Adeon Hawkwood

And realistically most of them probably won't get upset. In the unlikely event that the devs fix it I'll respec my scrapper and move on with my life. At this point the bug has been around so long with so little communication from the devs that as far as I'm concerned it's grandfathered in until and unless the devs decide differently.

If he'd said "I won't play Demon Summoning because I feel it is too restrictive with regards to character theme" then I would've been fine with it. My problem with his comment was that he basically insulted everyone who does want to play demon summoning and everyone who has a demon possessed character. Sure some themes are done to death, heck Power Armored super heroes are a dime a dozen and yet two-thirds of my heroes wear power armor. Maybe it does mean I'm uncreative with themes but at the same time I like power armor as a source of super powers so I tend to gravitate towards the theme. He insulted a large group of people in his post and so I called him on it.

Agreed, I'd much rather see powers like Alkaloid used proactively instead of re-actively when appropriate.

Correct (both about Hasten and the limit on four pools). The four pool limit does not include your epic pool so you can take four pools plus the epic.

Well Blizzard is a nuke so you don't have it up that often, it is good AoE damage but it's not something you can use every spawn. Damage-wise Ice Storm is worse than Full Auto, they are both on 60 second recharges and deal about the same damage but Ice Storm requires the enemy to stay in the patch for the entire duration (although Ice Storm is a nice debuff while Full Auto is only damage). Frost Breath does slightly less damage than Flamethrower and it activates slower, but it deals the damage upfront rather than as a DoT, I'd consider these two about equal. Assault Rifle has two other AoEs (Buckshot and M30) while Ice Blast doesn't have any more.

Well in that case I'm surprised another game is running Evony style ads without me hearing about it.

That's because it is pretty much a law of the universe. ALL companies (or at least all companies with any common sense) do at least some internal testing before inviting in outside testers. Even if the devs never actually say it they are going to do "friends & family" testing before inviting in fans.

Well, now I want to make a demon posessed character just to piss you off. Except I can't because all of my characters are tech origin and wear power armor. Ok, I could make it demon possessed power armor but I don't really want to.

You really need to learn to relax. Some people like particular types of heroes. Demon summoning is a popular origin but so are Catgirls, Power Armor users, and to many others to list. Just because other people do it is no reason not to do it yourself.

So.. either you've somehow avoided their ads until now or it ISN'T Evony. Either way I'm surprised

Correct, the only reason to slot it in VS if if you want the AoE Def bonus from fully slotting Call to Arms (and if I was doing that I'd probably got for Expedient Reinforcement for the ranged defense on a blaster anyway).

No, that would be mutant. It's a power you inherently have that isn't available to the rest of humanity.

In general I agree, Empathy isn't a great set, it's a good set but not great. However the thing to consider is that for most other buff sets stacking them is additive. Having two of the same set is only twice as good as having one (and for some sets even less). The nature of Empathy means that two Empaths are significantly more than twice as powerful as one.

One thing to keep in mind is that Taunt acts as a multiplier to the hatred generated by an attack, so having the taunt aura means that your AoE attacks will generate a lot more hatred than they would otherwise.

Actually taunt-wise AAO is slightly better than most of the Taunt Auras. Like Invincibility it has a 16.875s base duration rather than the 13.5s base duration all other sets (except willpower) have. I assume the intent is make up for the fact that all of the other taunt auras (except willpower) either do damage (thereby increasing aggro) or have a control effect (making it harder for enemies to leave the aura).

I haven't heard that one before, but it's definitely true

Well, despite not seeing the ad, I already know exactly which "game" it's for .

Actually the numbers do bear it out... for AoE at least. AR is one of the top blast sets for AoE damage, it is however one of the worst sets (or possibly THE worst) for single target damage since it lacks a proper 3rd blast and only has Ignite which while good is hampered by a long activation time and the need to root the enemy.

I'm glad for you, but Assault Rifle is still my one true love from the blast sets. More Dakka!

Yeah, I'm sure I'm far from the first person to do it, I just hadn't done the math before and was surprised at how good it was with just two Empaths working together.