Tenzhi

A fair amount, I'd say. A slight bitterness that varies in intensity. A faint sweetness in the stalks. A sort of sweet and peppery taste to the florets (kind of like some flower petals). And often I find a sort of metallic taste behind it all - it's a taste I often associate with freshwater, and thus I assume it comes from water stored in the vegetable.

Or, to put it in terms a five year old might use:

WHAM! FWA-ZASH! Yay, they all fell down!

Yes, it is. The game doesn't define any "core powers" - such powers are thus definitively your own expectations of what someone with a given powerset should take.

The only way it could be an acceptable expectation is if Speed Boost were a tier one ability and the hero in question was a controller. Otherwise, expecting someone else to have built their character to your desires isn't so much acceptable as it is unabashedly foolish.

There's also only so many ways to punch or swing a sword someone might say. You could probably call some of the attacks in Broadsword "Bigger Sword Slash", "Biggest Sword Slash", and "Ultimate Slice of Cuttingness".

And the way I'd do it, you'd only need six attacks plus a taunt/confront, a build up, and the toggle I mentioned before.

I almost never make calls for people to "gather" for any AoE buffs. I simply position myself as best I can while the team is rolling and fire them off. That whole hey-everybody-stop-what-you're-doing-and-gather-around-me thing has always seemed a bit self-important, bossy, and irritating to me.

There's similarly no point in making a Broadword set if you can't shoot ranged beams from the sword when you're at full health.

Absolutely. There should be some defense there, but it need not necessarily be the prime defense. Especially in a world of superhumans.

I was merely ribbing BrandX for taking the stance that the shield should be the primary defense, then saying "This is why morons use the shield to block," indicating that blocking with shields is a moronic activity. Contextually, the intended phrasing was probably "This is why you use the shield to block, morons."

I wouldn't be surprised at all. I'm fairly familiar with the SCA, and was briefly part of an independent medieval recreationist group called the Knights of St. Maurice, myself.

Sort of, though doubtful they'd be so cute. The Hydra enemies in the game could be reskinned with a more translucent, jellylike appearance to get the job done. The unique power for the set could be to combine all your slimes together into one really big slime for a time.

The two are not mutually exclusive. Shields have performed both tasks for time immemorial.

That's right. Morons use the shield to block. Smart people use it to hit.

The Defense bonus could be fairly significant. As I recall, Katana and Broadsword both have significant defense components. I'd possibly put a very minor (perhaps less than 1%, but stackable) +Defense in the attacks, and perhaps give the set a toggle that's sort of a counterpart to Against All Odds, granting a +Def of, say, around 7% to 10% with a damage penalty exactly counter to AAO's damage bonus for enemies in range. Thus Shield Defense is geared somewhat towards offense, and a Shield Offense set could be geared somewhat towards defense providing a bit of delightful symmetry.

ROY G. BIV - that's the seven colours in a rainbow: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet.

I generally advertise my defenders as defenders, and my controllers as controllers. Whether I take Speed Boost or not depends on the character. I often wish that Siphon Speed worked more like Siphon Power and that Speed Boost was some other power that wasn't a single target buff of relatively short duration.

The set has already had me wanting a Slimes Mastermind set with some toxic blasts in it. Giving it to Corruptors would just make me want a full Toxic Blast set.

Says who? If it was created, it'd almost certainly be a purely melee set. As I recall, BAB was complaining about an inability to make a projectile out of shields due to limitations of the game.

Build a minor defensive bonus into the offensive set and you have a Shield user who potentially doesn't primarily rely upon the shield for defense, yet still receives some minor defensive benefit from it.

I've never viewed it as any sort of useful metric, myself, but rather just as a bar to be filled - like XP.

Contextually, it goes along with "tl;dr" which is generally accepted to mean "too long; didn't read." Ergo, "it wasn't very long at all." But mostly, that facepalm pic is one of the worst I've seen. And by all means, feed my red in retaliation if you like. My sig will thank you for it. I strangely find myself fighting a losing battle against the green and associated positive commentary.

Give the "Shield Offense" set a defensive buff power and voila, regardless of whether you have Shield Defense having a Shield potentialy gives you extra defensive capability. This also complements the fact that Shield Defense has an offensive power rather nicely.

So that's why you lose all of its defensive bonuses when you use Shield Charge...

The Scrapper's steady, reliable damage from start to finish may have more appeal to some than the Brute's rollercoaster of damage.

The one missing in the title. As in: TankFender.