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And Inertial Reduction makes you JUMP! WHEEE! Yeah I agree with you there. That's the most useless power in the game.

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Free vertical movement power, don't see nothing wrong with that. I have SS on my fire/kin but didn't have anything else to take at the time so now I stack SS with sprint slotted with a stealth IO but I use Inertial Reduction most of the time to get around the city. My big beef with it is the large endurance cost and short duration =/

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If FS does the same, I doubt I will keep it. The set has many other tools however, so I am open to experimentation. However this decision is a ways off, and I will need actual experience with it to make an informed decision.

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Attracted to the Dark Side you become...once down the path, never can you return...hmm, yes.

You will never regret Fulcrum shift. If your on a team, when its fired off you got a tank with aggro and you probably hit them with a AoE stun/hold, even solo its controls are the first thing I open up with then AoE cages, rush in and then drop fulcrum.

You may dislike SB, but Kinetics has Siphon Speed as well (think CoT maps) and combined with Hasten = non stop stunning, holding, burning mayhem.

So to the OP, good luck with Fire/Kin. Its like oil and water, I know you dislike +speed with a vengence, but my god Fire/kin is powerful and doesn't require to be pimped out with purples to pull it off.

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You are correct. Ross is the Marketing guy that will be making sure the rest of the team doesn't say anything Marketing isn't ready to put public yet.

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*chuckle* Now I got this image of a guy standing next to Positron, censoring everything he says with an air horn that he should not say like the Family Guy episode where the FCC sensors everday life.

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I've also been tasked with making a matching shirt for me and one for Flame's older sister. The youngest one is also making noises fo a shirt so we can all dress the same when we go to theme parks and such... but the wife has politely declined a shirt of her own.

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For the other siblings, "Its a Nemesis plot!" and "Not everything is a Nemesis plot!". Your wife could go with "LEVELDOWN! - I refuseded to wear the CoH/V T-shirts!"

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...but our MONEY is already in their BANK...

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Which doesn't mean squat. Its Sunday, let them have a break. This problem just cropped up for me today but looks like it has been persistant since the last patch update. Have faith, the Devs will find a fix to the problem. They haven't let us down before . So take a deep breath, look at a character you might want to play today or go outside. You won't loose your money, because they don't want to loose you.

Good read. Reminds me of the Monarch from the Venture Brothers

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So, the Romans and Power Proliferation get a "meh" from Flame, but the Hollow's redesign and the costume creator get a big "yay" from her. In fact, all three of the daughters are double keen on the costume creator overhaul.

"It's like playing Barbie dressup, but it is on the computer" as described by my eldest.


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I have this image of a run down and exhausted father hero trying to keep the little sidekicks under control as he goes shopping at Icon.

"Honey, don't touch that. . .*sigh* . .Sorry about the mess Serge. . .Go get your sisters. . .*turns and looks* Before they cause another mess. . .*CRASH!* I will pay for that Serge. . ."

War Witch is cool, but her alter ego Ghost Witch was awesome. I think it was christmas of 2006, pretty sure it wasn't last christmas, but Ghost Witch stopped by and chatted with the players in Pocket D. Couple of players wanted her to put her hand through their chest and steal their soul, but she was being really nice that day. I even gave her my present and she gave one back. Then when she had to leave, she didn't just log out or blink, she just faded out with style.

Clik Clak himself

Map Server decided to say hello before I could get a shot of little guy at the end of the mission when I was putting up the first one of the mission objective. Had to do it over again to get that one.

Clickey Clacks

Was running a new tech hero from Rick Davis in Atlas and the third mission I got was defeat that guy. Gave me a chuckle

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hahah.. you mean like, the Librarian?

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Actually, I saw that movie on a whim and thought it was pretty entertaining.

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Sounds almost like a possible origin for Yomiko Readman aka "The Paper", the heroine from the Original Anime Video "Read or Die".

R.O.D is an action-laden suspense modern day scifi thriller, with a large touch of James Bond-ish style music and visual sequences, and great character interaction.

And ironically, Yomiko is from "The Library"... literally "Ex Libris"

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Kinda of what I was thinking, a crime fighting librarian but...
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She is neutral in that she is neither hero or villain but more for hire at her own discretion.


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Makes me think of Indiana Jones/Lara Croft-type character, who retrieves ancient artifacts and tomes for hire. Would be wearing glasses (sterotypical of librarians lol) and dresses conservatively. But there is little to go on of age (still in elementry school or was it just backstory?), origin (mutant/natural/tech/sci/magic), or abilities. Is she a scrapper? She has outbursts in classes, sounds like one or maybe a blaster.

Targeting my enemy from afar
Unseen , his future looks bleak and dismal
BANG! Miss! Gonna be painful.

<load screen to the hospital>

Which hospital am I at?
My, the angels here are very beautiful.
Funny, already used that line. *

*line would look like "Funny blaster, you already tried that lame pick up line" but haiku limited it and I am no poet

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Outrider:

You're right. SOMEONE didn't see the humor there...

...but that someone wasn't me.

It's ironic to accuse someone else of being humorless when you missed the joke yourself.

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Sorry Circuit Boy, I completely misunderstood what you were implying and retract what I said. I can make myself look like a [censored] without trying

Ok...guess someone didn't see the humor in it. Its great that people like Arcana spend the time to prove something, but I just like to enjoy the game as it is. Have fun finding mathematics equations over a [censored] game, Circuit_Boy.

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Also, if I am just completely off my rocker with this line of thinking please tell me.

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Naw, thats normal. All of us blasters are off our rocker and make us abnormal. But if we are abnormal then does that makes us normal and the rest of the archtypes abnormal?
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My guess is that the equation, as-is, probably produces an average Damage Buff overall on par with what Scrappers have, in the end. I have no way of knowing whether or not this is true--it's just a hunch. Unfortunately, it can neither be proven nor disproven, so it's just going to have to remain a hunch.

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Hunch? Gut feeling? Assumption? Belief? Conjecture? Hypothesis? Presumption? Sneaking suspicion? Surmise? Theory?....Fusilier, we got a new member! Welcome to the Conspiracy club...*hands Circuit_Boy a T-shirt with "I am with the wierdo" printed on it*..Later we are going to prove that "magic bullets" made by the Illuminati are not flawed against undead zombies and are just as good as hollow point rounds.
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It tells me a lot. Numerical analysis is not pure speculation. For example, my scrapper analyses come with hundreds of hours of playtesting their conclusions, under a wide variety of circumstances. They make predictions that are testable.

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Arcana, can you help us with the "magic bullet" theory? Please? Your so good with numbers.

(being humorous in my entire post! )

Yes, but I don't want to be fighting my inherent. I don't want my "earned" defiance disseappering when some defender/controller saved my life by doing their job. I don't want to pill pop to get any effectiveness out of it, only to run out when I hit the end of a mission and all I got are 3 awakens with 7 wind dropping. So that 6% is really nothing.

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Alarmingly frequently, the damage numbers of the attacks blasters get combine to leave a target with a sliver of health, at unbuffed damage levels.

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Noticed that myself and Fusilier never believed me. Now I know I am not the only conspiracy theorist around.

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Also, I want to thank you for going to the trouble of doing the tests and the math to nail defiance down. It doesn't make me stop believeing that defiance either needs to have the bottom end of the curve smoothed out or to be replaced by something a bit better suited for the end game, but it definately gives us a solid platform from which to discuss the subject of defiance.

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It sucks. Next topic of conversation.

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Even at full health, you are getting somewhere in the neighborhood of a 1% damage boost due to defiance. You're not likely to notice it much until you reach about 50% health, though.

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Enough proof for me. You lost some where in the area of 600 points of damage from 1500 to get 900 and gained 1.xx of damage. Thats 5% if you want to average it out to a round number, no thanks. It still sucks, i am going to fight my hitpoint bar every time.

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Trip Mine's gone, finite, doesn't exist, dead to me. I'm just trying to figure out to keep Smoke Grenade and work in Taser and Ignite.

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Then why keep SG? That pathetic debuff sure as hell is not a good enough reason. The -perception with TM for toebombing is a far better reason, but you dropped it. Do you intend to laugh minions to death? Pull it out in groups and use it for a party gag?

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Not that knowing if 3.5% to hit debuff landing or not is worth complaining about, but a 3.5% to hit debuff is in my opinion not game breaking enough for it not to be auto hit.


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Its also not a reason to keep the power. So Fusilier, you decided yet to keep tripmine then? If your going to drop TM, drop smoke grenade as well, because that -perception and -3.5 debuff are not helping you either way. Now stop asking me about it! */smackbacksideofhead Fusilier*

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Dam the last patches. There is now too many good powers in AR/DEV; I want everything in AR, everything in Devices to Cloak, and full Fitness + Leaping before Munitions. I want 21 powers out of 20 possible choices. It's a very tough decision.

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Hint: Drop smoke grenade you idiot.
If I see you lob one more smoker near me I am going to report you to the Health Department.

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If the latter is true, then you need to time your Build Up to just before your foe sets off the Trip Mine. Or just before the Time Bomb goes off. For completeness you might test both. (When you drop it, and when it goes off)


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Build Up does not come with /Device. Only possible buff is Aim in the primary, but Aim doesn't buff Tripmine or Timebomb. Even then, the set up time is so long and the trigger AI so buggy you would be wasting a potention buff better used for say an AoE.
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I am under the impression that both Trip Mine and Time Bomb are affected by Targeting Drone. This buff is constant, so its much easier to get it to apply than Aim. Not sure though.

Anyone else who has a more informed opinion on this?

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Yes. You can't buff Tripmine or Timebomb. TD doesn't buff anything but your own attacks nor does it buff AT. Caltrops is a pseudo-rain, so it would be buffable by Aim. But thats insignficant, given that its auto-hit and the damage very minor.

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No single target "INCOMMING! FIRE IN THE HOLE!" nuke to replace AT? Look at the damage! Ain't it a beatutiful thing!

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I'll trade you AT for Frozen Aura.

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I will never give ol'AT up. We have been through thick and thin together!

(was being sarcastic in the other post )

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Outrider, Devices got a buff. DEVICES.

THIS IS GOD'S WAY OF SAYIN' BE OPTIMISTIC ABOUT OUR POWERS.

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DOOOM!!! DOOOM!!! THE SKY IS FALLING!! THE SKY IS FALLING!!!! DOOM!!!! *sticks his head out his bunker, sees his shadow, goes DEFIANCE!, and blows a hole in the ground throwing a paper ball* Another six weeks of nerfing!! *ducks back into his bunker and slams the hatch* CLANG!!!

Seriouly, I still want some more effective buffs for either AR/ or /Device. Increase range of Ignite? Don't have, don't want it, can't think of any positive way to use this without going insane after spamming web'nade on everything. Kinda scare for old Flamethrower, they said "Range increased slightly (good!) and recharge time changed (bad?)". No increase or decrease, just "changed" which I am taking as "bad, it got increased." So far the only postivite increase I have seen is taser, but thats just taser...no quick drop mines? no satellite view on TD, +50% ToHit and +1,000% perception (I am looking at you stalkers!)? No single target "INCOMMING! FIRE IN THE HOLE!" nuke to replace AT? Look at the damage! Ain't it a beatutiful thing!