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How do you figure? We know Hamidon Pasalima is much more powerful in ϒ β 9-6 than he is here. We also know that the DE have overrun most of Praetorian Earth due to the much earlier use of nuclear weaponry on their world.

What's your point? Enemies with -def against players with defense resistance (Super Reflexes, for example) can't really do much. Against players without defense resistance (softcapped Blasters, for example), the battle begins with the critters having a hard time hitting, but each successful hit makes the following attacks more likely to hit, which then make the player even easier to hit, and so on.

For characters with defense sets, it wouldn't really be a problem, as they'd be nearly immune to cascading defense failure. For characters relying entirely on IOs for defense, they would eventually succumb to CDF, which would remove "defense" from being the end-all, be-all IO set bonus.

More enemies with -def. More Res(def) for defense sets. Result: Defense set bonuses are not so overwhelmingly attractive compared to other bonuses.

If Emperor Cole steps down, then the world gets overrun by the Devouring Earth, and everyone dies.

If you launch a full scale war to force Emperor Cole to step down, many innocents will die in the crossfire which you started, and unless you quickly supply an immense force of protective supers in their dimension, everyone will die due to the DE. And if you do supply such a force, then our own dimension will be at the mercy of the myriad of other threats we face.

Edit: And, proof positive that people will die in the crossfire: Siren's Call

If you do nothing, the people of Praetoria continue to live happily in a utopia.

But they do exist. That's why they show up on the market. There isn't anything in the game which drops lv53 recipes, but the recipes exist in the game's database.

Seems like you're just trying to move the goalpost, to me.

Regardless of what you think of the situation, your motives for invading Praetorian Earth are identical to Emperor Cole's motives for invading Primal Earth. You both want to impose your values on another dimension.

And yes, I know you're going to claim that your values are better than his. But he thinks the same thing about you.

How did you go from "I want to be able to afford SOs as I naturally progress in level" to "I want my 50s to be able to afford IO crafting costs"?

What fecal matter? The citizens of Praetoria truly do live in a utopia.

They're villains. Who ever said they were supposed to play nice?

OTOH, gamers reminisce about Nintendo Hard games, and still toss themselves into the grinder. Making a quality game is not as simple as "easy" vs. "hard".

Most AV/EBs do not have more resistance than players can achieve, actually (though their resistance cap is higher, most never hit their cap). In fact, Soldiers of Rularuu have twice the resistance cap of AVs.

Also, AV/EBs that self-rez are very rare, outside MA. Wailer Lord (CoV), Romulus Augustus (Co-Op), and Valkyrie (CoV) are the only AV/EBs that actually have a self-rez power. You might also count War: Rider, Famine: Rider, and Pestilence: Rider (Co-Op), who have multiple encounters within the same mission, or Snaptooth (Co-Op), who respawns himself at varying ranks, topping off with EB.

Actually, we trespassed on ϒ β 9-6 first. Emperor Cole saw that we came from a lawless dimension, and decided to take the same proactive stance that GG is advocating.

If you're trying to find screenshots you previously took while on the test server, your only hope is that the memory space previously taken up by those images hasn't been overwritten. You'd have to use an undelete program to get them back, and there's no guarantee that they still exist.

Any time I've seen a post from Power (whether a thread starter or simply a reply) which had even a slight amount of coherency or relevance, it was nearly a direct copy o an extant post in the same thread, or on the first page of the same forum.

Women have stabbed the hearts of many more men

Regardless of your intentions, your invasion of ϒ β 9-6 will create anarchy.

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Because the build can benefit from just about anything, to be honest. And defense bonuses are easy to find. And 45% defense means you only take 10% damage, on average.

Actually, if you sum the endurance costs, cast times, and recharge times, I don't think it would be unbalanced at all. Now, I don't think it's likely, particularly since the players would pretty much demand custom animations, but I think it could be balanced.

And we're back to GG supporting dictatorship via Hanoverians

I remember on the Traps Superteam a while back, we got up to the defense hardcap during a fight with Ghost of Scrapyard.

Absolute freedom is anarchy. You must sacrifice freedoms in order to have societal structure. How much and which freedoms you sacrifice depends on what structure you want and/or need.

And the Hanoverian line of horses was founded by House Hanover in 1735. Hence the name.

Your connection to the House of Hanover undeniably proves that you support dynastic rule. Emperor Cole's meritocracy is little different from your own dynasty, so I don't know what your problem with him is

Wait, lemme get this straight. Because you think that Emperor Cole is morally destitute, you implicitly have the right to overturn his empire and bring anarchy to his world.

Aren't you the one who keeps claiming it's the people's right to overturn their own illegitimate government?