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but you have a cuter avatar Deeply Thawed! with or without Sally

Thats because you are good person, a good father and I can tell from some of our convo's a good son.

Lady Eden has one of my favorite mythological/ historical figures as a character name, and a personal favorite holiday

Yegeny is the only person I know who makes a character that smokes cigarettes, "not to be cool" but just because it seems right.

that and right after he shaves his head you can use it as a mirror... =)

Whale was one of the first people I met during the July 4th Cape Party LAST year in galaxy city....and watched him breakdance and listen to fish heads....i was laughing so hard I knew I had to stick around for the rest of the party

Septa leads a good hami raid /nods/

Edit: Happy Birthday Skrankinator!!

Jenny D likes Pie. and that is always good and nice.

Boscoe can eat corn dogs like no ones business

Edit: Celara is "always" on duty to help....and makes a great cat girl....

Suggestion: Don't change the AV damage, change the tank HP. Let them 1 shot everyone else, thats fine. Let tanks be tanks and give them more HP to be that tank.

Best of Luck to your brother

/salute/

May he return home safely with the rest, someday.

and keep posting the way you do. don't let anyone change it. As a few have already said, those are some of the best posts.

Decent changes, I weep for losing my single target hold at lvl 1.....

I kid, its a reasonable alteration

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I love this man

Plasma Stream
Virtue Server

To Steal an idea from a single person is Plagarism.

To Steal an idea from the enemy is Gathering Intelligence

therefor I dub the world my enemy

My thoughts on Blood of the Black Stream, which were largely shouted down by others before, but still remain my thoughts are that they are Pirate Based

Something we were told with I5 is that to think Errol Flynn

well that does mean Archery per Robin Hood with him and Olivia DeHaviland.

However, Errol Flynn also did multiple movies based on Piracy and being at sea, such as well "The Sea Hawk" and "Captain Blood"

and the name is to me reminiscent of many "comic" style organizations and brotherhoods (rarely sisterhoods) of pirates.


Just a thought or two.

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FYI

Jack (i.e. me) has a BA in Classical Civilization, a MA in Ancient History and a MA in Greek & Latin. My specialty: ancient religion. I know ancient Greek, Latin, Italian, French, German, some Aramaic, Coptic, etc.

Basically, I'm EXTREMELY picky with mythology. Trust me on that.

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I'm scared now

Happy Birthday Jack!

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So I was on with my SG on Champion a while ago, and we were doing the Positron TF. At one point, we were ambush right in front of Positron and Valkyrie. So here's all these guys shooting at us, trying to kill us, and Mr. Bigshot "I got my armor upgraded" and Ms. "I have this fancy spear that none of you can get!" are just kinda standing there watching.

THANKS A LOT, LEGENDARY HEROES!

Seriously, though, it would be cool if the trainers got some sort of automated power similar to the police drones. There's just something wrong about the eight most famous heroes in all of Paragon city standing there watching you get pounded on.

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All that crap is grey to me, no XP.

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/spit take/

Would it be possible to do a

/power_lock

or some such to lock powers into positions. I tend to be a clicking fiend during some fights and have powers set in specific orders in my trays. I would like to be able to keep them in that order until i choose to change them insted of accidentally dragging and dropping them or switching them with another power during an intense combat.

Would that be difficult to add?

This seems an intelligent, planned and researched change

I like it.

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I wouldn't panic just yet. It sucks totally, I agree, but I think he got caught in the logisitics. I imagine they have to merge patches from Test to Live wholesale, and any chances to Test (even database changes to power effects) have to go through an approval process so they're not instantaneous.

I figure the gutted form of Rage went live mostly because it was bundled with some long-suffering fixes (see: Stone Armor, Dark Armor) and there was no time for the approval process to fix it back. They may also not want to fix it back until they have an alternate solution.

Said alternate solution needs to come ASAP tho. Seems like a lot of SS Tankers (esp. the Inv/SS kind) are understandably very nervous now...

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I think this is likely correct

I also would expect States to apologize for it going live as is

I also expect alot of people to flip their lid, blame states, threaten to quit, insult Statesman, stop trusting him, and generally act like cry babies.

I beleive all of the above are true and likely to occur.

and re reading this im too lazy to fix my typos

I believe in pie too.

Good changes, I like the long term ones

Might i suggest if possible.....that on "Bomb" missions, those all be timed. There is no sense of urgency on a bomb being defused if you have unlimited time to worry about it.

Just thank you to the devs and all at Cryptic

Pie needs to be served.

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Being a level 50 NRG/NRG blaster. I am enjoying reading over this and finding almost everything here accurate. ..I do also use SS + Stealth to manuever. But have kept both fly and hover both however have movement speed in them.

The only reason I can see to Keep fly is , impatience in my case...

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So you feel the ease of maneuverability with fly outweighs the speed and defense of combat jumping/sj/acrobatics?

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In my case? yes. But it is also a matter of playing style. Being a roleplayer ((::waits to be crucified:) I found flight made more sense to the character when I first began play.

In retrospect as I look over all the levels, and listen to alot of people that I know and leveled with. With my current build..as it was, never Respecing (except onceto remove bone smasher)). I can only say this:
I have never hit the debt cap
I have never recieved more than 2 Bubbles of Debt (close but not quite)
My debt has never exceeded 300K at any one point in time.
If you snipe the thing that can hold you while you are stealthed then it can't hold you.

Over all. It is all about play style. by all means Acrobatics/SJ/CJ is ideal for ultimate defense, but i run with 3 slotted Stealth, 1 Defense in hover and have little problems. 3 slotted swift more than compensates for the stealth decrease in speed and then some.

My choice was Hover/flight. Both of which only post 42 began to get Slots for speed.

So ultimately, its an opinion of which you feel better suits your play style and character. Just sayin what worked for this gal.


Edit: It should be noted a few of my choices will probably change when the Epic Power Pools are fully published and I have time to analyze which will fit the build of the character. At current, epic fire manipulation sounds likely. It depends on the two unlisted powers, but rise of the phoenix would be a nice addition.

Being a level 50 NRG/NRG blaster. I am enjoying reading over this and finding almost everything here accurate. I go with Ms KNight on the 3dmg/3Recharge on Nova. With Hasten I nova ever 2 minutes and 30 seconds. without the Recharges it was close to 3:30 between uses.

I found that the recharge time on it outweighs the slightly decreased damage which can easily be compensated by Red Skittles as i like to call em. I do also use SS + Stealth to manuever. But have kept both fly and hover both however have movement speed in them.

The only reason I can see to Keep fly is , impatience in my case, and my own personal use of GROUP FLY in the Shadow Shard, with 2 Movements in it, it has a pretty good flight rate, and if you Auto follow one of your group members instead of them following you no outdistancing.

on Build up/AIM/Sniper,

I compiled this data here one night at 3am when I was bored in a Portal mission with nice squishy no ranged attack werewolves, in an attempt to better my effeciency

LVL 44
Sniper
DMG 45+
DMG 45+
DMG 45+
DMG 45+
DMG 45+

Damage Solo
White Con LT, Beta Werewolf
253 E, 96 S
Damage With Build Up
White Con LT
344 E, 131 S
Damage with Build Up/AIM
358 E, , 136 S
Damage with AIM
309 E, 117 S


Now this is the same test with 6 damage
LVL 44
Sniper
DMG 45++ x 6
Yellow Con: LT / Nemesis lvl 44
Damage Solo
354 E / 135 S = 489
Damage With Build Up
430 E / 163 S = 593
Damage with Build Up/AIM
430 E / 163 S= 593
Damage with AIM
422 E/160 S = 582

Don't pay as much attention to the actual numbers as we are dealing with different levels of Resistance to damage, ((the werewolves i was targetting had dark armor on them))

Mostly pay attention to what the Cap is and how much difference there is between using Build up AND AIM, vs Just build up.

What I found is that I can instead with a few red skittles, Cycle my build up and AIM. Build Up Sniper, and follow up shot as needed. then AIM and follow up shot which is usually needed, Rinse and Repeat

Hope this adds something to the excellent posts above

Will head of the Hydra be "Retro-d" to those who have charmer?