Roderick

ESPECIALLY when you've got a Rogue on certain heroside TFs.

And if the whole team has one, then the first player's should be recharged before everyone else has used theirs, assuming the TF is long enough to need that many TPs.

This. Except I have to wait for more points before I can get it.

No.

I don't know about other countries, but I imagine it's the same: In Canada, those cards cannot be used for cash at a bank or ATM (that would include moving the money from the card to your bank account). Any attempt to do so will be declined.

You may be able to find somewhere that is willing to add a "cash back" to your bill when using these cards, but most places don't do cash back on credit cards (and there's no difference between a prepaid credit card and a regular one to the POS terminal).

I'd cut it down to 20% (same as Quicknes, but without the runspeed), and make it a toggle (so it doesn't require a crazy build manufactured for perma-Hasten to keep it up all the time). Then take the end cost of the crash, double it, and divide by 120 to get the End Per Second cost (keeps the end cost the same, if you slot for max End Reduction, increases it for anyone who doesn't 3-slot it).

Hasten as it is, is crazy. A pool power shouldn't be better than a Primary or Secondary. Other powers would be adjusted for the same reason: Jab would be buffed to be better than Boxing (Boxing is at about the right level for a T1 pool attack, IMO), Air Superiority would be adjusted down (Currently the best attack in a power pool? Probably.), and probably a few others, both up and down.

I'd also give all pools the travel power adjustment; ie, first 3 powers at 4, fourth power at 14 (one power prerequisite), fifth power at 14 (two power prerequisite). Not all pools would get the new power at T5 - I'd add a thrown weapon as T3 to the fighting pool, leaving the requirements for Tough and Weave where they are right now.

People like you either learned to tank in a different game, or learned from someone who did. City of Heroes doesn't require taunt spamming the way other games do, because we have mechanics - including but not limited to: variable Threat levels, Gauntlet, and Taunt auras - that tend to keep aggro "where it's supposed to be".

Before Inherent Fitness, I never took Taunt on a Tank or Brute; I never had room in the build. Now, I always take it, but I still don't spam it. I can hold aggro up to the cap without using it, so I only use it to snag a runner or someone picking on a squishy, or when fighting something that must be kept on me, like Recluse in STF. I never spam Taunt except on an AV or GM, and I've never seen a team wipe because of it.

"Taunt every time it recharges" is pretty bad advice too. With a 10 second recharge, it's pretty easy to get to the point where you'd be Taunting as often as you attack, and I've got better powers to use than Taunt.

Being able to turn it off would probably require some sort of kludge fix, like going to talk to Null. What might be simpler would be to have Teleport (and clones like the Warshade TP) grant two powers when you take it, just like Dual Pistols and Staff do - the Teleport we have now, and one that's identical, but without the hover. Call the original Teleport, and indicate that it's good for teleporting long distances, like across zones, and call the new one Combat Teleport, and indicate that it's best for quick repositioning and bypassing obstacles, but may drop you into dangerous areas if you teleport blindly into the air.

They may change it, now that it's fixable.

It's actually been like that since they added Toxic resist to certain heals. It just didn't matter until i9. Effects that are the same but opposite (Tohit Buff/Tohit Debuff, Defense Buff/Defense Debuff, etc) are technically the same thing. That's why you used to be able to use a Def Debuff Hami-O to buff a Def Buff power. Odd as it may seem, Damage Buff and Damage Resistance are one of these pairings.

The easiest way to see the effects of this is to find a Mastermind pet with a +Resist power and slot damage in the pet. The Resist power will ignore the enhancement, but the detailed info still shows it.

That means that if you were under the effects of Fortitude or Fulcrum Shift or even Build Up, the toxic resistance would be boosted by the damage buff. To prevent this, the power was flagged to ignore buffs (which includes set bonuses). This effect applies to the whole power, not just the part that they want affected.

You can see the same thing when combining Defense powers that grant resistance (like the Ice armor in defender Epics) with Power Boost. PB normally buffs Defense powers, but the resist being flagged to ignore buffs makes the defense ignore PB.

Now that things are coded to be able to tell the difference between paired effects (ie, the recent Hami-O change), it's possible that these types of resist powers can be set to be buffed only by the powers that they're supposed to. That doesn't mean that this change is scheduled, or if it is that it's coming soon, but at least it's possible now.

Gauntlet doesn't make you miss. Streakbreaker most often "fails" when you use a low accuracy attack followed by a few high accuracy attacks. Since Streakbreaker is based off the lowest attack in the streak, a 10% chance to hit followed by several 95% chances will prevent Streakbreaker from forcing one of the 95%s to hit. I'd be willing to be that you mix a vet power like Nemesis Staff or Sands of Mu into your attack chain.

Do you actually have a 95% chance to hit, or a 95% accuracy? It's a big difference, as enemy defense and debuffs will greatly reduce that 95%.

Either way, I doubt that you're missing as often as you state - it's probably a matter of perception. And if you ARE missing that much, it still isn't caused by Gauntlet.

Fake Nemesis DO spawn, and they count towards the badge. You just need to kill stuff faster to get them to spawn.

Also:

Having a boxed set prior to Freedom's launch granted a token. So ANY account that was more than just a Trial would have enough tokens to chat.

With the launch of Issue 23, the supergroup restrictions are being removed, so that won't be an issue, for whoever it was that brought it up.

Wow. Glad I remapped Z in my default binds a LONG time ago.

In case it's not obvious, you can use the down key to cycle through them the opposite direction. I never knew it was 10 items saved. I've never counted. I always expected it to be a larger number, and was surprised every time when I tried to go back and the line I was looking for was already gone from the buffer.

I see what you're saying, and you're right, that is possible with how the patch note is written. Since I haven't tested myself to see exactly how it works, and either of us could be supported by the patch note, I'll assume that you guys know what you're talking about.

You don't have to dig THAT hard.

http://www.petapixel.com/2011/08/09/...-in-photoshop/

There's several links that are easy to find that call out Adobe software for this. It's likely that the scanning software I had been using was put out by Adobe as well.

It may no longer be the case, but the last time I tried to, I couldn't, and the error message was similar to the one above. Perhaps the software that had that functionality has had it removed. After all, that search turned up several ways to defeat the anti-money scanning software.

But hey, thanks for assuming that I'm an idiot, a crackpot, and a liar, rather than the possibility that I may have been right, in my own admittedly limited experience.

EDIT: From what I'm seeing, it seems most likely that it's not a limitation on scanning, but a limitation of the image-editing software. Since I almost always use an image editor to scan, rather than the scanner's software, I would run into that every time, regardless of the scanner, if the software in question blocks money editing.

What the HECK do the Dominator and Tank procs have to do with the Brute proc? What I said is that... No, screw it. I'll let the PATCH NOTES say it for me:

Really? They should change that.

But... The F1-F5 keys are MARKED on the inspiration tray!



How did you miss that for 8 years?

EDIT: Yes, I am using a texture pack to reskin the insps. The key labels are still there, even without it.

Yes, but you won't like it.

Type /mypurchases and watch your chat window be spammed with unreadable garbage. Then type /copychat Global (replace Global if the output goes to a different tab). Then, open a text editor and paste the clipboard into it. If you can read around the HTML, great. If not, save the file with a .htm extension, and open it in a web browser. It's still a bit cryptic, but you can figure out what you've got from there.