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I'm not familiar with Python specifically but I'm sure I can muddle through it. I've played with a few Python scripts a few years back and have work experience in other languages. Really appreciate all the help. It looks like the Detexturizer will do the trick though so ill try that first.

Thank you, i didn't think to try clicking in the picture and didn't see a tutorial anywhere. Only other step I'm not clear on is recombining them afterwords. I should be able to handle the rest.

Course i finally found it but now it seems piglet cant extract the .texture file as anything else like i read so i need to look into this more tomarrow. Still not sure WHICH .pigg file its in, i was having to access my CoH directory remotely which caused the process of opening the entire folder to double check you to take forever. I knew what the directory inside the pigg would be, just not which pigg

Sorry if this has been answered elsewhere but iv had no luck hunting. Which pigg file contained the default cursors? I've tried every custom cursor mod I can find, and props to the people who made them but I personally hate them and decided to just make my own, but I really want/need the original textures if at all possible. Any help would be apprecaited iv hand dug through about 8 piggs now and am about to just hunt through them all one by one in a puddle of tears. 😂

Guys, guys, guys.... This man, this LEGEND, is suggesting playing a Tank roll on a MM so he can use the support power set MMs get..... Why is everyone suggesting tanky support classes and supportive tanks? Lets entertain this a moment, I think the man is onto something. Necro makes some sense but it lacks any AoE powers which hurts your concept i think, you will only be applying -tohit on one maybe two targets. However Demonology has -res which is nasty and even has a cone to play with. The melee range could be an issue though so pick your poison. Main thing will be keeping track of your pets, get an idea of what 60' looks like because any further and they aren't going to be contributing to your defense. Support sets vary but if you want to be durable focus on ones with self buffs worked in. Pools, yer gonna needem, you'll almost certainly need Fighting for Tough and Weave, and Maneuvers from Leadership. Combat Jumping if you can get it too. Main thing you will need is Provoke from Presence to help you pull aggro that isn't on you or your pets. Incarnates, Melee Radial Hybrid will be critical to helping keep aggro in bigger pools, its the only way to get a taunt aura, so its kinda a must have. Enhancements, Don't forget the 6 set on Gaussians, or the 3,4, and 5 sets of Reactive Armor, those are some good options for defense from sets. Also don't forget your pet Aura powers to beef up yer bois because they can get squishy if yer not careful. Primary goals will be hit S/L defense cap and resist cap if you can but don't neglect your other types or positionals if they end up easier to do. I may have to play with this concept myself. (Edit:) Oh and if you find MM isnt your cupa tea, Arachnos Widows can do some intresting things in that department as well but wont be as varied as a true support set like you get with MM

I'm aware, if that was an option for my goals, it wouldn't have felt the need to ask however. Thank you for the input though, I would not recommend Regen as the best secondary for what I am doing either, but for the character concept I greatly dislike both the mechanics and the appearance of Willpower, and no amount of color changes will fix it, its just way way to tame.

I didn't think to note this at the time but generally Gambler's Cut is generally preferred over Sting of the Wasp. The main reason is the shorter activation time, 0.67 seconds is really good at covering small gaps in your rotation, and i believe the over all damage per second and damage per use of the power is better though don't quote me on those two. I will also second what PainX said in this case but not because of the down time, i just don't think its that valuable on this build, yer very close to defense caps as is, and any buffs from party members will put you over the edge. I would also recommend seeing if you can get a decimation proc in your moonbeam, i took it on my Katan/Regen and it actually can be woven into my rotation for a pretty good chance at boost up, and every once in awhile it'll stack up with gaussians and build up giving you some meaty numbers. Cant say for sure how 'optimal' that tactic is without some more work, but it seems to be effective anecdotally. Similarly, I like jamming a forcefeed back proc into Kick, just because you should never need to use kick and if you do? its because your recharge has been debuffedto hell and that chance at an extra 100% can be nice. Another option, if you find the slots, is slotting it and brawl so they have 2 slots and jamming winter enhancements in them for -recharge resistance. Over all though as i mentioned before, your basic defenses are stronk, you should be pretty durable as long as you stay ontop of your click powers.

Thanks guys, I'm just looking to see if I missed anything, im generally quite familair with the games mechanics and my build makes use of both Provoke and Melee Radial Hybrid. I dont have any issues with people complaining, never met anyone who EXPECTS a scrapper to tank. However both the RP concept of the character and the nature of the SG I run is such that hes often the toughest person in the room mechanically and RP wise, so I try my best to off tank. I'm usually pretty successful and am able to tank most pre incarnate content as long as im not having to pull aggro off a tanker or brute. Of course I can never keep everything locked onto me, unless the hybrid is up, but I just wanted to see if I might be missing anything that could make my life easier.

There are a lot of little things you could do to improve it but this should hold up just fine in most anything as long as you keep your click powers rolling. One suggestion to optimize is move your Tough enhancements to Hardened Carapace. HC has more base resistance than Tough, and so will get more out of the enhancements, that should net you a few more percents of S/L resistance. I also feel you are over invested in Genetic Contamination, those procs, while potentially nice, I don't feel will be consistent enough to make worth. Keep in mind their proc rate is effected by being in an AoE. That said I don't have a lot of experience procing out auras like that so maybe I'm wrong. Its a bit late as I read this but if you find this useful ill give a more detailed look tomorrow and try to get a longer more detail list of suggestions. Over all though, this build will work fine.

So I'm pretty sure Provoke from Presence and Melee Radial are all i have to work with, but I wanted to ask to be sure. Are there any other options for maintaining aggro on a pack of mobs with katana/regen? Ya know besides "use a different AT or power set" Appreciate any insight anyone can give.

Thank you for this, it made my day

In the mission, "Catch the last two conspirators before they leave Striga", which is the final mission of the Sunstorm provided story arc "Fear and Loathing on Striga Isle" the Center has dispatched his troops to eleminate the last of an anti Nictus group that are attempting to escape Striga. During this mission you come across Ascendants who represent the Center's elite forces. The NPC chatter in this mission appears to be mis assigned, giving the lines belonging to the anti Nictus traitors to the loyalist Ascendants. Attached in a snip of the chat log.

I agree this has merit however in order to avoid the issues fear used to have I would suggest that the "Search" mode use a salted pathing toward the teleport caster. This would cause them to start moving in that direction and the players would have to fall back to keep tele sniping, hopefully running out of ground to fall back to eventually. If possible Id also argue for a counter, say on the 3rd tp target used on a spawn, the spawn goes strait to aggro. Obviously this is all wild speculation though because I suspect most of what i just described would require new AI states and behaviors, and im not even sure if the pathing system has any support for "create a series of randomly distributed way points that bring you closer to caster's original location". Feels like one of those bucket list items that, ultimately, aren't worth the time it would take away from other projects for a relatively niche mechanic for a handful of powers. Stalkers might be able to get some fun out of the system though.

As seen in the attached screenshot shadows are being cast by the bubble created by Sonic Dispersion from the sonic support set. When time permits I will attempt to test and provide more info.

I figured this was the case. However, correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Victory Rush's mechanics imply there is a way to detect the rank of a nearby enemy then change effect based on that? Would it be possible, assuming the devs decided to do it, to detect a boss, and arbitrarily apply a higher mag teleport on them? I'm not familiar with the code base, despite having spent the last year with the desire to dig into it, but i would assume there's some way to scan a radius for bosses, list them, and apply and effect to each of them. Presumably that solves the "please don't teleport my lamp post" type issues 😛 If I'm wrong and that is effectively impossible without significant new code, then yeah i don't really see a solution besides the obscured amount of effort i imagine it would be to go through the entire game and assess and mark every object that should be teleportable as such for future protection level maintenance. The only other option and this is occurring to me late, is there any potential issues with lowering TP protections on bosses? Say do a full scale shift, 0-1 prot for minion, 1-2 prot for lts 2-3 prot for bosses, no level shift, or give negative values so that bosses are below the threshold? Granted that's again kinda a rework for the entire system to solve one issue, but it is a pretty nasty issue. I don't know how difficult it would be. Now THATS the extent of my ideas without looking through the code base myself.

Just wanted to confirm this still appears to be the case.

As iv said, a valid argument, just one i disagree with because it hasn't been a problem for me in building a wide variety of builds requiring 2-3 pools that don't give defense. CJ and Hover just aren't big enough for me to feel their loss, infact i think only 2 of my characters even use them while the others are still hitting their build goals. But again, if they made that change, i wouldn't mind much, my main goal was to lend some context of roughly what CT is WORTH because its repeatedly referred to as if it provides nothing, when i just cant disagree with that more.

Not that your point is without merit, but in the vein of my previous post, lets turn some theory into numbers here. Combat Teleport, as it stands at time of writing, has a 0.67 activation time, that means for 2/3 of a second you are unable to do anything else. I shall use my current build's dps rotation to calculate the cost of maintaing a 100% uptime of CT's +10% tohit value at a single stack on this rotation. Baring some oddness this should be proportional to almost all rotations. Disclaimer: These numbers are calculated with the help of Mid's, and are on my build specifically which i consider very weak in the damage department for a katana scrapper, the goal is not the numbers themselves but the relationship between them. Damage values truncated to the second decimal point. My rotation (with activation times): Golden Dragonfly (1.83s) --> Soaring Dragon (1.33s) --> Gambler's Cut (0.67s) --> The Lotus Drops (1.83s) --> Gambler's Cut (0.67s) Total Execution time: 6.33 seconds Total Damage: 1,230.85 DPS: 194.44 Rotation modified for CT spam with 100% uptime on effect: Combat Teleport (0.67) --> Golden Dragonfly (1.83s) --> Soaring Dragon (1.33s) --> Gambler's Cut (0.67s) --> The Lotus Drops (1.83s) Total Execution time: 6.33 seconds Total Damage: 1,100.86 DPS: 173.91 Thus the use of combat teleport at 100% uptime is roughly equivalent to 89.44% of the damage done without it. Roughly a 10% dps drop, give or take. **mathematics ends here, what follows is purely subjective opinion** I am of the opinion that a roughly 10% loss in dps, that only takes effect when i CHOOSE to allow it to, is not a high price to pay for a 10% to hit buff on demand. Using a similar mechanic (though not for to hit) it is possible on a bio armor character to, in a similar fashion, trade resistance, or endurance in favor of damage, and this is seen as a positive. Additionally when discussing a movement power, its worth considering travel time, when an enemy escapes your range or LoS, your dps becomes zero for however long it takes you to react and traverse the necessary distance. With combat teleport, that traversal will essentially never be more than 0.67 seconds. This serves to mitigate some of the damage loss argument, but i know the main part of it is the trade of damage for to hit. Looking at another example, assuming you are taking 2 power slots in leadership to take tactics, a power with less to-hit, but other benefits, you are choosing between maneuvers, assault, and tactics. Most forms of Assault grant 10.5% damage, with support ATs getting stronger versions who also get better versions of tactics so proportionally it stays similar. Viewed in the light of a completed build, one could argue that taking assault instead of tactics, is an option opened up by combat teleport that grants both the desired to-hit bonus, and the ability to forgo that to-hit bonus at any time for a 10% damage output increase. I will also note that while yes Tactic provides confuse a fear resistance, those are the benefits of a power dedicated to improving stats and not providing mobility. Additionally id note Tactics is a T3 pool power REQUIRING one of the previous powers to unlock and should be more valuable than combat teleport. I would hope no one took my previous statements to imply combat teleport was equivalent, because it shouldn't be, only that for one portion of it, it is able to perform the same role. Lastly I would like to address the persistent assessment that CT is unable to push through -accuracy debuffs. I feel this argument only holds water if you believe that melee AT's Build Up is also unable to push through said debuffs. An opinion that I greatly disagree with as I regularly use build up explicitly to get the hits in i need to apply the -def i need to stabilize my hit chance. Build Up provides +20% tohit, Combat Teleport is easily able to double stack, and for a single attack, sometimes two, triple stack for +20% or +30% tohit. Granted your buildup is likely slotted, like mine, with a 6 set of Gaussian's all +5ed granting you 32% +to-hit. However i do not find CT's range, endurance, or recharge to be limiting factors on any set based build, so would argue you can just slap a basic To Hit Buff IO +5ed for a +13.19%, +26.38%, and +39.57% to hit at 1, 2, and 3 stacks respectively, all without wasting a single placeable enhancement slot. I really do feel that people are going purely on a 'gut feeling' that this to-hit is insubstantial while testing on builds that generally either have crap hit chance no matter what, or are perma capped at 95% no matter what. Thus the arguments being posed are limited to arguing that they 'need' the defense, but not the to-hit there for any power that doesn't give defense along with whatever quirks and shifts it does to play style is lesser. Again, if the devs decide, hell with it, lets switch it to defense? I wont lose any sleep over it, but i really do think that the to-hit is more unique and encourages more thoughtful play and build design, where as defense will simply lead to players building with the expectation of 100% uptime and have to train themselves to always be recasting CT rather than using it only when needed. I don't know about you guys? But to hell with that, ill accept not having a defense soft cap long before i train myself to use a movement power every 5 friggen seconds, which mind you, would STILL have the 10% damage loss that was complained about.

I don't disagree with your point, but if you are implying its NOT worth use without the binds, then I definitely do disagree. CT is great even when using it purely with click cast or number key power tray casts.

I was testing Teleport, and Combat Teleport, not Teleport Target, i know TPT has no LoS issues, it wouldnt work right otherwise

I went ahead and tested this for yall. You absolutely do NOT need LOS to teleport using the powexeclocation command. However, if the targeted location ends up being invalid, you will teleport in place. Additionally I had an intermittent issue where if I was to close to a wall, it wouldn't cast at all, regardless of it being Teleport or Combat Teleport. No error dialogue is given, it just acts like the command wasn't used. In practice, its more than enough to jump through walls mid combat with a little practice, but for traveling through buildings id need more testing.

Thank you for answering the real questions 🤣 Ill have to do some testing of some ideas i ahve

While overstated perhaps i agree with this. If you asked the original devs, or the devs from just before shutdown what should be done today? You'd get a different answer than what they would have said when the game was life. and you'd get a different answer from each team with members of the team disagreeding. Even as late as the AMAs the devs expressed differing opinions. So seriously "respect the intent of the original devs" is a crap excuse especially since there are huge differences in philosophy between the live maintenance team and cryptics dev team.

Agreed, as long as the basic mechanics arent messed with, any stat changes are fine by me as long as they dont ever cause the rest of the power's properties to be changed

Its alright, i'll pick it up for the animation at most. I get your attempt to imply that its just bias or whatever but meh? If they got rid of it, entirely, id be mildly annoyed at most.