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Theus · Apr 10, 2007, 03:14 PM // 15:14

Cracked Armor..a condition..?

What?

Alleji · Apr 10, 2007, 03:15 PM // 15:15

Please tell me this isn't hard mode. It's about as retarded as turning the whole game into DoA.

Arduin · Apr 10, 2007, 03:15 PM // 15:15

'you gain 45 max health' will insta-kill you...it's not +45 max health. Looks a bit like a suicide bomber to me

Traveller · Apr 10, 2007, 03:26 PM // 15:26

Flame temple corridor Charr skills, I'm calling it now.

Someone posted this build in Aspenwood earlier, it left me a bit "What the...?" (they were trying to say these are GW:EN skills).

If this is hard mode, they surely weren't kidding about it being hard. Puts DoA to shame.

zwei2stein · Apr 10, 2007, 03:27 PM // 15:27

Some wiki research found this:

http://perso.orange.fr/julien.moriss...nirecapgos.JPG

theese look outdated (old Beta unatural signet) ... however ... BAMPH! dev instakill skill... on live server? I though Gaile told us that this stuff is not on live servers. sigh.

FlameoutAlchemist · Apr 10, 2007, 04:01 PM // 16:01

I'm seeing a lot of panic here. First of all, we have no idea how the person that the OP got this from got the code. It sounds to me like he probably just strung a bunch of characters together based on the Base64 that makes up the template system. Even then, there's no monsters that I'm aware of that even use one of these skills. Heck, we have no idea if even just one of these skills will be incorporated into the game, GW:EN or otherwise. Personally, I seriously doubt that Anet would be silly enough to give one monster all such skills.

I think it's irresponsible for any of us to flame Anet for anything at this point based on this, for the simple reason that the code comes from an unknown source who obtained it from an unknown means and distributed it for an unknown reason, most likely to cause problems.

lyra_song · Apr 10, 2007, 04:06 PM // 16:06

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Originally Posted by zwei2stein

Some wiki research found this:

http://perso.orange.fr/julien.moriss...nirecapgos.JPG

theese look outdated (old Beta unatural signet) ... however ... BAMPH! dev instakill skill... on live server? I though Gaile told us that this stuff is not on live servers. sigh.

Simple switches can turn skills on and off. The data exists in both clients.

Live server = BAMPH! is off
Dev server = BAMPH! is on

It would be pointless and time wasting to create 2 differing clients since the point of the dev server is the TEST things in Live.

This is for you.

personally i think its the game server equivalent of Lorem Ipsum. They put these skills on enemies to test skills. Like the one for conditions.

Need to test condition removal? Spawn a monster with this skill.

jelmew · Apr 10, 2007, 04:16 PM // 16:16

I honestly don't hope that these are gonna be hardmode skills.

ensoriki · Apr 10, 2007, 04:20 PM // 16:20

0_o

Well Factions still pwns the sin, but this is nothing really, Im not even sure its real 0_o. Even if it was.....mass soul explosion is still worse.

Seriously what they need it to raise Team cap, its silly how your trying to save the world....and your going to do it with 7 ppl helping you out of an entire army you could get -_-.

zwei2stein · Apr 10, 2007, 04:25 PM // 16:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by lyra_song

This is for you.

Yay, Thanks!

savage vapor 33 · Apr 10, 2007, 04:26 PM // 16:26

I guess im on a split decision. If these skills are going to be the hard mode skills. It will be an incredible challenge. If they are to hard, re-balance. If they don't balance, we always have normal mode.

onerabbit · Apr 10, 2007, 04:29 PM // 16:29

This is what your up against:

savage vapor 33 · Apr 10, 2007, 04:31 PM // 16:31

Protective Bond? with BiP Necro?

unknown1 · Apr 10, 2007, 04:36 PM // 16:36

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Originally Posted by zwei2stein

Yes, except, if its IS hard mode stuff, i know tons of people who are gonna be really disappointed because they wanted actually fun to fight against oponents who are strong becasue of ai and smart skillsets, not because of Enraged alike stuff.

And reason for 3000% speed buff is obvious - its basically giving monsters teleport-like ability that they can use on will - to prevent carefull pulling (its hardly pull when your puller is immediatelly swarmed by monsters) or tanking (there is no longer point in sparing enemies around tank to make it work) or to prevent trap teams (monsters will literally fly thought traps and slaughter helpless trappers before they nocite they are recieving damage.)

This wont happen =) thats why anet is making it hard mode so people think of counters and such
for the speed boost people will use muddy terrain =) then everyone is slow =)

Juicey Shake · Apr 10, 2007, 04:41 PM // 16:41

dude it's in plain text in the first post

Deagol · Apr 10, 2007, 04:44 PM // 16:44

They are probably joke descriptions for skills reserved for future use. It is quote common for programmers to write jokes in the program at places they don't expect the users to see. And "You move 3000% faster" is more fun than "Reserved for future use".

tomcruisejr · Apr 10, 2007, 04:44 PM // 16:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by unknown1

This wont happen =) thats why anet is making it hard mode so people think of counters and such
for the speed boost people will use muddy terrain =) then everyone is slow =)

Oh there should be hard mode in PvP so PvPers can think of counters and such.

Yichi · Apr 10, 2007, 04:52 PM // 16:52

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Originally Posted by tomcruisejr

Oh there should be hard mode in PvP so PvPers can think of counters and such.

there is. its called hexes on jade isle

(edit: well its not hard mode, more like RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GOing annoying mode)

noname4me · Apr 10, 2007, 05:03 PM // 17:03

I think they are/were test skills probably to check for different types of glitches (e.i. max character movement with out glitching or something of that sort). You people are way too worried about this, the likely hood of those skills even appearing in the game with those stats is slim to none.

zwei2stein · Apr 10, 2007, 05:23 PM // 17:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by noname4me

I think they are/were test skills probably to check for different types of glitches (e.i. max character movement with out glitching or something of that sort). You people are way too worried about this, the likely hood of those skills even appearing in the game with those stats is slim to none.

Dunno, then why is there ias and weird heath mod. ...

I would imagine skills used for "testing" kinda ... bland, and more usefull for actuall testing.

i.e.:

"Test Crakled Armor" - no att, no recharge, instant cast, no cost.
Target has "Crakled Armor" for 10 second.

"Beta Shadowstep" - no att, no recharge, instant cast, no cost.
Target has movement speed of 3000%