Oliin

Sorry, just noticed this.

I'm not completely sure what you're talking about here. Granted it's been quite a while since I read the books, but I pretty much recall everything being presented as technology not magic. Granted, it's pretty absurd tech but so are a lot of other things in the sci-fi genre and not all of them were written 100 years ago.

The only other version I'm aware of is Princess of Mars. It's kind of a terrible film, which makes sense since I believe it's done by The Asylum, and I'll grant that it's not bad for one of their films but it's still pretty horrible. They do have the same general plot since they're mostly based on the same book, but aside from a couple similarities they're pretty different I thought.

Bah. I did that more than half a decade ago and nobody gave me nothin'.

Huh. I didn't even know that Second Life was a subscription based user environment.

That said, while lifetime subscriptions might have been a thing for a while now th number of bigger MMOs that use them is vanishingly small. I think I could count the ones I'm aware of on one hand.

Huh. I didn't even think of that. I just read that statement as movement speed instead of recharge speed.

Ok, so it's a spiffy looking trailer but I really don't think it showcases issue 22 terribly well. I think you first really see anything to do specifically with I22 at about 1:20 ... out of 2:06. The rest of it is dealing with Statesman's death (which won't happen with anything in-game aside from the SSAs until I23) and the newer purchaseable powersets (including staves which isn't actually in-game yet).

Yea, SOs work just the same as they always did.

Also, if you've played the game long enough to have completed Tier 7 or higher you have IOs permanently unlocked on your account.

I'm going to assume that the answer to this is that you don't necessarily hand over ownership of your character. If that were flat out the case then NCSoft would own the rights to Harry Dresden since Jim Butcher plays(or at least played) him as a defender (FF/something I think).

To clarify, AR's snipe is the only one that's given extra damage by having Targeting Drone active. Not snipes in general.

Honestly, I think snipes need improvement completely outside of the blaster 'problem'. They're just not a good power pick in general. Aside from that though, the idea of fixing blaster's complaint about mezing through their snipe doesn't really work since there are several blaster primaries without snipes at all.

I'm probably not looking at it right, but I'm not seeing many instances outside of incarnate content where range is the 'only' option. There's certainly some instances where it's easier to use ranged than melee though.

Honestly we should look at AoE DPS as a data point too. Though I imagine that in general blasters will come out ahead in that regard.

The problem I see with AoE DPS is that it's really only useful to a point after which you need to switch back over to single target DPS again. You basically end up with blasters having an easier time taking out the 'easy' enemies (underlings, minions, LTs) and you're left with those harder targets that are primarily the ones that give the average blaster a headache (bosses and up).

Indeed. We are however discussing primarily DPS ATs here and their DPS relative to each other is pertinent. Especially given that a lot of people don't seem to think that the other factors actually balance out.

So I'm not a big numbers cruncher so forgive me if I'm off-base with this, but high-end blasters have DPS numbers that tend to be around that of scrappers (give or take) yes?

If so wouldn't that mean a blaster going 'all out' is pretty much the same as a scrapper just doing their thing? Doesn't that seem a little strange and possibly a little off-balance to you?

Now I could be off and blaster DPS when playing at risk and fully using their best possible attack chain might be significantly higher than that of scrappers. If that's the case, never mind.

What makes me really sad about next week is I have a Computer Organization and Calc2 test on the 7th, a project for the first one due on the 11th, a Discrete Math test on the 8th, and a programming project due on the 10th. I'm so envious of people with free time next week.

If they were lumped under hats then wouldn't you be locked into whatever hairstyle they figured would go with the mask? Also between the hair and the mask itself you'd only get two color options.

Where was I talking about tank mages? I pretty much just think acrobatics is a lousy method of providing knockback and mag 2 hold resistance.

Personally I'm pretty 'meh' on the whole mez issue for blasters, but let's assume the devs datamine that blasters do spend too much time mezed for a second. Do you really think they'd consider the solution to the problem as simple a thing as just telling all the blasters that they need to take super jump as their travel power?


Edit: You know archery has a single target stun and an AoE with a 50% chance to knock back right? I think that's about on par with rad blast. Fire is the one without any real mitigation secondary effects in it's power ... well aside from Rain of Fire's ability to make enemies run.

It's not really all that fantastic an answer to the issue though. It's fairly limited in both the amount and types of protection it provides and on top of that it's limiting in concept as well. It was silly enough as the only way to shore up issues of a couple power sets (Fire Armor) but holding it up as the answer to a complaint being raised by an entire AT is even more so. Especially when there's so much more to control than just knockback and holds (Malta stun grenades, Rikti rifle blasts, Devouring Earth spore bursts, ect.).

I'm personally pretty ok with the attacking when held thing, but that acrobatics comment just struck me as silly.

So you're saying a power that requires someone take the jumping pool as a travel power and is available to all ATs equally is the answer to the possible complaints from an AT about being mezzed more than other AT?

Brilliant!

Well, you could also be saying any number of things, but one word doesn't give a ton to go on so I'm going to interpret it as you saying that.

It's quite possibly because I've played a lot of sonic, gravity and energy(blast/melee/manipulation) but I've never thought the animation on Executioner's Shot was too terribly slow.