City Of Heroes: Kheldian Powers Thread Q&A with Geko!

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1.Epic AT. Inherent Link power (not sure if your keeping the name or what)
-First thing that comes to mind is "where's the buff?!"(like the BK commercial). I'm only talking about a visual element here. With out a visual queue is nearly impossible to tell what the range of this link is or even what type of buff you are getting.
Maybe you could use the tried and true leadership buffs but with a different color scheme, just a thought.
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Perhaps. Its easy enough to through the tried and true generic buff damage and buff dam resistance f/x in there, but that's no fun. We'll see if we can get a couple in there that don't get too busy and annoying.

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-Second question about this power. Is the magnitude of the buff(s) based on the level of the caster or the level of the person it is being casted on, or is it some sick and twisted combination of the two At any rate, any chance we could get some numbers on the actual buff values per AT? (ie. +Dam per scrapper=? ect you get the picture)
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Magnitude of the buff is constant. It is not dependent on the caster or teammates. Off the top of my head, its a 10% damage resistance buff and a 10% damage buff.

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-Third, what, if any is the cap for these buffs and are they stackable with each Epic. on the team? For example, you have a team of 4 Normal ATs, and 4 Epic ATs, does this equal 8 people getting the buffs stack x4?
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There is no cap other than you can not have more than 7 teammates. Standard damage resistance cap (90%) and the max damage cap (4 times your max damage), but these are in place for all buffs total (not just I-S Link).

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-Fourth, Controllers add a +res(status effect). What is the actual value for this buff per controller (-2, -3 ect)? Does this buff protect just the Epic. or is it a group buff(would like to see a group buff controllers would be the thing to have if they gave group status protection with an Epic) What is the maximum stack on this buff?
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Currently, its a Mez resistance. That is, it gives you 10% off the Duration of any status effect on you for each controller. So, 7 controllers will give you 70% off the total duration time. It does not offer "protection" (immunity) from such status effects.

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-Fifth, Do the effects of the other Epic Class' buffs effect you when in a group setting with normal ATs. You have stated that when 2 Epics team together they don't buff each other, but if you added a scrapper in with 2 Epics would all three be getting the buffs or just the scrapper?
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I don't understand the question, or you don't understand I-S Link. I-S Link only buffs Kheldians who are teamed with other non-Kheldians. Kheldians cannot bet a buff from other Kheldians with I-S Link, and I-S Link does not buff a Kheldians teammates.
So in your example, both Kheldians will get a buff from the 1 Scrapper (a buff to dam resistance if you are a PB, and a buff to Damage if you are a WS).

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-Do you intend to disallow the ability to cast non active powers in your normal form and then change into a different state? For example, casting buildup and then quickly changing into the Nova form. I will assume that the ability to cast a shield is a bug in the queuing system and that will be fixed but if you require all buffs to be off before you change using the dull pain power (forgive me I can't remember the name atm) to save your life then trying to change into tanker form only to be put on preverbal hold for 2min could be a hitch in your giddy up.
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The reported where you can cast a toggle shield while in mid shape shift is indeed a bug. It will be corrected.
However, the ability o cast click buffs on yourself and then shape shift is not a bug. I currently see no reason to change that unless we find it exploitive in some way.