Nalrok_AthZim
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Quote:Ripping your skin off and roaring?Originally Posted by SilverAgeFan
yeah. I'm quite eager for a red cap like "burrow underground and erupt from below in a new costume" type emote in particular for my Moleman. Can't think of any others that immediately say "beastly" to me.
Maybe a cloud of fur or feathers and some hissing or squawking noises? Dunno
Van Helsing did it, and it was awesome. -
Put one more Mako in Siphon Life, and one less Numina. Siphon Life is an attack that heals, not a heal that attacks.
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Quote:If that's the case, je_saist just chalked another one up to never specifying what the hell he's referring to.Originally Posted by GavinRuneblade
He's not saying it does grant Fury. He's saying it taunts enemies who then attack you.
No, slot it with a PBAoE set. It's a great source of damage.Quote:Originally Posted by TankShock
So slot it with procs rather than endmod? -
Damn! That looks like a Warwolf on the right, doesn't it?
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Quote:Lightning Field, according to City of Data (and just now using it), does not grant you Fury.Originally Posted by je_saist
Lightning Field is your PbAOE taunt aura.
If you don't want to have your Fury bar filled, don't take it.
If you happen to like having your Fury bar filled, which most Brutes tend to appreciate, you'll be taking it as early as you can. -
Quote:If you find a player like that, put them on global ignore and tell your friends who they are, because that's bull**** and we all know it. 99% of the time, people on Virtue try that crap and get laughed at.Originally Posted by Toony
No thanks, please. I've already heard talk in game of people considering denying others from teams if they don't have a rare slotted. I don't want to be locked out of current content by players who feel it's now necessary or because all that is being run is the super special Incarnate version.
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Quote:Neither of those games are cause for panic.Originally Posted by CactusBrawler
Don't get me wrong, I'd like the half issue system if it wasn't so clearly a panic move from some one at Paragon's part "Oh no we've got to get something out! One of our rivals has gone free to play, and another rival just launched!"
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Quote:So, first came the Nuclear Ninety...Originally Posted by SuperOz
In fact, three babies were born during the night.
Now, there are the Thunderous Three. -
Quote:I'll give you that, as that's something I was arguing against before the issue hit. I figure I might as well give it a shot rather than freak out about it, though I will miss Soul Transfer.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Let me explain. The WTF reward is required to create the Very Rare boost, and if you're shooting for one of those, it means you already have at least one Rare boost. So suppose you're shooting for a Very Rare and you end up doing a TF that exemplars you to level 25? Exemplaring below level 50 disables your Incarnate boosts, meaning you're fighting for Incarnate power... Without Incarnate power.
Not only that, but you're doing content that people of a vastly lower level of power are doing at that time. The idea behind the "Exemplar" system as a concept was that a hero would hold back his full power so as to demonstrate to a weaker, less experienced hero how to handle his own powers at his current level. The Well of the Furies, by contrast, "is neither good nor evil. It responds to power alone." as per Mender Ramiel. You're not showing power. You are, in fact, showing the opposite of power by holding back, possibly even getting defeated for it.
I'm not saying it's not doable or that it won't be done, but rather that it just seems... Really odd. In the future when we divorce NotW drops from the WTF, I could see that, as the system will have a different basic purpose. But right now? Strange, strange decisions going on.
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Put it this way - I ***** and moan about doing TFs, but even I will do TFs on occasion. Hell, I ran a few just last week. I ain't exemplaring down to run them, however. No way, no how. Never have, never will. Don't like losing powers I've grown to rely on. Rare or no Rare.
Who knows, maybe I'll experience deja vu and this whole "well that wasn't so bad" feeling will return. Time will tell, as it always has in this game when changes arise.
Next time I'm just going to wait and keep my mouth shut, heh. -
Really hot fix.
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Quote:I agree. Plus, if they crank out a Dr. Q, we can choose double merits. That's 400+ merits in one (painful) run. Not shabby.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Personally, I look forward to the day when it will be the Faatim the Kind TF, and I say this without a shadow of sarcasm. This one is painful to run, admittedly, but it's one of the few TFs I actually like, because it has to do with the Shadow Shard - one of the game's best settings - and unlike all other Shard TFs isn't completely stupid.
I've skipped a lot of low-level TFs. I'd welcome doing them on my 50's, and remember, the WST will grant rewards to non-50 characters in the form of a gigantic chunk of XP (always good). So it'd be worth it to me across the board. Others, less so, I'm sure.Quote:Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
What I am concerned about - if ever so slightly - is what happens if they pick a WTF that caps a level below 50, like, say, the Ernesto Hess TF? Granted, it will be doable, but it might be odd to have your sole source of Incarnate progress be a task that exemplars away your Incarnate powers.
There are a handful, and I'm sure we'll cycle through non-50 stuff, considering the rewards I mentioned above.Quote:Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Honest question: How many level cap TFs are there that can either be done by both sides or have a counterpart on the villain-side? STF vs. RSF is easy, as are Khan vs. Barakuda, but the Shard TFs? And is that really it? Those two plus ITF, Lady Grey, Tin Mage, Apex? Am I forgetting something? Purely going off memory here. -
Quote:It's since been edited. When this first dropped it was ITF.Originally Posted by UberRod
I thought next weeks WST is the Kahn TF. At least that's what it says in Announce.
Pity, I was looking forward to another Romulus-smashing.
Oh well. Here's hoping I can get as lucky with the Khan/'Cuda as I did with the STF/LRSF. -
Quote:Again, I'm having a hard time discerning sarcasm from actual intent.Originally Posted by MajorPrankster
Nalrok_AthZim, thanks for being rational.
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Quote:I know his backstory, but to be quite honest, after Origins I'm fully expecting this to be a solid mashup of that movie and Crouching Tiger.Originally Posted by Inazuma
Anyone nerdraging over the Japan idea really doesn't know Wolvie's backstory too well.
As far as Wolverine is concerned, I have no faith in how Hollywood is handling him, especially after how they tried to incorporated Deadpool. -
Quote:It's eerie just how much Oldeb's signature applies to this situation.Originally Posted by Ghostveil
Only if you're a pet summoning class. Everyone else is fine.
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Quote:The biggest jump in power is most noticeable in the Cardiac Tree. Cardiac Core Paragon, 45% End Redux, 20% DamRes and Range. 2/3 of that ignores ED.Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane
I don't think the Very Rares are worth it.
Looking at the numbers for example, it looks to me the biggest leap in power will be going from Uncommon to Rare simply because of the level shift.
In the case of a character I decked out with an Rare Musculature, they'll only gain maybe 4-5% more damage moving up to a Very Rare, if my numbers are right. Unless the Very Rares are sporting a +2 Level Shift (un-freakin' likely) it seems very anticlimactic considering how much more the Very Rares require.
IMO, they're just not worth it unless the Very Rares ignored ED completely or granted an additional level shift or something.
My Dark Regeneration will cost me ten endurance. TEN.
The Very Rares are most powerful when slotted into builds that can use them most. If you're going to slot a Permadom with Spiritual Core Paragon, you might not really see much of a change. If you slot a Stone Tank with the same, you'll probably see a whole lot of it. -
Quote:People who just don't want to run the WST based on like or dislike are not in the same boat as people who literally cannot find the time or teams to run it. One is a personal choice, the other is not. That's not an argument of semantics, whether you believe it to be or not.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
And that bothers you how, exactly? Both people's vitriol and the way the system is set up have made it pretty evident to me that I do not want to participate. It's as simple as that. Unless you feel some compulsion to make me participate - in which you will fail - then it really shouldn't affect you. I don't like the system, and I'm done arguing and explaining why, so I'm leaving it at this. I didn't like the system when it was presented to me before, I don't like the system when I see it in-game now, and I'm fairly certain that I'll never like it in this incarnation. That is that.
However, you regard the system as though the only thing preventing people from running Task Forces is the lack of opportunity, when that isn't really the case. There are, in fact, people who simply do not like to run TFs if given the choice. This is not subject to debate any more than one can debate about the existence of people who like to make and play anthropomorphic characters. It's a simple fact.
You can run the WST, but because you are not a fan of the STF/LRSF, you won't.
Compare that to:
You want to run the WST, but because you have a newborn baby to care for/work a job with horrendous hours/work two jobs/have someone threatening you at gun point not to run the WST, you cannot.
Here's why I find it a little off-putting, Sam. I believe I clarified this in a previous post, even. You've adamantly spoken against the WST and 19.5's system in general, and at the time it very much felt like you were in the boat of "we can't run certain TFs due to out-of-game constraints." The moment the WST was announced you declared that you won't run it because you don't like it.
If it were a technical issue (which the mapserve level shift bug is), alright. If it were because your personal schedule can't allow for extended play time, fine. But you want the system to be different because you just don't like doing a select few TFs?
Understand that my argument has been "I like to TF but I don't have the time, so this system is not designed for me and people like me." Yours became "I don't want to TF at all, so the system is poorly designed." That has absolutely no bearing on how the system was designed, it's just your personal view.
That's why this is an issue for me, especially in a thread where I said I was wrong, apologized, and got off my duff and ran an LRSF. -
Quote:When I've seen a few posts by you that denounce the way the WST works as far as getting your Alpha Rare, and then see a post saying the current WST is one you don't want to run, I can't help but feel that there's a counterpoint to your own preferences. If you want the Rares but can't find time run the WST, okay. If you want the Rares but can't find a team to run the WST, okay.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
There's something fundamentally disturbing when people use vernacular like "there's no-one at fault here but you" in response to my preferences in entertainment.
I furthermore think you're reading something other than what I said if you're inferring that I'm saying anything other than "I don't like this." I said as much before, I'm saying as much now, therefore I'm not going back on what I said. Accusing me of "complaining" or suggesting a "conundrum" where one doesn't exist just baffles me, and I'm not saying this to offend.
I refuse to be drawn into another Strike Pack flame war of semantics, armchair psychology and accusations. Please don't turn my opinion into one.
If you want the Rares but you won't do the WST based solely on personal preference... then quite frankly, why even be vocal about how it works? I could understand if you don't have the time. I could understand if you can't find a team. I could understand if every time you asked to join a STF/LRSF someone hit you with a bat and pulled you into a burlap sack.
But I've watched you repeat how strongly you feel about the acquisition of Rares and how 19.5 is forcing teaming for reward, and now you say you're barring yourself from getting it because you don't like the current WST?
That's why I'm a little defensive about it. Incidentally, I got the same way when Vanden asked for Swift/Hurdle to be changed on his own personal preference.
One player's personal preference shouldn't be a benchmark for the rest of the players in the game unless the majority of them happen to agree for logical reasons. I'm sure if the playerbase told the Devs "We don't like the STF, so we won't participate" they'd reply with "Okay, uh, wait 'til next week when it changes." -
If Jackman dies in the next year I'm going to blame this movie.
Who the **** wrote this crap, Ang Lee? -
Quote:Everything sounds cooler in Australia.Originally Posted by sleestack
Oh man, hang in there Aussies!
Also, why are they called cyclones in the Pacific, but hurricanes in the Atlantic?
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Quote:Just because you don't enjoy it doesn't mean the player base as a whole does not enjoy it. You essentially offered the answer to your own conundrum (if you will) with this:Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
I'm going to restate what I said before - having the opportunity to do something I dislike does nothing to change the fact that I dislike it. I can be convinced to do it anyway, goaded with rewards, but that still won't change the fact that I dislike it.
Incidentally, this seems like a relevant place to restate another truth I hold to be self-evident: The way to make content more desired and more played is to make that content better, not to attach rewards at the end of content people wouldn't want to do unless "paid" to. And this doesn't have to apply to anything current, because I said as much as far back as the original reduction to the percentage of Hamidon enhancements.
If you don't like the first WST, and don't want to play it, there's no one at fault here but you. You've even admitted it. If you ask me, by admitting that you won't do certain things "you don't like" then it doesn't really make sense to complain about them.Quote:Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
"I won't do things I don't like in a game." I pay money for this game, I put my time and effort into this game, and I will be damned if I'll spend my time in here doing things I don't want to do. If that means missing on large chunks of the game, then so be it.
I refuse to pay money and devote time to activities I don't enjoy, and if that makes me the bad guy here, I'm willing to accept that.
Next week's WST is the ITF. Do you play on Virtue? I'll help you get your Rare.
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Quote:Strike Target of the WeekOriginally Posted by Samuel_Tow
To be fair, some way to tell which the WTF is currently would not have gone amiss. I know it's the STF and RSF this week, but I only know this because other people told me, who only know because other people told them, who only know because apparently someone found out through trial and error.
You REALLY couldn't find that?
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It's even on the 19.5 update page.
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Quote:Thank you for saying you're here to vent, rather than return to your topic and scream "NO NO NO NO NO I AM RIGHT!"Originally Posted by RemusShepherd
Yeah, I know. I just felt the need to say something. In the history of this game I've spoken up several times about things that I felt were detrimental to it. I don't think anyone has ever listened, but I feel the need to sound off anyway.
Happens too much these days. -
Holy crotch-kicking Jesus. My thoughts are on you guys! Be safe! Here's a little Courage Wolf for you, to maybe get you to smile:
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Quote:From 1-20 on a Brute, you can go so far as to not slot damage.Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison
This is good advice from level 1-50, on any AT.
Few people realize that attacks consume a lot more endurance per second than toggles ever will.
At all.
Just slot accuracy and endurance reduction. Fury will take care of the damage and you'll be in the game far more than you would be with no end redux.