Mad Grim

Thanks. May finally be able to see the game how it was meant, rather than on a netbook

Just got my long-awaited new computer, and I remember there being a way to download the game that still works. Anyone have the link?

I'd probably try it out, but for two reasons I shall not:

1: I'm not a billionare
2: Its not tri-form.

2009.

A badge (Will Not Go Quietly), and some symbols added to the costume editor.

I've got a Necro/Nature who's been fun to level, and I could see bot/nature being strong as well.

As for ninjas, I'd argue that their best pairing by far is Time, not FF. Time gets them (and you) at the soft cap, with some -acc as buffer space, and you have a lot of other mitigation. Recharge redux, damage redux, and a -res/-def debuff to help kill faster. Not to mention the AoE heal.

I've actually never done a Positron, either part. Will be there, though.

I love electric control. It can hold off basically anything indefinitely. Drain a whole group in five seconds flat while perma-mezzing them at level 20 is an amazing thing. It does pay for this with a lack of damage, but hey, that's what epic pools are for.

I have never gotten an Accolade.

First of all, I love how this game handles leveling. You can be on your last legs, overwhelmed on all sides, with more ambushes on the way. You keep fighting, popping every insp you have, but know that, inevitably, it will not be enough. but then you level. Both bars refill, any and all mez breaks. It can even bring you back to life. And not only that, but in a brilliant flash of light it turns you into an unstoppable avatar of destruction. Not only is it mechanically awesome in the true sense of the word, it is thematically perfect.

Think about it: How many times have you seen a comic book character pushed against a wall, completely overwhelmed, only to come back stronger than ever and lay a beat down of the ages on whatever threat they were facing?

I cannot begin to count how many times a lucky level has saved my bacon.

That said, here are some of my crowning moments of awesome:

Shadow of Kronos (nin/time/mace MM), my main, inevitably has several. But I wish to talk only about the first and best. The first one happened... I want to say in the low 40's. Not to say he hadn't be awesome before, but nothing on this level. Nothing even close.

Firstly, it was an Arachnos map. Funny how they seem to generate these amazing moments. Perhaps it is because they are one of the few really troublesome enemy groups. Like Malta, they can drain and mez you into a puddle. Unlike Malta, they pack tons of toxic and psychic damage as well.

I was on 0x8, my standard soloing setting at the time. I charge into the first group as normal, and everything is going well, as normal. Then, the Ninjas being insane (again, normal, but not to this extent), they agro'd another group.

Well, no problem! I jump into this fresh meat, the current group no where near done, and start taunting and debuffing them into mush. A few heals, and I was doing good again.

Then they agro'd another group.

Well now, this is becoming rather troublesome. I Chronoshift to fix my waning endurance, and get to work, the first group still mostly standing. I can handle this, I think.

Then another.

Well this is just getting absurd. My genin are dropping and without their buffs die upon summon. I manage to bring them in and buff them quick enough that they live. The Jounin, as usual, are untouched, and the Oni is holding his own. All that is left of the first group are the bosses and maybe some lts.

Then another group.

Just not my day, is it? Distortion field to slow their imminent attack, give me some time to kill off some more in my current groups. The genin that aggrivated them is long since dead and resummoned. I eat some more blues. My health is actually dropping, that never happens! I eat some purples and a green, feed another green to my weakening Oni, and resume debuffing the every growing number of enemies.

By this point I am ignoring everything that isn't a direct threat to me and my ninjas. Chat buzzing? No more chat. Ignoring the map, ignoring the cat trying to get some attention. All I see is endless arachnos. Endless targets.

More were agro'd, I'm sure. But this point any and all new groups made no real impact on the mass of foes before me.

Eventually, the dust settled, with me and my ninjas standing amidst a sea of broken and defeated Arachnos.

I checked the map the see where the hell I was, and found it completed. Every single foe between me and the other end of the map was dead. That's when this characters status as my main was solidified, and that is when I decided to run every mission like that.

Because damn, that was epic.

The thing about Gravitic Emenation is that it is a control first, and an attack... well not at all, really. The Knockback adds another layer of control, and the ability to re-position groups or shove them all together in a corner. Due to it being a cone, it is very easily controlled.

The chance for knockback proc probably won't do anything at all, actually, except maybe add another mag of it randomly. It already has a 100% chance for knockback.

If knockback really isn't your thing, I'd sooner put the KB2KD IO in it than actually remove it, and then just deal with the random KB in Detonation. Being able to permastun an entire mob is an invaluable tool.

Alright, but without the "powergamer" rating.

No sense in encouraging farms.

Lets see... When i24 hit:

Fire/MC Blaster
DP/MC Blaster
Arch/MC Blaster
StJ/Bio Scrapper
Fire/MA Dominator

Probably more. And then if we ever got wind control... I'd have like 5 more up.

Currently I've made a fire/fire dom, SS/invuln Brute, and started leveling my Peacebringer again. All stuff I'd been meaning to do for quite some time.

Dude.

Didn't even slot brawl.

Words do not do it justice.

And I can't find a proper picture or gif either.

They were right to punish them, but not to perma-ban them.

They should receive a warning and a short suspension, the warning clearly explaining what they did wrong.

And then they should make it to where Caltrops cannot be auto'd.

Problem solved.

Only 83.5% in favor?

For shame!