Schismatrix

i may be remaking Rave Troll. "Cry havoc and let slip the drum machines of war!"
Titan Weapons/Energy Aura. Bright, multicolored auras of course.
Currently he's Archery/EM.

That is remarkably goofy looking. i fully endorse it.*

















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There's also set mule as a reason.

Quite. Although as far as i'm concerned it doesn't need to be a traditional scythe as long as it's scythe-like.

Everyone likes Zwippopotami.

Zwiebacktoast>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>J_B.

Now i could be wrong, but it looks to me like that would be the Titan Weapons equivalent of the Parry animation.

Apostrophes killed my dog.

Two handed weapon set. Therefore not usable with shields just like all the other two handed weapon sets.

i seem to recall that most analyses show Build Up powers as a net loss of DPS in attack chains, but useful for initial spike damage. Putting it on auto would simply be a loss of DPS by that metric.

And i'm glad you're the one who will be receiving the love in this case.

(Seriously though, awesome job.)

In this game all gore happens off camera. That said, some storylines do have characters killing, but it's always written, not explicitly shown.

If someone wants blood and gore they should go play one of the other superhero MMOs that let you decapitate your foes in a fountain of blood. Of course they might have to wait a bit for someone to make one...

Are you psassing us?!

It's actually the latter, not the former.

'ang on, i'll see if i can locate the pic.

Ah, here we go:

No word yet on whether the warning lights will flash.

Ah, okay. So an edge case that can usually be avoided then. Part of my confusion was that i think of Build Up as a power in itself, not something that gets "killed".

i have found it slightly annoying that i had to choose between setting Active Defense and Rage on auto myself, but i've almost never had issues with Practiced Brawler interfering with Build Up over the years, and the dynamic is the same as with Active Defense. (And SR even has recharge boosts built into the set.)

It was a really nice emote. i'm hoping it becomes available to players soon. One of the rewards for the new Halloween event seems like a good fit.

This.

Good news everyone!

While they did lower the zone caps i know Virtue has as many as 5 or 6 AP instances at times, and the new caps aren't nearly as low as 20% of the old caps...

Everything i've seen suggests quite a few more players now.

This is a very good suggestion. By the time you get loads of recharge bonuses basic IOs are really cheap to make anyway, so even if you exemp down it would be no big deal to swap in new IOs.

Just a tiny request: would you consider ending questions with a question mark? (<-It looks a lot like that.)

To answer your unmarked questions more or less in order:
1) It is active defense. You have to actively use it. Passive defenses are always on without the player doing anything.

2) It's a click because the Devs wanted it to be a click. Click mez protections do have advantages and disadvantages, much like toggle mez protections. A couple of the advantages are that end drain cannot shut down your protection and you can potentially stack them.

3) Not really a question, but i'm not sure what "It kills a power with build up." even means. Even rereading it a couple times i'm still not sure what your point was in writing that.

4) Nope, we cannot make it a toggle. Players have no ability to change game mechanics or power coding. The most useful approach is to private message one of the relevant Devs and to post in either the Powers Discussion or Suggestions forum. Of course you'll need to come up with some really convincing arguments to justify a change that the Devs obviously do not consider necessary. It's not like Super Reflexes' Practiced Brawler wasn't using the exact same design for years before Shield Defense was created, and it still uses it now. Incidentally, "just because I'd like it more as a toggle" would not be convincing argument.

i'm surprised there were queues on Freedom during what would be early afternoon to late morning in the US. i would expect it a few hours later mid week. Still, it is both good and somewhat vexing.

One of the early post-Freedom queue misconceptions that amused me the most was that some actually thought that it meant that it would kick the free players off the server to make room for a VIP.

But yeah, even if VIPs get bumped ahead in the queue they'd still have to wait until all the VIPs waiting ahead of them got in. i have no idea what the ratio of VIP to Premium and Free players is, but considering that until very recently they were 100% of the population i would expect that VIPs continue to be something like a majority of players.

Tacos?

"Learn patience and reading? Yeah yeah. How long will that take?"

Nah, it's just that i already have too many arcs open blueside, so i'm only taking on arcs i can finish as i head back to clear out some of my hero arcs. Then my little goblin may head redside again to take in some more of the local flavor. i've already handed the engineer of the local plot railroad, Lord Brown, his ***, but there are so many others accessible redside deserving of a good smacking, both 'hero' and 'villain.'