Gideon_F
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Same thing as the above posters have said. You ever need to be hooked up just let some of us Virtue natives know.
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Someday I'd hope to get an art work done even a 10th that good. Very well done. -
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Poster: Starwaster
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Read Positron's lips! NO NEW NERFS!!!
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I hate to be Cynical but even if they officially called ED a nerf (Which Statesman later admits). It was on test for half a year so it was officially not a "new" nerf.
If they plan it for months it is technically not a "new" nerf.
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The problem with their vision of balance is the practice has nothing to do with the words used.
1: Balance against other sets? Hardly there are sets in every AT that are better then others and some that flat out suck to not being played barring masochists and Concept chrs.
2: Balance against ATs? Again comparing apples to oranges. Do you skin an orange because it is harder then an apple to put it in line with an apple? Do you pour sugar on an apple to balance it's sweetness of oranges. Apples are NOT Oranges.
3: Balance meaning Give and Take. Using Tankers as an example. For every 1 give there is 10 takes. I can rant here about losign defense, aggro control, having an inherent that doesn't work and about 15 more things that say screw tanking.
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It shouldn't be hard to say, "We've put in an auto disengage, which means MOBs will randomly change targets every few seconds. Please stop playing tankers already."
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But we got an icon that looks pretty and does nothing but remind us that the Devs don't give a damn about a tanker unless they are playing on a team and hiding behind one while getting powerleveled by whatever broken power they are playing ATM.
If the word Nerf is not a good term then try introducing the word buff every once in a while. The patch notes are nearly always 10 to 1 nerfs and the 1 is likely a power that was broken to begin with getting raised from useless to melely pathetic. -
It started off with this strip.
http://www.arscoh.com/v/Gideon+Fonta...Comic.jpg.html
I was bored and we were talking about how brutes myself run in and jump everything not bothering with teamwork while everyone starts hustling to deal with the hornet's nest I was kicking.
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But that tactic is so much *fun* when it works!
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Honestly? It's occasionally fun when it doesn't.
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Brute attacks, delivering a righteous knockout blow to the bicuspids of a paragon protector. Said protector gets back up, kricks his helmet back into place with his hands, then mutters something vile under his breath and kicks the brute through the nearest wall.
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Well.... Perhaps not quite, but I'd pay money to see that!
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And doubly funny with all the "OMG! Get your butt in here-- Neil is killing everyone!" tells I was getting that night.
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So naturally I had to do another one.
http://www.arscoh.com/v/Gideon+Fonta...sue+1.jpg.html
1: I can't take credit for this one someone actually created a villian that ran around looking like that. I had to take a picture. Little did I know I would use it hehehehe.
2: Arylyn is a Stone/SS that liked meat walling for our ragtag bunch of misfits. She was one of our leaders and actually did a good job trying to keep up with 2 kill crazed /SR scrappers. She was an unofficial den mother.
3: I made the dialogue fit the chr design. Luckily there were no sprinkers to set off.
5: Every group has the chr that LOVES to do incredibly stupid things just to see if they can survive them. The count is about 50 50 on a bad night.
6: I had this pic he sent me when I was doing T-Shirts. Blaster dead in a tree. Hell doesn't even need a caption to be funny.
7: One of our few non melee SG members. WAY over worked healing and rezzing people picking fights with anything we see that "Looks at us funny". Babysitting 12 small children running around with scissors pretty much sums up a night as our healer.
8: Jumping across the landscape is fun.
9: Back story on this one is we were doing a mission where we had to free Rikti Monkeys. We named them all Jack because we were childish liking to poke fun at States.
They were great blasters rarely shooting prefering to go to melee and slap something.
10: Jumping AVs was something we did for fun regardless of AT/lvl. It was a typical night where someone would say "Let's do AV's" and everyone else runs to do them. Had the odd chr that never even got to lvl 6 before going to kick AVs around.
11: Sadly this happens often lol. But we STILL look cool though saying "Watch this" before doing something that will get us killed.
12: SR sucks. Always has always will look at my sig. Wasn't me swearing though.
http://www.arscoh.com/v/Gideon+Fonta...sue+2.jpg.html
13: The good ole Infernal one shot. Neil Fracas was fine though hehehehehe.
14: Talian was a short guy but he was nuts. This happened during the Synapse TF. Babbage could have been avoided but a Deviant sees a big critter he/she HAS to attack it hehehehe.
15: Miscellaneous Hammi raid. Not sure if it was my MA/SR or my Inv/EM but it didn't matter. Both were kill crazed scraps.
16: I don't believe Cygnus talks based on his bio.
17: No idea if Mr Fablous talks but if you make a chr that looks THAT bad you have to expect to take abuse.
18: You knew someone was going to hit him sooner or later and a Spines/regen can definitely get his "Point" across.
19: What more needs to be said hehehehehe
20: Large chested blondes dressed up in white lingerie style gear. As far as I'm concerned you can't trademark THAT concept.
21: "UberGuy" created it as an avatar pic and I'm still using it today hehehehehehehe I like it.
22: I herded Ninja's way back. I owed them a TON of payback for debt capping my MA/SR and a couple of friends. What goes around comes around MWAHAHAHA!!!
23: From top to bottom. Neil, Kaldara (Kat/regen), Neil, Kaldara, Daemonwolfe (Spines/SR that got 1 shotted in the Infernal fight from panel 12-13), Kaldara, Neil. Of course we were all at the hospital because we like the jello.
24: Another of our blasters. He sent me this pic for a T-Shirt pic I made.
http://www.arscoh.com/v/Gideon+Fontaine/T+Shirts/
Specific link
http://www.arscoh.com/v/Gideon+Fonta...HoodT.jpg.html
Had to go for the cheap plug hehehehehehehe.
http://www.arscoh.com/v/Gideon+Fonta...sue+3.jpg.html
25: A reason that portal spawns don't give exp anymore. I triggered one then later saw it had spawned a TON of Rikti. Can't pass up a mob that size so in I go.
26: The mother of all footstomps 380% times the base dmg and my teamate wondering what the heck happened as he got a ton of exp in less then a couple seconds.
27+28: The gratuitous victory dances after a AV goes down.
29+30: One of our more colorful members. The second pic had to be very old because a tank actually used taunt. When you have Night Dread using an Inspiration or one of the many clicks of regen and the look of shock from taunt it has to be interpreted comedically.
31: A pic from the Statesman strike event at the end of the CoV beta.
32: Talk about a hostile crowd. Good lord was he hunted. The profanity was epic...... In all fairness I wasn't a fan of ED or the Global nerfs and was frothing at the mouth rather excessively.
33: The running gag of the continual regen nerfage...... Not really a running gag to us regen. We have a regen lounge in the scrapper forum and a saying "No issue can go by without a nerf to regen". Having Crash N Burn at the hospital scapegoating regen was pretty much in his style of stirring the pot poking an angry Statesman with a stick.
34: http://www.arscoh.com/v/Gideon+Fonta...egenT.jpg.html
WHAT? You thought there wasn't going to be a T-Shirt plug?
35: White Dwarf is one of the more quiet sane guys in the group. Couldn't really think of anything crazy he'd do.
36: And then Hammi screams "Noooooooo" as you get the age old text you get from a typical hammi raid.
1: Hi 2
2: Hi what stage are they on
1: Hold Phase
2: Send me an invite on my way
1: Invite coming from 3..... -
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Poster: firebane
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Hmm, so instead of the possibility of hitting more then one with a single target attack on a stacked mob, we now have the possibility to hit less then one...
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Much more balanced and fun then the AoE bug where we hit 5 targets. [/snarky bitterness]
Just another day at the office for a tanker.
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Poster: LiquidX
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Did you know...
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That the confirmation box for Teleport was added after players complained because various idiots were using it for griefing purpouses?
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Yup. SG buddy of mine was a pioneer of death by kindness.
But killing a bad person is wrong..... Well after about 10 times.
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I say we all get our very own Synapse to toss at things.
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Yup though I have to give props to Positron. He is doing more of the nuts and bolts of the world work like badge tracking which gets little fanfare from the casual player who only cares why his flame rain missed the night widow.
Praying he gets to the Tanks sometime.
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Poster: _Castle_
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Well, considering there is a decimal error in their AoE Defense (250% instead of 25%), I'm not surprised the Rain of Arrows missed a ton. I'll fix it today.
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Watches _Castle_ walk off then starts thinking. Evasion is 25% too...
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In the 40 plus range heroes get the Praetorian AV arc. Likely there is a simular one planned with mostly heroes and Suckboy.... I mean Synapse.
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Poster: VoodooCompany
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What the hell does this have to do with Statesman admitting he dresses up?
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I always knew that long hair had a sinister/secret purpose.
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That even further proves the theory that Positron is Satanic_Hamster.
After all being a dev Positron would want to "defend" his colleague's "preferences" like a true defender and being unwilling to do it as Positron so he puts on his evil rabble rouser rodent persona so he doesn't draw attention to himself.
It is a distraction of Machelevalian proportions and extremely well played. Truly a master at his craft and a mastermind of epic proportions distracting us from States Cross dressing as Ghost Widow.
Kudos Satanic_Hamster.
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Further proof of Satanic Hamster being Positron.
http://www.arscoh.com/v/Gideon+Fonta...ster.jpeg.html
Satanic Hamster was SKd to Positron and being power leveled. At the time he was triggering random Rikti, Crey, and Nemesis ambushes via a purple patch exploit no longer on live.
Since Positron wasn't moving it is assumed he was being botted while he played his Alt Satanic_Hamster.
It all makes perfect sense now. Well other then Satanic_Hamster being from Jersey. Course being a soulless robotic rodent killing machine does have a certain Jersey vibe to it.
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Easy you had a stunt double while you played as Positron.
Everyone knows that Brutes/Tankers don't call out defenders for PVP
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Poster: Concern
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I am not 100% certain but I believe that NPC perception ticks. It is possible to actually attack from behind cover by quickly scooting out and activating an attack while scooting back into cover. You can do this without being attacked back if you happen to get lucky and pop out in-between perception ticks.
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This means that if there are columns in a level I can very effectively kite in cover while being almost dead and gain full benefit from defiance.
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True but if you think about it your strategy is to have a minion slap you near dead to get a boost.
Now I'm no authority on Blasters but anytime I've been playing my strategy is to get hit as little as possible and work on getting hit less times. Only a Dev would think that a blaster would let themselves get hit a lot hense the low usefulness of Defiance.
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I could be wrong so this is not gospel however this may explain the bugginess. When Defiance activates, where the health is, and when the attack activates can vary in priority.
A Health regeneration can cause the Defiance to be recalculated. What this does to the buff is not known by me or if it even matters.
If your attack goes off before the Defiance is applied you will not have signifigant dmg. While the Defiance bar is adjusted it may not be active. This is just a guess but could account for a few times when Defiance does not work. This might have some merit if Defiance does not work while the buff is adjusted but I can't say that not knowing anything about coding.
I have not had a lot of experience with Defiance myself because I either am hauling myself out of combat or dead. either way no attacks being measured. -
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Poster: Arcanaville
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Its all very simple really. States rolled himself a new SR scrapper. Then he gave himself a jetpack to get around the Hollows. Then he decided he wanted some nifty throwing knives.
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Now he's approaching the twenties and noticing the bosses in Rugged missions hit kinda often...
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Okay, so the pod-people explanation probably makes more sense. Still, with *my* explanation, he might've accidentally missed the fortune teller mission and need flashback...
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I can't resist......
Think we can get him to play a Tanker
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Poster: The_Foo
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Understood. Pod people.
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(Teeheehee!)
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I would like to be the second to welcome the pod people.
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Has anyone asked castle about this yet?
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Poster: gWrath
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Great post. Gives me a baseline of performance. Wish more threads would focus on this.... how do tankers actually tank?
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I can give you 3 examples from my experience.
1: (Beligerent drunk mode) Go in hit stuff. Start off with a taunt and an AoE and then take out whatever you deem most offensive.
Example: Whaa da hell uuuu lookin at huh. you wan sum of me. huh you wan sum of me. I'm (hic) I'm gonna kick yer [censored].
2: (Annoying person you can't kill despite how hard you try) Taunt bot every defense possible AND 6 slotted regardless of how little defense the slots give. Usually having 1 attack they were forced to take at level one that is no longer in their power tray. focuses on AoE, aura, and taunt aggro.
Example: What cha doin? What cha doin? What cha doin? What cha doin? What cha doin? What cha doin? What cha doin? What cha doin? What cha doin? What cha doin? What cha doin? What cha doin? What cha doin? What cha doin? What cha doin? What cha doin? What cha doin? What cha doin? What cha doin? What cha doin?
3: (Tactician) Person that plans the quickest and most efficient overkill. Usually aggro is not a problem because the group is dead by the time taunt hits.
Example: You see those 4 guys over there with the bats? Well we will start off with the tear gas then we will lay in support fire from both of the howitzers. By that time the jets should arrive and bomb them. Any survivors we hit with 5 volleys of missiles. With this plan there should be minimal casualties on our side and negligable property damage outside our 7 block perimeter. -
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Poster: PorkchopXpress
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Thats great and all, and similar to the old attack plan from Beo.......but States was pretty clear in his vision. We should apparently be targeting ONLY the smashing/lethal dealers that we actually have resists to and letting the team take care of defending itself from everything else. The example seemed pretty clear on that. I would expect our remaining Elements/Energy resists to be nerfed again any time.
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My Energy resists are 24.6%. As for Elemental I pretty much treat that as Psi which I have 14.6% less resistance to.