Roderick

All the extra goodies (that have been announced) are digital, so you get the same thing whether you buy online or through a store. The only "pre-order" perk, as already mentioned, is the ability to create dual pistols and demon summoning characters early. This can only be obtained by ordering online during the presale period, dates yet to be announced.

It's been a while, but I've occasionally has people invite my level 50 brutes and scrappers to farm with them, and when I /who them, they've been lowbies - often 20 or less.

I'd say it's pretty obvious what these ones are looking for.

As a console game offshoot of City of Heroes, yes, provided it had good controls.

As an addition to the current game, not likely. I've heard a couple devs complain about piloting signature characters. Basically, it's not fun because the powers are balanced wrong for being a player - the signature characters are meant to be fought against.

But a well done console could wasily spawn a few sequels.

Claws/Stone Brute

Dammit, Aett! My computer lagged, and you HAD to sneak in and beat me to the punch, didn't you?

There have been no announcements about new IOs, except the one almost a year ago where the devs stated that their intention was to alternate between new IOs and proliferation.

What you were told was either wishful thinking or rumor-spreading.

Also, if you have the Good vs Evil version of the game, Trina in Pocket D does size changes too.

EDIT: You need GvE to get into the VIP room and talk to Trina, AND the Science booster to get her to offer body changes, just in case anyone reads that and thinks that GvE is all you need.

My main, Roderick, earned his top hat and monocle today.

Sadly, I cannot lay claim to epic levels of ebil, the majority of my money just comes from being patient while outfitting my characters, and being smart when selling my wares. My only "Market Games" involves the crafting and selling of commons.

Coming soon: Rod 2.0 (billion!)

Force Feedback does check once per target. Shield Charge has one target: the location you click when targetting it.Therefore, it only has a single 10% chance to trigger on the caster.

Technically, the summoned pseudo-pet fires a multi-target AoE that has a chance to proc off each enemy it hits, but successes buff the pseudo-pet, not the caster.

What Ignicity said is partially correct. The proc can only stack on you once. But that's not because it can only check once, but rather because it's flagged to not stack. So if you put it in an AoE attack, you can boost the chances of it firing, but you'll still only get one buff.

Back when I was playing WoW, Blizzard launched the Armory, which is basically the same thing as (and some said the inspiration for) the City Vault.

I have no inside experience with the Armory. Everything I am about to say is based on observations.

The Armory keeps an up-to-date list of every character on every server. If you try to view a character that hasn't logged in for xx days or more, you get a message telling you that the character is not available.

I suspect that, on each log out, or possibly periodically during game play, info is sent from the Game Server to the Armory Database. The website pulls from the Armory Database only, never talking to the Game Server. Periodically, a script runs (or more likely, is auto-run during downtime), and purges any entries older than xx days, to keep the database as clean as possible.


If the City Vault were to access the Game Servers every time a character was viewed, then I could see the potential for horrible lag. But if a setup like what I described was used, where charcter data was updated periodically to a separate database, then the server should be able to be configured to not send data often enough to choke itself, and if the data were updated on logout only, then the lag should be even less.

No. As I said, the proc grants the bonus to the CASTER, not the TARGET. The only way to have the proc affect someone else is to give it to them and have them slot it in their own power.

The procs give their benefit to the caster.

Which means that,depending on how the Tree is coded, the buff would either go to the Dom/Troller only, or to the Tree only.

Super-simplified version: Fight enemies that are level 47 or higher, and kill as many as you can. Keep open room for recipes. If one drops and you don't have room for it, it vanishes. I like to do level 46-50 flashback missions at +0x8. This lets me kill tons of enemies for chances at purples, and earns me merits for non-purple big ticket items at the same time.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the problem too, but did you try using the Scroll Wheel or Home/End keys to adjust the camera position?

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