Aett_Thorn

Remember when Knockout Blow did piddly damage?

Heck, this young whippersnappers don't even remember when you couldn't have more than one armor on at a time, or when Temp Invulnerability was a click power, or when Scrappers had only four secondaries.

They need to get off our lawn!

/seconded.

1) New skeletons take time, especially depending upon the game engine that is used.

2) Explanations are fine, but GOOD explanation for seeing apes run around a city? How many of those could you find that wouldn't be immersion breaking? Certainly, you could explain a giant gorilla climbing a skyscraper in Steel or Talos, but why did the Hellions all of a sudden get trained gorillas?

3) Just because other games can do it doesn't mean ours can with the same degree of success. Different games use different engines and ways of importing skeleton movements. Also, you have to think about relative sizes of departments. Blizzard might be able to hire 15 people to do nothing but make new skeletons. This game can't. And, if it means the three guys working on animations have to stop giving us new powersets for a year or two to give us new skeletons, I'd rather them not.

Also, their job is to keep the game going. But their job is also to make the most money at the least expense to them. Taking a year or two before they could get us new skeletons means X dollars spent. If the return on investment is less than X, then it was a waste of time. If it's around or over X, then that's good, but if they could have done Y cheaper, and at a higher return, then X was still a loss.

Ice Patch is huge mitigation for Tankers. Sure, once you build for the soft-cap, it becomes less important, but in the lower levels, before you can slot a huge number of IOs, Ice Patch is key. Keeping it at level 20 helps there, much more so than moving it to level 28.


Ice Melee is also supposed to be the "controller" melee set. Moving it's three controller-ish powers to the last three picks would be a huge nerf to the set.

Yeah, I was kind of wondering about Repulsion Field. I've got it in my build, but as the level 49 power. Should I take it a bit early? I want Repulsion Bomb (to shore up the AoE damage), Temp Invuln, and PFF as well, but I could take PFF at level 49 and be fine.

Would Repulsion Field work well with Drain Psyche? Or would I have to turn it off before I run in to get the Regen and Recovery boost? I'm guessing the later, but if that's the case, I probably just won't use DP unless I really needed it.


Good to know about Scramble Thoughts, too. Between that and the fear power from the secondary, I might be able to free up some power choices for CJ (aerial control and some defense) and maybe move other things earlier in the build, like WoC.

Thanks for the input, guys.

Not true at all! Crimson and Indigo send you to each other, and only THEN do they send you to zone X to kill stuff.

Yes, they will be in the different cities, but they are the same missions (i.e., rescue party-goers from hellions).

Unless I'm mistaken, don't the two sets of contacts (GC and AP) give the same missions? So yes, you can choose between 10 contacts (though really it depends on your starting origin; you can't choose who you get after that), it's really only 5 mission sets.

This. There maybe one or two others, but I think those are Hamidon's "untyped" attacks, so nothing will help you there. But I'd say that if you're softcapped to Melee/Ranged/AoE, going for Psi isn't going to help you that much. There are likely better things to build for at that point.

Whirling Mace, Whirling Axe, Whirling Sword, Ice Sword Circle...


All weapons, coded as AoE attacks.

Correct. When the values are even, I don't think anyone has really checked into which value gets applied, because it doesn't really matter. But if the values aren't exactly equal, the highest value against that attack will be used.

Lions, tigers, and bears, oh my!