Roderick

Heros are the exact same thing as Archvillains, except for one thing: when your difficulty/team size cause them to scale down to Elite Boss status, their rank doesn't change in the targetting window.

If you were solo of difficulty 4, he was an EB.

Lately, I've been noticing oddities with ambushes. It seems like when a single event is supposed to have waves of ambushes coming one at a time, they all come at once. I'm not positive that this happens every time, but the ITF is horrible for this - lately we've just started accepting that we'll wipe when the ambush spawns, and we have to regruoup, clear the ambush, then continue on with Rommie.

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Can't multiple KB attacks landing at once add together for a higher mag KB?

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Tank runs in.
30 Council Soldiers drop grenades at his feet.
Tank goes flying.

Outside alpha strikes, it's unlikely, but a tank would do well to slot extras for those KB heavy alphas.

Villainside, the unlock is tied to souvenirs, not badges*. Since only the mission owner gets the souvenir, tagging along with someone else won't help.

*You can get the unlock via the "Kill 100 Overseers" badge, but that one is ridiculously annoying to get redside.

If something has glitched, and he doesn't give his mission, you can still get the weapons by flashbacking the arc once you outlevel it. Unfortunately, I think that arc is 30-35, which means it would count as a 35-39 arc, and you'll need to be 40 to get it via Ouro.

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Oh, one other thing, the chance to proc is 15%, not 20% as your table indicates.

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I was away from the game when I made that post, and was going from memory. The numbers should be close still.

Thanks all for the answers.

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Grandville, so you can buy all your new characters the jetpack as early as level 1. Of course, you need a way back too...

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If you can fly, it's easy to get safely from the jetpack vendor to the Grandville base portal.

And if you've been to the jetpack vendor, it's a fair bet that you can fly.

Failing that, it's a safe walk to Cap, where you can buy a Black Market teleporter from the BM, and use that to go straight back to Mercy.

The devs do not have any specific ratio for def:res, or at least not one that have been shared with up. The 1 def:2 res ratio is purely a mathematical ratio of the mitigation values, ie, 1 def stops the exact same amount of damage (over time) as 2 res does.

Hold your middle mouse button (usually the scroll wheel) or the PageUp key and move the mouse.

Press PageDown to reset the camera.

If I'm on at that time, I'm in, but my only defender that can do it is just a baby (35 atm), so I'd need a mentor.

Niv, get to 46 so I can leech offa ya!

I'm afraid that's not possible, Dr. Dark. We've already got 10% uberness, and the cap is 75%.

Number 3 looks like he could be an early version of Foreshadow, just like that Back Alley Brawler doesn't look much like the one we have now.

No, it's not there. I reported it in the i14 beta. Nobody noticed or cared. Nobody's sure if it's a bug or intentional.

I'm trying to decide how to slot Choking Cloud, and spotted the Lockdown proc.

By itself, Choking Cloud has the following magnitude:
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Mag 0 10%
Mag 1 40%
Mag 2 10%
Mag 3 40%
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So it will hold Underlings 90% of the time, minions 50% of the time, and Lieutenants 10% of the time.

Adding the Lockdown proc (should) have the following effect:

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Mag 0 8%
Mag 1 32%
Mag 2 10%
Mag 3 40%
Mag 4 2%
Mag 5 8%
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So now, Underlings are held 92% of the time (2% increase), Minions 60% of the time and Lieutenants 50% of the time (10% increase each), and Bosses are held 10% of the time.

So, where it matters, I have a 10% increase in the Hold affecting a target across the board, or so it seems. A few things muddy the water.

How long does the hold from CC last?
How often does it pulse?
How long does the Hold from Lolkdown last?
Does it roll on each pulse, or does the standard 10 second suppression apply?
Has anyone tried this before, and if so, how well did it work for them?
Do Hold enhancements in the power increase the duration of the proc Hold, the way Heal enhancements boost the +Regen in Numina's?

This isn't a cheap enhancement. I just wanna make sure it's worth it before I do this.

Activating an emote should clear AFK status. You want the emote$$afk version.

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The "nuke" is a AoE hold. That's more of the kind of power you'd get in the middle of a set.

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The "nuke" is an AoE hold with a 100' radius and no target cap. I'd expect that to be somewhere around the Teir 15 power in the set.

There are so many destroyed zones in this game.

The Hollows
Faultline
Boomtown
Crey's Folly
Eden
The Hive
The Shadow Shard (OMFG they blew up the planet!)
Recluse's Victory

And villainside is so ramshackle it hardly needs blowing up.

My electric/energy blaster will keep the defautl electricity colors. The pom poms might change, I haven't decided.

My Luminary clone will have the same colors as Luminary, which I think means leaving them defaults.

If the colors can be changed differently on each costume slot, The Flaming Bunnyman will be getting hot pink flames on at least one costume.

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Billy Mays was inside my head shouting at me as I read this. Good job.

Now, take this crowbar and help me get him out of there.

Sometimes, due to a server or database error, respecs will fail. It's probably too late to check, but you probably had "Respec failed" in your Rewards channel. Sometimes, a Rikti or zombie invasion in the same zone can cause this, and if you're at a Villainside respec Arbiter, like Arbiter Lupin, sometimes an enemy will come by and kill you. You'll have no warning that it's happening, and the respec will fail if you're dead when you complete it.

If you redo the respec and it still fails, zoning will sometimes make it work. You may have to log out, or even verify files, or just wait for whatever server issue exists to clear up. On very rare occasion, your character file may get corrupted. A /petition can clear this up.

If there's any confusion, after adjusting a build, there's an easy way to tell if you respecced, did a second build, or tried to respec and it failed:
After a failed respec, your power tray will look the same as it did before.
After a successful respec, your power tray will be filled with your temp powers in the order you earned them, followed by your AT powers in the order you picked them
After switching to a second build, your trays will be empty.
After making a second build, your AT powers will be on the tray in the order you picked them, but no temp powers will be on the tray.

No way it's been two years, because I have a metric &lt;bleep!&gt;tonne on several toons, and I get my 24 month badge in about a month.

I get my 12 month badge in a couple days on my second account, and have a pile on my oldest toons there.

If you mass confuse a group of succubi, and then one uses confuse on another that's already confused... Who is it allowed to attack?

I'm confused...

The test server is a less powerful system than the Live servers are. What a medium size server would call an average load for peak times, the Test Server would call "OMG IT'S FREEDOM AT 3PM EST ON DOUBLE XP WEEKEND SOMEBODY PLEASE LOCK ME BEFORE MORE LOG IN!!!".

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I'd love one of each style EAT on each side, a branching one, and a form one.

Longbow and Nictus?

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Going Rogue with a Warshade would be pretty much equivalent to a Nictus. SoA are a little different, you would still have the Arachnos costume and powers. However, that's just slot 1 for the costume, you could just make your second slot into a Longbow costume and say you're a defector.

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I was always curious about this: what would happen if a Kheld fused with someone, willingly, of less-than-noble persuasion? It would still be a Peacebringer or Warshade, just an evil one?

Nictus attempt to dominate their hosts. The kheldian AT's are both more-or-less-equal partners, and yet the kheldian ATs seem to unerringly pick hosts who will become heros, never villains?

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Warshades, by my understanding, are Nictus, but have "reformed" and gone good.

Peacebringers may well join with less than savory hosts, but they will not help those hosts perform evil acts - According to the "Cannon Fodder" thread, a Kheldian can leave the host at any time.

As far as Longbow go, those aren't an Epic AT. They're Assault Rifle blasters and a variety of ATs (for the Wardens and Ballistae). The branching, Arachnos Soldier-style HEAT should be PPD, starting as a generic cop and having to stay natural (PPD Ghosts/SWAT, equivalent to Huntsmen), join the Psi-Corps, or don Hard Suits.

Could I hire you to convert 14 Infamy from one of my villains on Victory to Influence on Freedom?

No, not 14 million. Fourteen.

Every issue, and sometimes inbetween issues, you get one costume change token per costume slot on each character. Even if you don't have a million to spare on your 50s, you've probably got a costume token. Or *checks his oldest toon* 30+. Failing that, log out in Icon for 24 hours (no sneaking in ealry, or the counter starts over!) and get a 25% discount coupon.