NarfMann

I would look at the laws of physics and determine that given the velocity of the bullet, it would take a force far greater than I could provide from behind the gun to alter the trajectory of a bullet in motion.

Parry and Divine Avalanche are attacks, and they're melee. The thought that they're supposed to be deflecting something is forgivable since the animation looks like an attack, but could also look like a parry if by some miracle you were being attacked at the right time. In order to make it seem like you're deflecting things with your bullets, first; you'd have to not be aiming at the enemy, because bullets travel in straight lines, and second; you'd have to have to measure the bullets' path to intersect with the incoming projectile's path, animate the angles properly, and have a deflected projectile animation. That's a lot of calculations that, for an MMO, are just unreasonable. In order to make it look right, the calculations would take up too much bandwidth and system resources.

I don't want to slow the game down in such a way. It would be seriously cool, but for the sake of game performance, I'd much rather just have an attack that gave the enemy a -tohit.

BTW: If your concept for a power set requires a healing bullet, then your concept is dumb.

Don't you know that all defenders have to be H43lz0rz!?

I just had the mental image of an 8 ft tall hairy ape monster waltzing with a 4 ft tall little girl, and knowing what I know about how the game engine works, let me tell you it'll look really really stupid.

Older, actually.

That's hardly the same.

I like the idea, and I'd probably switch over to percentages as soon as it became available, and let the real numbers go in a window for when I got curious.

Even assuming the Magic Bank of Awesomeness and Profit were real, I wouldn't put my money there because they'd go broke very quickly. Then the government would bail them out, and they'd go back to giving away lots of free money again and the government would print more money. Pretty soon it takes a wheelbarrow of hundred dollar bills to buy a loaf of bread because money isn't worth anything any more.

While I'm normally against the idea of being able to purchase vet rewards, I'd actually be fine with it if you put a huge price on it like this. Hell, I'd probably even eventually catch up on my account to what it should have been had I not been lured away by that evil other ginormous MMO for a few months. I love this game, and I would embrace a scheme to get it such a huge influx of cash.

I don't see what's wrong with giving us a TrEAT.

It would definitely be non-positional, but Earth's atmosphere has 'Atmospheric Cushioning,' a Tier 10 defensive toggle that gives +100% defense and resistance to all damage types (except psionic) so it'd have to be both non-positional and untyped.