ArcticFahx

Now you're making stuff up blatantly. Recharge cap in this game is +400%, a.k.a. 1/5 the normal recharge time.

By frankenslotting for health/end mod/recharge, AB, by itself, is already down to 150 seconds. By adding in AB on yourself, you get to ~200% recharge, dropping it to 1/3 the time, or 100 seconds. Hasten provides 70%, getting you to 270% recharge, and putting hasten (assuming 3-slotted with recharge enhancements) to 121 and change seconds. From there, you can either add a fourth, or a couple small bonuses from sets (for example, Sting of the Manticore in a snipe, 5 slots, 7.5% recharge bonus, though more for a better buffer isn't a horrible idea) to get over +275% global recharge.

Now, unless City of Data has some slightly off info, RAs are 500 seconds recharge, 90 second duration, making them non-permable solo, however those are gravy on top of the already high powered boost from perma-AB/Hasten, perma-Fort, and the ability to heal for half your HP with Heal Other, whose downtime is negligible at this point.

Throw in Power Build Up for Fort, Maneuvers, and even weave (since you won't need AP or Ressurect, or possibly even Healing Aura), then some set bonuses to taste, and you're walking around with more defense than you need to softcap in incarnate content, mez protection, massive amounts of regen, endurance that doesn't run out even when you nuke (AB's +recov is far greater than a nuke's -recov), and being to-hit capped against everything in the game (except the occasional DE emanator drop or venged Nemmies).

This is all from real numbers and having played half an empath duo built around that concept, so don't try to say "you don't play empaths".

You do realize that not every superpower can stand on its own, right? Just to take an example from Heroes, Ando ended up getting the power to boost the powers of others. It doesn't give him anything he can do better to fight others, but in a large fight, he can act as a force multiplier for the others. Hey! That sounds familiar!.

And who's to say there's anything wrong with wanting to play a support role, anyway? Some heroes don't like the limelight. Heck, Stargirl (from DC comics) is the stepdaughter of Stripesy, the adult side-kick to child hero Star-Spangled Kid. And when she took up the mask, he built a robo-suit named S.T.R.I.P.E. to be his own stepdaughter's sidekick.

With reference to the name@global scheme, I've played Cryptic's offering, and the first thing I noticed was when it was on, how much visual clutter it really is. And I don't believe they even have names as long as ours.

Now, imagine if this went in, and you had (to use one of my characters), "an adorable little fox@ArcticFahx" showing up in the chat window.

On the flip side, when you have the @global turned off, it can get confusing when you have Captain Tanzania and Captain Tanzania discussing something.

The main reason I don't feel the devs would ever adopt such a system, though, is that they don't have it already. An old saying comes to mind, "better the devil you know than the one you don't". Basically, in this case, if people are complaining about the current naming system, but a roughly equal number of people would dislike the new suggestion put forward, it is better to do nothing.

ANOTHER bloody "weak to psionics" armor set? Why can't we have one that's weak to something else that's not flooding the endgame already?

It's definitely the second-highest melee modifier, only behind scrappers, and tied with VEATs (at 1.0). The ranged modifier is 1.125 (1 1/8 for those who like bad fractions like that), which is the same as a scrapper's melee modifier.

Or she got the right person, but Jack the Ripper is like Jack of Blades from Fable. An artifact that possesses the wearer, or some such.

And yet his hatedom will find something to despise about him.

Which I don't get. Having a married couple as companions is a nice change of pace. And the dynamic between Rory and Amy is dead on. Especially for a relationship between a very fierce Scotswoman and, well, anyone.

Not to mention he's clearly the most perceptive of the three (ref: Eleventh Hour, Amy's Choice). Must be where River/Melody got it from.

Actually, he's still got 2 more hours, as woot.com is based out of Texas, and they key off local time for their day switchovers.

I do not find myself opposing this idea.


Also, the River/Pond thing was pretty good. And definitely a good reason for River's very different reactions to Amy than to Donna.

The Master was also cremated after his death in The Sound of Drums.

Actually, no it wouldn't. Because there is no way for the game to ignore protection magnitude.

Devices has Web Grenade as well. It's the power you have to pick, and the only Blaster Secondary Tier 1 without any damage.

Because people, in general, are horrible judges of random. Think about people playing tabletop games. You crit once, and you think that die is lucky, or you fumble once, and you won't put that die back in the pile lest it curse the others.

Basically, people are assuming that because they got the uncommon reward table a few times in a row, there's something besides the random chance going on. Never mind that they got a rare component dropped during the trial, which I believe are on the same random chances as the end of trial reward.

I think the Metal (from tops/bottoms with skins) would be better.

Just because you have that much recharge doesn't mean everyone else does. And if the devs made Fortitude a TAoE like the buffs that are getting that, then it would be nerfed, because Fortitude is balanced around the idea that it won't normally be on the entire team (massive recharge being a noticeable edge case).

I have to nitpick here and remind you that it was explicitly stated multiple times in the series that it was vital to cremate deceased Time Lords, on a pyre so they are truly immolated, because even a single substantial bit of them could conceivably make some very horrible people very powerful. Imagine the Daleks managing to add Gallifreyan regeneration to themselves, as just a small example.

Sensei would be the proper spelling (italicizing isn't for smarmy emphasis, it's because stylistically, foreign words are supposed to be italicized, unless they've been adopted into the language (which sensei has not).

Actually, this one is also fairly easy to figure out, though for inspiration I went somewhere aside from comics. Kim Kaphwan from the Fatal Fury and King of Fighters series recruits street roughs into his dojo by challenging them to a fight with that as the stakes, then reforms them into fighters on the side of justice. There have been similar concepts of "street gangs redeeming themselves" in comics, I believe, but since I play Kaphwan in KoF, he's the first one to spring to mind.

It's an Astral, not Empyrean.

(Emphasis mine).

This cannot be emphasized enough. I personally never leave the team until the contact has been talked to again, and I believe that other WSTs do this.

Or even better, how do we know Prometheus isn't simply wrong. Or maybe he's mistaken?

Remember, Prometheus is a Greek Titan, and the Titans were small-g gods. And small-g gods are generally not omniscient.

Rikti (and some Lost) Lts and Bosses, Carnie Illusionists and MIs, the original version of Mother Mayhems minions. Some of the new Praetorian seers, and Psychic Clockwork, off the top of my head. Not all that damaging, but a lot more common than you think.