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Quote:Not trying to single out the OP, but I'm amazed at the repeated displays of myopia on these boards. Well, ok maybe not amazed.Originally Posted by FourSpeed
My candidate for that would be Mender Ramiel as he's the starting point
for all of the Incarnate content already, so anyone who could actually
benefit from the WTF would already have met this NPC and know where
to find him.
But it is, I think, remarkable how many people seem to think the weekly is only for Incarnates. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Dispari
Are you trying to tell me it has nothing to do with incarnate?
no, of course I'm not saying it has nothing to do with it
You repeatedly said Incarnate "is the reason for" the weekly, with no qualifiers.
that's clearly misleading, since the WST involves lower level TFs and it gives double XP. We have yet to see WST Hamidon, Cathedral of Pain, or Rikti Mothership Raid, and I'm not sure we will. We might or might not.
No, it's not. The other way is coming in i20.Quote:Originally Posted by Dispari
The facts are, the WST is the only way to obtain incarnate salvage required for the rare and very rare pieces. -
Quote:Toucher.Originally Posted by rlloyd
Or they could just leave out the Shard TFs. That way, everyone wins.
Quote:Originally Posted by SpaceNut
Without an update to the lore, it makes no sense for non-level 50 tasks to be dropping Incarnate shards and/or components.
Not true. First off, they don't drop Shards afaik. Second: "There are many paths to the well," as per Mender Ramiel. That's all the lore I need to justify getting Notice of the Well by helping lower level supers.
Yea, I'm surprised they didn't do this a long time ago. It would be Very easy and would leave open the possibility of adding more Villain specific stuff later.Quote:Originally Posted by JD_Gumby
Wouldn't even be difficult to justify, either. Just need to throw in some generic Vanguard NPCs, add a portal to the Vanguard base in Grandville, and alter the dialogue of the existing contacts to reflect the fact that operations in the Shadow Shard are now under Vanguard jurisdiction (since they're in charge of defending against extra-dimensional threats).
Quote:Originally Posted by Dispari
The WST is for the new incarnate system.
As has been pointed out, this assertion is not supported by the facts. -
It's going to very quickly become glaringly obvious how many more TFs there are than SFs.
Open the Shard to the Redside. -
If you are directing your pets to attack then they aren't in BG anyway.
MMs aren't really the tanks of redside. Brutes are the tanks of redside. MMs are defenders that come with their own team. -
Quote:Calling that a problem on this AT is a bit much.Originally Posted by The_Static_Man
The problem with masterminds is that even with the command system we have currently, the commands are still riddled with bugs, especially stay.
I call it a minor drawback. -
Quote:Maybe you just haven't payed attention. Or maybe it's just because you play /Pain and so have no Soft or Hard Control.Originally Posted by OmnipotentMerlin
Um. You need to look at your pet area.. Sorry but defensive has nothing to do if they attack or not. You have 3 modes Aggressive, Defensive, Follow. You have also several commands to. Attack my target, Follow, Go To, Stay. Putting your pets on defensive has nothing to do with if they attack or not. And if your pets arn't on defensive you are in fact causing trouble for the team. One it is harder to control your pets, two the healer is going to have to heal your sorry butt all the dang time.
Being a defensive MM is one thing. But pets should always be on defensive in a fight. Then I tell my pets who to attack and where to go. But that doesn't matter for any mode. You have to control your pets period. You can't just stand around and expect the AI to do everything for you. My thug/pain I keep my pets in defensive then after the tank grabs aggro I tell them to attack his target. And I then switch to different targets when needed. And while doing this I am sitting with the main group healing people, only charging in to use anguishing cry and only after the tank has full control of the mobs.
And by the way a MMs pets can contribute more damage then most toons, if done right. But you have to control them. There is a reason while a full team of MMs can just steam roll about anything in the game.
Try playing Storm Summoning. See how well you do with your pets on Defensive.
Defensive Pets Don't Attack Without Direction If Neither They Nor You Get Attacked. Period. -
Vanden is absolutely right.
Originally Hurdle was Buffed to be stronger than Swift because toons that focused on Jumping were at a slight disadvantage.
Now that Everyone has both powers that justification is gone.
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Can't really answer why your pets are dying so much but I will say this:
Leaving your pets on Defensive all the time is a great way to not contribute to a team.
Most teams I play have either so much defense, so much control, or so many debuffs that Defensive MM pets are just going to stand around not doing anything. -
He's learning how to swim and is practicing his breathing techniques.
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Quote:This has nothing to do even with the post you're responding to, let anyone the thread.Originally Posted by Twisted Toon
Which does nothing to disprove that Political Correctness is rapidly outliving it's usefulness.
Much like Unions and Affirmative Action.
They were helpful concepts, until taken too far.
You have no idea what you're talking about, and this isn't the place to discuss it anyway. -
There's another game where the problems being discussed are eliminated in the following way:
When you're in the vehicle All or Nearly All of your standard powers are grayed out and a Completely New UI appears, giving you access to special abilities only usable while in the vehicle.
Wouldn't something like that pretty much solve all the problems that have been brought up?
THEN the issue becomes: such a system pretty much requires brand new content that demands the use of these vehicles, which is not the original idea (sg vehicles to run around the game in).
Which brings us back to the real issue which is that although vehicles are cool, they simply aren't necessary the way the game is designed. Travel powers make them unnecessary, the relatively small size of zones makes them unnecessary, and most "travel" in this game of the distance that might Require a vehicle (even for supers with travel powers) is handled "off panel" while zoning.
"There's a Council base on an island off the Chinese coast. Infiltrate it and take the Base Commander into custody" *Team jumps into a boat in IP* The next thing we see is a splash screen before we zone into the Council Base or an outdoor map of said island. Flying across North America and the Pacific in our SG Airship doesn't get displayed to us. Nor should it. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Toony
Well Double XP weekend is tomorrow and I was considering what to roll for it. I had a peacebringer back in the day and it wasn't so bad but nowadays all I hear is how they're terrible. Can't do anything. Worst class in the game. Waste of time. ETC ETC.
What exactly happened to them? What is so bad about them? I'm just curious because I don't get whats so horrid about them.
The things that they are good at are not generally valued very highly: Tanking and Single Target Burst Damage. Dechs implied comparison to Stalkers is apt.
I enjoy my PB, but it can't be denied that she's even more of a "jack of all trades, master of none" than my WS. The WS can also be described as "often better than master of one", but the PB can't really. -
Quote:There are some high level controllers that outdamage some Dominators, but for the most part yes Doms do more damage than Controllers.Originally Posted by Battlebabe
I have never played villian side, but I have tons of heroes, with multiple higher level controllers. I am wondering if dominators do much more damage than controllers. Do the secondary sets give much damage? What secondary sets are more damage oriented? Since I am new to the electric control set, what kind of set is it, lots of control, lots of damage; what kind of general statement could be used to describe it? Sorry about the multi-question thing, but villians are very new to me.
This is NOT the same as saying that Doms increase a TEAMS damage by more than Controllers. That also varies greatly with the Controller. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Arcanaville
I think its Sam doesn't need to team, because money just keeps falling from the sky around him.
If I was giving away my purple drops, because I just sold a bunch of other purple drops, I wouldn't team with any of you people either. I would sit in my purple wallpapered base stroking my purple cat while thinking of alts I could create that could use all ten purple sets.
Jeez the last time I got a purple drop was months ago and I accidentally sold it at a store. I don't even remember what president was in office the last time I got a purple drop before that.
less math, moar farming? -
These are great.
Add me to the votes for:
An SG Base market terminal, perhaps unlockable with a non-Veterans SG badge?
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A Craftable Invention Temp Power requiring expensive salvage that lets you access the market interface with a few charges on a very long timer. Maybe 5 or 10 charges, usable once every 1 to 2 hours. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Psychic Guardian
I have that on my Fire/Kin. It's description makes it sound like good anti-mez armor.....but not on a 6minute timer with a 90 second duration, and 1/5 your endbar per activation lol. I find that toon (Lv50) being stunned all the time, and I reach for Indomitable Will and it's still down
On a Kin you should be able to almost perma Indomitable Will. Spam siphon speed more? -
Quote:The answer is basically no. The IO will lessen the size or number of Yellow inspirations you'll need.Originally Posted by Vanden
There are three -Perception enemies that drive me nuts in this game: Night Widows with Smoke Grenade, Tarantula Mistresses with Will Domination, and Scirocco with Dust Devils. Will the Rectified Reticle unique increase my perception enough that I'll be able to still see enemies when hit with those attacks?
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there are various things to do, most of which have been suggested already, but the big thing to emphasize over and over again is Mez Them Before They Mez You!
MTBTMY! -
Quote:quoting Paragonwiki:Originally Posted by Hesh
What shiver needs is for the devs to lower the -recharge cap. I haven't like ice since they put the cap on. (OK maybe no cap was overpowered but 25% feels useless.
Players and critters have a maximum recharge rate penalty of -75%, which increases recharge time to 4x normal.
So I'm not sure what you meant by 25%.
Also, I'm not sure what you meant by useless, -Recharge remains one of the Most powerful of status effects in PvE. -
Quote:first off it's Toxic damage, not RadiationOriginally Posted by JoshexDirad
and softcap is 75%, hard cap is 90-95%, 45% gets you killed against AV's.
I think you're getting multiple things confused:
the RESISTANCE Hard Cap for Tankers and Brutes is 90%, for Kheldians and Arachnos it's 85%, for everyone else it's 75%.
the DEFENSE Soft Cap is 45% for All toons.
the DEFENSE Hard Cap is like 300% I think, the only time I ever saw it was in the first mission of Mender Ramiel's arc. -
Quote:PFF was also not designed for toggle suppression, a change, and here we are.Originally Posted by Miladys_Knight
PFF was never designed for the blaster and New Defiance. I doubt they will be changing it.
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Quote:That WAS one of the possibilities I suggested in my OP.Originally Posted by Jade_Dragon
Actually, your whole argument would make sense if you simply say that you feel the Only Effects Self should be suppressed along with the Defense.
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Quote:I don't agree.Originally Posted by Zombie Man
Mez protection for Blasters is already bordering on being overpowered. Not having access to Defiance for when it fails seems like a reasonable trade-off.
Defiance is there PRECISELY for when your lack of mez protection fails you. You're saying I should be Doubly punished because I tried to use the PFF. -
Quote:I don't believe that using the PFF should mean that if a mez gets through Defiance won't work.Originally Posted by Jade_Dragon
Yeah, that's my thought. If you have PFF up, you can't attack anyway. So it doesn't matter if you are mezzed or not, you can't attack. So if you are mezzed, and can't use the attacks that get around mez, you still can't attack.
It's like you're saying, "I don't want to get mezzed, so to that end I am not going to allow myself to attack. But if I AM mezzed, I want to be able to attack". Wouldn't it just be more useful to just be able to attack? Mezzed or not mezzed?
It seems to me counter to the design of Defiance.