Dechs Kaison

Last I heard, he's an arrogant jackhole.

But I'd bet he could find time to look at your build tonight.

I don't show avatars on the forums, so I wouldn't have known it, but I figure I should say what mine is.

It's a dynamic avatar that will show whether I'm online in City of Heroes and which character I'm currently playing.

This is pretty much how I run things no matter what TF/mission it is.

If I'm on my tank, I jump in head first, taunt, and say "STICK TO THE PLAN!"

If I'm on my mastermind, I jump in head first, taunt, and say "STICK TO THE PLAN!"

If I'm on my MFing Warshade, I jump in head first, quasar, revive, eclipse, mire, gravity well, unchain essence, and somewhere in there shout something to the effect of "STICK TO THE PLAN!"



EDIT: To contribute something on topic, I find Pestilence rider to be the worst one. He has defense debuffs, which angers my dark tank. Famine I can deal with because I resist the end drain and don't need my heal more than once in a fight anyway.

For Hami: EoEs are the only thing that will make you take less damage. The way I run this mission is to aggro all of the Rikti and drag them into Hami's range. While Hami and his mitos are occupied killing Rikti, I can usually get half of the yellow Mitos myself, more as the warshade, none as the mastermind. While that's going on, the ranged people on the team probably already started picking off the blue mitos. Greens don't need to be held to be killed, but it sure as hell helps.

I've been told that my MFing Warshade guide fixes this kind of problem.

In my opinion, the snowball starts rolling at 18 with Gravity Well, but the engine of destruction and purple flaming doom has all it needs by level 22 and Stygian Circle.

That's more than likely the -regen kicking in at that point. Against hard targets with lots of health and high regen, NW may do more damage... as long as no controller on the team is already flooring the regen of the AV.

Against 95% of the mobs in the game, the scrappers are still doing more damage.

Excuse me?

It has one rule. You can't play the same way twice.

Just brainstorming here, but could you possibly come up with some sort of equation that would weight how much of a character's life that feature has been available for?

For instance, and oversimplifying math here, but suppose levels 25-50 account for 75% of a character's life span. The character who gets "new feature" at level 25 then divides his "score for new feature" by 0.75?

This could potentially eliminate the need for a full restart at every new feature. And save you a few tears.

Who cares about lies, the resistance was going to blow up a hospital to make a point. Likely that was not the most horrid thing they would do.

Both sides are flat out evil. There's no way to win in Praetoria.

Seriously contemplating it. Just trying to figure out how to keep all my other stuff in there as well.

How many tries did it take Edison to get the light bulb right?

As a practicing electrical and computer engineer, I would have to say your claim is unfounded and is the regurgitation of trite nonsense fed to you by bad professors. AI is not a mythical thing, it is an eventuality. At the current rate of progression, it will not take long.

Only because few previous dictators have been benevolent. There are short lived cases in history where benevolent dictators have proven to show that it can be a good idea.

You're being evasive by snipping portions of my argument out. I'd take the time to reply, but Smersh said it better already anyway. Since you seem to have ignored it, I'll give you a second chance to see it.

I maintain that your remark is not correct. Quote all the dead people you like, it doesn't change the fact that humanity is still evolving. In a few short years we have moved from a society that does most of the work to a society that provides services. What used to be done by human hands in unsatisfactory conditions is now done by robots and computers.

How long until the selfish instincts of humans are rendered completely irrelevant? I see this future as eventual and inevitable.

We are not dissimilar in this regard.

Seeing how the average citizen of Praetoria thrives, I would happily give up the freedoms they have to live in a world where everything is taken care of. When such a world exists, there will not be an evil dictator controlling the minds of his subjects. It's just not practical. If you can provide for everyone, there are no malcontents and no reason to oppress them.

The evil natures of Cole and subsequent rebellious factions are all fabrications to create tension and drama in a game. Without these conditions, the game is pointless.

Well, I found my new publicist.

Take a look a few posts back, there's no reason for them to remove the -rech.

EDIT: Here, found it for you.

Neither, thanks. We'll do fine without.

Ok, under said ridiculous restrictions, scrapper every time.

It's easier to try than to prove it can't be done.

You are ignoring one distinct possibility. Technology is advancing at an exponential rate, and eventually we will turn over governing power to artificial intelligence. AI that is impartial, and could in fact be the "benevolent dictator" we've all been waiting for.

Even if we agreed on your definition of freedom, I don't think every American is free to pursue happiness as you've described. Far from it. There are many underprivileged families, children who will never obtain the necessary education to obtain excellence in life.

Think of our criminal population. Many of them are doing as they see fit to survive, yet they are disallowed the freedom to do so.

At the other end of the spectrum the wealthy are limited, penalized for pursuing excellence.

No one is free. We've believed we are far long enough.

To add to his reasons... I dislike making anything that has only one primary damage type. With a fire/fire/fire, if you start fighting fire resistant mobs, you're hosed. Sure you have some lethal or smashing components in /fire/, but there's nothing like a Havoc Punch to someone that doesn't feel fire damage.

Choosing a set with that second damage type gives you some important latitude.

Fix'd.

The fact that it has not happened before is not sufficient proof that it cannot eventually happen. People are plagued by the preconceived notion that no one in power is capable of non-oppressive control.

Need I remind you that you are not truly free right now? There are laws in place to protect people that I'm sure you would not argue against. Is this wrong?

Then you go solo Hamidon. Or get Cole and Scott in the same room and kill them both.

The basic principle here is that there is a war going on and there's two sides. In the world that's been created, you will get caught up in this war and your actions will help one side or the other. If you don't want to be on one of the sides, don't log in.

Which rights are self evident?

It's pretty self evident to me that if I'm stronger than you, I get your lunch money. Does that make is a universal truth?