Redlynne

Screenshots or it didn't (not) happen.

You seem to be missing the closing double quote mark at the end of the bind.

Let's just say that most people are going to be more comfortable classifying Psionic Powers as being either Mutant or Natural in origin, rather than Magic or Tech. A case can be made for Psionics being the result of a Science origin too, but that's rarer (and usually involves Countess Crey for some reason).

For my INF, I'm thinking that the reason why there is Arcane Salvage at all being dropped in Praetoria can simply be chalked up to "this stuff is vendor bait/trash" to the mobs who are dropping it. By that I don't mean that it's useless to the PLAYERS ... just that it's useless to the mobs. "Un(der)powered" Luck Charms are just cheap plastic rings you get from gumball machines and forgot you had one in your pocket kinds of things. If you think in terms of "what has value?" to Praetorian Society, as opposed to what has value to your character(!), you'd quickly see that the Tech Salvage actually has worth ... while the Arcane Salvage is seen as either useless junk (that doesn't work) or as curiosities or "not so" modern art. I know that sounds backwards *to us* because we use the Arcane Salvage in-game for all kinds of stuff ... but then, most of Praetoria's population isn't Super ... and therefore would neither know, nor care to know, about Arcane Salvage (and what it might be used for).

I believe that was Back Alley Brawler saying that about the dirt puffs from the Sprint Powers. The problem was that Sprint was originally designed to make the dirt puffs while moving, and there wasn't any thought about what that would look like in the air when flying. BABs managed to invert the problem and make it so that the dirt puffs from Sprint weren't being activated by the power but were instead being activated by the environment when the Sprint power was toggled on. That way it was the ground that would produce the puffs, rather than your character (in codespeak), and you wind up with a situation where you get puffs of dirt only when you're running on the ground and not when flying in the air.

So BABs just "offloaded" the problem from the power, moved it into the environmental controls, and solved it. Looks like this new aura uses the same methodology to produce oily footprints.

Sounds like a personal problem.

Thank you for that Arcanaville. I have never yet once seen the first three lines of dialogue in this cutscene. NOT ONCE. At best, I get to see the -vermin- line scrolling off. At worst, Nightstar and Siege are are just standing there yakking.



FEEDBACK FOR DEVS:

If you're going to remake this cutscene in any way, let me be the first to say that it would be a lot more ... interesting ... to have it done as intercutting between Praetorian Mother Mayhem (and *ahem* ... Friends) and a mission briefing to the League done in the Briefing Theater in the Primal Vanguard Base (room opposite from the Target Dummies). This would then give you the *conflicting* perspectives on what is actually happening here.

Mayhem (and ... Friends) would need to have their dialogue lines cut back quite a bit, since some of the exposition would be transferred to the Primal Mission Briefing in Vanguard counterpart scene (complete with picture shots of BAF up on the big screens). Something like this, perhaps ...

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Location: Primal Vanguard Base Briefing Room (Interior)
NPCs: Sister Psyche
PCs: Dopplegangers of everyone in the League (emote) sitting in the seats

Sister Psyche (telepathically): Thank you everyone for volunteering for this mission against the Behavioral Adjustment Facility in Praetoria.
Sister Psyche (telepathically, but emoting disgust): As you already know ... Mother Mayhem ... has been conducting ... human experimentation ... there, in an effort to compromise the Resistance against Emperor Cole.



Location: Praetorian BAF (interior)
NPCs: Mother Mayhem, Nightstar and Siege

Mother Mayhem (telepathically): I am just -so- pleased with the success of this project, my dears. Our little runaways have had -so- much to tell me, so many -interesting- things.
Mother Mayhem (telepathically): They have even told me where to find the other children who've run away, so they can be returned to their Mother's -loving- embrace.



Location: Primal Vanguard Base Briefing Room (Interior)

Sister Psyche (telepathically): We have learned that by tomorrow the subjects of Mother Mayhem's mindwashing technique will be released, and upon rejoining the Resistance will become sleeper agents unbeknownst to anyone, including themselves.
Sister Psyche (telepathically, emoting emphasis): This MUST be prevented.



Location: Praetorian BAF (Interior)

Siege (speaking): We anticipate that the B.A.F. will soon suffer an 'attack' by either the Resistance or Primal forces. During this attack, our security systems will be temporarily disabled, allowing our test subjects to escape in the chaos and confusion.
Nightstar (speaking): Our attackers will, naturally, be blamed for releasing dangerous Resistance terrorists into the city. We will, of course, try to prevent this so as to protect the populace from this threat to our loyal citizens.



Location: Primal Vanguard Base Briefing Room (Interior)

Sister Psyche (telepathically, emoting determination): It is imperative that we strike, now, before their plans reach fruition.



Location: Praetorian BAF (Interior)

Mother Mayhem (telepathically): Wonderful. Our formerly lost children will soon see just how much -love- their Mother has for them.
Mother Mayhem (telepathically): I will leave the next phase in your capable hands. I know that your love for Mother means that -you- -will- -not- -fail- -me-!

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Note that that the original cutscene comprises 14 lines of dialogue, and my alternative here is composed of only 10 lines ... making for a (slightly) shorter cutscene. Also note that the Vanguard Interior could easily be done as a second (completely inaccessible) underground location, just like the BAF Interior, and would only need a "copy" of as much of the Vanguard Base Interior as is visible within the camera angles chosen for the cutscene. The dopplegangers of the players could have "assigned seating" based on their League Team #, and could each be given a (somewhat) randomized Sit emote so they all look like "free willed individuals" rather than a choreographed collection of mind controlled people.

Easily fixed by slotting the Karma KB Protection IO into the default slot in Hide.

I second that motion. All in favor?

Trick question ... should they be able to?

If that's the "benchmark minimum performance threshold" you're going to set, you first need to answer (and explain) why it's a reasonable one to expect. My reading of your post indicates that you have not explained why this benchmark expectation is in any way reasonable.



I play a Quad-form Peacebringer. My build is optimized towards regular/steady AoE Damage Over Time using quickly recharging powers. I don't use any of the long recharge "spike damage" powers at all in my build, preferring instead powers I can use multiple times per spawn group. With the exception of Dwarf powers, my build is also decidedly heavy on ranged AoE in Human/Light and Nova forms, giving me "lawnmower" applicability in teams.

Given the AoE heavy orientation of my build, I would consider it decidedly SUB-optimal for any sort of single target "scrapper" styled benchmarking challenge. It would therefore be unreasonable, in my estimation to hold up *my* build for my Peacebringer to any sort of "benchmarking test" designed for Scrappers involving pure single target damage per second throughput onto a single target.



"Universe, is infinite! I am finite. You are finite. This, this is wrong tool. Never use this."
- Zathraas

Are the (3rd round) Pocket D and USTREAM meet and greet going to be happening concurrently ... meaning we have to "pick" which one we want to attend?

Yes ... but there are some things you just can't do simply because you're not a Warshade. Warshades are SERIOUSLY empowered by their ... necromancy ... which is what makes them MFing Warshades to begin with.

"What's Mine is Mine and what's Your's is Mine Too" is not exactly the motto of the Peacebringer.

Empyrean Merits.

One per day per Trial means running Lambda (on that character) once per day.

*cough*

Barracuda Strike Force

*cough*

I'll disagree with this notion for Ninja/FF. All you have to do is 6-slot Force Bolt, your Tier 1 FF power, with Kinetic Crash. You now have a MAG 40(!) Knockback that recharges *quickly* to "drop kick" anything and everything into helpful terrain. I was using it at level 10 on the Valentine missions on Arachnos Lab maps to prevent humongous gobs of damage from Bosses. I'd just aim for the walls and *PUNT* and they'd get stuck in the geometry and never recover from their KB animation (meaning, they never got to do any damage ever again!). All I had to do was maintain "suppression fire" on them using my massive (unslotted for sets yet) KB power, and my little teams of PC were far safer (and had less downtime) than they otherwise might have.

Force Bolt can be a mighty offensive power ... even for a Tier 1 ... so long as you use it (correctly).