Dr_Darkspeed

Ok, so thinking about it another way: If she faced off against someone else of her species/ someone who was given the exact same innate abilities, would you think she'd win in a fight? Just a straight up one-on-one fight with someone with the same powers? Is she better at fighting? If Superman fights another Kryptonian, it'll come down to level of skill at fighting.

Sure, magic/reality manipulation makes it happen. Or a nanovirus that reduces the physical capabilities of the robot to a standard level for a particular species. Or the robot is facing off against an identical model, only one that doesn't have the extra fighting subroutine.



Like, say, if they use a magic bow that makes them awesome at archery, and nothing else. Thats an inhetrently different character from say, Hawkeye, who is trained in martial arts.

Here is where I disagree (and this is in the case of everythimg except melee ATs), because its not asking you to choose brawling instead of doing those things, its asking you to choose to become better at fighting generally instead of becoming better at those other things things. If you can shoot energy, taking fighting won't stop you being able to do that, it will just be (at worst) a choice between picking a particular energy beam fighting move and a more physical fighting move.

So, i agree that the fighting attacks are problematic as they don't give benefit if you already have lots of attacks. Thats why I think some 'hybrid' style autobuffs associated with them would work, so training in fighting enhances all of your attacks. Even something simple like a dam buff for learning boxing and a to-hit buff for learning kicking (or vice versa) would be fine, like a set bonus from IOs. That way people who needed the extra attack still get it, and other people can become better at fighting using their own fighting style.

Nope, unless you count stealth as a travel power. I do use the Ninja Run/Beast Run where appropriate. I do usually mix and match with Travel powers, things like Hover/Teleport, Hover/Super Jump, Combat Jumping/Superspeed.

Similarly, Darkspeed is fast. So he has Quickness and Swift slotted with run speed enhancers, so that he preety much never slows down. Yes, it means that the Gravity Geysers always throw him off course (I had to wait til they added flight packs in the game to explore the Shadow Shard), and that if he gets speed boosted in a mission, I have trouble not bouncing off walls. But its fun. To me.


Is it posible that might just be your choice of characters, though. Would a raging super strength brute really be trained in boxing(or some other martial art)? An old man who uses psionics? A girl who uses robots and gadgets? depending on their background and personality, some would, some wouldn't.

For Fighting, I'd think it would be thematically appropriate for characters if, in a situation where their super powers/weapons were disabled, would still be able to take some opponents down in a physical confrontation.

How does he get to the hospital then?

And yet, he does already have the innate ability to inspire his teamates. And to lead a team of less powerful teamates against much more powerful foes than they could normally face. Just like everyone is already good at fighting because they all have brawl.

Just take Hover on the one who couldn't fly fast? Slotted, you can sprint about in it fairly well without being anywhere near Fly speeds.

Probably not. But the same is true for Leadership, Medicine and Prescence too.

In terms of "Even better at X", the comparison (for me) is the character itself, if they hadn't spent the time learning it. They can choose, rather than developing new uses of their main powersets, to spend time learning to be even better fighters(e.g. like the X-Men or Ben Grim do).

According to the wiki, the booster pack code should still be honoured.

Darn, thats actually awesome way to start someones CoH experience!

EDIT: And it gets better.


Add the GvE Edition to that bundle for only another $7.99. That gets you another month and The pocket D stuff and two extra costumes. So 4 months and a crepe ton of stuff for about $33. And then (if its in your budget) possibly add in an extra $10 for the Starter kit for another month.

Enough to annoy some people? Yep. If I'd wanted a fury bar, I'd have made a Brute. You'd be undoing peoples choices for them, without asking. And for no benefit that I can see. If this were done, how would the game be better than it is now?

There doesn't appear to be any particular advantage to combining them (Other than the 'advantage' of having one less option to pick from), it would be development intensive to do (which would be better spent elsewhere) and would mess around with peoples established characters (which would annoy some people).

I wasn't thinking anything like that, just some regular powersets that contain a mixture of elemental attacks. Like a controller set that uses ice for the holds, electricity for the stuns, has an earthquake to knock people down etc..

The sets would more flexible in terms of the effects and damage types it could apply but that could be balanced by lacking the focus that other sets have. In terms of a gimmick, maybe something like the fire attacks reduce resistance to the other elements, rerwarding mixing up the attack change.

Just a thought, but maybe like going undercover impersonating Marauder?

It's +22%, you have base 75% so that means 97%

I'm guessing the change in terminology might be related to the fact that the in-game combat attribute shows your total to-hit but your bonus. Saying 97% matches up with the in-game number you'd see if you were monitoring it.

You are dead to me.