Fleeting Whisper

I'm still missing the bit where "pistol defense" makes any sort of sense.

Not much of anything, since for Stone Tanks the more important aspect is the +Res(Speed), rather than the +Speed.

What he said.

Consider it this: In Apex/Tin Mage, Cole is attacking us. In BAF/Lambda/Keyes, we're attacking him.

What about Coca-Cola BlāK?

Huh. I could've sworn the pool taunts cost endurance. So... what's the point of Challenge, then?

My MM is my only Incarnate, and the only trouble I've had so far is keeping them out of the Halberd strikes. (Which isn't even an Incarnate Trial, just a TF.) Actually, I've also had issues with the turrets in Lambda Sector, but that's because I use Super Speed and temp travel powers are %#@&ed up in the incarnate content, no matter how many times the devs try to fix it.

Admittedly, I haven't tried the Keyes trial yet.

Who's saying that? I know all I've said is that it exists; not that it's a good option, just that it's the only option if you want to solo.

No, that's inference based on past dev actions and attitudes towards vet rewards.

No, teams of support characters surpass anything else players can do in the game, with the exception of bugs (such as Touch of Lady Grey: Chance to One-Shot, or the Kheldian respec bug plus geometry bug in the Hive allowing a Warshade to solo Hamidon without taking a single hit)

Let's put it this way: When a Blaster can play the role of main tank on the last mission of the Statesman TF (it was an AR/Dev Blaster, IIRC), melee characters aren't going to improve anything by replacing a character on the team. (In fact, against GW, a melee character might be a hindrance.)

To clarify, Stealth + Celerity grants you 65ft stealth radius. The only critters with a higher base perception are Turrets (100ft), Giant Monsters (100ft), and Snipers (149ft). Some critters (Rikti Drones, Rularuu Eyeballs, Knives of Artemis) ignore stealth, but do not have increased perception. A few critters (Vanguard Sword, some Longbow and Paragon Police bosses) have increased perception (but I'm not sure exactly how much Vanguard Sword has, so I can't say if 65ft is enough or not)

Someone's never played with RO, it seems.
(Or any similar group heavy with support characters)

When I run with Faithful Fans of Fallout, for example, a lone scrapper on the team means "Fallout & Veng bait". Teams of Green Machine or Pinball Wizards can leave a melee character in the dust wondering what the hell just happened.

Hell, just look to the superteams that pop up every so often: they're almost exclusively support characters. See, Crysys: each support character multiplies the effectiveness of each other member of the team. Each DPS character adds to the effectiveness of the team. In a duo or trio, the DPS is more effective. On a mid-size team, the two categories are about equal. On a full team, a single support character brings more to the table than multiple DPS characters. When all 8 teammates are support, they're all multiplying each other to ridiculous levels.

To quote our ex-powers designer Castle, "Repeat Offenders has publicly leveraged the game mechanics to do stupidly difficult things easily." That's what you get when you combine support with support, rather than support with DPS.

Ditto on my /Dark MM. I wish I had space for it in my Fearsome Stare, too.

That's not saying much, considering I had the T3 power for Judgement, Lore, and Interface before unlocking their respective slots. The only reason I didn't get T3 Destiny before unlocking it was because I got impatient and used Threads to buy iXP for the majority of it.

70kg for the 5ft-long model currently being tested. The article says that the larger you make it, the more efficient it is at lifting weight.

Those pictures are an engine with landing struts, not a vehicle.

Um...


NO U!


>.>

Edit: Despite inaccuracies, my point stands.

That list is a condensed form of another list from early May, long before CoH: Freedom was announced. It was an investigation into NCSoft's partnership with PlaySpan. The items in the list appeared alongside the patch to add NCSoft Launcher support.

That's not to say everything in that list will make it to Live, but you can bet those things have been heavily considered. Feedback in beta will very likely alter things.

• Delete Challenge; replace with Intimidate.
  
  This allows a player to skip the Taunt effect entirely. Perhaps also reduce the endurance cost of Provoke to make up for the fact that the ST Taunt is gone.
• Replace Intimidate with Placate.
  
  Don't include the 'return to Hide' effect of Stalker Primary's Placate, just the Placate effect that takes you off an enemy's threat list.
• Increase duration of Intimidate and Invoke Panic to somewhere between 12 and 15s.
  
  • Mind Control's Terrorize is 27.94s
  • Spectral Terror's Terrorize and Dark Miasma's Fearsome Stare is 22.35s
  • Spectral Terror's Cloak of Fear and Dark Armor's Cloak of Fear is 7.45s
  • Intimidate and Invoke Panic are both 8.34s, barely more than a single pulse of CoF.

Most of the carnies aren't. You've got Giovanna Scaldi, a 17th century peasant from Venice, Vanessa DeVore, an Art History graduate student, and the legions of people Giovanna/Vanessa has seduced and/or mind controlled.

Yes. The game has a /reply command, but currently it just adds the appropriate "/tell playername, " text to the chat box.