Void_Huntress

Mission Architect.


Honestly, the thing that most puzzles me about the MA is that they don't seem to have put in any critical threshold alarms.

SURELY they have some means of going, "XP is coming in <x>% faster than expected. Red Flag for examination."

Something like this shouldn't have to wait for players to /bug it, for someone to post about it in the forums, or for datamining to show an uptick in leveling rate amongst parts of the playerbase, they should know about it effectively the moment a player gets it to work.

It's important to note that early badge/achievement theory expected players to just play normally and then go 'Oh hey I got a badge what did I do to get that?' once one landed on them.

The obsessive 'Okay now what do I do next? Okay, I can find them at <x>? Okay! Let's go work on that!' behavior really caught a lot of developers by surprise. And in fact, Paragon Studios FORGOT about this pattern, when they put together the original AE badges.

That's the perspective difference. Developers who include badges like that are coming from the "Well, not everyone will get them, some of them will eventually get them, and then they can be proud that they did" position.

If you've got several of the same enemy all bunched up together, and you know all but one of them is phased, how do you get the unphased one?
Clicking gives no love, you just get whichever one it thinks is on top, and no way of knowing if that's the right one. Tab gives no love, because you still can't tell if that's the right one.

Not all of us can hear the sounds. :(

... Soloing content meant for groups of 20 or more?

Um, let's see. Mothership raid? No.. Hamidon? no.. Cathedral of Pain? No..

Unless you're talking about GMs, I can't fathom what you're referring to, and ... I'm sorry, but GMs are 'a beefy target' not 'content'.

Personally, I went ages without knowing they went translucent. To me, the effect is so subtle as to be effectively imperceptible, even when I'm only fighting a MI her pets. Accordingly, I presently just have to keep attacking until hits land, because I usually can't TELL otherwise.

This sounds like the perfect thing for a UI option.

Of course, while they're touching targeting, it'd be nice to flip off the targetable bit for civs in mayhems and such. That, or let us actually KILL them.

Well, Arcana HAS repeatedly insisted that she 'fixes' people's hitrates by having them turn on logging or install herostats...

... maybe there's something she hasn't told us.

Just for giggles, add in the multitasking to accurately measure yourself while doing all of this.

Two words:
Contagious.
Confusion.

<3

Is the world ready for ranged stalker mk II?

And I'm not really sure how we ended up with Drain Psyche, but I try not to question my good fortune. I took Mental Manipulation on my last blaster for Drain Psyche and World of Confusion, and all the rest of the set was nothing but set anchors as far as I was concerned.

This gives me a thought.. At a few points in the past, they've offered deals of get 14 months for the cost of a 12 month bundle. Anyone know when those happened? It'd be interesting to line those up with these revenue charts.

I had just refreshed the thread to note this myself after looking at it in-game. I _LOVE_ the translucent hexes, but wish it was JUST the translucent hexes, and not the metallic bits. If we could get an alternate version of it without those, that would be squee.

I'm having to log in twice a day. As far as I can tell, the 'remember me' checkbox doesn't do anything.

If you're looking to demonstrate that Tough's usefulness is degrading, this would be a good time to revisit a damage type analysis and see what exactly is happening in the newer groups, then compare it to older groups.

Because if we're just going off of subjective experiences, I'm feeling like I'm getting hit for a lot of S/L in PvE still.

Well, don't pretty much all enemy groups have some amount of S/L? In any mission, which is the granularity of success that usually matters, tough will be relevant.

In PvP, you could go an entire session without being attacked by a player using a meaningful amount of S/L. And, in fact, if Tough didn't affect every type there, that would encourage PvP focused players to use powers that lack S/L components.

It's an issue of enemy composition. The devs control the composition of PvE content (AE aside), whereas the players competing control the composition of PvP zones and arena play.

:(

As Arcana said, it's a matter of abstraction.. And various other MMO's particular method has every attack within range hitting always period. No missing. Their particular brand of 'evasion' is just a reduction in damage.. And more perversely, you frequently get better damage mitigation from their edition of Invulnerability than you do by attempting to not be hit in the first place.

I know that one of the biggest factors to me giving up on The Other Superhero Game was the fact there was no genuine 'miss' mechanic. Some people hate missing? Sure, that's their thing. I hate getting HIT. It upsets the hell out of me. I spend hundreds of millions on IO builds to ensure my blasters dodge. I play Super Reflexes, Shields, Energy Aura on my melee types. I run masterminds, but that's mostly because aggro management can let me take fewer hits. (And theoretically, I could eventually softcap, but that's down the road and only on some mastermind builds)

On the other hand, I know and understand that getting to where I can rely on not getting hit is a lot of work, and something I have to earn, not something I can claim by birthright. I bite my lip and deal with my early level vulnerability (or just find a team full of suckers to shield me), and know that my time will inevitably come.

Out of curiosity, do you have any citations for this number?

I have on a few occasions for characters who were ICly wearing a costume piece, instead of ACTUALLY having a real tail.

I was actually quite disappointed that the wolf tail didn't have a non-animated portion.