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I believe it stems from fantasy MMORPGs (or MUDs even) when a player's weapon would be reduced in effectiveness in an effort to balance the game.

It comes from the phrase "You turned my sword into a nerf bat".

Thus "nerfing" something became synonymous with making something weaker.

"Hit with the nerf bat" is a derivitive, but still sees its origin in the original 'sword' phrase, and can be applied to systems outside of the normal weapon and loot ones.

Personally, I hate the word, and try never to use it when talking about the game to players. It carries a very negative stigma that I like to avoid whenever possible.

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I was under the impression that the ARchers in EQ were quite powerful, and they introduced a significant decrease in power, to which someone indicated they felt like they were shooting nerf arrows. I'm sure their are plenty of origin stories for the nerf term, but it is based off of the soft, difficulty to harm others material.

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When were there archers in EQ?

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How do you burn someone with nerf fire?
That doesn't even make any sense at all.

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Yeah, that makes almost as little sense as the way fire tankers used to be able to herd dozens of minions onto themselves and kill them all effortlessly with burn to powerlevel themselves.

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I was being sarcastic, you doodooface.

How do you burn someone with nerf fire?
That doesn't even make any sense at all.

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Valhalla is a new VG of about 2 weeks, they have a full roster of players and have generated over 1.5 million prestige in the two weeks since they started the group.
They have a workshop, two fully operational telepads, a medbay, and are begining to build the base for pvp.

If you are interested in joining, please send an email to Super D in game.

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*crickets chirp*

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Hasn't made it to the Dev digest yet... .

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It has now

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You know i was wondering about this today.... States has taken a step back, Posi is our leading hero for now... But where has the Legendary Manticore gone??

/em grabs the fashlight arrow and says: "come out come out wehre ever u are"...

BTW manticore if u see this my villian side would like to know how many damn arrows u can shoot out of that little bow for your rain of arrows attack :P (just so i know for when i defeat you:P)

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Actually, I'm waiting to hear what happened to Geko. _Castle_ does a great job, but i swore Geko was the man in full charge of designing powersets, and he's not posted since January.

Gone, long gone?

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I'm pretty sure he's been busy making the powersets for the boxed expansion.

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You can learn more about Manticore, his mysterious absence, and his hot torrid love affair with Sister Psyche in "The Penthouse Letters of Manticore", coming this fall from Troy Hickman.

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lol now that shameless plug should be enough to draw him out

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"Dear Penthouse Forum,

I'm a superheroic archer at a small midwestern college, and I never thought anything like this could happen to me..."

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Oh, I'm still around. Have no fear about that.
It's an ivy league college...and yes it's difficult staying one step ahead of a woman that can read your every thought.

Did you guys miss the "suggest the plot for a City of Heroes comic issue" contest? I am hard at work on the script for Issue 16 based on an entry I selected from the many hundreds of submissions.

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*Curls up around Manticore*

Mmmmm...Manticore: it looks good on ya.

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You're really creepy.

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NOTE: You can only earn the The Lord Recluse Strike Force reward once every *24 hours* This is by design to help prevent farming.

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Per account or per character?

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Million dollar question, innit?

Sounds good. I have a gamepad that I tried to use with CoH once.
Didn't work out so well

That is one doozy of a necro.

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And more importantly, unless Azuria lied about her birthdate to MAGI, she's less than 10 in the book. So...um...what about that?

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Magic

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Uh... since when has Azuria been competent enough to cast a "Don't steal this [censored] jewel" spell, let alone anything related to aging?
She must be an Arachnos operative.

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Cuppa's been trying, but she has yet to be able to convince the devs to throw us a bone.

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IF we were to ever add a way to get Isolator post-Tutorial, it would most likely be incredibly hard to get. Annoyingly hard. Irritatingly hard. There-would-be-a-zillion-people-asking-to-make-it-easier hard.

But IF we were to add it, it would be available nonetheless.

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Blast that Positron!
His statement is so accurate!

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That was pretty much my reaction, too.

All the physics are client side only, and no information about them is passed from client to server -- so, it's strictly a visual on your machine. That means, there is no way for people to play volleyball, or kickball. We could put one in that only you, the player, would see, but I imagine that isn't what everyone would like.

Sorry, folks.

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What's wrong with just making it a targettable object with 100% damage resistance and 100% knockback vulnerability?
As far as I'm aware knockback is server side... right?

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Yay. I claim 1 influence each usage of the term "thread necromancy"!!

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You SO did not invent that term.

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but I did manage to get some time in to at least pull spawns out front of mission doors and remove some of the nastier mission doors in the HEART of the Perez Park maze.

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YES YES YES THANK YOU
*hands War Witch the "Favorite Dev" award*

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Er when I try to D/L the comic it says "421 Anonymous logins not allowed here".

First time I've seen that.

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Yeah, what's up with that?
D:

What was the assault change thing?
Using their secondary powers in PvP give them more Domination points now?

Contaminated spawn one at a time inside the Tram in RV.
It was hero controlled at the time.

A runaway bus of nuns crashes into a runaway bus of rockstars, killing Einstein.

Amazingly, the nuns survived.

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No was not thinking of that at all. Who would be the best person to ask?


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_Castle_ or Positron

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In the lobby of the watchtower in Grandville is a statue of each of Lord Recluse's lieutenants. At the base of this statue is a plaque that, when you click on, brings up a text box with tabs. The tabs are for the Archetype, and it goes into detail about the powers (including the hard numbers) that that Patron will give that Archetype. (Thus you can easily look at all the patron powers for your AT, and even those not for your AT).

You are given a mission to visit each of these plaques before you choose your patron.

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Wow, sounds nice.
Now... about all the other powers...

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Well, those who said the Patron Powers would have to be very, very similar across the Patrons weren't wrong. They seem to follow enough of a set pattern that no one pool is outstandingly different from any other. For example:

Brutes get: Ranged single-target attack, AoE Immob, ranged AoE damage, Pet.

Doms get: Attack OR End buff, Armour, ranged AoE damage, pet.

This isn't a criticism.

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Flying ghost sharks.

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Where's the focused accuracy?

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Pfft, focused accuracy is for scrappers.

I thought defense past 95% didn't matter except for things that do -defense?

This thread reads so much better in swedish

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Patron Powers are truly permanent. This powerset, once chosen, is as much a part of your character as your Name, Primary Powerset, Secondary Powerset, Body Type, and Origin.

There is currently no way for us to let you re-spec out of them and into a different one. This is because it is tied to specific content for that Patron.

Because of this, hard numbers are given, in-game, about the powers and what they do before you even choose which arc you wish to partake (and will most likely be available on the website as well).

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Oh, and since you'll be giving hard numbers, that flies in the face of the statement one of you made that you can't give meaningful numbers for all the powers.

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The patron powers aren't all the powers.