MaestroMavius

Fixed that for ya.

In all seriousness though it should look like this;
Its jump in
hit dark pit
Hit soul drain.
jump out
position the cone
hit aim
hit disintegrate
hit tier 1 attack - Hope for spread
hit tier 2 attack if previous doesn't spread
hit cutting beam
start single targeting until your cone is recharged

It might seem counter-intuitive to hold off on the AoE, but the benefit of Disintegrate spreading is worth it. The mob will melt that much quicker.

Indeed. That, my friends, is the big hidden secret of our world. That we are the 'regular' citizens and that all the 'citizens' are so overpowered they live in no fear.

Think about it.

My 'Super' hero watches as an elderly lady holds a Skulls boss to a stalemate for 15 minutes, her purse strap never breaking. Yet when I get close enough to lend a hand, I'm eating pavement 2 minutes later.

My 3-ton battlemech, patrols the streets, dispatching gangbangers left and right without trouble. Taking a break to rest on the sidewalk, gets easily shoved out of the way from a small looking woman... carrying her groceries!

That's the truth. The reason why we dress up and fight crime isn't to protect the citizens of Paragon, they are all immortal somehow. No our superheroics are to protect ourselves.

We are the ones in danger. We are the ones needing saved, yet the overpowered populace is content to just go about their day to day lives, oblivious to the fact that regular heroes are falling left and right. Why should they care, they are immortal after all.

It's us that has to worry.

The reason this city has so many costumed crime-fighters isn't because Paragon is a hot bed of crime. No, it's simply because, if your anything other than 'A regular citizen' in this world you all but have to don a mask and use your meager powers to protect yourself.

It would seem things are reversed in this universe. Those born without any powers have immunity. If you are born with powers, well... You'll be using them a lot to protect yourself since you know, the badguys have learned they can't get anywhere with the citizens and only those with powers can actually be hurt.

Comic and Hero/Villain Culture
Saturday January 29th, 2005 (12:37 PM) ~ Monday August 9th, 2010
Those Who Lived It Will Remember Long after your Ban Hammer Crumbles and the servers flicker dead.
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Yes it is. I would hardly call Jones a Vigilante though.

A vigilante would have beaten all of them to a pulp with a bat.
A vigilante would have shot them from afar.
A vigilante would have followed them and rammed their car off the road.
A vigilante would have pepper-sprayed them, then curb-stomped them.

A Hero would have seen an illegal activity and not allowed it to continue. By calling the authorities and, if needed, stepping in to moderate until they arrived.

Phoenix Jones works with law enforcement, using only legal methods. Nothing vigilante about it. Just because you don a mask and run around putting yourself in stupid situations doesn't make you a vigilante.

Edited to add: Look at it from another PoV. It's broad daylight and a dad is walking through the park to soccer practice to get his kid when he see's a fight break out. Fearing for the safety of the lone girl in the mix, he attempts to mediate the situation, asking them to be calm or something. They then turn on him at which point he sprays them to protect himself. Should the police have arrested him upon arriving at the scene? For being a concerned citizen?

Maybe so but I still smile when, in mission, I pop a yellow and announce to the team that I have to get my 1st miss out of the way so it starts working and.... every single time that 1st swing is a miss!

Now I know it doesn't work that way, but no matter what, whenever I've announced it I've always been lucky enough to get the miss, thus increasing the perception that it indeed, makes you miss.

Except that, you know, that is the exact reason OCR gave us for the rule back when it was created... In it's original form (Video format games)
The whole no board games issue is new to me, and I paid close attention to the rule since it began.

But hey, I'm all for looking at things from other angles, so how would you portray it Zombie? Other than "Because they said so." What exactly is the intent of banning talking about Bop it?

Things make more sense with it.

I was all ready to post about how this didn't make sense, seeing as we were just looking at ways to 'trim the fat' on the forums. Couldn't understand why the need to add one.

This explanation makes sense though.

This 100%!

Beam/Dark blaster can certainly work. I personally can't attest to 50+ performance though. Purely looking at it from a levelling perspective, the reason I say Disintegrate is harder to spread for blasters is because you end up taking out targets before the chance hits.

Higher level mobs however, will stick around long enough to at least get 2 or 3 more shots in to trigger the spread. Teaming, you'll be able to target the boss in a middle of the mob, if you have a tank, and pew pew them until it spreads, then unload with Cutter etc. Though, really this is only an issue if you love aoe damage. Having the extra oomphf as a blaster means you won't have to rely on the spread as much as a corr, you'll be putting them down quick regardless.

The more I thought about it, Beam/Dark does sound like the best combo for a Void concept.

With invisibility you'd be able to position for optimal Drains and....
Hmmm...

Beam/Dark you say? *Runs off mumbling about altitis*