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I was wanting to see Sister Psyche and Ghost Widow wrestle in mud. The entire perma phase shift thing with Ghost Widow may mean it has to be a dream sequence only. The pics from the CoV website (those two exchanging psychic blasts) reminded me of a certain commercial from last year.

And the last line could be from the PG-13 Bud Light commercial ("Let's make out").

That's my vote.

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Just have numina and ghost widow wrestle. They both got the perma phase going for them.

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I think the judeo-christian 'archangels' are already represented - kheldians. You can certainly draw parallels, at least - A race of energy beings [conveniently split by dark/light.] that have been fighting a war amongst themselves for aeons, yet among physical races is the battle truly fought...?
Yeah. Zeus and other mythology can be the incarnates - we've already got angels in the game, both fallen and otherwise.

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aliens are not archangels man. kheldians are not really light/dark. they are liberated slave race vs. former oppressors. one just happens to shoot white energy and the other shoots purple energy.

Man, that would be awesome if incarnates where incredibly diverse... you could choose a pantheon, then choose the diety you are incarnate of...

so cool. And to make everyone happy you could even have the judeo-christian pantheon be like... the archangels or something.

I would probably choose some old pheonecian god or maybe mithras.

in testing i think it took a group of 8 end drainers to drain an AV.

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I just received the Top Cow CoH issue #1. All I can say is WOW! Awesome art, great story line tons of action. It felt like the comics I use to read as a kid. Top cow truly did a first rate job on the comic.

I wonder is the in game story line will follow the Comic story line…. Even if it doesn’t I am eagerly awaiting next months issue. Once again awesome job guys.

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how come some people get their comics like, at the end of the month before, and I don't get mine till the third week into the month :/

man this trailer is really tight. I really want to see a movie by whoever does hte animation for these. This is as good if not better than the animation in that final fantasy movie.

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See my prior post for the correct answer. That's from Manticore himself posting the changes. All those body switches made Psyche's powersets a mite odd, IMHO.


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You are correct. Sister Psyche has always been a Mindrider. Her merge with Aurora Borealis was obviously the most extreme case, but she occasionally picks up other powers when she is riding with a super.

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Mindrider, eh? Interesting...I haven't heard this term used yet. Did you just coin it, or is it a peek at things to come?

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Wait, I know the answer to this one, Manticore: "Check out the upcoming City of Heroes novel for more on this term and the relationship between Statesman and Lord Recluse!"

Right?

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Wrong, you forgot the part about 'it will be written by Robert Weinburg and available this fall.'

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Actually you will find Sister Psyche using her Mindrider power in the City of Heroes CCG.

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I think whats important is: someday will people be able to play mindriders, and why don't we work mind riding into the psychic controller set instead of some of the other powers they have?

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which would definitely top my list of blaster needs

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but... but.... you put it literally at the bottom of your list....

i've done it many times with my fire tank.

shocksman, you have a 6 power attack chain, and bosses still send you to the hospital?

thats... um... well.... you might not want to go around all c*ck of the walk with the info you attempt to brag with and assume you know what you are doing. all "enjoy your trips to the hospital" and etc.

face it, you might just be pretty bad at being a blaster.

those that blap, chances are they know what they are doing. electric blappers have nothing to fear soloing bosses. what makes you assume their play style involves a lot of trips to the hospital? because you haven't figured out how it works yet?

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umm, un-photoshopped pictures please?

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ts/53hamio.jpg

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I take back my question. I got help and realized 53's do exist and have one myself, heh

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was this just something that used to drop back in like, issue 1 or beta? or is it still possible to get 53 HOs? (and how?)

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I went away from the computer to check on some CoV stuff and *wham* I received 5 or so PM's asking "what is the Blaster's role?"

Answer - Ranged damage.

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I think the question should be, "Why would we want to do damage at range?"

We don't do any *additional* damage at range. Scrappers do more damage than Blasters.

We don't do damage any more *safely* at range. At high level, most villain attacks can outrange the ranged attacks of heroes, and blasters are still often one-shotted at range.

Give people a reason to do damage at range. I think the problem really is that simple.

My vote? Give blaster ranged attacks a decreased aggro. So that blasters in a team don't have to worry as much about the bad guys turning and splatting them.

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Well put. our role is ranged damage. How and why is this an advantage that justifies zero defenses?

Wait are blasters going to get sonic then? I bet manticore changed it cuz he realized blasters are teh gimp.

batman is a superhero, he wears the tights and cape :P he's just from the "natural" origin. his "super power" is honestly his available resources. He has superhuman wealth.

about flight level endurance cost i'd say. 3 endos make it tolerable.

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Somewhere along the line, blasters got hung up with who does the "most" damage.


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you did read the description of a blaster in the manual, on the website, and when installing the game right? By definition, blasters are supposed to do the most damage. We've been "hung up" on this since launch, because it is why we wanted to play this AT, it is what this AT was supposed to be, and frankly, its not.

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Well, as said in another thread, look at the Punisher listing for your server, and use the Find team search to see what AT they are. 9 times out of ten they are tankers or controllers. The rest are often scrappers. At least, they are more often scrappers than blasters.

[/ QUOTE ] Unfortuantely, that doesn't answer the question. That stats are not about who does more on a team. Those are about damage dealers, irrespective of teams, IIRC. As far as pure damage output, it seems pretty obvious anyone who can herd and then lay down fire patch is going dominate. Honestly, unless those stats are taking into account those dynamics, using them as justification is not a straw man..it's a rice paper man.

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less a straw man, more of a justification in my eyes. Anyone who an grab like 6 or 7 groups, pull around a corner, then defeat them all single handedly way outdamages a blaster in a realistic sense.

It seems in CoH defense is actually the best offense.

balled groups of underlings no less - probably before they went psychic on us.

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look at the punishers list 100% of the time everyone on it is a fire tanker. (either */fire or fire/*... or both)

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Well my blaster can post proudly that I lead the monthly cap awhile back, when herding wasn't said to be "a bad thing" by the devs. Number 2 was a blaster also, he was a teamate of mine.

However, it seems to have fire controllers on top more than fire tankers, although those are common as well. Nemesis and Victor go to fire tanks a ton though, having had those a good bit with my fire tank (though my blaster got up there when he was getting the Zookeeper badge by herding monkies solo.)

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your server must be low on the PL herders.

look at the punishers list 100% of the time everyone on it is a fire tanker. (either */fire or fire/*... or both)

After ending the game with first a fire/energy blaster, then a dark/elec defender, i went with a fire/en tank, and let me twll you, its like setting the game to insanely easy... thats what playing a fire tank is like. talk about a primary that has good synnergy with the AT.

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Honestly it doesn't matter what comic hero you throw up for blasters.

Johnny the Homicidal Maniac puts the smack down on all of them so of course scrappers should have higher damage caps.

Sorry, I just sometimes fail to see how we can really translate comics to game balance.

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haha go back to livejournal gothy mcgotherson! j/k

the comics are dementedly funny, but certainly not the superhero genre.

yeah that nerf to cloak of fear was harsh. they really need to make it lest costly for a dark armor scrapper to do his job... hich is obviously to make sandwiches in the midst of his enemies.

back to blaster role: The Blaster is sub par, face it, States thinks it is our job to be teh gimp. Obviously this is so that, when there are no hostages or lawyers to save, we become the damsels in distress. everyone hase a role to play!

I imagine the scrappers who cant are either dark or invuln, and relying on their decreased resistance caps? or is 75% enough to take on reds and make sandwiches? I don't know, maybe not. But then dark gets cloak of fear for added defense, and invuln gets invincibility for added defense... so.... I don't know if its true that not all scrappers can do this.

let us not forget: everyone loves sandwiches.

there is actually plenty of discussion of blaster roles inbetween all the other stuff.