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Norse myth Heimdall has three sons, each with a different skin color. The dark-skinned one is named Thrall.

But that's real mythology....I thought that Thor writer Simonson said that the Asgardians were mystic entities who didn't even have humanoid traits at all at first. That's pretty much in line with all Marvel mystic entities. Their physicality is part how people see them, part whim on their part.

Galactus only looks human because we're human.

More recently, the comic has been trying to pull the god line on us, but it rings very false to me. Not because I disrespect ancient Norse religion, but because the comic book is about powerful people and their adventures. I appreciate people who want to tell me ancient gods were just like superheroes, but frankly, that seems somewhat offensive. There are people who still worship these entities. Superheroes aren't real mythology--they're wish fulfillment with conflict thrown in for interest. Sure, a lot of them draw a lot from mythology, but that because that's how human patterning works. Just because Spider-man seems based on Anansi the Spider-man (except for being white since Anansi is an African god) doesn't mean he should be worshipped as the latest Anansi incarnation. Superpeople don't and shouldn't fit into the mold of real gods. We should never forget the stories are here to make money for corporations.

As for Elba, he looked the part of a grim guardian. Heimdall's appearance has never been important before, so he's always been depicted as a nondescript tall aryan guy. (The horns are important, though.)

More people ought to be upset that Marvel's Loki is black haired. Mythology is clear that he's a redhead, just as comparative mythology implies that he's a counterpart for Lucifer. Making him black haired throws that out the window in favor of a more simplistic light-dark symbolism. (Marvel's Sif is grouchy because she was cursed with black hair, for instance.)

Admittedly, I'm not real familiar with empathy. Have you considered getting the Fighting pool? Two builds, one for high level with only the epic armor and one for exemping down, with Tough and Weave there for you. Even a little bit of extra defense can keep you up longer.

I used to also use the Epic Dark pool, with the self-rez for bringing me back faster for when my teammates were busy and the disorient aura power for when I was in the midst of a pack of minions no one had control over. The aura was decent for regular foes--against +4 Praetorian Clockwork, it ended up just attracting their attention and got me killed faster.

Might consider a macro for /follow to keep up with a teammate. They grab aggro from you, even when there is no tank, any melee with Invulnerability or a damage aura will do the same. Even an active blaster will tend to drag attention away from you.

(Do not always use auto-follow and auto-heal. It tags you as a bad empath.)

I believe "defeated" is the proper term for making a macro for targeting a dead friend you want to Vengeance (useful because if someone dies, the team is weakened as a whole and can use the extra help) and rez.

Remember the Rule of Cool. If those guys inside or outside the bank is clever and flashy enough, they tend to get luckier. The reader understands that. Having a name gives you an upgrade.

Of course, if General Zod decides to rob a bank, his utter coolness will stomp all over the opposition, to the point he doesn't even bother to kill his heroic opposition.

Never go with the stupid, random accident "because it's realistic." It doesn't matter if a cement block COULD take out Spider-man, it's dumb and the reader feels cheated.

My favorite superhero fiction was Adam-Troy Castro's. Even silly gimmick villains were depicted as godlike to the average person, and their actions swift and inevitable.

Spellsinger.

I was deeply horrified by the actual noises that sonics made. She's a Sonic/mind troller, I think, and tended to die crossing the street when I played her. Also, it feels like everyone is staring at me in envy when I play her.

Still kind of interested in her, but it may take tedious fiddling with the game sounds to make her really attractive again. I wish more people made mods for this game. :P

Terrible, terrible urge to make character called 'Fantastic Coffee.'

SS/Shield is boring and silly. Martial Arts/Shield is good, bouncy fun and visually more in keeping with the Captain America concept.

They were listing sports plays? Petition it. Complain to the company. Somebody thinks they're being cute and it ain't.

I made Zombie With An Axe and Axe-Wielding Zombie....Never failed to amuse me when people say the city was saved by Zombie With An Axe or that they want to grow up just like me.

You've inflicted me with altitis! Again!

*shakes fist*

Okay!

Finally finished filling my level 21 (24 after Moonfire) fire/fire tank slots with all 20-25 IO basics. Of course, I craft my own recipes because I am always poor and the AH is boring. Mostly good prices on the recipes, though.

My 50 even got her Apocalypse with a chance for negative damage for only 300 million, as opposed to the 450 it had been running at. ^_^

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.....................And I JUST got my second 50!









(Scrapper, from the advice of all the people who listened to me complain about soloing a Force field/Rad blast Defender.)

I'd just like to say that Wei Jun has twice left team/leagues that I've been on, in order to let someone else play.

....He makes me feel guilty.

Tanks for the memories! \o/

I believe it's running at 100 billion inf.

I like to play Defenders (my main is an FFer). I like to PUG and I like to solo.

In teams, I am the weakest member and I die first and often.

When I solo, pre-Incarnate I had to use the lowest settings and it is still painfully slow for those below 40.

Vigilance is a great help, but its still not very fun to solo. I know Defenders are meant to be on teams, but teams are not always available. So I HAVE to solo.

In CoH, the ATs are given the ability to help each other, but the non-support classes are able to solo relatively easily.

My point is, I don't think the support classes should be FORCED to rely on others. We should be able to target ourselves for buffs/heals.

There is no logic to not allowing us to target ourselves. Just as the other classes still team, despite the ability to solo, the support classes will still get more benefit from teaming than soloing.

If the support classes could target ourselves, quality of soloing would be improved and less frustrating.

If support classes could target ourselves, we'd spend less time standing around trying not to get aggro in teams.

If support classes could target ourselves, we could PARTICIPATE more in teams, instead of feeling like bots chasing people who are actually having fun.

If support classes could target ourselves, we might do enough damage in Incarnate trials to get the rewards we need.

It feels like support classes are being punished by not being allowed to use most of our own powers. In fact, that's the explanation the Defender forum gave for it's mythology of City of Heroes.

I know there are other games, like the Industry Leader, who prefer the holy trinity of ATs. Maybe that's why the classic Dungeons and Dragons cleric was changed to pure supportive priest healers. But City of Heroes has a funner, more free-wheeling style of play. We don't need to hunt down a Stone tank for average missions. We can take whoever wants to play and work together.

I would ask that the theory behind not allowing support classes to target themselves be rethought. If there are good reasons for it, feel free to tell me why.

A decent leader should have made sure there's a reasonable spread of ATs in every team. Most of the time, I buff my team and whoever I'm targeting through (it's just polite). However, sometimes things just don't seem to be going well, like in the BAF run I was forced to lead. >8[ In between trying to buff and boom and type and wondering if I was doing what I should, it felt like the AVs took MUCH MUCH longer to go down, and there were multiple sequesterings, so I started frantically buffing everybody in the league.

Finally got a pick off the Rare table for that one. >.>