Aliana Blue

Siphon Life I bet. If you can eliminate the threat of everyone else (down to 5%), SL can keep up with the autohit damage if you have enough recharge.

EDIT: Well, 5% for minions, Rommy will be a bit more.

Well, basically one can look at it this way:

A character has powers because of (Freak Accident|Training|Gadgets|Pick One), and there is a certain reason behind them - the rules of the Universe, so to speak. The Well of Furies is just the one that wrote the rules, and getting information directly from the source will allow for the character to gain more power. Simplistically, Knowledge = Power.

Much like we don't know ALL the rules of physics, or chemistry, or whatever. Finding new things can potentially lead to new applications in whatever field one is studying. Getting closer to the source may unveil new knowledge for your Natural character to progress beyond what he thought possible before.

A long time ago I ended up tanking Rommie + Fluffies with my MA/En Stalker during a particularly underpowered ITF. Good times.

As far as soloability (or small-teamability even) let us start TFs and SFs with whatever number of people we want!

Probably won't happen, but it won't hurt to throw it out there :grin:

All my Stamina-less characters just got a whole lot less special... =(

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Yeah, I didn't think you'd believe that "=(". This is awesome

Wait... WHAT?!

*Goes off to look for other signs of the apocalypse*

My staminaless Ice/Fire blapper and Dark/Fire scrapper are going to become even more awesome... And... And...

Woah.

...

Wow.

*Goes off mumbling and stumbling along the way*

So what you're saying is that we should all be able to constantly switch how we hit?

Okay. In this expansion, Hickman has long flowing white hair, pointy ears, and a great shot with the bow. His sworn enemies are orcs, and in the last arc he jumps into a boat and sails into the distance, never to be seen again (until he rerolls).

Considering the following some of the fictional immortal vampires get (oh so cute, oh so angsty *squee*), I very much doubt it'll be a problem.

It's going to be interesting to see if the reactions to you saying this are going to be any different than the ones I got.

Don't be so sure!

(Granted, other publications doing similar experiments have reported mixed results, but well... the possibility may be there).

Once again, the fact that he's lived more than a century does not have that much bearing because his body (which affects your brain too, hormones are funny that way) isn't changing and aging like that of a normal human. It is a fact that men do find attractive women enticing, as you put it, for quite some time, since they hit puberty until several decades later.

And why on earth do you all keep insisting on the whole "temporary diversion/use them and toss them/one night stand" thing? Saying that a guy who's attracted to a woman physically is only looking for such a diversion is a fallacy, attraction for men has a strong physical component in all cases.

As I said before, people who become widowers at middle age do grieve, move on, and look for companionship again. Ten or 50 years, someone who's not going down the path of old age will grieve, move on, and look for companionship again.

I wasn't merely going off Zeus' persona, I was referring to how the Greeks knew about human nature. Zeus chased hot women because he was a man (something to remember, the Greeks really had very mortal-like gods with their affairs and drives).

A man's desires are strongly driven by his Biology, and as the Greeks put it, not only with Zeus but with many others, men will go after the hot women, and women will go after the strong men. That basic desire is there, although modelled and tempered by the culture and environment.

This puts us in a bit of an impossible situation because a man who's been married for 50 years - a non-immortal that is - does not have the same drives as when he married not just because of the long partnership, but also because of his much older age (he'll be pushing 70, give or take), and how much one or another matter is hard to tell. It is common for widowers in their late 30s and early 40s to seek new companionship, even if they had 10-15 years of good marriage under their belt. I don't think that Statesman, if he's really like a perpetual thirty-something or even worse, an overdriven 30-something, will be content with living off memories of hir late wife, no matter how wonderful she way. He will move on and find someone new.

He may very well not be the one night stand kind of guy, but the biological drive for hot women is there even in one looking for more committed partnership. Biology's a b***h.

I really don't think so. His late wife may have been a wonderful person, but I doubt she had such an encompassing personality to overshadow every other woman in every possible aspect. All he needs is a hot chic with a different (and pleasant) personality.

The greeks were quite smart, and had lots of things figured out. You see, Zeus didn't go around looking for equal partnerships or anything like that.

He went around looking for hot chicks.

So, assuming, as it's been said, that the Well didn't quite froze his biology at 30 but merely sent him into overdrive, what we have here is a blazing testosterone-fueled powerhouse and almost whole-Earth leader of men. Who's he going to date?

The hottest woman he can find.

So, to answer the OP:

If she's really hot, and minimally pleasant, she would in fact have a pretty good chance.

However, I bet she'd have pretty strong competition. If rock stars have such a following, I can't begin to imagine what Statesman's groupies may be like.

Thanks for the play and the feedback! Glad you liked it.

How was the difficulty, by the way? I have been messing with the settings and custom mobs, and it's become a wee bit too easy in the upper range, but OK in the lowest one - I think! Trying to gather a bit more info on it

I've taken to replacing defensive secondaries with Martial Arts, adding only Shuriken. If I'm going crazy, I'll add the first kick too. The result is getting closer to 100% without the need for K.O. Blow or full defensive powersets, and easier combat than when set to the pre-made "hard/hard" with a defensive secondary.

It makes the start of combat slightly more dangerous (alpha remains the same, but there is a second wave of more of the same waiting if one doesn't close in fast), but it's otherwise easier to down them. What I'm not sure of is if that's actually a desirable effect, it's basically speeding up all combat, shifting more of the weight to alpha strikes, and making inspirations more powerful/useful (if combat is shorter, their relative duration is longer - until the ceiling when they cover all combat that is).

Of course, this is only a limited view from tweaking a single mid-level arc, I've not tested this extensively or in a wider variety of level ranges.

Aha! My arc #1345: "Jumping in Feet First" is a beginner's arc (literally, wrote for someone fresh out of Outbreak! Range's 1-9) and deals with Council Experiments, pure Science Origin! I've had good feedback too, it's not Shakespeare but does the job and is appropriate for a freshly pressed and minted hero =)

Contact's noone flashy though, a re-tasked standard scientist contact I named Dr. Raven.