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HP buff = heal?

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Hi everyone,

I assume this has been tested already, so I just wanted to ask whether a "+HP" buff also counts as a heal for the healing badges.

For example, the Rebirth tree for the Destiny slot offers both a +regeneration and a +MaxHP version. Am I right in assuming the +HP version would be better suited for working towards the last healer badges?

Thanks,

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fly 1end/sec wha happened?

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Originally Posted by DarkGob

No, he's (she's? darn gender neutral internet) saying they're unnecessary in Fly, which is one of three powers that can take those enhancements. They definitely still have an effect in Hover, and probably Group Fly, although I wouldn't know about the latter because lol, Group Fly.

One of four powers that take fly speed enhancements. It is not very efficient, but Swift also offers an enhanceable flight speed bonus.

(Actually, now that I think of it, Kheldians also should have a few powers that take them.)

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Assertion Failure

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Assertions are a debugging tool.

A developer can put assertions into the source code at important sections, like "divisor is not zero". By doing that, the developer really says "when the running program gets here, a certain condition should always be true". (You can't divide by zero, so if the program has no bugs it should never try to do that.) When the program reaches an assertion it checks for the condition. If it's true, nothing happens and the program continues. If it's not true, however, something must be wrong and the assertion causes a controlled program halt in order to avoid unpredictable behavior later on. This is usually reported with an "Assertion failed" error message.

Only the developers who can see the source code know what condition(s) each assertion is guarding for, so we can't tell you why your game client stopped running. If you can reproduce the error message, I recommend you file a /bug report.

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Best character to survive regular +1?

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Originally Posted by Local_Man

You should learn from your Illusion/FF teammate. Personal Force Field is a huge advantage for a "hardcore" character. Anytime you are threatened, you can "bubble up" to survive almost any situation.

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind if my mastermind needs to reincarnate.

We did not explicitly rule out duplicate powersets. I'm not sure we would want a team of six force field controllers, though - until now we all rolled different characters from each other. I'll see what the others will say.

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Best character to survive regular +1?

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Originally Posted by mousedroid

I'm confused. Why are you asking about the best AT to solo content when you are clearly running on a team?

Again, I'm sorry for being imprecise. When I said I was looking for "a character that can solo missions", I was not referring to a character that would be doing only solo missions. I meant "a character that should be able to do missions by himself".

You see, due to different work schedules and playing times, not all of the team members will be able to play together regularly after the Easter holidays. Yes, we will all meet again and will play as a large team, but we don't want to wait weeks between each round.

So the plan was to reach level 10 in team play, after which any accidental deaths could no longer be concealed from the rest of the team because of the Repaired badge's progress bar. After that, we are free to play alone (or in smaller groups, if a few of us met). So if I don't want to wait for other group members, I need a character that "can solo missions".

I hope this explains what I meant.

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Best character to survive regular +1?

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Hi everybody,

I just wanted to tell you how it went so far.

On the first try, I rolled a sonic/sonic corruptor because another team member asked me for shields. We were five people and started in Pretoria. We even tried +2 for a mission, but fell back to the proscribed +1 when we noticed that there were slightly too many critical moments.

Then, there was that mission from Praetor White that had us inspect a facility that turns out to be manned with traitors who all turn and attack us... yeah, we expected the ambush, but still were overrun. No one of us made it out. Five mandatory character deletions followed.

For the second attempt I rolled the dark/dark brute I had planned. The other four also reincarnated and we met again, with a sixth player joining the team. We set out and I immediately noticed that getting the aggro of mobs set up for six-player-team cannot be shrugged off just by some damage resistance. There were several close moments, but we again reached level 6 and the infamous inspection mission.

This time we remained at the entrance and took on the mobs one by one as they made it through the door. Unfortunately, a controller was slightly careless and got shot. This lead to a sort of cascading failure where the more players were defeated, the more pressure was put onto the remaining team... with predictable results. Only our force field/illusion controller made it out alive (thanks to her Personal Force Field).

So the dark/dark brute and his teammates got their mandatory deletions, and it was back to the drawing board. Now I decided to try a master mind, so I made a mercenaries / poison character.

Well, the inspection mission came and went, and this time we managed to keep the whole team alive... and we called it a day at that time.

Will the third team reincarnation survive long enough to exit Praetoria? Wish us luck! (-:

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Best character to survive regular +1?

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I'm sorry for being imprecise.

If you had to create a character to run regular missions at +1 in a level range from 1 to 20, and you were supposed to keep your defeats to an absolute minimum, what powersets would you use?

Right now I'm thinking about a DM/DA brute, but I'm not sure.

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Best character to survive regular +1?

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Hi everybody,

what archetype and powersets would you choose if you wanted a character that can solo missions in the range of level 1-20 and has maximum survivability?

Once he reaches level 32 a stone tank can get Granite Armor, which probably cannot be surpassed easily, but what about the earlier levels? A brute, maybe?

Thanks for any suggestions,

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Trial Reward Tables

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Has it been confirmed that the tables are truly random? I heard that the reward tables were based on performance, but I couldn't find any criteria on which that might be based.

For example, if I really need a common component, could I "downgrade" my reward by letting myself be defeated a couple of times in order to receive the commons table at the end?

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Eagle's Claw and critical hits

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Hi,

I thought I had read somewhere that MA's Eagle's Claw was modified to also increase the chance for a critical hit for the next attack you execute. Unfortunately, neither City of Data nor the Paragonwiki lists this in their descriptions of the power. The in-game description also doesn't mention it.

So, did I just imagine reading this, or does Eagle's Claw actually increase critical hit chances? (When I recently played my MA/SR scrapper it felt as if I'd get more critical hits with Dragon's Tail directly after an Eagle's Claw, but that may have been a perception issue...)

And if Eagle's Claw actually does this, how exactly does it work?

- Does it apply only to primary power set attacks, or to all attacks?
- Does it still apply if I do something else (like cycling Practiced Brawler or swallowing an inspiration) before starting the next attack?
- How long can I wait until I start the next attack? For example, if Eagle's Claw defeated a foe and I have to run up to the next target, will my chance for a critical hit still be increased?

Thanks for any information on this,

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Surveillance display?

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Hi everyone,

my DP blaster has learned the Surveillance skill (from the Munitions Mastery ancillary power pool) in order to determine the best type of ammo to be used against each foe.

I know that I can check the scan's results in my Combat Attributes window, but I'd prefer using a small monitor window. So I scanned an opponent, opened Combat Attributes, right-clicked on Cold, Fire, and Toxic Resistance, and chose Monitor. The values were duly added to the small monitor window.

Unfortunately the small monitor only displays the opponent's values as long as the larger Combat Attributes window is also open. Even if I don't click on Clear Target, as soon as I close Combat Attributes, the smaller monitor switches back to my own resistance values (and returns to the scanned values once I reopen Combat Attributes).

The minimum size of the larger window is still unwieldly large, and it cannot be moved off-screen. Do you have any suggestions on how to display the scanned values without having to click on Powers/Combat Attributes/Damage Resistance each time Surveillance was used?

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Mouse look issues

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Originally Posted by Arizzen

My main is set up to where my mouse controls all directional movement. i.e. Using W and S only and the the mouse handles the rest. For some odd reason my main character can only do this. The rest of my alts i have to run with WSQE. I have checked all of my settings from my main character and it appears to be all the same for my alts. Am I missing something here? Any help would be appreciated!

Did you accidentally change the secondary mouse button bind from On Demand Mouse Look to Rotate Camera? That's what happened to me a while ago. I don't know how it happened, and I certainly didn't change this on purpose, but it took me a while to find out how to fix this.

If all else fails you can export all your binds from both characters to text files and compare those line by line.

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Why no /sonic?

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Hi,

I was curious why masterminds don't have access to the Sonic Resonance powerset. I understand that originally each archetype was supposed to have a few powersets for his own, but proliferation changed that a couple of issues ago.

Was Sonic Resonance just not proliferated yet, or are there more serious concerns that prevent masterminds from going acoustic?

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Improvements for my BS/SD scrapper?

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Originally Posted by Hopeling

How attached are you to the Fire epic pool? If it's for theme that's one thing, but mechanically it's pretty useless (at least, it is the way you have it set up; with redraw, Fireball is the only power in the set that's worth using and you didn't take it). You could trade it for Body Mastery to mitigate those endurance problems.

Well, not that much. It fits thematically (he's Day Knight, after all), matches Hasten and Super Speed, and allowed me to get a level 3 and a level 5 damage bonus for just two slots each. I use Melt Armor in larger groups of enemies, and sometimes I throw a Fire Blast after a single running enemy to quickly finish him of without running after him, but I could do without them.
I'd prefer not to lose that level 5 damage bonus, though. (It's one of the largest available.)

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Originally Posted by Hopeling

Also, what kind of budget are you looking at for this character?

Nothing outstanding (like the two-billion-inf PVP IOs). I do have some inf and I'd be able to get some purple IOs if needed, but this is not my main character and doesn't need the be-all, end-all megaslotting.

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Originally Posted by Hopeling

I don't know the math offhand, but you might end up doing more DPS by trading some of those damage set bonuses for recharge for a good attack chain.
The build you have probably has to use Parry a lot, and Parry is a much weaker attack than Hack, Disembowel, or Headsplitter.

Ah, I see what you mean! Well, to be honest for this character I don't have a fixed attack chain yet. I probably should note what attack chains I actually do execute when I play the character (without thinking about them) and then see whether I could improve my play here.

You've given me something to think about. Thanks!

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