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Written on October 17th, 2009 by Skip Cocoano shouts
Grah! It would seem the honorable Skip Cocoa has Parkinson’s Disease of the Mouse. He can’t touch a mouse without sporadically twitching at random buttons and hitting the back button while typing out long walls of text that he hasn’t had the honorable sense of saving recently. Let me advise that you not buy a “gamer mouse” if you can’t touch it without tapping mindlessly at the extra buttons at inappropriate times. They do things. Things mortals were not meant to have power over. Now, on to business.
With the new Bloodmoon event on its way, the biggest talk is about the new Celestial power set. It’s a big one with lots of powers, and since they’re up on the public test shard, we’re gonna have to take a look prior to their live release. To facilitate this test, yours truly, the honorable Skip Cocoa, has found and donned an ancient, divine artifact to temporarily become The Radiant Skip Cocoa! Behold!
Sexiness has never known such a righteous master. It’s a near shame to be going back to my less divine but still sexy self on the live servers. Now, to the matter at hand.
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Written on October 12th, 2009 by Skip Cocoaone shout
Today’s question isn’t directed at yours truly, but comes from the CO forums, though you’ll here it echoed there many many times in various ways.
Malkior writes:
I’ve got A question on stats and how they relate to powers.
According to Characteristic Focus powers are based on stats. as it states things like “It will also increase the efficacy of your powers based on your total (stat)”. So I look at my powers, mouse over them, but it does not say what states they are based off of. So I look at my stats, but it does not say what power types the stat effects. So how can I know what effect what and how? thank you.
Sound familiar? Sure does, because we answered that in our last What the Flip, Skip.
But there’s more. After the friendly Nogitsune covered the matter, Cale_Knight goes on to say:
Some kind of master list detailing what powers use what stats for scaling would be immensely helpful.
Hark! Mine ears doth ring. It certainly would, Cale. You didn’t state your answer in the form of a question, but we have marvelous parting gifts for you. Crank up the feed!
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Written on October 11th, 2009 by Skip Cocoano shouts
A lot of us tried it. We tried out a few powers. We got to about level 5 or 8 or so and tried slotting a defensive to help keep us alive. We then rushed head-long into the largest mass of henchmen we could find and watched to see if/when we died. Regeneration gets a lot of love, because at level 8, it makes you a god. Invulnerability gets a lot of praise, because it soaks up those barrages of henchmen attacks, making them a cake walk. Then we tried Lightning Reflexes and died. lol@LR. u sux.
And you never tried it again, did you? While slow moving children in Canada go without. Shame on you. But not today. Today, we dodge with great honor and awesome.
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Written on October 10th, 2009 by Skip Cocoano shouts
Here, we got a transmission from Fire Angel Bunny:
What the Flip, Skip? You’re seem to be a knowledgable, handsome, well-weathered hero who’s knows his way around making a good hero. Could you please explain characteristics to me? I just don’t get it. I have a fire character (obviously), and I don’t know which characteristic adds to my fire damage or what upgrades and talents I should be picking. Help! Save this poor bunny!
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