Nameless_Hero
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If you are slotting EA for resists, you're not doing it right.
Trying to fill that hole is like throwing a hotdog down a train tunnel and expecting it to fill it up.
Instead, focus on it's strengths: the defense. Don't even take the two passive resist powers from EA - IMO if they ever really want to redo the powerset, rewriting those two powers would be the way to go.
Treat EA like a SR with stealth, and it works well.
I've had my DM/EA softcapped for awhile now, and can hit the hard-cap when I hit Overload. Hell, I was the main tank in a Master run the other night, so it's not like you can't be a working brute.
Back to the OP. If you mix EA and Claws, you'll be able to take advantage of 5 powers with Defence IO slots, and get 5 +7.5% recharge IO's. And use those to make a Chainsaw build with the speed of claws... Wow, that would be NASTY. -
It's always fun to outbrute other people with your level 50 DM/EA.
EA is not as bad as the meme claims it is... It has problems, but it's not BAD bad.
I can totally see the OP doing his post thinking it was a revelation, thanks to starting with the idea that it was a bad powerset...then finding out it's got some good stuff.
Oh, and posting in an Epic Thread.
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Yea, that was the only reason I didn't play in the beta...that damn root-hack of a 'safety' program that was bundled. You won't believe all the stuff my firewall/protection software caught it trying to do.
Now that they removed it, I'll have to live up to my self promise of boycotting it - Remove it and I'll check your game out. Well... I need to check the game out now.
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Dr Doom has ordered me to post this link to his subjects.
He will be very upset if you don't watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtJke...embedded#t=472
Ok, so it's not the BEST, but I laughed.
I want the Doom-O-Matic as a in game weapon.... -
So what? No bashing open locked doors and chests? No using bandages and potions to heal? No skill to MAKE potions that a fighter can take?
Yea.... I'm not a 'pure' D&D player. I don't agree with keeping everyone in their small corner. -
Quote:Originally Posted by NekoAli
*tussles with Fedor, now back from the apocalypse*
Servers are packed full of course. nearly impossible to get any missions done between the lag and everyone packed into the starting towns. Well, got my name reserved and played a bit, so I'm happy. I'll let the obsessive-compulsive people get outta mah starter towns and go back tommrow.
Oh and Rad, just log in using your old username and password, that's all I did. Didn't have to do anything special, they reactivated all old accounts as free subscribers. Unless you're already paying them of course.
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Quote:In defense of whoever did that, you never said what TYPE of rep you wanted.Originally Posted by Pogothulu
Ty for the reps all
..but who gave me negative reps!!!!!!! 
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Quote:Originally Posted by Pogothulu
gimmerepgimmerepgimmerep!!!
Can I has rep now please?
Sure, why not...
Um.... How?
(edit) AH, that's how.
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Eh, don't mind me. I've never been a major social person, with my Autism and all.
Thankfully I can now SEE the clicks and social circles, even if I don't really know how they work and interact. The rep meter is pushing the same mental buttons for me.
But enough about negative stuff. Let's get back to the FREEM!
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FREEM!!!
Ah, I wish we had text sound effects in game.
So hi all, hope your Wednesday is going well...
I have to ask....What's the point of Rep? I mean really, isn't it just a popularity contest? The 'cool people' get boosts from their friends, when you make someone mad they get their friends to vote against you, that type of thing?
I'm just wondering if it'll end up with what was going on with the AE vote cartels. (Which was really creepy to be honest)
Sorry, I'm all philosophical today, and it's not in my nature.
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There really isn't a 'Other' sub-forum is there? You know, a place where anyone can go to just chat about whatever?
I suppose that's why we have those threads here on the Virtue forum....
I wonder why? I mean, we have the 'thread game' forum for people to pad their counts, but not a 'shooting the breeze' one.
TL;DR I'm just being vapid and silly, as usual.
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Darn. I was kinda hoping this would have to do with me.
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As someone who played an /EA brute from launch, I'll back up the statement about not needing Fitness right away.
Hell, I didn't have stamina on it until I was level 40-something... Once I tried it on a concept build I never looked back, but I didn't have any issues. That Energy Drain is a VERY useful power.
Spiritchaser's observation on the way that EA brutes fight fits what I experience. You don't pull as many people towards you as other brutes, unless you actively work on it.
As for Alpha bruting? I've not had too much trouble with it...unless you're fighting a Psi type. Sadly that IS the big gapping hole in your defense. If you see a large group of mobs, you normally don't have a problem with them... And if it's one you're not sure about, all you have to do is use Overload and you're almost untouchable. (For the time it lasts)
My best memory is using taunt to peal off a bad pull on a MoLRTF, and holding off 3 AV's while the rest of the team took out the healer. I JUST ran out of overload right when the rest of the team came over to finish the job, but I handled it.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Sorah
Whoa, way to rez a thread. I wonder who you/he/she/it ignored...
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Damnit Xan, this is what happens when we let people know how our strange roleplays, kidnaps and what not *tsk tsk*. kekekeke
Sorry...I neglected to see the date when I replied.
Eh, I remember that guy from the sitting ducks... Troll in game, troll in forums. But bad me for replying. -
Quote:Tempting, if it wasn't locked.Originally Posted by NekoAli
Risky Business dance in the boss's office?
Na, I work for a University, so it's not quite the same. -
Bleh.
I have to work on a holiday, even tho noone else is here.
You know what this means... Easy day!
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*click* *click* *click*
Ah, forum ignore. How I love you. -
Quote:And...and I thought I was the only one!!!Originally Posted by Xilibrius
Because my first 50 was Energy Aura
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Quote:DM/EA, all neon pink.Originally Posted by Flea_Mark_Evil
So.
I16.
Pink Electric Catgirl Boogaloo.
All Elec/Elec blasters, tanks and scrappers with Kin/Elec defenders in support.
All coloured pink. HOT PINK.
Who's with me?
....I think I made my brain bleed from that image in my head. -
I couldn't figure out where to put this, so I thought I'd share it here on my home server.
"Bizarre newt uses ribs as weapons"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth...00/8212623.stm
Quote:One amphibian has evolved a bizarre and gruesome defence mechanism to protect itself against predators.
When attacked, the Spanish ribbed newt pushes out its ribs until they pierce through its body, exposing a row of bones that act like poisonous barbs.
The newt has to force its bones through its skin every time it is attacked, say scientists who have described the form and function of the barbs in detail.
Yet this bizarre behaviour appears not to cause the newt any ill effects.
The ability of the Spanish ribbed newt to expose its rib bones was first noticed by a natural historian in 1879.
But scientists have now used modern photographic and X-ray imaging techniques to reveal just how the animal does it.
And what they discovered is even more gruesome than they imagined.
When the newt becomes agitated or perceives a threat, it swings its ribs forward, increasing their angle to the spine by up to 50 degrees.
As it does this, the newt keeps the rest of its body still.
"The forward movement of the ribs increases the body size and stretches the skin to the point of piercing it," says zoologist Egon Heiss of the University of Vienna in Austria.
The tips of the newt's ribs then stick outside its body, like exposed spines.
But there is more to the newt's defence, Heiss and his Vienna-based colleagues report in the Journal of Zoology.
"When teased or attacked by a predator, [the newt] secretes a poisonous milky substance onto the body surface. The combination of the poisonous secretion and the ribs as 'stinging' tools is highly effective," says Heiss.
The impact on any predator can be striking, particularly if they try to bite the newt or pick it up using their mouth.
Then the poison in almost injected into the thin skin within the mouth, causing severe pain or possibly death to the attacker.
As well as elucidating the spear-like shape of the ribs, and exactly how the ribs swing forward and protrude, the scientists have demonstrated that the bones must break through the newt's body wall every time the amphibian evokes the defence response.
Initially, it was thought that the ribs may passively emerge through pores, rather than be actively driven through the body wall.
Surprisingly, the newt, which is related to other newts and salamanders, appears to suffer no major ill effects, despite repeatedly puncturing its own body and exposing its rib bones.
"Newts, and amphibians in general, are known to have an extraordinary ability to repair their skin," says Heiss.
"Anyway, if this newt can avoid being eaten in some cases, this surely has a positive influence."
It also seems that the newt is immune to its own poison, which is normally confined to glands in the newt's body.
When the newt wounds itself by exposing its ribs, the poison can seep into its body tissue, again apparently with no ill effects.
Heiss now hopes to investigate which compounds are in the poison.
Poison Spines, check. Regenerating damage, check....scientists trying to unlock the secrets behind it, check.
Who let someone use the AE on real life?
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Quote:Originally Posted by Maricus
But no need to keep your hands to yourself. heheheh.
*looks shifty*
I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about...
*looks around* ...no halo smilie. Damn...Noone's buying this, are they?
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Yea, I really think my sister did a great job with that Parry stuffed animal she made. It was "To keep me sane when I was with my twins alone". ...I have questions regarding her sanity, but I had those before.
Quote:Originally Posted by Deebs
I think I might get a plushy of the ocho or moderator 8 , then I can set up fierce toy battles between me and him every time he thinks im acting out of sorts or being a pest
Muhaha! That would be quite funny to watch! If you do, you have to share pictures! -
Quote:So you're saying it has fetal alcohol syndrome? Makes sense to me now!Originally Posted by callis
In turn Champions was the baby of Marvel and DC getting drunk and having a one nighter.
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Quote:Originally Posted by LongClawTiger
Nooooooo!!!! What will Neko do without da rubz?!?
Nurse, get her 10cc of catnip extract! STAT!Looks like it's all been taken care of to me.Quote:Originally Posted by DaddIes_Princess
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Quote:*holds up a slip of paper*Originally Posted by Emmi_Blaze
Welcome, Nameless. Enjoy your stay and remember to keep your hands inside the ride at all times. Watch the tram car please. Also, all new perople have to give Neko bellyrubs for at least half an hour.
Sorry, I'm medically excused from any bellyrubs unless asked in person.