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Originally Posted by Deeweromekoms

Well, you obviously really like Dual Pistols. lol

Sounds a bit like my Aggressor idea, except A) Dual Pistols is just Ranged and not a mixture of Ranged and Melee like the Assault sets are and B) I didn't think using straight Defense sets was such a great idea with a ranged attacker for a few reasons. Besides the fact that 4 other ATs use them already (and they're all Melee), considering how much you'd have to nerf them to keep things fair (unless you gave Aggressors insanely low Mastermind-level hit points), it would make the secondary set rather boring and practically useless. That's why I decided it was best to mix them with some boosts and mezzes to keep things balanced and interesting. What's nice about the Aggressor is that the player can choose to build him with heavy focus on ranged attacks and defense without him becoming too overpowered, or more like a Scrapper, Dominator, or Blaster depending on personal preference. Kind of like an Epic AT, only not as... epic. But epically fun.

As far as the other amalgamated Assault-style sets you listed, some of them just seem awkward and/or unnecessary.

Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang

I hope they handle the end to Snape's story better in the movie than they did in the book.

Originally Posted by Mad_Cow_Milk

Saving costumes is one thing, saving proportions is another.

Say you want to change the proportions of the toon you have, being consistent you need to change all the costume's proportions. To make use of the save function, you need to change one costume, save it, then take that saved costume, load it, then completely reconstruct the original costume for that slot from memory just to keep the same proportions. Now think of that in x4. Simply loading it does NOT in any way cut it as reasonable.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

When the solution to a problem requires me to simply make a different character, that is what I consider a "bad" challenge. Years ago, I complained that running bosses were hard to catch. People told me to immobilize or slow them. When I exposited that I had no such powers, (Kat/SR Scrapper), people shrugged their shoulders in response.

Not I said "require me to use all my abilities," not "swap abilities I have for other abilities" or "go get more items/powers/etc." Challenge, as such, comes down to what a player does in real time, not how a player prepares beforehand, at least in my eyes. "Challenges" where the only difficulty comes from having minimum build requirements, after which point they become easy are exactly the wrong kind of challenge, and those are the sum total of challenges we have.

Build stronger. Optimise more. Grind for more "phat lute." Bring more people. The game encourages us to trivialise challenges by building to prepare. These, I am sorely uninterested in. I don't play City of Heroes as a puzzle game where the point is to find the right build to tackle each challenge. I play it like an action game, where MY build has to tackle each challenge, or I do indeed walk away and never try again.

Originally Posted by Lothic

[NOTE: This is a necropost but since Sucker Punch is opening in theaters today I figured this thread is more relevant now than ever.]

Well as I sadly feared Sucker Punch is getting pummeled by the critics. RottenTomatoes has it rated at 23% as of the time I'm writing this post. Even the few "positive" reviews are less than flattering. I'm still probably going to go see it for the "cool visuals on a big screen" factor. But so much for the vague hope that there'd be an actual story/plot behind the pretty pictures. *shrugs*

Originally Posted by TriAngel_EU

Basically what it comes down to for me is this:
The visuals of each particular power are just one thing adding to looking cool, but there are more.
For instance: if you leap into a LARGE group of mobs and fight an epic battle, doesn't it look cooler to come out on top standing there possibly scratched but dominantly in the center of the group as the last few mobs fly off of you in their incapacitated state than it does to get owned in a visually pleasing manner and end up doing pro floor inspection with bored mobs stood around you?
Yet aesthetics as such aren't the fuel that gets you there.

Originally Posted by Wonderslug

I took Frozen Aura before it did damage. On purpose, even.

Originally Posted by Alamo_Kid

Everyone is pretty spot on about the defense. It's not to difficult to get your s/l to 30 percent and the change is quite noticable. I have a fire/fire sitting at 41 % to s/l and 33% to melee and even WITH a purple pill (he has tough and weave slotted as well) he's no where near as survivable as my soft capped to type invul/dm (he's the closest I've seen to unkillable) or soft capped to position SD/dm. I really had to adjust my expections of this secondary.

Originally, I was curious how an IO'd resist set would do compared to a defense based set. What I found was without defense debuff resists (which they won't get), resist based scapper sets will never approach the tanker survival levels that the defense and layered mitigation based sets do. Defense debuffs are everywhere and resist based secondaries get hit by everything. They need something though. For example, my status protection drops much more frequently on my fire compared to invul and SD.

Originally Posted by Kiana Wolf

Yeah, unless you're out to fight Nictus or something. Though I'd love to see her run an ITF, 'I can take a punch but BLARGIDEAD' wouldn't make that end well. =D

Originally Posted by Kiana Wolf

Ooh, crappy build. Respec.

Originally Posted by Nericus

It is quite possible that despite laughing underwater that Connor did not use all his air supply.

In any event, yes the series did alter some things and clarify a few others such as the fights being one on one only, and gave expansion on the holy ground rule other then "it's tradition". So it's all good.

Fights are one on one since the power only goes to the one that did the beheading: in season 1 when Amanda first appeared, Duncan beats down the villain of the week but before he beheads him Amanda stepped in and cut down the villain and the power went to her while Duncan stood and watched. This was shown again in ep 100 when Duncan cuts down Caspian and dives off the bridge with the power flowing to him and not to Silas who was only a few feet away. At first my impression was that fights were one on one out of an unspoken code of honor until these two events showed why.

Holy Ground: not just "tradition" but a major implication that the heavens do not take kindly to an immortal killing another immortal on holy ground. Whether this applies to an immortal killing a mortal on holy ground isn't known, but it doesn't apply when a mortal kills and immortal on holy ground as shown when the Hunters killed Darius in his church.

Makes one wonder if the immortals are angels and devils fighting for control of Earth for their respective side.....

Originally Posted by Liquid

There are some things that I don't need to see in completion to agree or disagree with. If they proposed giving Wonder Woman a gambling addiction, I wouldn't need to see that to think it didn't fit the character. If they proposed making her made of blue energy, I wouldn't need to see that to think that it didn't fit the character. If they proposed making her male, I wouldn't need to see that to think that it didn't fit the character.



You keep focusing on whether the show will work. While I did predict that it would fail much earlier in the thread (but I don't claim to be an "expert" on anything of that nature), that is not the topic of our conversation.

I'm just saying that Wonder Woman would not be CEO of a company named after her homeland that sells merchandise branded with her superhero identity, and I think having her do that shows a lack of respect for the character. If you disagree, that's fine. I just want to be clear when expressing my opinion, and make sure that you understand that my opinion is not "she cannot be changed in any way for a TV show".

Originally Posted by DrJackWolfe

You know, it's hard to tell, I don't regularly read the comic, and when I do it's not clear. She still poses with the bracelets and deflects rays and stuff, but then she goes toe to toe with an enraged Superman. Sure he broke her arm, but she also survived a fall from low orbit in that fight. She clearly and regulary survives thing things that WAAYYYY over power a simple bullet. I get the feeling it's not set, it it's something about she has to be actively wanting to be invulnerable.

Originally Posted by Lucky666

Doms didn't get the new firery embrace either. grrrr what the heck devs, why all the hate for the villains LOL XD

Originally Posted by Lothic

Actually based on what's happened over the last several years it seems like the exact reverse to me. I'm guessing Kelly didn't start out with this idea about a "generic superheroine show" and somehow managed to grab the Wonder woman license to try to legitimize it. It seems more like the Wonder Woman license was floating around in limbo waiting for someone to pick it up and try to make something out of it.

There have been several big names associated with trying to write scripts for Wonder Woman in the last few years. As has been mentioned even people like Joss Whedon were related to the property not too long ago.

My guess is that they finally decided to trust the property to Kelly simply because he has a track record of successful TV shows. Now I'll tell you point-blank I NEVER watched Ally McBeal myself and always thought the concept of the show sounded completely silly. But no one can deny that it had five seasons worth of episodes and was well liked by many people. I guess there's no accounting for taste...

I think the true irony here is that people are going nuts over the slim possibility that Kelly might be able to make a -successful- show out of this mess. We all know the chances that this'll become "Wonder McBeal" is about 99.9% and there are people here who hate that idea with a passion. But what would be worse than someone perverting their beloved amazon warrior into "Wonder Mcbeal" than to have "Wonder McBeal" actually become a popular show? I almost want to see that happen just to laugh.