Major_Decoy

https://cod.uberguy.net/html/powerset.html?pset=mastermind_summon.necromancy&at=mastermind It looks like the base values for lich are: Fearsome Stare: Base accuracy 1.0, Fear duration 17.88 seconds, to-hit debuff -11.25% Drain Life: Base accuracy 1.0, life gain 160.6346, to-hit debuff -5.625% Petrifying Gaze: base accuracy 1.0, hold duration 9.536 seconds Tenebrous Tentacles: base accuracy 1.0, immobilize duration 17.88 seconds, to-hit debuff -5.625% Torrent: base accuracy 1.0, knockback magnitude .67, to-hit debuff -9.375% Dark Blast: base accuracy 1.0, to-hit debuff -9.375% Torrent and Dark Blast information is found in the Lich information, accessible the the lich Power information, and the other four powers are found in their respective upgrades. These powers work just like player powers, you get the unbuffed values if you do not buff them, they don't go away just because you don't slot for them.

I would say you're kind of approaching costume design from the wrong direction, at least in the way you're presenting things in this thread. You should first take a character, ask what their role is in the carnival, and then design a costume to help them in the role. If you're moving fast, ribbons and streamers help emphasize motion. If you're moving slowly, tight clothes help show muscle and lack of motion while baggier clothes help obscure motion. So if you're showing your talent, you want tight clothes. If you want it to be easier, lose clothes. If you've envisioned the Harlequins as a troupe of demons who ride horses, then I would give them all spurs (because demons aren't going to worry about cruelty to horses) and keep in mind horseback riding while designing the costumes. Capes and scarves will exaggerate the speed of the horses, tight costumes will make the rider seem like they're stiller on the horse (while baggy clothes will bounce with every step, making the rider look less skilled) If you've envisioned the Harlequins as slapstick, give them checkered costumes. A little bulk is nice for padding on prat falls and to make hits seem more realistic. You need to have a goal of what the costume to trying to accomplish before you make it.

If I were designing the game: Scrappers are boss droppers. Brutes wade into mobs and ramp up their damage. The complaint with tanks was always "Why would the enemy pay attention to the tank if they don't really do any damage and are harder to drop than the blaster? People attack The Thing because you'll regret ignoring him" So what you do is give the tanks bonus damage on attacks to enemies that aren't targeting that tank.

I think this is a difference in design philosophy between Cryptic Studios in the early 2000s and the Homecoming developers. Cryptic Studios had a whole bunch of mutually exclusive powers, and stronger powers, and no enhancement diversification which led to skippable powers. As the game diveloped, a lot of the mutually exclusive tags went away and the global defense reduction made it harder to hit your defensive goals. Current design philosophy seems to hold that every power in your primary and secondary set should be worth taking. For defensive sets, that kind of leads to a situation where you don't really want to skip any power. I like the idea of "skippable powers"; it gives more opportunities for character differentiation, but it is a difficult build goal.

Rather than a Carnival of Shadows, that looks like a Rodeo Obscura.

Add a tag to every power in the Regeneration set and add a tag to every damage source in the game wherein, if a targeted character has that regeneration power, there's a specific chance related to that power, to have the damage proc a heal on the targeted character, similar to spectral wounds. This in itself would be a tremendous effort for not a lot of benefit, but I think we can do better. I think there's probably a way to make using Regeneration so resource intensive that someone taking the set will crash the server.

Does it go away on characters who have earned "The Blessing of Tielekku"?

I recommend /bind shift+lbutton "cleartray"

I'm pretty sure that the Speed of Sound is 0mph in a vacuum.

Exactly Octogoat! Thank you for your contribution. What scent of axe body spray do you get by juicing Freaks?

How is Clippy involved? Does it look like we're trying to mount a defense against a rogue mapserver? Does it have any suggestions? Did you leave the stove on? Are you a squirrel?

I would like to see the aggro cap extended into the real numbers. Currently you can only aggro the imaginary enemies in the game, but I'd like it if using taunt could also get my dog to hate me. Edit: I suppose taunt wouldn't work on my dog, but I'm pretty sure my cat has at least yellow borders.

The "fake video" incident I recall was a Regeneration Scrapper video to show how, but it was made without the purple patch changes or something like that. It wasn't in defense of the global defense nerf, but one of the targeted regeneration nerfs. Dumpster Diving and herding the entire map was not address by either Enhancement Diversification or the Global Defense nerf, Dumpster diving was kind of addressed by giving Warwolves ranged attacks and later address with the aggro cap, which is what finally did in herding the whole map too. I think the game is better with enhancement diversification, but only in the sense that the invention system only came into being after enhancement diversification. For the time when we had enhancement diversification without the invention system, I think the game suffered. I still think that they should go through and add two to four more enhancements to every set (without increasing the number of set bonuses) so that not every "six slots of Hecatomb" end up with the same bonuses.

What was the joke? "They would think of three different solutions to the problem and then implement all three"

I found that mission so disappointing because I know that missions had been introduced that allowed you to make decisions, so I thought I'd get to go something like "This guy's a jerk who has betrayed you and your whole organization, and you should kill him." You know, an opportunity to subvert an officer.