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well. general rule of thumb with stone armor: take pool power teleport.

Also, Electricity does have knockback in Thunderstrike, Lightning Clap, and Lightning Rod.

Now, as to which power-set... well, depends on what you want to do.

Speaking for myself I've taken stone's to 50 with the mace and dark power-sets. So I can speak for both of those being good options. Mace has a to-hit bonus and some good mob damage. Dark is lower on the mob damage, but can wrack up the damage boost through Soul-Drain.

I know other players who run with Fire Mele for the damage over time and two circular pbaoe powers. Other players take Super Strength and count on Rage to counter granite's damage debuff.

If you only are going to be spending Single Origin or common IO enhancements on your build, Super-Strength is probably your best option.

If you are going for a heavy IO build, well, anything will do.

Okay if I add you to TVTropes?

wait... what?

Um... For starters, the change to Instant Healing was in Issue 5: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Regeneration

Second, there was quite a bit of controversy back when the change was made. This was what the Patch Notes said:

The players argued that the developers were wrong, that Instant Healing was not over-powered. The controversy has long been eased from the forums here, but if my memory is correct, part of the decision to change Instant Healing was based on the performance of the regen set on a test server where other bugs were present: e.g. con purple enemies not actually having con-purple stats.

I'm sorry, but what was said about the power by the developers, and the controversy over the change, in no way, shape, form, or time-line, matches what you just posted.

edit: found some posts dealing with the change through google with the search string: instant healing jack emmert site:boards.cityofheroes.com

Yes, it will open.

Whenever the developers patch the game to add the winter event.

nah. They call me up and tell me somebody is in need of a good roasting.

Actually I'll take issue with the statement that he has no talent.

Okay, for the record, I think Simon Cowbell is a gigantic *****. My first introduction to him was his appearance on Top Gear: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd4VraE4o68

Really, try watching that video and not developing an urge to call the Malta and take out a contract on him.

That being said, Simon has demonstrated quite a bit of talent in picking musical acts, at least in the UK market, and he's not actually a bad driver, at least on the Top Gear Test Track.

Too bad he's not as fast as an actual recording artist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFbVgA6J878

Then go do a Task Force when you have time and don't rely on the Random Number Generator.

Really. Not that hard.

This is not, contrary to what some people are making it out to be, rocket science.

Not to mention the obsession now with framming out every single enemy on a TF for shards! You would not believe the sheer amount of confusion players display when I try to explain that running a Task Force Normally, you know, "like you normally would" will actually net better rewards than farming.

• I try to explain to players that completing a task force or event will net the equivelent of 4 shards, either directly through the Hamidon, or indirectly through specific incarnate salvage.
• I try to explain to players that if the defeats per second is constant, then they will defeat the same number of enemies in each TF, and thus have equal chances to obtain shard drops.
• I try to explain that fighting more archvillains or Hero's net higher chances for shard drops.

And... it's like I'm talking to a brick wall. No I'm not going to go find that picture I love to post of the brick wall.

I've actually had somebody tell me that the only task forces they run are LGTF and ITF, they won't do anything else so there's no reason for them to run TF's normally, and they were going to Fram Fram Fram.

Seriously, if I wanted to do a Task Force where I defeated everything that moved, I'd go do a Dr. Quarterfield.

There's a REASON "nobody" runs Dr. Quarterfield on a regular basis. It's BORING. Whacking the same enemy over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, isn't fun. Well, not to me. I'm sure there's some frammer out there that would love to argue on that point.

Anyways, I don't understand the O.M.G. I must get incarnate slotted NAO attitude. The next batch of incarnate stuff probably won't be hitting until January at the earliest, so what's the point in rush, rush, rushing the stuff today? Neverminding that the Incarnate TF's, specifically the Director 11 fight, really seem to be balanced against having more Incarnate Buffs than are currently available in game.

I really don't understand the purpose of making an Alpha-slot enhancement, just to make an enhancement. I see no reason to waste resources on making a cardiac boost when I'm looking at the spiritual tree.

So, sorry, can't explain it to you, I don't understand it either.

buff.

Major buff.

That's pretty much all you need to know. Brute's got buffed.

lesse... where is it... ah yes, here: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...27&postcount=4

I spoke with iZ3D after this was posted and according to one of their guys said that layered vision for OpenGL could arrive in 2011: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=243555

short version: gameplay.

Basically Darrin Wade was introduced as a Midnighter Club contact in issue 12: http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/gam..._hour_and.html

This was on May 20, 2008, which was about 2 and half years after the launch of City of Villains on October 28th 2005. The developers needed a way to get Darrin Wade to contact players, since getting to his arc involved going and visiting him, and he wasn't in the already established chain of arcs.

To fix the problems of getting to Issue 13, Darrin Wade was made into an auto-contact: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Darrin_Wade

So, that's why he contacts you at 20. Just a way to simply getting players to a new arc.

Nothing more, nothing less.

or Planetside which did that a full year before Aces High II.

Granted with what SOE did to Planetside, fans of that game are better off with Global Agenda or M.A.G.

I guess this is one place where Gameplay walks up to Lore, asks lore if a damp rag smells like chloroform, then bashes Lore on the head with a baseball bat.

The reality of the game is that if you want to take part in the new and upcoming post-50 content events, missions, task-forces, and whatever, you will need to be incarnate slotted, regardless of whether or not your particular character is god-like or has a god-like background.

So, the only real determination of whether or not a character unlocks the incarnate powers is: do I want to play that content?

If you don't, don't bother unlocking the slot.

If you do, take the time to unlock the slot.

Okay, I do realize that the official incarnate storyline is a bit on the mystical / magical side of things. That does not mean that your own personal character has to treat the canon lore as that own player's personal lore. From a role-play perspective, a Science origin could claim they've developed a new chemical formula, and behold with the power of science, they have become more powerful. A Tech origin could claim they've discovered an entirely new engineering principle, and this principle grants them increased power. A Mutant can claim they are continuing to mutate... and so on... and so on... and so on.

I also realize that there are 6 years of content that don't require having the alpha-slot unlocked, and I realize that there will be future content that will continue to not require the alpha-slot to be unlocked. So, if you want to play the game but not worry about the challenging post-50 content, then nothing will change.

that would imply you have a fire armor... and it took HOW LONG FOR...

no. no. no. Not going to finish that. I do NOT want random Hamidons dropping on me.

Anyways, I took several screen-shots, need to post them up, although I don't know if any commentary on the map is going to be of help this late in the (I'm guessing) development cycle.

easiest way to get M.I.'s is to go to Grandville and run newspapers.

I'd suggest something like -1 / x7 or x8 to get them to spawn in newspaper mishes.

yeah, this threw me for a loop to since I assumed the zone events would be in there... but they aren't

CookieCake! http://www.greatamericancookies.com/cookieCakes.html

As kind of a side note / edit, getting players into canon-lore or events was one of the (unspoken long-term) goals of the AE system. Fearghas, for example, is now Dr. Aeon, largely because of his extensive work through Mission Architecture.

What the developers probably did not expect was the rise of A.E. Exploiters, and the flood of abusive cliques who work to up-rate stories of the clique's creation, and down-rate stories of other players. The very short-term effect has been that Mission Architecture, as a tool for Paragon Studios to filter out genuine content creation talent and then use that talent to produce officially published content, has largely been marginalized.

One of the things you need to remember is that the City of Praetoria is not the only City on the Planet. We are directly aware of the Resistance City known as Sanctuary, not to mention the War between Oceania and Eastasia.

The Carnival of Light, such as encountered in the Maria Jenkins arc, probably have set up camp in Sanctuary.

Again, the City of Praetoria is not the only city or Country left in that Dimension. Read above.

So it would make sense that Tyrant / Emperor Cole would feed the distinguishing physical characteristics of the Carnival of Light as programming data to the Clockworks, in case the Clockworks were to ever encounter one of the Carnies.

The concept still works when you consider that the Clockworks are... get this... ROBOTS!!!!

Robot's can only make judgments based on received data. In the case of the data any particular Clockwork can gather from a Carny, that data is most likely going to be based on physical characteristics and attack patterns, which the Carnival of Light and Shadow Share.

So? Here's a question for you: When somebody is attacked in the commission of a crime, do the police not bother questioning the victim because the entire event was captured on a video camera?

No.

Just because the Carnival of Shadow do not know why they were attacked, although it would be the second time they were assaulted for being Carnival of Light, it is possible that the Carnival of Shadow could have gleaned additional information during their fight, information that might help you.

Because this new Praetoria arc takes place after the old Praetoria arc that is now in Ouroborus.

Ergo, since this is events that have taken place after the original arc, it can safely be presumed that by this time in the life of the game, Vanessa's identity as the Queen of the Carnival is known to you and others.

One of the factors you have to keep in mind is that not all story-lines are all updated at exactly the same time.

Yes, the storyline with the Carnival probably should have been updated to reflect the change in time and move the old arc into Ouroborus. That hasn't happened, most likely because the developers simply haven't... you know... HAD TIME TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

Basically, don't treat everything as some hard time line where everything that happens has to absolutely happen in relation to another event as you play through it.

Let me try to put this another way. You go into Hollows and join a Frostfire team. You beat Frostfire, then later, you pick up the same mission.

How is that possible? Didn't you already defeat Frostfire? How does your own timeline interact with the timeline you have experienced?

The simple answer is: you dismiss the other events as either non-canon to your lore, or you just don't think about it. The same thing applies here. This is a... get this.. VIDEO GAME!!!

Again. Read above. The current Carnival of Shadows arc occurs (in somebody's timeline) after the events of the original Praetoria arc, but before the events of the sequel arc.

Um. Dude. It's a video game. This arc has been in the game since Issue 2.

That was... how long ago? 5, 6 years?
Again. VIDEO GAME

Again. TIME

Quit taking everything so literally.

Quit trying to pigeonhole everything into one gigantic fixed firm timeline that never changes and all events only occur as the players encounter them.

I don't really know what to tell you, because if you are bound and determined to do that, to take everything literally, and to only acknowledge events as they happen for your avatar, you are going to be downright miserable.

Meta-Gaming is fine Sam. Having external knowledge is fine. It's okay. This is a video game. Nobody has the resources to update all of the arcs, all of the time, to account for every new little bit of information or story twist that was added.

Some of this content has been in the game for over 6 years, and at some point the developers are just going to have stop walking on eggshells to dance around "knowledge that all of the players know by now"

At some point, the old mysteries have got to stop being mysteries. The old events have to become stuff that happened, regardless of whether or not your player actually did it.

Otherwise the story of the game is going to go nowhere.

well, all I have here from the 48xx series are 4850's which is the starting point for running all Ultra-Mode options at once.

There's a difference between running all Ultra-Mode options at once, and turning Ultra Mode Options up: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=219534

Now, on paper, the 4890 and 5770 (which I do have) are very similar, offering the same amount of theoretical Pixel and Texel performance (13,600 / 34,000). So, on paper, the 4890 should be able to drive High Shadows.

Off paper, well, things might not be so simple. If you've got any kind of anti-aliasing going on, that will destroy the ability of the game to display shadows in high mode. If you've got high texture filtering going on, that will also destroy the ability of the game to display shadows in high mode.

Now, if your artificating looks like this...



You've got an old OpenGL driver running and it's likely due to Microsoft Windows not properly updating the driver.

• You'll need to uninstall all ATi software
• Then run Driver Sweeper before rebooting: http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/
• Then reinstall with updated graphics drivers

... holy cow. How did I miss that typo...

Suggestion has been made before, several times.

As far as I am directly aware, no red-name or NCSoft employee has responded to such requests in the past.

As far as we know, no in-game canon lore explanation has been given for Jack^^^^Frostfire not having the same powers in the tip missions as a hero that he has in The Hollows as a villain.