ClawsandEffect

See, I create my own stories within the context of the game.

My main, Claws and Effect, was a scientist working on cybernetic limb replacements for accident victims and amputees. At some point the Crey corporation got wind of his research and decided they wanted it. Since he wouldn't sell it to them, they blew up his lab. That caused the amputation of his arms at the shoulders and his legs at the knees. He had a set of working prototype limbs that were not stored at the lab, so he had them grafted on by Rick Davies and started up a personal quest for vengeance on Crey.

The part that I added into the Crey storyline as it exists in the game is that Crey's power armor and some of their Protector technology was stolen from my main character. Since they never really go into where all of that came from in great detail, it is a hole that I could write myself into.

All of my other characters spin off from that basic storyline somehow or another. I made my characters an integral part of the world by writing my own story connecting them to it. It makes me feel like what I do matters, whether I'm saving the world or running a scanner mission for my character's own reasons (like, the person you're rescuing has information I need to set Crey up for a fall, or something similar)

Since it's an MMO, they can't make the storyline TOO immersive, because not everyone plays MMOs for the same reason. If the storyline was deeply immersive, it would lead to a lot of linear gameplay, which is a BAD thing for a game relying on monthly subscriptions. If a player feels like they "beat" the game, they will stop subscribing to it. An MMO can't survive if the gameplay feels too linear, and like they're leading you by the nose to the conclusions that they want you to reach.

I always heard Synapse as Steve Blum (using his Mugen/Spike Spiegel voice)

Silver Mantis: Eliza Dushku (in Faith from Buffy/Angel character mode)
BaBs: Michael Clark Duncan
Citadel: Christopher Sabat (he voiced Gunslinger in the English dub of Trinity Blood)
Manticore: Troy Baker (Abel Nightroad, also in Trinity Blood, in "serious Abel" mode)
Blue Steel: Bruce Willis
Cap'n Mako: Michael Wincott
Scirocco: Oded Fehr
Nemesis: Malcom MacDowell
Statesman: Kurt Russell
Foreshadow: Kirk Thornton (voiced Jin in Samurai Champloo's English dub)
Faultline: Brendan Fraser
Sister Psyche: Kate Beckinsale
Numina: Anjelica Huston

Psssst. Werner, the smiley means I was kidding. I wasn't insulted.

I had a nasty bit of revenge I utilized on an Energy blaster who had been targeting my targets for an entire mission and knocking them away from me. (he was targeting through me and knocking them back just as I was closing to melee range, I know it was intentional because he was using Power Push)

.....I waited until he started the animation for Nova and Shockwaved everything out of range of it. He was pissed, I was smiling. Good times.

You know your thread title is Spanish for "The Regen" right?

MA with no Focus Chi = Car with no gas pedal
MA with no Focus Chi = Electric guitar with no amplifier
MA with no Focus Chi = Decaffeinated coffee

I rest my case, Your Honor

I'd say roll a Willpower, Electric, or Dark Armor tank and utilize your second build to work on Psionic for those occasions when you know you'll be fighting a loty of Psi users. That way you still have your main build for all purpose tanking and a specific one for Psi (since building for Psi resistance/defense tends to gimp other aspects of a build)

I wouldn't worry too much about it though.

Or you could slot the bejeezus out of it for knockback and have fun playing Hellion Golf.

Well, farming +4's gives you the best possible inf/hour ratio, IF you can kill them fast enough the extra HP they have isn't a factor, so that's one possible reason.

Shield/SS or Shield/Elec on a tank would go at a pretty good clip.

Best use of slots in Power Thrust (if you're not slotting Mako's Bite for ranged defense) is Kinetic Combat for some cheap KB protection.

I know you don't use IOs Sam, but that's one set you might want to look into if you don't have room in your build to take Acrobatics and have issues with knockback.

If not that, one accuracy and maybe an end reduction should do fine. Damage isn't the point of Power Thrust, though you can use it to kill a minion with a sliver of health and save your bigger attacks for the LT breathing down your neck.

It's not entirely relevant, but I was considering building an AR/EM PvP sniper (for teams of course)

Boost Range + Sniper Rifle (slotted with Dam/Range Hami-Os) +Stealth = a sniper that can fire from outside most people's visual range, with an attack that gives no indication where it came from (i.e. no telltale trail leading back to your position)

It won't be a PvP god or anything, but it'd be fun to mess with people with.

AR/EM has quite a bit of synergy if you don't mind redraw.

Turning on a Raptor Pack maybe?

Or does that toggle Hover off? Never had any reason to turn both on before.

The tailor in RWZ is a cosmetic surgeon as well.