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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

Stalkers and their hidden criticals crap have always annoyed me. On the one hand, you WANT Head Splitter to be a cone so it can hit more people. On the other hand, you DON'T want Head Splitter to be a cone since then it only has a 60% chance to score a hidden critical. It's one of the many things which cripple their AT on a technical level. Personally, I feel they should have gotten their own sets, or at least have received a new power or two. Aside from Ninjutsu, this didn't happen.

On Martial Arts itself... I don't know. The one Martial Arts Stalker I have uses a large metal arm, so Dragon's Tail probably wouldn't have fit visually anyway, especially with digitigrade legs. On the performance side, I'm not sure it makes much of a difference, considering I feel Martial Arts is already one of the better sets for Stalkers. Dragon's Tail really isn't a very good AoE. It's more like a token power so Martial Arts isn't Dark Melee to begin with.

I definitely WOULD NOT want to lose any of the single-target attacks off the set for an AoE which isn't all that strong to begin with. It looks cool sometimes, yes, but not cool enough to justify the performance shift. Not unless there's a larger, more universal fix for Stalkers.

Originally Posted by mousedroid

I agree with him, in a way. I'm ok with comic book characters like the little girl from Runways who are super strong despite not looking the part, but Wonder Woman is an Amazon, and that actress does not look the part of an Amazon.

Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha

Heh, I forgot Elec, as I sometimes do. But Dark? Really?

Originally Posted by Antigonus

What can I say? I like my fighting women to actually [i]look[/] like they can fight and inflict real damage if necessary. And I never really cared for skinny women anyway.

It's something of a byproduct of my military and MMA training. I have taken real punches from people roughly her size, and I know that no matter how hard she might wind up for it, it's not gonna hurt much because she simply doesn't have the physical mass behind it. I have a really hard time with suspension of disbelief when it comes to things like that. I have a feeling that with the growing popularity of televised MMA, a lot of shows like this will have to be more realistic in their depiction of fighting if they want to get viewers on board.

Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle

I don't actually know how much damage scrapper burn does exactly, as the game does not say and I don't use mids, but clearly the answer is at least "plenty!" In any case, how could saturated soul drain possibly not cause its damage to exceed a full fury burn?

Originally Posted by Antigonus

And that's a big part of why I didn't bother watching the last 3 seasons. Lazy writing and the Angel spinoff being better (most of the time) were the others. Suspension of disbelief only goes so far, and somebody who weighs 90 lbs being able knockout somebody twice their size goes way beyond that.

Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang

Also Braveheart.

Gladiator.

Saving Private Ryan.

300.

Donnie Darko.

V for Vendetta.

Sunshine.

Originally Posted by Leo_G

Fix'd.

That said, I actually have to agree with Brandx, kind of. MA without Dragontail looks not as amazing...I could care less about the lack of AoE, but without the animation, I can't push myself to stick with my MA stalker.

Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha

Stalkers always, bar Spines, get the short end of the AoE stick.
I was quite miffed when Eviscerate got changed from a Cone to an ST attack. I would have minded less if they'd given it a less stupid animation and a shorter animation time to boot. But hey.

Originally Posted by Seldom

I could be totally off on this, but I think this is coming down to DPS calculations. Brutes have a fury damage modifier that plays into and boosts their DPS, Scrappers have criticals. Brute's Fury boosts their blazing aura/burn damage, but neither can critical in the hands of a scrapper. So while brutes get fury+soul drain+fiery embrace on these powers, scrappers get only soul drain+fiery embrace. As such, I think it's being assumed that the three boosts for those powers on a brute will make the AoE DPS skew in the brute's favor, compared to aoe performance of a scrapper. I'm no numbers dude, but blazing aura and burn obviously do make up a big chunk of a DM/FA's AoE, so I think I get that.

...Or I could be totally off and wrong.

Originally Posted by Kyria_Shirako

I'm sorry, I don't... understand the question, which concerns me. What factor am I missing that says that the brutes with the same powersets and under the same set of conditions do more AoE damage?

Originally Posted by Knight_Errant

I'm not completely averse to the tragic endings. I went out of my way to see Last Samurai knowing full well how the final battle would turn out. Historical and cultural inconsistency nit-picking aside, a great movie with a tragic ending.

However Sucker Punch has completely lost any appeal it had garnered with the trailers.

Originally Posted by Lothic

That's just a downright stupid comment, even if you think this particular show is going to fail. Shows in production (especially shows that haven't aired yet) constantly change/update their costumes before they settle on the "final" look. With very little effort you could dig up "prototype" test pictures of just about any genre show you could think of. To think that the first Wonder Woman picture we saw at the top of this thread was going to be the "final" version of the outfit was just silly on your part.

At least come up with some reasonable reasons to dislike this show.

Originally Posted by Frostbiter

I think it will work if they don't do any background filler. In my belief, the reason why a lot of comic movies are bad is the need to tell the origins story. Just skip to the middle and drop hints as to the origin.Imagine the chaos if they try to do 5-6 origin stories along side and actual plot.

Originally Posted by Residentx_EU

Is this the same girl? Jez, I still hate this show. They should have made her boots knee high. They don't look right. And what's with the goofy armbands branded with WW. Just battleworn bracelets please. They need to just give her a black jacket and be done with this.

Look at this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Nf-m6WGl4
This has WW details.

But's let's talk about something else. What kind of personality is this new WW going to portray? Flirty, Aloofness, Butch?

Edit: I'm looking at this picture again. This woman has no body! WTF! This is a girl not a woman!! Jesus! This show won't even make it to DVD/Home Video.

I predict high day one ratings like the bionic woman and then the same path. I see a mid season cancellation here.

Originally Posted by Residentx_EU

This is a great comment. Where's her lasso, too? This show is going to be a joke and the thought that they are still changing based on audience feedback says they have no creative direction/talent involved.

Originally Posted by UberGuy

I'd be surprised if they stopped the WSTs just because of the 50 "assists" badge.

Originally Posted by Lothic

Well at least the boots are red. And as per my earlier suspicion it looks like this show is going to have her "magically" change to flat soled boots whenever she's running around the same way they did for Lynda Carter back in the 70s. I guess there's still no easy way around keeping these actresses from breaking their ankles.

It also looks like the pants are made of a darker, less "shiny" material in this shot. It'll be interesting to see if that's a permanent change away from the "shiny" blue pants or if that's again a concession for the action scenes just like the flat boots seem to be.

Originally Posted by Frostbiter

If you haven't seen The Iron Giant then you're missing out on a fantastic movie.

Originally Posted by MentalMaden

I've never understood why people don't like or won't accept sad endings. I love a good sad ending (when done right). Besides, technically there is a happy ending to this movie.

Originally Posted by Knight_Errant

I was trying to avoid reading the spoilers in this thread, however temptation overwhelmed willpower and now I'm glad I peeked.
Despite loving the visuals that were circulating before the release I shall not be seeing this movie. Frankly I don't go the the cinema to get depressed, and that ending certainly would depress me.

Originally Posted by GenericGlobal

Call CoH/CoV billing support,they're very helpful and fast. All I was asked to provide was D.O.B. and postal code to confirm my account and the Support Rep enabled me to log into my Master account with just the D.O.B.,which was really nice. You'll be put in a queue list but it shouldn't take too long,provided you call them early enough. If you send them e-mail on the issue,they'll of course want you provide as much as the codes as possible along with the usual info needed. Having two accounts,I was able to get both of mine unlocked from putting in the wrong security answers(most don't remember them or have them anymore.)

(I keep the boxes with the serial codes but was locked out due to incorrectly guessing the security question's answers,like many others and called in since it seemed more better for me;e-mailing required you to list down as much serial codes as you can along with the other required info,calling bypassed it.)