Roderick

You completed the previous phase. If I remember correctly, it's just a matter of defeating enough ghouls of the correct type (as stated in the pop-up).

Rikti Invasion (first phase): Run around like a chicken with its head cut off. When you see a bomb, destroy it.

Rikti invasion (second phase) and Zombie invasion: Get in the middle of the pile of people and kill stuff as fast as you can.

Praetorian events: Follow the instructions on the pop-ups.

Deadly Invasion: Wipe out all the monsters around all the banners before the timer runs out, then break the banners. When all the banners are broken, kill the Monster that spawns.

Heal resistance (and regeneration debuffs) say "Hi!"

Granted, I can't think of anything other than Hamidon that applies Heal resistance (unless that's how heal decay in PVP works), but it still exists, and could be added to other things.

Not true. It will roll to proc every time the power is used, even if the power can't cause knockback (for example, if it's in a Dual Pistols attack and elemental ammunition is in use, the power will have a 0% chance of knockdown. The proc will still roll, and will work if it rolls low enough.).

I suspect you're thinking of the rule that governs how procs function in pets. If you were to slot this proc in a pet, and the pet used an attack with no KB attached, the proc wouldn't even roll. (It wouldn't have any effect if it did fire, since pets are immune to +recharge, but that's irrelevant to this example. Just getting that out of the way before someone "corrects" me.)

I've deleted more than 10 50s. That doesn't mean I believe the tripe in the OP.

Nova Fist does a massive hit of Unresistable damage. It's well over the tanker hit point cap, so it should kill anyone it hits. Thankfully, we have the "One Hit Code", which is a check in the combat system that caps any damage dealt to a Player at (their max HP - 1). This means that, if you're at full HP, no SINGLE hit will kill you, but anything that follows will. It also means that, since it checks against max HP, not current, if you're missing even one HP, you're dead when it hits. Attacks that deal their damage in multiple ticks have the One Hit Code applied on each tick, so they can actually one-shot someone at full health, if they hit hard enough.

Nova Fist only deals one tick of damage, so the one hit code saves you. The problem arises from the tons of potential attacks coming from the reinforcements - it's really easy to take one point of damage just before or just after the hit.

To the OP: I have no problem with Unresistable damage. I DO have a problem with UNAVOIDABLE damage. Hami and the Crystal Titan have cheating attacks that autohit, and deal special damage that bypasses resistances we can build for, but there's special inspirations we can use to avoid the damage. Toxic attacks (that we're unlikely to have high resistance to, if any) typically have attack vectors that Defense can help avoid. Nova Fist, Battle Maiiden's Lance, and War Walkers' Orbital Cannons have a warning to get out of the way. The damage in Keyes? Autohit, zone-wide, unresistable damage. You can't defend against it, you can't get out of the way, and there's no inspiration to prevent the damage. You can't stop it, you can only fix it after the fact. This, to me, is unreasonable. It shouldn't be possible to stop all incoming damage of every type, or even some damage of every type. But just as every type of protection should have an Achilles' Heel, every devastating attack should have an impenetrable barrier, even if it's hard to get, or impossible to maintain long-term.

The softcap is ALWAYS 45% (except when dealing with enemies with +ToHit, which includes enemies higher level than you).

PFF doesn't really benefit from enhancements. Defense only helps if you're dealing with +3 or higher enemies, since the value starts so high in the first place. And Endurance only helps if you're running multiple travel powers at the same time, since you can't do anything else with it running. The best thing to put in it is a Karma -KB or Luck of the Gambler +Recharge in it. Don't use Kismet +ToHit, since that IO functions like a proc, and therefore only benefits you while the power's in use, and +ToHit isn't helpful when you're Only Affecting Self. :P

Synapse outright said that there is NO powerset proliferation coming for Dominators. They're getting new powers, but they haven't said what, or even dropped any hints.

That is correct. Which is why I said that.

The Snaptooth mission available year round (by those who have unlocked it) is the Valentine's one. That one does NOT offer a rez temp power.

The Baby New Year mission from Father Time (located in the Ski Chalet during the Winter Event) is the mission that offers the temp rez power.

It just so happens that the Ski Chalet was opened at the end of DXP weekend and if I remember correctly, should be open for about another week. However, when they open the Ski Chalet in the off season, they don't always let you run the missions (sometimes it's just there for the ski slopes and the candy keeper). I haven't been in there this time around, so I don't know if Father Time's mission is available.

Even if it's not, you can buy Candy Canes from the market, and trade them in at the Candy Keeper for any of the Winter Badges, Costume parts and/or Temp Powers.

Case changes don't matter. "Roderick", "RoDeRiCk", "roderick" and "RODERICK" are all the same name.

Actually, it's 40^20.

The first character must be alphanumeric. That reduces it to 36 x 40^19

If the first four characters are "The ", they get moved to the title field. This reduces it to (36 x 40^19) - (40^16).

Trailing spaces and consecutive spaces are not permitted. This is a far more complex formula.

Furthermore, this only determines the number of 20 character names. The base number, before eliminating invalid names, is 40^3 + 40^4 + 40^5 + ... + 40^19 + 40^20, or 1.1545 x 10^32.

20^40 actually has 16 more zeroes than what your answer. However, the correct amount that I gave above has 4 zeroes less - it's actually 0.01% of your number. And that's before eliminating a huge number of names that cannot be entered due to the limitations listed above. Then you need to eliminate all the names blocked by the filter.

Yes, there are literally billions of trillions of trillions of possible alternates. Hovever, many of them are "sdfujighfc". Are you honestly suggesting that? If not, then remove 90% or more of the possibilities from your list.

Since you can add those characters at the beginning, end, in the middle, or any or all of the above, it's a lot more than that. How's "xX Super Scrapper Xx"?

Awkward, but useable. I've never liked multiple adjectives in a name.

These are better, especially if part of a team. Super Golf Scrapper needs to wait for i21 to be released, and needs to beg David and Jay for new weapon models for Mace.

You mean:

Generic 000 001 946
Generic 000 001 947
Generic 000 001 948
Generic 000 001 949
Generic 000 001 950

All those brand names are Trademarked, and thus off-limits. And who wants to be a corporate sponsored superhero anyways? Finally, what the heck is a Macca?

Several of those are Generic bait too. And none of them are very inspiring names either.

I thought that the first thing you did was to calculate the number of possible names. Even though your number was wrong, it still proved that there are a finite number of names. That means that the list most definitely has both a beginning and end.

So... how is Super Blue McDonald's Scrapper Whiskey Tango Foxtrot a relevant name to any powerset, or most concepts?

Frankly, I found most of your suggestions pretty bad. Granted, you were starting with a pretty horrible name. But that just means it should have been easy to improve on it. The thesaurus route is still, in my opinion, best. Sticking with an alliterative theme, and going a few synonyms deep, you get Brave Brawler, Fantastic Fighter, Wonderful Warrior, Sovereign Soldier. Throw in some antonyms and you get Powerful Pacifist, Devious Duelist, Vicious Vanguard. And I could come up with a powerset or concept for any of those far easier than I could for a Super Cellphone Scrapper.

Don't exaggerate.


The ambush timer is 32 seconds.

Schedule A SOs give 33.3% each. ED starts to take effect at 70%. If you're dealing with over-level SOs, then yes, ED starts to hit you. But for simplicity's sake, I was using even-levels.

I missed this on my first read. I'm guilty of this one too, which is another reason I love Ninja Run - it gives me a visual cue that it's still running. I think that Super Jump has a visual effect, but it's masked by auras and powers and buffs and thirty million explosions going off beside you. Ninja Run drops you into a crouch between every attack, and flips you on every jump.

Ha! And they all said I was a fool giving up all that recharge chasing Poodle Defense bonuses!

Fire Assault/Invuln with Defiance. Load the attacks with Kinetic Combats and Thunderstrikes and the Resist powers with Aegis. Add Combat Jumping, Weave and a Steadfast Unique. If you're not softcapped to all but Psi, you're damn close, plus good resistance and a self heal. And if AT modifiers are attached to Inherent, as suggested above, both your ranged and melee damage are insanely high. If Endurance is a problem, add Brute Energy Mastery for Superior Conditioning and Physical Perfection (and another ranged attack AND another cone).

Not nearly as overpowered, but Dual Pistols/Super Reflexes would be damn fun.