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There really is no good rule of thumb for how this works. Some enhancements, like -KB IOs, are considered their own set bonuses, and should work as long as you don't exemp below 3 below the level of the enhancement. Others, like most procs, are just considered enhancements on the power, and should work regardless of the level of the enhancement versus your exemped level, as long as you still have access to the power.

There was another one I really liked, can't remember the name naturally. Unlike some of them, it didn't really seem like a kid wrote it. Rather, it was more like someone intentionally wrote something ridiculous. It was when issue 5 was on the test server and people were trying out the new archery power sets; I remember the bio had something like "he was exposed to dangerous chemicals that made a quiver full of arrows grow out his back and he was like , 'wtf?'" Also Sing Sang Song, a classic. This image shows up when searching for "lesbian hellions coh" on Google, weirdly enough.

What are you saying? It says right there his name is Wonederful! Thanks for posting that. I'd hate for that piece of community culture to be forgotten.

This really upset me. The other day people were talking about how the new female Skulls will spawn with the old Skull Girlfriend NPCs, and that the lesbian Skulls were cool. I said it's the lesbian Hellions you gotta watch out for, and no one got the reference. Then it turned out even I couldn't remember the name of the character that had that bio. I couldn't find it anywhere. Anyone know?

I join a DFB with a level 1 character, I come out at level 7. I join another DFB with another level 1 character, I come out at level... 6? I join a third DFB with a third level 1 character, this time with a 2xp booster (and the understanding that some bug with XP boosters in DFB has been fixed) and I come out at level... 8. What's with the disparity here? DFB always has you fight the exact same number of baddies, so shouldn't the XP you earn be consistent? Why am I seeing it fluctuate so wildly?

Found another bug with the window scaling feature; in addition to messing with the scroll bar in certain windows window scaling is also to blame for a display bug in the badge window. Larger window scales will cause the progress bars for badges to be too large to fit in the window, while smaller scales will cause the progress bars to be smaller than they need to be to fit.

Both of these things were added by Paragon Studios.

Come on PK, we all know changing the basic numbers in powers is easy.

Not entirely true; they'll be pretty anemic in the teens through the mid-20s.

Or a Force Field Defender that skips most of the mobs, like I did the other day... *whistles innocently* PFF FTW! You're not allowed to click glowies in Only Affecting Self, though.

Street Justice for Stalkers loses Rib Cracker for Assassin's Strike. Would it be possible to get the animation and FX for Rib Cracker as a customization option for Shin Breaker? Both attacks have an activation time of 1.33s, so it seems like they should match up.

All TFs require only one player. And the Cavern of Transcendence no longer requires the glowies to be simul-clicked. But if you're thinking of soloing the Cavern of Transcendence trial, know that the spawns are still set for 8-players teams, so you'll need one heck of a tricked-out lowbie.

I want this too.

Unfortunately the proc makes the knockback enhancements of the rest of the set wasted, meaning that the official stance is they have to be condemned...

It was changed from selling to deletion for a reason. Something about too many enhancements causing respecs to fail; the patch notes are ambiguous. Regardless, I don't think the auto-sell is coming back.

They HAVE been buffed; on the Live servers they were pretty much all 5 merits each.

Also, does the Internet Archive version have any hotlinked images that were being hosted on external sites? The wayback machine version does, that’s how I got my avatar back. Thanks for doing this PK. I’m sure it’ll be a great resource if you can get it working.

Is that stuff you'd have had to do with the wayback machine download, too?

You can put multiple menus into the same file. In fact, I think you have to in order to have multiple custom popmenus.

If you're still using SOs at 50 you've overwritten more inf worth of SOs while leveling up than you're losing from not selling your level 50 IOs.

Sounds good to me.

Yes.

The tediousness of moving stacks? Also, it'd be great if the slider auto-slid to the stack's current capacity instead of us having to constantly adjust it to correspond to the particular stack quantity. The suggestion is to make salvage take up different amounts of inventory space based on inventory. What's that got to do with what you're talking about?

Well, maybe you're fooling yourself. Putting a different power alongside Serum might follow the letter of the Cottage Rule, but completely ignores the spirit of it. If those two IOs that Mercs can't use are so powerful that the set is strictly inferior for the lack of them, the IOs are probably the outlier and should be nerfed. And I don't think anyone wants the IOs nerfed. Actually I think you're unclear on the spirit of the Cottage Rule. The purpose of the Cottage Rule was always just to not leave existing players feeling bait-and-switched. As long as the original power remains and is not taken away from players who liked it, the Cottage Rule is respected in both letter and spirit. It never had anything to do with balancing. And what is the difference, exactly, to a player who wants Serum but knows it's bad, if the devs simply give up on it and put another power in its place, mutually exclusive with it? If that's the approach they take to add the utility to Mercs that Serum is failing to provide?

I just don't see the point. We can already be really big and really small. Why do we need to be able to be bigger or smaller? It would never be enough to satisfy everyone, someone would always want to go beyond whatever bounds are set.