Roderick
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For Blasters, something that truly screamed "Defiance!" would fit. To keep it somewhat in tune with what's already there, I'd say that the proc should have a chance to trigger when a mez is applied, and if it triggers, it applies a short (2-3 second) break free effect and apply a strong +damage for the same duration.
Another Blaster option would be to put a passive effect on the slotted power, allowing it to be used while mezzed, just like the low level powers.
For Brutes, I'd say a useful effect would be achance for a short buff that prevents Fury from degrading.
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1 hour ago, Icecomet said:
Little does the poster realize that anybody that does taken hasten is making a power pool sacrifice by giving up an entire pool selection for 1 power.
Not necessarily. If you want stealth, and it isn't provided by your Primary or Secondary, Super Speed + Celerity: +Stealth is a great way to get it. And if you're already in the SS pool for that, why not get Hasten?
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On 4/9/2020 at 12:00 PM, Abysmalyxia said:
You're going to tell me that a player in "the know" who knows how to make a single power permanent, giving themselves a SEVENTY PERCENT universal reduction in recharge time for every single power they have isn't at a significant advantage over one who does not? There's no other ability in the game that carries that kind of influence, certainly not any pool power.
Someone else has probably mentioned this in the slew of replies I haven't read yet, but making Hasten permanent requires a LOT more than 70% bonus recharge, ON TOP OF Hasten's bonus.
Based on your justifications given, it would be more reasonable to ask for the removal of Set Bonuses; after all, most players can easily find room for five Luck of the Gambler +7.5% Global Recharge IOs (+37.5% recharge) and three purple sets (+10% recharge at 5 pieces in many sets). Literally any other +recharge set bonus pushes you over 70% global recharge, and you don't even need to worry about activating a power, or the endurance cost of Hasten; it's just always there. Prior to set bonuses, it was impossible to make Hasten permanent without relying on outside buffs from teammates, so obviously, the problem isn't Hasten, right? It's set bonuses. Or teammates. We should probably remove both from the game, just to be safe.
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2 hours ago, Lex Talion said:
To this day I'm waiting for that Underling to become an Underling (read: minion or LT) again, so Frostfire actually CAN freeze him, which he used to do.
He is, but only if you're set to have Bosses spawn as Lieutenants while solo. And actually are solo, of course.
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7 hours ago, Display Name said:
Then why does the cutscene skip when all players have seen it? Your point is invalid.
Newer cutscenes were designed with skipping in mind. Old ones were not, and would need to be rewritten from scratch to support skipping.
My understanding is that, if you were to skip an old cutscene, anything that was supposed to spawn in as part of the cutscene (such as boss fights and mission objectives) would not exist if you skipped too soon, and bosses with long animations (Like Frostfire's speech) would be locked in those animations and and unable to respond to players attacking them until they finished.
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15 minutes ago, Greycat said:
Wut?
What happened to Zack?
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17 hours ago, Obitus said:
My problem with the high listing fee prompt is that the threshold is too low; what is it, something like 200k? I always disable the warning immediately, because it's a nuisance. It would be fantastic if we could configure the threshold ourselves, or maybe there could be multiple thresholds out of the box.
That's why I recommended a slider: so that users can decide where they want the warning to be.
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There's a relatively simple solution: We already have a prompt that asks if you're sure before letting you list an item for a high listing fee. Just (Standard Code Rant applies, of course) add an extra prompt that warns you if bidding over a certain amount. If possible, add a slider, so that people can decide at what threshold to be warned.
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2 minutes ago, Maxzero said:
Achilles Heel proc does not stack in any way. So multi proccing that does not help.
The effects don't stack, but as far as I know, it still does apply the new debuffs on top of the old ones. This means that, as the (relatively short duration) debuffs fall off, the other copies are still there, meaning that the target stays debuffed. Even if it doesn't allow multiple applications of the debuff to be applied, the rapid reapplication means that the debuff will have relatively low downtime.
So, maybe not quite as good as the OP may have thought, but still a useful effect.
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52 minutes ago, Troo said:
Death's Stranger - avoiding defeat
(it would be crazy if there was a badge that could be lost)
There already is. Nine of them, in fact (Assuming that 1-9 Times the Victor still work the way they did on Live). That means that this would be a relatively low difficulty addition; most of the framework is already in place.
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42 minutes ago, Shocktacular said:
Is it possible to get the "Impounder" badge anymore (destroy 100 cars in mayhem missions)? I've been smashing cars left and right and STILL haven't gotten it... yet I have the "Force of Nature" accolade.
I'm confused. Please help.I'm going to guess that you're a Vigilante.
Certain badges are flagged Hero- or Villain-only, and while anyone can earn credit towards them, you don't actually get the badge unless you're the correct faction (Vigilantes count as Heroes, and Rogues count as Villains).
As to why you have Force of Nature without the prerequisites: Any power-granting Accolade is automatically granted when you have its opposite faction equivalent and switch sides. So you probably earned the Hero version, switched to Villain and got FoN, then switched back to Vigilante.
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13 minutes ago, Bill Z Bubba said:
I'm not sure that it's KB. It acts like repel. Does the KB->KD from Overwhelming actually turn it into KD?
It's weird. It's a short (0.5s?) repel, followed by a delayed KB. It should be converted to KD by the appropriate IOs, but the initial repel will be unchanged.
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Necrosonic?
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2 x (4.63 + 2.08), however, is 13.42.
It's a long-standing bug that conditional bonus damage, like the Fiery Embrace damage in your screenshot, gets included, sometimes even when the character can't make use of the effects that trigger the bonus damage.
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No. Bases are stored on the server, and there's no way* to save them and reupload the way you can with costume files.
*You can actually use a demorecord to copy your base, and in Paragon Chat (the mod of the game that let you use CoH as a chat program), you can load your base from that and wander around in it, but there is no way to move/copy a base from one server to another.
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Were you exemplared (ie, was the team leaderlower level than you)? IIRC, you don't get TO/DO/SO drops while exemplared, other than the guaranteed SO drop from AV kills.
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3 hours ago, Arc-Mage said:
Can’t you change the opaqueness of the map in the menu options?
You can change the opacity of ALL the windows simultaneously via the options menu.
I believe you can change individual windows by doing a /wdwsave, editing the appropriate entry in a text editor, then doing a /wdwload. I'm not 100% sure if alpha is stored per window in the file or not, though.
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22 minutes ago, Bopper said:
Can you give me some examples of the five stack rule? I don't know of any. The closest I can think of is Incarnate Interface where a target can be effected by a maximum of 4 stacks (combined from all players).
The Rule of Five, where only five copies of a set bonus (which internally functions just like any other power) is the most obvious one. There are various defensive toggles that count nearby enemies (like Invincibility and Rise to the Challenge), and apply a stack of buff for each; I thought these capped at 5, but checking Mids says 10.
I could be mistaken about 5 being any kind of magic number, but most buffs do have a limit of some sort. "Doesn't stack", "Doesn't stack from same caster", Maximum number of stacks, Can only be cast on teammates (and thereby effectively limited to 7 stacks), etc.
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10 hours ago, Bopper said:
Actually they do stack from the same user's power. I've seen it using a power analyzer. So if you only cast Shriek over and over again, however many attacks can fit in the 5 second debuff duration will add up.
There is probably a cap; it's very common for most things to be capped at five stacks of the same effect from the same caster (or sometimes just a hard five stacks, regardless of caster). As I recall, the Sonic Blast debuffs are fairly short duration, so you probably can't hit those caps, or if you can, only by deliberately attempting to do so.
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7 hours ago, Clave Dark 5 said:
Oh right, see to it that that image shows up twice in this thread. Way to go, Roderick.
It was already posted twice before I reposted it. 😄
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On 7/18/2019 at 3:55 AM, Golden Azrael said:
Hur!
On 2/7/2020 at 3:35 PM, SwitchFade said:hrrrrrrrr!
We have a cannon name for that taunt sound.
It is *Hoorb*.
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58 minutes ago, Frosticus said:
Will it protect me in the lava pools or not?
🙂
I don't think so. I think the lava pools are autohit.
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13 hours ago, Healix said:
*they can't hold a candle to Cyclops*
Forever grateful to be back in my city!
Well-placed sig there, @Healix.
Forever grateful to be back in my city!
Def vs Def I'm confused
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Usually, but not always true.
Each attack will be flagged with the types of defense that are valid against it. In general, these will match the damage dealt, but there are exceptions. Not many, because even before the game shut down, the devs went through and fixed most of them; the ones left were intentional outliers. For example, there are a few psionic attacks with no positional vector.
Also worth noting is that adding damage of a different type will not add an additional vector. For example, Fire Defense doesn't work against attacks buffed with Fiery Embrace or Reactive Interface, unless the attack was a fire attack in the first place.