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In my own opinion, the civilians were done in a very cheap manner, and dont make the environment seem city like as it could be.


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The pathing rules for civilians in a lot of zones are just stupid. Basically a long stream of models walking from A to B and back again. It looks chronically bad.

Founders Falls example

It's a bit niche really.

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Providing wheelchairs wouldnt be any more harder than providing female, male, and huge body types.


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This is probably true. In other words it would be quite hard indeed. It's not easy at all providing and developing for the various body sizes already. Cossies need to be made, adjusted and tested for excess clipping. Animations ditto.

For such a tiny niche as wheelchairs it's simply not worth it.

Grats (again) Cyn.

Ice/Dark eh? Sounds like a lovely combo.

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I'll be creating the Allies of Earth for my back to World War 2 missions:

Captain Washington (MA/SD), Yeoman(TA/Arch), Woadsman(BS/Regen), Le Renarde(Something with pistols), Ddraig(Fire/Fire Tank), Norweigan Blue(Sonic/Sonic), Red Star(En/En blaster) and Molly Malone(AR/dev).

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Molly Malone? As in the auld Dublin cockles vendor who died of syphillis*?

(*may not have actually been syphillis, it's never really explained but given her other activities it's pretty likely)

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I'll be making Catgirls and hopefully zombie Catgirls!

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Almost predestined to become rated as a 3, given the amount of catgirl RPers and the amount of people who can't stand the things.

Actually in fairness almost all arcs are going to be 3s probably.

For example a lot of people will rate a mission designed for farming as a 5, a lot of others will have the "Farming is evil" mentality and auto-mark it a 1.

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Except audrey can choose to not attack at all. The ai is borked and i won't regret picking up spirit tree instead as it has a use and can be stacked.

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Hmm .I wonder if you could use flaming Oil Slicks as a way to get the idiot to do things

"Audrey, behave or I'll summon the pit of flaming death again"

Oh, another reason to avoid Earth/TA. Stonie & the Burning Oil Slick bug. He'll flee every time you light up the area around him. Audrey apparently sticks to range more (or all the time) so she'll be affected less.

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Magicj's tests are flawed, situational and favors certain primaries.
As for plant/therm i'll post my levelling build i was using before i killed it, tomorrow when i'm home. I would recommend plant/ta and skip the most useless pet.

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Highly situational (his Illusion results are rather odd, I've never considered my Grav stronger vs bosses than Illusion). But they do seem to highlight that Stoney is much improved in single target DPS recently.

Plant/TA would be interesting. Seeds + Acid Arrow + Disruption Arrow would be one of the best combos in getting enemies to beat themselves up.

Earth/Thermal would give you a very strong pet too, the buffs would work much better than on Audrey (since she's such a coward getting into melee). Very team orientated though.

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I'm going to go ahead and guess that none of the websites referenced in this thread are safe for work so I reserve comment until this evening.

But yes, Female Arachnos Soldiers look silly.

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Mine's from the Guardian, so fairly safe unless you're offended by smug, liberal middle-classness.

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Unfortunately that's pretty much how I'd describe myself

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Me too, why do you think I was browsing the Guardian website

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I have no idea why so many tankers are worried about damage output in teaming situations. All you need is make sure is you have accuracy and recharge to generate threat.

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Assuming you'll always have a team of course. Ice Melee just seems a bit dull to me. Few exciting powers there. Dark Melee has got lots of tricks with it (and the Siphon power recently got buffed).

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Ah yes, totally forgot about Primal Forces.

Logically though, wouldn't the unenhanceable taser miss more often than the enhanceable fireball?

Besides, an AoE or Cone would be more comfortable, since you don't have to manually target the slick (time consuming when you have 15 Freak Tanks dancing around in front of it, y'know).


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There's a bind in my Grav/TA guide for targetting and shooting it. I just have to press V and that's it targetted and shot. The key point is that when you do miss the thing you can try again 4 seconds or so later. With Fireball you're boned if it misses. I'm just going on my own experiences. Since Oil Slick has a bigger AOE than Fireball I found that often if I fireballed the target I wouldn't be getting optimal spread in hitting everything else with it too and often I'd miss and would have to taser it anyway. The origin power is a free power anyway, may as well have it working for you and then you're free to choose whatever Epic you fancy (Ice is awfully tempting now too, Frost Breath does great damage and Oil Slick and Ice Storm would be very funny).

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The AoE immob, you should get that at least 2 levels before you get Stalagmites - combined, the two make up what is often referred to as a 'ghetto AoE hold'. Stunned, immobilized targets are as good as held, after all.


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Yep, absolutely. But it's ugly as sin. costs a fair chunk of End and a Quicksanded and/or Glue arrowed group won't be wandering too far either. If one is mainly soloing you don't have to worry about too much wandering anyway. But on teams I'd agree, you should probably get it to keep things in place (and for setting up Containment cheaply for an epic AOE)

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I'm not sure about the single target immobilize, myself. Earth is known for its AoE lockdown capabilities, the ST immob will mainly only be useful for dealing moderate single target damage.

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That's exactly why I'm saying get it. It's all well and good locking them down but then you've to defeat them before they come around again

Ice, but I wouldn't be too fond of the Ice Melee set.

I'd actually go Ice/Dark Melee if I was going to make a Tanker. You'd be basically unkillable.

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But yes that reminds me, if you are going */TA make sure to be Magic or Tech for lighting Oil Slicks.

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Pffft. Fire is overrated (only 4 powers to choose from? Bah!). I respecced to Primal last night and am so much happier (the knockdown cone + a AOE immob that allows knockdown is lovely and will light the slick) and I'm now 3 bars away from the glory that is Conserved Power, Power Boosted EMP Arrow.

I still mainly use the Origin power in a keybind for lighting Oil Slick though since it recharges far quicker than even the single target blasts (and it looks pretty cool if you're tech) in case you miss, which for some reason used to happen all the time with Fireball (probably my own fault). I could never get it in the AOE properly. Anyway having to rely on just Volcanic Gasses to light the thing between 35 and 41 would make me cry I think (or abduct a Fire tank and force him into being my Firestarting slave)

In terms of Earth Control take everything bar Salt Crystals. You could also omit the AOE immob for a while (Nice with the AOE stun but it's also damn ugly and will make your graphics card cry bloody tears of anguish)

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Then I happily stand corrected

I always thought he was all about holding the aggro, good to know he's more useful these days.


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They removed Hurl Boulder, which he used to get stuck using and made him pure melee and that seemed to fix his odd AI. Plus, as any recent Earth Epic user will tell you Seismic Smash is a sick, sick power.

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I wonder how well Oil Slick Arrow would work to help Earth's low damage output.

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Oil Slick is a great power, but it's not up that often. And if you're soloing a lot of that damage potential is wasted on just 2 or 3 targets (I get around it by using Wormhole to gather a second bunch before setting it up).

But yes that reminds me, if you are going */TA make sure to be Magic or Tech for lighting Oil Slicks.

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I think that the line "Once you hit 32 though Pooman should increase your soloing speed a fair amount." shows you how slow you will be because Poo man isn't exactly known for his DPS


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Actually nowadays apparently he is, or is getting to be. According to This thread he now makes quite a difference (thanks to his willingness now to go into melee and use Seismic Smash I'd guess).

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I'm going to go ahead and guess that none of the websites referenced in this thread are safe for work so I reserve comment until this evening.

But yes, Female Arachnos Soldiers look silly.

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Mine's from the Guardian, so fairly safe unless you're offended by smug, liberal middle-classness.

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Elemetal color theming - done to death. Four out of five fire-users wear red costumes. The rest don't wear costumes at all, and wear street clothing. Very few exceptions.
Especially noticeable with Dark Miasmists, who wear black - my Thugs/Dark is guilty of this, sadly, but he's wearing biker leather...

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*Looks at his Necro/Dark, noting the black suit and shades*

*Then looks at his Fire/Rads red armour (with yellow flame stripes)*

*Then looks at his Dark Defenders black tattered trenchcoat*

Erm, nothing to see here. Move along, move along.

Hmmm. You'll have tonnes and tonnes of control. Probably too much for a soloing toon really.

TA is a bit of a late bloomer, it takes 20 levels for the really good stuff (Acid Arrow onwards basically is gold). Glue and Ice Arrow are useful too (although you will have Quicksand so you mightn't need Glue Arrow, it's -Recharge isn't that high).

If you solo a lot then it'll be a bit slow and dull to be honest. Earth specialises in AOE control and as I said TA is a late bloomer (with the 3 last powers all being huge AOE ones). If you're set on doing it then try and get Air Superiority and / or Earths single target immob slotted for damage. Quicksand (and Acid Arrow) & the Vet Rewards are a good combo too, Quicksand and Acid Arrow make them easier to hit.

Even with all that you'll struggle to kill things pre-32. Once you hit 32 though Pooman should increase your soloing speed a fair amount.

But to shine an Earth/TA should be teaming IMO, the amount of control and debuffing you can do to entire spawns would be insane on teams.

Solo Grav/TA or Illusion/TA would probably be better but I don't see how they'd fit into your concept at all.

It works exactly how you describe, 20% of 10 End every 10 seconds.

I have it in Stamina on my Fire/Rad and it works like this (also have it in my Warshades lobster form)

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There's also the issue of 20 zillion arcs called "Kill UberBoss", with every named character having the same name. Sure, the database might cope with it (easily, I'd imagine), but it won't be that much fun.

Wonder how they'll cope with character defamation too? You could pick someone whiter than white that you know in game and build an arc around how evil they are.

Nothing inherently wrong with it, but it might not make that person happy.


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Isn't that the point of the "Report Abuse" system in the MA? At least I think there's one. You click that, fill in the detail and immediately our GMs will leap into action and deal with the offending arc...

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One naming issue is the abreviation.. MA, Martial Arts or Mission Architect?

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Or poorly-sighted ant-eating mammal.

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That'd be a pretty selfish thread... "Hey folks, come pay attention to me...." *disappears before someone points out that's the whole point of the internet*

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Certainly the point of Twitter

I don't think it'll be a problem (the naming thing, not Twitter. That is a problem but easily ignored) I can't see them blocking people from reusing their names in arcs. In fact its almost sure to be one of the most popular uses for arcs.

If not then there's always the "sticking random punctuation in" option. People do it already ingame (always makes me sad. Why can't people just accept they were too slow with the name and pick another?)

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One naming issue is the abreviation.. MA, Martial Arts or Mission Architect?

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Or poorly-sighted ant-eating mammal.

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shriek, scream, shriek, electric fences will yield more dps than any of the above options.

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Doesn't one have to wait for 41 levels before getting Electric Fences?

In the 40s I'd also prefer to have Shout for helping to weaken AVs and the like (a Sonics speciality ).

I think it's a law that Dark Defenders have to wear a hood and/or a tattered trenchcoat. In black, obviously.

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Bad news for you so Sapphic

Having ones precious things squished into horrible shiney trousers is so on-trend this season.

As are pained expressions and falsetto voices.

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Oh dear god, why did i click that link knowing full well what would be in it?

*gouges eyes out*

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It could have been worse. I could have linked to Jareth the Goblin King from Labyrinth instead.

I think he's the unlying reason for my fear and hatred of spandex. Although if I do ever make a Widow I'm basing it on him.