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Very interesting question! I was vigilante. I almost went to red side to grab badges in Mercy to absorb the debt, but ended up doing the badges in Steel Canyon instead. I'm no longer on that map - but it was only the mobs that were in the long hallway, en route to the large room where I get to "Interrogate" Back Breaker. Once I got into the large room, everything was normal. Certainly not a big deal; but I was able to snag a couple bars of XP risk free.

I thought I might just zip to the end, and ignored the mobs in the hallway en route to the back of the map. I was taking more aggro than I could handle...forgot I was only level 16. Anyway, a lot of chaos and button mashing, and I got defeated. I chose to go to my base for a rez. Upon re-entry to the map, now the mobs are ignoring me. I scorch 'em and use combustion, they just ignore me. So...figured that's gotta be a glitch. No idea if it's reproducible or not.

If it was a snake, I would have been bitten or squeezed and eaten. Thanks!

In the picture, you can see my pet Recluse hit me! I guess one of the Seers confused him and it lasted all the way through the Mr. Yin and Penny Yin cut scene before she loses control of her mind to the angry Awakened.

Please don't sweat the pronouns on my account. Perhaps I'm not very good at communicating this issue. Eiko-chan and Rudra - both trying to be helpful are telling me this information is already in the game. I don't debate the information in the detailed tab. It is plain as day: But - I can only see this AFTER I choose the power. Not before. If I don't choose this power, I cannot see it. Thankfully, there are plenty of free respecs if the power doesn't suit my needs. I am told that if I type the power in brackets, I can get a link in chat to click on that displays it. The problem is - I still don't know if the information is accurate because of the inconsistency. It certainly looks like it's going to dish out more damage than the minimal damage the description mentions. In any event, I took the power and it works quite well with an Overwhelming Force damage/kb to kd.

So, I screwed up, I think. Or I'm on the verge of being a mad scientist. I made a blaster. A combo that I haven't seen myself. Rad/Mental blaster. I think mental is accurate, lol. Drain Psyche is not a toggle like other sustains. The trade off is really sick regen/recovery rates. But only for 30 seconds. After playing a brute for a bit, and then a tank, I'm not as concerned about going into melee as I probably should be. Seems like a natural thing to do for any character, from time to time, running into melee. How else would you use Melee AoE powers if not in melee? A player told me about "jousting", and I've been hit or miss on using Drain Psyche with this method. It will just take me more practice. But my rad primary...I love the looks of it. But there're a few quirks with it. Like the range of these attacks seem exceptional - especially after getting my feet wet with a Sentinel for 25 levels. I think I should have gone ice/mental, for some soft controls like Ice patch, let them bounce, and then drain psyche. Because unless it's a joust (which I'm just not very good at right now) there's a fair chance that I get stunned, or even defeated because it will take some time to get tough, weave and maneuvers running. I can't rely on drain psyche to keep those toggles running, either. The recharge on it just isn't that good yet. Maybe at 50, it will be super, but at 25, I've got to be judicious with it's use. Are there any suggestions as to other primaries that might let me take better advantage of Drain Psyche, other than rad? It's my intent to try them all, but it might be nice to have a few suggestions.

How humiliating. I'm apparently like a dog who returns to eat his own vomit. This has got to be the third time it's been suggested I check City of Data. My suggestion is simply for information from the game be consistent with itself. The idea that a player would reach a new level, then tab out and scope out information from City of Data is just ridiculous. I mean, it is a darn useful tool. No question. But it's still ridiculous. That information should be in the game for players to make an educated decision - at least, that's what I think. As a player base, we cannot continue to refer people to external sites for information. The game needs to have that information for players to see. The only reason it's acceptable at this point is because the game is free. (And thankfully, so are City of Data and HC Wiki!) I get that it's a volunteer staff. But using these sites as a crutch is only okay as a temporary solution, in my opinion.

Telekinetic Thrust, Mental Manipulation Secondary for a blaster. Which is it? Superior Damage, or Minimal damage? I recognize that respecs are easy to get - and that we have access to Brain Storm for a player to figure this stuff out without too much hassle. But...would it be a hassle to edit this power description one way or the other? Deals minimal damage in a superior fashion?

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So, maybe some of you smarter folks can use this as a teaching moment. I've seen things like this in my own combat log. So, I'm level 21, exemplared to 19. The Wolf Spider Assault in question is level 21. While the OP's intent is specifically about the amount of damage they took - some further explanation of what these kinds of messages actually mean, besides the obvious "they missed". Why does the 16.36 roll hit and the 80.89 roll miss? What do these numbers actually mean?

So, the test didn't take long. It's quite clear to me that vulnerability definitely works, and works well. At least against Wyvern. 3 shots vs 2 shots. Now, obviously, it could be that Wyvern don't have any kind of defense or resist, but I'm thinking that's unlikely. So, yeah, it's not useless - at least not when solo. I think there are just a fair number of harder targets where it's hard to tell if these kinds of debuffs do much.

I thought it was my alt, Wafer Thin Mint. Thanks for your gift of inf! I bought a crafting table with it and implemented a number of your tips and am a billionaire now!

So, I can't say it's worthless. (Level 20 now, by the way. Finally got out of praetoria, and suddenly I had to alt out for a noob friendly 1*lgtf and I've left that poor Sentinel idle since! But, back with him at the moment, and candidly, haven't fought anything tough enough to know if using it is actually doing anything. This is just my perception, but powers like this (and Interface) - I'm sure they do something, but without combat log checking, I'd never know it. The only characters I've played that I've ever noticed a debuff actually doing anything was the slow from Heat loss, sleet, ice storm and blizzard - (I tend to use all 4 if they're up, so could be just one doing it, or the combination.) And, an ill/rad controller handling a GM in PI solo. Cuz my pets just aren't going to do much without the debuffs running. Unless using power analyzer, that temp from start vendor - yes, the AV may seem like they're melting quickly, but it's tough to know if it's just some proc'd to the gills water blaster or some scrapper's getting some tasty crits in, or the debuffs allowing for the extra dps. It's odd. It's probably something you can't notice until you don't have it anymore. So, what I'll do is try not using it for a mission when solo and see if it makes a difference that I can see, assuming I can latch onto a story arc that will have me facing the same foes to make a fair comparison.

So, I recently made Mr. Creosote, arch-nemesis of Wafer Thin Mint. Started him off in Praetoria. And..I tend to like super speed, but I couldn't see him zipping around like that with his extra bulk. But...I couldn't see him flying or jumping around either. What I really needed was a motorized wheelchair, but don't have that option, so I left him without a travel power for 5 levels. Then a mission came up on the other side of the map. I just couldn't see me doing this for another 45 levels. So, I got SS and use prestige power slide, and imagine he's on a scooter.

Nice collection of information. I am curious about this "Master Brawler" in Super Reflexes in the Sentinel secondary. I looked at the formula on City of Data, and it seems to give some percentage of Absorb - the smaller the fraction of endurance/hitpoints, the better the absorb. But that's it? It doesn't protect against holds or anything like practiced brawler? It doesn't seem to boost those attributes when used, but my hp was close to 80% and my end close to 100%, maybe I've got to be closer to defeat for it to do something. No idea so far. I think it's possible based on the wording that it boosts the status protections that Focused Fighting and Focused Senses provide, but it doesn't boost those protections at all. 4.6 points of hold protection from Focused Senses. Since I can no longer take practiced brawler, I can't see what that does without going to brainstorm or doing a respec. I did notice maybe 60 pts of an absorb, and I'm sure that would improve once I get more hitpoints - as the formula uses the hitpoints and endurance in the formula to calculate how much absorb to give. But this seems like a power I should respec into later, and use practiced brawler in the early levels. Or am I missing something?