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  1. Mad Grim
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel View Post
    SPOILERS!

    Actually, if you played responsibilities arcs up to Cleopatra and remain loyal, then talk to Maurader and prod his apparent indifference about Cleopatra's betrayal and death, you really get a new feel for the guy.

    He says that, yes, he does care, yes, he's hurt she betrayed him, but he's actually even more frustrated by the whole situation and admits he doesn't really care whether Cole or the Resistance wins. He'll fight hard for his side, but in the end, having a victor either way to him would have meant things like Cleopatra betraying him wouldn't happen anymore.
    Huh. Well I take that back in, all of them are candidates for a heel face turn. And one of them has basically already done it.

    So yea, I could see them all being allies.
  2. Mad Grim
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zandock View Post
    The problem I have with Martial Assault is just no natural primary to go with it. Shurikens + Martial Arts works awesomely for a Batman style character, but not if I have to pair it up with Mind Control or something.

    EDIT: Not to say that the set isn't interesting. This is just a nitpick. I'm still rather excited to be able to try this out.
    This, really. Martial Assault just doesn't have a proper primary to pair up with. Mind Control probably would be the best bet.

    EDIT: Ninjitsu Control would be epic.
  3. Mad Grim
    Ok, new idea:

    Replace the T9 in Martial Combat with FINISHER, which has a unique kill animation for everything it brutally murders.

    And it says FATALITY after.
  4. Mad Grim
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Agent White View Post
    This is City of Heroes, not just Primal Earth. Praetoria just isn't going to go away and there's a rich collection of different characters and concepts ripe to be used.

    And with Praetoria trashed and Cole's empire gutted, it was pretty inevitable survivors would end up on this side of the pond. Honestly I'm hoping one of the revamps deals with where to stick th refugees, maybe mix in some Praetorian low level mobs, like in Independence Port.
    Maybe we rebuild Galaxy City and stick them there.
  5. Mad Grim
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by StratoNexus View Post
    I like most of the MA dominator set. I am worried about the cone. I don't generally like these types of powers in any game I play. I much prefer the way CoH cones have always worked. That said, the game has room for an option such as facing cones that I would skip, but others will enjoy.

    I do like that you can use it out of combat for styling.

    But... what if our characters lack faces?
  6. Mad Grim
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    One potential interpretation would be them becoming trainers/contacts for "gray" alignments - like actually adding Rogue/Vigilante story arcs to both sides of the game.
    Or maybe the addition of a fifth, actually grey alignment. True Neutral. Rogue is still villainish, vigilante is still heroic. I have several characters that I'd classify as True Neutral.
  7. Mad Grim
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim View Post
    Everything you've said about Praetoria goes against what you said in the above quote. You've said Marauder, Mother, Cole-- all of them evil. Now what are you going to do if we have to work alongside them? What if Cole becomes the new Statesman?
    If Cole becomes the new statesmen then I call foul because Cole appears to have died horribly.

    Also I'll stab Cole in the face until he actually dies horribly and stick him in an E.G.A.D. holding cell for good measure.

    EDIT: GG means we have been helping free Praetoria from Cole. So in a way, yes, we have been allied with Praetoria for the greater good, that greater good being killing Tyrant.
  8. Mad Grim
    So after the defeat of their leader and destruction of their city, they switch sides? I can maybe see this for Aurora and Pendragon, but Marauder? He seemed to be the most loyal of the Praetors.
  9. Mad Grim
    Nemesis isn't personally powerful enough to be a head villain. Also, you can't be the face of villainy if you have no face.

    Recluse is most certainly to face of villainy in the game. He was the cover of City of Villains for cryin' out loud. I love the idea of him ruling entire other-dimensional Earths. Spreading his empire out while the world thinks hes weakening. Then Longbow tries a direct attack on him and surprise! They get their ***** kicked by more soldiers than could physically be kept on the island.

    Then they have to conclude that Recluse is a Time Lord and his tower is a really big TARDUS.
  10. Mad Grim

    Nature Affinity?

    POST-ACTION

    The set looks very unique graphically. I expect to start seeing full forests sprout up in warehouses soon.
  11. Mad Grim
    Any test that doesn't have to do directly with farming should not use farming as it's basis. Farming is, in almost all cases, not part of the game. it is player content put in the game, and (iirc) something the devs do not condone. Therefore, any tests of Extracted Essence inconceivability should stay as far from a farm as physically possible.

    The most extreme content you are going to find in the actual game solo is going to be Dark Astoria. If you must test the extremes, test there. Even that is only a small subset of the game, however, so you should also test in tip and paper missions.

    But not farming.
  12. Mad Grim
    I will be making a Archery/MC blaster, and if FINISHER isn't added it shall be my catch phrase.
  13. Mad Grim
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    Originally Posted by Agent White View Post
    Fixed that for you.
    My villains (and heroes!) don't arrest people. They disembowel them. Repeatedly.
  14. Mad Grim
    The problem with a true sandbox game is that there'd be no true objective. You wanna play this game as a true sandbox? Ignore contacts and level up by cleaning the streets. Otherwise objectives are being given to you, even in the case of the radio and newspaper. But no one likes just cleaning streets for 50 levels, so that isn't a good game design.

    The villain version of SSA2 is about as close as we're gonna get to a true sandbox while it is still fun, and I for one enjoy it.
  15. Mad Grim
    Now all we need is for it to say "FINISHER" in big letters across the screen every time you kill something.
  16. Mad Grim
    That sounds AWESOME. @_@

    i24 is becoming almost too good.
  17. Mad Grim
    It is true that there is nothing to pair Martial Assault with. All of the control sets are elemental.
  18. Mad Grim
    Nerf can, and often is, used like Smurf.
  19. Mad Grim
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Schismatrix View Post
    But it's a pretty good emulation of a pigeon. Why would you want it to be a swan, anyway? i suppose they're somewhat appealing to look at, but geese or egrets are more interesting. Hell, the aforementioned pigeons are more interesting and definitely more useful.

    That said, i have been disappointed with the Freedom Phalanx's depiction, primarily as they've come across in the SSA1. They really don't come across as experienced heroes who have worked together, prevailed, and held their own even through alien invasions and all the assorted bizarreness that comes with a career in superheroics. They seem to act more like AE babies who arrived from a small town and spent the last decade training to 50 by clicking on bombs. There's genre-blindness, and then there's pants-on-head blindness.
    Yea, I'm gonna walk into the middle of this ancient looking circle where a guy who has repeatedly shown himself to be intelligent is waiting out in the open for me. By the way, this is the very same circle that depowered and killed my previous incarnation.

    What could go wrong?
  20. Mad Grim
    Yea, a PBAoE KB can be handy, but if you want to keep up your regen and recovery you need to use it whenever its up. And while solo this may not be a problem, a team could complain.
  21. Mad Grim
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Agent White View Post
    Nemesis Plots and Non-Nemesis Plots
    ... But they're all Nemesis plots.
  22. Mad Grim
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    Originally Posted by New Dawn View Post
    I know how to do it, but in watching people farm in general most people do not achieve this. I'd be very happy to watch you farm, because going back literally months I haven't seen that many WS players farm and get the maximum potential from the Extractions.

    I can bump to any server or perhaps already be on it.

    However in teams with someone else taking the aggro this is easier to do but still people do not achieve nigh maximum dps potential from the pets as easily as they could photon seekers. On paper it can look as though WS far out gun PBs and with easily played farming, but in reality for most of the entire player base maybe not. Maybe the only thing Devs will care about as far as balance is possibly concerned is what the playerbase as a whole are achieving rather than the one or two exceptional Pro's.
    My Warshade doesn't farm. He plays the game. And in the game, his fluffies live out their full life expectancy the majority of the time.
  23. Mad Grim
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Evil_Legacy View Post
    what happens?
    Well if I told you that it'd kind of ruin it.
  24. Mad Grim
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Evil_Legacy View Post
    In a good way or bad way?
    Good way, but also slightly exaggerated. You will at least feel sad.
  25. Mad Grim
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Hopeling View Post
    The sale on Heroes & Villains this week (the first such sale so far, iirc, other than the time a little while ago when they discounted only the 1-pack, so that they simply cost as much individually as they did in a 24-pack...) makes me suspect we'll see Rogues & Vigilantes next week, but it's pretty far from an official confirmation.
    Whats the third one gonna be, Loyalists and Resistance?