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Quote:For more than 2/5ths of their levelling careers, most tankers will not have auras. The damage auras eat fairly whopping amounts of endurance, so for most primaries I'd suggest postponing taking them anyways. This will probably remain true even when Stamina goes inherent, since you're still going to want to get it slotted with at least SO level enhancements.Originally Posted by Call Me Awesome
And finally we get to Willpower... if you want to control aggro this is by far the worst set for the job. With the right secondary and with a skilled tanker player behind the controls it can do the job but it's MUCH harder.
This is when you should already be learning to tank. Take Taunt. You don't have to control all the mobs; you just need to control the right mobs, and learning to recognize the right mobs is important.
If you start trying to tank in these levels, Willpower's a breeze. Just pretend that you don't have a taunt aura, and play like you would if you knew you didn't have one, and you will do fine.
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Quote:Yes -- once you get EA, that issue pretty much goes away.Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
... 26? I don't have endurance issues now that I took Energy Absorption.
Really, I think the largest issue with Ice Armor right now is that it's relatively easy to start stacking defense bonuses on other sets, achieving softcaps fairly handily on some, and adding healthy amounts of defense as well. This tends to diminish its value by comparison.
Because defense bonuses are so heavily relied on by the player base, when the devs want to make mobs hit harder, adding defense debuffs or to hit buffs to mobs is a go-to mechanic for the developers. -Def is a prominent feature of almost all of the mobs introduced since i9 (Cimerorans, Shivans, Vanguard, almost all Praetorian factions). This is going to diminish the value of purely defense sets.
Ice doesn't have enough going for it to offset any of this stuff. It's aesthetically annoying. It holds aggro best of any primary, but most teams don't really need that. Sets like Shield Defense have flashy and fun moves. Sets like Invulnerability have more fallbacks. -
Ice probably could use some work at the present. It is, as others have noted, an ideal choice for a dedicated tanky-tank; it is the premier set for aggro control. Being easy to softcap, it is survivable enough in most situations.
On the other hand, it is concept limiting and rather ugly, only slightly better than Stone and not as attractive as Fire. It has endurance issues until relatively late in the game. And like any defense set, it doesn't scale down well for revisiting early-game content. -
Halloween salvage!
Must have four of each, for
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Quote:Firesign Theatre has been part of my life for more than thirty years now, and I find myself constantly quoting them and working allusions to their classic routines into almost everything. It amazes me how prescient I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus was.Originally Posted by Zekiran_Immortal
I had the great pleasure of learning of the Firesign Theater from my neighbor years and years ago. Blissfully, they did their anniversary tour and came to San Diego, so I treated him to go to it, and it was AMAZING. None of the jokes had aged, the whole "sector R" tv food thing translated perfectly into the internet, I was just floored.
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Quote:Looks like it's just us..,,,Originally Posted by Zekiran_Immortal
I would rep you the WORLD if I could, for presenting one of the single most hilarious pieces of dialog in the Firesign Theater's collection.
Am I the only one that got it?
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Quote:Technically, the character written ĝ is currently thought to have been pronounced like 'ng' in 'sing'.......Originally Posted by Innovator
Hey, what'cu call me!? That's our word, only we can use it.
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Historical warrior: Napoleon Bonaparte (mastermind)
Sports figure: Martina Navratilova (tanker)
Gang of normal people with similar clothing: The Beverly Hillbillies, who make a well balanced team in themselves; a tanker (Jethro), scrapper (Elly May), defender (Granny) and blaster (Jed). Though I think all of them come with fairly good ranged attacks as well.
Cereal mascot: Cap'n Crunch, who I presume is a broadsword scrapper. -
Follow in your book as we learn three new words in Sumerian:
Towel
.........................niĝdara [RAG] wr. tug2nig2-dara2 "rag, sanitary towel" Akk. ulāpu
Bath
.........................gub [BATHE] wr. gub2 "to bathe, wash oneself; (to be) pure" Akk. ramāku
Border
.........................ma [BORDER] wr. ma "border, boundary" Akk. mişru -
Quote:It was pretty obvious that those shoes would have to go; drawing those straps in a variety of perspectives would have become a problem. The eagle tended to become a lot more stylized over the years as well, and in its last incarnations was barely recognizable as an eagle.Originally Posted by Durakken
Apparently this article's author has never seen images of other characters being designed... most characters go through several stages of development and are commented on a lot before they are ever made the final draft of a character v.v
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Rare 1941 sketch shows birth of Wonder Woman's costume
A 1941 sketch reveals the character's creators were just as conflicted about the Amazonian's looks right from the beginning.
The original sketch shows Wonder Woman wearing a two piece outfit: a belly shirt with the eagle motif, a blue and silver belt, and a star spangled skirt.
The sketches by artist Harry G. Peter are surrounded by notes from Peter and William Moulton Marston.
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Quote:Beat me to it. That's Cronus / Saturn.Originally Posted by Casual_Player
Really? And here I thought this guy was the 'I win' button:
The Goya is the canonical depiction:
Medea comes in a fairly close second.
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I only buy these things if it looks like I can figure out a purpose for the pieces, even if I end up repurposing them. I use bits of the Wedding, Magic, and Valkyrie sets all the time for things that have nothing to do with the stated themes.
This one had me at Autumnal Cape. I seldom or never use auras, but there are any number of my characters that have been using the Bone 2 cape to represent an animal skin draped over their shoulders. But ultimately, that looks a bit thin and flimsy for the purpose. It looks to me like that too would be workable for the purpose with the right coloring. -
Quote:DA is something of an end hog. But the big endurance eating powers in the set are things that may not be worth the bother to take unless you have something that synergizes with them. Cloak of Fear is totally optional unless you have fears from a secondary or a power pool for it to stack with. Without Cloak of Fear, endurance issues from the toggles are not intolerable.Originally Posted by Swinci
Was bored last night an thought about making a tank. After looking at the sets DA looked the funnest to me and kind of got a little concept. But after looking at the secondaries I kind of got lost. I was wondering what was a good secondary for DA.
Same way with Oppressive Gloom and stuns. And Oppressive Gloom will eat your hit points and make you need your self heal more often, and that's another big endurance cost.
So you have several possible approaches. A synergy approach would go with Fear, and look at Dark Melee or pool powers; or go with Stun, which haves a number of options: Energy Melee, War Mace, Super Strength, Stone Melee, Electric Melee; I probably missed some.
You could also decide to skip all that, and go with a demanding secondary with relatively low endurance costs, such as Dual Blades or Electric Melee. Or you could go the pure team utility route, and choose something like Ice or Stone, to become a melee controller. -
Quote:Was i in an area wih Scos background? I remember Presbyerian Sunday School from back when I lived in Canada. He pasor was from Nova Scoia, and he had a righ srange accen, sounded more Irish than Scos o me, bu every ime I hear he Bible read aloud, I wan o imagine i being read in ha voice. Nohing else sounds righ.Originally Posted by Early Girl
Ah, such a radgic classic. Reminds me of high school. Never hough I'd say, wish I were back in high school.... lol, my school had uniforms, kil, blouse, knee highs, cardigan. I loved wearing the uniform! Really! A hundred years ago i was an all boys caholic boarding school. You can lierally feel he hisory in the walls of the "old" building. (the boys ge o wear pans hough
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Poery, eh? OK:
His is he fores primeval. He murmuring pines and he hemlocks,
Bearded with moss, and in garmens green, indisinc in he wiligh,
Sand like Druids of eld, wih voices sad and propheic,
Sand like harpers hoar, wih beards ha res on heir bosoms. -
Quote:The power of Cheese compels you.Originally Posted by Early Girl
Why would I do that?
Will you respect me in the morning? -
Quote:The doctors said, I wouldn't live after the accident. Guess I showed 'em.Originally Posted by Angryellow
Where'd you get that face?
Is this not the best of all possible worlds? -
Quote:Because we are looking at you.Originally Posted by Early Girl
Why do I feel like I am being watched?
Do the woods have eyes? -
Statesman: Don Pardo
BAB: James Earl Jones
Synapse: Michael Rosenbaum
Positron: Kelsey Grammer
Ms. Liberty: Sandra Bullock
Sister Psyche: Angelina Jolie
Infernal: Ed Asner
Lord Recluse: Prince Poppycock
Ghost Widow: Olivia D' Abo
Black Scorpion: Ed Asner again
Scirocco: Donald Pleasance
Valkyrie: Susan Eisenberg
Doc Delilah: Gina Torres
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Quote:A lot would appear to depend on how surprising the surprise is. No amount of preparation is going to help the person surprised by a 30 foot praying mantis.Originally Posted by Over_Knight
does telling someone their gonna be surprised, count as a surprise ?
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Quote:It's all a matter of endurance. My Willpower tankers and most of my fully built tankers run non-exemped AE and radio missions at +0/8/no-boss for grinding mobs. This assumes that I will be able to defeat a +1 spawn that may appear in such a mission without sucking air.Originally Posted by Jophiel
Right now I'm at +1/x0, with +1 mobs taking about the same time to kill at +0 mobs for slightly better rewards. Jacking up the mob density, I'm worried that (A) it'll take forever to clear a spawn, (B) I'm more likely to get chipped down while doing so and (C) running out of endurance before I can take them all. I know things change as I gain more levels but I'm looking for experiences, insights and potential advice about what to expect the tank soloing experience to be like in the weeks ahead.
Where the point of the mission is just to get it done (some old story arcs, tip missions) I will happily run those at -1 on a tanker, just as I would any other character. -
In the good old golden days of issue 3, I remember that resistance used to be considered the bee's knees, while defense was inadequate and unreliable.
A number of things changed since then. The global defense nerf was in fact much harder on resistance than on defense. Mob to-hit mechanics were changed at some time between i6 and i9; I don't remember when, and I was not playing very actively during those issues. Finally, changes to IO sets after i9 made defense bonuses much more easy to acquire; every positional defense set carried a type defense bonus, and vice versa.
Personally, I'd still prefer resistance to defense if I could get it. The thing with resistance is its scalability and reliability. If you are resisting 80 percent of smashing damage, it doesn't matter whether the source of smashing damage is -5 or +5 to you; 80% is resisted. Resistance sets can fail, but do not suffer catastrophic or cascade failures the way defense sets can, especially if they are lacking in debuff resistance. Resistance sets give you more time to react with stuff like self heals. -
Quote:Not all that much. Keeping the fact of your certain death in mind tends to put all sorts of things in perspective.Originally Posted by Shadow Ravenwolf
Would knowing the date and time of your death change how you live your life?
Does it matter anymore?