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Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths (Max)
Luminara replied to Frostbiter's topic in Comic, Hero & Villain Culture
Jason Todd (Batman: Under the Red Hood) is Batman now? I'm so out of the loop. -
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths (Max)
Luminara replied to Frostbiter's topic in Comic, Hero & Villain Culture
Film beat comics by 20 years. Cecil DeMille produced and directed The Squaw Man three times (1914, 1918 and 1931). The 1918 version was the first true remake in film history, as it was directed and produced by the same person (everything else prior to that was done by different directors or studios, like the 1903 The Great Train Robbery and the 1904 The Great Train Robbery, which was almost a shot-for-shot remake of the 1903 film, by a different director and studio (film wasn't covered by copyright law at that time)). But my comment was a satirical observation that it's standard operating procedure for both. -
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths (Max)
Luminara replied to Frostbiter's topic in Comic, Hero & Villain Culture
Wonder if they learned that from Hollywood, or Hollywood learned it from them... -
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths (Max)
Luminara replied to Frostbiter's topic in Comic, Hero & Villain Culture
According to Wikipedia, this is a trilogy. and Kevin Conroy recorded lines for the third installment shortly before he passed. Crap rehash or not, I'd watch them if I could, just to hear him as Batman one more time. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand now I'm crying. Thanks, asshats. -
It does, unless your name is Clara.
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I was running through the 25-29, 30-34 and 35-39 Accomplishment badge missions this afternoon and noticed the same thing. Almost everything was +2.
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Stealth Enh. Suppression - Blinding Powder - Coercive Persuasion
Luminara replied to brass_eagle's topic in Bug Reports
Happening with Possess (Darkness Control) and Stealth (Concealment), too. -
Is this because you need to know what your teammates might be saying because you're convinced that you're the only thing they talk about, or is it because you want an iron grip on teammate activity at all times? I really need to know whether this is a drama queen thing or a fascist thing so I don't shout at you for the wrong reason.
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Okay, the +Regen discrepancy is because you have 3x Impervious Skin: Status Resistance/Regen IOs. The +Regen is Unique. It only counts once. Replacing the LotG Def/End in Combat Jumping with a Def/End/Rchg accounts for the 0.05% difference in Defense between the live build and the Mids' build, so that's probably what you did on the live build. The status effect resistances are correct. The math is 1 (the base value of the status effect duration) / 1 + % = adjusted duration. Mids' shows the stat, Combat Attribs shows the result of that stat. Example: Hold Resistance 70% means 1 / 1.7 = 58.82% duration. And the Regen Debuff Resistance is higher in-game because it's enhanced by the IOs you have slotted, which Mids' isn't doing. 25.95% * 1.8332 = 47.57154, truncated to 47.57. 29.24 Immob protection in Mids' is likely because you're using an old version with a bug. I'm guessing, but it's only 20.76 when I look at the build with the latest version, which supports the theory.
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Impossible to be certain, because you've collapsed all set bonuses in those screenshots, but it's likely that you've used more than 5 of the same bonuses. Can't do that. In Mids', click the View Active Sets button, next to the archetype selection menu. That opens a new window with a complete list of all of your set bonuses and the totals. On the right, if you see >Cap, you're over 5 on at least one bonus. Scroll down in that section to discover which bonus is over the limit and in which power it was slotted. You do not have to change the slotting in that power, but you will have to change the slotting in one of the powers with that bonus. If, for instance, you had six Luck of the Gambler: Defense/Global Recharge Time Reduction enhancement slotted, you'd need to remove one from any power in which they're slotted. Again, 5 is the limit for any set bonus. So go through your build using that window, note any/all powers with the warning and make the appropriate adjustments.
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The traditional gift for the twentieth anniversary is china. NEW MISSIONS IN CHINA CONFIRMED! WE'RE GOING TO BEAT UP COMMIES!
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Thought it was going live in a week. My apologies.
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No-one can answer questions about what's currently being tested in closed beta. If you have closed beta access, you can answer the question yourself with a quick test, or ask in the closed beta forum. If you don't, you can ask to be a closed beta tester, then test it yourself or ask in the closed beta forum.
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Not in this game.
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I thought it was Tenebrous Tentacles or Teleport Target, and was about to suggest putting Range enhancements in the power.
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Sentinel cones are limited to 5 targets, instead of 10. Sentinel AoEs are limited to 10 targets, instead of 16. Sentinels are scrappers with ranged attacks. That's why they have the same AoE restrictions as melee archetypes. Pay the complaint about damage no mind. It's bullshit, because a blaster clone with 96% of blaster damage, full-blown damage mitigation, including status protection, and the same target limits as blasters would so utterly and completely obviate blasters that no-one with more than two brain cells would ever play a blaster.
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Umbral Torrent is 78.3 for sentinels. The rest is correct (amazingly). What happened to your Dark/Invulnerability sentinel?
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You're not required to execute a number of attacks or use an alignment-restricted power to reactive them if they drop. You don't have to do anything, you can stand there with your thumb up your ass and they'll recharge normally and be ready to use again at will. It's a completely different set of requirements from what Domination currently imposes. Nor do PB or AD represent archetype-defining or -shaping powers. Click status protection powers are in a few melee archetype primaries/secondaries, not an inherent ability which affects every tanker, scrapper, brute, stalker, SoA, Dwarf-form Kheldian or Sentinel. The fact that my Shield/Elec tanker has a click status protection power is utterly irrelevant to my Energy/Energy scrapper, or my Staff/Willpower brute, because those powers aren't impacting entire archetypes. But I can't make any dominator that isn't affected by Domination's flawed design. The Rage crash that the game signals to players graphically by turning off the "I'M A LIGHT BULB WHEEEEEEEEEEE!" graphic and replacing it with the Damage Debuff graphic (red-colored downward-pointing arrowheads), so they know what's happening without looking at the UI? Do you spend a lot of time rebuilding the Hasten meter? How much, on average? Sixty seconds? Ninety? Three... hundred? You can tell me, I promise not to laugh. At the market. In a league, when players have to be moved around to different teams. When you're accepting a mission. Not in the middle of combat. For fuck's sake, there isn't even a status bar for NPCs, we're utterly dependent on graphical effects and animations to know what our powers are doing to them, so the "UI is part of the game" argument doesn't cut it.
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PB and AD aren't inherents. How many times do you have to click Defiance in order to activate T1/T2 attacks through mez? What? None? Well, it would seem that status protection isn't the defining factor for determining that something should have a cast time, wouldn't it. Faintly, but not fully. It's been itching in my mind for me for four years, but it's because of that constant niggling that I started looking at it more closely. Why does it bother me? I've built all of my dominators so well that Domination recharges in ~67s, so I have plenty of leeway for it to activate, but it still gets under my skin. Why? Because it forces the player to watch the UI, to pay attention to the icon, not to the game. And the cast time is the root of that, because it's the cast time that necessitates monitoring the UI. There's no tray with one slot that we can float next to the character's head so we don't have to look at an edge of the screen (yes, i tried a tray set to maximum transparency, and in different configurations, it was still extremely distracting). There's no middle-of-screen warning that Domination is about to expire (not quite as likely to set me off as the tip notification spam did, but it would definitely put me on the warpath sooner or later). There's no chat message, no unique sound at 10s... the only ways the game notifies the player that Domination is about to drop is the tiny blinking icon in the status window, and Domination being recharged, and if you're not staring at one or the other, you have no idea when to give Domination that 1.32s to activate. When I build an attack chain, my goal is to set the game up so I can press keys without having to look at the icons. Press 1, press 2 while 1 is activating, press 3 while 2 is activating, et cetera. The UI is what I use to interface with the game, but it's not the part of the game I want to see. The game is what's happening in the middle of the screen, not at the top, not at the right edge, not on the bottom edge, not on the left edge. Watching my character's animations play. Watching the graphical effects. Watching enemy reactions. Immersing myself in the game. Domination breaks that by forcing my attention away from the center, by focusing my attention on the UI instead of the game. I have to watch the Domination icon so I know when to react to that, rather than watching the Master of Death so I know when to react to him. I have to watch the timer so I know when to interrupt my immersion, rather than watching my characters do their things and enjoying my immersion. Yes, losing Domination because I scrapperlocked irritates me, but that's only my reaction to the problem, not the problem itself. The problem is that the cast time on Domination mandates attention to the UI, not to the game. It's contrary to the design of every other inherent (even Vulnerability, which has a giant fucking reticle that disappears when it expires, immediately informing the player of that expiration without requiring him/her to look at the UI), and it's contrary to the design of the game itself (we're supposed to be looking at our characters and the NPCs to know what's going on, that's why we have graphical effects like shields with downward chevrons to indicate Defense Debuffs and blackish-yellow stars circling for ToHit debuffs). That 1.32s is where the problem hinges. If it weren't there, the dominator archetype would be as immersive as all of the others. But over and over again, no matter how well I build my dominators, I'm playing fucking UI Bingo instead of City of *. The cast time isn't a balance point, it's a design failure, and it needs to be removed.
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Domination's recharge time isn't affected by teammates. Dominators receive a Rage bonus when teamed so they can build Domination faster, but the power can't be activated until the recharge time has elapsed, even if the bar is full.
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Removing the cast time wouldn't make it an auto power, or remove the ability to select when to activate it. It would still be a click with a 90s duration and 200s recharge time.
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Which is balanced by a 90s duration and 200s recharge time.