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Originally Posted by zwillinger

you know...there are *other* examples of space pirates...or cosmic corsairs out there...

And i don't even read comic books!

Originally Posted by Katie V

I just visited my local Empowerment Station. Plenty of mez resistance, but the only mez protection was to knockback. Unless there's a secret fourth-level station or something, the only way that squishies can get broad-spectrum mez protection is from purchasing Amplifiers from the store.

Originally Posted by Tyger42

Which isn't always a good thing. I think trivializing the leveling process qualifies as one of those times where it's not a good thing.



Naturally, I'm not counting the obvious exploit farms. ( Old mitos, etc )

Originally Posted by MajorDecoy

San Diego Comic-Con International is a non-profit group. They don't get more money by "marketing 125,000 attendees" to anyone. What the SDCCI organizers are attempting to do is to put together an interesting con.

And if you think that there are only a few token panels that aren't run by huge corperate interests, then you haven't been paying enough attention to them. Sure, all the lines are for the panels run by huge corperate interests or celebrities, but there are some really interesting panels that people don't have to wait in line to get into.

I'll agree that things like Twilight and Glee aren't really all that comic-book related, but I can't argue that people don't want to attend those panels. I have no interest, but that doesn't mean that someone who does have an interest isn't a comic-book fan.

Originally Posted by srmalloy

I live in San Diego, and I'm seriously looking at this being my last SDCC; the con has been steadily moving away from being a convention by fans for the fandom, and becoming a four-day event where Comic-Con International is marketing 125,000 attendees to publishing houses and production studios, with a few token non-media events tucked in around the edges to pretend that it's still for the fans. Blocks of the dealers' room that used to have four to eight dealers have become monolithic pavilions for individual manufacturers and production houses like Marvel and DC and Hasbro and Toynami puffing the latest cross-licensed marketing gimmick. And if you decide you don't want to bother coming back, the con won't care; there will be hundreds of people clamoring for the opportunity to buy the pass you're not buying.

Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim

Please relay information!

Originally Posted by Vyver

Yeah, I never meant that fixing the nukes would be the only improvement, I just hoped at least it would be a part of it. Even if it was as simple as removing the crash to bring them up to the recent blaster sets.

Originally Posted by Vyver

I..don't...understand...


"Okay, we know T9 nukes suck, the last two blaster set had crash-less nukes, and we're trying to improve our old gameplay decisions to make playing blasters more fun.


But change the old nukes to be better? AHAHAHAHA YEAH RIGHT."

Originally Posted by St_Angelius

The system sounds very interesting. To some degree, I see Goats point, Some players would use the system to their advantage to make content easier. But then, I agree with everyone else in that not everyone would.

It's like a new tech introduced recently in 2 missions where, depending on dialogue choices, you can either have to fight an NPC super, of have them help you. Namely Icedrome in sonra costels arc and Leon in Laura Lockhearts. It's also seen in some of the DA stuff, eg, choose to fight or not to fight.

Now unless everyone, or at least an overwhelming preportion of the player base, chose exactly the same options, then you cannot say the same about this system either.

And, just because the previous dev team, for whatever reason, decided to not implement this system, does not dictate what the current dev team may or may not do.

Originally Posted by Eldagore

A change to ranged sets?

You know, that other hero game, they have blast attacks that maintain DoT so long as you hold the button down. it is actually rather fun, and makes certain powers more logical and combinations of certain attacks dynamic.

Powers like firebreath, rain of fire, x-ray beam, the psi tornado, burst, short circuit- if they worked like that it would certainly alter the dynamics of blast sets.

Hows that for speculation?

Originally Posted by nosatufer

All my controllers do well against trapdoor. it's melee in particular who have trouble with him.

I did the first ard arc on a blaster (BR/dev) en with no real problem (all on the same level though) and i used my staff/wp scrapper on the Night Ward without any serious problems (also on same level)

Originally Posted by EvilGeko

On my Ice/Energy Blaster with no level shifts; and only uncommon IOs, I split the spawns by kiting, using my slows, using Boost Range. It was slow, almost tedious, but that character never accepted help and it was some of the most fun I've had in awhile.

Not that Sam will see this since if you challenge his worldview long enough, he just ignores you.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

It's not even figurative, the Well has been sidelined in the main storyline, and for good reason. Run the Large Breasts Trial and speak with Papa Smurph - he'll tell you about people ascending to become wells themselves, drawing power equal to, or even greater than that of the Well of the Furies, but without ties to any entity but the person's own nature. These are referred to as Ascendants and constitute essentially self-made gods drawing on nothing more than their own power. So much above Incarnates are these, that even Prometheus - the guy who's actively encouraging us to pursue our Incarnate destiny - is pretty blunt about not allowing us to become Ascendants, going as far as to threaten death and violence against any who would so much as attempt this. He and his "agents" are part of a group of gods whose primary duty appears to be to prevent people from Ascending because that's too much power for any one individual to wield, essentially more than practically anyone else has.

If ever the plan was for the Well of the Furies to be the sole source of our post-50 progression, this has been dropped in light of the OVERWHELMINGLY negative response that storyline has received from players. I've seen the occasional player who praises it, but most either don't give a crap about the story so long as they keep gaining levels or find it insulting that they're being hamstrung into serving an amoral, untrustworthy, controlling entity that has thus far brought no good to any of the people who've associated with it and whom everyone warns us not to trust. It's like if Architect Entertainment were the only post-50 progression and involved selling your genetic material to Crey and Aeon Corp. - people aren't buying it.

The Well of the Furies is a stepping stone, and an unreliable one as Tyrant stands to evidence of. It can give power, but it can also take power away, it will try to control you and people can still defeat you anyway. Mot has the right idea - consume enough raw energy to become a veritable Well himself, but without the need to have agents to use his power or worshippers to worship him. Essentially, this is ultimate, personal power, and that's where the storyline seems to be leading us, confounding Ramiel, Prometheus, Silos and possibly even the Letter Writer.

With all of that said, "you get your power from the well" is no longer a valid argument, when it's pretty clear we're fighting for a future where we're not.

*edit*
Per chance my harsh tone may not show it, I actually agree with you, Leo

Originally Posted by EU_Damz

One final happy issue before we have the next few issues of doom, gloom and end of the world content [coming storm].

Originally Posted by Cobra_Man

It may well be but with Statesman's removal, it's not something we can expect to see again is it?

What I'm trying to say is that used properly the Statesman character would have been awesome for the game and it was the stupid, prolonged association with Jack that prevented the devs from making proper use of it - to our detriment basically.

Originally Posted by MisterD

Oh I did not know you could buy powers like that on Test. But again..it STILL requires the trials to be run. Taking time, and even more unlikely since the trial is now Live..

Temp incarnates would be very helpful..especially with stupid assault and people having to build spreadsheets just to work around the overly complex formula double hit uses.

Originally Posted by Dark_Respite

*wonders if she has Arcanaville's democode*

Hmmmmmm...

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Originally Posted by GuyPerfect

The other two have been working just fine for me ever since Dark Astoria happened.

Originally Posted by Wolf_Reign

Or vice versa

Originally Posted by I Burnt The Toast

Except ya know.. only one of those "levels" applies anywhere but incarnate content.

I am in the opposite boat... the new powers (not the level shift) are what make me feel stronger. On my main I have gained:

Alpha: Acc/End Redux/Heal big time
Judgment: A quite handy and quite powerful "nuke" that has no discernible drawbacks.
Lore: Two very helpful pets
Interface: A proc that works on all my attacks dealing more damage and decreasing their resistance..meaning more damage.
Destiny: Permanent stun protection on a Corruptor
Hybrid: Uhmm more damage

So yeah the POWERS make me feel more than 50 not the +1.