bug, telling it to check for updates crashes it, renames the exe to exe.bak and when attempting to open it again it does nothing(even after removing the .bak extension).
Sorry about that. This version of mids is an outdated version. Clicking the button to check for updates won't work for it. It might eventually once I use a newer version that the Mids Reborn Team made, but no promises. I have to get the entire database fixed first and that alone is taking me a long time. Real life took up a lot of my free time that was supposed to be used for working on Mids.
« Last post by Joshex on September 14, 2021, 05:32:41 pm »
You know how with regular IOs if you craft so many of a certain level you can memorize the recipe (then you never need to buy it or get it as a drop again, just need salvage and meet the inf crafting cost.)?
Well, why not have some sort of similar situation with Inspirations?
Naturally because they are consumables we can't just have people able to get as many as they want. this means there would need to be some limits, maybe so many per hour.
Or better yet, back in issue 5 to 12 we had a "convert 3 to next tier of same type" ability in the normal conversion menu. I know I have already mentioned this and the mods here have thoroughly shot adding this back in down. However that was a request to add it back in as it was, that is to say any player can do it as often as they want to.
However now I am suggesting doing it as a Set of conversion badges and accolades as follows:
Respiteful (badge): Convert 3 small green to each of the other 8 types of inspirations 10 times each and convert each of the other 8 types of inspirations back to a small green 10 times to unlock this badge.
and the same for every other small enhancement that can be combined.
When you get all 8 badges: Inspiration Accolade 1: Once per minute instead of the normal inspiration combination menu [convert to other insp, convert to the same insp (greyed out)], you will have the option to upgrade any small insp you have 3 of to 1 medium insp of the same type instead of the greyed out option to convert to the same insp. this option will return to being greyed out after use each time with one minute between usages.
Next a series of badges for combining 3 medium insps of each type to each other type 30 times each!
When you get all 8 badges: Inspiration Accolade 2: you are now able to combine any medium inspiration you have 3 of to one Large inspiration of the same type once per minute.
Next a series of badges for combining 3 large insps of each type to each other type 90 times each!
When you get all 8 badges: Inspiration Accolade 3: You are now able to combine any Large inspiration you have 3 of to one Super inspiration of the same type once per minute!
At these rates it'd take you more than 39 minutes to create 1 super insp from an insp vendor's small insps. It requires conscious badge earning such as converting to types of insps you might not care to way more than you'd like. Could also make them sequential, so you need to get the small insp accolade first! can't just jump to gaining credit towards the large insp accolade.
in example Most people delete extra awakens because they clog insp inventory space (usually only keeping 1 at most if they have nothing better), so they never convert them to anything else or rarely do so, thus they could never earn these badges without consciously planning to do so or taking forever.
It'd take a bit of code to apply it, but more badges and accolades to earn makes for more fun. plus it'd be nice in a pinch to be able to convert 3 to a more powerful insp.
« Last post by Joshex on September 13, 2021, 07:09:52 pm »
bug, telling it to check for updates crashes it, renames the exe to exe.bak and when attempting to open it again it does nothing(even after removing the .bak extension).
« Last post by BradleyIFV on September 13, 2021, 01:23:33 pm »
Way back when Paragon Studios first announced power customization, I was hoping that we would get an alternate set of animations for many ranged powers, to have them come not from our characters' hands, eyes, etc., but from some type of gun or such (e.g., magic wand or staff).
Everything kept in mind regarding time and capabilities of our team, is this something that could be done? Would the same or similar animations work across a number of powersets?
« Last post by BradleyIFV on September 13, 2021, 11:38:46 am »
New to the forums - just got onto the server over this past weekend. Thank you to everyone involved in making this happen!
I was fairly active over on the old Suggestions forums and a series of posts I made in the old Lady-Jade's Powerset Suggestion Box was for assessing the powersets that were in play back when I started my work (late October 2008!). Basically I looked at what damage types (outgoing and incoming) were represented by any particular AT's options. For example, the first one I posted covered just Blaster primaries, which at the time included only 8: Archery, Assault Rifle, Electrical Blast, Energy Blast, Fire Blast, Ice Blast, Psychic Blast, and Sonic Blast. My assessment at the time said that Lethal, Smashing, and Energy were all fairly well represented; Fire just a little less so; Ice and Psychic had one set each; and Negative and Toxic were without sets. I called for Dark Blast to be ported over from Defenders/Corruptors (done), along with Radiation Blast (done), and then new sets for Earth Blast and possibly a Gadget Gun/Magic Wand (neither added). We did get Beam Rifle, Dual Pistols, and Water Blast, all good choices.
When I've got more time, I'd like to re-run those assessments for the current configuration and then look at what is still out there as gaps needing to be filled (by whom? IDK).
« Last post by retched on September 13, 2021, 01:49:46 am »
Welcome to Rebirth Issue 2: Paths to Power
During our Spring 2021 State of the Game announcement, we listen to the community about the challenging game grind and economic scarcity of salvage and recipes. In this update we work to address this in several ways. A common theme of the economy and grind overhaul is to reward players for engaging in multiple styles and areas of gameplay. This focuses on better rewarding players within a particular area of gameplay based on the theme or specialization in that area of the game. Here's what's in store.
Gameplay
Reward Merits
A sneak preview was released back in Rebirth Issue 1 Editon 1 where we significantly discounted many of the items in various merit vendors. For Rebirth Issue 2 we've standardized the discount at a 40% reduction from sunset costs across all merit vendors. In most cases, this means even greater merit cost reductions, though a few costs have increased. Expect the following in general:
On Live, three and four stat recipes often cost the most merits. Their prices have been standardized under the lowest costing recipe in their set and received the same 40% discount. Special or Proc recipes are now the only recipe worth more in a given set as previewed during Ri1e1. Their prices from Live are discounted and approach a 40% discount most of the time. This lowered the price of PvP recipes in the Empyrean Merit vendor. We added both Very Rare (Purple) Recipes and PvP Recipes to the Reward Merit and Astral Merit Vendors. Influence costs for recipes and enhancements received up to a 40% discount across all merit vendors. We removed all attuned enhancement purchase lockouts from vendors preventing players from buying more than 1 item every few days.
Merit Vendor Changes:
IO Recipe Type
Reward Merits Cost
Astral Merit Cost
Empyrean Merit Cost
Uncommon Normal
50 30
N/A
N/A
Uncommon Special
75-125 60
N/A
N/A
Rare Normal
125-165 75
16 12
N/A
Rare Special
200-220 125
32 18
N/A
Purple Normal
N/A 300 & 22.5m Inf.
N/A 90
40 12
Purple Special
N/A 375 & 28.125m Inf.
N/A 112
40 14
PVPIO Normal
N/A 400 & 30m Inf.
N/A 240
50-60 32
PVPIO Special
N/A 500 & 40m Inf.
N/A 315
60-70 42
Exemplar and Recipe Drop Improvements: - While exemplared, level 50 characters receive a chance for level 50 recipe rewards for defeating enemies. - Increased drop pool chances for Very Rare recipe rolls from 1% to 2.5%. Loot Boosters double the percent chances. NOTE: Chances of drops have not increased, just the odds of the roll being Very Rare within those drops. - Removed 20-hour lockout from Enhancement Catalysts drops. - Temp power recipe drops reduced 10x. Note: Does not affect Amplifier drops.
Endgame Content and Endgame Character Build Synergy
While completing endgame content we want players to also be progressing on their endgame character builds. Therefore we have included features that enable players to more easily accomplish both goals at the same time.
Astral and Empyrean Merit Bonuses
- Very Rare recipes receive a 2x bonus cost reduction. - Rare recipes receive a 40% bonus cost reduction (Astral Vendor). - All recipe lockout timers have been removed.
Incarnate Trials and Incarnate Content (Dark Astoria): - Endgame content receives a 2x bonus drop pool chance for Very Rare recipe rolls. Loot Boosters double the percent chances. NOTE: Chances of drops have not increased, just the odds of the roll being Very Rare within those drops. - Reward Choices for completing Incarnate content now offers a choice for a random Purple Recipe instead of Super Inspirations when receiving a Very Rare reward. - Added a recipe to break down Notices of the Well into an Uncommon Thread Material. - Added Shard Recipes for Tier 1 Incarnate abilities of Destiny, Lore, Interface, Incarnate, and Hybrid. - Team Member will now be granted progress on weekly Dark Astoria Arcs. This applies to Flashbacks as well. - The Dark Astoria contact, Gabriel, now rewards a Rare or Very Rare incarnate material in addition to Empyrean merits.
Dark Astoria - Increased mob experience by 25%. - Added a reward option to Ephram Sha and Maharaj for 2 incarnate thread's worth of iXP split between Physical and Psychic on first obtaining. It will then have a 20 hour cooldown in which you will only be able to obtain 1 incarnate thread's worth of iXP. This option also gives half of said value to Advanced Psychic (aka Hybrid slots unlock). - Arc Completion Incarnate Merit option increased from 2/1 to 4/2. - Changed chances of Astral/Empyrean Merits on Arc Completion Rewards from 80/20 to 60/40. - Taskmaster Gabriel now gives 4 Empyrean merits instead of 2.
"Master of" Task/Strike Forces Rewards
Successfully completing any Master of Task Force will reward 1 random Very Rare recipe. NOTE: You can only obtain this reward once every 60 hours for a given "Master of" completion.
Hamidon Origin Enhancements
Hamidon (The Hive): - The reward choice for defeating Hamidon has been increased from 1 to 3 random Hamidon enhancements. - The 24-hour reward lockout has been reduced to 30 minutes.
Seed of Hamidon (First Ward Zone Event): - Defeating Seed of Hamidon rewards 1 random Hamidon enhancement.
Alignment System and Merit Improvements
For earning alignment-specific merits, we want players to be reward with unique power-ups that virtually no other area of the game currently offers. Here's what’s in store for them.
- Hero & Villain Super Packs and Vigilante & Rogue Super Packs will be purchasable with Alignment Merits. - Vigilante and Rogue Alignment Merits have been added. Places where they previously earned Reward Merits will now earn Vigilante/Rogue Merits instead. This goes for Hero and Villains too, where Reward Merits were initially given instead of their own alignment merits. - One Hero, Villain, Vigilante, or Rogue Merit will be awarded during the first alignment change/reinforcement respective to the chosen alignment. - Hero and Villain Super Packs will cost 6 Hero/Villain Merits or 10 Rogue/Vigilante Merits. - Vigilante & Rogue Super Packs will cost 6 Vigilante/Rogue Merits or 10 Hero/Villain Merits. - Reduce the number of Alignment Tip missions to receive a Morality Tip mission from 10 to 5. - Public Fame points now expire in 20 minutes, allowing for faster progression. Note: These changes allow much faster side-switching for players to join their friends, earn alignment merits, or experience other content. To balance the reduced number of missions required to earn alignment merits, alignment vendor costs were returned to their sunset values.
Gladiator Merits and PvP Vendors
Lifelong PvPers can rejoice as we have introduced a reward system into PvP so that you can, if you so choose, work towards your character build entirely through PvPing. PvP remains the fastest way to earn PvP recipes and you can now earn any other recipe through the introduction of the new Gladiator Merit.
- Defeating a Player with Rep rewards 5 Gladiator Merits. - Defeating a player without Rep has a chance to reward 1 Gladiator Merit.
In addition to defeating players, Gladiator Merits are now obtainable for completing the following PvP zone events: - Bloody Bay: Shivan Pet Reward - 7 Gladiator Merits - Warburg: Code Event Reward - 15 Gladiator Merits - RV: Hero/Villain Reach 1k Mech Pet Reward - 50 Gladiator Merits
- Removed the PvP recipe lockout for defeating a player with Rep. Note: You cannot earn Rep from defeating the same player with 5-minutes. As is how Rep works. - PvP recipes received a 4x drop chance bonus for defaulting a player with Rep. - Loot Boosters double the chances that a PvP recipe could drop.
Inspirations Abound
Dual Inspirations have a very small chance to drop from PvPing.
Super Inspirations have a very small chance to drop from Elite Bosses and Archvillains in Incarnate Content.
Team Inspirations have a chance to drop while Teaming. The size and chance of these drops follow the game's natural progression/reward system.
Dual Team Inspirations have a chance to drop from PvPing while Teaming. The size and chance of these drops follow the game's natural progression/reward system.
And also... - Dual, Super, and Team Inspirations are now tradable. - Dual, Super, and Team Inspirations now last 60 seconds like all other Inspirations. - Added HotKey "C" to the Inspiration combine menu.
Souped Up Super Packs
We've reworked Super Pack rewards a bit to serve better rewards and require less in-combat "email" management. - Very Rare Cards now have a chance to reward a Very Rare Attuned Enhancement. This replaced the odds of a Very Rare rewarding another ATO. - ATOs have a much higher chance of rewarding in Rare cards. - Added BrainStorm Ideas cards. They come in three varieties: common (20x), uncommon (40x), and rare (60x). - Inspirations Cards have been removed in favor of the new in-game inspiration drops. - Other reward cards (not listed above) that overlapped in rarity from common to very rare have been reworked in lower tiers to make room for the Rare/Very Rare odds improvement. They should now appear in the common and uncommon card tiers in a more desirable pattern while appearing less to never in rare and very rare. Noteworthy exclusions to this are Reward Merits, Experienced, XP Booster, and Catalysts. These cards can appear in any rarity and have been excluded from the change. - Hero/Villain and Vigilante/Rogue Super Packs can be sold on the auction house like the Winter Super Pack. - Added icons to the Winter Super Pack.
Attuned Enhancements
Made Very Rare attuned enhancements received from Super Packs tradable. Added icons to Winter IOs.
Architect Entertainment Increased AE Ticket cap from 9,999 to 99,999.
Conversion Sets Added conversion sets for Very Rare Attuned Enhancements. Added conversion sets for Universal Damage Enhancements.
Gameworld
Striga Island:
Atmospheric update made to this unique zone inspired by the horror and war comics of the 20th century.
Task Forces:
Lowered the minimum Task Force size to 4 players. Task Forces with lower than 4 player minimums remain the same.
Vigilante and Rogue Alignment Vendors:
Vigilante Merit Vendor has been added to Kings Row
Rogue Merit Vendor has been added to Cap Au Diable
Gladiator Vendors:
Hero and Villain Gladiator Vendors have been added to Recluse's Victory, Warburg, Siren's Call and Bloody Bay
Powers & ATs
Guardian ATOs have arrived!
Guardian's Gift and Absolute Resolution are the Series 1 and Series 2 Archetype Origin Enhancements for Guardian. Each set features unique abilities tailored to the archetype that walks between Melee, Ranged, Armor, and Support. Here's some of what you'll find.
Guardian's Gift: Recharge/PBAoE Resolve UNIQUE -- No more than 1 enhancement of this type may be slotted by a character. This enhancement boosts the effectiveness of Resolve. While attacking the power slotted with this enhancement has a chance to trigger a PBAoE Resolve around the caster, even if the foe has not yet been defeated. Additionally, this effect stacks with other Resolve effects. This power effect can stack Resolve up to 4 times. Additionally, this enhancement reduces recharge time by X%. This enhancement can only be slotted by Guardians and may be slotted into any of their damage powers.
Absolute Resolution: Recharge/Chance for Energy Damage Bonus UNIQUE -- No more than 1 enhancement of this type may be slotted by a character. This enhancement gives the slotted power a chance to inflict moderate energy damage when you have Resolve. The energy damage from Absolute Resolution increases by 30% with each stack of Resolve on the caster. Additionally, this enhancement reduces recharge time by X%. This enhancement can only be slotted by Guardians and may be slotted into any of their damage powers.
Tanker Touch-up:
Tanks will now enjoy a unique aggro cap of 25 mobs, outclassing all other ATs in their ability to herd and hold aggro.
Tankers' inherent Bruising ability has been expanded to the second attack in their powersets as well, giving Tanks more option to use bruising debuffs on their foes!
New Power Sets:
Military Assault (Guardian): Your mastery of Military Assault allows you to destroy your enemies with brutal precision. Blast your foes with powerful attacks from your military grade Assault Rifle and pummel them with brutal close quarters combat techniques. Your attacks can also inflict a variety of debilitating effects on your foes, including stunning them, reducing their defense, knocking them down, or slowing their movement.
Ninja Assault (Guardian): Your mastery of the ways of Ninja Assault allows you to dispatch opponents with lethal grace, cutting down foes with the razor edge of your Ninja Blade and delivering death from afar with throwing knives. Your attacks often carry additional poison damage over time, and can also knock opponents down or reduce their defense.
Infiltrator Training (Guardian): You have superb training as an Infiltrator. Your intrusion skills allow you to deftly evade attacks and move behind enemy lines unseen, while your weapons training gives you mastery of a variety of debilitating tools and gadgets to wreak havoc on your unsuspecting foes.
Water Control (Controller and Dominator): You have total control over the power of water. Water Control grants you superior control over large groups and the ability to deal a good amount of damage to single targets. Your powers have a chance to inflict Drowning on a target, while under this effect, Deluge, Suffocate, Hypothermia, Turbulent Aura and Tidal Wave will deal more damage and these powers' secondary effects are enhanced.
Kinetic Assault (Guardians and Dominator): Through manipulation of latent energy present all around you, you create powerful blasts and forceful blows that can prove devastating to your opponents. As you manipulate this energy, you will accumulate Impulse. Each stack of Impulse grants you a scaling recharge buff. Impulse is also used to empower Disrupting Torrent, Kinetic Shockwave, Energetic Strike and Mass Driver.
Power QoL:
Energy Melee (Tanker, Brute, Stalker, and Blaster): Total Focus: animation has been sped up, reducing its animation time from 3.3s to 2.2s. This affects all player versions of the following powers: Total Focus, Tremor, Thunder Strike, and Incandescent Strike.
Stun has been changed to Staggering Burst, a new power with the following effect: - Now a Melee(AoE) power with 8' radius - Change Invention set category from Melee to Melee(AoE) - Smashing Damage Scale increase from .25 to 1.15 - Energy Damage Scale increase from .17 to .81 - Recharge change from 20 seconds to 16 seconds - Endurance Cost change from 10.19 to 15.19 - Guaranteed mag 3 stun on main target, 30% chance to mag 3 stun on AoE
Whirling Hands: Increased Smashing and Energy damage 20%. (Tanker, Brute, and Stalker)
Archery (Blaster, Defender, and Corruptor): - Rain of Arrows: Animation time reduced from 4.0s to 2.0s. Damage delay reduced from 1.37s to 0.67s. - Explosive Arrow: Damage changed from scale 0.6 lethal + 0.3 smashing to scale 0.3 lethal + 0.3 smashing + 0.3 fire, so that the power can now light Oil Slick Arrow.
Bomb Attacks (Blaster, Defender, and Corruptor): Force Field, Repulsion Bomb and Radiation Blast, Neutron Bomb: Unified both powers to use the faster Repulsion Bomb version of the animation, and corrected the erroneous mismatches between activation time and animation length for both powers. This shortens the activation time of both powers to 1.47s, and affects all player versions of these powers.
Explosive Shuriken (Blaster, Defender, and Corruptor): Scrapper and Stalker Weapon Mastery, Exploding Shuriken: Radius corrected from 10 feet to 15 feet and max targets increased from 10 to 16 - this power was balanced incorrectly relative to other APP TAoEs.
Power Customization:
New Alternate Animations:
Energy Blast - Energy Torrent Bright & Dark Shoulder Animations Bright & Dark Palm Animations Bright & Dark Ground Punch Animations Bright & Dark Stomp Animations Martial Combat - Eagles Claw Bright & Dark Face Smasher Martial Combat - Ki Punch Bright & Dark Ki Strike Martial Combat - Storm Kick Bright & Dark Gut Punch Bright & Dark Heavy Blow Electric Melee - Jacob's Ladder Bright & Dark Charge Bolt
Dark Blast, Dark Melee, Dark Assault, Dark Control, Dark Armor, Dark Miasma, and Dark Composition can now choose from the following themes:
- Skull Theme - Skull Alt Theme - No Skull Theme - No Skull Alt Theme - Soul Noir Theme - Soul Noir Alt Theme
New Emotes:
Dab (/e dab): A new pose for players to show off just how cool they are.
Stoic (/e stanceheroic3 or /e stoic):
Cosmetics
Asym Torsos Are Here for Female Characters!
This deep systems renovation has made it finally possible for City of Heroes player models to have asymmetric chest and hip patterns! Our intent was to design a system that is seamless with the familiar CoH character design experience. Every place you can set a chest or hip pattern you should now be able to access asymmetric chest and hip options.
Dozens of new asym specific patterns added to hips and chests.
All with left and right variants where appropriate. Many with matching top and bottom options!
Single Panel Tights for Females!
A longstanding request by many players dating back to Paragon Live servers, Single Panel Tights offers players a more modest, classic look for their female characters.
This new geometry has a full library of base textures, pattern masks, and carefully ported, conformed, and weighted chest details, including many familiar options.
Integrated Tights:
Rebirth Issue 2 introduces a powerful new tool, guaranteed to up your CoH costume game!
Integrated tights can be found within the base texture section of the chest and hips tights. The sub-selections allows for unprecedented control with these compound textures.
You can then use any pattern, symmetric or asymmetric, to decorate either the over garment or the undertights!
Full color control over the non patterned region of the texture!
Mix and match settings and choose from a wide library of integrated options to make your most sophisticated CoH costumes yet!
Bodysuits, catsuits, and unitards:
A renovation of the legacy CoH pants section has opened up a variety of new options for contiguous full-body outfits!
Jodhpurs and bell bottoms:
Pay homage to bygone eras with two new historically inspired lower body geometries, the golden age jodhpur pants and the 1970's bell bottoms!
Upper Body Details from Yikes:
Cross server costume artist Yikes has shared much of his work, including hoodies, off the shoulder shirts, blindfolds, and ninja wear that can be found throughout the costume library--including in a new category of upper body details now found in many chest sections.
What about Male and Huge characters?
You have no doubt noticed that Rebirth Issue 2 has a ton of new options for female characters. And we bet you are asking, "But what about male and huge characters?"
Fear not! These options are coming in future updates. Up next will be a full male asym revamp, complete with their own integrated tights, bell bottoms, jodhpurs, and more!
We're just as excited to see this system roll out to the other two character models as you are!
...but wait, that's not all! We have one more suprise in store.
Oodles of new emblems!
40 new standard chest symbols and a CoH first introducing 42 glowing and animated variants.
Glowing symbols can be found in their own subsection just after standard symbols.
Quality Of Life
UI:
- Power trays can be locked to their current numerical value. This does not affect their position.
Player zone cap - Max player cap for "The Hive" has been increased to 100
- Max player cap for "Rikti War Zone" has been increased to 75
Bug Fixes
- Blaster now have their 2400 stat improvements to Blaster’s Max HP and ToHit. - Winter Super Pack Candy Canes now reward the correct amount. (5 per claim instead of 1) - Fixed a bug that caused some Elite Bosses recipe drops to have an 8% drop chance instead of 12%. - Low level Vhazilok escort mission involving a doctor and his beloved fridge should now be complete-able (mission is usually assigned from one of multiple contacts in the 15-20 range). - Mayor Devito's copy of H.P. Lovecrafts "The Color of Outer Space" has been arrested for speeding. - Fixed Black Swan's costume. - Martial Mastery: Stalkers may now slot War Cry with Accuracy. - AH slash command should no longer be accessible from tutorial zones. - Player difficulty slash command should now only accept numbers within their expected ranges.
Power bug fixes:
-Blaster Darkness Manipulation, Touch of the Beyond: Now is correctly typed as a ranged attack rather than melee, and no longer ignores range buffs since it is a ranged attack. No longer accepts Blaster ATO sets, since it does not deal damage. -Blaster Electricity Manipulation, Force of Thunder: Now accepts Endurance Modification and Healing IO sets. -Blaster Fire Manipulation, Cauterizing aura: Now accepts Endurance Modification IO sets.
Blaster Devices: -Web Grenade: Now accepts Slow IO sets. -Field Operative: Now accepts Endurance Modification IO sets.
-Blaster Ice Manipulation, Frigid Protection: Now accepts Endurance Modification IO sets. -Blaster Mental Manipulation, Scare: Now is correctly typed as a ranged attack rather than melee. -Defender, Corruptor, and Mastermind Traps, Web Grenade: Now accepts Slow IO sets. -Medicine pool, Injection: Now accepts Tohit Debuff and Accurate Tohit Debuff IO sets. -Presence pool, Pacify: Now accepts Endurance Reduction enhancements. -Scrapper, Stalker, Brute, and Tanker Bio Armor, Parasitic Aura: Now accepts Endurance Reduction enhancements. -Scrapper, Brute, and Tanker Radiation Melee, Irradiated Ground: Now accepts Defense Debuff enhancements, Defence Debuff and Accurate Defense Debuff IO sets, and ATO sets. -Scrapper, Stalker, and Brute Broad Sword, Scrapper and Brute Katana, Stalker Ninja Blade: All defense debuff effects now correctly have a 100% chance to trigger instead of 99.8%. -Scrapper, Stalker, Brute, and Tanker Electric Armor, Lightning Reflexes: Fixed missing jumpspeed and jumpheight slow resistance. -Scrapper, Stalker, Brute, and Tanker Super Reflexes, Quickness: Fixed missing jumpspeed and jumpheight slow resistance.
-Arachnos Soldier Training and Gadgets, Mental Training: Fixed missing jumpspeed and jumpheight slow resistance. -Arachnos Widow Widow Teamwork, Mental Training: Fixed missing jumpspeed and jumpheight slow resistance.
Controller and Dominator Wind Control: -Wind Shear: No longer accepts ATOs, as it does not have any mez effects. -Wind Shear: Corrected endurance cost to 1.04 end/s (Dominator only). -Breathless: No longer accepts slow IO sets, as it does not have an enhanceable slow effect.
-Blaster, Defender, and Corruptor Beam Rifle, Overcharge: Fixed the erroneous damage delay on this power.
-Scrapper and Stalker Mu Mastery, Zapp: Damage significantly increased; this power was unintentionally doing much less damage than it should have been.
« Last post by Kismet on September 10, 2021, 04:53:48 pm »
I decided to test the Absolution Resolution proc again and it's still giving out wild results.
Just playing normally against large spawns of mixed +0/+1 Council from a paper mission I recorded 20 damage proc numbers that ranged from 107.8 damage up to 513.47!
Mind you, the proc seems to fire as often as the proc formula allows (I believe that's 90% chance). I've slotted the Absolution Resolution proc in Tremor (once more, I love the faster animation... would love to see all the breath attacks trimmed a half-second or so, as well). I use Tremor after I've fired Fissure (which houses the other Guardian ATO proc for Resolve stacking) The vast majority of the damage numbers I saw were in the mid 200's, so that's rather a lot of damage to attach to whichever AoE you prefer.
The average of the 20 numbers in my little set was 280.32.
While the average damage yielded from a proc that seems to fire as often as the game will allow seems a little high to me (assuming you have stacks of Resolve, which are granted at the same generous rate by the other Guardian ATO proc). Really, though, I'm more concerned with how wildly variable the damage yield is. I had 4 damage numbers in the 400s and 4 damage numbers in the 100s... that's a huge range... making me wonder if something that should be added is being multiplied, instead.
Working only from the brief text descriptions (i.e. not seeing the actual numbers for either of the new ATO procs) I can't make any sense of this extreme variability that was abundantly obvious to me from casual experimentation.
I'd appreciate it if someone who can look at the math behind this proc checks it out and either fixes what's off or explains why it works the way it does (and why it's intended to be so variable and potentially game-changing).
Otherwise, I'm happy to finally have ATOs for my Guardian(s), so thanks for all the hard work!
« Last post by Joshex on September 08, 2021, 05:25:24 pm »
3 more Ideas;
Purchasable inventory space in any inventory; salvage, recipes, enhancements, Inspiration tray, WW/BM, Vault storage, AE custom story slots, Take away lots of free character slots. leave us with 10 or less free on every account, the rest cost inf. same with renames. In addition while each slot costs a billion inf, they also require upkeep to continue to access the items in those slots on a per time basis.
Idea 2: while not a traditional Inf Sink/Dump idea, it has the same effect by different means;
Open up the pawn shops
this was an idea for Project Bane, it was meant to take drops that people dump/delete or that would have dropped but a player had no inventory space to accept it. These Items default to the pawn shop inventory, where they sell for either 3x the highest sale price in the market, or the inf cap if it would be higher than that.
Originally the idea was to sell it in the pawn shop for 3x it's shop sale price, but purple recipes back when we could sell them had fairly abysmal resale value to vendors, the goal was to provide players the chance to get a purple for cheaper by hanging out and browsing the pawn shop. but yeah it can easily be an inf sink if the prices are high enough. it also fixes the whole "there are none of this recipe on WW at this level" problem. alternatively rather than the game figuring the price, devs could set it and revise it periodically.
Benefits to players: all those missed drops and accidental deletions are available for purchase on a small server this provides a wall of recipes for sale that otherwise wouldn't be.
Benefits to inf sinking: the money is not being paid to another player. the game is just eating it in massive chunks.
Idea 3: [Temporary Power: Over-Powered] Toggle: self +def 50%, +res 50%, Accuracy +4.0, Tohit + 100%, Damage +1000, Status effect protection and resistance, + speed, -Rech (20 global), End x2, +recovery 1000%, +regen 1000%, + Perception 200%, HP x2. -1,666,666 inf/sec, 100 mil/minute, 6 bil/hour. no value in PVP.
Description: "Inf = Power. You were granted a power with this note on it. You have no idea where it came from but turning it on put a major hole in your bank account. better think twice about when to use it"
« Last post by ElBee on September 08, 2021, 12:32:48 am »
Here is an overview of our future plans.
First is the scheduled release of issue 2 "Paths to Power". Included in the update is more costume options, tanker and power adjustments, an economy rework and more. It it scheduled to release on September 12th.
With the release of Rebirth Issue 2, we will be removing developer's choice from the fire farm activities listed in AE. This was a stop gap measure to help boost the economy. With upcoming changes to the overall method of acquiring enhancements and recipes we feel it is no longer necessary. Please understand that we are not removing these arcs and are merely removing the additional rewards on them. WE ARE NOT BANNING FARMING OR TAKING ANY MOVE TO MAKE IT HARDER. You will still get XP.
Summer Blockbuster is currently planned to end on the 19th of September.
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