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Originally Posted by Golden Girl

That's a very poorly designed outfit

Originally Posted by Werner

Good point. I wouldn't personally like being stuck with "only" 200% extra regeneration for a minute with no heal except greens, but that much regeneration DOES go a really long way when nothing can hit you. A number of people have done all the usual dangerous stuff using just passive regeneration on a Super Reflexes, and that was before Rebirth. So yeah, Rebirth is plenty for most things most of the time.



Using the same basic template that had Katana doing 242 DPS, Dual Blades ended up with the exact same number. Now, that's pre-incarnate powers, and with Spiritual you can get the Dual Blades damage up a little higher (249 DPS) since the top chain tops out at +314% recharge, which I wasn't achieving.

Both should benefit about the same from Interface, as both top chains put out four attacks in 4.5 seconds. The Katana chain gets a little more -resistance than the Dual Blades chain, so probably gets a hair more out of Interface damage, but it's hardly a deciding factor.

Maybe I should say more about front-loading damage. A long time ago, I was comparing a Broad Sword build to a Dual Blades build. I'm kind of making up numbers since I don't remember exactly, but I think the Broad Sword build did around 175 DPS, and the Dual Blades build did around 225 DPS. The thing is, Broad Sword was ahead on damage for the first 15 or so seconds of the fight despite a 50 DPS deficit. If we're talking about a mere 7 DPS deficit, I think we'd find that the Katana damage is ahead of Dual Blades for a very long time indeed. Front loaded damage is also better at taking out threats in a spawn, improving survivability.

In practice, though, it would probably be pretty hard to notice the difference just based on performance. Both would tear through spawns quickly. Both would eliminate dangerous mobs quickly.

Actually, it's kind of shocking to me how well-balanced power sets remain even with top end builds. I know the devs have had seven years to iron all this out, but I'm still impressed.

Originally Posted by Kinetoa

Cool thoughts so far!

I one does go for Aid Self, do you even bother to slot Aid Other? One thing I see is that you could add a slot to Aid Other, and get 2 pc Numina's for a 12% Regen.

Originally Posted by SuperOz

They didn't, but the diamond body powers, blonde hair, the whole bit were intended by the filmmakers and they stated as such.


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Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven

To me, a ranged weapon should never be a part of a melee set regardless of the fact that melee sets have ranged powers in them already. Ranged weapons are for ranged powersets, and melee weapons for melee powersets. Aside from ridiculousness, what seperates the spirit of this suggestion from, say, Archery Melee?

I am also dubious of the suggestion to instead create a Katana 'Manipulation'-styled set for Blasters... as again it crosses that above barrier. There is just something about the aesthetics of it that I don't like.

Originally Posted by SuperOz

I saw it only a few hours ago and I thought it was a very thoughtful and fun movie, that knew when drama was drama and when there was time for a tension-relieving joke or two.

McAvoy and Fassbender are very able leads and Fassbender in particular was done a great service in being told by Vaughn not to reference Ian McKellan's performance. That was a very good choice and no offence to our Xavier/Magneto here, Patrick Stewart and MacKellan are veteran Shakespeare rep actors with a gravitas that really only comes from experience. Not tying either actor to be beholden to that was a very good move.

However.

This is apparently being pitched as a new trilogy (as I feared, not being a fan of prequels full of younger, prettier actors rather than...you know...actors) and there are continuity problems ahead, considering they made such an effort to reference the earlier films.

For one, we have a character from the Wolverine movie in this movie, and from the Wolverine movie we have a slightly older Xavier taking in Cyclops and co. So you would then have to explain how said character winds up being in the Wolverine movie.

And then Wolverine himself...without giving anything away, there's a connection made there that pretty much undoes Wolverine being an unknown factor in the original X-Men film.

Fox have clearly decided that rather and try to ignore or address X3, they're going to root themselves in the past and do the Young X-Men Adventures, because presumably the primary cast have been signed to at least one more picture. Otherwise why our cameos? Why clearly state in the script references to future events? And lastly, why have Bryan Singer on board as one of the producers if it's clean slate? He has a viable connection to this franchise as it started out and starting anew would to me imply a desire to start fresh, rather how Star Trek did.

It's still an excellent film however, but I do fear that the long term plans for this is a 'milk the franchise' move more than anything else.


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Originally Posted by Amy_Amp

Corrs get Fire. [/debate]

Originally Posted by Inazuma

*pulls up Netflix streaming to watch the original Trigun series again*

Originally Posted by Father Xmas

I'm not surprised by either character who changed size.

Angel changed sides from the side with the people who they are suppose to be helping openly mocking you to the side that wipes out those same people without breaking a sweat.

Raven changed the side where her true form is encouraged to be hidden to the side whose leader tells her she'll be accepted openly by her own kind.

And Frost doesn't really change sides.

Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba

Really?

Energy Blast chain:
Burst, Bolt, Blast, Bolt, repeat

Corruptor Base Damage:
88.42+41.71+68.4+41.71 = 240.24

Defender Base Damage:
76.63+36.15+59.28+36.15 = 208.21

Damage buff caps: Cor +400%; Def +300%

Cor chain at damage cap: 1201.2
Def chain at damage cap: 832.84

This doesn't even consider scourge. Defender damage output is not in the same ballpark. Even unslotted and ignoring scourge, which we shouldn't do, cor damage is 15% higher and it just goes up from there.

Originally Posted by JayboH

I sure as heck hope not. Not only would that upset a lot of paying customers, but any hint of the sort will automatically force lost sales immediately.

Originally Posted by LISAR

To say that something isn't done because that would be gay is saying there is something wrong with being gay.

Originally Posted by Silver Gale

The only logic I can see there is "each bodytype should get a similar amount of stuff in each pack". So if female models are getting sexy witch leathers and male/huge models are getting badass occult coats, then everyone is getting about the same amount of stuff. But if you give the badass occult coats to the female models then suddenly the female models are getting two things, and that's unfair. And you can't give sexy witch leathers to the male and huge outfits, because that would be gay. So females only get the sexy witch leathers and nothing else.

Originally Posted by Samothrake

I'm kinda wondering when this takes place.
'cause I swear that at least one of those characters was dead by the end of the anime...

Originally Posted by bAss_ackwards

You keep on trying to derail my efforts. Cut it out!

Joking aside, Ice Armor is more likely because only 1 power would need replacing: Hibernate. Ninjitsu would need Hide and Caltrops replaced. But that's not to say I'm not clamoring for Ninjitsu to be proliferated over either.

Originally Posted by Gobbledygook

I've got it narrowed down to a corr (either fire/dark, or ice/cold) a mm (thugs/dm or necro/dm) or a VEAT. Thanks for everyones input, anything else on the matter may be helpful still.

Originally Posted by Acemace

Same, if professor x let Shaw go = booom!

There was already a >spoiler alert< so,
I saw it with my wife and we liked it, though we both sort of groaned during the flying fight scenes at the end between flying pixie tattoo girl and Banshee, it looked, goofy.

And as mentioned characters changed sides too casually.

Good film though, better then X3 easily but not quite up to X1-2.

Originally Posted by Redlynne

As a DAMAGE power, it certainly is (worthless).

As a CONTROL power, it most certainly is NOT (worthless).

Caltrops is an AREA DENIAL power, not a Damage power (although it can be loaded up with procs that do damage, if you've got the slots for it).