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Quote:If it's not overpowered on the other ATs, no I don't think it'll be overpowered on Stalkers.Originally Posted by Mr. DJ
just a random thought...with Momentum and how the new Stalker change proposals...think TW would be just a tad overpowered on them?
I really just want the Ninitsu powerset to be used with it! It's the only Positional Defense/Healing set, and can't pair it with the new big sword.
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Quote:What makes you think the additional +2 level shifts will apply in the zone?Originally Posted by Golden Girl
But 50+3s with their T4s will still flood the place - it's the only zone with Incarnate enemies for the to fight.
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Quote:Did they give more of an answer outside of "We dont think it fits the concept"?Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
At the Pummit they said that Stalkers will not be getting Titan Weapons.
Just curious. If they lack it, I may go with SomethingElse/Ninja Stalker. But the posted changes look to increase Stalker DPS, which was my only problem with them (other may not have had this problem
This is just my own personal view on them and having one at 50).
I just really like Titan Weapons and want to pair it with Ninjitsu (for the agility/heal feel more than anything). -
Quote:I was going to suggest something like that for Assassin Strike! To make it a high DPS attack when not hidden, glad I don't have to!Originally Posted by Arbiter Hawk
We're testing three improvements to stalkers in i22:
-Assassin's Strike: using Assassin's Strike outside of hide will be an uninterruptible attack with no windup time, dealing Superior damage. This will allow Stalkers to do very competitive dps.
-All Stalker attacks that are not Assassin's Strike will build stacks of a buff called Assassin's Focus. Assassin's Focus increases your chance to critically strike with the out-of-hide Assassin's Strike.
-Stalker Buffed Max HP will be increased by about 400. This should allow them to fully benefit from powers like dull pain, hoarfrost, etc.
-These changes to Stalkers should make them very competitive top-end damage dealers, and help them with their early attack chain since they can use Assassin's Strike mid-combat.
Buffed HP cap is awesome and needed imo for the sets with +HP
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Quote:Finally saw what they were.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
They're new VIP costume sets.
Though I'm sad, as I think I would of prefered some alternate animations for Fire and Ice Armor powersets. -
Is new Fire and Ice Armor a VIP reward for alternate armor effects of Fire and Ice Armor?
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Quote:this was kinda my thinking on it.Originally Posted by Chyll
You are an incarnate, or you aren't. But really, 'solo' path here probably means open to small teams, ad-hoc play over the forced trial teaming.
(And, just my concept thrown out for group think.)
You have pets that provide additional DPS, Interface Proc for more whatever (usually additional damage now), plus the use of temp powers (some of which can be bought in the market if you dont get them as a drop) and inspirations.
What's more incarnate feeling? Taking down the AV or taking down the tough boss? -
Granted powers by god. That seems to fit in line with Magic Origin's diffinition.
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Quote:That's why I said give Fire another effect.Originally Posted by dugfromthearth
given that incendiary does extra damage and the other 2 give different secondary effects, I don't see why incendiary should not always do the most damage - that is literally what it is for. use cold if you want to slow your foes, not for more damage
and I love the animations, it is why I am playing the set - and I thought I would hate the animations.
I am playing dual pistols on a corruptor, maybe it is better for them. This way it's not just "Go with more damage!" it becomes "What would be best for this enemy"
Let's go with the idea of -ToHit added onto Fire Rounds.
Then people can go, "Hmmm...they're weak to Cold, but accurate, I can take them out quicker with Cold rounds, but they hurt as well, so if I hit them with -ToHit, it helps me survive a bit longer for the Fire damage to get through"
Basic idea anyways. -
Missions with an AV at the end that can't be downgraded to an EB. So even if they're just a pile of hitpoints, it feels like you're actually taking on a true AV/Hero and not say, "Yes! I beat up Statesman! >_> He was EB classed!"
Basically something that says, "You will need to work on your build if you want to truely solo these missions" -
Quote:That is the trick! Marvel and DC have tried. But they tend to lose money on them. The sad part is, for it to work, I think whatever company actually tries to do it will have to risk losing money on such a title(s) first before it starts to make money.Originally Posted by Scythus
I don't think anyone (aside from Venture, who is Venture after all) said making comics more appealing to females would "ruin" them. In fact, comics are already "ruined" all by themselves by the fact that they're attached to a stigma that assumes only little boys and nerdy losers read them. Interestingly enough, this is also true about role-playing games and it's really hard to find a female who's legitimately interested in something like D&D. I've met them, so they exist, but as I established, society at large assumes that reading comics will make you into a loser and thus should be shunned.
I'm all for adding more female friendly comics, but the trick is to get them interested and snap out of that societal assumption that comics will destroy their social life.
It would also, imo, require having a writer/artist team that can stick with a project for a long haul and likely have some long term plans.
Sadly, in the state of comics today, sticking with a comic long term usually feels like they're with it for a year and then move on. -
Quote:truthfully, in all the comics I read, I never noticed these "pin up shots" untill it was pointed out, and even then, it seemed to be those big panel shots, and usually them done in such a way, that yes, while the image is looking to excite, doesn't have them ina pose that is all together out of place.Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
Ah, my bad. I wasn't aware you were still talking about Gen-13.
Um, yeah, no. Personally, I don't see the attraction of sexualized poses like that in comics except on an extremely shallow level. Cheesecake is for pin-ups, in which "sexy" is the extent of the model's characterization. And no, I have absolutely no interest in seeing male heroes in sexualized poses either, and by that I mean actual male model poses not the silly "what if they posed Batman the way they pose Wonder Woman" pictures going around the internet. Superhero comics are supposed to be about superheroes, not underwear models.
The butt shot with a female playing pool, bent over the table for the shot. Sure, they could of done the shot of their face with the pool cue as they talk instead of showing them from behind, but that seems far different than say the Pin-Up style covers they might do (and really I never saw the covers as being to much in the story anyways).
Maybe I was just to innocent when going into comics and just liking the art styles and writing (and why I can only stay with a comic when I like at least one of them, and drop it when I hate both the art and story going on). -
Quote:Alexis wasn't a surving eight. They never said other people wouldnt die in the arc, they just said a member of the survivng eight would die.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Alexis isn't the one the tag line is referring to. That's what rubs many people the wrong way. "Who will die?" Well, Alexis just did. "Oh, um... She didn't matter. I mean who will die that's actually important and we care about him?" But Alexis just died! "Yeah, and a lot more people are going to die in the coming stories. They're not important. We're going to kill a SIGNATURE character. That's what matters. Everyone else is just meat."
One of the reasons people are upset at her death is because the "Who will die?" slogan doesn't apply to her. She got killed for no reason other than to set up the scene for the famous people to die in. That's just using her and tossing her in the trash if ever I've seen it.
Here's a hint - next time you tout an arc's selling point as someone dying, make sure you don't kill other people, because then we have to explain why they weren't important enough to count. -
Quote:While the series is over, if you can find it, if you can find it, I suggest checking out "The Tenth"Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Like I said - faith in an author has burned me in the past. I watched Naruto for four, five years maybe, waded through 300-something episodes, all hoping that women in the show would stop being worthless and useless, but nope. It's only getting worse. I'm not making that mistake again. I'm not putting up with a story that's tanking in the vein hope that it will get better. It never does.
But, no, I don't worry about this happening to men because... It generally doesn't. Sure, it might, occasionally, in the same sense that I might get struck by lighting within the next five minutes. I mean, I'm using a computer that's hooked up to the power grid. It could happen. But it probably won't.
Not so with female protagonists. EVERY time I see a game or story build up a female character as capable, popular or likeable, I always fear it's so destroying her very soon thereafter will be that much more "shocking." And you know what? I'm almost always right. When a story shows me a competent man, it's usually so I can be impressed by his competence. When a story shows me a competent woman, it's usually so she can fail and suffer for it down the line. That's been my experience, at least. Hell, I applaud stories that don't do this, but those are somewhat rare. For instance, much as it's stupid, Heavy Metal 2000 at least avoided humiliating its female protagonist. She may be a male fantasy fanservice character, but at least she doesn't get put on a fridge and she gets to kick *** right into the credits. That counts for a lot.
And I'm really not against killing characters per se, not even female ones. In fact, one of the most powerful scenes I've seen comes from an otherwise HORRIBLE anime called Divergence Eve, where a female character previously established to be likeable, pretty and nice gets quite literally eaten alive (in surprisingly un-graphic but very disturbing fashion). This is scene, however, added to the story because that story earned it, and because it built toward the finale, and because it was handled well. Sure, the rest of the series sucked ***, but that one moment is what made it memorable to me. Because it was done right. And you'll actually probably see that in every music video compilation of that series (blood dripping over an open eye, a hand smearing blood over a happy photo) because it's pretty much the strongest that ****** show ever got.
However, that's an exception to the rule. When I start seeing strong, confident, competent female characters starring in their own stories, not overshadowed by men and not built up only to be brought down in a horrible fashion and when I start seeing this in any meaningful number, THEN I might stop being so weary. For now, I stick with experience.
Yeah, and that's pretty much where I stopped reading. That art style and that plot pretty much killed whatever interest I had with the comic. Even naked super Benjamin Franklin couldn't do enough to make me see past that damn depressing issue. That's one more site scratched off my bookmarks.
While the name of the comic is the name of the male lead, I'd argue the true main of the story is Esperanza, who imo anyways was a strong female lead.
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Quote:I see, but WIR at least to Gail S. seems to say anything bad that happens to a female chaarcter.Originally Posted by Kitsune9tails
Nope; still active, still appealing. That was just character development.
The Fridge takes you out of action for the foreseeable futures, such as when Wonder Woman was killed for a year or so. Her earlier depowerment that lasted for a decade also doesn't count because she was still portrayed as a likeable and capable character during that time.
Barbara Gordon went into the fridge for a while after the Killing Joke, then came back out when she became Oracle.
I'd say that it takes at least 3 months of 'this is a permanent change, and this character can no longer function as a hero' to count as a fridging. Changing to a villain does not count as a fridging.
I am only talking about death/depowerment here, not various forms of violation.
The above is IMHO.
Storm was on her list, and Storm was always active and still an awesome character (okay, awesome is subjective, but I think you get the point) who was shown to be more than capable without the powers.
But that does bring up a good point. But then I think it comes back to sales.
Spider-Girl I think is the title that had a lot of promise, and I believe the numbers had it as one of the most popular of female lead comics, but I believe even then it was still low.
I'd enjoy Wonder Woman more if I didn't think the writer/artist changes to often for me to enjoy her comic more (but that can be said for any comic I guess).
I gave up on Gen13 when the artist changed to Gary Frank and the writing started to be suckie. Bad art, bad writing = no sale. -
Quote:After getting another DP toon to 50, I wonder if being able to go 30 (lethal)/70 (elemental) would help the feel of more damage in the set?Originally Posted by The_mini_gunman
I'm necro'ing this thread, so deal with it. Everyone complains when you don't use the search engine. I'm not only using the search engine...I'm using the ADVANCED search engine. Because that's how I roll up in this hizzy.
Everything that is wrong with Dual Pistols can be summed up thusly: YOU'RE NOT IN A WILD WEST SHOW - QUIT SCREWING AROUND & SHOOT.
Bottom line: You are hit with DOUBLE redraw. You draw your weapon with a flourish, and then proceed to do some band majorette style twirling animations. Frankly I'm shocked that the devs didn't include an animation where the guns burst into flames, then get thrown over your head, and you catch them behind your back while doing a split. I suppose sacrifices had to be made on the editing room floor.
My suggestion for the devs is for one of the lead developers to throw a party at their house over a holiday weekend, and rent every Jon Woo movie you can get your hands on. Then come back on Monday, and take another look at how short this set fall from the mark.
I truly believe if the animation times were shorter, and you could get off more attacks quicker, everything else that's wrong with this set would take care of itself.
Another thought is, give Toxic and Cold the Fire DoT treatment and then give Fire a new ability to go along with it, so all the elemental damages are worth twitching around, so one can actually mess around with the enemies weakest resist. -
Quote:And yet you don't worry about it happening to a male character? And really, you let that be what stops you from enjoying such things, is because you worry it may happen?Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Or they may run the risk of making them MORE appealing. Personally, I'd enjoy comic books, comic book movies and comic book cartoons more if they featured more strong, lead female characters without making me worry they'd get humiliated, murdered in a horrible fashion or "need a man." That's one reason why over half of my own City of Heroes characters are female - that's just more interesting to me.
Could just read it untill it does happen.
Though, now I wonder. Spinnerette was defeated, had to be resusitated, and was left tied to a tree.
Does that mean she's WIR now? -
Gratzie Henri! *claps* Can't wait to see how the pic turns out.
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Quote:They don't annoy me! I actually like Fusionette! She's so comic booky!Originally Posted by ryu_planeswalker
you know who i don't want to die...Fusionette and Flamebeaux.
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Quote:From what I've read (and I could be remembering this wrong), female lead titles tend to not sell as well.Originally Posted by Kitsune9tails
That was not Gail's point.
Her point was (if I may do my own bit of interpreting and paraphrasing):
1: In general, girls don't like superhero comics.
2: This is partly because there are not a lot of prominent, admirable girl superheroes.
3: The girl superheroes that are around tend to die in particularly gruesome or unheroic ways.
4: Go to 1: above.
Now there may indeed be a gender disproportiate amount of fridging going on, but that may say less about the bias of the writers and more about the fact that there are fewer girl superheroes to begin with, which loops right back into 1, again.
In any case, a list of heroes that have been fridged is anecdotal at best.
If you were going to do a statistical analysis, you'd have to compile data on every superhero comic that was produced between say, Jan 1 2010 and Jan 1 2011 by a given company, say DC, and analyze those.
A bit of accompanying data that might be interesting is how many female superheroes existed in said company at said time versus the number of males.
So some of the problems may just be that females arent picking them up enough to begin with, even if they are marketing them after the female audience.
I think this goes back to the "comics are for little boys" thinking though.
Even on the awesome titles I never understood why not enough people got into (of course, what I think is awesome can be completely different than others)...Spider-Girl, Super Girl...two of my favorite comics.
Then there was the female heavy Gen-13, which I blame it's lack of success more on the creators basically abandoning the title. And sadly I think this is what keeps any comic now a days from getting anywhere.
Female audience starts to get into a comic...writer is fired or quits to move onto other projects.
Manga works better in this way, in that when the writer gets tired of it, they just end it. But then, I like comics because I know they wont end (theoretically anyways). -
Quote:Pffft. I want it, and my playstyle is to get into melee.Originally Posted by Vitality
This just reinforces the point that all you really want is to be overpowered.
You want a purely ranged character with scrapper survivability.
Oh yes, I bet Dual Pistols/Regen or Dual Pistols/Ninjitsu or Dual Pistols/Super Reflexes is extremely overpowered.
Let's see, a Blast set that encourages getting into melee, and is considered by many to be one of the worst sets around.
That said, I'd be more than willing to just have them come up with a Dual Pistols (using the same animations) tree for Widows or Soldiers. -
Quote:And that's an RP choice, not a game choice.Originally Posted by rsclark
Mine don't.
My huntsman is a former TV personality who has no connection to Arachnos and has never been put on any special lists besides FBI most wanted.
An idea largely abandoned because of the inconvenience and fracturing of the player base it causes. -
Electric Melee = Multiple KD powers
Dark Melee = to ST focused for the -ToHit to really be useful in added survivability, even with the added heal of Siphon Life.
Kin Melee = Some okay KD, might even be worthwhile to take Repulsing Torrent for added survivability. Regen doesn't need enemies close. Of course, there's also the -DMG.
Strett Justice = More AOE KD, and some ST effects.
I think I'll have to go with Super Flu on this.
It gives you the AOE knockdown, and works with the control of one's body (bio-electricity) that you mentioned with Spines. -
Quote:I actually thought this may be what kept him alive. Look at the WIR thread.Originally Posted by CactusBrawler
And of course, he's the black guy.
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Quote:I don't know. Gail's point seemed to be be more bad things happen to females in comics, by the percentages, than to male characters.Originally Posted by Kitsune9tails
Yet another case of someone missing Gail Simone's original point.
The linked site goes to disprove it.
Looking over that list...
Spider-Man lost his wife, marriage, girlfriends, uncle, an eye, and all to what?
Jason Todd killed, beaten to death, to further Batman and to make matters worse, it was due to a publicity stunt that even now they say was cheated.
Batman had his back broken and been killed for nothing more than a ratings gimmick.
Same with Superman.
Wolverine's been killed over and over again.
Speedball got turned into Penance.
GiantMan depowered over and over again.
Daredevil killed, lost loved ones.
Cyclops killed, lost his son, lost his wife, lost his girlfriend, turned into a avatar of Apoc.
Gambit blinded, powers lost, turned into a horseman, lost many girlfriends ect
And no, not all of them where great stories, some of them were actually garbage. Made worse by the fact that you know some of it will be undone.
I think the link shows it's not that itragedy happens more to the percentage of women in comics, it's that it goes to the mindset of a lot of people. As previously posted by another poster (paraphrased as I'm not going to go find the quote) "Violence against men = meh, Violence against women = WTF?! Grrrr! This makes me sick!"
Which just leads you to the other side of same coin.