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Hey, sound reasoning on all of those.

I guess it's just a personal thing.

Deadpool, to me, kinda falls in the Iron Man category. You can model half of his abilities with one AT, or the other half with a different AT. But you can't get it all in one place. If I play Deadpool I want to switch between guns and swords, ranged and melee, with equal efficiency in both. Plus the regen. Leaving out the guns just feels like I'm leaving out too much.

Still, I do see your point and I don't have a katana-wielder yet so I may take your advice after all. I really want that melee + ranged playstyle, but I guess I should reconcile myself with the fact that CoX just doesn't offer it.

Rogue I really don't like anyway. I started to really despise her the day she became a 'tank'. The only really interesting thing about her is her ability to steal powers. SS/Inv or Inv/SS characters are a dime a dozen in the MU - you can't spit without hitting one. Why make a half-a$$ed SS/Inv Rogue when you could just make Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Doc Samson, or a bajillion other characters that *just* have SS/Inv and would be modelled accurately with the set?

Nightcrawler, to me, is all about BAMFing around during combat. That's his thang. Just running around with dual blades wouldn't feel enough like Nightcrawler to me. He's a one-trick pony, despite later writers' attempts to increase his versatility.

Tasky's schtick is to be able to copy the fighting style of anyone he sees or fights, which obviously isn't happening in CoX. Getting past that though, I can see how BS/Shield would work. Plus, I don't have a broadsword-wielder.

Only the finest green, m'man.

Was thinking claws, typed MA. Typo-slash-brainfart. My Wolvie is claws/regen though.

Made Sabes a stalker because I didn't have one, and he's sort of stalker-ish in the Weapon X stuff I read recently. Brute works. Scrapper works. WP works instead of regen. *shrug*

As for Deadpool, Tasky, Rogue, and Nightcrawler... your suggestions don't do it for me. The game just doesn't support their schticks. I don't see much point in making them if you can't model, at least to some degree, their primary abilities. To each his own though - if you want to make them, go for it.

Well, he didn't say he was sick of oversaturation.

He said he's sick of oversaturation of anime.

Maybe he likes zombies.

How about just making the Fighting attacks a slight bit better? Make it more viable (and a more attractive option) to skip one of your primary or secondary attacks in lieu of a Fighting attack. I don't think it would take a lot - there was a time when Boxing was considered a good attack and Kick was considered decent, though not as good as Boxing.

Definitely. Pools should be accessible to most builds, and if there are too many toggles in a pool it becomes impractical for builds that already struggle with heavy endurance usage.

As for the Fitness pool, I wouldn't change a thing there. Yeah, Stamina is probably the most 'must-have' power in the game for most builds, but I think we have all come to accept that fact, and the elegant design of the Fitness pool makes it never seem like we are being forced to take useless powers.

So the kin gets to be your personal buffing slave. Sounds like a great job.

Why the hell would he?

That's also been my experience on Victory. I've never been on a team where a kin was kicked for not having SB (or any toon kicked for not having a particular power). I guess I've just been lucky to avoid the few bad apples.

I think grouping issues are often blown far out of proportion on the forums. I usually do not encounter the horror stories with groups, even PUGs, that are reported here with regularity. Or maybe it just is restricted to certain servers, although that seems unlikely to me.

His post didn't really imply that, but it might as well have, since it's true.

I don't imply it. I state it flat out. You don't have to look any further than Siggy's posts in this topic for proof.

Actually that's a logical fallacy. But hey, it's your strawman, have fun beating it up if you like.

Do you actually have anything to say about the topic of SB or are you just here to crap on other people's posting styles?

I remember trying to tank the sewers with my Inv/SS back in issue 1 when toxic damage was unresistable. *shudders* Not fun.

Not for Cap. *shrug*

Rikti get a swift death regardless.

The nerdrage abounds in this topic. I'd just like to see SO because I'd have fun playing it. *shrug*

Will SO ever happen? Well, the devs have already said no, so I'm guessin'.... no. No biggie - I'll deal wif it.

No doubt. I probably should have noted my toon is /dark (and is a scrapper, not a brute).

I still think it's more efficient to pare down the number of attacks. Reduces the slotting burden, and those extra powers can still come in handy for some other pool powers or more secondaries.

There's a difference.

This is a superhero game based on comics. In comics, superheroes throw their shields. It's kind of iconic.

Yours is just random and absurd.

True, although some of those are PBAoEs and cones. And your counting Knockout Blow???

Well, there aren't many superheroes at those SCA tournaments. Trust me on that. A shield-user like Cap would throw his shield once and scatter them like bowling pins.

It would be nice if you could cancel an unwanted buff on yourself with a rt-click option on the buff display. Wouldn't be used often, but I'll bet there are other buffs than just this one that people would prefer to eschew.

That's not a bad idea actually. On paper. I'll give it a try. However, I suspect I won't like it much more than normal SB movement in practice, and maybe less.

Anyway, the original question is should the OP take speed-boost or will he constantly be kicked from teams.

I think on my server he'd be fine most of the time. If he plays his toon well, there are many, many people who will play with him. There might be some angsty "no SB????? u sux noob" types but they are in the minority and easily ignored.

Plus he can always respec and get SB if he wants to cave to the whiners or just spec out a second build, as somebody suggested 8 pages back.

Really? I haven't seen the vids. I figured it would be like Sue Storm type of powers - close range KB blasts and such.

Now I'm intrigued by KM.