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Originally Posted by EvilRyu

Its essentially like your naked or playing a blaster for the most part. All the defense in the world isnt going to do squat against this kind of thing. Its kind of why I was against this kind of content in the first place. There are ways of making the game harder without having the npc to cheat they just choose not do so.

Originally Posted by Miss Chief

Congratulations Paragon Studios. You just made one of my Invulnerability Scrappers powers completely pointless, and IMO made her completely piontless too.

Which one? Invincibility. It's pretty much a 'must take' for any invuln character as it provides a good chunk of your Defence and also gives you a nice little to hit boost. Well tonight I ran a lambda trial. And I got creamed repeatedly. Ad I don't mean I died a bit and got annoyed or I died 5 or 6 times. I managed to rack up a full quantity of debt on my level 50 scrapper within 20 minutes. Yes she has tier 4 and yes she has a few sets through her build but she's not softcapped (and I don't see why she should have to be either if the Dev's continue with their 'IO's are optional, we haven't made the game any tougher' mantra) but she was completely useless. Her major points are S+L Resistance which is next to useless thanks to all the fire and energy flying around, she has very little ranged defence which for a melee based character who should be 'in there' shouldn't be a necessity either. Basically she's now completely pointless and incredibly painful to play on the Incarnate trials. I feel like giving up on her and she used to be my favourite character. The trial should be difficult yes, but IMo they've taken it too far. it suits some characters perfectly and practically encourages people to softcap, simple because just about any level of resistance is utterly pointless.

Congratz Pragon, you just relegated one of my favourite to 'No i don't want to play her on this, she'll spend more time face down and in the hospital than fighting' league.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

Actually, it's better to not bother.



Pretty much where I am. Or where I was, back when I thought there was something to do with these powers than run more Trials. I'd intended to do what it took to unlock said powers and... I'm still working on that part. "Raid more" doesn't quite have the right ring to it.

Originally Posted by Lothic

First of all I've seen both movies and I didn't even need a time machine for that.

Second of all you clearly have NOT seen Source Code because:

***Spoiler Alert***

(1) The main character is not "recruited" to do the task at hand. He's forced to do it against his will.
(2) The story itself is not even actually about "Time Travel" at all. It's about alternate dimensions.

Just about the only thing these two movies have in common is they are both sci-fi movies about a guy "traveling" to another reality and a girl he falls in love with there. I'll bet you could probably shoehorn hundreds of movies into that general premise.

And finally yes, Soruce Code was a much better film than Deja Vu.

Originally Posted by Lastjustice

Guy gets recruited by an agency to observe the past with some technology and falls in love with a girl. He then does whatever it takes to save her despite the program not being creating for that as it supposedly can only see the past not alter ...so they claim anyways. Thats exactly what Deja vu was about. Whether its a better movie or not doesn't change it's still a stupid concept the first time I saw it. (How you can be so certain that its a better film that you haven't seen it is beyond me...unless you re a dang time traveler....*deports her back to the 42nd century.)

Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle

Interestingly, of the sets brutes and scrappers share directly, the only one where brutes arguably come out on top would be fire melee. The same fire melee that is popularly known for its great single target damage and fairly garbage aoe. Whether that counts as a feather depends on your cap's existing plumage.

Every other shared set either relies on permanent BU-level buffs, favoring the scrapper, or pseudopets, favoring the scrapper. I would argue that even claws' damage buff for brutes isn't incredibly impressive because spin, its most damaging power, suffers a nearly five second recharge penalty in comparison to the scrapper version.

Overall, then, there are some edge case brutes that do passable damage, but the real bonus they get is in being surly chunks of beef that generate tanker style aggro without the drawback of being as fearsome as a soggy baby. Therefore, your choices of damage level are the following: of the three melee ATs, you can opt for The Full Scrappy, The Close-If-You-Squint Brute, or The Saddest Tanker. That fully describes all melee AT options available to you, you're welcome.

Originally Posted by mauk2

Aw good grief, are we REALLY having this discussion again?

Deep in our hearts, we all know brutes are better, just based on the numbers.

I'm a scrapper player myself, but it's not because the archetype is better. I like scrappers.

Even after the 'nerf' to fury, brutes do equal or better damage than a scrapper (fire melee? super strength?) AND ARE TOUGHER. I rolled up a claw/inv brute to make identical builds, brute vs scrapper, just to test out the theory, and quit before fifty. Because it was quite obvious even on SO's.

Brutes do the same or better damage, and are quite a lot tougher, and the gap is going to get quite a lot bigger as the next four Incarnate Slots start unfolding. (Good lord, energy armor is gonna be SICK.)

HOWEVER.

The Devs have addressed this just about as much as they seem willing. Months ago. The subject seems closed.


If you are the sort who lives and dies by the numbers, roll the brute, every time.

If you like a little style, well, then the scrapper has it all the way.

Aww, yeah, scrapper strut.....

Originally Posted by Obitus

Huh. Squeamish is one way to put it. Or maybe the general movie-going public is tired of Hollywood passing off the gratuitously morbid and/or perverted as art. There are movies that make you laugh, movies that make you cry, movies that make you think -- and some rare few that do all three. Those are all good things. All of them have a place in cinema.

Movies that just make you want to vomit? Not so much.

I mean, seriously, a young girl gets imprisoned in a mental hospital, serially *****, and then lobotomized? Sounds like an absolutely scintillating Saturday night out.

I'm sure a lot film makers regard that sort of plotline as edgy and daring, but what they don't seem to understand is that a film like that has to do more, not less, to convince people of its redeeming artistic qualities. We should be past the point where edginess for its own sake is a credible production goal. It's lazy, it's childish, and perhaps most of all, it's patronizing.

It's not that we're too stupid or too prudish or too provincial to understand you, Hollywood. If anything, the problem is that we understand all too well. We see through your supercilious facade. We don't appreciate your sophomoric sermons, your ham-fisted use of exposition, your hilariously brazen hypocrisy. And when film critics -- most of whom are so bored with the everlasting geyser of dreck spewing from your studios that they're inclined to like almost anything that has the slightest tinge of novelty -- almost universally pan a film the subject of which is so obviously abhorrent as Sucker Punch's, well then we're really not gonna show up. In droves.

So by all means, continue to believe that we're all clueless hicks who just want sunshine and unicorns and rainbows erupting from pretty movie stars' shapely posteriors. We'll continue to prefer children's films and mindless action/romance candy -- not because those are the best stories ever told, but because they're at least reliably entertaining and inoffensive. Occasionally, they're even inspiring.

Oddly enough, as production budgets and schedules have expanded beyond the wildest dreams of the old studios, the quality of the product has generally and precipitously declined. Maybe that's because the old studios usually remembered to tell an interesting story, with interesting characters, in addition to fulfilling whatever ersatz-artiste fetish du jour -- whether visual or thematic.

/end general Hollywood rant (and apologies to Serva, whose quote was just a jumping off point)

Good read, this thread.

Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze

Ahhhh...
I see the problem there..... and it's not Regen

Originally Posted by Syntax42

At least Regen has Ice Armor and Force Field to keep it company at the bottom of the barrel. Both of those sets need attention just as bad as Regen. Ice Armor has the worst mitigation out of all the Tanker sets, and the gap gets worse when comparing IO set builds. Force Field doesn't do much more than buff defense, while the other Defender sets have debuffs, buffs, or desirable (not knockback) status effects.

Originally Posted by Desmodos

I hate to pick on Regeneration, but it just isn't what it used to be. Every mitigation options has it's strengths and weakness; so they will excel in some scenarios and struggles in others. In the balance of excel vs struggle, I find Regeneration struggling more often then excelling. That's my experience and I state that knowing full well some players do extremely well with Regeneration scrappers.

Originally Posted by Verene

you can stick botz in sprint, which i'd normally recommend you put a stealth io in, but baby steps :P

Originally Posted by Bad_Influence

I don't recall having made the statement "there are no good costume pieces available for free." What I did say was that these days we are expected to pay for ALL of the most interesting new costume pieces.

Power customization will count as costume pieces for me when I can put hot-pink Cloak of Fear on any of my alts that I choose, just like how I can put Valkyrie on anyone now - from my toughest Tank to my most delicate Controller. Power customization does not appear on the physical-appearance pull-down menus when building a new character, with the exception of weapons. Weapons can be costume pieces. And speaking of that, we need new weapons.

The verbal semantics some of you will employ to try to deny what's happening are actually pretty funny.

Nobody here wears hot pink:
Bad

Originally Posted by Primantiss

When I hear the term "vanity powers" the first thing I think of are powers that would do nothing else but make you look 'cooler' than everyone else. Bestow extra fancy auras, or what not..

Kinda like the "vanity mounts" in many other MMO's, that functionally are no different than standard mounts, but have unique looks about them.

I could get behind this idea, they could be locked by a badge, or accolade, of varying difficulty to obtain.

Originally Posted by Angelxman81

GR gave us awesome costume sets and pieces, as it was paid content and that will always have more quality, effort and resources. Obvious.
But GR was more than 7 months ago!
We should get costume pieces in every Issue, and it should be a monthly costume booster pack. No powers, just costumes pieces and change costume emotes. Now, if Mutant and Animal werent your theme (my case), is just annoying having to wait this long to get a new costume booster.
Want to see a sneak of whats to come!

Originally Posted by Samothrake

Actually, there are two main reasons that I have heard from "Movie Stars" turning to television in recent years.
The first is a regular paycheck. Yeah, the big names can make 10-30 million or more per film, but then there's the not so big names. And if a show goes on for a while, the paychecks get bigger and bigger. Just look at the stars of 'Friends' by the last few seasons: a million dollars per episode! 22 million for a season. At that time, not one of those actors would have been able to command that much for a leading role in a movie. Even now, for those actors of 'Friends,' I don't think any of them can command that much for a starring role. Well, perhaps Anniston, but I'm not sure.
The second reason for a "Movie Star" to go to television is that they get to play a character for a long time. During that time they get to portray someone with all sorts of quirks and things that happen to them. We see this called "character growth" when we sit down and discuss what has happened this week. We hear all the time from Stars "When I read the script, I just connected with this character" or "I just knew that I HAD to portray this character" and such. Yes, actors get payed to portray different people, but many of them acutally LIKE to do that, and some, when confronted with a script and character that really appeals to them jump at the chance to do television.

So, steady paycheck and the chance to portray a character through many changes and for long periods of time can trump a large paycheck and the limelite of a Movie.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

You should

Unless a player is short of cash, then there's totally no excuse for them not having GR.