Kias_Kais

Anyone have a copy, or a link to one sitting around? I entirely forgot about this.

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I am unclear. Why is one shotting a mob in PvE a "bad" thing?

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It's a mob one shoting you, not the other way around.

I wouldn't think so, most of the time if it can knock you through all your health that fast it has another attack coming around right afterwords.

But it does let nukes become a blaze of glory.

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You see lots of pairs of breasts that are separate near the chest itself, but merge into one freaky uniboob towards the front?

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As someone who is in college right now, yes, yes I do.

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Does it say anything when I've never even seen roadhouse and yet still the first thing I did when checking the new costume item was start chanting toga?

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Uh... I belive the film you are referring to is "animal house"

"roadhouse" was a Swayze fight pic.

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I was going to say that as well.

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Bah, ok, I haven't seen animal house either....
Though I guess that does kinda prove I never saw it.

Does it say anything when I've never even seen animal house (Ok, I don't know my movies) and yet still the first thing I did when checking the new costume item was start chanting toga?

Edit: Because I don't know what movies I haven't seen.

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Which would be great except that for those of us in smaller SGs (you know, the kind formed by groups of RL friends that play together) that year will get us half a bell and no whistles.

-RC

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Come on, my SG consists of about 5 people, we've already got a few bells, a couple whistles and are working on getting a marching band. Of course we aren't much for pvp, but I'm rather sure it's intended to be something where all 75 members are different people, which would allow for both ungodly prestige gain and base defense.

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And btw, I never managed to kill you, but I DID get your Blaster.

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Which was really funny.

He was hunting you just as much as I was, he came over team chat with 'Where is he?' just as I watched his health drop red. Then when he hit the ground he said, 'oh, there he is'.

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Hey, what can I say? I'm an opportunistic bottom feeder. I'm comfortable with that.

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Yea, I can see that. I was tied up with two bosses when you found me, glad I had the crap load of insights, otherwise you may have gotten me.

Does placate recycle that fast or were you just that much of a pain in the [censored] to catch up to?

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Six +2s, eh? That's, what, a two-three person team spawn? What happens when you are on an eight-person team against Cabal or similar foes, and you take about three quarters (or half, even with a ringer) of the damage of the alpha-strike you are supposed to take for the team because your resistance does next to nothing against non-S/L damage?

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It's rather simple, you don't take all of it. Coordinate with the controllers to have as many of them as possible froze when you charge in. Or pretty much just make sure that you aren't the only person on the team that can take damage, otherwise you will die. That's what happens when you urk a spawn meant for 8 people.

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And I completely reject that your blaster is doing better than before, since villains were (according to the Devs) not adjusted at all, and (other than a slight endurance benefit that you won't notice unless you didn't have Stamina) your powers were not changed. Well, except for the new effective limit on your maximum slotted damage.

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Actually my problem used to be that I blew through all my end before I ended the fight. I threw at least one end reducer into each attack and suddenly I can take a fullsized spawn at higher levels. My damage hasn't gone down all that much, and over a long fight it's actually a bit higher since i can still attack.

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For destroying Tankers and everything they ever stood for.

If they are as bad as everyone KNOWS they will be, I will be cancelling my account the same day.


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Ok, two things. Two sad, sad statements.

Tanks are fine, if you don't believe me I'll show you the ones I play with. If I can tank 6 +2s and live to complain about it with my 'underpowered' sloting(he's an invun tank mind you) I don't think you've got ground to stand on for that one.

And it isn't that friggen bad. Try it before you complain. And I don't mean on invincible, I mean on the real level the game was originally made for. You'll be fine.My blaster is actually better after ed, I can finally take bosses one on one.

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“Actually, I think he’s screaming like a little girl,” the defender says. “Oh, wait, he’s stopped now."

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That was way to funny to read at midnight.
This place finally quieted down and I'm choking trying not to start laughing like a mad man.

These are great, I look forward to reading a few more.
Hopefully when I can laugh like a loon and they'll just think I'm nutz, not a total jerk.

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It would be nice if we can get back to blaster damage in this thread.

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I can help with that. Because I'm a ding bat and never noticed this sticky till now, I posted this in it's own thread, which has been deleted, But this is what i've got

Alright, we've all heard the argument, I'll just delve into what I've done.

I've played both Assault rifle blaster, and Broadsword Scrapper, I know them rather well. I took my time to put this chart together using the info I have. If a move was an AOE there is the *aoe attached, along with a problable number of mobs hit with the skill.

this is what I've got together. It's in Jpeg because I don't ahve a decent Html editor on hand and don't have the urge to write tables atm.
If anyone knows a build and can give a similar set for other primaries feel free to toss it into the conversation.

But looking at these the final values actually point to that scrapper doing slightly more than a blaster on a single target, a bit over 10 brawl per minute. But the blaster takes off as the targets grow, getting an extra 60 brawl per minute over the scrapper per target beyond the first

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Don't you find it the least bit interesting that now that they are trying to shoehorn PvP in, they are suddenly discovering all these powers that were "already broken"?

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Possibly they knew they were broken, but spent their time on issues they thought were more important. Some of these changes may seem small but even a tiny change can take a load of code to pull off. Plus, since they are powers available to everyone and know they are fighting each other those that did not take superspeed or superjump are penalised for taking an "inferior" travel power.

Just for referance on how much work the devs have put into many of these patches I'll list a few specifics of a project I've done. A middleschool level spelling game with over 10,000 words and an unbelieveably large amount of potential combinations. Database of around 40+ students in the base version. A few thousand lines of code. All of the files related, including every single revision we made over the 10 week project, total to 3 megs. Including documentation.

That is nothing compared to the size of the typical patch that comes out with each issue. The changes may seem small and insignificant, but I've had bugs that had me dodging through 10-15 files just to finally nail the sucker. One of which was a small flicker when someone changed screens between a certain combination.

A small change almost always seems to be the hardest.[Bitter] But I'm thinking that's because people ask me to change their system after they claim it's finished.[/Bitter]

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I can suddenly start to burn things or decide my electrical powers

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What? You've never heard of an electrical fire?