Roderick

There have been, over the years, several comments that there's nothing to do with Vanguard Merits once you've got the costume parts. Well, here's the Solution: The Light Vanguard Assault Suit (LVAS).

Purchasable for the Vanguard Merit cap (9999 if I recall correctly), the LVAS is a temporary power with no charges and no duration, ie it's permanent once earned, like the Ouroboros Portal. When used, it summons a Vanguard Heavy, scaled down to the size of the Veteran non-combat pets. This pet has all the attacks of the Heavy, but all the attacks deal 0 damage, have no secondary effects, and are flagged "Enemies do not notice this attack" and "Ignores buffs and enhancements." Also, the pet is untargetable, and ignores all attacks, just like various existing player pets, such as Voltaic Sentinel.

The end result is a cute little 'bot that goes ballistic on nearby enemies, but never gives any combat advantage, so balance becomes a non-issue.

Once you craft your wings, you have to visit a tailor to add them to your costume.

Tailors are located heroside in Steel Canyon, Independence Port, and Founders Falls; villainside in Cap au Diable and St Martial (I think. I never use the secon tailor redside); and shared zones Rikti War Zone (accessible from Atlas Park, Founders Falls and Perigrine Island blueside, Cap au Diable and Grandville redside) or Pocket D (in the VIP room, only accessible if you have the Good vs Evil version of the game).

If the enemies have +Acc or +ToHit built in, or use powers that grant either, then you need proportionately higher defense to floor them.

Also, it's my understanding that higher rank enemies (Lt, Boss, EB, AV) have a higher floor for their hit chance. Your best bet is to read Arcanaville's guide to defense, and if you have questions or need clarification, ask her, either here (if she shos up) or send her a PM.

I think the devs are actively taking steps to confound the pigg divers. This would include things like not putting the vet badges into the live release until they're ready to announce them, or putting a really crappy click stealth power that wears off if you move into the code just before the release of the "ninja" booster pack.

The former method would prevent the info becoming public early by both deliberately examining the game files in a EULA-breaking way, or accidentally, by merely receiving the rewards early due to a system error.

You didn't say what price, if listed, for the Posi procs

Not that's been announced, or to my knowledge, even discussed.

The global friends list is HUGE. Did you really fill yours already?

It's not an always-on option, unless you have HUGE +recharge, but what about this?

As BAB said the day the power was put on the Test server: Walk does not play nicely with ANY powers. He would need to code a walk-animation for EVERY power, just like they did for flight.

That copypasta needs to be updated. The search function is a little different on the new forums than it was on the old ones.

A couple quirks about brokers to keep in mind:

-When they offer a bank mission, you have to do it to get a contact. You don't have to succeed; you still get a contact if you fail. But if you choose "No, thanks.", then no contact is offered.

-You can do paper missions in any zone that there are contacts in your level range. For example, You can still do papers in Port Oakes from 10-15, because that's Radio's level range. However, if you've already completed all the contacts in the Zone, the broker will not give you a contact in the next zone; you have to go to that zone and do papers there, and get the next contact from that zone's broker.


In addition to the unlockable contacts, you might also want to consider using Ouroboros to do any arcs that you outlevelled. With the new sidekicking rules, you will still get XP while doing Flashbacks.

In most cases, PBAoEs are spheres. Some few, usually the ones used by pseudopets, are cylinders. The most notable example is Caltrops, which was briefly bugged a while back to have a VERY tall cylinder. It was capable of hitting enemies flying at the zone ceiling, but was no wider than normal.

If you've got funds on a different server, now is the perfect time to move them around!

Roll a new toon, and hand it a few million. Then move it to the server you want the money on via the free server transfers and hand the money over.

This is easiest to do if you have multiple accounts, but you can also get a friend to make the mule for you. If you don't have any friends, I'9 not sure what to suggest. :P

It's not the debuffs. I watch my Def in my Attribute Monitor, and I never drop below 45% (from 47-48%).

The problem is the fact that there's 1-3 Bres in each group, and Bres summon Stony. They get the same Animated Stone that players do, which means that Stony has a base 75% chance to hit, rather than the normal 50% for enemies.

Your best bet is to beat down the Bres first, and if there's more than one, try to mez or KD them so they can't summon. Killing them after they summon doesn't help; like Death Shamans, their summons stay after you kill the summoner.