AzureSkyCiel

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  1. AzureSkyCiel

    The Television

    I dunno, Television, i'll be your friend, but you gotta do something for me since I've run plenty of your missions and took quite a pounding from Radio beforehand.

    Either bring back the following shows or time slots:
    Toonami (Cartoon Network)
    One Saturday Morning (ABC)
    Earth Worm Jim
    Freakazoid
    Firefly
    Music to MTV

    Or fix family guy to be funny again.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Sardan View Post
    It was interesting to listen to the audio of the devs when they were in character as Praetorean citizens at Herocon. They made the point that there are LOTS of admirable aspects of Praetorea, and that Cole's mistrust/fear of Primal Earth is quite justifiable. His world has no dodgy nuke states like North Korea or Pakistan.

    I really love when bad guys do what they do out of what they perceive as good motives rather than just being total nutjobs. I don't know how many of you read the web comic Girl Genius (I know Castle does!), but one of the great characters in there is the fascistic ruler of Europe, who is very much like Cole in that he is ruthless because he believes it's necessary for the greater good.
    Well, then again, the Baron's Greater Good is a bit more obviously the greater good since he still allows for some free-will, at least more so than the Other, and sparks are kind of nuclear states on their own.

    In relation to this topic, here's what I read in my head: Positron: Oh hai, we upgraded ur Tyrant.
  3. AzureSkyCiel

    NEW Power Sets!

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by GibsonMcCoy View Post
    You can easily softcap with one Steadfast Protection IO in Tough and just common IOs, or even SOs in your other powers.
    Then my copy of Mids is broken because according to that, I would still only have 34.6%.
    And the person who brought up that it was "disgustingly easy" mentioned "without dipping into other powersets or IO sets.

    Plus, remember that defense is centered around an average chance to get hit, and considering the numbers a tank usually draws in, SR might even be somewhat of a weak set for tanks.
  4. AzureSkyCiel

    NEW Power Sets!

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood View Post
    The softcap is 45% since that is the point where most enemies have their change of hitting you at the minimum possible.
    Then I am not seeing how it's "disgustingly easy" to softcap SR's defenses as even if one spammed about four slots per-defense power with a an SO or even generic IO along with the positional's passive one end up with only 31.6%
    Unless one is factoring in Elude, and I'm not sure if is correct to factor an armor set's tier nine as part of something standard combat.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Jake_Summers View Post
    Oh I really do like the idea of Frostfire as a redeemed hero.

    Though I suppose this means his daughter Coldsnap will have to entertain lowbie heroes in the Hollows in the future.....
    No, instead he will be succeeded in the Outcast ranks by... THUNDERSTONE!
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Santorican View Post
    I definitely think it should be someone else leading FP. Someone similar in thought process as Statesman but not directly related to him.
    My vote is for Manticore, or the Honoree in this case.

    Ms. Liberty gets some sense knocked into her and has passed on her mantle to young heroine and has refocused Longbow as a disaster relief group than a militia. She resigns as Longbow head and a hero with the words: "I thought the world needed stronger heroes to combat the evils of this world, but what we needed were stronger hearts to help each other face the darkness within ourselves."
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill View Post
    Are you *asking* for Focused Senses to give +Perception, or stating it does? Because if you're asking - it already does.

    Stating it already does, I must have typed faster than my actual reading comprehension abilities. (It happens with distressing frequency, and as you can see leads to syntax problems)
  8. I think you should push the year back, maybe 2020 since assuming Fusionette's and Faultline are 15 at the youngest (and I recall Penny Yin is supposed to be younger), 2050 would make them old enough for grandkids, and neither have powers that suggest longevity.

    Though there's a possible sliding timescale to consider, but thus far it doesn't seem the case besides some old text in game needing a bad rewrite. (Angus McQueen, some newspaper mission articles have the date as 2005, etc. etc.)

    Also, for major happy ending for the Clockwork King- Penelope Yin, Sister Psychic, Swan, and Numina manage to help restore his sanity and even his body, he's still serving hard time and community service hours, but to be flesh and blood once more as well as have a real chance to be with his Clockwork Princess, he couldn't be happier.
  9. AzureSkyCiel

    NEW Power Sets!

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect View Post
    Do you realize how broken SR would be on a tank? I kind of doubt the devs will give us a defense based set that will exceed softcap by itself, with no other powers or IOs.
    Forgive me, then perhaps I have been mistaken, but what would you confer to be the soft-cap. This is something that's been hazy with me for a long time, and I fail to see how the base of 13.88% defense (18.50% for the AT in question) would make the soft-cap. Though this also fails to factor SOs, and I recall having a devil of a time achieving what I believe was the soft-cap when building my SR scrapper (/I thought/ it was around the 40th percentiles). Also, SR itself is a rather tight build that demands almost all powers in the set and seems to lack survivability beyond defense, something other armors sets lack.

    Anyway though, I apologize for rambling on this subject, in many ways, I am very much a noob, now and forever.
  10. Since this is actually about SR and since the powerset will not be drastically changed with new powers, may I suggest here some changes in the powerset?
    Namely that Focused fighting grants confuse resistance, Focused senses gives +perception, and for brutes, Evasion gives a taunt aura (This is sometimes fairly annoying when you're trying to get around, while most taunt auras are not needed to be toggled on Evasion can be quite important to keep on), but otherwise, evasion for Scrappers and stalkers only gives additional +def debuff resistance.

    Further more, as the OP points out, Evasion comes discouragingly late into the game when you've already been fighting enemies like Nemesis, even the Hellion boss is a terrible AoE monster, meanwhile; Shield Defense and Ninjutsu gain their AoE protection with their ranged at an early level. (Though slightly excusable form stalkers due to hide's AoE defense bonus)

    Also, the point of SR is supposed to be it's high defense rate, but for every other powerset it becomes possible to soft cap your defenses with little effort, and while IOs are not meant to be considered in balance issues, this may be a case where they honestly should.

    Now as for what I would like to suggest be done for it:
    *Raise the defense value on all SR powers by 1-1.5% perhaps? This could make a big difference, especially once slotting with SOs.

    *Allow the slotting of resistance into the passives maybe? Most armor sets tend to have more than one attribute to them, even Electrical armor has a self heal, Dark armor has soft controls and a heal, Ninjutsu has a heal, some soft controls, and a slottable resistance power, and the list goes on. The closest I can think of is regeneration, but even that has resillience, though, admittedly that's not very good either. (But the subject is SR)

    *Reduce End Consumption, if fair? In my my mind, while actually dodging attacks might be extensive on the body, having oneself prepared to evade such attacks should not, or at least not nearly be as intensive. So perhaps reduce SR's end consumption by 20%?

    *Give Evasion a little something extra to be worth the wait? I'm not sure what this would be, honestly.

    But there you have, my own 2 inf, two more than you ever wanted or asked for.
  11. AzureSkyCiel

    NEW Power Sets!

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Umbral View Post
    Does everyone who wants to access it have to do a TF for me first? If so, I agree wholeheartedly!
    Sure, let's here what you would make kheldians bend over backwards for to get it!
  12. I believe, to balance out the damage auras as well as the other PBAoEs in DA and Fiery Aura lack KB so that way enemies can push you off of them.
    However, this idea is somewhat debunked with Electrical Armor (Though DA definitely has far more AoE powers).

    Though in the end, as people point out, there are plenty of ways to overcome KB, whereas so many others suffer from a fear hole for reasons less known.
    Though part of what bugs me about fear holes is just what it implies about your character.
    "Lo, I am the most epic bad@#$ villain/hero ever- Oops! Ghost Widow looked at me funny, I'm just gonna stand here and soil myself in terror."
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lucky666 View Post
    Wrong
    You're right, I just remembered this when I realized I got focused accuracy first (a power I use so little I forget it's there) and conserve power putting it at level 44
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill View Post
    Maybe. But you're not seeing it from both sides. Let's take Bloody Bay:
    SK/Ex level on entering: 25

    A level 15 is *already* at a disadvantage if they stick their noses in. Fewer powers, fewer slots, weaker enhancements (even with a boost.) A level 50? They aren't stuck with level 25 powers - thanks to SSKing? They've got level 30. I've said this before, but the most visibly obvious example of this is *masterminds.*

    What do you get at level 26 that you don't have at 25 on a Mastermind? Your top-tier minion. Before SSKing, you didn't have it in Bloody Bay. Now? You do.

    Siren's Call? Only thing you're missing now is your secondary's Tier9. Full pets for MMs (fully upgraded - not possible before,) controllers and doms with their pets, the works.

    Warburg? Well, before, only RV let you play with your epic or PPP. Now? You've got at least the first one. Not as huge a power difference... except, of course, you can go *in* at 30. So, no-tier-9s vs full-set-and-epic.

    This is one change I'd certainly like to see rolled back, purely in PVP zones, if the dev team is at all serious about their "leveling the playing field," even though it benefits several of my characters when I wander in (more armor and stealth for my En/En brute, for instance.) But I don't expect to see that happen. A wider gap is *not* going to help.
    Uhhh... bill, SSK exemplaring doesn't apply to PVP zones, it is a hard exemplar, meaning that a level 25 MM will still ONLY have up to level 25 power.
    I am certain of this since my nukes runs remind me I cannot use my bread and butter butt kickery on my SR scrapper that uses conserve power.

    As a note to Steel Claw, like one person said, the fact that you have never bothered with PVP really hurts your case, even in arena fights apparently.

    The major problem with PVP with the power gap between toons with ranged attacks and those that don't, travel suppression does not help at all, especially if the one with ranged attacks invested in hover.
    I know this because I've PVPed, none of it was really a good experience, but I still have that to make an argument off of.
    And if you get rid of PVP zones you lose a lot of temp powers other players love and sometimes need for TFs and so forth if they're toons and team are not optimized in anyway.
  15. AzureSkyCiel

    Vehicles

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha View Post
    'Vehicle' toggle powers.
    I say vehicles...I mean something like a wearable version of this;



    or this;



    "You've gone mad!(er)"
    Not really. Shapeshifting, wether a simple costume change or something as advanced as Kheldians, is already in game. Making usable 'armour' vehicles doesn't sound unfeasible (he says)

    I posted in a thread a while back that had an idea for another Vanguard item. While most people no-no'd the idea, myself included, I did post a suggestion for a 'LVAS', a cut down version of the HVAS, which worked like Granite armour or Kheldian Dwarf forms, in that it morphed the player into that armour and switched their power trays while it was toggled.

    Yes, you wouldn't be able to slot it, or the attacks. It'd probably have to be earnable. Balanceable? I should think so.
    Just my 2 inf.
    Curse you, TechBot and your shiny metal dog! Did you look at my signature?

    As a side note, for those who think that ground vehicles cannot jump or strafe, watch the Speed Racer movie.
  16. AzureSkyCiel

    Vehicles

    Posting in this thread to bring up the vehicle thread linked in my own signature.
  17. AzureSkyCiel

    NEW Power Sets!

    Here's my wishlist for new powersets:
    Scrappers, brutes, tanks, and stalkers- Polearms (Attack), quarterstaff (Attack), Psionic weapons (Attack), Whip (Attack, I had given up hope but Demon summoning set renews it), Feral instinct (armor), Plant Armor (Armor), Illusionary defenses (Armor, stalkers only).

    Blasters and corruptors- Explosives/demolitions (attack, the real problem is trying to justify how an explosion would NOT be an AoE).

    Defenders and corruptors- Teamwork (Buff/debuff, This is a pipe dream since we already have leadership pool, though it might be nice to have another set that could work for natural origin that works on a similar idea)

    Controllers and Doms- Tactical control (control, things like grenades and so forth, a nice tech/natural control set.), Shadow control (Control)

    Master Minds- Battle Servants (Henchmen set, they make your tea, clean your house, and crush your enemies, what's not to love?), Toys (Henchmen set, watch the sudden outcry for the ability to make more convincing children), PUG (Henchmen set, not serious)

    To all villainous ATs- Fire elemental patron powers and Nictus Patron powers.

    To Kheldian ATs- Umbral Mastery (Ancillary) and Luminous Mastery (Ancillary)

    Proliferation wishlist:
    To stalkers- Fiery melee (Assassin's Inferno!) and Ice melee (Assassin's Frost!)
    To Scrappers- Ice Melee, Ninjutsu, energy aura, Electrical Mastery (Ancillary)
    To Tanks- Super Reflexes, Broadsword, Katana, Martial Arts, Claws, energy aura. Electrical mastery (Ancillary)
    To Brutes- Regeneration, broadsword, katana, martial arts.
    To Dominators- Dark Assault and Radiation Assault
    To Blasters - Dark Blast

    EAT wishlist:
    Midnight Magus
    Rikti
    (And they can both work on both sides!)
  18. The real reason why (at least for Warshades not getting teleport pools and PBs not getting flight) is because the devs do not want an Any AT to basically have a double power. The closest being the Power boosts from some Dom secondaries as well as Domination.
    With hasten, recall foe, and the Warshade recall foe, you'd basically be able to spam the longest range power in the entire game with nigh absolute impunity and actually have a chance to hit with it.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Calash View Post
    Fake answer: We don't have a pimped out mothership and would be the laughing stock of the multiverse if we showed up in Positrons Delorian.
    Well then we hitch a ride in Back Alley Brawler's car. Do I have to think of everything?
  20. Welcome to the game, Collins, part of what might help us help you is if you let us know a little about your character, it will also possibly help you, look at his AT and powersets, think, if you want to, of a short backstory about them, their lifestyle, origin, and so forth.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dark_Respite View Post
    I can see the ad now...

    [ad opens with Sir Patrick sitting comfortably in a chair, a la Masterpiece Theatre]
    "Hello... I'm Patrick Stewart, and I play CITY OF HEROES. I find it refreshing to enjoy a game that allows me to play almost as many characters as I have on stage and screen."
    [cut to various looking toons of various archetypes]
    [back to Sir Patrick]
    "There's a strong sense of satisfaction, being a hero-"
    [show character doing something heroic]
    "... saving the day..."
    [show more heroic stuff]
    "... all that crap."
    [hero goes on smacking stuff, then pauses... what did he just say?]
    "But TRUE satisfaction comes from villainy..."
    [villain strolls in and beats the crap out of a hero]
    "True deviousness..."
    [mayhem mission, blowing up statues, etc]
    "... and of course, the lowest of the low... the depths to which one can sink..."
    [now all the characters are looking at the camera, waiting]
    "... catgirls."
    [AAAAGGGHHHH!!! Mass panic in-game as a four-foot-tall catgirl zombie mastermind strolls in, as cute and as psycho can be]
    [back to Sir Patrick]
    "It gladdens my heart as only true drama can."
    [cut to logo]

    Michelle
    aka
    Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
    I read that with his voice in my head... *Sniffs* It was beautiful, D_R
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ban_Sidhe View Post
    Of course, if the second Mothership arrives and lays waste to Atlas park, then there's an excuse to rebuild it using the new GFX, and layout seen in the background image on the website.

    Also the Rogue isles were left alone during the first invasion, so will the Villains get attacked by a second Mothership? And if so, where's it going to appear? If it pops up over Cap, it's likely to settle on top of the sky scrapers making quite a good roof; after the villains have beaten the snot out of them!

    This. This would be awesome.

    And you know what would also be amazing? If the Rikti had set up shop in the Shadow Shard somewhere and that was part of how they were launching their invasion, the dimensional holes they puncture to reach the Rogue Isles linger and give villains Shadow Shard access!
  23. Ahhh... If only Sir Patrick Stewart would do a commercial for City of.

    Unfortunately for us Yanks, he'd play on Union. (That the right one?)
  24. And I have asked an SG mate of mine to use her toon with group fly so that I can say: "FLY ME CLOSER! I WANT TO HIT THEM WITH MY SWORD!"