ClawsandEffect

Well, since it shouldn't be done under any circumstances, there is very little point trying to figure out how to do it.

F2P can, will, and almost surely would kill this game if they tried it.

Look what happened to CoH's competition. They lost over $20 million in less than 2 years in an attempt to go F2P. NCSoft and Paragon are NOT stupid enough to follow in their footsteps toward oblivion. If CoH started losing NCSoft money like the other game did for their parent company, there is no doubt that CoH would be put down like a rabid dog.

Hell, NCSoft is shutting down the NA servers of one of their OWN games right now, and people still play that one. You don't really think the idea of making one of their more popular NA games F2P has much appeal to them, do you?

I was going to mention this. I'd go with either 6 Thunderstrike or 3 Thunderstrike/3 Devastation (for the regen and HP bonuses). Besides, by slotting a KB set in Focus, you're going to be knocking them away from you all the time, which could get annoying when you're trying to run a seamless attack chain.

And also: you waited until level 32 to take Focus, and level 47 to take Slash? I take Slash at level 2 on all my Claws characters, no exceptions. It's THAT good of an attack, especially since it's available so early.
And you put off Focus so you could take AID SELF at 18, which you didn't even slot?! That makes ZERO sense to do. Push Aid Self back and use inspirations in the meantime.

Except it's not a bug. It's just the way the AI works.

I'm going by memory of how it was explained, which may be a bit fuzzy.

It has a bias to where it checks the recharge of it's best attack and determines if it is going to use a lesser attack or wait until the best one recharges. If you crammed a bunch of recharge in there it would always wait until the best attack recharges. And for most pets, the "best attack" is whichever one was granted by the second pet buff in MM sets, so for Thugs that would be Hand Clap. That's why you saw a lot of people intentionally NOT buffing their Bruiser.

(I'm not 100% on this, but this theory would explain why pets that got a lot of recharge were stuck in a cycle of using only one attack over and over, even if that attack sucked)

The simplest way to fix that while running zero risk of breaking something else was to make pets unaffected by recharge. If they'd tried to fix the AI, there was a good chance all kinds of goofy stuff would have happened by accident while they were fixing it.

The only way I can think of to fix the "run into melee" thing would be to remove all melee attacks from pets that are supposed to stay at range. Except that probably wouldn't work, Phantasm runs into melee too, and he doesn't have a melee attack at all.

Ice Armor's slow resistance is 95%. You'd need to have a ridiculous amount of debuffs stacked on you before you'd even notice.

Besides, almost all of the Ice attacks in the game are paired with either smashing or lethal, which means your S/L defense will give you defense to them. And if you're creating a farm all you have to do is make sure not too many of the critters have attacks that aren't part smashing or lethal. Just make all the critters' primary Ice Blast and you're good.

So you want the things that are supposed to take us 2 days to earn to be obtainable in one hour?

Not gonna happen.

You have to run 10 tips + morality to get a Hero/Villain merit. That is set up so you can't do it all in one day, you have to wait 20 hours before you can get one.

All you have to do for an Emp merit is run a trial, which can take as little as a half hour.

This would be farmed so fast it isn't even funny. I could see maybe letting us use EMp merits to get Hero/Villain merits, but it would (and should) cost us more than one or two. Otherwise you completely undermine one of the points of the tip missions.

I wasn't trying to open that particular can of worms.

The only part of your post I was disputing was your uncertainty of whether or not Ozymandias was a villain. And he most definitely was.

The killing of all those people in and of itself is not what makes him a villain. If he had done that in response to someone launching a nuke, maybe it would have been a little harder to say.

The fact that he premeditated creating a situation where the world would be on the brink of destruction (thus giving himself a justification for mass murder) is what makes him a villain.

And the fact that he truly believed he was doing the right thing is what makes him a well written one.

Edit: And I guess with the content of my posts in this thread, MY idea of true villainy is pretty obvious

Veidt's actions were nothing like the US dropping the bomb on Japan, that was my main point.

The only way you could draw a comparison would be if the US had dropped the bomb on Japan, and China, and Russia, and Germany, and themselves in 1940.....and then convinced everyone that Switzerland did it.

Killing people to end a war that is 4 years old is exactly why they call it war.

Killing people to end a war that hasn't started yet is called murder.

From what you're saying, you'd be okay with it if someone went and shot someone else in the head because they were talking about killing someone?

Because that's more like what Adrian Veidt did. He killed millions of people for simply talking about going to war.

More to the point, look what he did before killing millions of people. He removed the nuclear war deterrent himself. If he hadn't manipulated Dr. Manhattan into flipping out on national TV, any war that would have been started never would have gotten past the opening shots. So, in a very real way, he started the war himself just so he could stop it by killing millions of innocent people.

If that doesn't scream "pure evil" I don't know what does.

Big difference.

World War II was already happening and had been for 4 years, the bombs were dropped as a means to end it. And everyone KNEW the US did it.

Ozymandias murdered millions of people in cold blood and framed either Dr. Manhattan or some Lovecraftian alien beings (depending on whether you are going with the graphic novel or the movie) to stop a war that hadn't started yet, when there was no guarantee that it was going to happen.

There is a big difference between ending a war that is currently happening, and maybe preventing a war that might be happening sometime soon. If he had waited until the war had already started, I might be more inclined to see his point. But since no one had attacked anyone else yet there was no war occurring, and his actions were simply murder on a massive scale.

Ozymandias proved that he can justify the cold-blooded murder of millions simply because he was convinced it was for the greater good, and was never held accountable for his actions. Now, since the story ends there we don't know what happened after that. Since he's already justified killing millions and got away with it without so much as a reprimand, what's to stop him from doing it again anytime he decides the world isn't playing by his completely arbitrary rules governing their behavior?

His equipment wasn't destroyed, everyone just kind of left him there, he is perfectly capable of repeating his actions for any reason he can justify to himself, because he doesn't have to answer to anyone else. And he will never be held accoutable or even questioned, because everyone will simply assume that the person or persons he already hung it on did it this time too.

If you ask me, Dr. Manhattan was an idiot for not killing him on the spot. Adrian Veidt had proven himself to be far too dangerous to live. He justified doing as much as he did, is capable of it again, and could justify just about any action he sees as being "The right thing to do for the world."

If he decides the best thing for the world is to destroy it and start over.....there is no one left who can stop him from doing it.

It's a true story.

The cat being deaf just meant that he was startled by my wife suddenly lunging at him. If you've ever encountered a deaf cat, you'd know that they are VERY skittish when startled because they can't hear things coming up behind them.

If he could hear, I'm sure yelling at him wouldn't have helped any, but he would have heard my wife move and wouldn't have been taken so off guard.

Why? The LAST thing an Electric Armor anything needs is more end recovery. Power Sink is available every 30 seconds, and that should be enough to keep even the end hungriest build rolling in endurance.

Again, why? Electric Armor does NOT need more end management tools. The only purpose Cardiac could possibly serve on an Electric tank is a little bit more resistance. The extra damage from Musculature would be more useful.

Also, the Performance Shifter +End proc will not work like you think it will in Power Sink. If you ever want to use Power Sink as a draining tool, that proc will fire and give your enemies endurance. I'd pull that out of there altogether.

2 Rectified Reticle and 2 generic recharge IOs would be better slotting for Rage. The bonuses from GSFC aren't very helpful for typed defense. Rectified Reticle gives you S/L defense, pure F/C attacks are rare, and you don't need more energy defense, since you resist 90% of it and are virtually immune to drains. It would leave you with a Negative Energy hole, but pure Negative attacks are fairly rare.

As far as APPs go, if it doesn't break your concept (which it doesn't look like it does), I'd go with Pyre Mastery for a little more AoE potential. Foot Stomp + Fireball is commonly used by farmers for a reason. You can open the pool with Ring of Fire to slot Enfeebled Operation for S/L defense, and slap 3 Thunderstrikes in Fire Blast for some E/N defense (that you don't need, but if you have to take the power, you might as well get something out of it)

That's why he was suggesting using an Ice tank. Ice gets 90% resistance to Cold almost by accident, and they are effectively immune to slows with 95% slow resistance.

They didn't "nerf" it, it's just broken and they haven't fixed it yet.

Calling it a nerf implies that they did it on purpose, and I find it hard to believe that the devs would intentionally force pets with no melee attacks other than Brawl into melee all the time.

It's a side effect of the Demon pets AI having a heavy melee bias.

It was causing AI problems.

Sure, lots of recharge in your pets sounds like a great idea.....right up until your Thugs Bruiser starts spamming nothing but Hand Clap.

From what I've gathered on it, the added recharge was causing the pet's AI to use only one specific power they have available. And for some of the pets that is the LAST power you want them spamming.

They only nerfed the recharge on Ignite, it still does the same amount of damage.

Yes there is, but it doesn't help you much. If your nuke doesn't hit anything at all, the drain never happens. If you hit even ONE target with it, you lose all your end.

Like I said, not very useful.

I noticed it when I hit my nuke by accident a couple times. Nothing was hit by it and I kept my endurance (well, minus what the power itself costs to cast). I chalked it up to the devs not wanting to completely screw you if your nuke misses everything.

I will admit, that may have been a bug. If you want to replicate it to find out for yourself, I did it with a Sonic/Devices blaster and a Fire/Fire blaster. In both cases I kept my end bar if my nuke didn't deal any damage to anything.

Taser is awesome if you have either Sonic Blast as your primary or Sleep Grenade.

Put the spawn to sleep, wake them up one at a time with a stun, kill the stunned one, repeat. I've gone entire missions without so much as ever being attacked, let alone killed using that technique.

Back in the days of only having SOs, it would have sucked hard. Now that we can shore up any weakness and strengthen strengths further with IOs, an all passives set would have the sizable advantage of the entire secondary not costing any endurance to run.

Have you seen some of the novels Sam has written? I think he may very well rival you on that one.