Tannim222

I love the original film, but have yet to see the new version. Though my guess is that it will pale in comparison, just from what I've seen in trailers and whatnot and what I've read.

However, I'd still love to see the true origin of Conan brought to life. His village raided, a young teen-aged Conan finds the fort of the attackers, and manages to do what no one else had done prior; to break into the fort and slaughter all those within.

From then on, Conan only sought adventure, to gain by his hand those things in life that were pleasurable; food and drink for his belly, women, and treasure. Whether it was as a lowly pikeman in a mercenary troop, the captain of a corsair ship raiding the coasts, a theif, or military commander, there was only treasure to gain, or revenge if somone crossed his simple babarian notion of honor.

Crushing Field should prevent knock back. That'd solve the wormhole problem. Another way is to make wormhole knock down w/ out a knock back enhancer placed in and knockback if an enhancement is used.

To avoid the initial aggro, it might work to have the power stun first. Unless that causes an issue with stunned mobs not getting caught in the aoe. The aoe could be increased a bit as well.

One thing to know though, is that with range added into WH, you can often times pull mobs from a good distance away, and even target them from around corners or places of cover. Negating the risk of a first volley.

The only issue I had was bosses not getting pulled with it. I didn't mind that they were stunned, or knocked about, but that they would show up as the Tank or other team mates were working on the pulled mob and the boss would begin to work me over.

If I was lucky, I'd keep near singy, and we'd work in tandem to get the boss held. But for those levels in between, it wasn't so nice.

Grav may not have early aoe control, which is nice. But Lift being able to knock up can act much like a short term hold, while grav distorting another mob is great for single target control. It's nice for early level play that doesn't focus so much on large groups of mobs. But that's not common when people start adding aoe teams early on.

Bubba, I'd say that if its your intent to review superhero comic book movies, you make a priority list.

Start off with something like this:

Tier 1: Live-Action Films made after the comic (North Western American)
This would remove such films as Indiana Jones.
Zorro was first novelized. It had film, and a comic that was around the same time if I'm not too mistaken. So, if you want, you may have to decide if strict adherance to the historical timeline is necessary. For example, Zorro films prior to the comic aren't reviewed, while those after are. Then again, it may be even more necessary to research the comics and films to see if any films made after the publication of a comic used a story based on that comic, which does meet the criteria.

Tier 2: Live-Action Films of superhero theme not based on a previously published comic.

Tier 3: Animated Films based on a comic.

Tier 3: Animated Films not based on a previously published comic.

Tier 4: Live action films based on a Manga.

Tier 5: Animated Films based on a Manga.

Tier 6: Films that spawned the creation of a comic.
This would end up including such things as Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Serenity (Firefly), etc...

This would end up encompassing everything that spans films and comic cross overs, giving them a priority. This way, say you've completed Tier 1 and have moved onto Tier 2, but another film that belongs in Teir 1 comes out. You can then review it and go back to Teir 2.

I've thought about doing something similar to this. But with the strict adherence to movies that were based on actual comic books. I might expand to manga, but I thought that might get too unwieldly especially when dealing with animated features.

But I wanted to take it a step further, and make video reviews critiquing the films, via persona called the Masked Movie Man. Considering that I don't have any background in actual film so as to have some education into what went into the production of the films, really I'd only be reviewing them as a regular movie watcher so while my tastes for whats in a film might still be the same, I'd be able to mention some of the behind the seens stuff that was done either wrong or right as well.

Also, to consider adding to your list:

The Crow (1994)
The Crow City of Angels (1996)

There are other Crow films but they were direct to dvd release.

The slows aren't necessary for FR, particularly with Roots available. I'd make sure you have FR up as often as possible.

The reason I say move the proc over to Tornado is that when you have largets pinned down, or more particularly one tough target like an AV or GM, Tornado does a lot of damage. It hits often so I has a high chance of firing the proc.

Having that high damage pet also debuff its target is good synergy.

I just rolled at Plant / Storm as well. My first Plant character so that part is new to me. I love the character, its been by far the most fun I've had on a low level Controller that I've had.

I'm pretty leary about going full out on planning IO sets, but if the fun only builds with levels, I may end up fleshing the character out more. I already figured on recharge and endurance being the two main parts of the build I'd have to worry about, not sure if defense is a major consideration though.

You may want to consider moving something around to get a 5th slot into Tornado which also takes an achilles heal proc. In fact, I'd take it off Twoey and put in on 'nado.

Don't forget that ontop of your defense you have a hefty to-hit debuff in Hurricane, which if you can manage to keep the really important nasty mobs at it's edge, and locked down (or kept into a corner), it'll act as defense too.

Ahh, Gravity, second ever character created was a Grav / Kin controller and it was my first 50, back before containment came about.

1. Lift needs more damage - this was stated up thread - Mind's levitate is the same power and no, it shouldn't have been balanced around Propel.

2. Animation times of Lift, Propel, and Worm Hole need to be decreased.

3. Dimension Shift - its only useful at those levels if you're the only controller and the team manages to get too much attention that it can handle and you can take some of the mobs out of the fight. This rarely happens, and only serves to annoy most people on teams than it does to help stave off defeat.

If it were possible, it should be changed. There were so many ideas posted about this in the past. The simplest were to make this a toggle power so it could be turn off. Or an AoE location pet power so mobs could move in out of the field. Better yet would be an Anti-Gravity Field, a location power that works like TK - except it lifts mobs off the ground randomly.

4. WH needs a wider area of effect and the stun up front.

JB, an oft touted definition of insanity is repeating the same action over and over again expecting different results. You may think you've changed tactics, but only in so much as to be less confrontational. Outside of that, it's been the same as always.

You keep quoting that old dev quote about "comic book tankers". There are no comic book tankers as the archetype system a convention of this MMO. Yes, they took inspiration from comic books, and placed labels over certain iconic characters inorder to develop the archetype system.

But MMOs are entire different from a comic book. A good writer can take a "scrapper" and write them out to appear more like a "tanker" for example.

As to that quote from way back when, it was brought up about given Tankers higher damage attacks, with longer activation times and longer recharge times.

Gecko shot it down, stating that the longer activation times across the board made for the gameplay to feel way too slow and had the problem of those with faster activating attacks getting their damage in before the longer animating attacks finally did their damage.

He also shot down the longer recharging, higher damage attacks basically sayting that nothing stopped the Tanker from still completing a extremely high damage attack chain, that (even back then on SOs and don't forget perma-hasten was possible pre-ED) with enough recharge, an attack chain would be repeatable to the point of there not being the need to have such long recharge times as a hinderance.

Because of those two possibilities, there would be nothing to differentiate Tankers from Scrappers except that Tankers would end up actually be either too close to Scrapper damage, or in other cases do more than Scrappers. While still having the Tanker higher stats.

And FYI, many of the player examples toted about for the requests above were using Spider-Man or Wolverine (mostly the latter) for Scrappers, and Colossus or the Thing for Tankers.

That still doesn't change the fact that this is a video game, with archetypes designed for particular function(s). And while you spout that the "holy trinity" is bad, this game never was really designed around the "holy trinity".

From early on, it was discovered you could have really any team make up complete most content and that those niche roles could be of use anywhere (not no where!).

Tanker's aren't designed to be "military tanks". Nor are they designed to be "tanks from comics" as there aren't any Tankers in comics. No superhero has a aura that forces the bad guys to turn and fight them. No superhero has a punch that makes the other bad guys ignore the other heroes nearby and only attack the one to just punched their buddy.

And every superhero has at one point in time or another taunted a bad guy by saying or doing something in order to throw the bad guy off their game, get under their skin, or gain their attention. It's just the basis of for the design for the power Taunt. How it works and why it does is the convention of the MMO.

Tankers in this game have been designed to be aggro magnets, taking punishment to help their teammates survive difficult situations, while lasting long enough to defeat their enemies.

I agree that there may be some inequity when it comes to the AT. But I don't tend to think in the terms that they need to somehow do more damage by a straight forward means. Instead, I think that there needs to be something done about the gameplay mechanics for how a Tanker is played in order to set them apart a bit more from the other melee ATs. Right now, gauntlet, aggro aurus, and taunt are available to Brutes and Tankers only do so slightly better. THATs the problem.

Not the Brute damage, or possibility if built just so, and buffed to the caps by whatever for however long, that Brutes can do things that Tanker's can or can't. It's that Tankers don't behave differently enough because the tools that were more unique to them have been replicated elsewhere with only slight differences.

Give the Tankers some new tools is the answer. If those tools allow them to do some more damage, great. If they give them more melee control, great. Either way, the AT will play differently from the other melee ATs and hopefully, that will appeal to players.

The beginning portion of it sounds as fine to me as the first part of the plot of the original movie.

Neither really makes sense as to why Tetsuo needs to be experimented on. At least to my recollection of the original anime.

At least the ending sounds a bit more understandable compared to the ending of Akira, which felt like they really didn't know what to do with it and just cobbled together *something* to make the movie end.

As for casting, I personally don't care either way what color of a person's skin plays what character, so long as the story and acting are good.

I just don't see Tankers receiving a straight up increase in damage. It may be done in a round about way like Bruising.

Tankers aren't called meleetrollers for no reason. They aren't melee damagers, never have been, and most likely, never will be. It's not what the AT is designed for. If you want that (melee damage), you're looking at the wrong AT.

With regards to the meleetrollers, I once way back, posted an idea that targets under the effect of a Tanker's Taunt (not a Brutes / Scrappers, or anyone's provoke for that matter), would have an increased chance of any Tanker's secondary effect going off, and with greater effect.

Example 1: Tanker A enters melee with Invincibility. The aura taunts a mob. Tanker A uses an attack with a 30% chance to mag 2 stun, but since its on a Tanker-Taunted-Target, there's now a 60% chance to mag 3 stun.

Example 2: Tanker A enters melee with Invincibility. The aura tuants a mob. Tanker B uses Taunt. Tanker A uses an attack with 30% chance to mag 2 stun, but since its on a Tanker-Taunted-Target, there's now a 60% chance to mag 3 stun. Tanker B uses an attack that has a 40% chance to mag2 knockdown, but since its on a Tanker-Taunted-Target, its now a 80% chance to mag3 knockdown.

The numbers are just an example. I wouldn't know what, if any actual increase would be best for a secondary effect to fire off, but a simple increase by mag 1 to the effect should be sufficient.

Now Tankers are truely melee trollers, the only one that really loses out is say Fire Melee, even then, there might be a way to have the dot fire at a greater rate under a Taunt.

Other sets like Dark Melee would have better to-hit debuffing. Sets with defense debuff, - resistance, etc.. would all benefit.

Another way to do things is to allow a - resistance to all Tanker Taunted Targets, but only flagged for Tanker attacks. It won't stack with other Tanker -resist debuffs, but Tankers would always essentially doing more damage with their own, or other Tanker's attacks.

One of the issues of Tanker survivability stats and the agro cap begs the question, are Tankers too survivable when Brutes and even Scrappers can (in most cases, w/ out IOs - there are some outlier sets that are very difficult to do this with) survive the agro cap as well.

If that's true, then is it okay that Tankers are any more survivable? The only advantage would seem to be at increased levels of difficulty (above +0), where the higher Tanker values come into play. Or do those values come into play with sustained agro cap over time?

That is, when as mobs within the agro cap are defeated, more add in, at some point, Tankers will survive longer than either Brutes or Scrappers. And if that's true, is it beneficial for a team to have a Tanker be that survivable by that point, or does the team (we're talking normal content, at normal levels of play including builds) provide sufficient levels of mitigation and or damage that they wouldn't notice the difference between a Tanker, Scrapper, or Brute managing agro (again, we're looking at sustained agro cap over time, very large mobs)?

If that answer is yes, than Tankers are pretty much fine where they're at. If that answer is no, there's a problem.

With regards to the idea that its ok that using more endurance to defeat a mob because it takes more attacks that do less damage, but the Tanker can survive longer - look to the questions above. If a Brute and a Scrapper can go through the same levels of difficulty (within normal game play) than isn't that lower damage and higher endurance usage actually causing a player using a Tanker to level more slowly? Keep in mind, this is part of the reason as to why Bruising was given to Tankers. I don't know if Bruising solved this issue, it may have at least for single targets, but there's an inequity when it comes to AoE attacks.