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Atom Smasher, a PBAoE power in the Atomic Manipulation set, requires the character to be on the ground or close to the ground to use the attack. If you are too high when you attempt to use the attack, though, the game presents the message "Target in Air", and the power does not activate -- when it's you, not the target, that's in the air.

In the Cold Domination set for Corruptors, Snow Storm is described as a Targeted AoE power, affecting your target and targets around them. Heat Loss, which has the same icon border as Snow Storm, and also affects your target and targets around them is described as a "Foe AoE" power. The description text should be consistent with the power type.

Carnies spawn on the platform of the building E of Maylor, and on the W side of that building near its N end. E and a bit S, they spawn in the passage between the two buildings there, and on the pavement W of the grassy area where the Rikti stand around. Also on the E side of the high-tension tower by the AE building, and around the buildings for a few blocks S of that. The problem is that they share the spawn locations with Rikti, Nemesis, and Malta, diluting the chance of finding them at any given spawn point.

Harvey Maylor has three "defeat 50 Carnies" as part of his arc; one of them can be done in St. Martial, the other two are specifically in PI.

The other issue is that, even with defeat all missions where the last spawn would normally show, if it's a rescue as well, if you have one hostage to rescue, their guards don't show up under the 'last spawn' code, so I don't know if a "show all mobs" inspiration would work.

The size of the spawn you get for a 'naughty' result goes up with the size of the team you're on when you click on the present, with a full team required to have a chance of spawning a WL; I don't know if the team size you have set under Difficulty affects the size of the naughty spawn; I'll have to check. I do remember that one of the sources of WL spawns, both here and back on Live, was people running TFs seeing a present, clicking on it, and running if they got a Naughty result, leaving their mess around for the rest of us to clean up.

Someone reported in chat yesterday that they had paid the 25 canes to the Candy Keeper, but not received the badge. I took my character to the ski chalet, and succeeded in purchasing the badge. I was short on time, and couldn't check the AP and Winter Forest vendors to see if it was vendor-specific.

If you get a 'naughty' result, you get a spawn of snowmen, scaling with the size of the team you're on — that's how you can try to spawn a Winter Lord. If you get a 'nice result, you get a candy cane, a chance for a Present inspiration, and a chance for one of the special rewards — Snowball, a Jingle Jet, Instant Snowstorm, or Build Snow Beast. So you already can't get a reward if the mobs are standing.

I took up SWTOR after the shutdown, but started becoming disillusioned with the storytelling after I'd gone through all eight subclasses. The stories were engaging... the first time; looking down and seeing the rails each class' story ran on ground off some of the shiny, but it was still Star Wars... and then the old-school MMO design barriers became intrusive. My Jedi Knight can leap 80' straight up to attack someone, but can't leap a 20' gap if there's no enemy on the other side. Then there was my Trooper's first companion, Aric Organ, talking about his time as a sniper and making a 900-meter shot, while my Agent Marksmanship Sniper got an extra 5m range, giving her a whopping 35m maximum range on her attacks. And the map design, where your destination is literally fifty feet away from you, but you have to go a mile out of your way because there's a twenty-foot-high unclimbable rock formation between you and your destination. And then the devs gave up on class storylines, rolling everything into the one 'Outlander' storyline as you got pitted against Valkorion and his Eternal Empire of Zakuul. The group I was playing SWTOR with introduced me to ESO, and I've continued playing that (albeit hugely reduced since I found HC); it still has a lot of the 'restrict movement with map design' issues that MMOs that don't have travel powers like CoH impose, but I've found ways around some of them, and there's an entire subcommunity that seems to be focused around "how do I get there, when it won't let me go there?" But it has a lot of the open feeling CoH has, where you can ignore the main story line and go off taking side quests almost forever.

I got 'Home for the Holidays' when I logged on yesterday.

That's not true; I've watched presents respawning and the snowmen that were standing around it fall over and despawn, or come across a present with dead snowmen lying around. But it takes longer for the reset to occur than it does if the spawn is cleared (at least from my casual observation; I haven't done detailed timing to be certain).

This was happening back on Live, too. Part of it was that the spawns matched the level range of the entire zone, so that if you were level 10 or 11 and clicked on a present in the south end of Steel Canyon, you could get level 17 snowmen, and part of it was just laziness — click on the present, then dash off to the next;someone else can take care of any spawn. I always made a point of clearing spawns, including any runners, in order to speed respawn of the presents, but that's a personal choice.

That's close, but it's five of the same name buff. Luck of the Gambler is "Luck of the Gambler: Increased Recharge", and Shield Wall is "Huge Recharge Bonus", so you can have five of each. And you can have different sets that give, say, "Minor Smashing resistance", but they are different values because the sets are different rarities, so you can only use five of the bonuses.

Damage resistance is its own debuff resistance. So a Tanker with 90% Damage Resistance resists 90% of a resistance debuff, and your 25% resistance debuff becomes 2.5%, reducing their resistance from 90% to 87.5%, and your 100-point hit changes from a net of 10 to a net of 12.5.

Depends on the character and the concept. Both of my Seismic Blasters have a KB enhancement as the sixth slot in Meteor, just for the lulz in watching mobs go screaming off into the distance (the flaming comet of a destroyed Nemesis Jaeger is entertaining to watch), and to use careful positioning of the impact point to hurl mobs into a corner where other AoEs can more easily finish them off.

"Accept that my one interpretation is correct by definition, that there is no possibility of any other interpretation, including common usage, being correct, and retire the argument accepting my victory." Yeah, right. How long have you been using the internet? All of the people beating at rusty brown patches of dirt where a dead horse was pounded into powder years ago say differently.

Unless you actually believe that they meant "everyone and their mom" to be taken literally, then its canonical meaning as an exaggeration or hyperbole stands; your insistence that it can only be taken literally, popping like a soap bubble at a porcupine convention with a single counterexample, smacks of narcissism.

hy·per·bo·le /hīˈpərbəlē/ noun noun: hyperbole; plural noun: hyperboles exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

Or the "Rescue General Aarons" mission from Christine Lansdale's 'Mysterious General Z' arc. Following the tactics learned from rescuing Lady Jane, I always find the key to unlock the door, go back there and whack the (Nemesis) mob and get the glowie, and only then come back to whack General Aarons' guards, running up to him to get his "I can help you fight these villains" speech as the "mission complete" music plays.

It sounds as if what you're asking for is a subforum for discussion about creating particular effects with the costume creator — like the 'post your best costume' thread except that it's not just a showcase, but talking about how to use the different pieces and patterns to get specific results that doesn't have to involve the whole outfit.

All of the 'rescue the law firm from the Devouring Earth' missions (I think from Ginger Yates on the east side of FF) always leave me conflicted — on the one hand, you've got unprincipled, vicious monsters, and on the other hand, you've got the Devouring Earth...

As long as you can get the colors and arrangement to work for you, SG mode can up to double the number of 'costume slots' you have, with no time restrictions on switching in and out of SG mode. Of course, the colors are unlikely to work with all your characters and all their costume slots, so YMMV.

Is that in the grassy area west of exploration badge 7, 'Left Behind'? If so, they were doing that back on Live, too.

When the programming doesn't stray far from the script: [NPC] Zeus Class Titan: If anyone gets through, your career is over. [NPC] Operation Officer: If anyone gets through, your career is over. [NPC] Hercules Class Titan: If anyone gets through, your career is over. And in a subsequent spawn: [NPC] Zeus Class Titan: We must maintain a strong perimeter. [NPC] Hercules Class Titan: We must maintain a strong perimeter. [NPC] Hercules Class Titan: We must maintain a strong perimeter.

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