Simian_Stalker

Originally Posted by Giant2005

And you don't consider that dishonorable? If someone wants that product, the no longer have to pay the minimum that they would have without your input, they have to pay the minimum + whatever mark up you decide to put on there.

If the Joker decided to buy all the Utility Belts in the World and re-sell them for prices Batman could not afford, the world's most popular superhero would be reduced to quite a boring character.

Originally Posted by eryq2

I don't get it, really. I pl'd a new Fire/Thorns/Ice dom over last weekend (fri and sat) and IO'd it to soft cap snl defense with 160% rech sunday.

Your project is just to hit 50 and use WW along the way to IO at 50 in 30 days?

A tougher project would to be run a toon to 50, and try to IO a toon at 50 with whatever you get along the way. And only use the influence that you make along te way. It's a more realistic project showing that without messing with WW/BM it can't be done. (the awesome part anyways) To hit 50 and IO is what everyone does anyways. Or am i missing something other than the name AE Baby not ran in AE?

Pretty toon though, btw. I just don't get the reasoning here.

Originally Posted by Grey Pilgrim

I think Cobra Strike is a stun, and probably would stay that way if they port it. Eagle's Claw has a stun chance on it, too (or 100%, can't recall off the top of my head), so you'd want that, I would think. I'd also say that I hope Cobra Strike can get some kind of ranged ability or something... a major weakness of stun in EM is that it is not ranged. Probably depends on if the other powers in the set make up for it, though.

Also... I think you have too many attacks. I think most sets with them have two earlier ones and then the big hitter. Not sure what should go... Crane Kick is nice for the KB and does good damage, but Thunder has a chance for stun. Definitely would want to keep Storm Kick. Not sure what to put in its place... cal trops, perhaps... pretty good utility power in Ninjitsu. Perhaps Smoke Flash or something?

The chi ideas are interesting... wonder if they'd let the defense one be a toggle, though. If you are going to balance it out with Stealth and such from Devices, you'll want to make it defense to all, not just S/L. That way it works for a larger variety of build types. Slow resist is probably a little high as well... 20% is the number you usually see get thrown into the powers that offer slow resist (40% is pretty big on its own, and it's not too hard to enhance that after the many winter events over the years).

Originally Posted by Bionut911

This is a very well thought out build, but i have one question. Is that power similar to quickness/weave a defense toggle..? If so that basically voids the "rule of thumb" for blaster secondaries.

If it were a click that would be much better, considering the only blaster secondaries with toggles that provide self--buffs is devices. This would be a bit unbalanced because unlike devices, which is a majority of self buffs and no actual melee combat, your MA set would have melee with toggle self buffs, which is a no-no for blaster secondaries.

Although a click may be better, recharge would have to be bumped up though. I personally think it would be better as a click, because like boost range it could be easily made perma and it won't suppress during holds.

Originally Posted by Ironblade

Oh, I dunno. I sometimes run the six Freedom Phalanx TF's in order, plus Moonfire, Hess and Katie in there.

Originally Posted by Zombie Man

The good news from Ustream:

1. Proliferation will continue until there is nothing left to proliferate (that should be understood as "within reason").

2. Future 'new' sets will come fully proliferated. To me, this should mean that Stalkers will get Titan Weapon melee, otherwise, this is not a true statement.

Originally Posted by StratoNexus

I love the new system, that kind of delay should have always existed. Three things could be done to improve the system.

1) A visual countdown timer should pop up for anyone in the queued league. Five minutes is not a long time, but feels much longer when it is an unknown quantity, especially when we feel tied to our computers for fear of missing the green button.

2) The leader of a league who enters the queue should in some way be able signify they want to keep the league star. If multiple leagues enter the queue with a leader desiring to keep the star AND they are small enough to join into one league, the larger league leader keeps the star. If both leagues are the same size, the one who entered the queue first keeps the star. In the event of the inevitable possible tie, it would have to be random.

3) Some type of server wide event notification should be made if the league size minimum is reached (which would be usually for a preformed that stays open, most people do not queue up until they know they can actually start the trial). That way, as soon as you queue up, the whole server is notified that there is a trial they can also queue up to join. Bonus points if the event notification includes the league leaders name.