Rajani Isa

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    ah, as I just said in another thread on this subject, I'm really tired of facing down Snaptooth.

    I understand why the event from last year was re-used, but It would be nice to see a new threat in the next event. enough of that annoying Red-cap!

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    For me, the biggest thing that is annoying about him are the never ending - or near enough so - ambushes that agro on you unless you zone!

    It's hard enough to solo a Elite boss but it's even harder when you have to deal with hazzard or greater sized spawns attacking YOU>
  2. Rajani Isa

    Drops II

    It's not some of the components for a recipe, it's the recipe itself.
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    Drops II

    I was getting experience from it, I remember that much.

    DM/DA, and as I recall the cabal has a lot of KB!

    About six of us, balanced team. Only problem we had is on the third Mary it bugged/we lost track of her minions, and wouldn't respawn Mary. We reset, and it went fine. Probably about 30-35 minutes for the run that worked.

    And, I like stealth, so I went and got Superspeed on my scrapper, so no Acrobatics.
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    Drops II

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    I haven't a problem with repeatable rewards. Though I do have concerns about the 4 SF to 13 TF disparity between CoV and CoH.


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    Not to neglect you valid concerns. The farmers will pick the easiest and repeat it anyway, so there isnt really that much difference herosdie and villanside in accessibility.

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    Actually that is one of my concerns. If a taskforce or strikeforce is getting farmed for any reason, the rewards will get nerfed, but the difficulty will remain the same or greater.

    Case in point:
    The Katie Hannon TF (Croatoa). I remember that there were a few on Triumph that spent weeks doing it for 10 Single Origin drops for the first mission. Seeing Triumph is a smaller population server, I would imagine that Freedom had the same thing only more so. Now the reward is gone, Mary is still an AV all ten times, and you only get one SO drop.

    With more choices, there is less chance of getting shafted thanks to some farmers lack of foresight.

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    To be honest, mary was pretty wussy as an AV, when I did the TF.
  5. Rajani Isa

    Drops II

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    Just give the pool B reward to everyone on the team.
    They do it already with badges.

    The 50s can exemp down and get them.

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    Arc completion is a different reward "phase" than when badges get handed out.
  6. Ex Libris broke the thread!
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    Is it just me, or is Statesman's star in the Statesman TF promo image on the launcher screen... unnaturally flesh toned?

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    It's the lighting
  8. Rajani Isa

    Full IO Sets

    From what the developers have said, IO sets don't care as to what the power allows for normal enhancement slotting - if they did, the snipe sets could be slotted into assassin strike attacks!

    The simple fact of the matter is, if the developers don't tag Howling Twilight to take the stun IO sets, it won't be able to take them. And based off of what they are doing with snipes/AS, I am not going to assume that because players use it as a mez, that the developers are going to allow us to slot it with mez IOs!

    And for the accuracy of Twilight Grasp?

    Defender /= One who Takes Leadership Pool. I have several characters with this or a similar power, and on none will I go and six-slot a healing set as it stands, because I don't want to take leadership to make sure I can heal! (and that would be taking TWO OTHER POWERS to make sure you can use a heal effectively.) The one exception being my Pinball Wizard.
  9. Rajani Isa

    Full IO Sets

    Abe - so far it sounds like the only restriction is that a given IO of a given Set can only be slotted once per power, so you could have several Ageis IO sets for example.

    However, Set bonuses cap out at 5 - but different sets have different levels of bonuses to the effects, so if you have five 1% hp and five 1.20% hp bonuses, that is a total of 11%
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    Drops II

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    Question: Currently, cashing in 6000 bounty in Siren's Call produces the same option menu as completing a story arc. Is there any chance we could have Siren's bounty as an alternative for Pool B recipes?

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    Sounds good to me.

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    And sounds bad to everyone who doesn't like pvp.

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    If it is exclusive to PvP, yes, that would be bad. However, I don't see it as a problem if it is in addtion to a decent PvE solution.

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    At this point, a decent PvE solution doesn't exist.
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    Issue:
    Certain characters are over-optimal with respect to soloing material designed to be difficult enough to challange a team.

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    The primary/secondary combinations that can solo the team content will be adjusted down, until they can no longer do so.

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    That is what we call a bad solution.

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    But based on what we've seen in the past, it's the one that's most likely to happen unfortunately.

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    It depends on what you call team content.

    If you mean things like soloing spawns for multiple (as in four or more) people... that isn't the same as having peoples start a TF for you and soling it.
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    Drops II

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    I think the idea is that foes that 'require a group' *cough Ultimus cough* and occur in public areas will not drop Recipes, to avoid having camping issues occur.

    AVs and GMs that appear in instances might be a different story.

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    Right there in the Drops II thread :

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    * Giant Monsters don't drop recipes so they are not farmed for recipes, causing camping issues we are actively trying to avoid. As for reasons to fight Giant Monsters... well the Hive and the Abyss now contain very good reasons to defeat these guys.

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    and it followed this :

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    * No specific anything is tied to doing anything specific. This means that completing ANY story arc in the level 20 to 25 range can get you a random rare recipe from Pool B. Defeating ANY entity (no matter if its a minion or a boss) can get you a random recipe from Pool A. This is done this way to ensure a more even distribution of recipes from that Pool. If defeating Archvillains always dropped a Rare, then someone would pull the old "farming AV" trick and suddenly that Rare is more common than Generic Damage Enhancements.

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    as Giant Monsters are the only exception to the rules of Pool A.
  13. Rajani Isa

    Drops II

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    Actually, I only heard them say Giant Monsters won't drop recipies. Nothing about AVs not dropping them.

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    Actually Brainstorm said this in the very first post of this thread.

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    * No specific anything is tied to doing anything specific. This means that completing ANY story arc in the level 20 to 25 range can get you a random rare recipe from Pool B. Defeating ANY entity (no matter if its a minion or a boss) can get you a random recipe from Pool A. This is done this way to ensure a more even distribution of recipes from that Pool. If defeating Archvillains always dropped a Rare, then someone would pull the old "farming AV" trick and suddenly that Rare is more common than Generic Damage Enhancements.


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    It sounds from that like AV's probably won't drop rares. Hm, I suppose they have a reasonable chance of droping a normal recipe though. Maybe.

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    What he was saying is that if you drop an AV, you have the same chance of getting a common/uncommon/rare recipe from that AV as you would a minion, LT, Boss, or Elite.
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    Drops II

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    Pool A: Defeats. Any enemy rewards from this. AVs, GMs, Minions and EBs. There is no distinction, all reward the salvage and recipes, a Vast majority of things will come from here. Anyone can go fight anything over and over, no worry about anyone being restricted from collecting.



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    Giant Monsters and AV's don't drop recipes. This is stated to discourage farming of them. They do drop salvage though.

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    Sorry, was just going from the top of my head

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    Actually, I only heard them say Giant Monsters won't drop recipies. Nothing about AVs not dropping them.
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    Please leave Shivans alone. They are very useful to the squishier AT's in the game.

    The simple thing to do is to make the rewards tie into the minimum team size. If the TF need 4 to start, you must have 4 to get rare drops. Make the missions scale to the TF minimum, instead of for a solo player. Leave it so that you can still complete the TF if under the minimum, just no rares will drop.

    I think that would solve the problem.

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    No, it doesn't, because you then are penalizing people who have had things happen to them - i.e. I have run TFs where we started with the minimum, then had people drop because we hit a rough spot.

    Which means if they finish that TF, they are NOT getting the full reward.
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    Drops II

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    Honestly, making a level 50 have to go find people with story arcs from level 10-15 etc or redo the horrible 8 hour Positron TF or one of those multi day SS TFs is pretty crappy.

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    8 hours? Ouch, last time I did it it was about 2.
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    Drops II

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    That is only a partial solution.

    That still leaves out people who would have done more Story Arcs if they had known they were mission out on rare loot; including people who helped others who did story arcs rather than their own.

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    Could also allow for dropping if you take other peoples story arcs while exemp'd down. Could even up the drop rate in such cases.

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    You don't get it.

    Pool B only drops at the "story arc completed" award stage - which /only/ drops for the story arc holder.

    Pool B is not for mobs in story arcs.
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    Paragon wiki. They mysteriously got all kinds of sets and what they do up there. It states all teh snipe sets are snipe/AS sets

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    My guess is they said they were snipe/strikes because, for the most part, AS attacks function like snipes.
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    Drops II

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    I actually wanted to go with Drops II: Drops Harder

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    *sniff sniff*

    Hmm. A faint odor of a positronic suit, there. Must be my imagination.

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    No way, I would have gone with Drops II: Attack of the Drops.

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    Star Wars reference; +3 Points. Reference is a prequill, -11ty billion points!

    Better would have been; Drops 2: Return of the Drops.

    =. .=

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    I vote the next one be called "Drops 3 : Mission Undroppable.
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    Drops II

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    I am listening to your ideas, but a Flashback system is simply not something we can implement in a timeframe you would all be happy with.

    Instead we are looking into other options to get you the Pool B choice so level 50s don't feel gimped.

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    Dataminins shouldn't be that hard. Those who've finished the arcs have the souvenirs, the data is all right there. Can't you award us based on that, retroactively?

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    last time they did datamining like that, it took them 1.5x the period reviewed to get it done (badges). Otherwise, they would of had to stop developing ANYTHING the data-analyzing/mining people could work on.

    3 years x 1.5 = 4.5 years...
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    Drops II

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    I am listening to your ideas, but a Flashback system is simply not something we can implement in a timeframe you would all be happy with.

    Instead we are looking into other options to get you the Pool B choice so level 50s don't feel gimped.

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    Here it is, they have heard and are working on it. Thanks Doc.

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    No, they did NOT say we are getting flashback.
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    Following up on Frostbiter's comment, if I had a dollar for every "I'm no programmer, but it shouldn't be too hard to do" comment... PROFIT!

    --NT

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    Dollar? Try penny!
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    Consume

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    Eh? What's wrong with consume?

    [/ QUOTE ]If consume gets it recharge lowered, after Inventions , I want DC's to be lowered too!
  24. I think I found another one -
    * Firebase Zulu Security Detail badge is for spending under 10 minutes in the Shadow Shards, the zones not missions in CoV. This badge in not available in CoV.
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    Nerf Arcanaville!!

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    I tried, but she baffled me with logic and I ended up buffing her instead. *shakes fist*

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    Wait, did you just call me Optimus? I noticed you quoted my response.

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    D'oh! My bad! This is a Prime example of what happens with lack of sleep!

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    Please, take the day off and get some sleep. I wouldn't want the wrong power modified.

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    yeah, they might Transform, oh, say, MoG into a toggle.

    And people say it's worthless now...