MajorDecoy

I tend to read it as Misformed Squirrel, which is blatantly wrong. It would have to be Malformed Squirrel.

Yes, because that's not a lore question.

It'd be like asking Hawkward "So, were there plans to make customizable weapon auras?"

God, now I'm imagining a combination of City of Heroes with Mavis Beacon Typing Tutor.

Knock-out Blow queued, now type "Evil-doer face my fist of JUSTICE!" to activate Knock-out Blow. Power Customization would allow you to change the phrase, but it has a minimum number of spaces and characters required, so you can't just have it as "WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW"

I think we can all agree that Justice is the best server.

Yeah, but an Invulnerability/Battle Axe Tank plays an awful lot like a Willpower/War Mace tank. Not exactly the same, but close.

I can see it now. Tankers would be MDC doing SDC damage and Blasters would be SDC doing MDC damage.

Not even with a literal reading of that. She's saying that, at most, there's a 62% chance.

However, what we need is a one in a million chance that City of Heroes will survive, because one in a million chances always turn up.

I don't know that there ever was any justification. They just decided to make the taunt aura weaker for Willpower.

I mean, why do Shield Defense and Willpower have Fear and Confuse protection when most the other sets don't?

Well, to be fair, we lost more than 5% defense in Invincibility if you had it slotted and saturated.

That said, I remember those threads pretty well.

Yeah.

Wait, really? I didn't know that.

Don't worry, we're just talking about giving Nemesis a mullet.

I don't know how or why, but this is what I read.

I'm looking forward to getting Illusion for Tankers. (concept: replace most control powers with positional defense powers and a status protection power)

I'm going to drop both because I hate myself.

(That said, I did take my Energy/Energy blaster to level 47 without taking any AoE attacks.)

What would that do for stalkers?

Why is using Rain of Fire against a group of enemies and having it miss one of them any less silly? I mean, everything you said can be applied to that one enemy in the group that you missed. That and defense represents everything from dodging to resisting damage to healing the damage as fast as you take it. It's been pointed out that Moment of Glory provides massive defense because it's supposed to be "Yes, you hit me, but I've healed already." Invincibility can be "Yes, the fire hit me in the head, but it didn't hurt at all." or "Yes, it looked like it hit me, but it was just a glancing blow."

So with that in mind, if I use knock-out blow, and it misses an invulnerability tank, should it play the animation or not? It's not an "Oh crap, she dodged it." it's an "Oh crap, that hurt my fist more than it hurt her!"

Why would it make any sense at all to cancel any animation just because the attack missed?

Sure, meta-gaming, Shadow Maul, if you miss, you miss, and you do no damage. However, in game, who is to say that you expect every single blow to miss after your first one misses? It's entirely reasonable for a character to believe "Oh, sure, that first one missed, but I'll get him with the next one." Well, unless Shadow Maul is a combo that uses the each hit to get the enemy into position for the next hit.

Yes, fear allows you to hit buttons frantically, hoping that eventually an attack will land just at the right time to allow you to use a power or an inspiration.

Fear is damn annoying, because you're supposed to be able to do stuff, but in practice, it's doesn't seem that much different from being held.

If you could actually queue powers that would activate when an opportunity arose, that'd be different.