Dechs Kaison

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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Microcosm View Post
    That's probably 1 dps off of calcs for my dwarf. You can add the pets to that number, so it's not so abysmally low, but they won't last against a pylon, obviously.

    A human build I have shows fully double that dps.
    Alright, I have to know how you do this. What's your chain of attacks?

    I just tried reworking my build to include a "decent" human form chain against one target, but what I end up with is actually less single target DPS than I get in Dwarf.
  2. I'll give you a good place to start if you're willing to try a shapeshifting Warshade.

    Read the guide in my sig.

    Quote:
    At its height, The MFing Warshade will have 300% damage bonus, 85% resist all, well over 50% tohit bonus, three damage dealing pets in tow, a ranged AoE attack chain, and the ability to refill both bars more often than I blink. It can also perma stun ten targets, perma hold one, and even stun bosses in a single shot. It has mez protection with an 80% hitpoints bonus on demand. It can even shrug off defeat twice every five minutes.

    Have I captured your interest yet?
  3. Oh, look, another of BJ's threads to ignore.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Scythus View Post
    And a Quarter Pounder with cheese does not in fact weigh a quarter pound!
    You know what they call a quarter pounder with cheese in Amsterdam?
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by DarkSideLeague View Post
    I still think we should be able to use [Brawl] while Riktified.

    (Yes, I've tried.)
    I think it should be a complete transformation akin to the Kheldian shapeshifts.

    We should get Monkey Brawl and some psychic blasts (all at the lowest possible modifiers), as well as the poisonous gas thing when we (inevitably) die.
  6. Dechs Kaison

    New Toon

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zem View Post
    You know, I think I'm just going to copy/paste this whenever someone comments that it's strange to see a villain AT playing blueside.
    You know, there's a very good reason my Warshade was the first of my heroes to go villain.
  7. I am very honked off that I deleted my Elec/EA stalker, thinking the set would always be underperforming.
  8. Dechs Kaison

    Oooh

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Texas Justice View Post
    Can we swap in Fusionette, General Aarons, or any of the other "stupid AI" helpers we get?
    Lady ******* Jane.
  9. Dechs Kaison

    New Toon

    A quick word of caution: Warshades can be a great many things, but simple is certainly not one of them.

    I highly recommend reading the guide I've linked in my signature.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Megajoule View Post
    Or, in other words, pretty much what the PvPers accuse Issue 13 of being.
    Not even remotely. I13 just changed PvP, a very small aspect of the game.

    Imagine the i13 changes across the board, plus the removal of the AT system and replacement with some freeform system, plus the removal of the enhancement system and replacement with some random as hell gear system.

    That's what the NGE was.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by AkuTenshiiZero View Post
    Well, it's not like Xavier makes anyone follow him. And Cyclops is the field commander anyways, Xavier just covers the intel/PR side of things :P

    So if anything Mr. Summers is the ****** here, something I can whole-heartedly agree with.
    So what you're saying is... General George Washington was an evil *******?

    I mean, he did "hide" behind his army while freeing his country.

    Same with people like Winston Churchill and Patton and Marshal.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by AkuTenshiiZero View Post
    Also, Manticore is gonna get dead? 0.o What about every mission he appears in? Nemesis duplicate? How the hell do you kill a character in an MMO without throwing a huge chunk of story and missions out the window!?
    You do this through simple level progression. Things that happen at level 20 come before things that happen at level 21.

    If Manticore dies in a level 36-40 arc, for instance, he could still be "alive" to run the Manticore TF, which ocurrs between the levels 30-35.
  13. Dechs Kaison

    Oooh

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood View Post
    You know, given that both of them are missing from that picture I think the broken bow is misdirection. My bet is on Sister Psyche dying and Manticore going Evil to get revenge (the broken bow is symbolic both of his broken heart and him giving up his father's legacy as a hero to pursue vengeance). Manticore has always been the most... morally flexible... member of the Phalanx so I could easily see his wife's death causing him to go uber-vigilante.
    My money's on this one.
  14. Dechs Kaison

    New Toon

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Landfill View Post
    50/50 Team Solo like to steam role things some times its fun to sit back and watch stuff suffer.
    You can do this with a MFing Warshade. Damage capped, resist capped (to everything)... the AT literally feeds off of enemies. I did some simple math to illustrate that a Warshade takes more damage from three enemies than it does from twelve.

    As a Warshade, the only thing you need is more bodies. Find things to kill, use them to increase your strength, kill them, heal off of their corpses, bring their corpses back to fight for you, and move on.

    You can also sit back and watch things burn, too, as you will have as many as three damage dealing pets following you. On SOs it can be two most of the time.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by The_Spad_EU View Post
    And wearing Manticore's leg across his back?...
    That's... uh... that's just a piece of his cape. Shaped like a foot.
  16. If there's one thing I've learned from this thread, it's how to properly live under a bridge.
  17. This topic sucks and is now about mind blowing names.

    Arby's

    R B's

    Roast Beef.


    ...

    My mind was blown.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
    Can someone explain to me what the NGE is? My spider sense tells me it is somehow important here.
    The Star Wars Galaxies MMO put together an update they called the New Game Experience (NGE). In a nutshell, it took all the art from the game that many people had grown to love, then threw away all the game mechanics and came up with new ones. It wasn't so much a New Game Experience as it was a Brand New Game. It downright devastated the game.
  19. The Ice tank will want some resistances for the later game stuff to really fill in all his gaps. I second the sonic/sonic defender, sonic/thermal corruptor, or thermal/sonic defender when i21 goes live.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha View Post
    See? All in line with a character who is little more than a peak human, some cybernetic add ons and a big suit of badass armour.
    Oooh, I like these things. Let me do Dechs next, he's the closest I have to a normal human (bots/traps).

    Judgement: Ion, easy to explain, what with the awesome robots he drags around all the time. Temporarily draws power from each the robots to concentrate an electrical overload on his enemies. Interface: Again, easy. Robot blasts are designed to degrade armor and light stuff on fire. Who doesn't want that? Lore: The biggest stretch, but still not bad. Ignore the aura, and I make new kinds of robots that look oddly similar to Praetorian Clockwork. Destiny: Nanite cloud surge that repairs anything, even organic material, and creates a temporary protective barrier around them (+max HP Rebirth)

    None of my characters are "drink from the Well incarnates," but that won't stop them from getting really awesome powers. Everyone else is magic, though, so it makes things like incarnate powers trivial to handwave away as just "more magic."
  21. Dechs Kaison

    New Toon

    Definitely try a MFing Warshade. Guide's in my sig.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Draeth Darkstar View Post
    Just a quick question - why does Dark/Dark get so much mention as a Defender combo but not as a Corruptor combo? Is there some reason that the Defender version is intrinsically better than the Corruptor one? Is it related to Dark/Soul mastery choices or something?
    It's fine as a corruptor combo, but what really makes it shine for defenders is all the debuffs that it can throw around.
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Starflier View Post
    Ninjitsu->Tanker->Smokeflash->Team Wipe->Maniacal Laughter
    For one, I would love to see that, but realistically, if Ninjitsu were ever ported to tanks, it would most certainly have smoke flash replaced with something else.
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Goddamage View Post
    First of all, Dechs Kaison wins the prize for typing the most and contributing the least.
    I'm fair certain that reward belongs to you. You've contributed absolutely nothing that hasn't been brought up a hundred times before (that's not hyperbole, it is in fact at least one hundred), and you've coupled it with a meaningless dead horse argument over whether Masterminds are heroic, which has been brought up just as many, if not more times.
  25. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Goddamage View Post
    Ok, so maybe some of you are totally missing the point of this thread. It's not to argue over whether a power set is essentially "good" or "evil".
    Need I remind you that you're the one bringing up what was "suitable for heroes?"

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    Originally Posted by Goddamage View Post
    Masterminds weren't originally made for Heroes, anyway, which means someone must've thought "controlling" others isn't "good".
    Which must be why Controllers don't have Mind Control.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Goddamage View Post
    And I guess someone felt that sneaking around as a stalker is "evil" too, huh?
    Exactly why Dark Armor doesn't exist for Scrappers, Tankers, or other stealth/invisibility powers don't exist for Blasters or Controllers, or available in pool powers.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Goddamage View Post
    Excuse me for thinking there's a reason why one side has powers the other side doesn't have. It's all about perception. I get it. You can "role play" anything however you want. Moving on.
    Yeah, one side has powers the other doesn't because they were made first. If you're not suggesting a new AT, come out and say that. Don't present it as "a bit unfair that there's no hero equivalent to the villain mastermind power set."

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Goddamage View Post
    Now, about the "meat" of my post: New Mastermind powers, which ANYONE can "role play" however they see fit, whether they're Hero or Villain or anything in between.
    Again, this is not how you presented things. You said "another reason would be" to have new powersets. The crux of your argument was that there aren't hero MMs.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Goddamage View Post
    I'd like to thank the previous posters for not contributing anything useful to this.
    I'd like to thank you for not accepting constructive criticism in a respectable manner.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Goddamage View Post
    (On a side note, do people really think the Suggestions part of these forums is for suggesting people "pretend" certain powers are other powers or are used for whatever reason you'd like to imagine? **rhetorical question**)
    On a side note, do people really think the Suggestions part of these forums is where horrible, misguided ideas are met with complete enthusiasm to build the ego of the original poster? **rhetorical question**