Luminara

Nullifies the lecithin from the brains and prevents it from tanning properly.

That's ridiculous. Seat covers, vellum, shower curtains, but not hats. Human skin just isn't stiff enough for hats.

I have no freezer, no refrigerator and no oven. I'm always hungry.

They want real Chicago-style deep dish pizza. Supreme. Dripping with cheese. Some parmesan sprinkled on top. 2" thick garlic-buttered crust. They also want it delivered to me.

Instant 50s for PvP. Restricted to PvP zones. I expect a short term spike in PvP recipe and enhancement prices, but not a long term effect. Because it's PvP. The server with the slash command to auto-fill slots with enhancements? Think about it.

Encourages RMT, not acceptable to this development team. Fails to enforce the requirement. Anyone can get any badge any time without any effort, without even being present while logged in, simply by allowing another character to carry them, the same way they can get XP, inf*, drops. And this adds market stress the same way insta-50 does. The market relies on input, a character instantly leveled to X, regardless of what number you attach to X, generates nothing to input. Increased demand, decreased supply, inflation rises. No.

Have to say, the arguments against 8s of suppression are on point. Locking everyone out of offensive toggles for longer than they're currently lost due to mez, based on an estimated average animation time for edge cases running four toggles, isn't an improvement. That's like... setting every animation in the game to root for 3.3s because edge case powers have 3.3s root times. If you're dead-set on using suppression duration as a proxy for animation time, it needs to be modified by the number of offensive toggles available to the character. Suppression duration 2s * number of offensive toggles taken. Or just use the cancel effect already available and make offensive toggles work the way defensive toggles do. K I S S.

Not thrilled, but I understand that motivation behind the change is the betterment of all players. So I'll live with it.

Not too long ago, there was a relatively new player prancing around the forums, rather proudly boasting of having kicked people off of teams for... not playing defenders the way he/she believed they "should" be played, not playing tanks the way he/she believed they "should" be played, et cetera. This person treated teammates like employees, and was the kind of boss no-one wants to work for. That's why we can't just compromise. There's no argument to be made, no discussion to be had, because there is no way on Earth that micro-managing, anal-retentive dickheads should be given control over other players' decisions, and that is exactly what this entails. No-one can force another player to stop in the middle of a story arc or *F, whip up a build in Mids', perform a respec and slot "appropriate" enhancements... but you can bet your banana split that the instant a KB->KD toggle becomes a reality, everyone with a stick up their ass and a swollen ego will leap at the opportunity to impose their will on others. We are not going to spoon-feed people like the one I'm not naming more opportunities to treat others like shit. Not on my watch.

3 points, 4 points, it wouldn't be worth it at 6 points. Three sets offer -KB for a single slot, which doesn't represent a slot investment if one only uses the default slot. Two sets have it in the 3-slot position, one set at 4 slots and another set with it at 5 slots. Having to spend 5 slots for that little -KB isn't worthwhile. And the other set bonuses are no better than what can be obtained elsewhere. You can spend fewer slots using four Devastations, two Basilisk's Gaze and a single -KB IO (three default slots in three different powers, four added slots), enhance three powers instead of one, gain more +HP and still have one slot to use elsewhere. Four Devastations, three Thunderstrikes and a -KB IO use that extra slot and give you 2% Recovery in addition to everything else. Without the Superior upgrade path, the set is under-tuned, to the point of hornswoggling players into wasting slots. It should be renamed Underwhelming Force.

6 slots for 3 points of -KB is already a bad investment when that bonus can be obtained with a much, much lower slot cost. It doesn't need to be worse.

Already fixed in beta.

I haven't forgotten how long it took to hit 50 on the original servers. What takes a few weeks, solo and without the 2XP option, used to take several months of teaming and grinding. Story arcs, badge missions, entire zones we once relied upon to keep progressing are now leapfrogged, out-leveled before we even realize they're available. I haven't forgotten what a monumental task acquiring IO sets used to be. If you weren't firmly entrenched in marketeering and actively defending your "niche"; or aggressively farming, to the degree of spending as much time doing that as you spent working at your real job; or suffused with influence you acquired before aggro and AoE caps were implemented; or just the luckiest son of a bitch alive, chortling as high value drop after high value drop landed in your lap; then you spent the same amount of time grinding for inf* to make nifty IOs for your 50 that you spent leveling to 50. I haven't forgotten that one of the tipping points for my decision to stop playing was the lack of solo Incarnate growth options. When Issue 19 went into beta, I ran the numbers to figure out how long it would take to build a T4 Alpha enhancement using only shards. 7-8 months, and that was on a character built to farm rapidly at +2/x6/+Bosses. 7-8 months of unrelenting grinding to complete one Incarnate slot, as opposed to a few hours of casual play now. I'm satisfied with current reward structure. I'd expound on how satisfied I am, but the forum software would throw my post back at me and scream before I ran out of adjectives.

The 5- and 6-slot IO set bonuses are almost always positional/typed Defense. Typed/positional Defense bonuses traditionally fill the 3- and 4-slot positions (2 for Basilisk's Gaze), and many of those are neither rarely used nor trash (Aegis, Reactive Armor, Thunderstrike, Basilisk's Gaze, Blessing of the Zephyr, Sting of the Manticore, to list a few). You don't "have to" slot full IO sets.

0% Fire/Cold/Energy/Negative Defense?

How much Defense does that character have? Were you using Weaken and Venomous Gas? How do you have those two powers slotted?

With an option to turn it off. The first time I step outside of a mission door and experience Jaegerlag, someone's getting a boot in the caboose.

Well, Jessica doesn't like Bunny. And May hates Bunny. Until a few days ago, Bunny was becoming more and more antagonistic toward May. May would hiss, Bunny would stop what she was doing and walk right up to May, stand there, ears perked forward... she was saying, "Okay, bad-ass, do it." That sent May into paroxysms of hiss-snorts, and, not knowing what was happening, I assumed May was just being her usual nasty self (she just doesn't like any other cat. she's okay with Jessica, but she loses it when she hears or sees one of the outside cats), and I'd yell or stomp a foot to break it up. It wasn't until I saw Bunny standing up to May that I understood the situation, and by then, May was constipated. Poor thing was stopped up for three days and in serious pain. She did, finally, loosen up and do her business, and I've been actively moving Bunny away from her to prevent any further confrontations. But I have to say, I really like the way Bunny handles herself. She could've responded in kind, but she didn't. She could've turned aggressive and attacked, but, again, she didn't. She turned around and told the bully to step up or shut up. This is definitely my kind of cat. Other than me being her only friend, she's great. She's grown nicely, she's highly active and very affectionate. Loves to play by herself, loves to play with me (favorite game is pretending my hand is a kitty her size. lots of jumping and faux attacking... she never uses her claws on me, though. she's very careful not to hurt me). She did, though, bring friends with her. Ear mites and fleas. The mites were "easy" to deal with, bought some pyrethrin and aloe drops and treated her daily for a week, then one more time a week later. The fleas... I don't have carpets, but they didn't take long to spread, so all of the cats are wearing Seresto collars now. Expensive, cut into my freezer and new bike budgets, but we're getting them under control now. On another front, about a year ago, a cat showed up at the farm where I earn a little money on Mondays and Tuesdays. I convinced the farmer to keep her around... his wife has Alzheimer's, and I've watched her deteriorate over the last five years. Two years ago, she lost any ability to hold a conversation, and she's all this old man has for company. They used to do everything together, now... well, I figured he was pretty lonely and a cat is always good company. I was also hoping it would provide some stimulation for the wife. I know she can't remember anything past three seconds, but endorphins leave a lasting effect and, again, cats are good for that. Anyway, that cat was pregnant, delivered three kittens. Farmer gave away one, the other two, both female, settled in. Farmer wasn't thrilled about having three cats (wasn't thrilled about having one, actually), but allowed them to stick around. Then more pregnancies (all of the kittens disappeared), and he started to really become upset. So a couple of weeks ago, I rehomed all three to my cabin. They're outside cats, so they're perfectly comfortable being out there... Two of them, the original and one of the younger ones, each had a kitten that I almost missed. The first was one of the younger cat's litter, the only one that hadn't run off or... whatever happened to the others. I trapped that one a couple of days after rehoming the three and brought her out here to be with her mama. This past weekend, I took her to a forever home, so she's fine. The second kitten... that was almost my worst nightmare come true. I didn't find her until a week after rehoming the three, and she wasn't old enough to eat solid food. She starved for a week. I was in tears when I picked her up, listening to her screams of hunger and fear. Rushed home immediately and reunited her with her mother, then rushed to the nearest vet, 30 miles away, and bought kitten milk replacement because I figured mama had probably stopped producing after a week with nothing nursing. I stopped on the way back to buy a tiny bottle and sloshed together a milk solution as soon as I returned. This was my first experience bottle-feeding anything, but we figured it out together. That was a week ago. Little Violette is doing very well. I didn't wait for her to tell me her name, I chose Violette for her. Violette Szabo is a WWII personage who fascinated me, and I thought the name appropriate for a kitten who almost died (my fault, i'm going to be beating myself up for this for years). Of course, this rabbit hole goes deeper. A day after I brought Violette to the cabin, one of the younger cats had a litter of five kittens. Two cinnamon buns, one tuxedo, one that looks very much like the litter's mother, and that magnificent little one at the 9 o'clock position is... wow. Black mask, fade pattern cape, have to love that. People always say that cats aren't social, they're completely independent, blah blah blah. Completely untrue. Violette's mother, Naomi, is actively helping this one, Emily, raise her litter. She's wet-nursing, she's staying in the box to help keep the kittens warm, she's even going full-on bulldog, charging out of the box and ready to rumble if she hears or sees anything she considers threatening. The third of the cats I brought home is Sara, by the way. Sara's kitten was the one I trapped and gave to a very appreciative woman who worked at the store where I bought the tiny baby bottle. All three of these cats have always been mine, in the sense that they come to me for affection, attention, food and companionship. Bringing them back to the cabin was a long overdue move. Of course, this means Camille, Arthur, Madeline and Jacob don't come around any more. It breaks my heart, because I really do love those cats, too... But Bunny's sister, Bonnie, decided to live here, and the trio leave her alone, so I still have one of that family as part of my family. So Violette has three mothers now, and she's thriving. Emily treated her like one of her litter, including nursing her, so my bottle-feeding duties weren't as intense as I expected. She's bonded with me, though, and is starting to try to get out of the box when she sees or hears me. She wants me to pick her up. The last kitten who wanted me to pick it up was Ivan, and he never out-grew that in the 17 years we had together... yeah, I'm already fighting an attachment to Violette. At some point, I have to take Naomi, Emily, Sara and Bonnie to be spayed... don't know where I'll come up with the cash for that yet, but I'll figure it out. And all of the kittens are going to need homes, including Violette (i just can't have four cats inside, no matter how much i want to keep Violette, and as sad as i'll be when i give her away, i'd rather see her go to a good home than grow up living under my cabin). Naomi, Emily, Sara and Bonnie won't be leaving, they're mine. It's been a hell of a couple of weeks, and I'm definitely worried about the future with this many cats, but right now, they're all happy and healthy, and I'm delirious with joy. I love cats, and I have a lot to love now. And cat food is cheap.

CoD has both. Go to the Homecoming_blahblahnumbernumber line in the top right hand of the page and click it to toggle between live and test data. Makes comparisons easy peasy dirty sleazy.

Gloom only has two tags. Never had a third, wasn't changed.

The only Council Vampyr power affected was Gravity Well, which lost its Smashing tag. And doesn't debuff ToHit. Found that Vamps' Shadow Punch lost its Smashing Tag. The only Fortunata power altered was Telekinetic Blast... which had its Psionic tag removed, not the Smashing tag. You might want to run your tests again, since the results you posted can't be the result the damage type changes.

Why are you laughing? I'm serious. A good thesaurus is the best name generator in the world. It's also Viagra for your lexicon.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus

A few lines of code to divide the power's recharge time by animation time and pass that value to the suppression timer as scale X duration expression? Just a thought.

Tyrant's not accepting your calls, @The_Warpact. He said it's over and you should move on. Also, Lady Grey said Hero One doesn't want to date you, either. I hear Terra's single, though. And... "easy", if you get my drift.