Obscure Blade
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Quote:Yeah; my first thought was "Looks like my Contaminated Man has a new costume part!" He already has the Clunker aura that lets him drip purple stuff all over...Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
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Quote:Ha! I'm pretty sure I was on the same team on my Bots/Traps Painmachine; you were Indigo Rose, right? Part of the problem was that everyone was so used to just stomping Rommie flat that no one including me could seem to quite recall any other strategy. I got the shards & Notice to get my third tier Alpha, so it worked out OK.Originally Posted by Organica
I played a dug-style ITF tonight. Random PuG, leader decided to switch to his uber tank and run at +4. We had two MMs, two crabs, a stalker, and my fire/rad troller. Things went pretty well until we got to Rommy, but this is where the difference between a PuG and a run with the people I normally work with was apparent -- we didn't fully clear, we didn't even kill the minotaur and cyclops on either side of Rommy before jumping him. We wound up pounding him for 15-20 minutes while barely making a dent, before enough people died and we pulled back to regroup. I hospital'd to grab new inspirations, nobody else did that, then we decided to try again -- but we once again did not clear, did not discuss strategy, just jumped in. We did pull him to the grass this time, that helped. And we finally won. 2 hours, I gained 4 levels, can't complain about that at all.
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With a Corr, you'll get Rain of Arrows by 32; with Defenders, by 38. And there's no corresponding advantage in Defenders getting Time Bomb earlier than Corrs, since that's one of the most skippable powers in the game.
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Quote:Actually, yes.Originally Posted by Scythus
Hey guys, did you know there's a fetish for this?
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Quote:Do we? I haven't run across any new information for some time.Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion
I think we know more now.
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My Bots/Traps had a lot of trouble with Trapdoor because the stupid bots kept insisting on running into the lava and frying. But that's a buggy AI problem, not a "Trapdoor is too tough" problem.
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Even with Darkness Control and Assault, Doms will still be behind as far as power choices go; they didn't even get anything proliferated in the last round which was truly obnoxious.
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Quote:Of course Heaven forbids you playing with demons!Originally Posted by MisterD
Heaven forbid you turn your sound down cause an SG mate wants to play with demons.
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Quote:If you pick this make sure it's a Scrapper or Stalker; Brutes get significantly less damage out of Lightning Rod.Originally Posted by Biospark
Dark can also be colored to look Vaporous like Mist, so another possibility would be;
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It depends on the character and the level. I almost always turn them on by 22 and SOs. I still turn them off though when I'm planning on rushing through an arc to get to the end or a bunch of tips.
Inherent Stamina has been a huge help with low level bosses; on many characters what let bosses kill them was simply running out of endurance. -
Quote:Caltrops is quite good actually. Slows things down, does some damage, bunches them up, and confuses the AI. It's useful when fighting some EB for it to be spending half the time trying to get off the caltrops instead of fighting you.Originally Posted by Neuronia
As for the rest of the concept, there really isn't a lot of "out of combat" stuff that's egregious. The healing tree and beacon and maybe caltrops and a few others.
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Quote:How about this; when you use it the power button turns into a running toggle. When you click the toggle off the bomb detonates. Change the name to Remote Detonator or some such.Originally Posted by LordAethar
Time Bomb - I can't think of a good way to fix it without making it just like Trip Mine, so eliminate it entirely and develop a new power.
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Quote:I think it was Synapse who said something like that.Originally Posted by Oathbound
I think rather than that being them saying they were looking into it, they were saying that should they make a Whip set, it would probably be an Assault set, and not a melee set as most people were/are wanting. I could be mistaken though.
Actually, I think there's a good chance we'll get a Whip Attack/Assault set as a for-pay powerset; making it a for-pay powerset would make it easier to justify sinking extra resources into making it. -
Quote:They get technology from Doctor Aeon (mentioned in one of Marshal Brass's arc). And we know from Dr. Shelly Percey that Midas looks like he's made of gold, and that it's some kind of body paint.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
*The Goldbrickers and King Midas. A long time ago, someone mentioned that the Golden Roller was so obviously King Midas inside his car and... Um, is he? I don't know. I've never seen King Midas and I've never heard a description of him. Why would he be hiding inside a car? And why does he know so much about technology? What IS the Goldbrickers' deal, anyway?
Quote:Flammond no doubt told you what he told me. Only one who could have done it is my boss, Dr. Aeon. He's been using the Gold Brickers to carry out thefts and attacks on his own. Trading them technology for their services. Quote:The problem with old Midas is that I can't treat him thanks to his skin condition. Oh, he's not really made of gold, you know. Paints himself that way, thinks it makes him look tough. Men. Still, his skin is harder than diamond, and it's making treatment a bit of a problem. -
Quote:I had to look that up to see that it wasn't an obscenity; I still don't get what it means in this context though.Originally Posted by Ultimus
6) Zwil has seen the Darkness Control Tier 9, describes it as "baller" -- Also to note Controller is Zwil's favorite AT.
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Quote:It doesn't seem to bother some people; me, I treat it as if it was a clip of Medusa staring out of the screen at me. Don't look, don't listen.Originally Posted by Zandock
People still allow themselves to see ads on these things?
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Quote:His user profile is full of "Rest in Peace" messages.Originally Posted by Angry_Citizen
???
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Quote:Originally Posted by Dr_MechanoEU
3) Praetoria 1-20, who the hells bothers with it anymore now that you can select your starting point as hero or villain for any class without needed to go through Praetoria. Now it set up a lot of stuff later on so...I doubt this is a regret from the devs really.I also still make Praetorian characters. Sometimes the backstory/concept just screams "Praetorian", and the content is better than most of the ancient 5-20 stuff. Every time I am doing yet another kill all for Marshall Brass or whoever, I remember how rare kill alls are goldside.Quote:Originally Posted by Bright
I do.... and while I wouldn't call Praetoria (on Liberty at least-) a terribly busy set of zones, I rarely seem to have it all to myself, so I suspect I'm not alone.
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I'd go for pet customization.
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I recall a mission where I was fighting the Professor Echo EB all the way at the top platform in that really huge, really tall Arachnos room on a mastermind. Literally just as I beat him and won the mission, his last blast sent me over the edge and I dramatically fell all the way down to my doom. A very archetypical thing to happen to a villain. "Curse you Professor Echo! Curse yooooouuuuuu!!"
A Praetorian character was doing the mission for Wardog where you preemptively kill off a bunch of Syndicate before they betray you. She attacked one of the targets just as he was talking about their plans to kill both you and Wardog; upon his defeat my character simultaneously got both the Knows the Truth and Marked for Death badges. It was a comic book caption moment; "But now she knows the truth - that she is marked for death!" -
Quote:There's quite a few parked trucks.Originally Posted by Android_5Point9
and I don't think I've seen a normal truck anywhere either.
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Note that this works for all sorts of pets; vet pets, Controller pets, temp pets, Acid Mortar, Seeker Drones & Force Field Generator from Traps, etc.
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Adamantine or adamant is used that way sometimes; "He had a will of adamant", "The city walls had been an adamantine barrier to invaders over the centuries."
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Quote:Not a problem? Not a problem?! Of course it's a problem! My leather clad, barbed wire covered, skull wearing, eye spiked lunatics will not be complete until they get their chainsaws!Originally Posted by Shadow_Kitty
Anime is actually quite poorly supported, because:
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- No chainsaws. Well, that's not that big a problem, but still...
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Quote:How? If you cast it after using WH, they are already knocked back; and if you cast it before using WH you'll eat the entire alpha and probably some successor attacks before you can use WH if that doesn't kill you.Originally Posted by Tannim222
Crushing Field should prevent knock back. That'd solve the wormhole problem.