Tenzhi

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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Leo_G View Post
    Come on...Just outright giving them mez protection as an inherent? No sacrifice needed?
    Is having a Controller on your team a sacrifice?

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    -How much damage will this AT be capable of? Less than a Tanker?
    Should be about on par with a Tanker, I'd say. Which is just a tad more than a Corruptor. Scale-wise, that is.

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    -You think this AT should have every tool to support a team that a Defender or Corruptor has?
    For the most part, discounting powersets that I wouldn't use, though if we got into specifics I'd probably suggest some alterations. Making Tar Patch a PBAoE click, for instance. And possibly reduce the radius a bit. I might make the various shields function like Dispersion Bubble rather than be ally-targeted clicks.

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    -You do realize there are sets that work counter to melee, correct? Force Field has 2 powers, one being its tier 9, that practically eliminates melee for you. The bread and butter of mitigation for Storm is in Hurricane, a -ToHit repel aura.
    I might replace Force Bubble with Force of Nature, and Repulsion Field with Disrupt, and possibly melee versions of the two ranged attacks. I might not even have Storm (and I'd almost certainly not have Trick Arrow), but if I did I'd feel the need to make numerous alterations to it.

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    There's a lot to be considered here that no one is bothering to address...
    That's often the case in the idea stage of things.
  2. Tenzhi

    Ponderables

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    Originally Posted by Lucretia_MacEvil View Post
    ...was this intended to be a pun?
    Could be. I did go through the trouble of italicizing it.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker View Post
    love 'em. It took me a long time to learn they are there to be munched when needed - I tended to hoard them and would sometimes die with a full tray

    But they are a very cool feature of the game.
    I still die with a full tray from time to time. But I don't feel bad about it, as I've died numerous times with a buff bar besotted with stacked Inspiration buffs as well.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Talionis View Post
    I doubt they would make the Mez protection a buff, only two sets FF and Sonic have them and this set already has access to both those buffs. If they do something like that then they would really have to change a power in the buff debuff power set to grant it.
    Not protection, Resistance. I think the debuff resistance would be the bigger boon.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan View Post
    When I was much younger I lived for a while in a foreign (to me) country and I used to babysit a woman's young baby while she was out at work. Twice a week, every week, for 22 weeks. She had a betamax video machine and only two movies; Midnight Express and Grease 2. For reasons I don't need to elaborate, there was no way for me to get any other films, so on those nights I would watch Grease 2 twice. Apart from 4 separate occasions of watching Midnight Express, that's what I did. I've seen Grease 2 80 times.

    I still like that movie lol, but i think you'd call that an outlier in comparison to most people's experience. If you read a book and then the next day start it over again, and you do that as many times as people grind BAFs, then there's something unusual going on.

    Eco
    For a number of years after I first read it, I would begin re-reading The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings as soon as I finished it. After awhile I slowed down to reading it once or twice a year. Though I haven't picked it up since the Extended DVDs of the movie came out and I watched them in a single sitting. I keep thinking I should read The Hobbit gain, at least, but then become unmotivated to search the dusty book piles for it.

    And when I was in Canada for a year, the people I was staying with got a copy of Fifth Element and played it incessantly. I lost count of how many times I saw it.

    And, of course, I'll put an album on repeat for hours when the mood strikes me.
  6. I would replace Taunt with a power called Rally that did a PBAoE buff of some sort to allies (possibly a solid amount of debuff and mez resistance).
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by BashfulBanshee View Post
    What is this phasing tech you are all talking about? I had no idea we were making any diference at all.
    Like in Atlas Park if you do the beginning story mission arc the first mission has you go over and beat up some Hellions. When you go back to that spot there aren't any more Hellions roaming around as the area is controlled by policemen who are standing about.

    There's a similar area with Skulls that get replaced by Hellions, and anothr with Arachnos that get replaced by various enemies.
  8. Mez protection in particular could be nice for many of my characters. But I doubt they'll implement anything that's not tied to the tedious crafting.

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    Originally Posted by Demetrios Vasilikos View Post
    Yes IMO if you cant solo trapdoor easily then you dont need to be an incarnate.
    In my opinion, if you CAN solo Trapdoor easily you clearly already have enough power and don't need more.
  9. I don't care for Inspirations. Indeed, I tend to generally dislike consumables in RPGs.
  10. Of course, the secondary could be split similar to SoAs. Starting out you would choose your attack set, and then at a certain level defense sets would open up an you'd choose which one to take at that time.
  11. I'd go for it if done right.

    The major problem I see, though, is that few people would be happy with the available attack/defense mixes. For instance, sword attacks would naturally be paired with shield defenses, and there are those who'd want sword with other defenses or shield with other attacks.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by DreadShinobi View Post
    I have never understood why so many people have issues with trapdoor. If you're 50 and can't solo an EB, well, you don't really deserve (or you're not ready) to be doing incarnate content.
    I'd say the opposite: If you *can* solo Trapdoor easily then you certainly don't need the extra power that being an Incarnate brings, whereas the person who can't is actually in need of the power boost.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Doctor Roswell View Post
    See, this just proves my point. He's so useful for some people, but for the vast, vast majority of players, he's completely worthless, because they don't even know he exists.
    Heck, I *know* he exists but I rarely use him. I mean, every time that annoying Fortune Teller Yes/No prompt pops up I tell myself that I'm gonna go see Null, but then the missions go on until I have to log out and I completely forget about it. Going to Pocket D just isn't something I do regularly enough for Null to be convenient.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Frosty_Femme View Post
    WTH is Null the Gull?
    A bird on a truck in Pocket D that you can talk to in order to opt out of various power effects (such as the movement buff of Speed Boost) or set yourself to automatically accept/decline that annoying Fortune Teller buff.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by zachary_EU View Post
    Iron Sky is scifi comedy and coming out at 4 april 2012

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034314/
    The premise and designs of that movie have had me interested since I first saw something on it.
  16. The Hobbit is the only movie on that list I'm wholly looking forward to. There are others I'm interested in, but not particularly 'anticipating'.

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    Originally Posted by BrandX
    And like a SG member who hated and now enjoys Twilight said, "Get over the sparkle, it lasted all of 6mins"
    Six minutes is more than long enough to be indelibly etched into the memory of a lifetime. Successes and failures often turn upon events in a much smaller time frame. And 2 minutes can be heard echoing across the annals of time for over a hundred years.
  17. Tenzhi

    Ponderables

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    Originally Posted by Schismatrix View Post
    Nah, i cut like a razor to the wrong conclusion.
    Ah, Occam's disaster. I hear that's how Murphy died.
  18. Most, if not all of it. Optionally, of course. Makes it seem like my heroes are making a difference.
  19. Tenzhi

    Ponderables

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    Originally Posted by Hopeling View Post
    When your sample size is too small to be significant, and you know it's too small to be significant, you don't say "oh well, I'll draw a conclusion anyway and then assume it's representative."
    That depends on whether you're doing something boring like dedicating your every waking moment to compiling accurate statistical data, or if you're muddling along in your day to day existence in the same recklessly casual and selfish way that humans have been doing it for millennia. I don't know about you, but everyone else is doing the latter.
  20. Tenzhi

    Ponderables

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    Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven View Post
    I'm not at all sure how I'm supposed to take that seriously.
    If you thought this was a serious thread about serious issues you were seriously mistaken.
  21. Tenzhi

    Ponderables

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    Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven View Post
    We're not talking about a bunch of trees or the weather, here. We're talking about people. Hello?
    And? People can be generalized just as easily as anything else. People are a bunch of two-legged nutters. See?

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    If someone is going to tell me that all women are crazy, I think I'm going to have to at least ask for what evidence they have for making such an assertion.
    You'd be crazy to expect such evidence to exist and thus to be presented, which itself may be taken as evidence.
  22. Tenzhi

    Ponderables

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven View Post
    No, it isn't reasonable at all. And there's nothing more you can say about the subject that would at all enlighten me about why it's so easy for you to so marginalize and stereotype about half the world's population so flippantly.
    Do you find it difficult to make broad generalizations? When you see a forest can you not say that it's a bunch of trees in spite of all the animals, rocks, and shrubbery therein?
  23. Tenzhi

    Ponderables

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Steelclaw View Post
    * Why does he live on an island filled with sychophants, toadies and hangers-on... yet still call himself Recluse?
    Because "Teh Mantula" was taken.

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    * Why do you have to hit Sally TWICE before you believe?
    Fool me once - badge on you; fool me twice - badge on me.
  24. DVRs are just the new tech version of VCRs.

    Digital distribution of recorded television is like receiving/giving a friend a copy of such a recording you made.
  25. If they were going to do something like that, wouldn't it be simpler to just add Null's option to Trainer dialogue?