Starjammer

Player reports say that STF/LRSF are the current weeklies on Live.

IIRC, Cryptic was incorporated in RI, which is why they set PC there.

Just something I read on the forums once upon a time.

For some reason they didn't show the ep in the Atlanta market. From 8-10 we got The Bachelor instead, yech. But where WSB-TV fails, BitTorrent prevails.

Still, I've read a report saying the ratings tanked and I'm wondering how much of that was because some markets didn't carry the episode. I'm liking the show and I'd hate to see it get sabotaged by the affiliates.

Anybody know the story?

The Usurper badge you get at the end of the 4th Patron arc also gives EwtS for villains.

I don't often need Unstoppable but it's nice to have when I do, most often when I'm fighting Toxic-heavy critters or huge spawns spamming e/n attacks. I mule an Impervious Armor Psi Resist in it (one of five, collect them all!).

As for riding the crash, I have two techniques:

1) Kill everything I'm fighting before the crash. Rest. Retoggle. Resume. Works most often.

2) Pop Eye of the Magus and Geas of the Kind Ones when the icon starts to flash. Pop Dull Pain when the crash hits. Retoggle. Keep going.

I've ridden out an Unstoppable crash in the middle of a fight with Romulus and the Fluffies, so it can be done.

Known to be in the pipeline: The Big Valley.

I'll type that again: The Big Valley.

Hollywood has officially run dry, folks.

The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher. IMO the best of the "contemporary fantasy investigator" genre. His fantasy series Codex Alera is also pretty good, a world where the humans are descended from a lost Roman legion and use elemental magic. The themes are pretty boilerplate fantasy but the world, details and execution are pretty good.

Without even looking at the build, I can tell you that any AT using WP need have no concern about psi. You're packing both psi def and psi resist and status protection.

I took a claws/wp scrapper slotted with mostly generic IOs through the Carny content and it was a revelation. She shredded everything in her way like they were Council. I was actually a little unhappy when the contact ran out of missions.

So I'd say yes, you can afford to let psi def slip some in pursuit of other priorities.

+1. I've also been wanting and suggesting this for years.

And let's not forget, Invulnerability has one of the best taunt auras in the game. Invincibility buffs typed Def and ToHit as a defensive toggle. You can max its effectiveness with three Hami Cytos and it can mule whatever Def or ToHit set IOs you like.

One way to test this would be to take a character with the Stealth power and see if Teleport unstealths that. AFAIK, the mechanics should be identical.

EDIT: I have run into a similar issue with Stealth and Invis, where the split second where one power untoggles the other leaves the character entirely visible and subject to detection.

If you believe the neuro-cognitive researcher types, a lot of behaviors that humans and other animals express are evolutionary adaptations to survival situations. E.g., we're social and moral because teamwork helps survival and fairness promotes teamwork, and so forth.

A smart programmer is going to want to emulate enough of that so that their intelligence isn't sociopathic, but not all of it. So it's safe to assume that a genuinely sentient AI is still going to be a very alien form of intelligence to us.

For instance, without evolving from something with a survival instinct, an AI isn't likely to experience fear or a desire for self-preservation. Without the instincts related to genetic propagation, you lose entire swaths of human behaviors. So I don't envision AI becoming hostile or trying to supplant us; we're not competitors in the way biological organisms are with each other.

I do believe that whereas humans don social "masks" to interact, sophisticated AIs will be able to create human-oriented interfaces to deal with us in a tolerable fashion, if we don't create them with those already. It's just smart to not creep out the species that can turn off the electricity.

Humans, meanwhile, already have an innate tendency to anthropize inanimate objects. With AIs, it'll just happen to become true.

And with the whole host of legal and ethical and legal issues, I think it will be far more likely for humans to stick with expert systems for their tools and weapons. Pure AI will be for research purposes only and probably very highly regulated once it comes to pass.

Bottom line: I do think AI will happen eventually but I think it will wind up being a lot less dramatic than a lot of sci-fi imagines. We'll just be too different from each other to need to fight over very much.

This is entirely a wild-a$$ guess on my part, but...

The base-hp-only mechanic predated the invention system, when the only bonus hit points on characters (other than HP buffs) came from a handful of accolades. Mainly, it was put on to prevent the characters from gaining damage badges by parking next to CoT red emanators overnight or something similar. For most ATs, taking damage beyond their bonus hp's was fairly routine under ordinary situations.

I suspect that the addition of IO set bonuses to HP is what tipped the scale in the argument the other way. It's a lot more common for characters to accumulate bonus HPs up to the cap now.

I also suspect that if this was deliberately downplayed for any reason, it's so that people wouldn't automatically be prompted to park next to those emanators for their damage badges again.

Pure speculation, take it for what it's worth...

Off the top of my head:

You've got QR and Stamina and Physical Perfection, all with +End procs and both +Rec procs and End slotting on most of your attacks, which looks to be way overkill. With I19 Stamina will become inherent and you can probably do without PP.

Move the slot in Health with the Numina unique to Fast Heal with the rest of your NC set. That will give you the 6% Heal buff set bonus. In fact, you should look at 4-slotting as many heals with NC as you can to max out the heal buff.

You probably also don't need Hasten. Claws is a pretty fast attack set and you shouldn't need to be spamming heals that quickly. Drop Hasten/SS and take Combat Jumping and Super Jump instead.

Last but not least, get Maneuvers onto the character. Heck, with CJ and Maneuvers added and decently slotted for def, you'll make up most of the shortfall for S/L right there.

Your slotting choices can be improved. You don't need all the gimmicks you've got on the build. You probably don't need those Mako's Bites on each of your attacks. You don't need the Regen. Tissue +Regen in Health. You certainly don't need Hurdle 2-slotted, especially if you switch over to the Leaping pool. Take those slots, apply them to your Def powers and you can probably reach the softcap, or come very close.

I would never have implemented ATs in the first place. The whole Tank/Mage/Cleric/Rogue mindset was not genre-appropriate. Superheroes should be tankmages.

In its place, I probably would have had every character select from offensive, defensive, movement and support/buff/debuff pools and differentiate them by designating one pool "Primary" and another "Secondary" for greater effect and perhaps a wider power selection.

And no, I really don't think it's a coincidence that they went with something very like that for CO.

I also would have preferred a point-based build system over level-based advancement.

I use Hover on ranged attackers like Blasters and Controllers.

On my nrg/nrg blaster, I have it slotted with the full Freebird set and LotG +Rech. The +Stealth IO stacked with Stealth (the power, slotted with LotGs) gives full invis while allowing me to attack, plus a good chunk of cumulative Def.

I can position myself for PB + BR + Aim + BU + Sniper Blast in tight locations at leisure. I can glide up to a Boss and drop a boosted Snipe + Total Focus. And, of course, PB + Aim + BU + Nova.

And while Boost Power is in effect, Hover gets a nice speed boost for quick combat maneuvering. By the time it wears off, I generally am ready to drift over to the next spawn group as my bars refill and my buffs recharge.

QR

If they removed the Warburg option and won't say why -- exploit.