Fleeting Whisper

Someone has never seen a skilled Empath at work.

This rant is reminiscent of people who complain that all Storm Summoning does is toss enemies into the next spawn.

No, this is wrong. The way the game executes powers, the last power in a bind will be executed first.

Consider:
powexecname POWER_A$$powexecname POWER_B$$powexecname POWER_C

The game first queues POWER_A. Then the game queues POWER_B, which pushes A out of the queue. Then the game queues POWER_C, which pushes B out of the queue. There's no more commands in the bind, so the power queue (containing C) is processed, and C executes.

Binds and macros are executed left to right. The power queue system forces multiple powers in a single bind/macro to execute right to left. The commands themselves aren't being processed in that order, though.

Occasionally, they do make revisions based on feedback from the public test server. But considering that it's already gone through multiple revisions one the private test server (closed beta or internal testing), not to mention multiple iterations during the actual development, changes to something after it hits the public test server are uncommon.

It's not an issue you can talk about without talking about Blizzard, since they're the only ones doing it. (AFAIK, Blizzard is applying it to all of their forums, not just WoW.)

Correction: it floors any opponent up to +5 (so long as they don't have +tohit or -def). +con enemies and ranks above minion have extra accuracy, meaning their floor is higher than 5%, but 45% still floors them.

Yes, it's a good thing we didn't destroy Recluse's Web, or else other heroes wouldn't have their chance to stop him

The problem is none of the BP really have first and last names, unlike Neil Young =/

Rularuu.Sentry.Resistance: +100% tohit (and 50% base tohit for all critters)

And don't forget, Optic Blast has -def to target (and a fairly hefty one -- 80% the strength of Radiation Infection's -def)

Correct

I'm not talking about "did stuff during year XYZQ". I'm talking about birthdates. In particular, those dates combined with Praetorian Gerhardt Eisenstadt is a strong case for Nemesis being unrelated to the other two characters.

Praetorian Gerhardt was born and died in Prussia; this means he had to die before 1947, and most likely before 1934. He also died an old man, I interpret this as at least 60. This puts Gerhardt's birthdate (and therefore the birthdate of every Lord Nemesis in the multiverse) some time before 1887. Manticore and Protean were born after that.

Unless you want to suggest that Manticore develops time travel, goes back in time 200 years, forges the birth certificates and life history of a Prussian clockmaker, gains an accent, and develops a line of technology that's almost the polar opposite to what he had ever used up until that point in his own lifetime -- not to mention dropping his favored form of combat -- to become a world-renowned archvillain... y'know, that makes so little sense my brain is about to implode. I don't even know how to managed to even think that Manticore and Nemesis could be the same person in the first place, and the more you look at the game lore (which you should have already done, considering your little side project), the more ridiculous it gets.

Protean at least has some connection, since Gerhardt and Anton were both born in the same region of the world, and both became villains. So Protean just has to develop time travel which he's never exhibited and technology he's never used. Oh, and the birth certificates and life story. And the whole not using his shapeshifting powers anymore thing... yeah, this doesn't hold up to any scrutiny either. At all.

Don't Defenders get +30% damage solo, now? (And 20% on a duo, 10% on a trio, 0% on 4+?)

This. There isn't really a formula for scaling damage by level. There's the Ranged_Damage modifier and the Melee_Damage modifier, which are simply lookup tables for each AT. Damage effects have a damage scale, which is multiplied by the appropriate modifier to get the unenhanced damage value. (Enhancements are then multiplied on top of that.)

If you view a power on City of Data, select 'Unspecified' for the AT in order to see the scalar and which attribute modifier applies.

Gerhardt Eisenstadt is confirmed to be over 100 years old (and closer to 200 than to 100). Nemesis is titled the Prussian Prince of Automatons; Prussia was effectively abolished in 1934, and absolutely abolished in 1947. (Anyone born after 1934 would be unlikely to call themselves Prussian.)

I suppose it's possible that Anton Jaeger could be old enough to be born in Prussia (he'd be around 70+ years old, but his shapeshifting powers could give him a youthful appearance), but he's always called a German villain, not a Prussian one. Justin Sinclair, on the other hand, is not old enough to be alive while Prussia existed, and he's got English origin, not German.

We've also been told that the Praetorian counterpart to Gerhardt Eisenstadt died a happy old man in Prussia, suggesting that Nemesis was born before 1890.

Considering Manticore's technology is more along the line of Batman (y'know... actual modern technology) vs. the steampunk of Lord Nemesis, I find it unlikely. You're pulling at straws.

I hate Ruladak's cave, though. Can't see **** in there.

But have you made your reputation on the WoW boards?