Electric-Knight

With all of the numerous influenced SGs and characters out there... I don't quite understand the "epic fail" comment, but whatever, hehe...

I'm only casually familiar with the background of that world and the powers and such, and I'd say, of all the things I've seen borrowed in the game and expanded upon to work into something in this game, I could totally see that being a good choice.

Unfortunately, I have no actually helpful things to offer you, Agonus, as I have no idea if there are any out there or anything.

I'm sure there are some Kinetic Melee air benders out there though, hehe.

Best of luck! (Even if it is just to satiate some curiosity... and now I am curious as well)

That's uncanny... 4 replies within the same minute, hehe.

Not only can you change between the three body types, you can also change the height! (And each of these can be different for each and every costume, should you so wish)

Yeah, I'd say you're right about times.
What you mention right there makes me think of another point though...
With /Devices we can take out things that are way over our ability through normal means. And I don't think that's just because we have /devices.
We can take things out beyond our normal soloing capability and take them out rather safely (If you know what you're doing, take the extended amount of time and don't get too unlucky).

That might be one of my biggest thrills with the powerset!

Anyways, just rambling... Nice guide, Seebs!

Speed Boost is a proper noun.
And, therefore, will not put out unless you marry it.


*adjusts bow tie*


Pardon me, friend, but might I inquire as to whether you are currently capable and willing to grant me one of your fine super powers that is aptly named Speed Boost, please? : )

Without any intent of lauding over other ATs and whatnot, it is true that the advantage of being able to fire our attacks at range in any and all directions, as soon as we wish, is an oft overlooked advantage that is not reflected on paper well at all.

Firing and hitting Tab and/or quickly spinning the camera around allows us to cover a pretty wide area.
And it is pretty evident when you see my lightning blasting every which way and anything that is remaining.

Not looking for a place on the top of the awards ceremony platform... but this aspect is a lovely element of being a Blaster.

Hehehe... My wife just found this the other day and was showing it around (Even passed it on for possible inclusion in a curriculum).

She has her own site with a ton of stuff.

This video was the first one I saw and possibly my favorite:
Infinity Elephants

Very nice guide, Seebs!

As a fan and practitioner of /Devices and what one can do with them, I definitely agree about /Devices becoming like your primary and echo Dechs's comments above me.


As I am familiar with Archery/Devices I noticed that you didn't mention much about them. I suppose there's not much more to add other than what you said about weapon sets and their higher accuracy...

I will mention (you slightly touched on it) Caltrops can (and possibly should) be placed just near trip mines (behind the mines/ahead of where the enemies are running towards) to make enemies that are running towards you not run too fast and avoid the damage of the explosions.
Very few things are worse than leading a string of enemies towards you over your field of devastating KABOOMS only to see them run by it all with explosions being nothing but pretty behind them.
I generally throw the caltrops just slightly behind myself after placing the trip mines. The radius of the caltrops will slightly over lap onto the trip mines and should cause the enemies to slow once they HIT the mines and not before (which would cause them to turn and mostly avoid the trip mines).


Also, it is worth stressing a bit more that the Mag 3 Stun of Taser will combine with another stun from your Blast set to two-shot stun a Boss.
I know most all of us realize this, but it is still worth stressing.
You mention things more from your personal experience as a DP/Dev (which is understandable and fine).
Just chiming in as an Archer with Devices and saying that a Stun Arrow and Taser is nice for that rare boss who makes it through all my set traps and I actually have to fight!


Just my personal note on /devices...
While everything said about the way the game is played today when teaming is true... When solo, I find that the time it takes to defeat a typical spawn by setting up adequate bombs and traps and triggering everything off is roughly equal to doing it the normal way using other sets.
It is roughly equal the time solo, but with extreme survivability.
Large spawns with EBs will take longer to set up, but (if done right) it will take around the same amount of time as it would have to whittle them down with normal attacks... Only with Devices you don't spend that time attacking and being attacked and popping greens and what-have-you...
You set it up and watch the fire works.
And quickly move on to the next.

Dear Francises,

Relax.




EDIT:
Just in case anyone mistakes that as trying to rudely take a jab at them... that is not how I meant it.
Just attempting to interject a bit of humor in here as well as an obviously needed step back and casual approach to this entire topic.

That back and forth between some posters seems a bit ridiculous.
People focus on tiny little bits and twist things around and run off on tangents (on both/all sides) until you're no longer discussing anything relevant to the original disagreement.,.. you're just attempting to smear the other in order to discredit them... and there's plenty of ammunition on all sides to pick up and use against the other, so that is no great feat.

Sheesh, hehe... cut it out.

I only ever replied in here to 1) hoping to make someone feel better about the change by discussing and sharing my view of it and why I think it is okay (or possibly to learn something that made me change my tune) and 2) to get some advice.
Both options, clearly, were wasted efforts based on over optimism.

Still...

I thought Wavicle nearly had it right at first...
However, it is not a matter of pulling making it too easy (which has been a main focus of much back and forth), but that pulling into another room just created a hole in Trapdoor's defenses that was not intended/desired.

That, however, does not explain it well enough...

First off, Memphis... As far as I understand, we (and yes, I say we because maneuvering and pulling and ranged blasting is a large part of my gaming) are not losing our ability to maneuver and use that aspect of our powers.
We're not losing that.
They changed it so that he won't be led too far astray and so that his unique power does not get lost due to that simple tactic.

Trapdoor's power is unique.

It is not a stationary effect nor is it a power that is derived from the room he is within. It comes from himself.

Think of it this way...
We cannot pull a /regen scrapper away from his Fast Healing nor Reconstruction nor Dull Pain.
We cannot pull an enemy away from their Temporary Invulnerability or Stamina or any such thing.

However, with this unique power, we can destroy physical manifestations that are a part of his power.
It is somewhat like being able to target a specific target on an enemy. Imagine if you could attack a giant scorpion's stinger in order to disable it so that it could not attack you with it.
It is much like taking out shield generators, however, Trapdoor's clone manifestations are not supposed to be stationary objects that only exist in one location.
It's like punching King Hippo in the belly so that his trunks drop and then you can unload on his chin while he picks them up.

And, again... we do not lose the ability to fight from ranged, to maneuver and to use our powers as we normally can.
He's just not going to be as much of a twit as he was... and his power will not be based on the location.

Clunky fix? Without playing it in it changed state, I can't say for certain.

Something that leads to a slippery slope of not being able to pull anything, not being to hold or drain or blah blah blah... that seems like an utter fallacy to me.

Trapdoor's power is unique and they felt it was not being represented properly the way things were. We really haven't lost any options. They just reinforced what they wanted Trapdoor to be able to do.

Let me try and explain this another way...

There are super birds...
And super bees...

*cheers wildly for Steelclaw*


Also... FPASC!!!

I too like the suit... but, if that was for Superman's outfit... no thanks, hehe.
If it was just some Kryptonian thing, maybe.
I really liked the iridescent piece over the dark fabric at the end there.

Yeah, some things I'm really not interested in reinventing or seeing reinvented.
Make something else... don't try and live off of an already established name to get your new idea out there... flesh out and create your new idea fully.

Just my opinion.

To the OP:
Huh... some of you didn't get the fast track when choosing it??
I did!

I was upset I didn't choose that with my hero, but my villain chose it and it is AWESOME!!


P.S. My toilet bowl is another aspect of the well.

A great guildmate and friend from another game, a long time ago in a... blah blah blah..., once taught us all the great benefit of quitting.

Every single time that guy quit (Not the game, but any task, mission, effort, attempt at anything) success finally came rolling in.

It can't really translate so well in words... but, you know how it is... a hypothetical example... That Task Force debacle where it's just you and a group of underpowered closest friends throwing every single thing you have at an AV and you just can't win... But you keep trying, over and over and over...

Finally, after exhaustive efforts... My friend declares he is QUITTING!! It can't be done!
Suddenly we win, lickitysplit. He wouldn't leave/quit... but we found the trick was to truly lose all hope/belief that this will be a successful run. Give up. Surrender. Quit. It is the key to success... O.o

Such things, in various circumstances happened time and time again.

We all have carried that to various ventures with our own lives (we all still keep in touch)...

And the words, "I QUIT" sound, to us, like the horn of Gondor, leading us on through our mortal pains through impossible odds towards triumph over the evil that sets to destroy our world.


Quitting has magic far beyond our ability to understand!

Ah, of course, the text points to it being completely intentional, hehe... Since I hadn't experienced it in game, I overlooked that!

So, yeah... While Lothic's reason for it is likely correct, I'd say that the cost outweighs the benefit.

While blind invites are something that can annoy anyone, I've never seen a terrible rash of them... but, more importantly, it's rather easily overcome.
And it is not like this is simply preventing spam invites to one person.
I formed a team last night, but I apparently did not invite each member fast enough to bring up the error message... So, I don't know... How fast do you need to invite? (My thing was a rather casual collection of friends and I forgot about this, otherwise I would have tested the speed)

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