SlyGuyMcFly
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Quote:Basically this.Originally Posted by Doc_Reverend
The same thing that separates the supervillains from the villains: PRESENTATION!
John McClane is a action hero because he doesn't dress up.
The Punisher is a super(anti)hero because he dresses up.
Obviously, there's more to PRESENTATION! than dressing up, but I think that's the core idea - being willing to even dress up is where PRESENTATION! starts.
And yes. PRESENTATION! must always be written like that. -
Quote:Makes sense to me!Originally Posted by Geratron
I guess Manticore was carrying around his Idiot Ball arrow.
Manti going off the deep end is looking a pret-ty sure thing.Quote:I'm betting Manticore will be a hardcore vigilante or full blown villain by the end of this. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Egos_Shadow
I think the Shining Stars have pretty much written Flambeaux off. I mean, on tip missions you're constantly running into people trying to reform Mangle (Mangle of all people - I mean, why not try that goodie-goodie stuff with Echnida? Echnida just needs a hug, but Mangle is bugf*@# crazy) but everyone just seems to be hoping Flambeaux will go away.
That's because nobody wants Flambeaux on their side. And who can blame them? That girl is so dumb it's safer for Paragon City to have her as a Villain.
Anyway. 1.000.000.000 on the one with the blue hair.
Fusionette's a ditz, and I do love poking fun at her, but she usually pulls through at the end of the day and is a decent person overall.
Flambeaux... Sometimes I wonder how Flambeaux hasn't forgotten how breathing works and died of stupid. -
Quote:Crap crap crap where's the delete button >.<Originally Posted by Ogi
Shhhhhh. You're going to give the Devs ideas and they've already got the taste of blood.
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Quote:Same here. That minotaur is nasty.Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
I've soloed him on an admittedly small stable of Incarnate characters, but only one of my Controllers required pinning him in the lava because of low damage output... every other character I have was able to defeat him in actual combat. (I generally had more trouble with the boss of the following mission, which is just a normal boss encounter.)
As for Trapdoor, use the same old tactic that beats any solo encounter in the game:
1 Buy Luck x4.
2 Buy Enrage x16.
3 Eat them all.
4 Win. -
Quote:Well put. Faultline and Fusionette are ten times the characters any in the Freedom Phalanx are.Originally Posted by Agent White
You could wipe out most of the Phalanx and most players wouldn't really have a feeling one way or the other. That's just kind of their problem, they're not so much characters as they are cardboard cutouts. We never interact with them, 95% of the time in game they're just tag along NPCs that spout 2-4 lines of dialogue. The other 5% they're TF contacts for missions that really don't involve them in any way, so they're just the figurehead saying "Go do this, it'd probably be bad if it isn't stopped". The SSAs are one of the few times we're really getting to see any kind of character development in game with them.
Edit: Exception would be Positron and to a lesser extent Numina thanks to the Mortimer Kal Strike Force. They get some fleshing out there. Still, not that much. -
Quote:This. Important rule to keep in mind at all times.Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
Never attribute to trollishiness what can be adequately explained by n00bery.
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It is indeedy!
In other news, the IO is still for sale. -
Super Strength. Rage crash drives me up the wall.
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Exactly what it says on the tin. Price tag is the standard 2 bil. Contact me via PM, this thread or ingame @slyguymcfly
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Quote:Quote for ******* truth.Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
All normal mapping does for faces is slam it straight into uncanny valley territory.
All this hyper-realistic texturing makes everything look so bad. This goes for things like the new Pocket D realistically crinkled jeans. I'm sorry, but they just look wierd in the context of CoH's already well established visual style. -
She's always been DB/SR, but I've levelled her twice to 50, once on EU and another when I made the jump to NA. So... sorta?
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One account - D
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I'm running a claws/SR brute. Just picked up Mu and between spamming ball lightning, cages, spin and shockwave? That's all I have to do. The only ST attacks I really have to use are followup for the +dam and Focus to nail enemies out of arm's reach. Maybe Slash on a boss here and there. It's bloody glorious. And SR/Mu would cover the elemental ninja theme pretty well, I think.
On the other hand Claws/Elec would be pretty boss too. Brute either way though. Spin on Brutes is just OMFG I DID HOW MUCH DAMAGE? AND IT RECHARGES IN OH LOOK IT ALREADY RECHARGED. -
It's working fine on my DB toon:
11 ticks and a final, harder, blow
Don't worry about not seeing it in the orange numbers spam, it often doesn't show up. You should be able to notice the hit in your enemies' health bars, though. -
Quote:This. Thisthisthisthisthis. Theeeeeeeeeeeees.Originally Posted by BrandX
Because we're still waiting on Ninjitsu Scrappers!
Quote:Originally Posted by BrandX
I have to agree! Ice Armor without Ice Armor is not Ice Armor! It was one of my favorite powers to take on my Ice/Ice Tanker! I'd hate to have to go Mako Patron just to get that in for theme.
Of course does this also mean /Ice Armor Stalkers aren't possible? :/
Can't Ninjitsu Stalkers get Caltrops twice now that they can access Scrapper APPs? -
Quote:I remember waiting 5 minutes for a robot toon's bio to finish loading. I closed the window in annoyance before realizing what the deal was.Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
When I was first starting out and checking out other characters' bios in at Atlas Park, I saw a robot-themed hero whose entry read "... loading data" and assumed that was an RP touch from a work in progress.
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Quote:Toons are people too, SamOriginally Posted by Samuel_Tow
The primary way to know you're a role-player is when you don't refer to your characters as "toons." A "toon" is an inanimate object, an abstract construct of concepts and ideas without a soul in it, so to speak. A character is what a real person in a story should be, a person with his or her own backstory, personality and identity that isn't broadly describable by what he or she is: a "toon," but rather what his or her role in the story is: that of a character.
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The Vial of Bees is pretty much mandatory. I mean, c'mon! BEES! Blackwand from Tarixus is another good pick (unless you already have the vet version). The Demon Box from Hardcase is another neat one. Oh, and the Goldbricker jetpack, because the raptor pack model is so overused.
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Quote:While I most certainly wouldn't pay those rates, I agree that it's a reasonable guess.
I'd pay ..
Common: 25,000,000 - 40,000,000
Uncommon: 50,000,000 - 55,000,000
Rare: 100,000,000 - 110,000,000
Very Rare: 400,000,000 - 500,000,000
I think this would be a fair assumption for the going rates if they were able to be sold.
Edit: As for what I'd actually pay:
Common: 12-15 mil
Uncommon: Nada, zilch. These things are like dirt on a dirt farm.
Rare: 75-85 mil
Very Rare: I haven't bothered to get any non-alpha VR powers, and am not planning to do so any time soon. -
Another bit of wierdness, courtesy of Particle Burst:
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I've been having a real blast with my DM/SD, but I'm also a massive cheapskate when it comes to builds. Here's my attempt at hitting the major points for DM/SD without breaking bank too badly:
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On my scrapper I get to cap my HP, hit 60% S/L resists and gain 30% recovery on a 1:3 uptime. At a oh-so-heavy cost of a 60 end crash, which due to the +rec I don't even care about because I'm at almost full endurance when the crash hits.
All that with one power that uses only the default slot? Hell yeah!
Quote:This is wrong. Adding 14/27% resist to a softcapped toon is a MASSIVE jump in survivability. I'm talking about doubling the amount of damage you can handle. Using my DM/SD scrapper as an example:Originally Posted by MajorTractor
Even if it was possible, I don't see a huge benefit from it. If you are thinking about perma OwtS, I'd think you are already softcapped, and the +resist and +recovery aren't that strong to make a big impact on an already softcapped toon.
((this is very simple math that illustrates the point. It's only mostly accurate))
Base: 45% def, 34% s/l resist, 2100 HP -> every 100 points of incoming damage are reduced to 100*0.05*0.66 = 3.3 actual damage. You can handle a total of 63,600ish s/l damage pointed your way.
Pop OwtS (with 1 level 40 Res IO): 45% def, 61% resists, 2360 hp -> every 100 points of incoming damage are reduced to 100*0.05*0.39 = 1.95 damage. You can handle 121,000 s/l damage pointed your way.
And that's not even factoring in the increased regeneration that comes with the +maxhp, which further benefits the OwtS numbers.
Seriously people. OwtS is awesome. Get it, love it, use it. But most importantly, use it early. If your health hit orange in 10 seconds flat, hitting OwtS isn't gonna save you. If you'd hit it before jumping that spawn, though? You wouldn't be about to faceplant. -
Quote:Despite not having a seamless chain? That's... very interesting.Originally Posted by Auroxis
If you switch out Spiritual for Musculature with that build you end up with more DPS, though your self heals won't be as effective.