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  1. Rajani Isa
    I believe Zombieman had a "hit everyone" guide.
  2. Rajani Isa
    I want to say the 10secs is the recharge rate.
  3. Rajani Isa
    It's also a balance between the devs giving us KD instead of KB, and the devs seeing KD worth more than KB in most instances.
  4. Rajani Isa
    I have. But didn't realize they were relaunching.
  5. Rajani Isa
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Agent White View Post
    What counts as ridiculous? Because they still award a really big chunk of XP compared to... well anything else.
    I think the poster means when the demons granted the XP instead?
  6. Rajani Isa
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by I Burnt The Toast View Post
    So in other words you could not use a brute to catalyze a Corruptor ATO.
    However, Superior ATO is it's own rarity to enhancement converters...
  7. Rajani Isa
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dark_Respite View Post
    *anguished howl*

    THE ONE DAY THIS WEEK I'M NOT WORKING FROM HOME BECAUSE I HAVE MEETINGS AT WORK!!!!

    NOOOOOOOOOO!

    EDIT: The Gods, having heard my pitiful lamentations, parted the clouds to let a ray of hope shine upon me, and spake:

    "Half the team's out of town, the meeting's cancelled."

    Michelle
    aka
    Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
    I have no sympathy. Right as I got used to making sure to catch the coffee talks, work decided I needed to work Wednesdays at 11am. And until today, mobile viewing wasn't an option (go go ISP change to better net access)
  8. Rajani Isa
    Tri-form khelds can be quite adaptive as well.
  9. Rajani Isa
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Schismatrix View Post
    Okay, i'll bite. How, exactly, do you work around the laws in the various regions that have laws making contest rewards expensive/illegal to award inside their jurisdiction? IANAL, so i'm not familiar with methods for easily and inexpensively circumventing laws prohibiting certain types of contest rewards.
    IIRC, Quebec is probably the easiest to work with, as I seem to recall their main hangup is dual-language requirements.

    Rhode Island requires a fee that isn't insubstantial for a giveaway of stuff for free. Especially when there is no direct gain of money related to entering (like lotto, for example).
  10. Rajani Isa
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zwillinger View Post
    Don't worry, you'll have Staff Fighting Soon™ enough!

    Waaaaaaaaiiiit a minute....
    So, Paragon Studios Super Soaker Death Match league? I put five down on war witch, one on Z.
  11. Rajani Isa
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Canine View Post
    If you are leading a trial and you know it backward, then a *very* useful command is :

    Code:
    /windowscale scriptui 0.7
    Adjust the 0.7 as appropriate for your display settings/screen size/eyesight.

    (/windowscale costume 0.7 is a good one too )
    That window size command is very useful (especially for holloween and the haunted house - that trial window is HUGE.)

    On a related note I'd say a trial goer should read the trial window and understand it. That way they understand what to ignore and what to pay attention to.
  12. Rajani Isa
    Intent :
    Transfer Tokens on the first of the calendar month, no matter when your billing date is.

    Paragon Points : On your billing date. If no points within 24 hours of said date, contact support. Handed out per-month on multi-month subs.

    Rewards Tokens : this is wonky due to the transition for most folks. Should be at the end of the billing month, but can come sooner. Especially with bonus time accounted for. Handed out monthly even for multi month subs.

    Billing date refers to te day of the month you are billed, or would be billed if a multi-month sub.
  13. Rajani Isa
    The only change I can think of is the PPM change - which for IOs hasn't happened yet.
  14. Rajani Isa
    With bases - it's not that bad, since you really only need to pay rent every 6 weeks or so, IIRC.

    And for costumes - any "VIP Content" costumes will simply be unavailable should you go to the tailor.
  15. Rajani Isa
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Iannis View Post
    swap ammo would be pretty easy

    either give using a special ammo a to-hit buff for the instasnipe threshold (cryo or toxic providing more than fire, since fire is so much better than the other ammos and their negligible debuffs), or invert the lethal/elemental damage components so the other two ammos might actually matter. I think cold and toxic are a lot less resisted compared to fire (lethal goes without saying), but the % of elemental damage compared to the lethal damage just ends up making fire the best ammo even against fire-resistant stuff...DoT > useless debuff
    Why would the insta-snipe threshold matter?

    Dual Pistols does not have a Snipe.
  16. Rajani Isa
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Hopeling View Post
    If you (like me) have trouble coming up with a concept you like for Water Blast, it also recolors nicely to make Acid Blast, Blood Blast, Lava Blast, Ink Blast, Oil Blast, or whatever other liquid you can think of. It does not have the limited pallette like Ice.

    Booze blast.
  17. Rajani Isa
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
    1. According to Arbiter Hawk, energize will have 120s recharge, and scale 1 endurance discount that lasts 60s. That's the exact endurance discount Conserve power has now, but it will be trivially easy to perma in I24, as Caulderone mentions above, because it will last longer in I24, and recharge faster.

    2. Its *also* going to get a heal *and* +regen. You will have to slot for those if you want to maximize them, but even in your current build it will work fairly well without any changes.

    3. Power Boost boosts the strength of heals among other things. That's why /energy blasters that take aid self love the power. And guess what: energy manipulation is getting a heal in energize.

    4. Power Boost *also* happens to boost tohit buffs. Like the ones that will be making sniper blasts insta-cast in I24.

    There is not a single player in existence that has conserve power in energy manipulation that could *possibly* be getting worse in I24 due to the changes Arbiter Hawk announced. When CS becomes energize, it will lose nothing, gain heal and regen, and recharge faster. That's a gift from the gaming gods. The only downside, if you can call it that, is that you might want to slot it more than now. But you don't have to: it will be better in every way in I24 regardless.
    But the twenties the game just spit out at me, they're not in sequential order!
  18. Rajani Isa
    Houtex - part of the sell of the M$ tablets is a keyboard/trackpad combo built into one of the at-release covers as an accessory.
  19. Rajani Isa
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tater Todd View Post
    • - This leaves out Fiery Assault and Psionic Assault from even getting a fraction of the use out of the new snipe change.
    • -Also keeping it at 22% for Doms alienates Doms and it makes the community grumpy at Synapse for keeping Moonbeam in Dark Assault and promising <3 to snipes for Dominators.
    Well, Moonbeam is insta-snipeable. Go Gather Shadows
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex View Post
    Should have added this IMO: IMO, the way to handle this is to create an new IO set for Snipes and have that change how the power works, instead of [...]
    That'd be balancing around IOs. No. Should never happen.
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tater Todd View Post
    I was actually making it easier to read I thought lol. I normally ignore a post of it's a wall of text but if someone breaks it up with quotes or bullets I will read it. I guess it's my personal preference then lol.

    A wall of text type of post makes me shut down...it's like the first time I had to read War and Peace lol.
    Not reading. Quoting. It makes it a total PANCAKE to quote without having unresolving format tags everywhere.

    Was pretty to read though.
  20. Rajani Isa
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Yogi_Bare View Post
    I like the TAoE option.
    Or they could modify it to use the "dead target = Okay" tech they found (which if I'm not mistaken, I'm making a horribly inaccurate name for") to "fix" the dead-cast problem Twilight Grasp had.
  21. Rajani Isa
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Cinaed_EU View Post
    Well, the first time I logged on I had the following:

    5 server slots (to unlock characters)
    8 reward tokens, with 7 of them automatically spent. I spent the last one to fill out Tier 4, and now need 5 more to fill Tier 5 and get the Controller archetype.

    Thanks to all you guys help, tips and links, I have decided to continue using time cards as I have always done. Eventually, with enough time cards bought, I should have enough tokens.

    As good as the free play may sound, after having spent some time online with my unlocked characters, it's just not the same when it's so limited - and my characters are getting slaughtered like never before, because all my slotted Enhancements are inactive until I reach Tier 7 (!). So I might as well buy time and enjoy the game fully unlocked, until I eventually have enough tokens to fill all tiers, and then I can "retire" to free mode with my characters.
    Have you used the second builds? If not, you can swap to those when free-play and make them SO builds.
  22. Rajani Isa
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by JohnnyKilowatt View Post
    It's worth noting that even blasters have single target ranged attacks shorter than 80 feet that were not mentioned to be expanded. For example, the tier 1 immobilize powers on many secondaries.
    But the forcus of the range increase was "Blast" powers.

    And I do believe when someone pointed it out to him, Hawk said they'd look at bringing all the tier 1s to Subdue's range.
  23. Rajani Isa
    The part that sucks is that it's a damage IO... so no go for whirlwind.

    Bah, that's what I wanted to ask Hawk...
  24. Rajani Isa
    So Cinaed, if you could tell us how many reward tokens you have, we can help you out on figuring the quickest way to play who you want, for free.

    If I'm right about how many you have, you'd need six more tokens for the "free" Controller AT unlock. Your first point purchase is worth one bonus token, besides the normal one every 1200pts purchased.

    Plus side - if you sub to VIP status for a month, it resets your server-slot unlocks. Also, all month subs also give a reward token (now) - and here are a frew ways for cheap sub months - http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/R_M%27s_...g_Cheap_Months
  25. Rajani Isa
    1 for the account
    1 for a box (presumably)
    5 for 12 months dubbed prior to Freedom (4 vet badges plus year bonus, he mentions a year of paid playtime)

    I get 7 Paragon Rewards tokens