Oldeb

I haven't heard anything about Oil Slick either. Obvious question, just to get it out of the way, you were using a fire or energy attack, right?

I'm guessing you mean a Mothership Raid? The shields come down to get the badge during raids, not the LGTF.

I know Posthaste of the Cape Radio will be running them during his show on Sunday, starting at 6 pm Eastern. He'll keep running them until his show ends at 9 pm.

They are often raids on Mondays, although I can't give any time for that besides late afternoon/evening. Otherwise they occur whenever someone gets the urge to start one and enough cannon fodder to follow them.

If you aren't a member already I'd suggest joining VU2009, there are almost always several announcements in that channel whenever a raid is being formed.

Well the henchman themselves would be nerfed to hell.

Not sure about the Cyst. What do you do with it? Plant it like /Traps and let it spawn for you?

It might be better to go with 3 Dark Extraction types for the first tier, 2 Nova at the second, and 1 Dwarf at the end. They would still be much weaker than the actually AT though and I have no clue what you would do for the upgrades.

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I'm sorry. The window for these threads was April 8-9, 2009. Please try keep up with the proper DOOM. As embarassing as it is to be the crazy DOOM guy with the leaky tinfoil hat, it's even more embarassing when your sandwhich board is behind the times.

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I was expecting something else when I saw the link, but nobody who supports trap-neuter programs is bad in my book.

Kudos to them.

But does it know the kings of England and quote the fights historical from Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical?

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And I really, really have a hard time believing that the people who have the greatest problem with you in this thread are people who have lost to you in pvp and are just looking for a chance to "random[ly] lash out in other avenues."

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To thous that are getting upset about lack of tolerance. i could say the same to how they have acted in my believe.

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I'd just like to point out that nobody specifically made a thread claiming you were immoral and a danger to children. Unlike what you have done here.

And second, is spelling really that hard? Your stance on this is going to make you unpopular, no need to make it look like you're illiterate as well.

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pohsyb is one of the programmers, but I think he is the only one currently with a redname

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Pretty sure both Dark Watcher and Ghost Widow as well. Didn't GW go back and redocument the entire Taunt code for Castle? That must have been a pain in the [censored]. I've always wondered if she did it because she believed him that the documentation was wrong or she just wanted him to shut up about how Taunt wasn't working the way he expected it to.

But Shecky does an awesome cover of I'm an A**hole!

Notice that every single one of the IOs you listed is a "chance for"? The chance for damage types are typically slotted in powers that already do damage themselves. In addition every AT and powerset in the game does damage. It's hardly a unique ability.

The two chance for heal IOs (Call of the Sandman/Entropic Heal) both have a 10% chance of healing you for 5% of your HPs. That's 1/5th of a small green inspiration.

The Devastation proc is a 15% chance for a mag 2 hold, hardly a game breaker since you'd have to stack it to hold anything more than a minion and since it's slotted in a damage power odds are whatever you're blasting is going to die before you manage to stack the holds.

Perfomance Shifter's proc gives a 20% chance for to restore 10 points of endurance. A small blue insp will restore 25% of your total.

This proposed IO is a 100% chance to restore x amount of health and endurance. It's a just a bit different.

I'll concede if you make it a proc. Say a 10% chance every time you die to trigger automactically with 12% of your health and no endurance. That's 50% of a small rez inspirations without the -recov penalty and stun of the inspiration.


Edit: I concede with the above changes to the IO. Clouded has convinced me.

Sorry, but that doesn't hold. It's a bad suggestion. It's far closer to a power than an inspiration. Even a tier 3 rez inspiration (Restoration) doesn't provide you with any endurance and even has a -rec for a brief time after you use it. So your IO is already more powerful than that.

The closest to what's already in game is probably Regeneration's tier 8 power, since that doesn't have any seconday effects like the other self-rez powers. (tier 8 for WP, tier 9 for FA and DA, APP pick for Blasters, and for Khelds it's not available until level 35) The effective "level" for what you're asking for is fairly well established.

If the do make something like this I would think they would make purple IOs for other tier 8 or 9 powers. After all, it would be rare to see a character with it so it should be fine, yes?

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Trolling? It's a response. Why do you need an IO that already does what inspirations do? Why do you need an IO that essentially duplicates my tier 9 power?

If only there was a name for this sort of thing...

Only if my Fire Aura Brute can get a Granite IO.

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This is a Hero game right? Or is it a generic MMO with Hero trappings?

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Dear god, I've been playing an MMO! A game where power balance amongst different characters on a large scale is required! If only this was a single player console game!

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Heroes by definition are self sufficient

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You may want to consult a dictionary. Even Gilgamesh had Enkidu to help him kick butt and it doesn't get older than that.

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but against a normal man with a stun grenade I am helpless once I eat all my break frees

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So you acknowledge that the game gives you a way to prevent/negate being stunned already, and then ignore it?

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3 Major Heroes or Heroines (not some obscure single issue wonder) who cannot use their powers on themselves but only on other people

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This is a sucker's game, by the way. Going by the rule that your powers have to effect yourself, Blasters are not real heroes. Therefore neither are any characters such as Cyclops or Green Arrow. Yes that's only two; it's because I'm not wasting my time looking up every "blaster type" character in existance. Probably because as has been pointed out many, many times in this thread writers have the luxury of making things as difficult or simple as they want for the hero. That's not possible in a MMO.

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The "nuke" is a AoE hold. That's more of the kind of power you'd get in the middle of a set.

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Truly you have found the fatal flaw in my opinion of the suggested set. I was thinking of it as a Controller primary since it had multiple holds and they tend to get a AoE hold or something similar around level 18.

Em Pulse and Emp Arrow both do a not insignificant amount of -regen and -recovery in addition to the hold. Twice what is done by powers like Benumb or Lingering Radiation for the -regen part. While I'll admit I don't have much experience with either of those sets, I'd think that would be of some use. I'm certainly open to correction if the only real benefit is the hold though.

And are you honestly going to try and convince me you use Power Surge as an AoE hold? And not primarily for the oh, I don't know, massive +resistance to all but psionic?

Yes, I didn't comment on the grossly overpowered range. The set was already so overpowered I didn't think it really mattered. If the OP was going to try and turn it into something that could be taken seriously as a suggestion for a new powerset the range would obviously have to be dropped. Since they didn't suggest any other effects beyond the hold it looked like they were trying to create something like Cinders, Vines, Total Domination, or Gravity Distortion.

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Is that a HO in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

Oldeb wants pants too!

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Some iconic powers (well, to those of us who grew up in the 70s at least...):
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Giant growth: Several versions: self only, target only, and party.

Restrictions: Useable ONLY outdoors.

Effect: Increases characters avatar size to approx. the size of the statue of Atlas in Atlas Park. Increases def vs lethal, smash and all elementals as well as toxic. no def increase vs mental or magical effects. partial immunity to gravity based powers (they act as a slow rather than their normal effect).

(Imagine fighting the Kraken with a party of 8 'super sized' characters!)

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They've considered a growth set before (it was part of a survey a while ago) but there's some problems. What happens in missions, for example. Ceilings are only so high.

I know you said outdoors only, but would you take a powerset that didn't function for the majority of the game? Why?

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SHRINK: -self, -target, -party versions.

Restriction: none.

Effect: Shrinks party to roughly the size of a 'pet' such as the imp (very small).

Drawback: reduces HP and resistances by 25% across the board.

Bonus: Harder to be hit, ability to easily break LOS by moving behind other objects/players/npcs.

Side effect: Opens up an entire new world to the players. Mini adventures (pun intended) could be placed all over the game world, ranging from mouse holes to beehives to ants nests and more!

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We can already be pretty short, under 4 feet tall if you want. How small do you want to get? The second part of this would do better as a request for new maps with the appropriate story arc dialogue than an entirely new powerset of questionable usefulness.


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Shapeshifting:

Straightforward: Two pools...animate and inanimate.
Inanimate allows transforming into:

-sheet of ice. Player unable to attack, but avatar covers large area, causing enemies to slip and fall, and granting protection from cold/fire to allies.

-Wall of water. Player transforms into a 10'x10' wall of water that sloshes forward and deluges the enemy, causing crushing and lethal damage and a 'drowning' damage over time (DoT).

-Vortex. Player transforms into a mini-tornado that can hurl enemies into the air, slam them into walls, and cause disorientation and stuns.

Wall of stone. Transforms player into a 15x15 wall of stone that can block enemy attacks (high enough to prevent enemy jumping onto/over it). Player defenses and hit points increase dramatically. When players health equals or is less than the amount of health they had at the time of the shapeshift, the power ends prematurely, or ends after 15 seconds regardless.

Wall of Steel. As above, but more health/armor.

Wall of ice. As above, but offers less armor/health, but adds resist to fire/cold.

Random Object: Disguise (stealth) power. Transforms the player into a random inanimate object such as a box, table, lamp, safe, etc. Causes enemies to lose LOS and makes player undetectable. This is a toggle power. No other powers can be used during this toggle.

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Not what I expected. Points for orginallity. Unless you got this name and the next one mixed up, which I'm betting on. I can't see this working.

Which AT would you even give this to? It sounds like a controller set, with ice slick, tornado, and what looks like some form of shield charge. And the walls? Aren't they pretty much the definition of useless? Why would anyone ever want them? What team would want someone with powers like that? "Hey guys, I can keep us from getting shot! No, you can't fight back either." And most npc's can jump pretty high. It's part of their AI cheating, so unless you reach the ceiling you probably won't be stopping anyone. Others can fly and npc's don't need LOS to teleport. You won't be a very good wall overall.

The last part sounds just like Placate with a new animation.


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Animate object: Transform into various animals.

-Insect. Player becomes a random insect. Bee, ant, etc.

-vermin. Player becomes a mouse, rat, squirrel, rabbit, etc.

-giant cat. Lions and tigers, etc.

-Bear. Tanking form 1. Maul, rend and hug attacks.
-Rhino. Tanking form with a charge attack.
-Gorilla. Scrapper form. High damage punch, ability to throw enemies, but not much defense.

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So frequently request, so many problems with it. The game will need new skeletons for every single power in the set. That's a massive undertaking. Add in making sure all the new skeletons worked with your other powerset and the bajillion requests for emotes and BAB probably gets chest pains.


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TIME CONTROL:

Time control would be the ultimate crowd control powerpool, enabling the player and his team to take control of the battlefield.

Powers:
-Slow enemy, self explanatory

-speed ally, reduce powers recharge time, increase move speed, increase defenses. single target.

-accelerate metabolism (as per current power)

-temporal inversion reverts target to an earlier stage of life, i.e. turn an old man into a young man, removing much of their power

-scry future: friendly group power that glimpses future possible events, giving the party bonuses to defenses and attacks.

-temporal stasis: single target attack, freezes target in place and removes their ability to acquire LOS on anyone, making it possible to do 'sneak attacks' at will, stacking, by scrappers

-Time heals all: Rapid healing over 30 seconds. party affect.

-temporal displacement: self only, 15 second duration. Freezes everything within 100 yards, including team members, but not the caster.

-Time stop: This is the 'nuke' for the set. Works same as temporal displacement, except the entire party is free to move around for 15 seconds while everything else within 100 yards is frozen in place.

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This one won't happen. Ever. A set with Speed Boost and Accelerate Metabolism? That's quite a bit of recharge there. Definitely not something they will give you. Any ideas as to what AT you see this belonging to? It looks like a Defender primary/Corruptor and Controller secondary at the start, but then you add holds and slows making it more of a Dominator/Controller primary. What would happen if I made a Time Control/Kinetics or a Time Control/Radiation Controller?

Why does a single target hold give Scrappers criticals automatically? No other hold does that.

I would kill you if you froze me in place. I can't emphasize that enough. A team hold would have you ignored and I'd probably try to crawl through my monitor to throttle you. The last thing I want is to team with someone who removes my ability to play the game.

The "nuke" is a AoE hold. That's more of the kind of power you'd get in the middle of a set.

So that's why the chat bug is still around. Who the heck let Pohsyb have a life outside his box?








Oh, and congrats to him and the new Mrs. Pohsyb.

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Just a quick note, you don't have to run the Mayhem successfully. All you have to do is accept it from the Broker and enter to start the timer. Once the mission is finished, whether from you completing it and exiting or the timer running out, you will be offered a new contact.

If you don't feel like running the Mayhem just enter and then immediately exit. You can even run a new newspaper mission or two while you wait for the timer to count down.

Great idea, would read again.

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i say no to showers.

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Sometimes I wonder if you could be any more of a sterotype. And then I kick myself because the answer is always no.


And on topic, sure. More symbols for everyone. But it'll end up being the 6 year vet reward. Look how popular the Greek symbols were.