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Totally dead on about 'touchy-feely', though. >.> My SO thinks it's endearing, at least.

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What's SO mean again? I never understood that. Bf and gf work just as well but I've seen that term tossed around a few times.

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Significant Other. Really, it's just what I'm used to referring to her as. >> Dunno why, really.

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Significant Other originated as a polite way of getting around boyfriend/girlfriend vs fiance vs husband/wife, usually on non-formal documents like invitations, hotel records, and so forth.

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No one's saying it controls your destiny. Some of it is just traits that you have. Mine is dead on. DEAD on.

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Just felt it was an appropriate time for a Star Wars quote.

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I've also never been a fan of American politics and religion, though I guess not being either American or religious makes me heavily biassed. Still, I don't mind that the place isn't open to any thread of any topic, because I've seen heavy-traffic public forums where anything goes, and it's not very interesting to participate in. Again, not sharing the same pop culture and culture in general with much of the rest of the posters may have coloured my perception.

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You need to get yourself Gone to the Americans, my friend.

Bah, no mystical calendar date controls my destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.

Yank and rebuild for sure. I like making the missions more than I care about people playing them, so I roll my arcs over fairly quickly.

There was a hole here, but it's gone now.

The ED Doom was pretty hilarious, in retrospect.

Costumes seem to get talked about less. Not as many discussions about colors and combinations that worked well.

MAN builds seem to have fallen by the wayside. I miss those.

My old suggestion for tankers was that they should eat AoEs. As in, literally reduce or eliminate the area spread to keep the rest of the team from being hit. The ol' human shield idea.

If you Full Auto Superman, and Batman is behind him, Batman gets hurt less or not at all.

There is something better than pulling with Fire Ball or another AoE.

Pulling with Fire Breath, or a similar short-range, slow-animating AoE.

Was poking through my character slots, thinking of making a blaster, and realized I had a lvl 21 Fire/Dev sitting there that I rolled up back in 2005 (has his Celebrant Badge). I don't do Blueside much, so is that something worth keeping for more than just nostalgia?

Generally speaking, it's bad form to charge for such things, where I come from. Frankly, I'd agree with:

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To me, the whole point of a name is for it to be something clever or funny that I came up with. I have a bunch of them that I'm kind of proud of and have gotten comments on.

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Spot on. No matter how good a name somebody offered me, it just wouldn't be the same.

Also, drug references aren't especially clever.

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Play ... TANK

Play on my team .. Tank

I am not sure what strategy or builds some of you are using out there but my Tanks solo quite nicely thank you. In fact when I am feeling frisky I will practice herding on solo missions and have as many as 9 or 12 villains pounding away while I yawn and systematically pound them into mush. On a team they love nothing better than being surrounded by baddies pounding away while the team picks away at the mob which for the most part is ignorng all of them completely.

Don't get me wrong Brutes are great and I play one on TV err I mean on COV. But I can't see her standing toe to toe with the likes of Jurassik. Yawning as the car on the end of that tree truck he carries around crash down on top of her repeatedly. My SD/SS Tank took on Kraken a while back, long ago before hitting 47 and amusing myself by soloing every Rikti mission I could find, and while the battle was raging the Zombies decided to pay Perez Park a visit. By the time the battle was done I not only had the badge for Kraken but all 4 of the ones for a Zombie invasion YAWN .. hey Kraken if you need more help here's my cell phone call Babbage and see if he's available. hehehe

Okay seriously Brutes do what they do well but they are a sort of half tank/half scrapper .. great for dealing damage but anyone that has done an ITF will tell you.. A brute does not have the same aggro control ability that a tank does. If its all that's available fine but if we can find 2 tanks PLEASE invite them both.

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I ran my DM/SD Brute into the Abyss, picked a fight with the DE monsters in there. 1v1, they couldn't kill me, I couldn't kill them, either. Now, I'm no supertwink, and I've got only three IO sets on that character, one of which is lvl 15. No purples or anything. I also have Shadow Maul and my Fortunata Pet because I like having those things more than minimaxing.

Once I finish IO'ing out that character, I suspect there will be small difference between a tanker's defense and my brute's.

*crawls out of the basement and across the floor, mumbling about "the horror" and "frisking Madisen"*

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I've decided to stop engaging in serious discussions on t3h forums, with people I don't know in a personal nature.

It just stresses me out, and yanno... I'd rather spend the time chillin', then wasting time with random people and their ridiculous soap boxes, when all I want is a civil, intelligent, open-minded discussion.

A thing so rarely found.

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Farm farmity farm farm exploit wha? DOOM! Farm farming farmer. DOOM! MA/AE? DOOM! Anything-but-SS-or-DM-Brute? DOOM!

That's about half the forum there.

Almost forgot. Also: Arcanaville.

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You're technically on the list I'd debate with, mister. So don't mock too hard!

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Doesn't it defeat the purpose of mocking if it isn't, y'know, mockery?

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Perhaps.

But, maybe that's the intention? :3

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It's never worried me that my humor usually has an audience of one. It's not like I usually get to charge admission.

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Co* covers all names very nicely.

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Still, I remain fond of CoX. Co* is impossible to actually say, unless you say CoStar, and that sounds funny. So in general speech, it's either CoX (only around people who know exactly what I mean) or City of Heroes.

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Are extra HP really worth the low damage of a Tanker, though?

As I continually point out, the superior defense of a tanker is potentially meaningless on a good team; to use an extreme example, a team of 8 Defenders can steamroll any content in the game through putting out an impenetrable wall of buffs/debuffs.

When the entire team is at soft cap defense from bubbles/leadership with some nice resistance buffs to boot, while the enemy acc and dam are debuffed to the floor, the tank's advantage is simply the quantity of hitpoints.

Are the extra 1500 or so HP that important?

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Yup, tankers are completely useless when they aren't needed. No one should play them because everyone is always running around at the softcap on defense and with capped dam-res.

No one should every play tanks and JB can finally quit the game in disgust.

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I will admit, and not only admit but bluntly state, that the above situation is theoretical, but such situations could occur.

Another approach one could take is, how much defense (in the general sense, not just +DEF) does a character need? Does one need to have every possible defensive stat capped? Obviously not.

Also, I am bluntly biased. I like Brutes more. I like playing them, I like watching them pound the snot out of things. I prefer steamrolling to herding, constantly moving to unloading a volley every few minutes.

Does that make Brutes better than Tankers? Yes it does, for me. For you? Maybe not. In which case, you roll a Tanker, I'll roll a Brute, and we can both be happy.

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I've decided to stop engaging in serious discussions on t3h forums, with people I don't know in a personal nature.

It just stresses me out, and yanno... I'd rather spend the time chillin', then wasting time with random people and their ridiculous soap boxes, when all I want is a civil, intelligent, open-minded discussion.

A thing so rarely found.

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Farm farmity farm farm exploit wha? DOOM! Farm farming farmer. DOOM! MA/AE? DOOM! Anything-but-SS-or-DM-Brute? DOOM!

That's about half the forum there.

Almost forgot. Also: Arcanaville.

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You're technically on the list I'd debate with, mister. So don't mock too hard!

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Doesn't it defeat the purpose of mocking if it isn't, y'know, mockery?

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I've decided to stop engaging in serious discussions on t3h forums, with people I don't know in a personal nature.

It just stresses me out, and yanno... I'd rather spend the time chillin', then wasting time with random people and their ridiculous soap boxes, when all I want is a civil, intelligent, open-minded discussion.

A thing so rarely found.

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Farm farmity farm farm exploit wha? DOOM! Farm farming farmer. DOOM! MA/AE? DOOM! Anything-but-SS-or-DM-Brute? DOOM!

That's about half the forum there.

Almost forgot. Also: Arcanaville.

Tinker McPlink. Bots/TA.

Are extra HP really worth the low damage of a Tanker, though?

As I continually point out, the superior defense of a tanker is potentially meaningless on a good team; to use an extreme example, a team of 8 Defenders can steamroll any content in the game through putting out an impenetrable wall of buffs/debuffs.

When the entire team is at soft cap defense from bubbles/leadership with some nice resistance buffs to boot, while the enemy acc and dam are debuffed to the floor, the tank's advantage is simply the quantity of hitpoints.

Are the extra 1500 or so HP that important?

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Why do we even have an official powerlevelling thread?

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I asked for it, did a personnal thread, aka" FARMERS WANT A FORUM" as in pvp ers, builds, MA SA's, etc...

Turned to be instantly popular. they locked it.

On the very same day, i got a mail from a dev saying "this wont happen", and a Mod created one.

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Well, no. You asked for a whole forum, where as the mod opened a thread. There is a big difference.

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at least, i got something.

problem is, anti farmers try to pervert the thread.

and they succeed sinced i haven't seen a removed troller post.
I bet this is just a decoy.

Another shame about the way they treat customers.

Funny enough, i play the game too.

And im obviously not the worse on a PuG.
Good Farmers are good players.
I wont tell what i think about farmees.

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"I got what I wanted, but it doesn't make me happy, so the devs stink."

Gee, tough for you.

Blueside, it influences your initial mission contact.

How is a Brute with max HP and capped Def/Res inferior to a Tank defensively?

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They have the same Hit point cap, brutes just have a lower starting point, so getting to 3212 hit points is more than a 170% increase.

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So with enough IOs, accolades, Dull Pain, and Frostwork...

Brute = Tank defensively.

Tank < Brute Offensively.

Brute does not have Gauntlet.

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Wow, not even close to what I was saying. I guess I expected too much.

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Dictionary, foo'. Dictionary. Unfinished can mean only a limited number of things.

Also, felt like saying foo'.