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Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha

I think spandex being the 'only' valid Superhero outfit to be Lame.
I find being told having Heroes in Power Armour, in uniform, wearing biker leathers, being a robot is all 'wrong' somehow to be Lame.
I find the overall patronising wording of these replies to be Lame.

Need I go on?

Edit: What CoH was originally created to be is mostly irrelevant. What it IS now is important. Because, frankly, what it WAS was Jack's little pet project domain where what he said was Law and everyone had to damn well like it. Not so these days...Thankfully.

Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven

So if you don't like spandex you can get out? But that's just your opinion, right?

Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha

So, of course, you are totally against Thor, Hercules, Loki, any character in Super Hero comics who is clearly too 'Fantasy'-ish for your liking?

Oh, and Steven Strange, he's far too magicy, can't have magic in comics, thats a fantasy schtick...

Yes, you already mentioned Thor. Thor is a Norse God. The Norse, in case you were ignorant somehow, tend to revolve less around super powers and more on swords, axes and generally being walking bad@ss. Like...hmn...fantasy flavoured!

So, really, all of your post boils down to 100% opinion. Which, while fine, doesn't give you any damn right to poo-poo what other people do or do not like in game.

Personally? I find spandexy super heroes for the most part incredibly ******* LAME.
Superman? Put your damn pants on the INSIDE and...yeah, I'm sorry, I just can't stand the big blue boy scout.
Pre-changes, Captain America tended to look like a bit of an idiot, too. Now that he's got a few revamps he looks a bit less stupid. That and, well, I like his character a lot more.

You probably don't agree with me. That's fine; all the above is my opinion.
But I'm also not trying to foist my opinion on others and act like it's 'right'. The more the better, so why NOT add more options for EVERYONE?

Originally Posted by Bosstone

I think we may be talking at cross-purposes. I used Katana and Broadsword because they're very similar, yet one is one-handed and can be used with Shield and one is two-handed. Mechanically I can't see any reason this would be so; the decision to exclude some sets from being paired with Shield was an aesthetic one, not a balance one. It's similar to the decision to not give Stalkers Titan Weapons.

It's a shame, because Shield has some interesting powers that no other defense powerset has. It's also not a very big deal, since there's just enough overlap that you can approximate it well enough by taking SR or Energy and throwing in Spring Attack.

Originally Posted by Bosstone

Yeah, the Tsoo Katana, which is like a stick of metal with some cloth wrapped around the end. Ooogleh.

Originally Posted by Bosstone

The weird thing is the Shield Defense set doesn't fit with conventional balance concepts. The general idea, at least in fantasy games, is that shield + weapon gets you more defense than two-handed weapon. That's reasonable and also provides a balancing measure between offense and defense. You want more offense, take the two-handed weapon. More defense, take the shield.

But in City, Shield is actually one of the better offensive defense powersets. And in the most direct comparison you can make of Broadsword and Katana, Katana isn't any stronger than Broadsword. It's arguably slightly better because it's faster, but only slightly. And Shield isn't any better or worse than other defense sets that don't require you to give up a hand for it.

So there's no real balance reason to pick sword and board over a two-hander in City. It makes the current limitations weird. A Broadsword/Shield scrapper has more offense (and possibly more defense) than a Katana/SR, but you can't do Katana/Shield. Why? ...Cuz.

I think I'd be in favor of the option where you can choose a two-hander weapon, you just won't get a shield, and the defense set will just be a general aura thing like every other defense set. Right now, the only reason there's any limitations at all is cosmetic.

Originally Posted by Chase_Arcanum

WoW (and many other MMO's, to be honest) also has single-handed weapons sized in such a way that no human could possibly wield them single-handedly and stylized in ways that they wouldn't be functional regardless.



Granted, the general 'suspension of disbelief' of the superhero genre means that any and all of that are valid ideas here.

I have this great superhero-y idea for a telekinetic weapons-master that dual-wields titan weapons with his mind while using a shield to protect himself and I won't be satisfied with the devs until they stop preventing me from playing the character I want to play.

Originally Posted by Jibikao

With this new buff, Stalker should be out-perform Brute/Scrapper in Melee ST DPS and Burst Damage in most set combinations and if it doesn't, then this buff fails.

Originally Posted by Novella

I may be the only person, but I don't think anything needs to be done with Stalkers. I wonder if this change is only being implemented due to people not making as many Stalkers as other ATs?

Granted being able to use AS with no interupt and have superior damage does sound wonderful, but if that happens then what about the damage for AS while in hide? Will it get a buff then because what would be the point of using hide and AS when you can just do superior damage while unhidden and still have a chance to critical due to AF?

Originally Posted by SinisterDirge

Inviting someone to hold their breath until "x" implies either of two things. That the invitee is having a tantrum and you are calling them on their immature ultimatum, or you are suggesting they hold their breath until they prematurely expire. Since the op never offered an ultimatum, I assume you are inviting the op to expire. As you are clearly an intelligent individual, I am surprised and amused at your indignation from the ops clear position to rise above your attempt at baiting him.

Originally Posted by Combat

I personally don't think willpower has a ton of synergy with TW, but it does work thematically and solves some problems.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

You know what? I rerolled a level 50 Boradsword character to remake her as Titan Weapons, so it feels like that might be a good comparison. And a comparison I want to make, because when I looked at the Titan Weapons numbers - the scale damage numbers - I was a big... Schocked, for lack of a better word.

Let's start with Defensive Sweep. That's scale 0.729, which isn't a lot, but it's not very little, either. Your typical "light" damage attack is scale 0.64, so this is stronger AND it has the recharge and cost of a small attack. Not quite, but close.

Crushing Blow is what surprised me first. That's scale 1.804. These are Disembowel numbers, even if Disembowel itself is at 1.9. I get Disembowel at level 1 with Titan weapons.

Then there's Titan Sweep. That's scale 1.429, and listed as "heavy," which it is. A typical heavy attack - like Broadsword's Hack - is 1.64, so close. Whirling Sword is 1.0 and Slice is 1.23, so I get a stronger Slice with more range.

Then there's Follow Through at 2.156. That's above Disembowel levels and reaching for Head Splitter levels, and I get that at level what? 8? Yikes! Hell, Follow Through is about on the same level of damage as Power Burst.

Then there's Rend Armour at 3.212. Broadsword doesn't have anything even remotely close. The biggest single attack Broadsword has access to is Head Splitter at 2.6. Rend Armour is a stone's throw away from Total Focus damage.

Then there's Whirling Smash. At 1.15 scale damage, it's not that much, but it's still more than Whirling Sword AND has about double the range - 15 for Whirling Smash to 7 or 8 for Whirling Sword.

Finally, there's Arc of Destruction at 2.596, which is almost identical to Head Splitter, only with a much larger area of coverage. Head Splitter is at 2.6 scale damage with a 10-foot, 19-degree cone while Arc of Destruction is almost the same damage with a 10-foot, 120 degree arc.

Honestly, these numbers scare me a little bit. I'm not sure how these numbers are could be set so high, but I guess momentum as a balancing mechanic is the reason, especially given Synapse's feedback in Beta. I think this may well be the first time that a gimmick has vastly improved a set, or at most the second time, if we count Street Justice. I remember sets like Dual Pistols and Shield Defence who had to pay a price for their gimmick, and yet Titan Weapons seems to have benefited a great deal for its.

And it's not "just numbers," either. I've been playing this set on Live and I played it on Beta, and it's pretty much the strongest a character of mine has ever been put over, or if it isn't the strongest I haven't seen that in years. Single-target damage, which I was initially worried about, is no problem. The set has such huge single-target burst I have trouble transcribing it, plus Defensive Sweep is cheap enough to use as single target to fill in an attack chain. AoE is even better, and I don't even have Arc of Destruction yet. With Momentum, this set can deliver a LOT of AoE damage, and with those huge cones, doing so has never been easy. Sure, it's still hard-locked by the 5-target limit, but I can't imagine how broken this set would be without that limit. It's amazing even with it.

I'm starting to worry it's making the rest of the melee sets look bad.

Originally Posted by EvilRyu

Due to the upcoming stalker changes they might end up doing this, it really kind of depends though. Can someone who has access to the set list the attacks for the scrapper version. I will say this it will be second set they did not gut if they manage to keep all the aoe.