FunstuffofDoom

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I'm not telling you that I'm better than you in my post. But I can, if you so desire, make a post of that nature.

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In a thread full of astronomy, redheads, experimental lesbians, Danica McKellar, Lord Byron, Quantum Leap, LISAR's breasts, Helen of Troy, and my role in the end game? That would be like claiming to have the best bunk in all of Arkham Asylum.

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Werd.

A-hem. Where were we? I seem to recall a picture of Arcana's great tracts of land somewhere in the mix.

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I earned that title many years ago.

I'm not telling you that I'm better than you in my post. But I can, if you so desire, make a post of that nature.

First few pages, sure, kinda funny. But most of the 30 pages of posts are..

Girl post: *giggle* I was a lesbian!

20 guys: OH GOD!! UNF!

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You're honest about it, which is something. But, we're still left with the question "You decided to share your opinion with us, why...?"

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so... I've got this funny feeling she's not going to give you the satisfaction of posting in this thread.

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I really shouldn't. However, just this once: here you go. Hopefully I didn't blink during that one.

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Is it just me, or has this picture been taken sort of from far away? I can't make out the face.

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Squint more. She's the one in the low-cut top.

-Rachel-

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Man, and I always thought she was one o' them clean, wholesome, catholic types. Goes to show, doesn't it?

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so... I've got this funny feeling she's not going to give you the satisfaction of posting in this thread.

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I really shouldn't. However, just this once: here you go. Hopefully I didn't blink during that one.

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*snicker*

Well played, ma'am. Well played.

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Also: picture!

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-CUTE-

-Rachel-

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Izzat a good cute or a bad cute?

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FSoD is an evil M.M.!

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Buh? Do you see a goatee in that picture?

*Eyeballs the picture*

I see no evil goatees.

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Pix or it didn't happen!

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From cohfaces

The hair is longer and even more grey. The goatee is at least twice as long now and 50% grey.

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Sweet jeebus, man! You're freakin' evil looking! How's that working out for you?

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And jumping in late to the hair discussion, I'm in that awkward stage where I'm growing my hair long again (damn law enforcement haircuts), and it's too long to be tidy with just combing, and too short for a ponytail of any dignity. Any suggestions?

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When my hair was longer, I just pushed it straight back over my head- somewhere between Sylar and a Used Car Salesman. It worked alright on me.

Also: picture!

I tried growing my hair out a few times. The farthest I ever got, my hair was at around mouth-level. While I do still want long hair, I've given up on ever getting any, because it simply doesn't look good on me.

On the balding front, my grandfather is in his mid-seventies, and has gray temples, but a dark top. My mother, who turned fifty in March, doesn't have a gray hair yet. It's still a light blond. I'm hoping to follow in their footsteps.

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I prefer redheads. Spicy!

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Ooo, I'm feeling the love. Careful, though. I might not have a soul.

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Mine's bigger.

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Compensating, much?

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It seems they can't type legibly.

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You are a very mean person

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Yes, yes she is. I will counter-mean her by now typing

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But, I won't say what I used to type it. You brought this on yourself.

There's some stuff from the Service Pack 2, but no hotfixes. Do you have a link to this other process?

This thread is so awesome.

I didn't use to solo a lot. However, I'm currently on a laptop with Vista, and I can't seem to get the hotfix installed- something about an error code 40. So, City of Heroes crashes every time I get in too big a group, or even a room with too many mobs. So, I play solo- which isn't entirely bad. My main character is a scrapper. But I'd really like to try a few non-solo powersets every now and then, or just level faster, and I can't do any of that. It vexes me.

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You know, I've completed the LRSF multiple times on the highest difficulty without a single nuke or Dominator.

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Then please explain how. I would love to know.

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Sure thing.

First of all the team makeup is usually at least 2 VEATs. Often 3. I always take my Widow. Past that we get Corruptors, Brutes, and anything else we can fill up with. Past 2 VEATs everyone is soft-capped, so it's good to seek out debuffs, +RES, and heals, and good Brutes who can take hits. It's good to have enough buffs, debuffs, and heals going.

A random PUG isn't going to handle this sort of thing if you don't have enough support for the team. One Corruptor and nothing else isn't going to cut it. If you're just throwing together a random team of people, it's not going to work.

MISSION 1:
This is my favorite. Me and often one other person form the bomb team. The rest of the people (6 or 7) go to complete other objectives while I bounce into towers and find glowies. Usually we finish around the same time and meet up to take down Crimson, Ballistae first.

MISSION 2:
This one is rather simple. We bounce to the titan and take it down, which doesn't take too long. After that it's simply working to the end. Clear all enemies before taking down the AV. Make sure someone competent gets the gun.

MISSION 3:
Future Phalanx is easy. It's pretty simple to get 2 at a time, but I've done 4 at a time before. Basically just focus on the squishier ones first. This mission doesn't take long.

MISSION 4:
Fun mission. It's a straight sweep up to the group. There, the kill order is: Malaise, Swan, Luminary, Mynx, Valkyrie. Valkyrie only has to be killed once, but after she rezzes I break away from the group and stealth up to find the glowie. After that, we either regroup to re-kill Valkyrie or ignore her and go to Liberty. She's not too hard to kill.

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This is really short but it's against a ton of AVs. Basically everyone buffs up and summons pets. We don't always have a lot of pets, but there's usually 1-2 Shivans summoned. We rarely have nukes. Temp powers are good. After that we usually try to pull but if it doesn't work we don't fret. On several occasions we've fought the entire group at once. It's important to obey the kill order though: Numina, Sister Psyche, Synapse (he autohits), Positron (debuffs), Manticore, Citadel, BABs, States.

Never done the final battle without at least one death, but deaths don't discourage me. I throw around Vengeance and we pop rezzes when people fall. If the team wipes, it's okay as long as something dies. I've only had one total team wipe against the Phalanx though.

Anything beyond the baseline helps, meaning Shivans, Vanguard Heavies, nukes, temp powers, inspirations, and whatever. I always pop Demonic going in because the first few kills are the roughest. But I've definitely done it on max diff without nukes without bothering to pull, with no Doms.

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It's nice that you've laid things out, and that you've got a system that works well, but, respectfully, you missed Squid's point. He's saying that without specific powersets, or temp powers, or both, the LRSF is too hard to be accomplished by the average group. While you might have mitigated the difficulty of the SF itself, you're still using several specific combos to do it.

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That doesn't address the point that it never should have happened in the first place, nor does it provide any assurance that the same thing won't happen again later on.

"Sorry I shot out your leg, but we'll pay for your medical bills until the next time we shoot you" doesn't cut it.


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Stop withe the rhetoric and hyperbole. It's derailing, misleading, and entirely wasted- unless you've got some divinity in your back pocket I didn't know about.

To Sam's idea: It might be idiocy, it might be brilliant. I don't know. It is really clever, though, and I'm sure I'll use it sometime.

I never knew Self Destruction didn't cause debt. Huh.

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I brake for catgirls

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Funny, I push the pedal further down...

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Except for spectral daemons on the teens. Whoever designed those needs to be shut in a microwave.


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Don't forget- it needs to be turned on, too.

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Shiva, Rularuu, The 5th, Nemesis, whoever's using Kheldians as rocket fuel, all make their bid for world domination/world destruction either all at once or one right after another (while everyone is still recovering from the last crisis) until the universe implodes in a great big ball of DOOOOOMMMM!!!!

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Don't forget the Second Rikti Invasion. Not this namby pamby one we're having now, the one in twenty years that destroyed humanity utterly and chased Holsten Armitage to our time.

I had a piece of fan fic that I ought to finish some day, that had this idea as the foundation. That is, that you could change the nature of the Apocalypse but the Apocalypse itself was
inevitable.

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You wrote Terminator 3?

You're taking several very good attacks quite late- is this a respec build, or a leveling one?

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Regen becomes fun a lot faster, due mostly to Quick Recovery at level 4 as opposed to 20.

After 22, when both ought to have QR, Stamina, and SO's, Willpower turns into great, worry-free fun, while Regen must constantly be on guard against misfortunes like lag and bad animations.

Once Tough and Weave are in play, Regen can relax a little - and Willpower becomes like Achilles after his bath in the Styx. A Regen will be constantly nervous under the Roman bridge, never certain of which click powers are really available for him. A Willpower will not be troubled as she walks through that valley.

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Yeah, but as long as we're not biased, or anything...

While both are, without a doubt, very powerful, the AoE-centric nature of Spines means it synergizes incredibly well with Willpower.

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After you've critted an AV for 1600 damage with Headsplitter, other sets start to feel ticky-tack.


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1600? That's, what, critting on a built up hit? Moments like that are proof positive there is a God, and that he loves me.

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I think that if any of them go rogue, Manticore would become a villain. I mean, he seems more rogue-ish than any of the other Freedom Phalanx members.

I also think Scirocco could switch to being a hero. He just seems to have more honor than the other Arachnos Patrons.

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Look at Manticore's character, though. His friction with Statesman comes from a drive to do the right thing, even if it doesn't quite coincide with the law. In Praetoria, Tyrant is the law, but not the moral "good" side. Manticore has no real reason to join Tyrant, because they are opposed in both ideology and morality.

By contrast, someone with a more rigid sense of duty to the law, like Valkyrie, or a person with a significant grudge like Mynx, might be more willing to switch sides given enough incentives. Or, perhaps, a nice enough person, such as Numina, might switch sides under the belief that she could help more people that way.

Scirocco can't switch for the same reasons ghost Widow can't switch- the Arbiters are actively ensuring the conditions that would free him from his drive to commit evil aren't met. In this case, Scirocco is cursed such that every act he commits has some evil effect. Poor guy.

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Stalkers assassinate people...so do Marines..or SEALS, SWAT if they have to. Punisher kills peolpe all the time. Sometimes they don't even know he's on to them. He just blows the building up.

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None of that makes an assassination any more heroic. I find it harder to justify a Stalker as heroic than I do a Necromancer.

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Semantics. A stalker's power is called an Assassination, but there is absolutely nothing stating stalkers are incapable of delivering incapacitating strikes instead.