Marvizzle

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5 defense and 5 resistance. You can also have protection from kinetic crash in kb powers.

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Huh thats news to me. Thought they counted as the same. Gonna have to redo my squishy builds then.

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...oh wait! I do.

Buff: War Mace, Ice Melee, Dominators, Martial Arts, Claws, PPPs.
Nerf: Energy Melee, Rad Emission, Teleport Foe, Assassin Strike, Fear, Focused Accuracy.

That's a start.

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Doms don't really need to be buffed, domination builds incredibly fast and they can have perma dom with IOs.

As for the things you listed to be nerfed, just because you aren't skilled enough to beat or avoid them doesn't make them overpowered.

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Crying nerf fear, TP foe, and AS is just sad. They are two of the easiest things to avoid in PVP, on par with freaking tar patch. And there really is no excuse to nerf any meele toons, their all pretty outright bad in PvP. I could see nerfing stalker EM, but thats kinda lame because it still only puts it "on par". I'd rather see the other stalker sets get a buff first. As for Radiation Emission...lol. Its good, but its not nearly *that* good. Its all around solid, but anybody has a good chance against it. If I could throw the nerf bat out to one power in the game it would be TK, and then I would still request a buff for Mind to compensate (mainly because mind blows without TK). Its not that other sets are too strong, its that some are too weak. Like Dark Miasma or Meele. Or Ice Meele. I don't want sets nerfed *down* to that (yay 30min WoWesque battles), I want those sets buffed.

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This:

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A Full Fury bar will yield 3x base damage.

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means this:

base +200% = 300%


not this:

base x3 = 300%

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Yea definetly not multiplicative. The only way to buff your damage multiplicativly is through Crits or -res debuffs. The brutes you saw hit for 1.5k+ were probably buffed. In fact, to really wrap this up with a bow on top, you should compare the damages at the caps. Here they are just for reference:

Blaster, Scrapper, and Dominator(not sure, but I think it is) - 500%
Tanker and Defender (Defenders can get total focus)- 400%
Brute - 850% (yes, that is correct )

And fury just adds to the base, as due SOs and outside buffs. Lets say for example, a Brute had 90 Fury, 3 damage SOs, and a Fulcrum Shift. Thats 100% (base) + 90*2% (fury) + 95% (SOs) + 200% (FS) = 575% damage.

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There's all of zero need to have more than one melee weapon power in the game, and more than one ranged. Game effects can be identical - all that matters between them is the animation.

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Wow I would totally quit this game. See ya variety, lets all have the same powers BECAUSE!!!!

EDIT: Also wanted to address, BaB said dual blades will be PRIMARILY lethal. Still leaves TONS of room for a (hopefully) energy portion. For those of you that want psi, think of this: Lethals main enemys are robots. Psys main enemys are robots. It would change nothing since both damage types are resisted 50% by bots.

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... like I need a hole in the head.

Ever since dual blades was "announced" I've been racking my brain trying to think of heroes that would use a pair of knives to arrest criminals. I Haven't thought of one. Looking back on all those comic books that I collected as a kid, the only one I can remember using a blade of any kind was the Black Knight (Sorry Electra uses two Sais... they don't have blades).

The way I see it, there are more comic book heroes that use boomerangs, then those that use broad swords, katanas, battle axes, maces, and dual blades combined.

"But Tarmac, the people voted for dual blades!"

So what. The people voted for Nixon (twice). The people voted to kill Socrates. The people said O.J. was innocent. In other words, the people are morons.

Statesman, im calling you out. This power set has NOTHING to do with comic book heroes. Sure it's fine in WoW, EQ, and LotR, but those are sword and sorcery games, this is a super hero game. States, do the right thing, suck it up and make dual blades a CoV only power. Come up with a power for heroes that fits the bill and makes use feel like the good guys. Not some knife wielding, blood thirsty villain.

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Excuse me while I use some similar circular logic:

1) Nixon was an amazing president, he just got caught.

2) Socrates was an idiot. He was wrong, amirgith?

3) If Elvis is still alive, OJ is innocent dammit!

That said, I still hate dual blades, but people voted for it. And plurality * $15 > minority * $15, and thats what it comes down to.

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Getting back on topic, I agree pvp can be a big draw if its promoted and maintained, but I still say not by itself.

So far that hasn't been a game that can do that by itself. Fury on the other hand might.

What I'm saying is pvp and pve is needed together.


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I've tried to stay away from this thread but theres a fundamental flaw with this reasoning. If PvP and PvE are joined at the hip, per se, then how do MMOFPSes survive? Nobody plays Battlefield, Halo, or SW Battlefront for the PvE game (for more then a week anyways) and the PvE game has no effect whatsoever on the PvP game. Yet many players, such as myself, have racked up weeks on those games just on basic server PvP.

Yes, MMOFPSes are fundamentally different from MMORPGs, but they are very similar. I know for one I would jump at the chance to PvP without a significant PvE investment. I eagerly await both Fury and WAR. But my point is, it is and has been possible to create PvP focused games with no PvE.

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Yep, you just must be close to the ground and it skips animation

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Exactly. Its the only reason I took hover. As long as your touching the ground while hovering, you totally ignore the root (though you still cant activate powers).

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Acid Mortar: Aside from Caltrops, one of the powers you really don't wanna do without. Tosses out an AOE -DEF -RES debuff with a small DOT.

Force Field Generator: Acts like a dispersion bubble. Follows you around, protecting you with +Def and +resist for most status effects.

Poison Trap: One shot device, explodes with a -regen cloud and has a chance of putting a Sleep on affected mobs.

Seeker Drones: Summons two little hovering disks that look for nearby enemies and blow up, doing the equivalent of Illusion's "Flash" attack. Summon them in the middle of an enemy group and they suck up the alpha strike pretty well.

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These are easily the four best powers in the set IMO. Also, I've never corner pulled in my life (not that it doesn't neccesarily work). What I usually do, solo here, is throw out seeker drones to absorb the alpha, then TP into the mob with hover on and lay a poison trap. Lay down an acid mortar and maybe some trops if theirs some hold/immob resistent enimies. Use web nade if anythings running. My Thugs take care of the rest pretty easily. It sounds risky, but it isn't because the drones absorb the alpha so well. Never died using it before.

One other thing to note, FF Gen is by far my favorite power in the set. Stack that with Thug maneuvers and they very rarely get hit unless they leave the bubble. I have Aid Other to help with healing.

EDIT: Just noticed something, Poison Trap definetly doesn't apply a sleep anymore. As of I8 its been changed to a hold.

*sits down on his comfy recliner chair and starts placing bets*

Ahh...the dead point. Every game goes to hell after three years.

(Don't believe me, look it up )

Its either new Spines Animations that look sick, or a dev has his own personel animations for Test. Entirely possible, its a very simple animation. No texture or anything.

My favorite moment is when my Scrapper with FA + Focused Senses sees a stalkery LBEs him out of stealth before he hits that poor empath, then hit him with a criticaled HS for the finishing blow......

You asked.

Add to energy/fire the awesome godliness of BU + FE + ET.

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Know thine enemy. Plus inspite of being the root of all evil and injustice WoW has many positive experiences that I can understand any Dev wanting to sample so as to increase his/her own personal "gaming experience" palette.

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Especially the folks in the art and animation department(s). Eh?

I won't pay $20 + $40 expansion + $15/month subscription to play WoW as a game--one grind is enough, thank you. But here's the paradox: I'll waste hours and hours watching WoW videos and machinima on YouTube.

Because it's purrrty.

(With one exception: "You call that a cape?")

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Really? When I first played it I wanted to take a gun to whoever designed the male models. I have totally jacked friends, and NONE of them look like that. Those guys arms are frggin HUGEANTIC. Like, I can crush your face with my forearm hugeantic.

And also, I gotta say:

They ride in single file to hide their numbers.

(I think)

Jesus thats a TON. Man, I gotta play some more if I wanna do something like that. All I got is RS,SWG,WOW,Anarchy, and of course CoH/CoV.

Jesus Posi thats a friggin ton.

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Can we go back to the fact that someone had to google a GnR song please?

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Funny, I was listening to this song on my iPod when I asked a friend if he liked it. He said he never heard of the song, and I was baffled. Then I asked if he even knew who Guns n' Roses was....... he didn't.

Britney Spears FTL.

I wonder how those shivan EBs can take on an AV solo?

Oh wait, theres something helping it! A nuke!

Still, gratz to the Shivan.

To make it easier for ya guys.

Damn....that's NICE!

Congratz!

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cmon fire/kin....CMON!!

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Can we get a change to the taunt sound effect?

Tired of sounding turned-on when I taunt criminals....

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QFT. One of the reason I hate taunt so much is that it sounds so stupid.

My BS/SR Scrapper is almost 40 and about done with the Freakshow story sets. However, I truly think their my favorite group of villain. So when my Scrapper finally hits 50 and I feel comfortable making another alt (my altitis is BAD), I want to make a character dedicated to t3h FR34K on Villains. Now the qeustion becomes powersets. The costumes pretty easy, and a names suitibly simple. But powersets are the killer here. I really don't know what to make on villains, especially since Regen is stalker only (which isn't Freaky) and thers no electric blast. Any Villain AT and power set combo is kool. I just want a suitibly Freakish freak....

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I remember Phantasy Star Online did something like this in the higher-level lobbies.

People were amused incessantly for months. Soccer games were everywhere.

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And payed 15 dollars a month for it.

Wow I need this. TYVM!

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Simple excerise using standard use powers: caveats - all attacks using 3 SOs, not including buildup, not standardizing BIs, assuming Sherk is right about the numbers

Katana - Energy Blast
Golden Dragonfly - 12.35 Power bolt - 5.4
Soaring Dragon - 9.75 Power blast - 8.9
Sting of the Wasp - 6.28 Power Burst - 10.2

Katana scrapper has 28.38, Energy has 24.5. Now all BIs are standardizes relative to blasters so the real difference is bigger. Of coure this also assumes a resist neutral mob

edit - If I screwed up correct me, like I said, I'm not a numbers guy.

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Dont't forget DPA. It takes the scrapper about 4-5 seconds to fire those off compared to the 12ish for the blaster.