proc) slotted in there somewhere as needed. That will certainly polish off an LT. I also have lots and lots of +recharge, so I can have Build Up up lots.

There is no reason why the server can't do the physics calculations of course. However given the acceleration/speed of a ball, compared to the frequency of client updates, it would probably be called rubber-band jerkoball.

Yeah, I can vouch for that, after level 35 and energy melee tank can solo very effectively. It can be a bit of a slog to get there though.

Not by any developer.

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a non disclosure agrement

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We are not talking about an NDA like players sign up to (which would never hold up if tested in court). We are talkng about an out of legal court settlement made under the legal system of the USA.

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exept you cant know that for sure.

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The terms of such agreements are standard. So yes, we can know for sure.

I don't really think they need to focus much on helping solo keldians, they are meant to be a team orientated AT after all. Giving low level mez protection to nova form would be a major boost to soloing anyway.

I really think you are underestimating the capabilities of a solo PB anyway. I can certainly defeat an lt with one application of my (admitedly IOed up) attack chain, and have enough suvivabilty that I can solo much more easily than I can with my corruptor or dominator.

I agree that there is some inequality between Build Up and Mire, but I would rather see the duration of PB build up increased than the damage buff, so it can carry over into forms more effectively like Mire.

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I would also argue that Nova form deserves a Damage cap increase

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Since all forms share the same caps that would be included in my initial suggestion.

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The Kheldian inherent does not affect base damage, but adds a +Damage buff. This is painfully obvious when Kheldians are on a Buff-heavy team: Peacebringers in particular hit their damage cap long before other damage dealers do (The Defender AT tends to buff team damage, but this AT also grants +20% damage via the PB inherent). The cap is reached very quickly when factoring in slotting and Build Up, and EVEN WHEN CAPPED their ranged damage is still fairly mediocre

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Which would be fixed by raising the cap. It works for brutes. Fury only works from 0.8 base damage, but has a 900% cap. There is no need to raise base damage.Indeed it wouldn't achieve the desired effect, since you would hit the cap just as quickly.

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actually thats not true praf they could come out and give a definitive answer.

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Eh, no. You clearly understand less about law than you do about programming. They can't discuss anything in the agreement, at all. they can't even say what is in the agrement. You might try looking up confidential in a dictionary sometime.

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As to the giving it away i was working from a article that was talking about the release of CoH ill see if i can track it down again if any ones interested

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Anything from before CoH was released would be irelevent, since the court case hadden't happened then.

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There is as far as im aware no official word on weather or not off line or stand alone costume creator could be released

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It seems you have dificulty understanding what a confidential agreement is. This means that neither side is alowed to say what was in the agreement. I.e. It would not be possible for anyone to give official confirmation. However, there is no other reason why they would stamp on the distribution of the Korean version, unless they had too.

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also i believe there was one given away at some of the conventions

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There was one used as a demo at conventions, promoting the release of CoV. It wasn't given away.

Kanto2 is correct, he hasn't missunderstood you.

The "Large improved regeneration bonus". Is the total of all your large (+10%) bonuses. Base regeneration = 0.42%. 10% = 0.042%. 2 times 10% = 0.08% (to 2 dp).

"Regeneration Increase" is due to some other power, possibly Health, it isn't a set bonus.

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(i) Raise the BASE damage, in human form. Not Nova or Dwarf. Nothing too drastic here.
0.75 Melee Modifier --> 0.85 or 0.9 (Less than Stalker, more than Tanker).
0.625 Ranged Modifier --> 0.75 (Same as Corruptor)

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Raising the base ranged damage would tend to make nova form obsolete, unless you raised the damage for nova as well, and that would make keldians in nova form seriously overpowered, especially warshades.

Remember human form damage is balanced assuming maximum bonus from the inherent: +140%.

Raising Melee damage without changing ranged damage would favour PBs more than WSs.

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My problem I wont sorted, especialy in White Dwarf is the [censored] regeneration amount, the % is I think is below par with any other tank.

Our heal in that form seems to take ages to recharge.

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What you are noticing is that changing into dwarf form cancels Health.

Giving the form power regeneration equivelent to Health does seem like a good idea.

As for the recharge on the Heal, I always try to make sure I have Hasten up before changing to Dwarf form.

Laa laa laa I can't hear you in cloud cuckoo land.

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could it be some kind of summon?

like a pet but once summoned not attached to any one player?

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You could summon a ball, but it wouldn't be able to use the Physics to control it's behaviour.

Or you could summon a ball that used the physics, but was different for each player.

The "Big Red Ball" is actually quite a common request, even in the US.

Unfortunatly the physics objects are client side, not server side, so a ball might be in one place for one player, and somewhere quite different for another player, and a player with physics turned off would have no ball at all.

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For one if marvel had *** to bar NCsoft from releasing a offline or standalone creator they would have aimed to do so globally

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They may have aimed to do so globally, but since such a ban would be impossible under Korean law. there is nothing Marvel could do about it, short of invading Korea.

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laws between the US and UK and the hole of the EU for that matter.

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There are agreements in place between the EU and the US, and some harmonisation. No such agreements exist with Korea.

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Even if NCsoft were foolish anuff

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Not foolish. As already pointed out, there are comercial reasons why releasing an off line costume creator would not be a good for buisiness. And if the choice is btween agreeing to not release an off line costume editor and paying another vast sum to lawyers/Marvel/risk having the game shut down, then it would be foolish not to make such an agreement.

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i very much doubt that the agreement is air tight such things can be over turned (assuming its even a legal agreement)


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Sure, it could be overturned, after paying your lawyers another vast sum of money.

You would rather have an off line character generator than issues 13, 14 and 15?

My Photon Seekers are working fine now.

Mag 2. Combat attributes.

Main change I would make would be to pick up Serum much earlier (and yeah, I wouldn't bother slotting def debuff enhancements).

Controllers currently give +2 mag protection each.

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Potentially too powerful. I'd be happier if they simply doubled the magnitude so one Controller/Dominator gives +2 Mag, 2 gives +4 etc.


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That would still be to arbitary. as often as not, you find yourself on a team with no controllers, in which case you would still be as stimied as you are now. Or you could find yourself teamed with lots of controllers, in which case you find yourself with far more mez protection than you need (I usually find 4 points is sufficent on my PB, you don't pull as much aggro as tanks and scrappers) in which case you are loosing out on the damage/resistance bonus from your inherent.

I don't think my idea is too powerful. Under the current system you could achieve a mez resistance of 14, under mine, the maximum would be 7. the big gane is the damage/resistance buff you would now be getting from controllers.

I only have one (Glinting eye).

The highest damage PB human form ranged attack is Gleaming Blast, which does base 57 damage unslotted at level 50. Slotted, it would do just over 100 points, at the cap, 228. With the increased cap I propose, that would be 285.

The buff from maximum cosmic balance, +enhancement slots, +build up is about 310%, but that is without set bonuses and external buffs. Fulcrum Shift would put you well over the cap.

Human form PBs don't really need good ranged attacks though, If a PB wants ranged, they have nova form.

I believe it's the way it is for security reasons.

1) You go AFK
2) you are auto logged out
3) some joker comes along and deletes all your characters.