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Quote:Eye of the beholder. they're all subjective. You should know that before going into any costume contest.Originally Posted by Supernumiphone
The last one I entered, the winner had the full Valkyrie set. That's it. Yeah it looks cool, but if you're going to award someone for the full set, it should be Jay or whoever created the thing. That was just too much. I haven't entered another one since.
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Quote:One of the reasons I said allow us to earn a save for it. Make the reward a claimable character reward.Originally Posted by VoodooGirl
I like the idea of this CCE only being available to be earned during the Bewitching season
Makes it much more special.
I can save Halloween Salvage all year long.
Though, I did get to thinking...they COULD just have the Halloween event popup for one day every now and again.
Like Dec 24th "The Halloween Before Christmas"
Feb 13th "Blood Bath Before Valentines"
Day before Thanksgiving "Blood and Turkey"
See! That works too
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Quote:I know what you mean. I've had over 15 versions of BrandX >_>Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
That would be nice. I've got three versions of Adeon Hawkwood and it would be nice if they could all actually be called Adeon Hawkwood.
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Paragon Studios not effected? CHECK! YAY! That's the most important thing.
Now, to the secon dmost important thing. Is this going to hurt my chances to see Blade & Soul come to NA and play it? -
Quote:Oh well, if the EC-CAK-CS-SK is only 5 DPS less that the best, I'd totally sacrifice the 5 DPS for the more awesome chain! EC is YUMMY!Originally Posted by Moonlighter
Storm Kick is also, by far, that best damaging power in the set.
That said, EC -> CAK -> CS -> SK has relatively low recharge requirements and is only 5 DPS behind the top chain. By having EC available you can also use EC -> DT to boost your AoE with extra crits. -
Quote:Making Murder of Crows CCE available for sale for future toons and not having to run it one every single oneOriginally Posted by Zwillinger
I do agree. Time saving items such as this have made my costume creation and playtime a bit more enjoyable.
Glad to see you're enjoying it as well.
As long as we're talking about it, are there any other time vs. convenience options like the cape and aura unlock service you could see being a desirable Market offering?
That said, agree the OP. I for one was never fond of having a story lock reason for capes and auras and this allows me to just go at level 1 with what I want.
Yes, in my head I just ignored the aura mission text, and personally I never thought of it as any really big time sink. It was more of just "Concept demands cape and/or aura! Wish I could have it at level one!"
I bought these two options the first day
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Hmmm...one use of the word used, would of kept a movie PG, and with the current censors, possibly not bleeped out on a TV show.
However, the forum rule does say no profanity, and it would seem they consider that word profanity enough to take action. *shrug* Admittedly though, the comic could of likely done without using the word
But sometimes I think David Willis likes to throw in the profanity to just throw it in.
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Quote:I thought the same thing.Originally Posted by Cosmic_Herald
I was going to let this statement go. It was the tag line to the article I had read.
It is completely misleading though.
What the article really states is that Jackson has been part of enough films that combining their gross revenues makes it so he has been 'part of' films that together made more than any other actor's combined films.
In a good number of the higher grossing films, Sam just played a second to third string role. Star Wars, Marvel films which have accounted for a big percentage of that grossing total.
And no, I am not putting Jackson down. I like him as an actor.
I like SLJ as an actor, but agreed, a lot of those movies he's been a part of to put him into that record (which is still awesome in it's own right), was as a minor character.
He has Iron Man listed, but he showed up in an after credits scene to be a part of it.
*goes an turns on Snakes on a Plane* What?! I own it! And I like it! ^_^ -
Quote:Cynacism? I just prefere the other product. It's a nice thing they're doing for sure. I just won't go buying it because of it.Originally Posted by Arnabas
Huh. Lots of cynicism here.
I don't care about the whys and wherefores of this. They're raising money for a good cause. I believe they were committing up to 3 million.
Good enough for me. -
I can believe that aliens exist. However this "evidence" is lacking.
This could just as easily be a sculpture akin to Mount Rushmore or as simple as "I'm bored and neither television or the internet has been invented yet."
And if we're going by an artists work, what will future civilizations think when they see Rob Liefields art or Picasso's cubism period?
For all we know, that could be a sculpture of a chosen one, which did in fact have an elongated head as a birth defect, and because of it, the people saw him as the chosen one "Oh! He was born with a bigger head! He must be special and chosen by the gods!" -
Quote:This.Originally Posted by Warkupo
A simple extra layer of immersion, but would probably create more problems. People getting named what they want is enough of a problem as it is without having everyone named two things at once. Can't support it because of that.
Now, having the ability to have multiple characters of the same name as one you're already using would be nice.
Sooo...I have BrandX on Virtue, would be nice if I so desired to beable to use that name on multiple characters if I wanted as long as I have at least one BrandX on the server at the time when I chose it. -
Please make this available as purchasable in the Paragon Market.
I really have no problem earning it in the trial, my thought is more in line with new powersets coming out, so new characters coming, and I'd like to beable to have the CCE for them, without having to wait a year to get it again.
OR
A way to have it available in email per character. I could live with this and stock up and/or save one for future character. -
Quote:Well alot of people tend to look at the power sets name/description to decide what it does instead of getting creative.Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
as mentioned it would require a lot of work for the alternate animations
as for the notion of a magic staff powerset i think i read somewhere that the concept would be too limited to be worthwhile (since it would mostly only apply to magic characters, maybe natural unless you want to RP that the staff itself contained the power and you just learned how to use it)
personally i dont think it would be too hard to make a magic staff set because vanguard wizards for example use a magic staff based set
Staff could easily fall into Magic of course.
Could fall into:
Tech (especially if they give alternate graphics for say the energy blasts) as a weapon ability to harness the elements or what have you.
Mutant who needs to focus their abilities through an object.
Natural could be a normal human who has a tech/magic item, as this can easily have some overlap (dont forget there's also a secondary or in some cases primary to fall back on). Alien race would also be natural as this could just be a standard weapon of their race (and alien race includes angelic/demonic entities).
Science can have it fall into the Mutant side of things as being a focus for one's abilities, tech and science can easily have overlap as well.
My Demon/Dark MM was a mutant who summoned forth creatures from her nightmares. *shrug* My Willpower is just a combination of Regen/Reflexes/ability to take a punch (Regen, Defense Powers, and good S/L Resist), and less on "Willing herself to keep fighting"
I use the power descriptions as just a generic flavor text by the devs, and then use them how I want too. Of course this doesn't mean I wouldn't prefere to have certain elements combined into a set to truely get the feeling (like WP is typed defense, and the agility part would feel more agile if it was positional), but you go with what you have to work with. -
One of the problems with this idea is that it would require making whole new animations that fit in exactly with the animation times of the current blasts.
A possible solution is to make a whole new set that uses tech already in place.
Magic Staff
Costume Options: Multiple Staffs
Powers:
Spell Focus: An ability just like Swap Ammo. Only it not only changes the effects/damage type, it changes the visuals. Fire/Ice/Magic Energy (Blasts that have the Rune Charm Blast effect...temp power in Croatoa) seem like the good one's to go with. Though maybe adding in Earth Spells as well.
The hard part (or maybe extremely easy and it just takes some thought) is to make it so Fire/Ice/Magic Energy (energy damage) really is as effective no matter which you use.
My thought...
All do the same damage. But the damage type changes completely. Fire does Fire Damage, Cold does Cold damage, Magic Energy does Energy damage.
For the fire portion of the spells, we avoid +DMG tics or make it so the tics still equal the same amount of damage as Ice and Energy are doing, this way people aren't just using Fire Damage for the best damage.
So what do we do? We add in different effects for the Fire damage!
Fire: -Resist
Cold: Slows/-Regen
Energy: EndDrain with a few -Def/KB/KD effecrs scattered about.
If we add in Earth, I'd say make it a combination of Smashing/Lethal attacks. Make it so Magic Energy is just EndDrain/-Def, and have Earth attacks have a combination of -Resist/-Regen/Slow/-Def/KB/KD...basically while the other damage types have their set in stone (no pun intended) effects on all their attacks, Earth becomes the Jack of All Trades, Master of None.
Then it's just a matter of the attacks.
Spell Focus (the swap ammo ability), 1 Targetted AOE, 1 Cone, 1 PBAOE Attack, 1 PBAOE Nuke, 3 Single Target Attacks, 1 Utility Attack (low damage, but massive secondary effect that corresponds to the damage type selected...if Earth is added in, I'd say make it a low amount of each effect, with an unresistable KD, maybe just an unresistable KD, or possibly just one massive Lethal Damage single target attack).
I'd make the cone a 120-180 degree cone with some okay range. Change it up from things like BReath of Fire, so people will actually consider taking it. I say this, as I figure the cone would be a flamethrower style attack.
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Quote:What else would magic be? Or are you saying you want a set based around Rune Blast (the temp power from Croatoa)?Originally Posted by Krieg_Jaeger
And that's a good point about magic. Frankly I see little to no representation of purely magical powers. Mostly conjuration of elements or netherworld energies (Dark _____)
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And yet, I still prefere Pepsi.
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Quote:WP get QR at lvl 20.Originally Posted by Adamant
It's statements like this that get me upset.
Have you even tested Titan Weapons at all?
If so... have you bothered to test it through normal play, maybe during the first 20 or so levels of play? Or did you just get an automatic level bump from 1 to 50 then go out and spam your AoE attacks without any decent enhancements?
I have spent hours testing the lower levels without a level bump, as have others, and we can attest that the set is not horrible on endurance at all. It's far better, in fact, than many sets that are currently on live.... ESPECIALLY Street Justice, which was just released.
I played WP, which didn't get QR until level 18, and never even slotted Stamina.
The set hits slow, and hard. I had more than enough time to regen my endurance, and even forgot to toggle off sprint on many occasions.
At higher levels.... yes, you have 4 AoEs. YES, THEY COST A LOT OF ENDURANCE.
All AoEs do. ANY set with that many AoEs should have endurance issues if they blow their load all at once.
So you DEAL WITH IT. The potential of having that many AoEs is glorious, and WELL WORTH THE ENDURANCE COST... which AGAIN, is NORMAL for those AoE attacks.
*gasp*
Well gee.... slot for end reduction! Get Conserve Power and use it... or the multitude of other endurance management tools. In the end game, go with Cardiac or Ageless.
I agree that Physical Perfection won't do much if that is the ONLY way you are trying to manage your endurance when spamming those AoEs. So what? It's only one tool of many.
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Quote:SK - CS/CK - SK - CAK is the best ST DPS, which you must have the recharge for, if you can go EC - CAK - CS. So, just curious why that's the ST chain for you, or is it just about the animations?Originally Posted by Kung Ru
I skipped Thunder Kick, Crane Kick, and Warrior's Challenge. CK can be swapped with Cobra Strike, but it's a matter of do you want to chase enemies or stun them. Pick which works best for you.
With high recharge (you're /regen, you better build for high recharge), my attack chain on single targets is EC -> CAK -> CS. In big messes, it's EC -> DT -> CAK -> CS. SK is just there if I get slowed or bored and want to off a straggler without overkilling too much.
Just curious, cause Storm Kick I consider a great animation
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Quote:Blue Steel doesn't lead the PPD. He's a member of the PPD.Originally Posted by NT_Flamer
That's why there are APPs for you.
I think that it shouldn't be members of the Phalanx. I think it should be Heroes that Lead organizations that help the city which would be similar to the Patrons who lead factions of Arachnos.
So Liberty for Longbow
Manticore for Wyvern (Yes Phalanx, but lets face it Manticore is a bad *** and deserves better)
Lady Grey for Vanguard
Blue Steel for PPD (Don't remember if he is Phalanx or not)
These IMO would be the best choices and would give abilities based off of the Hero Groups rather than the Heroes themselves to make it different from the Arachnos Patrons.
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So I got to thinking. What about the animations for this set? And I thought, they'd be simple ports.
Temporal Perfection is a passive so none needed.
Temporal Mending I was thinking the same as Reconstruction, but the Defender/Corr/Troller/MM animation of Temporal Mending could just as easily be used.
Bullet Time Vision can be just like Time's Juncture.
Quick Response I was thinking to look like Intergrations alternate animation.
Temporal Cloak, standard Stealth animation.
Future Sight, it could go with Farsights animation, but going with something a bit simpler like SR or WP's toggles seems like a good idea as well.
Slowed Response, something akin to Consumption, Energy Drain, Dark Consumption I think would be best.
Rewind Time, I was thinking something like RotP in terms of how the avatar itself acts, but obviously lacking the flames. Rise, float off the ground a bit, arms outstretched. With voice tech, I wouldn't mind hearing "I LIVE...AGAIN!" but that could totally break it for some people who might even consider taking a rez power So maybe keep it to some simple "Time Lines" what you see in Chrono Shift, but not as fancy.
Chrono Phase, totally see Chrono Shift's animation for this one. -
I havent used this feature, so not sure if it's available to VIPs, but if it is, I might just have to use this on my teleporting concept.
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Quote:The chest detail (only available to males/huge) buckle strap/ring strap is worth getting imo.Originally Posted by Ultra_Violence
Hard to complain about the costumes in this game period. From release it always looked to me like everyone was playing a totally different game.
That said some of the latest packs (Steampunk, Animal and Halloween) were awesome. But I have no desire to ever get CoTs pack (which looks just like an existing set to me) or Barbarian (which I don't get period). So it is all a matter of opinion I guess. -
I agree. As someone who's been wanting giant weapons, I never thought a new set was needed (note that so far the set has been fun for what little I've played it) just new weapon skins.
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Quote:going to bring the rant here now?Originally Posted by Leo_G
Lol that means "no port" or "wait 2+ years port" which is as good as ****, really.
So when will Stalkers get some exclusive powersets and actual ports, then? Cause comparatively, again, they get ****.
Tanker: Martial Arts, Super Reflexes, Street Justice, Titan Weapons
Brute: Broadsword/Katana, Regeneration, Street Justice, Titan Weapons
Scrapper: Axe, Mace, Energy Aura, Street Justice, Titan Weapon
Stalker: Ice Armor, Street Justice
If you can't tell, Stalkers get half of anything and that's BS. Heck, if it was going to be planned not to release TW for Stalkers, they could have pooled the resources that could port *5* sets to Scraps and Brutes and at least give Stalker 1 more proliferation.
Or maybe I'm just annoyed and peeved with the laziness of the devs but they're really going to pump out an exclusive set or two for Stalkers. That would be *smart* vs the stupidity I've seen thus far and in the foreseeable future.
Untill Ninjitsu gets ported (and Scrappers should get it imo) I'd say the Shield vs No Shield arguement is a wash. At least from the point that I'd give up Shield on Scrappers for Ninjitsu on Scrappers personally (but Im sure im in the minority on that one).
And at least Stalkers have an exclusive set. Scrappers don't have a single exclusive set.
In fact, I believe Stalkers and Tankers are the only Melee ATs to have an exclusive set (Ninjitsu and Ice Melee)...sooo...can Scrappers and Brutes have an exclusive set too?
They said looking into it, how about you give them a few months after it's released before saying "Yeah soon means two years"
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Quote:Heh. This is true. One of the reasons I said "Use it as a guide towards making your own" I use the Hami O's for 1 reason only, but find an added benefit.Originally Posted by Eldorado
To make another of my many analogies: BrandX's DB/WP build is kind of like the Bigfoot of monster trucks -- it's totally awesome for what it does, but there's only a handful of guys in the country who can (and will) put something like that together! Most of the rest of us are happy with an off-road capable rig that will go wherever we point it and not get stuck, for less than the cost of a house.
The main reason, is it just saves me a slot. Before I was 4 slotting those powers, for better ENDRED and DEF, getting the LotG set bonuses out of it.
The benefit is better ENDRED.
Confront is just a nice animation (I like Dual Blades animation anyways) combined with a usefulness of me holding an AV's aggro when needed (specifically STF's Recluse).
I also don't care about the speed of which I clear a map, but being able to clear it of all targets, this includes soloing AVs.