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Did you remember to include slotted enhancements in your calculations?

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Aka, if you want the cyborg chest you have to pick robot arms, it's not there under normal tights.

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There is no cyborg chest. there are cyborg chest details, and they are both available with normal tights as well as bionic arms.

Good bye and best wishes for the future.

I think the OP is more interested in the look, rather than the effect of the power.

I would like to suggest another rule:

* should fit with the theme of the pack.

In light of this I would like to suggest, as part of the Vampire pack:

Change into Bat: [toggle] gives you fly (slightly slower than regualr fly), as well as a little stealth, ad lowers your threat level by one. Whilst in bat form you cannot use any other powers, and you have -50% resistance to S/L/F/C/NRG.

Why do I have to run into purples? why can't I just blow myself up for debt? why why why?

I think is feels a bit "akward" with the snipe (which is a basically a situational power) available so early.

I would expect a little rejigging of dark Blast when blasters get it.

It seems to me that this disagrement is all about people considerng the feelings of others, and nothing whatsover to do with the cyborg pack.

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And as for oner 50 dealing with a map of 8 spawn, using 7 sked level 10s or 20s, you have to be really really good to do that and not have an untold number of deaths to the lower level (training io) players. Most people are nowhere near that standard.

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All the low level characters have to do is stay out of the way. Frosty Robot can solo an 8 man invincible spawn without even trying, and many other level 50 builds can too.

I like showy toggles. I find both invun and WP to subdued, that one of the reasons I like my Ice tank.

Having blown yourself up, you had to be rebuilt as a cyborg?

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Ever since i12 first came out, Huge type Bane/Crab armor wearing VEATs have been unable to rotate their heads. The head is stiffly fixed to the torso.

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No they can't, never could, never will be able to. The head part is fused to the spine. Thats the way the model works. Thats the price you pay if give players a costume designed for mobs.

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However, I just bought the cyborg pack, and the Auras are horribly misaligned with the head.

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Yers, they are, for the same reason. The bane/crab head isn't really a head at all as far as the animation system works. The only "fix" would be to disable combat auras on arachnos spiders, but the would mean you couldn't have them on wolf spiders either.

Yup, in the 10 second activation time either everything is going to be dead, or you will be dead before the countdown completes.

And then you have to wait an hour to do it again.

Its a useful power but very situational.

Yup, in the 10 second activation time either everything is going to be dead, or you will be dead before the countdown completes.

And then you have to wait an hour to do it again.

Its a useful power but very situational.

There is no chest. It goes with exoproto by default, but thier isn't much chest visible anyway with the bionic arms and chest detail.

Yeah, I got an error on Maestro, so I used my Visa.

/e robotdance is well worth the price of admission.

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In the first year or so of the game, there were disinctly superior sets but they weren't all jumped on disprortionately.

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Yes. There where. Thats why 90% of scrappers where /regen. In fact there still sets that are overpowerd, and hence overplayed, and sets that are underplayed. This is unavoidable, but it is niether good or desirable. If a set is little played it represents a considirable waste of developer effort.

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It's pretty universally agreed that, across the board, Will power exceeds Invul.

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No, it isn't. As I already said, Ivun is much better than WP for aggro magagment. It also does better against burst damage.

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IF the devs wanted one Tanker primary to exceed the others

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Which they didn't, so your argument is falacious.

The testing cost was already paid. The cost of putting it up on the store is minimised by posting it at the same time as the cyborg pack.

Oh, and I find a ball of blu tak very helpful...

You don't want to know how much I spend on gym subs that I hardly use...

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The cost of putting it in the store is tiny compared to what the cost of creating something like the Cyborg pack is.

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I don't remember disputing that.

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So, you are splitting hairs. the cost to put it in the store isn't exactly equal to zero, but its so close to zero as to be insignificant.

The cost of putting it in the store is tiny compared to what the cost of creating something like the Cyborg pack is.

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This is just pathetic and doesn't seem to make much financial sense to me.

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It makes perfect finacial sense, since the thing already existed, it cost them nothing, so all it take is for one person to buy it and it will make a profit.

The game was very different when keldians where added back in issue 3. It was assumed that there would always be lots of players around looking fro teams, so picking up a couple of controllers for mez protection would be quite easy.

The concept of an inherent did not exist back then. That was developed for CoV, and didn't start to be added until issue 5. So Cosmic Balance/Dark Sustinace where designed specifically to buff human form to keep competative with Nova and Dwarf forms, which already had big inherent boosts to damage and resistance.

So, while keldians need updating now, to keep up with changes in the game, the original design was not stupid. Even without, the current issues can be worked around with a bit of thought. Shields ineffective because of mezzes? Don't take them! There are plenty of other powers to choose from. The strong self heals constitute a PBs best defense. If you try to build a keldian like a scrapper you are doomed. You need to approach it as a squishy with a few defenses, similar to those available in APP/PPPs.

Mobs with to hit buffs.

Fire damage.

Or, if you have enough recharge to make Hasten perma, you should automatically have enough recharge to make Hoarfrost and Rage perma.

If you haven't got perma-Hasten, you have to leave Hasten's 70% out of your calculations, since it wont always be up, so your power wont always be perma.