Tenzhi

I'd say that's a bit backwards. If you can solo it then you have clearly shown that you don't need the extra power.

Just Enchanted, and that's not much to go on.

You mean The Hidden Fortress?

It's natural - instinctual, even - to be attracted to a combination of youth and sexual maturity. Both of which have visual cues. Since it's the goal of marketing to attract, it follows that it's natural that such imagery might be used to attract viewers. It only becomes wrong if it involves exploitation of actual underaged people.

I liked Kidder in the part, but she certainly looked a bit weathered, like she had been marinated a bit too long in cigarette smoke.

I'm not familiar with Amy Adams, but from that pic of her in the article my immediate aesthetic concern is that I hope they dye her hair for the part.

I am Jack's endgame content?

I've been a cranky old man since I was about 20. And before that I was middle aged with bouts of immaturity.

Because they can do math. 50+1=51

If the solution to my problem is to ignore all of the rules, then the problem is the rules not the GM.

Ditto. I've played numerous other MMOGs and this is the only one that has kept my sub for a significant length of time.

And of all of them, it has the best community IMO - sure, I get dogpiled for some of my viewpoints from time to time, but compared to other communities it's a far less vicious dogpiling.

It costs Quantum and you automatically lose a point of Vogonity.

There are two forms: Knockup and Knockback.

Knockdown is currently a low magnitude Knockback effect when it would make more sense for it to be a low magnitude Knockup effect.

Yes, it flies away from you if it's a Knockback power, and it goes upwards if it's a Knockup power.

Not really. The two it has is sufficient. If they simply changed Knockdown powers so that they were using Knockup rather than Knockback all would be well.

I like dice. I have several full sets and then some. I like to roll them en masse to add up for damage. I do not like to roll them en masse to dodge, attack, open doors, chew gum, hurl insults, dance a jig, and activate the Glamorous Gift of Paradoxically Disciplined Pathos.

That was absolutely not my experience. Starting at about level 39 (with the Patron arc) the character was just getting chewed up constantly in missions. The character went from being a blast to play, to being soul-sucking tedium solo. It was such a shocking change that it was one of the rare instances I came to the board for help, though said help proved futile. I ultimately only went back to it and got to 50 in order to unlock the VEATs. Those last 5 or 6 levels were a dogged grind. Almost as bad as levelling up my Toggle-Man inspired scrapper. Almost.

I had an old woman who was a retired catgirl superhero (would have been a Sonic blaster with a non-existant Martial Arts secondary) that found a cat with ice powers and returned to crime-fighting as a Cold/Sonic Defender. I used the shoulder kitty for it, but if there had been an actual pet option I'd've used it.

I'm sure you can work wonders with the right set bonuses in place. I was responding to the having-trouble-without-such-bonuses-means-build-issues comment. My 50 Corruptor only has one set, methinks, and that's the Sting of the Manticore in his snipe because I needed the toxic damage proc for the Lord Recluse battle. IIRC, Inventions weren't available until that character was in his mid-late 40s. When I started having trouble at around level 39 I came here and discussed it, but none of the advice did anything to reduce the problems. Indeed, the only problem anyone saw in my build back then was that I didn't have "Fluffy", which they insisted would be the magical cure-all. So I took the advice and in practice, I found that the pet did a lot of standing around looking like crap without noticeably increasing my survival solo, and generally just got killed on teams.

In other news: Endurance is bad enough without running Tough and Weave, and would only be worse with Hasten. Soul Mastery is generally a better thematic fit with ye olde Dark/Dark. And a Dark character with blazing orangeish-white light at his feet (or softly glowing happy yellow hands for that matter) will be the laughing stock of GrimCon.

Indeed, that was my experience on my Dark/Dark Corruptor as well... up until about level 39. After that, the soloing experience went sharply downhill. Eventually I set the character aside for awhile until the ability to set difficulty to -1 was implemented. Even then, I still found some encounters to end very badly (particularly when the game decides to throw the odd +1 level spawn in missions). And the only way I was able to beat Lord Recluse was by sniping him from the edge of snipe range with a damage proc in my snipe. That took ~45 minutes.

Does this adversely affect Tankers' performance in the long run, I wonder?