Rush_Bolt

That's because the Illusionist was phase shifted when Ion hit-checked on her.


As for the mechanics of how/why Ion with multi-hit?
Ion Judgment works in the same way as other "chain" type powers: It gives the initial target a power which asks it to select a friendly target then fire off an auto-hitting attack. Usually this is followed immediately with a "no bounce backs" flag to prevent the chain from jumping back and forth fully between just two targets (which would be awesome).

But see, that "no bounce backs" applies to the target it sends it to, NOT the targets following that. And since Ion differs from other chainers in that it jumps to multiple targets immediately instead of just to one, the number of enemies not affected by that "no bounce back" flag increases dramatically very quickly.

IOW:
Target A is first and bounces to Target B.
Target B cannot bounce back to A, but can bounce to Targets C, and D.
Target C cannot bounce back to B, but can bounce to Targets A and D.

Get it?

Creator statements were that Snarf will be more of just a pet (who says "snarf" in the way a cat says "meow") and won't be the annoying, talking fuzzball of the original.

Oh yeah.

Jimmy: "Superman's turned into a real di-"
Lois: "-fferent person!"

To cash in on the cult classicness of the original.

But really though, all this is going to end up as is either:
Another pipe dream never to see reality
or
A movie which attempts to retain the original's "so bad its good" status, but fails spectacularly and becomes "so bad its horrible."

Yep.

It only gets confusing once you start tossing around -RES debuffs and stuff.

Worst part about this? My first thought was "Well with mag that high, they'll just get knocked right out of the AoE and be fine."

The story reason?

Unknown, but for some reason the Kheldians decided not to come to Earth in the Praetorian dimension. It's also unknown if the Nictus were present back in ancient Praetorian history either, but since there's no lingering presence of anything relating to the Path of the Dark or of Shadowstar, it's unlikely they did.

Perhaps in the Praetorian dimension, Kheldians are fiercely xenophobic isolationists instead of expansionist Nictus and exploratory Peacebringers.

I would pay good money to see that.

The benefits of Targeting Drone are that it:
1) Provides more +ToHit (to the user) than Tactics
2) Costs less END to run
3) Does not require a prerequisite power selection

So you can choose to have more personal gain for less investment and cost, or have less personal gain for more investment, but greater team gain.


Smoke Grenade does not aggro on its own. It does, however, cause stealth suppression. Perhaps he was using Cloaking Device/Stealth and got too close to the foes when activating Smoke Grenade?

The other possibility is that he has a proc IO slotted into Smoke Grenade. While SG is flagged not to aggro, procs are not. If you put a proc into a non-aggro power, it WILL cause aggro.

Infinite Stamina? Sure, that's fine. Provided of course that it means +25% Recovery.

Infinite Recovery? lolno

Infinite Endurance? lolololololno

Thanks for this one.

Been a long time since I watched a launch. Simply beautiful.

So long as you don't mind the implication that Superman likes dogs in that way, sure.

Then again, if I wanted to be very cynical, I could point out that you're saying changing Lois Lane to a non-white race is equivalent to changing her to an animal. Rather unfortunate implications.

For a completely new player, I would suggest starting out as a Hero. Praetoria is a perfectly viable choice, yes, but its content is slightly more advanced in both complexity and difficulty than the original City of Heroes starting content.

The CoH stuff will get you started and teach you the basics of the game quite handily which you can then roll up another character in Praetoria to use that experience to the fullest.


With the GR Complete Collection, you did unlock the Alpha and Omega costume sets. They are available to you from the very start.


You can come pretty close to duplicating existing characters. I would advise against this though since the GMs frown upon it (and it has gotten the game into hot water in the past).