Sailboat

Haven't gotten a hardcore Scrapper to 50 yet. I did get a Broadsword/Shield Scrapper, Zulu Time, to level 44 in the Iron Eagles before a trio of Master Illusionists defeated him. He didn't have significant IO defense bonuses, either (I mostly Frankenslotted his powers). That was some time back.

I do have the Unmitigated Gaul to try again, though. (He's another BS/Shield Scrap rising in the ranks at 29.)

I've seen several players choose Explosive Blast over Energy Torrent. ET animates faster, recharges quicker, and does (slightly) more damage, although it's shorter range and caps at 10 targets instead of 16. Is it the range that's persuading people to put the proc into Explosive Blast?

So far the only one I've actually committed to using I put into Shockwave on a Claws/WP Scrapper, and I really like the result.

With apologies to Organica (and Paul Simon):

50 Ways To Visit Ouro

The problem is all inside your head she said to me
The answer is easy if you read the damn Wiki
You’ll get to randomize the game’s chronology
There must be fifty ways to visit Ouro.

No need in broadcast or in Wentworth’s to intrude
With great
Temporal power you will somehow be imbued
But I'll repeat myself at the risk of being crude
There must be fifty ways to visit Ouro
Fifty ways to visit Ouro.

Just slip into RV,
See
Just save Mr. States
Mates
Work for Agent G,
See
Or maybe Doc D.

You don't need to be fifty
(Nifty!)
Mail from Requiem
Ahem
Just get off your ***,
Class,
And run Marshal Brass.

As are Tankers in COH.

Certainly a key goal of good game design is to offer choices which are roughly equivalent in effectiveness. Rock-Scissors-Scissors sucks as a game, even if "Rock" fans advocate otherwise.

Can you put more than one on the same character, or are you talking about two different characters?

Is this true? Are they planning on changing it? Even on Tornado?

Why? If it's for the knockback-to-knockdown proc, seems to me like I wouldn't want to, for two reasons. Procs are more useful on fast-recharging attacks, which the new nukes won't be, and a lower-damage Nova might leave stuff alive, which you'd prefer to have knocked back and ragdolled, because that puts them out of action a lot longer than knockdown.

Note: A Controller's Brawl does get the Containment bonus.

[Samuel L. Jackson] Hold on to your butts! [/Samuel L. Jackson]

I'm guessing this is what the OP refers to.

Well, what about weapon claws that look like fingers, and some transparent overlay replacing the fist (to minimize or remove it)? Just fake the open hand look?

Indeed, that's exactly what happened.

You may certainly be right.

However, in my dozen years or so of online gaming, I've seen numberless claims that "no one else has access to my account" turn out to be not as true as the initial poster believed. "Oh, uh, my brother admitted..." or "...And I've been getting malware popups ever since visiting that hack/cheat site" or "My girlfriend/boyfriend is jealous of my game time" being the big three ultimate causes, typically. Similarly, I've been an administrator on a game site and seen a surprising number of forum accounts compromised and in those cases it's always been a security lapse of some kind -- in one case, a keylogger downloaded from a gardening site, of all things.

Again, I'm not saying you're wrong -- I'm just explaining everyone's skepticism. In threads like this, it's "always" denied that any human agency could have intentionally done it, and it it seems like it "always" turns out to be sabotage, theft, meddling, or the four-year-old.

Your security precautions sound ironclad...except for the one thing. The fact that you take such extreme precautions, including changing your passwords regularly, makes me wonder if you have might reason to worry about the intentions of someone in your house or with access to your machine. A roommate of questionable character, an annoying sibling, what have you.

Just in case it does turn out to be human agency and not a bug, one thing you could do while you wait for an official response is to run the typical diagnostics on your machine (they're descibed in a pinned post somewhere, I forget the exact names) and post them here for the forum's technically-inclined folks to pore over -- sometimes they spot a keylogger or something like that. Might not help, of course, but it's something to do while you wait.

Best of luck, I know I'd be unhappy if it happened to me.

What happens if you're in a mission when the LFG popup comes up? Do you have to run back to the door really fast, or will accepting the popup port you into the event?

Props to the play on words, but I kind of think of Plant as an early bloomer -- you get Seeds at 8, and you're pretty much set at that point.

Say what? How does my "with SOs" become your "Yes, WITH IO's and pool powerS?"

Minerals (and all the other armors, under the proposed change) base defense: 25% defense

Three Defense Buff Single-Origin Enhancements take that up to the ED cap, (x1.56) = 39% defense

Weave on a Tanker: 5.63% base defense

Three Defense Buff Single-Origin Enhancements take that up to the ED cap, (x1.56) = 8.78% defense

39% +7.78%= 47.78% defense, over the soft cap with NO IOs and only ONE pool power.

Like those other games that died. Chess, checkers, poker, Monopoly, Yahtzee, tennis, baseball, cricket, Battleship, D&D...so many great games that only lasted a few years before people flitted off to other interests.

(No, I don't seriously think COH will last as long as Chess, or even Monopoly. But the concept that people stop playing a particular game seems to have originated with computer games, and it might not yet turn out to be the case with all computer games. Our sample range is pretty small.)