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Are you getting that from detailed info? Because it isn't an any iteration of the info available on Practiced Brawler. EDIT: AH! I figured out the confusion. I will add you are right on the confuse only. It only requires the toggle. If you are reading from City of Data, please note that the 50% movement resistance, the 30% recharge, tohit and base defense resistance are only for PvP (mouse over the black and white person icon on the left, PvP information is not on the right unless explicitly stated in description). On live you can see this if you click [Practiced Brawler] detailed effects and toggle on PvP effects. For general gameplay, there is zero reason to take practiced brawler. I stand by that and will amend the previous post about the confuse protection. EDIT: There were multiple edits here to figure this out -- I will say @Without_Pause, I do agree with you, the text could be better. I find even on recent sets like Marine Affinity, some of it could do wonders if written better. Even some of the old text on the Homecoming Wiki is just ripped from Paragon Wiki. It can confuse new players. Or players that aren't CoH nerds like us.

So I went back to check (on live) too since I didn't remember also. You may not believe this, but [Master Brawler] is superior as long as you have [Focused Fighting] & [Focused Senses] (ranged and melee def toggles). These are tier 1 and 2. Text to reference in the MB description: "Owning this power will also improve your Focused Fighting and Focused Senses powers." These powers provide all the protections of [Practiced Brawler] in magnitude... in addition also provide confuse protection in [Focused Fighting]. ---Never pick practiced brawler as a sent, lol. Or lose an absorb and confuse protection, as well as your auto-click for a power. Anyway, hopefully that helps Troy. List below to help. Everything in normal white text is shared between [Practiced Brawler] & [Master Brawler] w/ appropriate powers at level 50. 10000% Knockup Resistance 10000% Knock Resistance 10.0 mag Knockup protection 10.0 mag Knock protection 8.30 mag Stun protection 8.30 mag Hold protection 8.30 mag Immobilize protection 8.30 mag Sleep Protection 8.30 mag Confuse protection -- focused fighting w/ [Master Brawler only] You only need to take [Focused Fighting] the protection and toggle it on. No other prerequisites. All data from real numbers in the character creator on live at time of posting. EDIT: You get the confuse protection from just toggling on [Focused Fighting], please see @Without_Pause for pointing this out below. There still is no reason to pick Practiced over Brawler aside from PvP. As they provide the same benefit as long as you have those two toggles on. There is a fringe case, where you want to stack the protections if you can recharge fast enough, but I have yet to see it in my years of playing.

I do believe your argument is valid, and your build is valid. EA does have a Psi hole though. It is true. Not strictly, just true. But as with anything in this game. You can build to help with that, yay CoH! Your anecdote proves that if it is also true. I know that Troy is not newer player, so he may have gleaned this off your post. Newer players may not! But you never know, Troy once tried to send me 800 mil for some enhancements via e-mail, and sent to the wrong one. I'm only bringing that up because I never want to let him live that down. It is helpful information to let OP know that they may need to build for Psi because there is a factual, Psi hole in the armor set! Success with Psi late game stories likes yours are a testament to that. Just never expect Energy Aura, as an armor set, to fully see you through Psi territory. Though to be honest, I do love the Psi/Tox protections they added to most armor. Now if we could see that for Thermal Rad and Sonic Resonance 😞

I'm just going to throw out a couple of ideas that I have experienced and seen in help chat as well @Momo_Arasaka (I also very much appreciate that you have done search-fu to find your issue on the forums (really love that)): 1. Talos is a Static Zone map--Atlas map tends to get reloaded for the holiday events. Halloween event (Halloween Atlas) is active. This tends to compound if you have any map add-on installed, like Vidiot Maps. Since the Halloween event ends tomorrow (today 11/5), see if this issue still remains after reset this coming morning. It may resolve itself today. 2. Hinted at above, map add-ons can sometimes cause funky things and may need a re-install, or to install the correct holiday map. If you do not have one, try re-verifying files. 3. If you are experiencing this on other non-hazard zones aside from Atlas, see if you can get a list of which zones it's affecting for you! That would be helpful. Hopefully #1 is the case. Atlas Park is special during Halloween and Winter. Maps in particular go old-school. EDIT: If #1 is the case, you may see the same thing again when the winter event starts in a month.

For SR, I'm not sure of anyone that really takes the click anymore. It's one of the few sets that has the "one or the other". Unless you are looking for extreme mez protection. Troy, if you take Master Brawler in Super Reflexes, it adds mez protection to your toggles. While adding absorb. It's probably the cheatiest set, while also being the least engaging Sentinel secondary I've experienced. It plays differently and feels much stronger than the standard Super Reflexes. I can't speak to anything else but Ice Armor for Sents. I do know one of the GMs prolifically hates and claims Ice Armor (for Sents) has one of the worst powers in the game (the power is the Energy Absorption adaption). Mine isn't leveled up fully, but I had fun. Didn't feel particularly powerful though. I've only intermittently explored Sents, and just getting back into them myself.

As you know, @Owl Girl's legal team thanks you for providing them with explanation and material for your deposition summons. Please expect topical questions to address why the chance is non-zero and why the limit does not exist. @Owl Girl's alternative character names are of extreme importance, and under strict, legal protective scrutiny. Please respond within the next 60 seconds or we shall file a motion that the character name "GM Crumpet" be surrendered to our legal firm for collateral until this matter be resolved. 🤓🤭

Yeah, a lot of mine have to do with food or colloquialisms like... "Sidewalk Schlepper" or "Turmeric Tamale" They all have remained. And I'm curious to see if / when they ever get taken. So I'm actively not logging in on those characters. Call it academic. The only name I wanted was Marsala. Because I had it, then swapped servers for a day 4 years ago. And it was taken. Still unavailable 😞 (If you don't know the word Schlep: intransitive verb - to proceed or move especially slowly, tediously, awkwardly, or carelessly while carrying or transporting an item. Ex.: We schlepped our luggage through the airport. -- It's Yddish (Jewish) in origin, but funnily enough I've only heard it in the US South about people carrying their groceries in my travels).

Just one. If a woodchuck could chuck.... Lol but seriously. I have never heard of this halloween pigg pack. Maybe next year I will have a chance to try it out.

Thanks for the well-written guide. Unfortunately, I didn't find the answer to my question 😞 But to clarify, I was talking about the decorative pumpkins. As someone has mentioned, ones on the ground can sometimes be hard to tell if they were undisturbed. Especially on sidewalks with a pedestrian root. I try and find ones on roofs if I can.

Apologies -- I should have said this is a given. With Unseelie cleared. I love and agree with your comment.... but what does this do to answer my original technical question. EDIT: And for the record, when the unseelie aren't cleared the undisturbed pumpkins remain. Do not let this post dissuade you from the main point is @Glacier Peak is in bad faith here. It does not address my question, just is a weird post. If you are to provide information, please provide context. Left confused.

So, before the event ends, I finally received an in-game e-mail telling me that I was wrong about Halloween monster spawns. They claimed to have been backed up by @GM_Manga in-game---all I want to know is the information I have been working off of for 5 years has been wrong. When a Halloween monster spawns, they have a lot of pumpkin patches around. I have been told, and in my experiences, the undisturbed pumpkins de-spawn when a new Monster spawn appears somewhere else in the zone. Is this false information? Or is someone just trying to bravado me? From personal experience, I've always found it true.

I will endorse the AoE immob theory here. However, I will also put forth, that they will draw a lot of aggro without adding much on an ITF. The ITF was designed to be specifically punishing to control types.... for whatever reason. Just a blanket protection. See the Centurion "Break Free" roar that indiscriminately neutralizes control of any kind.

I will say, you should only care about a few names! Maybe even a roster that fits on one page (what's that like 10?).. But you shouldn't expect your Electric/Electric blaster to get "Shocker", without some sort of Fr34ksh0w modification: SH0ck3r A lot of my names haven't been taken... because they are poor silly things like "Blooming Magnolia" or "Bruce with a Widows Peak"... silly names but fun characters. Altitis is the crux of us all.

Again my apologies, I made it quite serious didn't I? All this fuss over a reminder. It should be simple, but this is the internet. No, Ukase your character is not in question. I apologize.

41-44 would make sense. The character I briefly started the arc on test was within that range. I wasn't able to read much through the last testing cycle, so I missed this being an issue.

No worries, friend. I myself get overzealous and overpassionate when I need to distract myself... and am also in my busiest time of year. EDIT: -- Edited to add that while I still believe in the good communication, I went a bit overboard here.

Thanks for the support, Locke. I really appreciate it and originally made a post here (hastily) because I felt the update wasn't communicated enough. Pushback happens on any forums. If you look at @lemming and anyone that 'emojiied' their post, you will find people that have been active in many facets on this forum at least 8 times a day (except for one). My post was not for them, and asking for those that may not read the forum more than once every two weeks. The name release is a big change that affects everyone. While they may like to make jokes about reminders and like those posts, the Homecoming team did what I was being made fun of for by @Ukase and @lemming. I would never want to be associated by proxy for being jaded at just saying "Hey! This is happening! We are a volunteer team and doing due diligence!" -- I am very discouraged at the pushback I received, and never also got a good reason for why my request was wrong. All I got was bad faith sass, and veteran forum-dweller non-likes. Even being argued against, when the current volunteer homecoming team did almost what I requested. Not like I was the messiah. Hell no. -- If I was in bad faith, I could say that Lemmings was calling the volunteer devs *Jack waving a sign*, because that comment was made after the reminders went live. **Example of how a reminder is offensive as explained I just want to point out, it is such a simple thing. Why do prominent, long-standing members of the community have to shut it down? Pride? Clearly in the wrong too because IT HAPPENED. You are better than that.

I don't believe there are. Each shard has their own name database as far as I am aware.

Alright, so I didn't have this problem on test. I could start her arc no problem. I couldn't finish or provide feedback because work got intense... But tonight, both myself (46) and a friend (47) tried to start her arc naturally. It did not work, whether walking up to her or recommendation. We eventually just did it through Ouro. If anyone can replicate this, please reply!

While I don't totally disagree with you, I would like to point out that reminders in a feed(RSS)-like announcement system bring items to the front / top of the page. It is 101 website communication about visibility, getting your article seen.. Google algorithms about updates... Just as more people on the forums will see the last responded to post in a sub-forum. We've actually had a close to a record amount of announcements on the launcher in a short amount of time in Homecoming's lifetime this month. And some of those announcements aren't small in space due to images. The hyperbole here is a good and funny one, but ultimately doesn't add anything to the discussion but apathy and dismissiveness. We can just agree to disagree. I really wouldn't discount the merits of visibility in the CoH forum / announcement structure for something that affects every player. I simply saw (what I thought) was a gap, and tried to be helpful. Even logging on tonight, I see people in server-wide channels asking about this change. Maybe that was the reminder, maybe not. None of us have concrete evidence of that. Of course, there are plenty (active) who will not see this announcemen, that's just a given.

I, myself totally missed it. Didn't scroll down. Reminders are always a good thing though for important items. I find that is good management. Others may disagree with me.

I don't get some of the frustrated pushback here. When I made my request, this information was not even on the launcher. You can see it was added this morning, October 29th, 2024. My request was because this information was nowhere else but the forums despite having other official channels of communication where you'd expect update announcements. The reason I requested an announcement in-game was just because the name release was only a few days away. I should have highlighted that it was not on the launcher. I chose my sub-topic poorly, miscommunicating myself (the irony). It also appears the GMOTD was pushed on next login starting from this morning. That now also has the name release on it. That's all I asked for in good faith... using good practices in communication to the community. Historically updates to the game do not happen during holiday events. The name release is not a major content update, so people tend to only be concerned with Halloween event at the moment, which IIRC ends after the name release. EDIT: I would also like to say since the launcher has been updated and GMOTD has been pushed, I am seeing people ask questions about it in help and general already. Thank you devs for pushing that forward.

Is there any chance that the donation or maintenance "admin account channel" can announce this a couple times this week IN-GAME for the non-forum trolls like myself? I appreciate the work that has gone into this, but for this one deadline that seems appropriate. Again a good thing you are doing, but I can only see benefits for creating conversation about the name release throughout the week--if manpower allows. No need to respond to the post, but I hope you can talk about it internally. Almost all of my friends do not read the forums, or the text on the launcher.

Thank you for doing your due diligence. I remember I do have a few issues with the study, not to undermine the amount of data collection. There are some good results here too But nonetheless--always cite if you are going to call people ignorant. It only helps you: As someone that has had to reply to everything in this thread, please be kinder to your fellow forum dwellers. And do your part if you care that much about brutes. Your "on the offense" posts did nothing to bring me to your side. If this was supposed to be persuasive, I was turned off quickly. I invite you to change tactics from being "right at every turn" a little bit. EDIT: I want to edit, I do think plenty of what you said has merit, and by no means was I trying to shut you down or be malicious. My criticism is of your approach. I love it when people succeed and I want that. I love when an argument can change my mind. It is often an extremely difficult task to do just that in this post-modern internet era. I do realize my post here was a bit too "focused" on you. My apologies. I am all for correcting the record where I can. Thanks for your understanding. @Erratic1

I've observed similar occurrences. I have not cataloged them. That's why I asked, and glad someone else can say something similar.