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There's a plaque in Boomtown near loc [-2654.1 0.1 3057.3]. Vidiot Maps has it marked as Plaque #2. If you haven't clicked on any Disciple plaques before when you click on this one, it adds the "Learn the history of Hero Corps" progress badge to the Badge >> History tab with no progress bar. If you click on all the other Disciple plaques in Boomtown, Steel Canyon, Skyway, and Faultline/Echo Faultline -- without clicking on Boomtown Plaque #2 -- it correctly adds the "Learn the history of Hero Corps" progress badge and tracks X of 6 for you. And you can get the Disciple badge, again without clicking Boomtown Plaque #2. If it's not the first, nor the last Disciple plaque, clicking it has no effect on the Disciple progress bar. Not sure if the bug is that there's supposed to be 7 plaques for Disciple and that one isn't hooked up correctly. Or there's only supposed to be 6 badges for Disciple and that plaque spuriously adds the Disciple progress bar.

How are you getting the Cloud Senses proc in Terrify? Neither [terrify] info nor city of data shows any -ToHit on terrify. Just Terrorized and Psionic Damage. Could replace it with Bombardment's Chance for Fire Damage, I suppose

The Hive, The Abyss, Monster Island (I think), and all 4 pvp zones are level locked. Cimerora used to be but is no longer level locked.

Also annoying is that the critical Curse of Weariness debuff icon only shows if you’re not hiding autopowers. So folks who aren’t aware of it might well die from lack of end before they can figure out why they have no end.

The secret to the Hitter badge for part to is: talk to the Disheveled Drifter and teach him to count cards, he'll give a spiel about how easy it is wait for him to talk again. if one of your conversation choices has "lavalier" in it, you talked to him too soon. if one of the conversation choices is something like "go out and hit the tables", that's the one!

Lol. That was my first thought too!

As far as I could tell, there's only the 6 sets currently affected by this issue. Other sets either had multiple options at the lowest level or had no overlap between high and low level sets Knockback (1-20, 21-50). I suspect there's also a more trivial way to work around this: just add another 1-30 IO set to affected sets. Then the UI will allow "by category" conversions, and the existing code will (i imagine) occasionally convert to the higher level set.

Alas, Carl Kolchak was a reporter, not law enforcement, so probably doesn’t qualify. Much to my disappointment.

I think there’s two different things going on. First, I think the rules for whether “by category” shows up in the ui at all is whether there are any legal conversions at the enhancement’s level if it has one, or at the set’s lowest level if it’s attuned. This explains Air Burst and Exploit Weakness. It should probably check against the set’s entire range for attuned enhancements. Second, the rules for converting an attuned enhancement is to choose a random level at the time of conversion and try the conversion. This explains why you can eventually convert a Siphon Insight to a Cloud Senses if you try the conversion enough times.

DO NOT QUESTION ME, HERETIC! IF MY STATEMENTS DO NOT MATCH REALITY, THEN REALITY MUST BE AT FAULT! Hmm, or maybe a little more experimentation is in order... You can convert by category from a high level set to a low level set, as long as they have at least one level in common. Eventually. Just confirmed with the following: Analyze Weakness -> Shield Breaker, 52 tries Touch of the Nictus -> Theft of Essence, 23 tries Siphon Insight -> Cloud Sense, 27 tries Expedient Reinforcement -> Call to Arms, 2 tries Convert by category is not even listed in the UI as an option for these lower level enhancements. Or Air Burst (Targeted AOE Damage) or Exploit Weakness (Sniper Attacks). I suspect this is a different issue, and that whether "by category" is even listed is determined by if there are any legal options at the lowest level of the enhancement, rather than whether it could possibly convert to another set. Note that these 6 IO categories are currently the only ones where a category has multiple sets but only one set covers the lowest level.

Something I discovered yesterday. Apologies if this is too niche or too narrow or already well known... For purposes of this post, "attuned" here means enhancements without levels, so doesn't cover pvp or vary rare enhancements. So it looks like the way this works is, at the time of conversion, the game chooses a random level in the level range of the enhancement to be converted. If there are no legal conversions at that level, the conversion fails and no converters are spent. If there is at least one legal conversion at that level, the conversion happens as usual and the converters are spent. In general, converting attuned enhancements by category isn't often useful, but there are a few cases where it is useful. In particular, if the category has only 2 possibilities and the level ranges overlap -- even if only for 1 level -- you can convert between the two. Very useful if one of the sets is much more expensive on the AH. Just by the cheap attuned one, and keep trying the convert until it works. Categories with only 2 sets, that overlap: Accurate Defense Debuff (Shield Breaker, Analyze Weakness) Accurate Healing (Theft of Essence, Touch of the Nictus) Accurate To Hit Debuff (Cloud Senses, Siphon Insight) Recharge Intensive Pets (Call to Arms, Expedient Reinforcement) So, a tip for those who want attuned enhancements to slot and for whom the difference between a 2M and 5M enhancement is important. If you're just going to flip it, there's much more efficient ways of doing that.

He gave me a mission ("Attack the Carnival of Shadows") in Atlas Park, while I was in Atlas Park as a Rogue. When I tried to enter the mission, I got the St. Martial/Carnie tents loading screen, then it changed to the Atlas Park loading screen, and dumped me in Atlas Park. I got the following error/feedback messages in my global chat: I was running Combat Ontologist on Indomitable. I was not on a team at the time.

Ditto. Just noticed that yesterday. It used to work. Reveal does work on mission maps inside pvp zones just fine.

Mostly amazing. But a moment of silence for the Shinobi movement buff. From better than Ninja Run with 100% uptime to same as Swift with 66% uptime. I’ll get over it.

Looked at the movement changes to Shinobi-Iri and Kuji-In Rin, through the lens of my L37 Sentinel. I was worried that shifting the movement buff from the always on toggle Shinobi to the sometimes on (typically autocast) click Kuji would be really jarring as the movement buff goes on or off. Fortunately(?) the new version movement buff is so tiny that it's hard to tell if you even have it on or not, so it's not jarring at all. I guess it's a mediocre perk if you already have a travel power, but it definitely is no longer effective (in conjunction with ninja run) as a travel power.

Yeah. I reported it in both places, just in case. I resolved it by moving to the HC installer instead of Tequila.

When I run the launcher (Tequila 1.0.0.20) I get the following errors: This not only prevents me from launching hc-beta, it prevents me from launching hc itself!

The accolade "A Light in Dark Astorias" for says you get it for getting all exploration badges in Dark Astoria. Should probably be "Astoria" rather than "Astorias". You actually get the accolade for getting all exploration badges in Echo: Dark Astoria, not Dark Astoria.

Woot! I took a nap for exactly the right amount of time. Woke up to see donations were open. Made the final donation that kicked things over the limit. Yay!

Kristof Jaeger's arc, "Set bombs in Longbow base mission". When I took out the Longbow Officer at the back of the map, there was an announcement from a Longbow officer (I think it was an ambush, not the one I was attacking) that said "Longbow Agents& attack!". Need to get rid of the spurious ampersand.

IMHO, there are two main uses for reward merits for the casual player. First, purchase Enhancement Converters and sell them on /ah for inf to build up a couple million inf to purchase stuff you want. Second, when you have sufficient inf to craft and sell stuff, purchase Enhancement Converters for your own use. Craft every recipe that drops and convert it to something that either you want to equip yourself, or something that sells well on /ah. Use the inf from sales to buy cool stuff for yourself. Just my 2inf worth. While it’s possible to buy recipes for 25-250 merits, that’s almost always way less efficient than converting merits to Converters, selling them for inf, and using the inf to buy the thing you want. So it seems to me at least.

Because there are a lot of in-game reasons for having access to costume parts. I had a character that wore a cape because it was the only thing left of his (super powered) brother. Kind of sucked that I had to wait until L20 before he could wear the cape that was part of his origin. Is the only way to acquire a Roman cingulum really to time travel back millennia and do a favor for long dead Romans? Doubt it. Do villains care at all that Vanguard hasn’t authorized their usage of an official Vanguard(tm) chest plate? What are they going to do about it? They got bigger fish to fry. Do people even do Frostfire any more? Yep. Ran it yesterday in Oro for the badges. “Yeah, simple” cracks me up every time.

While most things on HC start off unlocked, there are a few things that still require unlocks. The tantrum and ghoul flex emotes require completing a mini event, for example. Also, the extra costume slot, cape, and aura missions are still around to do, even if the “rewards” are already unlocked.

I think this is one of those lines nearby NPCs say when you've completed a mission/arc recently. I assume it's related to the Fat Cat City arc from Basse Croupier in St. Martial. I was running that for Ouroboros badges. I was standing in the Golden Giza near Hard Luck when I spotted the NPC chat. [NPC] Pasquale: I saw this guy partying with the Carnival who looked like that troublemaker politician from the mainland. Maybe he's got an evi Looks like the text is truncated.

I run almost exclusively Huge characters. Almost all 6’ +/- 6”. I have one that’s bigger than what the slider allows, but he’s an actual giant so that seems appropriate.