Lazarillo

Posting from my phone I can't see the movie yet but suffice to say I'm looking forward to geting home today. Speaking of good sports, I think you deserve a tip of the hat for a loss with grace and enthusiasm. I admit when the bet was made I saw it as win/win. Regardless of who's right, there'd be an amusing result.

I admit it's nice to win, though. But now that we've embarrassed her let's maybe go ahead and add the options after all, Devs?

Twinshot is a Primal. There are hints that she's probably the mirror of Ricochet of the Crusaders

Wouldn't upping the cap make things easier?

So I was thinking. The real "coming storm"? It's the inevitable Incarnate war that breaks out between the Dream Doctor and Prometheus fighting over who gets to stop the coming storm. That'd be great. Much more personal investment than a bunch of nameless aliens we've never seen before.

Just sayin'

I look at it this way: when a Melee-based Incarnate goes back to the real game, they're going to be that much better than everything else anyway, so the raids are set up to temporarily force them to rely on teammates as a way of turning the tables for a bit.

Hmmm, teams I've been on have gone 2-0 so far, so I don't see the difficulty. Maybe it's a matter of going in responsibly level shifted? It seems pretty straightforward...almost too much so.

What I'd like to see:

~Give Energy Punch the "rushing punch" animation that Heavy Blow from Street Justice has. This is a very small nerf, for the sake of buffing elsewhere.
~Give Energy Punch's current animation to Stun, allowing it to come out and control an enemy quickly. Possibly raise the magnitude to 4 to make up for Total Focus losing it many many moons ago, but if so, it'd probably need a slight bump to Endurance cost to go along with it.
~Give Stun's current animation to Energy Transfer. Keep the damage where it is, but raise the self-damage a bit to encourage careful use.
~Give Energy Transfer's current animation to Total Focus. No balancing out, straight-up buff.

and/or:

~Remove the chance to Stun from Whirling Hands. Keep its minimal range, but have it make a similarly small TAoE on every target hit, thus expanding the range if a large number of enemies are bunched around you. There would probably have to be some sort of check to prevent multiple TAoE portions from hitting the same enemies, lest it be a too overpowered, but it'd be a kind of neat effect, I think, and a unique way to improve a power that, in itself, probably shouldn't have a huge range.

Hey, remember back in the i20½ beta, when I said "if the Null to Gull options go live without being part of the Options UI, they never will", and you said that it was just a stopgap? And then you proposed we make a bet on who was right?

As my note dictates, this was your post for the terms of how the bet would be decided:

He wasn't too hard, but he wasn't very exciting, either. Too many ultra-PBAoEs was annoying on my short-ranged Defenders. And the one that does get annoying red letters, the eye beam, was hella wimpy.

I have a tendency to pick Phantoms, as they just feel the most "generic", and very few of my characters are tied enough to any specific villain group their minions flying around after them.