LostHalo

I've kept a grand total across all of my characters. Purples were first introduced in what, i11? I've gotten a total of 14. My number of STF runs is past 150 post-i11..pre-i11, it's a bit more in the area of 400-500 but anyway (although, STFs aren't a good example for my group...we tend to do the minimum requirements to get to the end mission). My ITF runs however...probably in the area of 150-200 runs and the very nature of the ITF expects you to do lots and lots of killing (including our method...30 minute runs don't mean you can't kill everything in your way, rather good 30 minute runs require that you do!). Same case with the LGTF, although I don't run that as often because I hate the hostage mission.

The thing that drove me a little nuts about that total of 14 was listening on my Guardian global channels to one particular person who would get up to 15 in a single night of farming (2-4 or so hours...which wasn't too aberrant from me, at the time...heck, I was playing after he was done usually) and was guaranteed to report at least one or two. He had gotten to the point of actually selling them to people in the channel for 1/2 going market price if he didn't need them or was just feeling generous.

Because the explanation doesn't really work for people that don't have experience with programming of any type (and don't understand the linked Wiki page). It's kind of hard to conjure up a suitable analogy or metaphor for it as well.

Bad Attempt at Doing So:
In a room of 100 people, you've been told to get a message from "Jaime". Unfortunately for you, you don't know who "Jaime" is, if they're male or female, or even if they're human. Additionally, you can't even verify if it's the right message.
So, it's not impossible that you'll find the right "Jaime" and that they'll have the "right" message but it's pretty damn unlikely.

In CoH's case, "Jaime's" message could have been replaced by any other subsystem currently making use of their place.

It's not Speed Boost that does what I'm doing and it only takes a single IR.

Of course my method just uses a single Kinetics but hey. And it's surprisingly easy to make use of if you know what to look for.

Why wouldn't it be?
Dark isn't a resist set; it's a hybrid of Resist, Defense, and Control. Electric is straight Resist and Soft Control, Fire is Resist and Damage, and well, I wouldn't put Invuln above Dark as, except for Smash/Lethal, its resists are lower in nearly every case (but subsequently has higher native Defense potential).

When you don't embrace each of the set's wholes, of course it's going to be weaker--it's the exact same situation as 'healz0rz'. Granted, most seem unable to make that connection.

Nobody is doing it wrong. Unless they're saying someone else is doing it wrong. The person who sits under Atlas all day has just as much right to play as the guy superteaming against Hamidon each night.

If you want an example on the extreme side of things, take a gander at my "Granite Super-Jumping" video I've got linked in my signature. What you're seeing with Fly is identical (although a much lower strength) to what you get from IR (and what I use to do the silliness in the video).

+MovementFriction is a great statistic.

Stopped reading at this point: Okay, change the bar so it reads 90 as maximum. Problem solved.

Right. I don't dispute that. 60.1% smash/lethal defense is what I choose to dispute.

I try not to assume people are chain-yanking if they're "new". With how ragingly cynical my personality is, it isn't easy. That, and it's more entertaining to bite the "t-word that gets you censured" for my own entertainment.

Excuses.

Because that's what they're missing? Most likely, yes, they do get a lot of benefit when you build for their weaknesses.

For the most part, yes. If you are going to maximize the performance of ANY toon, it's going to pull off some amusing things. The current maximum difficulty has never been hard. If you're talking maximum i16 difficulty...things could be more interesting but still doable.

Not really. They have the potential to do it right away, just like everyone else. Unfortunately, to do it, they also burn more endurance than everyone else, so it just appears that they can't pull it off as well. Perhaps if Vigilance monitored your own health.

This premise is already faulty; it's also your conclusion. One or the other, not both.

What's the situation? Soloing an AV? Well, I don't really take Stone Armor/Ice Melee on a Tank and expect it to ever be the top dog in that situation. Some are just better and when you purposely choose the ones bad at your apparent definition of what is "baseline peformance," you are of course going to find another piece of 'evidence' in your favor. Regardless of whether or not said 'evidence' is truly valid.

What? You're saying that Scrappers that "can bump his difficulty to +2 almost immediately" require a lot of training to play successfully? Then on same token, your argument is that there is no learning curve to Defenders...but then refuse to accept that they can do the things you claim they are incapable of. Your definition of 'learning curve' seems a little questionable.

And yeah, if you set an egg timer for 240 seconds to keep up buffs, then no, your Force Fields/Dark doesn't require a whole lot to master to appear "good".

Now if you introduce Force Bubble herding to the equation...

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It's still all on the player.

Oh god yes. I want my smaller footprint model. My Tank-type toons are all small for a reason, dangit.

Mini-Granite sounds deliciously cute as well. And one of my SA characters has horns, too... Heh. Assuming, of course, the 'whole body coverage' theme remains. I'd be a tad miffed to toggle Granite and get just random chunks of rock stuck on my toon, a la Rock/Brim...rest of the set.

"Ignore me!!!"

I assume you mean to say that he's just boring. Reichsman has no place being called either of the descriptors you cite.