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Just being honest here but was playing on Virtue lately and realize that no one knows how to write a character story. Motivation for this thread was made when debating someone who wanted there to be more room for their character stories. While I guess I am fine with that.. seriously I dont see the problem in explaining a character with the space given. Its irrelevant anyway since no ones going to read your character story if its a long novel.
Example:
GOOD CHARACTER STORY
1:Genectically engineered to be the ultimate destroyer, Coldar is a powerful villain who wields the cold of space..............
2: The Impervious Hard Man is a destructive villain that is completely invulnerable to physical damage and possesses immense strength and endurance. No known substance on Earth can penetrate his skin...................................
3: 8-Ball is evil cause he makes money selling crack to children.......................................... ............ (Actual bio of a former player on Champion)
BAD CHARACTER STORY
1: When he was 7 Henry enjoyed watching cartoons at his moms house............................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. ..................his parents were killed............................................ .................................................. ...............................he made a costume .................................................. ............................................he became a hero called General Justice........................................... ........................ now he protects the city.
2: I was sick of all the widespread crime in my neighborbood. When I was younger the gangs would harass me and my friends .................................................. ................................................. ...... the toxic waste gave me power .............. ........ .......... I no longer recognized myself in the mirror.......... I killed a gang member not knowning my own strength. ......... I ...blah blah blah. .................YAWN
People dont understand, especially on Virtue, that no one wants to read a novel so if your character isnt summarized quickly in your bio like an Encyclopedia article...its worthless cause no ones going to read pass the first 3 sentences unless it grabs their attention. Sorry Virtue ...
EDIT: Also put spaces in your story for each paragraph. No one wants to read a big block of text. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Oliin
That may not be something that was terribly interesting to you, but it was important footage in the framework of the movie. Those things help advance the plot and Andrew's character. They're the catalyst that eventually causes him to snap at the end. Without those things happening he doesn't feel like the outcast apart from his group again and we don't really see why he has that deep core of anger that causes him to lash out.
Sure we see a bit of bullying at school, but that's not really a good reason for the things he does, the story needs more. We could just be told that he has issues at home, but that's not good story telling by any stretch of the term.
Too often nowdays people ignore the good storytelling aspect of action and science fiction films and just focus on the special effects and action scenes. I've always found that fun, but not terribly satisfying and I don't find them to be movies that I can watch again and again. Luckily there have been a few movies in the last few years that bucked that trend (Source Code, MI:Ghost protocol, Chronicle) for which I couldn't be happier (and in the case of the Mission Impossible movie ... completely surprised).
You misunderstood what I wrote and only quoted the latter half of my idea in this post. I was not criticizing the relevance of the party bedroom scence... I was criticizing the script.
The stepfather tells APEX...." I went through that camera of yours and I saw you being a loser/weakling"..... ... so..................DID THIS GUY JUST OVERLOOK THE SUPERPOWERS IN THE FOOTAGE ?
Now we would have to assume that the bedroom scene was on a new tape. Otherwise it was a totally contrived way for the Stepfather to behave because he would have logically been more concerned with the Telekinesis than APEX's performance anxiety. -
Quote:How the hell would you know dude lol ?Originally Posted by Rylas
Obviously, you've never had to kill a person.
Anyway another thing I missed in my inital review...APEX'S step father.... He tells APEX" I went through that camera of yours.. and all I saw was you being a weakling"......Yeah... cause thats the important part of the camera footage.... nevemind the flight or telekinetic powers or alien discovery.....APEX having performance issues in the bed room is what was really important and what any rational person would have been interested in. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Oliin
I might be able to agree with you if 'Captain Useless' and 'Apex' had just been cursory friends. But given that they were not only friends since childhood but family I can't quite.
I know those sort of bonds don't actually matter to some people, but to others ... like for instance 'Captain Useless' they do. I could even see him feeling like if he'd been a better friend then things wouldn't have turned out the way the did.
I just dont agree at all. If my twin sister, best friend or any family member went on a deranged killing spree, I would never think or say " Geee he/she was a good person." Such irrational nonsense can only be arributed to parochial fools or weaklings. So the movie at the end was treating the audience like they were such.
And lets not forget to mention the heat of battle. In situtations where lives have to be saved notions of " but we're family" has no time to manifest itself. You get stuff done. You see someone trying to kill you or other people...YOU STOP THEM...You dont have time to ponder " ...but he's family...I dont want to hurt him. Any person who hesitates to get stuff done to save lives for their parochial nonsense is a chump. -
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*MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS*
Andrew's villain name should have been APEX. Indeed I will call him this from now on.
Matt's hero name should be CAPTAIN USELESS. Indeed I will call him this from now on.
Anyway the movie was good but the ending was stupid in my opinion. It was a load of crap how CAPTAIN USELESS still felt that APEX was a good person and felt that he needed to fly nonsensically to Tibet for stupid sentimental rubbish. He spend like 5 hours trying to talk APEX down from violence instead of forcing him to stop... all while APEX was screaming incoherently in a blind Rage.
Regardless of how APEX was bullied, I , as a rational person, have no sympathy for him , so that means the audience, who should be assumed to be rational, should not either. Hitting a bully back is one thing, but killing people is another. So the ending with CAPTAIN USELESS showing sympathy for APEX was a load of BS.
The lack of imagination was ridiculous too. APEX once asked, CAPTAIN USELESS, if he thought of using his powers for anything greater to which he responded "NO." Soo none of these guys ever saw superhero movies before? They had to look up telekinesis for God's Sake
Holy hell what a lack of imagination. If it were me I would have made a costume within 3 days of getting those powers and spent another week coming up with a name for myself. In fact I was dreaming of Global Domination since I was 8. Instead we have to watch CAPTAIN USELESS fight in Abercrombie and Fitch attire.
APEX didnt even have imagination. He just attacked and killed people with no sensible plan..the others used it for tricks....sigh....... give me something less parochial
The baseball scene was silly being that the characters did not have invulnerability. There are more logical ways to test those telekinetic powers than letting yourself get hit in the face with a baseball.
The girl was still filming the camera on CAPTAIN USELESS as his nose was bleeding in the bathroom. If it were me I would have told the stupid girl to take the damn annoying camera away and if she did not immediately respond I would have SWEET CHIN MUSICED(Super Kicked) her in the damn face.
The movie was entertaining overall and I was always interested... I just didnt like CAPTAIN USELESS' feelings toward the end to the short-lived villain APEX. -
Will be in one of the Atlas Parks. Will announce on the Help Channel.
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Hey, I am holding an Origins Costume Contest on Freedom at 4 pm Central on Hero side. By Origin I mean , I will line up different origins seperately, Mutants with Mutants, Techs with Techs, Magic with Magic and so on. I will pick one finalist from each of the 5 origins then those 5 finalist will then compete and I will pick a 1st place winner amongst them. Will be in one of the Atlas Parks. I will announce on help.
The first place winner gets 120 million while all the other 4 finalist get 30 million each.
I will either be on D a r k A g e or my low level character G r a v o s who is sitting around waiting for Gravity fixes.
No rules are really set in stone. Just do not line up in the wrong origin line or you will not be judged. If you are for example a Tech but have a magic outfit it might not necessarily disqualify you ..but will not help though..depends how it looks. Character stories are not necessary.. being I am sole judge I cannot read 50 peoples stories lol. Not sure what origin order I will go with yet.
I posted here cause no one post on the Freedom server forum. See you at 4pm central Blueside(North American time). Will announce the CC about 30 minutes before it starts. It starts at 4 pm central on the dot.
We will see which one of the 5 origins triumphs. -
Quote:Yeah right, or you are just afraid of the dark.........the dark age.Originally Posted by Ironblade
Well, you can say that about any decision.
I can choose not to team with anyone whose costume is predominantly dark colors because I find it depressing. <shrug> -
Most probably already seen these already but for the ones who havent. hope you enjoy them. I thought these were funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yavK0mnE3wI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seBpXt8_6xs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-5tMPInetg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adW46gsMTXM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoNgMVFQNBI -
Quote:Originally Posted by Papaschtroumpf
Is burnout useful to take on a controller?
I like the idea of being able to recharge the long lead time powers like pets or the AoE holds, but the recharge on burnout is so long that you have to be really judicious as to when you use it so you don't waste it (basically when you only made a clear mistake in the original application of the power and risk team wipe/failure)... aka it becomes very situational.
I'm considering it for a /kin controller so the endurance cost is not a huge issue thanks to Transference.
Dark Control... Double Haunt using Burnout may be possible? Not sure if its a power like Gang War or they are considered actual pets. If its the former than double Haunt should be possible which means you can spawn 4 Ghost instead of 2 which would overwhelm a target.
Someone please correct me if this is not possible because this sounds fun and powerful. -
Quote:Originally Posted by DreadShinobi
The issue is not Burn
Burn is fine, the issue is the high amount of aoe damage and DoTs shatter enemies morale extremely quickly.
What fire aura scrappers need is a taunt aura. Just like brutes and tanks get a taunt component to blazing aura scrappers should get this also. Same with every other scrapper secondary set with a damage aura. The disparity between brutes and scrappers is too large in this area. Shield Defense (and to a lesser extent, Invul and WP's RTTC is too weak) should not be the only set that scrappers have that can actually keep mobs together.
I had a fire/fire scrapper IO'd to the max and even so, the toon was nearly unplayable. Sure I could pull great aoe and single target dps, but only in tests, in practical situations, it just was not practical, for lack of a better word.
Thought giving Scrappers more Taunt auras was a no no... or just not likely to happen.
Whatever works. Burn should be fixed for Scrappers. Not sure how Blasters feel about it. -
Quote:Isn't it buddy lolOriginally Posted by Hatred666
That's funny. I would bet that 75-80% of characters with Empathy are female characters.
Almost everyone picks female models for empathy because of the reasons I gave which have been erased. I gotta a mod warning for saying that too despite it being true : P -
Quote:Pretty much this.Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn
I don't know why these types of threads don't end at this:
Taunt is a good tool for gathering aggro. If you find that you want/need to gather more aggro on to you, it is one of the best tools around for doing that. If you don't want/need to gather more aggro (i.e., you do a good enough job at it without Taunt), then it isn't necessary. It is a great tool for holding aggro, but not the only tool you will likely need. A Tanker with Taunt is not gauranteed to be a better Tanker than a Tanker without it, but it might make things easier.
The OP is silly....may be intentionally silly to stir a reaction. If not , its a fail. Comparing a Tank without Taunt to a Petless MM ..yeah..fail -
Quote:Dont be mad cause you feel like a sucker now.Originally Posted by Ironblade
Fair enough, but some people do not build their tanks to 'tank'. Sometimes people want to have a melee fighter that's tougher than a scrapper. If they're built for fighting, and not tanking, then tanking IS NOT THEIR PURPOSE.
I hope no player with even half a brain buys into this line of bull.
Man... just a dozen kinds of stupid in that post. -
Once again I feel I should advocate this change because it is not a difficult one. Burn currently does not work right for Scrappers because it causes mobs to flee from the Burn patch which means an overall loss of damage and killing efficiency.
Simple solution is this:
1: Make Burn a normal PBAOE Attack like Combustion. Up the damage of the attack to compensate.
2: Remove Immobilize Protection from Burn and place it into Plasma Shield.
This change allows the same IOs to be used in the attack.
Scrapper Fire Aura currently is broken cause of this and it does not give extra damage as it promises. When Burn was fixed..this was overlooked for Scrappers who have no Taunt ability to keep mobs in place.
This same issue exists for Blaster Burn as well although it might not be as much as an annoyance for a Blaster. Since the Blasters already get Combustion..maybe somehow make Burn not a Location/Pet AOE that causes mobs to run.... and if you can do this , you can do the same for Scrappers if you dont like making Burn something like Combustion. -
Quote:You can slot a more effective power equally well or almost as well with IOs Even if you could not:Originally Posted by Warkupo
You know, you can slot Taunt with Perfect Zinger, or even Mocking Beratement, for S/L defense and global recharge. Rather good amounts of it, too.
Bottom Line is a Tanker needs to keep the attention of his enemies, not just be really durable. If he isn't going to do that, then I'd rather he be a brute or something.
Good Power> IO Benefits
No amount of IO benefits can trump a good power which is why the Tanks/scrappers/Brutes who skip God Mode powers cause they think IO benefits can match them are just silly..... and a Tanker who takes Taunt but not his God Mode power is just straight up sad.
Yesterday I even saw a Tanker with Soul Mastery who had Taunt but skipped Darkest Night....wow.....just wow.....sigh....... guess he justs likes to play low lvls cause a high lvls DN would be much better than Taunt...seriously. -
Tankers do not need Taunt. End of Story.
In nearly cases its better to take a power that helps you survive in the first place. You are only allowed 24 powers so why take Taunt when I can take Combat Jumping, Icicles, Permafrost, Fire Breath, Weave, Fault, Quicksand, Darkest Night, AOE Blast, Hasten instead.
I would never AND THE DARK AGE MEANS NEVER.. expect any AT to take a power that does nothing to increase their personal strength when each player is only allowed 24 powers. Only exceptions are a few certan buff ATs like an Empathy or something.
Guess what to Tankers who take Taunt... another Tanker/Brute took Weave or Hasten instead and is now more durable than you. Or Fire Breath/Fire Ball and now can hit more mobs than you. So you are a sucker..being selfless in a selfish world. So expecting Tankers to take Taunt is admission that you expect Tankers to be a FOOL or SUCKER. No strong player will buy into that bullcrap.
No good deed goes unpunished and this is certainly the case with selflessly taking Taunt since another Tanker/Brute took something else to increase their personal strength.. So dont you feel like a sucker lol
This debate is silly. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Xyzor
Can you tank effectively with Poweset combo? I have a DM/Regen scrapper that I love, but would like to tank sometimes, too (I almost could on him, but would prefer a more traditional tanking AT). I'd like to have a solo build and a tanking build with a DM/EA Brute, but want to make sure DM is not too single-target heavy to be effective for a sometimes-tank.
I'm also a bit worried about getting sick of the DM Poweset, but I love the debuffs it provides, and it fits well with my char concept.
Thoughts on tankability of this combo?
Well my most recent build is softcapped to all damage except Psi which is at 35.2%. If you want to remove a power for Taunt, not sure how it would work out.
But to answer your question, yes EA anything can Tank. Dark Melee however is very single target oriented. You do use the Power Soul Drain for a Dam/Acc buff which causes damage and has an AOE feel to it but other than that I have Dark obliteration and the cone Shadow Maul and the long recharging Void Judgement so it might not be enough AOE for you.
If you are looking for good of AOE go Super Strength/EA , Stone/EA or Fire melee/EA. Either way it can Tank...but not until lvl 35 really when it gets its heal.
My advice if you roll DM..forget Taunt and play like a heavy scrapper and only Tank when you need to . -
Villain Plan by Mids' Villain Designer 1.953
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D a r k A g e: Level 50 Magic Brute
Primary Power Set: Dark Melee
Secondary Power Set: Energy Aura
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Leadership
Ancillary Pool: Soul Mastery
Villain Profile:
Level 1: Smite -- KntkC'bat-Acc/Dmg(A), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx(3), KntkC'bat-Dmg/Rchg(3), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(5), GS-Acc/Dmg(5), GS-Acc/End/Rech(7)
Level 1: Kinetic Shield -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def(7), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(9)
Level 2: Shadow Maul -- Sciroc-Acc/Dmg(A), Sciroc-Dmg/EndRdx(9), Sciroc-Dmg/Rchg(11), Sciroc-Acc/Rchg(11), Sciroc-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(13), Sciroc-Dam%(13)
Level 4: Power Shield -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def(15), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(15)
Level 6: Super Speed -- Winter-ResSlow(A)
Level 8: Siphon Life -- P'ngFist-Acc/Dmg(A), P'ngFist-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(17), P'ngFist-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(17), Hectmb-Dmg/EndRdx(19), Hectmb-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(19), Heal-I(21)
Level 10: Entropic Aura -- EndRdx-I(A)
Level 12: Combat Jumping -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def(21)
Level 14: Kick -- Acc-I(A)
Level 16: Tough -- ImpArm-ResDam(A), ImpArm-ResDam/EndRdx(23), ImpArm-ResDam/Rchg(37)
Level 18: Weave -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def(25), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(25)
Level 20: Energy Cloak -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def(27), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(27)
Level 22: Dampening Field -- RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx(A), RctvArm-ResDam/Rchg(29), RctvArm-EndRdx/Rchg(29), S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+(31)
Level 24: Energy Protection -- RctvArm-ResDam(A), RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx(31), RctvArm-ResDam/Rchg(31), GA-3defTpProc(33)
Level 26: Soul Drain -- Oblit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(A), C'ngBlow-Acc/Rchg(33), Sciroc-Acc/Dmg(33), FotG-Acc/Dmg/End/Rech(34), AdjTgt-ToHit(34), AdjTgt-ToHit/Rchg(34)
Level 28: Energy Drain -- RechRdx-I(A), Efficacy-EndMod/EndRdx(36), Efficacy-EndMod/Rchg(36), Efficacy-EndMod(36), S'dpty-EndRdx/Rchg(46)
Level 30: Hasten -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(50)
Level 32: Midnight Grasp -- P'ngS'Fest-Acc/Dmg(A), P'ngS'Fest-Dmg/EndRdx(37), P'ngS'Fest-Dmg/Rchg(37), Hectmb-Dmg(39), Hectmb-Acc/Rchg(39), F'dSmite-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(39)
Level 35: Energize -- Mrcl-Heal/EndRdx(A), Mrcl-EndRdx/Rchg(40), Mrcl-Heal/Rchg(40), Mrcl-Heal/EndRdx/Rchg(40), Mrcl-Heal(42), Mrcl-Rcvry+(42)
Level 38: Overload -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(42)
Level 41: Gloom -- Apoc-Dmg(A), Apoc-Dmg/Rchg(43), Apoc-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(43), Apoc-Acc/Rchg(43), Apoc-Dmg/EndRdx(45), Apoc-Dam%(45)
Level 44: Dark Obliteration -- Ragnrk-Dmg(A), Ragnrk-Dmg/Rchg(45), Ragnrk-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(46), Ragnrk-Acc/Rchg(46), Ragnrk-Dmg/EndRdx(50)
Level 47: Darkest Night -- EndRdx-I(A), DampS-ToHitDeb(48), DampS-ToHitDeb/EndRdx(48)
Level 49: Maneuvers -- GftotA-Def(A), GftotA-Def/EndRdx(50)
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Level 2: Swift -- Run-I(A)
Level 2: Health -- Numna-Regen/Rcvry+(A)
Level 2: Hurdle -- Jump-I(A)
Level 2: Stamina -- Efficacy-EndMod(A), Efficacy-EndMod/EndRdx(23), Efficacy-EndMod/Rchg(48)
Level 1: Brawl -- Acc-I(A)
Level 1: Fury
Level 1: Sprint -- Run-I(A)
Level 2: Rest -- RechRdx-I(A)
Level 4: Ninja Run -
Here is the build if the link above is not working.
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Appreciate the help Rylas. I made some much needed improvements since I made this post and I have over 35% defense to psionic. Just had to drop Soul Tentacles.
You have to understand that logically not taking Overload is unacceptable as is any Tier 9th God Mode. You need it to break the game... all the IOs in the world cannot make up for a good power. It is a very very very effective back up when you are fighting enemies with defense debuffs and looks cool too.
I will show you my current build. I did not take out the purples yet like you said so I might move things around later although I have difficulty following your logic. I have to fill two slots up with some damage enhancement so it might as well be hectacomb for plus 4 recovery. I build for self-sufficiency and all the recharge and damage in the world means nothing if you do not have the endurance to sustain it. Currently I have Cardiac Left Tier 4 so with all the end mod and recovery I can fight straight for 2 minutes with Hasten before I have to use Energy Drain. Tested it on the dummies in RWZ.
Unfortunately, I also must respec out of Combat Jumping to take Tactic to fill my perception hole. Soloing plus 4 arachnos for 8 people with no inspirations and no pets is almost impossibile cause of all the BLIND powers Ararchnos has. More importantly ..all the blind powers turn off Darkest Night...making it impossible to use in a fight. So now that I have Barrier.. I can afford to lose the 2.5 defense from CJ to fill my Perception Hole
I build like a paranoid maniac. Why do you have taunt when you have 17.3% Psionic defense? its not good enough and arachnos will destroy you. Shoot for above 30% Also recharge is slightly better on my current build although its very expensive.
You will find that , at least at high lvls, Shadow Punch is not needed and you probably lose damage over time by adding it in your attack chain.
This is my current build before Tactics. 35.2% defense to psionic is sweet. Once I get tactics it will lower to 32.5 though but at least I can use DN against Blinders.
http://www.cohplanner.com/mids/downl...ADFD0FF9F3C0EA -
Cold Domination ATs for some reason although I would never play the set personally.
Characters who are weaker than me so I can decimate mobs more easily than them. Love being the only incarnate on a team. -
Also for MM lovers. I would say a Pet/Control/Debuff Epic would be nice.
Now that I think about it I would probably roll a Mind Control/Fire Aura/Fire Blast Epic with containment as I mentioned in my previous post.
Edit: No Rise of the Phoenix though. Would have to have some other tier 9th like MOG or a Damage Buff like Rage. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Erratic
Or perhaps a Fire Blast/Invulnerability Blaster?
This. Or something like it. Have not put much thought into this but Range/Defense/Control Epic with Scrapper criticals is the first thing that came to mind for self-sufficiency. Only problem might be IOs with slotting defense in the ranged attacks.
Also a Control/Defense/Blast Epic with Containment also would work. Dark Control/Energy Aura/Fire. The Epics being Fire Blast, Fireball, Rain of Fire, Build Up and Blaze sounds fun. Also Control/Fire Aura/Fire Blast with the same Fire Blast powers I have already mentioned above and having containment as an inherent would be fun.
Also something like a Dominator with Control/Blast/Defense Epics with Containment would be good for self-sufficiency. The Defense Epics would have to have both Mez protection and a heal, with some Defense all toggle.