Daemodand

That's a stroke of brilliance. Rats off to ya!

The mega-brawl wielding Malta have been replaced with mega-brawl wielding Hellions. And Scrapper and Tanker primaries will be useless against these escaping prisoners.

*Looks at the 2 Praetorians that it took 18-47 Incarnates to defeat*
Incarnae path? I'll have what they're having isntead.

Ouroboros.

The disadvantage is it's the single cruddiest melee armor in the game. Make sure to team with plenty of support for the first 27 levels because ElA gets eaten alive in the low-level game.

I will say on Tankers it's downright playable, but is still the cruddiest Tanker armor bar none.

Full disclosure: I'm not a fan of ElA. But I guess you figured that out by now.

The Batman surprised me with how good it was. It inspired me to start using cyan in my costumes.

And I liked the new takes on the old villains.

Better With You: No one likes to be reminded of their own mortality or the fact romantic relationships don't get better with time.

Bob's Burgers: The animation style alone dictated this would be a flop. Even the commercials for it were bad.

The Cape: This one I'll miss. It may have been kinda crappy, but gosh darn it, they at least had the guts to put the guy into a costume. Grossing everyone out with The Litch's face will probably ensure even fewer people tune in next week. Not that it matters. Also, the family angst got real old real fast.

Community: What a mean-spirited show. Glad it's going under. I did somewhat enjoy the AD&D episode, but even that one was soaked in venom. No one to root for. No one to like. Good riddance.

Fringe: It comes from the same school of storytelling as Twin Peaks, X-Files and Lost. Show a bunch of weird stuff for the sake of showing a bunch of weird stuff and it doesn't matter if it amounts to nothing or makes zero sense. Not a fan of this school of storytelling. At all.

Human Target: Our man show got ***** whipped into a chick flick. If it can't be a man show, if it can only survive as a chick flick, kill it. Give it an honorable death rather than a dishonorable life. Indira Varma is a one-woman embodiment of why I love women, but, she should've been a Catwoman to Chance's Batman instead of woe-is-me billionairess boss.

Nikita: Die in a fire, you fake.

No Ordinary Family: When a super hero show gets this little notice in this forum, something's wrong. Of course, the leads have an icky, chemistry-free marriage, which didn't help. But the show did right in keeping things light, fun and simple compared to the heavy, boring, convolution that was Heroes.

Outsourced: I like it. It's one of the smartest shows on TV and one of the smartest sitcoms ever. Admittedly, outsourcing of jobs isn't exactly the best source of material for a laugh-fest. Especially if you've been outsourced.

V: Well, it's better than the original. Don't believe me? Go back and watch it. Or better yet, don't, and keep all your good memories of it in tact. Same goes for Knight Rider and The A-Team.

"New Game Enhancements!"

Inspirations have the magical ability to convince people not to use them but instead just to keep them as some sort of collection. The higher the tier of the Inspiration, the greater the effect. Many times I have witnessed someone die, and be offered a wakie, but have no room in their tray for it. They died but used no Inspirations. This is the most serious form the the insidious mind control Inspirations wield.

The second greatest guide ever written for this game details ideal Inspiration management. Study it, live it, love it.

Mindless drones don't hold protests.

Please no more Malta. They're fine from a mechanics standpoint, but it just grates on me that a guys-with-guns group is a late-game enemy, rather than the mid-game enemy they should have been. Plus, they're just about the least visually interesting enemy group in the game (when you make the Skulls look colorful by comparison, something is wrong).

And I hope the AE never gets custom maps and spawn placement. Endurance drained by electric attacks and lost on a map so crazy it makes Orenbega look like a straight line all while trying to find the glowie which custom spawns in the least-likely, least-accessible part of the map because that's supposed to be oh-so-entertaining? No thanks. No thanks.

I build charatcters not toons, and as such I nearly always have a strong concept. For example, I would never put Fly on my Super Speeder. Maybe you should try to break out of your routine and do something different with future characters. You might even find it's fun and adds variety to your game sessions.

Why would one not take Hasten? Ugly graphics, Endurance crash, you have power sets that don't particularly benefit from Hasten (Claws, Willpower, Super Reflexes, etc), you already have the average 40% recharge bonus Hasten would provide through set bonuses, you want to save the power pick for something else, etc.

P.S. Incarnate options make Hasten even less important in the modern CoH.

Fitness's impact on any given character was immediate and enormous. That cannot be said of any other Pool set. Those who would skip it would get consistently poorer performance out of their characters. That also cannot be said of any other Pool set.

Fighting is precisely as useful as it's ever been (great on melees, ho-hum on anything else). Leadership, though more popular now thanks to looser builds, is easily skipped and is far from the game-changer Fitness was (especially solo where its impact is barely noticeable).

So no, the Fighting Pool is not the new Fitness. There is no new Fitness, in terms of impact on game play and universal utility.

The groundswell of support for PvP on the forums surprises me. Can it be even most carebears think PvP has been in the wood shed long enough? A rollback to Issue 12 PvP would create a firm foundation on which to build PvP's future. Remember how fun the Reculse's Victory test even was? I sure do. I want that experience back.

As for bases...rip out the whole system and start from scratch. Look at the Bat Cave. Look at the Hall of Justice/Watch Tower. Bases need to be that cool, and functional, and accessible to the solo player as well as the largest Super Group. Tall order, but if you can't do that, don't bother with bases at all.

Just soloed him again on my lastest 50 Brute. He lasted all of 45 seconds, maybe a minute. Barring technical difficulties, or leaving your difficulty at +4 level or something silly like that, no Brute should fail to grind this guy all day. The Honoree + Vanguard Boss + Rikti Portal fight was far, far more challenging. But of course I won. I was playing a Brute.

And oh, hey! PraetoriaWoman is a bird now!

5 level 50 Defense Common IOs in toggles + 2 in passives + 2 in Maneuvers + 2 in Weave + 1 in Combat Jumping + 3% IO in Tough = 45.8% Defense

We don't need no stinkin' set bonuses.

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