Grey Pilgrim

It's not a myth of the forums, I saw that posted more than once. Castle or someone posted again maybe a year or so ago that "I still see MMs as the tanks of redside," so it was a thought that has been around for awhile. I think Brutes are just easier for people to get in that role, so they put them there quite frequently.

Of course, all the villainside ATs are hybrids to some extent, so their roles got pushed around some to what players felt, more than anything the devs technically though of them as. The design could only be pushed so far, but I'm guessing that is what happened.

Not sure about the Stalker being a blaster, but the MM=Tank think I did see stated more than once by a dev.

There is only some slight conflict in reality, though. On a team, the Brute does not need to grab 100% of the aggro to be effective. They'll generate fury from the aggro they do get, and their own attacking, and that's good enough. If the aggro is distributed between the Tank and the Brute, that's pretty good as well, as Brutes should be able to take it.

There might be some issue if the Brute is stealing aggro on an AV and they aren't being smart, pointing the AV at the rest of the team, but that's something you can talk about pretty easily.

Well, I'm sure there are villains I didn't find as funny on the show (haven't watched it through in a few years), but I don't think there were any that stood as being so bad that I would call them really bad villains. And Chairface is certainly not one of them.

The horror! The horror!

I'm a teacher and I count the days until the next weekend, the next break, summer break, etc. It doesn't mean I hate my job or that I do bad at it (or so I hope and try). It just means the job is a stressful one, takes a lot of work, and that like many humans, I enjoy my leisure time.

PJ talks in there about all the meetings he has the next day about various parts of pre, post, and current production. And they had five helicopters and scads of people scouting locations to make sure they have just the right one for each scene. That's not slacking off or counting time and doing nothing.

I may not like the two movies when they come out, but it's not because they didn't put a lot of effort in to them. I just won't like the results all that effort turned out.

Chairface... Chippendale? A villain created to be a send-up of every corny Bond villain (in a tongue in cheek show about about the superhero genre), with a chair for a face and a need to carve his name into the moon as a birthday present?

No, that's not a terrible villain. That's a hilarious villain.

*sighs* I guess I have heard far too many people talk about how their Blaster or Stalker completely sucks, or how they don't want them on their teams, etc. Their needing to exists (survive) through a mission didn't sound all that out of place in that background of whinging.

Blech, you have reminded me why DBZ was not worth watching anymore.

I agree... I'm a little dismayed at how similar some of the current powers can make us and would like to see the differences built upon with the next powers. Having all our ATs to think about is difficult, I'm sure, but all that variety is what makes CoX great.

Okay, those are your two previous posts. You replied to how well Stalkers can complete content with your "existing" comment, which suggests that they can't even make it through missions, in that context.

Your playing or not playing an AT isn't all that helpful in that context, either, so I'm not sure why you felt the need to post that. I personally hate Masterminds, but I'm not going to announce that as pertinent information as to whether they can get things done in the game.

I would still say Stalkers need a little nudging to get them appropriately balanced with Brutes, Scrappers, and Tanks, though I would never go to the hyperbole some do with how much they suck. There aren't any flat out broken or unplayable ATs in the game. Some could use some small tweaks, as well as powersets, but I just have to roll my eyes whenever someone says an AT absolutely sucks or is unplayable.

Alas, it would be nice if they did so. Some of the War Mace and Axe models would look great with a two-handed move. I actually enjoy the look of the mallets and animations in Stone Melee, I just don't like the, ummm, fists of rock that they also have.

Hopefully they go for more than just swords with this titan set... I don't think it would limit the look too much. A big cleaving blow from above or a swinging chop up all look good with a mace, big sword, or axe.

I guess I'm also longing for more animations for weapon sets.I like having more options for blasting now, but I still think weapon sets should have been first choice, since the weapon models only offer so much variety compared to throwing fire, ice, etc.

Not quite sure what you mean by existing, but Stalkers should not have issues completing any content. They're fine solo, and I've tanked for small teams with my Nin Stalker.

My Blaster can undoubtedly clear mobs of minions faster than the Stalker, but that's as should be. The Stalker still is going to be able to deal with more damage being thrown at him, as should be as well.

To add my own two cents about the cottage rule, I honestly do not understand why people despise it so much. I can only think it's a misconception of how it works. It doesn't keep the developers from adjusting powers to work better, it gives design consistency and also reminds developers how drastic changes tend to tick off people you didn't even realize would be ticked off. People are annoyed about some of the EA changes, even though it's overall a buff to the set. Same thing happened when they suggested removing Ancillary powers that "no one takes." That one fell on its face.

Stop with the hate folks, it's an effective design philosophy.

So... the awesome character you love so much is the concept behind him, eh?

There are things about Sephiroth that are quite cool, but as you yourself are saying in this post, it's not coming out in the game. It's in the concept, and what you are putting on the character with your own thinking.

If you say so. He mostly seemed to stand around with a massive sword and look moody. I kept waiting for them to do something more with him and they never did. Kind of like Cloud... looked much cooler than he actually was as a character.

As others have pointed out, other characters in the game were more developed and would have worked better as villains.

I've heard people complain about that in the first X-Men movie, because there is no way in heck Toad should have been able to beat them so badly. I don't know the comics well enough to have a dog in that fight, but Jean Grey does seem rather wimpy in those first two movies.

For the whole Sephiroth thing, I have never understood the love FFVII gets. The story is all over and convoluted, completely lacking focus. Frankly, it feels like most of the Final Fantasies since then. Big, sprawling, unfocused, and altogether emo.

FFIV and VI aren't perfect, but they're much more focused and better put together.

Why was that a bad thing? Even if you didn't have any immobilizers on the adds, the people with KB should be able to knock the adds against the wall of the nearby building, which doesn't slow things down at all. They're pretty much in the same area, and should be in a nice clump of their own as well.

Why did you restart your Synapse? Calling in support would have been far, far faster. I've had missing mobs before and it doesn't take that long for a response... especially not an hour or two.

Well, we have all the blast sets, unless lists elsewhere in the forums are missing. What we are quite short on is secondaries, which is no real surprise to me. So hopefully each round of proliferation after this will give us some more of those.

I don't really care about Conan that much, but this made me have to comment. What is it with you Conan fans and your need for the person to look exactly like your imagining (you are one of many I have seen posting on this)? Something based on the written word is never going to match your imagination's picture perfectly, so this stubborn refusal to roll with things just seems... nutty. It makes some rabid fans of comics and their movies look tame by comparison.

From the pictures I have seen made of Conan, Momoa doesn't look all that off from him, and certainly seems closer than Arnold ever did. And in the end, that doesn't matter all that much as long as they got the character and story right.

It was stated in Ustream that Blasters are "done" as far as proliferation is concerned, and that Martial Arts is something they could do with existing powers out there. So not a promise, but at least it's acknowledged.

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LeBlanc, Von Krieger has an overview of the Ustream chat in the General Discussion section, and there it said "Dark Blast's damage is pretty average in ST and AoE, but has significant control and tohit debuff." So the focus will be on control and probably middle of the road for ST and AOE. Not sure if that's hard-hitting enough for you, but I saw you saying elsewhere that Dual Pistols is weak... even though it's middle of the road as well.

Well, depending on the set, an extra heal would be quite nice. I know I'm going for Rebirth on my Invuln Tanker. He may be soft-capped to S/L, but I know he's going to be hit by things even then, and it'll be nice to have against those hits that do get in, even with all his resists. The Keyes Trial has only re-emphasized this for me.

I'd be in the same boat for any set that did not have a reasonably fast recharge on its heal: even Energize for Electric Armor feels a little slow after my experience with Fiery Aura and Dark Armor, and I know I'd want it up faster for Keyes. I was using Healing Flames quite often on my one run on Grey Pilgrim.

Yes, but the aura and taunt do help quite a bit. You kind of have a point with the Fiery Aura immobilization stuff, but the devs putting most of Fiery Aura's mez protection out of Burn and into toggles does speak against that, too. I'm still not entirely sure why they chose to keep it in Burn when they made the other changes, to be honest.

But that was also part of the crowd that nerfed Burn overly much as well. Weird choices all around. I'd still take Combat Jumping if the immob protection was put into the toggles, but it's still strange.

Man, I never know when power adjustments are coming. Castle was all "I'm so busy" before Going Rogue, and then he broke out some awesome changes to Fiery Aura just before it.

I wish I knew what would trigger it for them... certain issues sit for so long, and then suddenly they get a fix. Always so out of the blue since they've been around for so long.

Well, keep in mind that one person's "best interests" can be different from someone else's. In my book, waiting as long as they did to adjust Fiery Aura and Burn were not good things, and I still think it hasn't been in the game's best interest to let other game issues hang around for Kheldians, certain game bugs (the final LGTF map, procs that are not working correctly for months, nay years, etc.).

For what else you said, we don't know that EA is going to get their taunt aura suppressed when stealth, especially since that would be different than any other aura that Brutes and Scrappers get. I hope they find a happy medium, but we don't know if they have or will, so that causes the debate.

Such is life on any forums.