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Fiery Aura, as a consequence of standing out in the sunlight. I've actually seen this one done; he was an old, powerful vampire who was too tough to die from sunlight, and was just burning all the time.

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That's possibly the most badass vampire ever.

A Necromancy MM strikes me as the Warhammer kind of vampire, though those are usually very powerful in their own right.

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I second that, what an awesome concept!

Feedback is never late, Castle may take this into consideration at a later date. I know he was looking into changes.

I wanted to post this here. One of my friends that I play World of Warcraft here I recently got back into the game. Due to his job, new baby, and wife he only plays at very oddball hours. Thus, he has a hard time finding a group.

His main is an Ice/Ice Dominator that is currently 11. Since the dominator changes he says he has a REALLY hard time leveling or soloing. His exact words were "I run out of endurance every fight and can barely complete a mission." -- I made sure to ask if he was on the lowest difficulty setting and he was.

Now granted the guy isn't using any IO's or anything yet and I haven't exactly seen his slotting. I do know his power choices and his only "mistake" was taking the AOE immobilize in Ice. I asked if he was using it in solo play and he said he did at first but quickly realized it was too endurance draining and didn't use it.

Ultimately, he was feeling very frustrated at low levels as a Dominator and said he wasn't having very much fun. I would definitely describe him as a "new" player even though he played the game around Issues 7-9.

Just wanted to post feedback.

Is there really any NPCs that counter shields? Do they have a weakness? Can anyone give me some feedback?

Yeah you are right, I did so many calculations today that my head was spinning and something simple threw me off. It is 33%

For some reason my brain isn't working and I cannot figure out the formula to figure this out. Let me use two examples:

1) A power is up for a 2 minute duration but then has a 4 minute downtime. (In other words, the power lasts for 2 mins but has a 6 min recharge) -- The uptime is 25% of the time with a 75% downtime. How do I do this calculation?

2) A power is up for 3 mins duration but then has a 5.3 minute downtime. (In other words power lasts for 3 mins but has a 8.3 min cooldown) How is this calculated?

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Im BT and i support this post ^_^
my poor twins i took so long making their height the same making and remaking the character untill i could switch between them on the character screen with no noticable change.

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You know what, I am like OCD about that too. I didn't have twins but I did FINALLY figure out the exact height to be about equal to all the NPCs in the game. It always drove me nuts being like 10 feet tall when I wanted my character to look human or human size.

So now I have one character slot dedicated to this and when I create a character I make sure to match the height...

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So signed! Why hasn't this been asked for sooner???

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It has been. Repeatedly. And ignored.

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I figured it was ignored because we couldn't change height... but now we can in the creator with this new pack so perhaps it could be added in an upcoming patch?

Also good idea referring to the Auction House analogy.

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Well, that explains why I never noticed getting hit by it; it's a relatively minor effect. Of course, it's also clearly not what the OP was talking about so we're back to square one as to why he had a -recovery effect during the ITF.

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What is he talking about (And this happend to me yesterday) was that randomly I got hit with a temporary power. The power acted like the Vahizilok Disease temporary power that reduces your endurance by 20%, health by 20%, recovery, health regeneration. Its a nasty debuff.

I have no clue how I got it but it did give it to me in Mission 3 like the OP.

Since we're going to be able to adjust height and such with the booster pack is it possible for numerical values be added to height in the costume creator? (Maybe even with the facial features too)

Basically, if we move the height slider a numerical value changes. All the way left could be "0" and all the way right could be "10." As you move the slider the value decreases or increases.

The ultimate point would be if I wanted to make two characters the same height (Like in MA or maybe making twins). So I could look at character "A" and see he is height 6.6, ok I know if I recreate him to use height 6.6 without having to guess.

Seems like a simple enough addition is it possible?

Has there been any speculation on what it might be? Especially with the announcement of Going Rogue do you think it ties to the "Coming Storm" or is it different you think?

Ever since Ouroboros came around there has been a guy planting notes asking us to tear down Ouroboros. We all know that Mender Silos = Lord Nemesis (You can rearrange the letters to form that name).

I even know that there is a Mission Architect Developer's Choice mission that has the guy sending notes in it. (He doesn't make a physical appearance he just once again is sending notes)

Now, I haven't done the new TF/SF yet released in Issue 15 but is it explained yet who this guy is or anything? It was a really appealing storyline but it seems like it may end up incomplete unless it ties into the Praetorian storyline incoming with Going Rogue.

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Yes. Rick Dakan is the "father" of City of Heroes. It was his idea, not Jack's, as so many people seem to think. Rick created Nemesis, the Rikti, the 5th Column, and who knows how much else. He was a writer for the game at least through Issue 2 (he claims to have had some writing involvement with the Shadow Shard, I don't know how much). There was a much more detailed article on warcry.com from just before Issue 3's release, but it seems to have been removed.

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Then players read all that and don't know any better and ultimately you end up with Rick Dakan basically being entirely unknown except and virtually uncredited ("Special Thanks" in the manual, but game development credits are incredibly sketchy generally) with a few exceptions while Jack gets to tromp around Cryptic Studios as the father of City of Heroes.

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Wow, I've been playing the game and reading the forums for years and had no idea who Rick Dakan was or his involvement with the game. I really believed it was Jack's brainchild.

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I was under this exact same impression. 60 month veteran and I just learned something new...

Yeah same thing happend to me. I was pretty baffled.

Hmm and something else I just noticed too.. All of the ex-designers have had their red name stripped and are now a green name. (You can see this by digging back in the developer forum) -- The only exception is Statesman, I wonder why that is?

After seeing this quote from Back Alley Brawler it made me think:

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The infamous knockout blow animation wasn't even something that I animated, so I have no attachment to it and don't feel any need to defend it's quality. I happen to like it, I know plenty of others do as well, and I know a great deal of people who don't.

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So if I recall correctly:

Geko = Original powers guy before Castle, or did Castle exist with him back then too?

Statesman = Original lead designer, passed mantle to Positron.

Original powers animator guy = ???

Gilgamesh = ??? Was he just NC Soft or a designer?

Of all the TF ranges what is the best one to spend Merits on for attempts at cash?

10-15
15-20
20-25
25-30
Etc.

I usually just spend Merits on a random recipe from my level but now I am more interested in making money. Any suggestions?

I would of sworn doing conversions counted toward this but today they weren't. So what is the quickest way to obtain this for the accolade?

I would of sworn in beta Calvin Scott TF was active. I forget why they removed it but it should be re-added. I also would of sworn Positron said he would bring it back.

Is this enhancer a bait and switch? I assumed the slow resistance was global but then I noticed something odd on my buff bar. When I would activate fly, my travel power with it slotted, IMMEDIATLY after deactivating it I would get a snowflake icon on my buff bar for 10 seconds. I clicked the icon and it is the 20% resistance to slow buff.

So is this enhancer not global?

Yeah and I select the correct one. Has anyone actually gotten the arc bonus?

According to the information box, Developer Choice arcs are suppose to give an arc mission bonus upon being completed. This doesn't appear to be the case. Am I doing something incorrect or are they bugged?

Is anyone receiving the arc bonus and merits?

I believe this happend in July but what about animation nerfs?

1.0 Energy Transfer was changed.

I believe the mallets in Stone Melee were changed? Weren't they 1.17 cast time and 1.07 and are now 1.67?

Dark Melee? I believe the punches were .67 and .78 or something. Were they changed?

So sweet -- I have so many ideas for costume emotes and character transformations

I know it will allow you to change gender and or become huge. Does it also allow you to change the height of a character?