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Apropos of absolutely nothing:

An actor might effect an affect to affect an audience to great effect.

Just because.

In this whole thread, I'm amazed that nobody has yet wondered if/how the gap in the Watergate tapes ties into the Silence.

Actually, now that you mention it, it does raise another question for me:

What happens when you take Khelds into Praetoria?

Do the Praetorian groups have quantum gunners? Do Voids spawn?

I just have yet to try taking one of my own khelds through and now I'm just wondering.

Regardless of how you slice it, one of the game's biggest problems right now is uneven quality: older stuff doesn't stand up to more recent stuff. The game needs some sort of overall revamp to bring everything up to an even keel.

Now, whether this takes the form of a total revision of CoX or development of a CoH 2, I don't know. In fact, I doubt even the devs have decided it one way or the other. There's pluses and minuses for each approach.

But I wouldn't be surprised if it's coming. Maybe even in the wake of the Incarnate stuff.

Back around 1980 or so, Elliot S! Maggin wrote a Superman novel (an actual all-words novel) called Miracle Monday. Best Superman story ever, IMO. I'd really like to see a film version of that.

I'm coming in late to this thread but since I've played (mostly solo) both a fire/fire and elec/elec into the low 40's I figure I've got some perspective.

I'll go along with what the reasonable people have been saying: fire is on the lower end of tanker survivability (which is still very high) but compensates by killing mobs dead. "Let's do it to them before they do it to us," as the replacement sarge on Hill Street Blues used to say. I'm very much an adherent to Grey Pilgrim's Wall of Fire philosophy of fire tanking. Run in, let the mob form up on me while I pop BU + FE, then hit the AoEs and clean up the survivors.

I'll also throw in that Rise of the Phoenix is the best melee self-rez there is, IMO, and I'm not shy about getting killed to come roaring back.

Electric, OTOH, has great resists, a decent heal (and don't discount +regen on a tanker) and awesome End management. It's relatively easy to perma-Hasten. Capped Energy resist is much more useful in the high levels than capped Fire resist. Power Surge is useful when you need it, which isn't often but does happen (more than, say, Unstoppable in Inv). Flooring your enemies' End is a viable secondary mitigation tactic with Power Sink. And of course, /elec is no slouch either in the BU + AoE department.

So really, asking which is a better tank is like trying to decide between sex and ice cream... it's not an either/or choice, each can definitely add some enjoyment into your life and everybody should really try both before they die.

If you want to try a fast-as-he11 single-target tank, try combining Electric Armor and Dual Blades. You'll chew through targets like mowing grass and DB is so fast for a tanker set that I've forgotten I was on a tank and thought I was playing a scrapper when playing it.

Well, 2-slotting with LotG gives +10% Regen up to five times.

2-slotting Health with a 50 Numina Heal and the unique adds up to ~89% Regen all told.

If you have any other powers that take Heal enhancers, 2-slotting with Numina gives another +12% Regen each, up to 5.

And there's lots of other sets with Regen bonuses.

So I'd say that +150% is low-hanging fruit and more is definitely possible, depending on your build.

Keep in mind also that +HP helps you in this regard and is fairly easy to build also; the more HP you have, the more HP each regen tick restores. The third slot of both Numina's and LotG are +HP bonuses.

I was kind of meh on the whole thing. IMO, it went on way too long just to show that neither humans nor kryptonians are as good-natured as Superman, who just kind of floundered around lost in the tug-of-war between his two cultures.

Make sure all drivers/BIOS/firmware are up to date and not conflicted.

Turn on boot logging and look for problems.

Bear in mind that ToHit-enhanced Rage gives you a buff of 30+% ToHit and 80% Damage. With enough Rech, you can get periods of double-stacked Rage where those bonuses climb to 60+ and 160.

That's where the tradeoff happens.

If you wanted to play conservatively, you could almost certainly manage to have the crash hit between spawns.

I do happen to think that the Rage crash is too heavy-handed... it was one of the few occasions where Castle let a bug up his behind override his sense of design. Even so, I still think it's a worthy power.

I think a big part of the problem in any media character achieving "icon" status nowadays is media dilution.

In other words, there are simply so many niche media outlets today that no one of them can capture mass attention like they did years ago.

We no longer have the Big Three networks in US TV, the comics universe is no longer split between Marvel and DC, movie studios no longer dominate, etc.

Things can, at best, hope to become temporarily popular for a few years, before the next thing comes along.

Since temp attack powers aren't affected by damage buffs, they're also not affected by damage debuffs like the Rage crash.

I find that Ghost-Slaying Axe -> Blackwand -> Nemesis Staff exactly fills the duration of my Rage crash. Of course, you need to be 57+ month vet for that option. It's also a bit of an End hog.

Sometimes, I just use the Rage crash as an opportunity to pause and take a recovery tick.

It's far from crippling by any means. You just learn to work around it.