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Defiantly not Scots!

(dead rhymes with bead, again rhymes with pin.)

You can be sure that in movie-land even electric cars explode in massive fireballs...

It's established that some Time Lords have far more control over regeneration than others. Romana could select her appearance at will. The Master's backstory suggests he used regeneration as a disguise, and he deliberately chooses a younger (John Simm) appearance to parallel the 10th Doctor.

No, and probably for good reason. There are times I switch my damage aura off because I don't want the agro.

My Staff Brute's only skipped power is Precise Strike. I have Mercurial because it can take Achilles Heal. The extra accuracy of PS might cause me to switch next respec though.

The episode "The Doctor's Wife" establishes that Time Lords can change gender via regeneration.

If you go back to "Lungbarrow" and some other writings (not canon in the current continuity) then gender is no longer relevant to Time Lord reproduction anyway.

1) Since the game isn't able to do that, I don't see your point.

2) People who complain about EBs would still complain about ambush spawns, things that add tactical complexity, and pretty much anything that doesn't involve NPC mobs standing around like pinatas waiting to be smashed.

But, as I have already pointed out, Dean McArthur/Leonard don't do what you think it does. Warrior of the Deep doesn't want an army! He doesn't even know what a clone is! He would rather just eat D-Mac as a tasty snack.

It is - you can choose not to play story arcs. Which, your selective memory seems to forget, have ALWAYS featured strong opponents (AVs initially). Why do you think you get reward merits for arcs and not for newspaper missions? Higher difficulty = higher rewards.

But difficulty "free to choose" works both ways - I want to be free to choose difficulty settings other than piss-easy. Removing EBs, NPC helpers, ambush spawns, and they other added complexities that you whine about, would take that away.

When people think it's less scary than Dr Who, I doubt that...

But why, Megaforce is perfect as it is!

As the difficulty scales at the moment, it's not possible to scale EBs down, which would mean removing all EBs and AVs from all soloable content. And ambush spawns. And mobs that move. And pretty much anything that can fight.

I don't want my fun spoiled because, basically, people can't play.

I really, really can't imagine how anyone could be so bad at this game as to find finds EBs difficult...

No, I meant people are also whining about the Malaise fight.

Where you playing with "no bosses", or more than x1?

Because my allies managed fine. They went down eventually, but not towards the end of the second stage, while I was briefly incapacitated.

I've done First Ward with a Blaster, arguably the most squishy AT in the game. Didn't think it was particularly difficult.

My cat can do it with a Brute.

I'm no ace player, but seriously, if you can't fight EBs, you aren't doing it right. CoH is easy.

Balancing all content for lowest common denominator players is not a good way to go.

Targeting Drone? I never said anything about Targeting Drone! I said Gun Drone! I did, I swear on Statesman's grave!

Many of the ranged and melee attacks are the same, and many of the self buffs. The control powers have different names, but they are still control powers, and Gun Drone is very like a Dominator pet (but much weaker).

But if you say "it's not mirrored because the powersets aren't exactly the same" then you have nothing to worry about - increasing blaster control isn't going to change the powersets into Dominator powersets, so they won't be mirrored (by your definition).

In other words, depending on how you define "mirror" either,

1) Blasters and Dominators are already mirrored, and increasing Blaster control won't change that,

or

2) Blasters and Dominators aren't mirrored, and increasing Blaster control won't change that.

You played one recently?


Dominators have control, ranged damage, and melee damage.

Blasters have ranged damage, melee damage, and control.

They share the same def/res mods.

Sorry, I don't see where "not a mirror" is happening...

You don't get to be first by being fortunate, you get to be first by being creative.

They didn't need to be changed, because the mirrored each other from the start. As did corruptors and defenders.

Stalkers where changed to more closely mirror Scrappers though.


IMO Blasters have always mirrored Dominators, with higher damage backed up by weaker control-as-mitigation. It's just that Blaster control secondaries are so weak some people didn't notice them.

No, it isn't simple. Not even close. What are your arcs on AE? I would love to see your genius writing skills.

Sure, but that doesn't mean playing through the clone factory arc doesn't seem like bad writing, because I either have to not play it, or perform out-of-character dialogue and actions.