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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. The damage buff is only one aspect of Serum, and it's a minor one at that. The main draw is that it halves the damage your Merc takes and gives them status protection, including to knockback.

"On last mission of Dr. Q. TF, selling spots for 2 mil each, send tell!"

I thought the idea was to make Serum good I don't think it's a mistake, that's the same recharge as on Unstoppable, Power Surge, Elude, et al. I think the idea was to give Mercs a grantable t9 defensive power. It just went through a few rounds of nerfs since it's ally granted, meant for pets, on an AT that doesn't typically have strong personal defense, etc.

There seems to be a bug with Dark Nova where if you customize the color, it results in an infinitely long beam of light stretching from the character to some point off the map. Observed with the Bright FX scheme.

They aren't, in fact, at least not redside. I already looked for them. The story has moved forward, but these TFs take place before that happened. There are numerous arcs with a disclaimer that they take place after the events of issue 23, there's no reason we can't have two with a disclaimer that says they happened before something.

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Anyone know how to edit the menu that pops up if you right-click a player in the world or by right-clicking their name in the Team or League windows? I want to add Get Global Name to it.

I keep zoning into new maps to find that the Friends window has opened itself. Not sure what other details to add, I've seen it happen on both missions and public zones.

In the mission "Stop the Blogger's Reign of Terror," a 40-50 Hero Alignment mission for Rogues, you need to save 3 heroes and then defeat a boss. However, if the heroes are defeated by enemy AoEs before being rescued, the boss will fail to spawn.

Spider's Bite only affects powers that do damage. Not affecting Surveillance is exactly what would be expected.

I did some snooping and found that the window scale is exactly the cause of this issue; the larger the scale of the window, the more of the bottom of the list in the window is cut off. Likewise, if you have it set to a smaller than standard scale, affected windows will let you scroll past the bottom of the list into blank space.

I suggested making it into a 0 endurance toggle with a 1 minute recharge rate. What part of that doesn't deal with the short duration and enormous recharge time and the uselessness of a pet? The uselessness would only happen when the toggle gets taken off... but that's only liable to happen when the pet is killed or between missions as team composition changes so... *shrug* Like I said, changing the buffs it gives doesn’t solve the problem it has. Your suggestion solves the actual problem, then keeps going and also changes what the power does. Why? That’s just changing it for the sake of changing it.

Changing the buffs that Serum gives doesn’t solve the problem it has. What it does is not the problem. The problem is that it has a ridiculously short duration for its enormous recharge time, and makes the pet you use it on useless for an equally ridiculous length of time, compared to its duration. All these suggestions to rework how the power functions at its core are missing the forest for the trees.

What exactly is the modern problem this would be solving?

If players don't read chat they don't really belong on hard TFs or trials to begin with...

This is what you said: That is what I was responding to. As for the amount of work it would take, the central conceit of the big red ball is that you attack it, and it goes flying off. There's nothing in the game that reacts to taking damage by getting knocked around, even if the attack has no knockback, so that code would have to be written and thoroughly tested. That, or they could give every single attack power a knockback aspect that only works when the power is used against a big red ball entity.

Except when my proposal is demonstrably within the abilities of the admins (See Super Reflexes on Sentinels for evidence), and doesn't take anything away from anyone, since the new replacement power would be optional. Whether it's technically possible is irrelevant, and no one said it was impossible. If you change one power solely to enable exploiting of set bonuses you're going against a cornerstone philosophy the game is built on. There is no reason Serum has to be replaced. I think you need your reading comprehension upgraded. No replacement needed. Player can choose Serum still. Either that or you don't actually understand the Cottage Rule. You're not fooling anybody. The Cottage Rule isn't the cornerstone philosophy being violated by your suggestion, it's the balancing of sets around IOs that is. You just want a power that can accept pet IOs to use as a mule for the unique enhancements. Saying, "Oh, but Serum's still there for anyone who wants it, it's not being replaced," is a distinction without a difference; just being able to slot those IOs in some alternate power, even if it was as useless as Serum, makes it no choice at all which to pick.

A big red ball is not a drastic change, it's just a lot of work for no gain at all.

Enhancement Catalysts are a special salvage. You can get them with merits, from the market, or as a rare drop from enemies at 50. You attune an IO by slotting it, then using the enhancement combining window to combine it with a catalyst.

This is why I was hoping someone who really understands the formula had already put together a calculator, because I don't think I can trust myself to figure it out on my own.

Except when my proposal is demonstrably within the abilities of the admins (See Super Reflexes on Sentinels for evidence), and doesn't take anything away from anyone, since the new replacement power would be optional. Whether it's technically possible is irrelevant, and no one said it was impossible. If you change one power solely to enable exploiting of set bonuses you're going against a cornerstone philosophy the game is built on. There is no reason Serum has to be replaced.

Yeah, it beggars belief that this command still doesn't exist.

That was true before the shutdown, though...

A history lesson for those who weren't there. As for doing it, it's probably no more possible now than it was back then. Yeah, they could do it with some work, but for what?

That was never entirely true, and I think is less so now. Hilarious example I noticed yesterday: Radiation Armor on Tankers has pretty meh baseline S/L resistance, even triple-slotted with IOs. It's better with Tough, but still only in the 70s. However, with both Tanker sets slotted and the proc active, it hits 90.00001 S/L resist. I'm pretty sure that behavior isn't an accident here. But even on Live, Synapse and Castle mentioned being conscious of things like permahasten when balancing sets. Being aware of things like perma-Hasten is one thing, but if we start balancing sets with IOs in mind, there can be only one result: nerfs, and tons of nerfs. For example, Permadom is incredibly powerful, there's no way it could be left alone. Softcap defense? Letting players hit in excess of 90% damage mitigation? That's where we were in issue 4, and we all know what that led to.