Halloween_Jack

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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mental_Giant View Post
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    Originally Posted by Liquid View Post
    I loved this news post from Penny Arcade back in 2004:



    Yeah. **** Dragons, indeed.
    Thank you for finding this! I was searching for it all day as evidence that Tycho dug CoH, at least for a little while...

    **** Dragons! **** them in the ***!
    This thread has gone to the Americans!
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    Originally Posted by Zwillinger View Post
    Embargo lifted .
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    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    Is that a dog or a cat in the picture?
    I am pretty sure it was Blaster--Zwill's new hat
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    Originally Posted by Goblin_Queen View Post
    Think Tank - not sure if bug but it'd be nice to have auras work on the head so we can have glowing eyes inside the tank
    This was the first thing I tried when I saw the Think Tank, I really wanted to simulate eyes in the empty tank or the eyeless brain with an aura. It is nice that they get the head auras at least... but I really hope the eye auras get added or fixed.
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    Originally Posted by UnicyclePeon View Post
    Also we might want to tighten up the Mids part. Maybe have MIDS or NOMIDS there.

    Example 2:

    SHARING - PVE - Controller - Ice Control / Force Fields - MIDS - Solo 1-50
    This is a particularly good idea since the official proposed term "excluded" would mean, "no Mids allowed", as apposed to the intended, "no Mids provided".

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    Originally Posted by EJI View Post
    Let's say I do a search in this forum for Fire/Fire Tank. I'll get the threads relevant to a fire tank, as well as fire blasters who've mentioned 'tank' in the thread ("Wait for the tank to establish aggro, then etc etc"), fire brutes ("Looking for a fire brute build to tank with"), and so on. What we need are not more forums, but improved search tools.
    I second the notion that having the builds of all ATs in one thread will just cause bad search results, but I would add that if the official Title format guidelines are followed ideally and perfectly it could still return useful results (e.g. Searching the title, not post, for "PvP - Corruptor - Sonic Attack" would return only the correct builds). Unfortunately the search terms would have to be different between searching this forum and the AT specific forum, thus necessitating two searches rather than one, which would be pretty lame.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mr_Kingkillaha View Post
    I heard a rumor that the forums were going to be changed in some way. I hope this isnt it.
    Considering this bit at the end of the OP
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    Originally Posted by Avatea View Post
    If you wish to discuss details about certain Archetypes specificities rather than Archetype builds, please use the corresponding Archetype forum.
    It would seem pretty clear that Archetype forums are going nowhere.
  6. Halloween_Jack

    A New Halloween

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    Originally Posted by Goblin_Queen View Post
    Yah, I keep hoping for a temp power that we can get in game or buy that has the flaming pumpkin attack from the Fir Bolg.
    I would absolutely love it if I could change up my normal APP Fireball with a Fir Bolgesque flaming pumpkin, or even get Fir Bolg as Lore Pets.

    To add to the Maestro's pretty good ideas, you could also work in fire based stuff by grabbing the fire APP of whatever archetype you settle on.

    I definitely agree with you on the big pumpkin head being not right, I found it a bit of a let down myself with it being too big and goofy. If you have the steampunk pack, or the points to spend, you could go for the cravat over the tie, though this has the unfortunate side effect of having to switch from the Baron /w Vest to the plain Baron jacket.

    Which eye aura did you go for there? It looks a bit like the new volcanic one, which I have been getting rather tempted to swap out my traditional Flame ones for.
  7. Halloween_Jack

    Screen Shot Art

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    Babbage vs. The Paragon Times


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    Wow Mantid, that is amazing. Is there a story behind it at all?


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    What a Buzz-kill.

    Imagine my surprise when I entered a rescue mission and found this.

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    I ran into that one also, but lost the screenshots I had of it to a hard drive crash...
  8. Wait... which holiday is it again?
  9. Halloween_Jack

    Ten Tracks

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    oookay.. lets see what we get:

    Ashley MacIsaac: Sleepy Maggie

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    That instilled in me a desire to listen to the Hi!, How Are You Today? album again... but it looks like I don't have it here at work.
    /e noooo
  10. Halloween_Jack

    Ten Tracks

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    4. If I Was A Deep One - Shoggoth On The Roof Soundtrack


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    Drat! If only my Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - Shoggoth's away had come up, then we would have two Shoggothy posts in a row!
  11. Halloween_Jack

    Ten Tracks

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    3. Yes and Sir-Mix-A-Lot (mashup) - Owner of a Lovely Back (?)


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    Wow, my mind recoils in horror at how amusing that one sounds.

    list shuffle take two!
    01) The Cure - Burn
    02) Geinoh Yamashirogumi's Akira Symphonic Suite - Tetsuo
    03) Voltaire - Caught A Lite Sneeze
    04) Oingo Boingo - Who Do You Want To Be
    05) Prodigy - Breath
    06) SPF1000 - Pass Out
    07) Daknit, Bard of Justice - Brood War Bash
    08) Cruxshadows - Tears
    09) Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - Twenty Minutes of Oxygen
    10) Enigma - Silent Warrior
  12. Edit: Post mostly deleted... I hit ok, came back 15 minutes later and hit ok again, and noticed that in the meantime Mantid had posted the Charmap info also...

    anyway, the Courier font in Charmap will be limited to standard ASCII characters, which will be the safest to use, any of the other fonts will have more options, but will include Unicode characters, which may not be supported in CoX.
  13. Halloween_Jack

    Ten Tracks

    I knew there was something I forgot... time to rez and old thread.

    1) Lynn Canfield - Let Your Little Sister Pet The Kitty Too (from the Projekt Christmas music collection)
    2) Half-Life soundtrack - track 19
    3) E Nomine - der Fürst der Finsternis
    4) Nine Inch Nails - Something I Can Never Have
    5) Funker Vogt - The International Killer
    6) The Cult - Wild Hearted Son
    7) The Cruxshadows - Tears (Fictional remix)
    8) Midnight Oil - Minutes To Midnight
    9) Oingo Boingo - Is This
    0) Faith No More - Last Cup of Sorrow
  14. Yeah, after reading through all of the **OFFICIAL This Game Has Been HACKED THREAD** thread, I had the same thought.
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    4) The Sonic Concussion power blows through anyones Hold protection, but it only lasts 1/4 of a second. It is working as designed, however, I'll pass this to geko to see if it is too strong of an effect.


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    So that is a rather fancy way of saying that it will drop all your toggles...
    Wasn't there enough aggro drawn over the other PvE toggle dropping mob to help show how bad this is?
  16. Halloween_Jack

    Caltrops

    I suspect a new travel power in the works that we haven't heard about till now!
  17. My wife also plays CoH/V with me. To answer some of the other original questions.
    Our main characters, Hallowe'en Jack and All Souls' Eve, are a themed duo, we also have another joint background duo in CoH, and two in CoV. With all of these Dous, especialy the mains, I do not play those characters unless my wife is also going to play and with the matched pair.
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    This is a great annoyance for my Blapper too - any chance to help out on that?

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    Not likely. You have Ranged options. Many Scrapper, Stalker, Tanker and Brute builds do not have Ranged options. The exclusion to the Range debuff only applies to those AT's for that reason.

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    I don't think that is fair.

    From a design and coding perspective it seems easier to me to apply a range debuff cap, than apply a check that looks to see what the AT making the attack is.

    Simply applying a minimum range that cannot be debuffed bast, say 5 feet since I think that is about the range of most/all melee attacks.
  19. Because my small group of friends likes to put all our characters into our SG, to keep in contact more easily, and we enjoy playing more than just level 50 characters?
  20. Halloween_Jack

    Potpourri

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    Ninjitsu IS an american bastardization of the original ninjutsu - technically, they aren't identical, but functionally, they're identical in meaning to the American psyche.

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    If you take any Japanese word, and you write it in English, its effectively a bastardization of the original word, which can't be written in English. You guys are basically arguing over which bastardization is more correct. Someone please post some kanji and end this!

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    Sure
    忍術【に&a mp;#12435;じゅつ&amp ;#12305;
    hah, and since that failed... /e curseyou
    try
    /%c7%a6%bd%d1]ninjustu
    hah, they censored the url!
    so... go for
    ninjutsu
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    I have changed my avatar to something more appropriate. Some will understand and some won't.

    Do you have a holloween avatar?

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    Why yes... actualy I do.
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    Er, clarification please? I thought a 14% damage debuff would turn 100 into 86?


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    Edited post - you're right. Typing in haste made me use the original 7% value.

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    What? Haste has a -typing debuf? Stealth Nerf!
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    Swift – Self +Speed. I chose this over Hurdle because of my inclusion of Combat Jumping in this build. Besides, flexibility in movement is a plus. Slotting – 1 Run Speed

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    I find that Hurdle is a better match for the Leaping Pool than Swift. With Hurdle your Combat Jumping will be noticably faster and farther than without.