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His point was to make a (partly) amusing take on part of Fallout 3.

It's a coded message letting everyone know that the power assault will kill all non-natural origin characters.

I have to say, I absolutely hate arachnos. I hate their appearance, their size, their powers, their descriptions, their maps, and everything to do with their stories (lore, history, leadership, goals, methods, etc).

Although the lore and stories of the game suggest arachnos should be more at odds with typical hero work, I for one am thankful they are not. Rularuu, malta, tsoo, cot, or any other popularly hated group is preferable to me over arachnos. I've done one statesman TF, and one khan TF heroside, and that's as much as I plan to ever do. Everything I've ever hated about CoH gameplay is possesed, often in overabundance, by arachnos.

Running across four zones without a travel power to clear another carbon copy warehouse is frustrating, but if I have to kill one more mu I'm going to buy a puppy just to kick it.

The real question is, how much do I have to pay to get chill of the night?

Most all targeted AE attacks (not cones) affect up to 16 targets. Defender, corrupter and blaster PBAEs are capped at 16, too. Without commenting on rains or patches, which I really can't recall offhand, fireball is the only tanker attack that hits more than 10, but ranged attackers aren't quite so limited.

The storm palace +2 brutes that were heavily resistant to status effects and knockback and mixed with eyeballs, or the +2 wisps with nearly 100% psi damage, or the flying endurance-draining energy-flinging clouds. Though, there have been more changes to scrappers than just IOs since then. My claws/sr scrapper can, sometimes, handle the +4 rikti spawns, but the storm palace is still a bit much without inspirations.

Although, I didn't think pylons were much more than a means of measuring DPS, and were made easier by changes to scrapper animation times moreso than anything else.

If you're going to accuse someone of lying, leave your ignorance and arrogance at the door. I didn't say the RWZ existed before IOs.

For clarifying timelines, the challenges that the "RWZ scrapper challenge" sprung from were in rikti crash sight and the storm palace, and were used for quite a while. RWZ with 3 +4 bosses wasn't the only challenge, which is why I said "challenges" .

I think the storm palace has always been a better place to challenge builds, but it's just too inconvenient, I guess.

The challenges were around long before IOs

edit: not denying that more scrappers can "win" the scrapper challenges now, but so can more tanks.

edited again: For those that don't know, the RWZ isn't the only scrapper challenge. I'm referring to, well, the ones that existed long before IOs.

That's influenced by the set encouraging players to take every power when it becomes available, as well as powers like combat jumping and weave. SR makes for a very tight build, and skipping travel powers make it much more manageable.

It's an auto power. Recharge enhancements aren't slottable. Anything more than one running enhancement is questionable.

Having used the power to solo obnoxious elite bosses (neuron, antimatter, etc), fix situations where I simply dove in over my head in a group setting, and survive countless archvillain battles before IOs came out, I'd have to say you're factually wrong. The three minute duration is and has been long enough for anything that I needed extra resistance.

As far as being nit-picky, it's counterproductive for people to try to change a power when they don't know what it does. A two-minute unstoppable would suck significantly more.

Kinda like our current version of rage, eh?

This proves Mr. Butane was right. The devs love brutes so much more than tankers, they wait to do this until tanks and scrappers are getting the set. Wait...

I'm critical enough that it's quite obvious who it is that's giving me negative rep. It's a shame they don't actually say anything in the comments; otherwise I'd be quoting them in the thread as a reply.

I think I just said I don't consider that surgical repositioning. I also never stated or implied it was hard. You seem to be trying to make more of the comment that it actually means.

Ok...

It's like having my tail pulled. Considering I don't have a tail, it's very confusing.

Invuln's defense is marginal against individual tough foes, situations where as far as I'm concerned unstoppable is the best teir 9 in the game despite the crash. The 78% figure is also more dependant upon build and situational (admittedly rare) circumstances that turn off unyielding, such as excessive endurance drain or ghost widow's hold... both of which I've encounted but survived due to unstoppable's incredible resist values.

I'm not talking theory. In theory, a greater uptime/downtime ratio with a less severe crash on a weaker power is preferable. In my experience, it's exactly what invuln doesn't need.

If so many people can't survive a giant monster or archvillain because unstoppable doesn't last long enough, I find any claims that this kind of a change (weaker effect, shorter duration, faster recharge) would allow the character to survive to be very suspicious. Misguided is the nicest way I can phrase how such a position appears.

So does unstoppable.

Recluse is handled better with tough than unstoppable, so unstoppable's crash is of debatable relevant there at all, though I do understand some would rather not take tough. Nictus Romulus is an interesting situation, but I've used unstoppable several times against him, without the crash killing me, until I bothered persuing IO sets on my invuln. I have to very much question what someone's doing if they simply cannot handle unstoppable's crash when dealing with a single threat (the nitctii and ambushes being more of a caveat than additional threats).

I've never fought Reichsman with anything other than my IO'd invuln, so I can't comment on his difficultly in general. I was thinking many many things when fighting him, most of them including vulgar explitives, and none of them concerning my survivability.

That's exactly my position on OWtS.