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Just for those with hairy backs and junk...Body hair makes showers longer, right? I'd assume so

Probably dumb to ask, but have you tried 'Target Next'? There aren't that many ranged attacks that animate very quickly *and* capable of killing a foe outright. Just target the nearest foe, throw out a quick tier 1/2 attack then tap 'Target Next' about 2 times (or until you land on a boss/Lt) and queue up your TF/ET.

Most of the time, other nearby melees are targeting the closest target so targeting two or more foes ahead gives you time to lay down the big hitter.

Basic trick, but it seems to get the job done on my Stalkers' AS and my Scrapper's Eagle's Claw.

For one, Hoarfrost.

For two, Siphon Life and Life Drain aren't true self heals. Reconstruction, Dull Pain, Healing Flames, Kuji-in Sha, Radiant Aura, etc. These, are true self heals. SL/LD are attack/heal/debuff hybrid powers. There is no rule stating blasters can not have HP recovery and no precedence for such a rule besides the fact that blast sets do not *have* heals except dark blast.

That said, I think it's spot in either Dark Blast or Dark Manipulation is rather a waste. Dark sets are suppose to have good hybrid control and debuff with only moderate damage (with moderate DoT). Many of the suggested sets seem undecided to ditch this route and go in a reformed direction of 'moar damage' for blasters or just tone down some of the utility and keep the theme's downfalls. If SL/LD stay, I expect the set(s) to be greater with the debuff/utility/control but lesser for damage. If SL/LD is exchanged, I expect better damage and/or a compromise of keeping better control (like keeping Dark Pit).

All the better to make the manipulation set better? I mean, yeah, Psy blast might not have its amazing control, but at least the manipulation set is amazing.

Not a strawman. You just misunderstand what I'm saying:

-Players only have 2 rows of slots and ask for the capability to add up to 9.

-Devs increase the option so you can have all the rows by pressing the ^ button on the tray.

-Now players can have many stacked trays but complain that they need 5+ rows but with the inspiration tray open, obstructs too much of their screen.

-Now devs have to go back in and make a means to have *detached* trays with the the option of varying tray styles.

The way they have it now, you can have your 5+ rows, you just have to stack them manually since they're separate and of varying shape. So if they have to go back and add in functionality to have 4+ rows on the main tray, they would break even on work if they had done just that from the beginning.

Then this gets to a far deeper issue that really isn't resolved by having 4+ attached trays. What you want is the ability to keep your tray size/position saved with screen resolution. This would resolve your issue with having to move your 8 trays *AND* the chat window, HP bars, nav, etc. Would having +4 attached trays do that for you? Most likely not.

You don't have to give players an 'I win' button to be unbalanced. And many of the considerations you say were probably given with respect to future additions to the incarnate system. There are still slots to unlock and they don't want to give up all the power to you with just those you can get now.

No arguing it'd save time, but how much? How many people will have 9 trays on the screen to move? How often will they switch screen resolutions after each adjustment?

Noted, but then there'd have been the whole 'I can't see crap on my screen because half of it is taken up by my fat 9 layer tray!' issue that they also solved when they gave you the option of shaping the unattached trays as extra windows. So they kind of broke even on the effort depart, I'd say

The devs specifically said they balance the game around SOs and not IOs. Well, I'd theorize that, when it comes to incarnate/judgement, the devs simply *do not* balance them. They basically make you *unbalanced*. As great as the Judgement powers are, the rest of the game needs to stay balanced. So trying to balance nukes because Judgement is so much better is trying to rebalance them for an unbalanced reason.

That said, I still think the recharge on the nukes could be reduced by a quarter and still not be unbalanced. They should still recharge longer but you should still have the opportunity to use them more, even if they crash you. (But keep the crashless nukes around where they are)

I still find the addition of this questionable. You want to link more trays to the larger one because you have to move them every time you switch screens? Well, you'd have to do that anyway even if they were linked. That you have to move some individual trays instead is, like, 5 seconds of your time which isn't that much effort.

Please describe to me how not having your trays attached forces so much more effort that the devs should be using *their* efforts to help you.

Which says nothing about predisposing ones self to avoiding others since you can't tell if said individuals will make you angry, irritable, enlightened or elated.

No, I haven't read the book of Zen in Martial arts, but many lessons you can't take on face value. This, I have been taught first hand. So when applying said lessons to the situation at hand, it's not always a 1:1 transition.

If people in a PUG ruins your Zen, avoid those people, not PUGs.

If you're younger than 13 or in a situation that could be possibly dangerous to your physical health, maybe.

These people on the internet trying to team with you aren't carrying knives or guns to hurt you or aren't going to kidnap you into sex slavery. So why shun them?

And none of those melee characters have *any* abilities other than using a weapon? Even many of my melee focused characters have some alternate ability that might be used to explain projectile or non-melee centric abilities.

Sounds like these characters of yours can be easily overcome, you just need to use magic or tech that neutralizes melee combat. And I actually have several characters that can conceptually do that.

Just to clarify, this isn't me arguing against new animations/powers for incarnates. I'm just poking more into character concepts/themes than judgement concepts/themes. And since this is probably in the wrong board (is this an idea thread? >_<), a slight derailment wouldn't hurt.

If/when I ever get around to doing the incarnate content (lol I'm in no rush, I probably won't even really start until sometime in autumn), some of the things I'd like:

-Cryo judgement. Just give me a 'Shadow Maul' type animation as if I'm throwing each shard, and it'd be quite perfect for my Weapon-Tosser stalker.

-Judgement: Strike. Rather than a click damage power, this would be a click buff power that would add a PBAoE or Cone to your next attack. The tree would be wide in that they come with different elements (fire, cold, energy, neg energy) but wouldn't give any significant extra effects. The upside is, it recharges a bit faster than regular judgement powers.

With that, you could do some outlier things and give your 'Fire Ball' a more 'fire bally' effect by adding a fire cone to the targeted AoE. Or make your PBAoE Footstomp come with an energy shockwave that extends forward in a cone. Or give everyone the tap of death by adding a death explosion to Brawl. Oh! Or a Meteor Strike! Hurl Boulder, toss. BOOM! Cyclops Optic Blasts! Lol I can keep going but I'd better stop

So you have no non-melee characters you're interested in using the Judgement powers with?

Checking out the animations of them posted here, I would say Sam should use the void judgement. It kinda looks like a sheering slice to everything around you. And since it's rather dark around the character themselves, you can't really *see* the character isn't cutting with a sword because you can't see the character at all until after everything's dead.

I was about to post something to the same effect. What's the benefit of them being attached again?

But an aside, I have to admit I never thought of detaching the map from the nav and keeping it in a corner of the screen. I'm adding that the next time I log in

It's kind of hard to empathize with someone thats shooting themselves in the foot.

That said, what you're posting about just boils down to 'more work'. It'd be great if stuff just happened and plopped on our laps...Proliferation served to me on a platter, pole-arm weapon sets trimmed and presented neatly and with awesome animations, my own personal version of Scythe melee for Stalkers, etc...and I wouldn't be opposed to those things added. But until you get it, it's less painful to just...not 'undo' yourself >_>

Either that or simply put on your 'I'm not listening' cap and leave the whole 'Boo! Screw you, well!' to the people that just love to make a spectacle of themselves.

But I actually like the Force.

I just don't like Lucas' writing. I haven't read any of the EU books or anything but I do read some fan stuff and fan-made characters (I've had 1 PnP campaign with a Star Wars theme and loved it but not everyone in the group had as much fun with it as me ) and you can make some fun stuff when you write with the lore...

...until you say the word Midichlorians.

I dunno, I actually feel establishing the lore of your universe is necessary when you have so many participating and interlocking characters (the NPCs, not us) and when I'm creating characters, it's kind of fun actually making a character that actually fits. No, you don't have to slide in like a good, obedient little puzzle piece, but taking the story and going with it can be just as creatively intense as writing up your own lore and universe for your characters to exist in.

That said, I've actually started lvling up a character that will focus on the incarnate content (and she's supposedly the strongest force of nature among my wardrobe of characters so it makes sense that she be one of those new-fangled incarnates) and, from my interpretation so far, while the well is the source of the universe's powers, is that power the well's itself? Running the Vincent Ross arc, it seems like the well just kind of redistributes power, taking the essence of a god, using it to create a monster and then granting that monster to someone it deems worthy? But did the well create the god essence in the first place?

I guess if you don't like the idea of the well distributing you god powers, you could always have your character create this new power themselves and just explain why your character is just *now* gaining it during the incarnate content. That you're faced with escalating challenge could be the well's way of opening that path of power rather than outright giving it to you.

Lol is it so hard to simply say:

"What does Fiery Embrace do? I looked in Mids', CoD and in-game numbers but couldn't pinpoint its exact effects."

2 sentences. Come on, Sammy....

Well, do these characters still go on adventures? You don't have to write it out, but that the character is not either dead or retired automatically means 'stuff' is being added to their 'background' unless they're constantly going back in time and un-writing past events.

...or are they all just dreaming? Or in a simulation? Oh, that'd be hackney

First off, and this is just my opinion, you're pigeon-holing elements way too bad. Or either simplifying what is 'physical'. My fire blaster uses 'physical' fire. It's not 'meta-physical' or 'spiritual' or 'religious' or 'extra-dimensional' fire, it's physical fire. Physical fire that burns physical things.

What is 'void' really but a state of 'nothing'? I'd sooner say, Sam being able to slice through anything must mean he can somehow displace matter or force things apart with something other than wedging two strongly bonded atoms apart when you consider the guys he's trying to cut. So 'void' would fit his description in that he simply inserts a 'void' between that guy's torso and legs.

Anyway, I'm not trying to be confrontational, although I sometimes come off as that. But, to me, you're complaining about you having a strict concept, not that the game will never support your concept.

I have stories written up for characters too, but I try to be flexible as well. Heck, I've 're-written' my main's story at least a dozen times and could foresee doing so again, not because I'm trying to accommodate for the game, but because I enjoy the character. It's not like writers don't tell different tales of existing comic heroes too, maybe with a twist that they're evil, or in an apocalyptic future or what have you.

An aside: My Kat/SR can cut through anything as well, even things not meant to be cut. When he started being able to cut through buses and tanks, he called his sword the 'Spirit Edge' but after he graduated to cutting through magical hexes, psionic locks, dimensional barriers and emotions themselves, it became the 'Abstract Edge'. He only ever was forced to the point of cutting what cannot be cut when faced with hardships that could not be overcome otherwise.

So, when Sam finds something he cannot cut, shoot or punch, what does he do? Does he seek help? Does he step back, try to understand things then come at it with a new understanding? Does he give up? Does he keep going until he's dead?

I could see my character doing any of the above, and in the context of the escalating story, seeking help might be the way to go. That said, I'll probably unlock the Judgement slot for him but won't bother filling it unless there are animations for weapons. It's not a problem, just another possibility. You're not penalized for not 'using' the Judgement power, and you still get a +lvl bonus. Instead, focus on the other incarnate powers that do make more sense.

Shouldn't we be rewriting (or most likely, constantly adding) to our characters' stories?

How exactly do you rationalize your swordsman being able to defeat god-like entities anyway? Perhaps it isn't the well so much *giving* you these powers as it is opening up a possible path that was not once there or concealed, and it's simply you taking advantage of it or educating one's self in said path since you'd need such power if you want to stand a chance.

While I can certainly agree that more animations for these types of powers would be great, your need for the effects to be so specific aren't really necessary. Why do you need lethal damage? What is 'void' or 'negative energy' anyway? 'Fire' can be many of things since there are so many ways to 'burn' things and so many different 'things' you could be burning. So your sword can cut through anything? What about vs an object that cannot be cut? Perhaps Sam must seek a new path in which to learn how to cut what cannot be cut?

Lol, if you can't ascertain the generic path of a limited intelligence AI NPC, put yourself in their path and then queue up AS, you deserve to be useless >_>