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Almost. Only Athena came about that way, and she wasn't his first (it's usually one of his other kids that splits his head open) and even in that case, it wasn't spontaneous, it was because he swallowed Metis, the lady he got knocked up, and so naturally the kid popped out of his head (because that makes total sense).

All the rest of his kids were made by getting various women (his wife, some nymphs, random mortals) preggers at every opportunity, through conventional means, if by unconventional tactics.

So Statesman would need to have swallowed a pregnant chick to have a kid pop out of his skull.

Nope. She loses access to her psychic abilities while she's in diamond form.

It doesn't require precedence. There's no precedence that radiation DOESN'T protect from psychic attacks. Radiation Armor will set precedence that radiation used as armor does, in fact, protect from psychic attacks. Unless you can find a canon contradiction, precedent is being set by the existence of the set.

I mean, seriously, we're talking about what would be a good defense against an *entirely fictional* form of attack which has no real-world physical reality. Seriously? WTF?

Maybe you don't like the idea of Rad Armor protecting against psychic attacks, but lets face facts that this argument is entirely about your aesthetic preferences here, not because of any kind of sound reasoning.

That's like saying "That's effective against electronic batteries, not electric currents!"

Where the heck do you think psionic energies come from?

What do you call Psionic Damage Resistance if not a "block"?

I am sooo going to make a Chili Pizza now.

Because we all know that in the REAL WORLD, psychic mind bolts can totally pwn radioactive body armor!

It's this simple. Radiation disrupts psionics. How do we know that? Because radiation armor is radiation and it disrupts psionics, and the game mechanics are the physics of the game world. Radiation disrupts psionics because in the physical reality of the world of CoX, radiation disrupts psionics.

And it's not entirely unprecendeted. Nuclear radiation often is very heavy in EMP. Electric Armor uses EM radiation to disrupt psionics. EMP arrow can afflict nervous systems as per the description in the game. It makes sense within the "logic" of the game that something heavy in EM could protect from psionics.

I mean, if you could explain how real world psionics work in regards to radiation and why the ability to produce radiation at will wouldn't impact them, I guess you'd have a point.

I don't get why people ever did the hit and run thing, it never made any sense. I've been playing stalkers since I6, and I've had to run away from a fight about 1% of the time (and with Regen, make that 0%... if they strike me down I'll become more powerful than they can possibly imagine. Or something). Don't listen to anyone who tells you crazy stuff like that. Seriously. Who WOULD want to play like that?

I play my stalker the same today as I did back then, except I dumped Placate because it became much more situational and I'd rather have Burn Out.

Basically the battle plan is go into the room, size up the mob. Most of the time it's pick the toughest in the group, AS them down and then scrap the rest (again, this is how I've been doing it since I6). Sometimes you don't want the toughest because you won't scrap them down right away (EBs, for example) so start with their second toughest, clear the minions, then take down the boss.

In the past, I'd also throw a placate to bring the next toughest guy out of the fight to give you some damage mitigation which doesn't seem to be as necessary anymore, so I dumped it.

Netflix categorizes pretty much most DVDs as "movies".
I think it's meant in a general rather than specific way.

I like having truly evil villains, but I do agree that there were some missed opportunities to make villains more epic. I think the Dean->Leonard Clone Army arc was a positive step in the right direction for the kind of things we should be doing, but really, there were some AE arcs that were as good if not better.

But I have no problem with having truly villainous villains. I DO have a problem with having INEFFECTUAL villainous villains, however.

That said, I still find red-side content far more engaging than Blue Side, which I always found rather meh.

Yet, there's a bunch of people saying it's hard for them. So... either it is hard for them, or they're lying.

Anyways, I don't really care. I think it's a stupid mission in a stupid arc and is stupid easy and this change won't fix any of that. What happened to the good writing we started to see come out of Paragon Studios over the past year? This whole arc is just sad, sad, sad.

You know, it took me less than 5 minutes to defeat that encounter. Anyone who had to do a pull would probably take considerably longer without the pull, if they could even do it.

So WHY is it a problem if those people circumvent the primary encounter mechanic? It just turns the game from "5 minutes of fun" to "25 minutes of suck" for a large number of people. Why is this good for the game? Unless there was some kind of metric to scale the encounter based on AT and Powerset to ensure a level playing field, it's still going to be stupid-easy for some people and stupid-hard for others. All this change will do is frustrate people.

Most travel powers have an offensive option with them (Whirlwind for Speed, Air Supremecy for Flight, Jump kick for Leaping).

They may not be very GOOD offensive options, but they're there.

Ahem
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Whirlwind#Whirlwind

It usually only does it the first time I switch in a session. And I agree not having to type the password makes it still worthwhile.

This. I think the incarnate story arc is pretty weak. Even silly. I wasn't sure how they were going to develop the lore around the Well, but I'm seriously unimpressed with what they came up with.

So, I'm choosing to ignore it ICly (or mentally re-write it through the lens of my character's goals: it's not the well of the furies, it's the final formula I need for my immortality serum!. That sort of thing, at most). I just generally ignore it.

I think the confusion comes from that there is code to prevent you from dying from a fall. You'll always land with 1 hp left from a fall that would otherwise be fatal. I think people extrapolated this into a "no one shot rule"

I left the game in January of 2008 to try out some other games and came back in January of 2009. I've been back since. I'm considering leaving for a little while when some other games I want to try come out, but absolutely plan to be back. I always intend to come back to this game, even when I leave for a while.

How does that fit into your Venn diagram?