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  1. Heraclea
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by CoHplayer View Post
    Should I go with a Fire/Super Strength Tank Farmer, or a Shield Defense/Super Strength Tank Farmer? Thanks for the input!
    Of those two, the Fire/SS currently sounds more fun, given that you already have several scrappers.

    Fire is not near as tough as Shields, but has more tricks. You just have to pay attention, while with Shields there's not much you can do when things go sour.

    My most recent tanker is a Fire/Dual Blades. This is my go to tanker when I am farming merits. She is not my first choice for master runs, but she performs quite well at lower levels. The secret advantage of Fire is that everything that your primary offers to actually keep you alive is available by level 12. When merits were added to the game, this turned into a surprising advantage.
  2. Heraclea
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by ZanderCross View Post
    Do deer antlers taste like bacon?
    Not really. Whitetail antlers taste like black locust. Elk antlers taste like oak. Moose antlers taste like pine. Caribou antlers taste like tequila.

    Are you a witch?
  3. Heraclea

    Wonder Woman #601

    POST-ACTION

    So we finally get to JMS's first full issue all to himself. Despite my misgivings on the Jim Lee costume design, this looks interesting.

    What JMS has done is to toss Diana, who is and is not the character we have been reading about since 1986 or 1942, take your pick, and give her a plateful of bog-standard stock superhero tropes that she has not been exposed to before. We get:
    • Survivor of a lost paradise. Diana is not the only survivor, but she is the most powerful of the survivors.
    • A standard issue dystopia where the heroes are hunted by an authoritarian government.
    • A violated heroine whose basic motive is revenge.
    All of these elements are pretty much cliché. Putting Wonder Woman in the middle of them is fairly original. This may be an interesting ride.

    Despite my misgivings about the costume --- get rid of that jacket! --- this looks to be a fairly interesting ride. I am willing to go this far with JMS. But what I hope to see is that Diana remembers enough of who she "really" is to put all of this talk of vengeful murder behind herself. That part seems out of character, deliberately so: and if the result of this story is to re-establish Wonder Woman's full complexity as a peaceful warrior character when this arc is done and she rejoins the DC universe, I will be pleased. If not, I will be quite unhappy.

    Don Kramer's art is close to perfect; he reminds me of Eaglesham or Haley, and he handles complicated scenes with many characters almost as easily as Perez. The fall of Themiscyra was well played through his pencils.
  4. Heraclea
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Angryellow View Post
    Were you gonna finish that bacon?
    Only if it is the kosher kind.

    If a train leaves from Milwaukee, 250 miles away, travelling at 45 miles an hour, and the wind is blowing from the east at 15 miles per hour, and we assume that the circumference of the Earth is 25, 850 miles average, how long is the piece of string?
  5. Heraclea
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kheldarn View Post
    What was my question again?
    Your question was, "Is the taxon of Archosauria paraphyletic on the grounds that it does not traditionally include Aves, the birds?"
  6. Heraclea
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Shadow Ravenwolf View Post
    What is your favorite time of year?
    Autumn. October. The light has been too much with us. There's something about the turning and falling of the leaves. And Hallowe'en is the last real holiday of the year, at least until New Years Eve.

    Who done it?
  7. Heraclea
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dark Lost View Post
    Heeeeeey who made this big mess?
    The Great God Pan.

    And he was asking: who is the god of the United States dollar?
  8. Heraclea
    My two non-spine AoE focused characters are an Electric/Shield scrapper and an Electric/Mind blaster. That blaster is a blapper really; all the important AoE is PBAoE. An Ice, Fire, or Dark tanker with Electric or Fire secondary would also put out a lot of AoE damage and utility debuff, especially Ice and Dark.
  9. Heraclea
    pɹə. ˈtoːɹ. jə

    English does strange things with the accent in borrowed Latin words. "Consul" is CON-sul but the verb is con-SULT. This actually mimics to some extent the Latin accent itself, which wa[s free to move from one syllable to the next as endings were added; in Latin as well, the noun was CON-sul while the corresponding verb con-SUL-ere.
  10. Heraclea
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by mousedroid View Post
    Am I the only person whose cats don't ignore/snub them when they come back from an extended absence?
    Mine are all over me whenever I've been gone a couple days.

    How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
  11. Heraclea
    A handy rule of thumb is to never repeat offensive power sets, unless you are doing it for a theme.

    I tend to stick with basic melee sets for minions, and get more clever or creative with lieutenants and bosses. Even with themed custom minions, I go for variations. I created a faction of "Ginsu Warriors", all of whom have edged weapons, but there are several even there: broadsword, axe, katana, dual blades, ninja sword.....

    Note that recoloring will work to add variety to dev created mobs. If you want to make Longbow more interesting, create a custom faction also called Longbow, and recolor a few Council lieutenants to fit with their color scheme and add variety to that class of spawn. I seldom if ever use dev created factions as is, and frequently resort to renaming and recoloring them.
  12. Heraclea
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dark Lost View Post
    Who ordered the chicken chow mein?
    The cat did. His neck is safe for one more day.

    Why did you put that in your mouth?
  13. Heraclea
    That is made of about eighteen and a half different flavors of win.
  14. Heraclea
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Shadow Ravenwolf View Post
    Should I take a walk on the interstate?
    Only if you wear a matador's suit of lights, and wave a red cape at the oncoming cars.

    Who put the bomp in the bompa-bompa-bomp?
  15. Heraclea

    Dual Blades

    POST-ACTION

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by AnElfCalledMack View Post
    I'm thinking of rolling up a Dual Blades tanker. I'm something of an altoholic, and have yet to get a character to 50. As such, I have two questions:

    1) Is /DB still fun to play in the lower levels, or does it really need a mature build and possibly IOs to shine?

    2) What primaries would work well with /DB? I'd quite like to try Inv or DA on something, but I'm suspicious that DA would be far to Endurance-hungry. Is Inv/DB a good idea?
    Dual Blades is fairly fun to play in the lower levels, although it really opens up in the higher levels, once you start getting multiple combos available. The combo system is something you will either love or despise.

    Because of the combo system, I think Dual Blades works best with defense sets that have a lot of skippable powers. Fire/DB, DA/DB, Stone/DB, and Inv/DB will be more fun to build than, say, WP/DB, Ice/DB, or DB/SR.
  16. Heraclea
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by strifenight View Post
    Thanks for the advice Herc, I do have the slots to reroll, however I have some serious attachment to this toon, being I have had it for over 5 years. It is also my Badge farmer as well, and has many event and Anniversary badges that a new toon wouldnt be able to get. I may try out a similar build to your and a combo with mine. I like the def/resistance numbers in my build alot, seems to possibly rival even a Granite tank, however I do like the amount of regen you have aswell as that you kept fly. I have some good ideas though and gonna play a little bit in mids and see what else I can come up with. Thanks for the advice and input guys.
    If you have not played the character for a while, you may have an easier time adjusting to the new rhythms of playing the attack set. I know I had to leave for a while after i6 hit......

    As for the things you listed, yes, an Invulnerability tanker is a good or excellent choice to do all of them --- a little less so in RWZ ship raids, maybe, but probably my first choice for tanking Statesman's TF: almost as tough as Granite without any of the reaction problems. You can do them all on SOs and an IO build like the ones we've been discussing will get the job done quite well.
  17. Heraclea
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Early Girl View Post
    How did you know?
    A little birdie told me.

    What is the air speed velocity of a fully laden African swallow?
  18. Heraclea
    Happy birthday, and many more!
  19. Heraclea
    I would avoid WP/EM. Your primary and your secondary will be working at cross purposes.

    /EM is a painfully slow and heavy set. It has one weak and small AoE attack, and the rest are single target. Since Willpower's weakness is aggro holding, and benefits from having mobs in the range of its regeneration aura, a slow single target set that makes stunned mobs wander away from you is about as bad a combination as you can imagine. The only possible worse combination would be Fire/EM, and that's debatable.

    If you really want to play /EM, I'd suggest dark armor or ice armor as a primary. You will get some stun synergy from dark armor, and ice benefits from the sorts of control you get with /EM.
  20. Heraclea
    You will still do OK at single target damage, and as an Invulnerability tanker you do not really need AoEs to hold aggro. Your problem will be in getting and maintaining a reasonably fluid attack chain; without a lot of recharge, you'll find yourself falling asleep at the keyboard quite often. The revamped energy melee is built on the false assumption that game players aren't going to find six seconds too long a time to wait before they get to hit another attack.

    I admit, I mothballed my Fire/EM tanker. This was my offensive oriented tanker, and once her offense was spoiled there was little point in the character. I rerolled as Fire/DB and have not regretted that move at all. If you have the slots, I'd probably consider rerolling with any other offense set than Energy Melee. Inv/Dark Melee is particularly attractive for a single target oriented tanker, with a lot stronger synergy between the two sets now.

    This build skips Whirling Hands as not worth the bother, and focuses instead on single target attacks. It is also built on the assumption that you are going to need Air Superiority and Boxing as slotted attacks, because you are going to need them.

    Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.621
    http://www.cohplanner.com/

    Click this DataLink to open the build!

    Level 50 Magic Tanker
    Primary Power Set: Invulnerability
    Secondary Power Set: Energy Melee
    Power Pool: Fitness
    Power Pool: Flight
    Power Pool: Fighting
    Power Pool: Speed
    Ancillary Pool: Energy Mastery

    Hero Profile:
    Level 1: Temp Invulnerability -- RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx:40(A), RctvArm-ResDam/Rchg:40(9), RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg:40(11), RctvArm-ResDam:40(15), RctvArm-EndRdx:40(37)
    Level 1: Barrage -- Stpfy-Acc/Rchg:50(A), Stpfy-Acc/EndRdx:50(3), Stpfy-Acc/Stun/Rchg:50(3), P'ngS'Fest-Acc/Dmg:30(34), P'ngS'Fest-Dmg/Rchg:30(46), P'ngS'Fest-Dmg/EndRdx:30(50)
    Level 2: Dull Pain -- Dct'dW-Rchg:50(A), Dct'dW-Heal:50(5), Dct'dW-Heal/Rchg:50(7), Numna-Heal/Rchg:50(31), Numna-Heal/EndRdx/Rchg:40(43), Numna-EndRdx/Rchg:50(45)
    Level 4: Bone Smasher -- S'ngH'mkr-Acc/Dmg:35(A), S'ngH'mkr-Dmg/EndRdx:35(5), S'ngH'mkr-Dmg/Rchg:35(7), S'ngH'mkr-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg:35(23), Stpfy-Acc/Rchg:50(48), Stpfy-Acc/Stun/Rchg:50(50)
    Level 6: Swift -- Run-I:50(A)
    Level 8: Unyielding -- RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx:40(A), RctvArm-ResDam/Rchg:40(9), RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg:40(11), RctvArm-ResDam:40(17), RctvArm-EndRdx:40(40)
    Level 10: Taunt -- Mocking-Taunt:50(A), Mocking-Taunt/Rchg:50(15), Mocking-Taunt/Rchg/Rng:50(42), Mocking-Taunt/Rng:50(45)
    Level 12: Air Superiority -- T'Death-Acc/Dmg:40(A), T'Death-Dmg/EndRdx:40(13), T'Death-Dmg/Rchg:40(13), T'Death-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx:40(34), T'Death-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg:40(45), T'Death-Dam%:40(50)
    Level 14: Fly -- Flight-I:50(A)
    Level 16: Health -- Numna-Regen/Rcvry+:50(A), Mrcl-Rcvry+:40(17), RgnTis-Regen+:30(23)
    Level 18: Invincibility -- GftotA-Def/EndRdx:40(A), GftotA-Def:40(19), GftotA-Def/EndRdx/Rchg:40(19), GftotA-Def/Rchg:40(42), GSFC-Build%:50(43)
    Level 20: Stamina -- EndMod-I:50(A), EndMod-I:50(21), EndMod-I:50(21)
    Level 22: Boxing -- KntkC'bat-Acc/Dmg:35(A), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx:35(31), KntkC'bat-Dmg/Rchg:35(46), KntkC'bat-Knock%:35(46), Acc-I:50(48)
    Level 24: Tough -- RctvArm-EndRdx:40(A), RctvArm-ResDam:40(25), RctvArm-EndRdx/Rchg:40(25), RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx:40(34), RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg:40(42)
    Level 26: Tough Hide -- GftotA-Def:40(A), GftotA-Def/Rchg:40(27), Ksmt-ToHit+:30(27), GftotA-Def/EndRdx:40(43)
    Level 28: Build Up -- RechRdx-I:50(A), RechRdx-I:50(29), RechRdx-I:50(29)
    Level 30: Hasten -- RechRdx-I:50(A), RechRdx-I:50(31), RechRdx-I:50(48)
    Level 32: Weave -- GftotA-Def/EndRdx:40(A), GftotA-EndRdx/Rchg:40(33), GftotA-Def/EndRdx/Rchg:40(33), GftotA-Def:40(33)
    Level 35: Energy Transfer -- T'Death-Acc/Dmg:40(A), T'Death-Dmg/EndRdx:40(36), T'Death-Dmg/Rchg:40(36), T'Death-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx:40(36), T'Death-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg:40(37), T'Death-Dam%:40(37)
    Level 38: Total Focus -- Mako-Acc/Dmg:40(A), Mako-Dmg/EndRdx:50(39), Mako-Dmg/Rchg:50(39), Mako-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg:50(39), Mako-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg:50(40), Mako-Dam%:50(40)
    Level 41: Resist Physical Damage -- Aegis-Psi/Status:50(A)
    Level 44: Resist Energies -- S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+:30(A)
    Level 47: Conserve Power -- RechRdx-I:50(A)
    Level 49: Physical Perfection -- P'Shift-End%:50(A)
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    Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
    Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
    Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
    Level 1: Gauntlet
    Level 4: Ninja Run



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  21. Heraclea
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Shadow Ravenwolf View Post
    Is there any reason why you shouldn't donate blood plasma?
    Never, ever volunteer for anything medical, especially when there are blood tests involved, as there will be. You may regret the results.

    How doth the little crocodile
    Improve his shining tail?
  22. Heraclea
    Because, if you weren't here, you would be somewhere else; and you are not somewhere else: therefore you must be here. (I, for myself, am somewhere else quite often.) Q.E.D.

    Where were you on the night of January 16th?
  23. Heraclea
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Philly_Guy View Post
    Yes they look alike. Zooey sings in Yes Man, so maybe ...
    Zooey Deschanel actually sings in a band, "She & Him", a sort of cabaret / folk act. They played locally a couple weekends ago as part of a riverfront festival.
  24. Heraclea
    Heraclea is my global and the name of the first character I created in game. She existed well before the game itself; I created her for my pinup art, as a sort of mashup between Wonder Woman and a sword and sandal hero. The name is simply a feminine version of Hercules; the name Heraclea was widespread as a town name in the classical world.

    Oddly enough, of the characters that figured in Heraclea's cycle of stories --- Maveth, Dragomirja, and Omphale --- only Omphale has made it into the game yet.
  25. Heraclea
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Healix View Post
    LOL
    Deke - a sports term meaning to dodge and out-maneuver.

    Gitch - Men's brief style underwear (such as Tighty Whiteys).

    Chesterfield - a couch.

    Cashed- If something is finished or used up. Such as: "This pipe is cashed", meaning all of the tobacco has been smoked.

    Soda vs Pop - Canadians drink "pop." Ask for a soda and you'll likely get soda water (Especially in Ontario).
    When I lived there, a napkin was a "serviette". Does this still hold true?

    I remember the French word for mayflies easily, because I associate huge swarms of them with Quebec.