Flarstux

Dude, by Frank Herbert
"It's tough being a teenager on Arrakis, especially when you're Paul Atreides and you can't find your giant worm."

Sign me up, too please! Either team is fine. Probably go with my MA/Regen scrapper, Infinite Blitz, but I have plenty of others if something else would work better.

The Green Mime, by Stephen King
"What's worse than being on death row? Being on death row with... the Green Mime!"

Based on a contest held many years ago in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction --

You are hired by a publishing firm to write a blurb for a soon to be published novel. You haven't read the novel, but you do have a vague idea of what it's about. Otherwise, all you have to go by is the title - which contains a single unfortunate typo.

Examples:

Tarzan of the Ales, by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
"A boy abandoned in a brewery grows up to become the King of Beers."


Firestarker, by Stephen King
"Things get hot when her clothes come off!"


The Sound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"The Hills are alive!"


Queen of the Black Toast, by Robert E. Howard
"Conan faces his greatest challenge: breakfast on the high seas!"


The Gall of Cthulhu, by H.P. Lovecraft
"Just who does this Cthulhu think he is, anyway?"


So, the challenge: pick a science fiction/fantasy novel or story (or movie or TV series) and change ONE letter in the title, and write an appropriate cover blurb.

Organic Inspirations and Enhancements!

He's moving into the Terrible Teens now - currently level 13, slotted with DOs, lots of blue and yellow like Desmodos recommends. At this point he's doing okay solo, but whether he can handle a large group depends a lot on what inspirations he happens to have handy, which is somewhat disappointing considering how he breezed through the 'Defeat 10 CoT in PP' mission at level 8. But this will improve as more slots open up.

So far he's only teamed for Halloween events, Trick or Treating, or Zombie invasions - and without support he's pretty squishy in those situations. Of course, some of those Halloween guys are pretty darned tough - like the Vampire Lords.

Overall, though, I'm having fun playing him, and I think he's gonna turn out just fine.

Is this sheer madness? I'm not familiar with either set, beyond playing around a little with DA back when it first appeared on the test server (with the various level bumps) and playing my (still) low-level Electric/Electric scrapper.

So far, at the low levels, the tanker version of Electric Melee seems (subjectively) less wimpy than the scrapper version - maybe because I'm accustomed to tanker damage, and maybe because this tanker hasn't been plagued with the "I can't hit <Bleep!>" thing that happened with the scrapper (which I am assuming was merely unfortunate chance).

I know DA is kinda end-hoggy and that knockback is an issue.

Has anyone else played this combo? Good, bad, or ugly?

Crazy old 'Real Life' commitments will prevent me from attending.

I had it running on my electric/ice tanker while fighting Babbage during the Synapse TF. It, combined with my tanker's other attacks, could not pull the aggro from the scrapper fighting beside him. But I think the scrapper had a taunt slotted in an attack or something, and I did not yet have a taunt enhancement slotted in Lightning Field.

Well, entirely subjective post here, but...

Recently I started an Electric/Electric scrapper. Pretty much from the start I was disappointed with him. Seemed like he missed more than he hit, and when he did manage to hit something, the damage was laughable. He could generally handle two or three even-con minions, but not always. Anything orange or above was almost always suicidal unless he got really lucky. You know that mission you get early on to defeat ten CoT in Perez? Before he could take out ONE, he was dead.

Then I rolled an MA/Regen - mostly because of the new animations, which I think are cool. Pretty much from the start I was in awe of this character. It was like she couldn't miss! Even when using the Vet attacks. She was rounding up Contaminated in Outbreak eight at a time and dispatching them quickly and with ease. On the streets of Atlas Park, on the way to her very first mission, she clobbered everything in her path including a pair of red-con lieutenants. When she got that CoT mission, she took out three or four Cot before running away to rest, then came back and took out three or four more, until she had all ten - and they never defeated her. In fact, she remained undefeated until I got a little TOO bold in the Hollows and tried to take on a rather large group of Outcasts.

That's why the MA/Regen is now level 23 and the Electric/Electric is lagging behind at level 12. So, right now I'm gonna have to say that MA is NOT so weak, if for no other reason than the attacks seem to hit more often, and I'm glad I didn't keep holding out on rolling this character waiting for SS for scrappers.

But now that I've posted this, Castle will see it and probably nerf Regen or something.