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Combining:

-The increased Fear in Burn
-The cap of 10 mobs
-The 4x reset time
-The reduced damage

Is overkill. Just reducing the fear effect would help a lot. And I am sorry but no one should be buying into the "Run out of Burn cause it's a fire!" schtick. They don't run out of my AR/Dev's ignite. They stay in melee with someone who is on fire the whole time! Or getting hit with poison spines, or......

The "realism" of people running out of Burn does not fly when you look at all the other instances of suicidal mob behavior.

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"Snarky"...
Is that like a snark? Those horrible little exploding red beetle things from Half-life?

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"It's a Snark!" was the sound that first came to their ears,
And seemed almost too good to be true.
Then followed a torrent of laughter and cheers:
Then the ominous words "It's a Boo-" NERF!!!
Then, silence.

(with apologies to Lewis Carroll )

Jack, as an U.S. Army engineer with many friends currently serving in the Sandbox, I wish your brother the Lord's protection for his safe return. (PM sent with more.)

On CoH, I'll hold off on my own "snarky"comments, for now. (Hint: BURN)

Bottom line up front: Burn recharge is too long and should be reduced.

On my unhastened fire/ice tank, Burn recharge went from 10 seconds (Live) to 40 seconds (Test), an 300% increase. When combined with reduced Burn effect time and damage, this removes Burn as the crown jewel of the Fire tanker power set.

(I repec'ed my fire/ice tanker with several variations of hasten and Burn recharge enhancements, to no avail. In the end, I only restored my tanker's lethality by dropping Burn and Fiery Embrace in favor of Hasten and a couple of ice attacks.)

I won't say the Burn on Test is useless since it could be used as a situational power to keep baddies away (similar to the way I used Burn on my blaster). Since my tank isn't squishy, however, I'd rather keep my enemies close and personal. For me, then, the new Burn is a castrated power not worth the time or slots.

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Number 1....


...the Larch.

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Spam spam spam spam spam spam spam power level spam spam spam spam...

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Yes it clears up things Manticore, thank you. Now throw in some angry potatoes of legend from Idaho and we are set.

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You had to bring up the angry potatoes of legend... (shudder) I had blocked them out of my mind for all these years... they are NOT legend and you just HAD to remind me.

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In THAT case... this Spud's for you!

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Ah, then you've been poisoning pigeons in Perez Park?

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Yes, as I hold your hand in mine, dear.

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Ah, but his Elements song is a classic. I first heard of Tom Lehrer when my college chemistry professor played that for us one day.

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Try this.

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ROFLOL!! Thanks for the link!

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Ah, then you've been poisoning pigeons in Perez Park?

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Yes, as I hold your hand in mine, dear.

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Ah, but his Elements song is a classic. I first heard of Tom Lehrer when my college chemistry professor played that for us one day.

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<snip Little Blue Riding hood>


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Actually.. my favorite (which'd never work on the boards) is his rendition of "Day-o"

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"Whoa whoa whoa, too loud, man, too loud. Stand over there. Way over there. Crazy..."

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Actually I'm a really big fan of Tom Lehrer as well.

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Ah, then you've been poisoning pigeons in Perez Park?

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I still ain't made up my mind yet about Toledo...

Oh, and most folks call 'em green onions, but they're really scallions.

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EXCELLENT!!! I'm glad to see I'm not the only old fogey on this board!!

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Argh.. I hate it when I get the joke that people refer to as "old fogeyish"

/em goes back to listening to St George and the Dragonet..

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OK, then, this is for you.

Joe (voice-over): 11:45am, it happened. I saw a little girl in a blue hood
carrying a basket. I stopped to question her.
Joe: Pardon me, ma'am, could I talk to you for just a minute, ma'am?
Little Blue: What about?
Joe: Nothing much, ma'am. Just wanna' ask you a few questions, ma'am.
What's your name?
Little Blue: Little Blue Riding Hood.
Joe: Where ya' going, ma'am?
Little Blue: Grandma's house.
Joe: Yes, ma'am. Whad'ya got in the basket?
Little Blue (defensively): Whad'ya trying to say, I got something in the
basket I shouldn't have?
Joe: No, ma'am, I didn't say that.
Little Blue: Then whad'ya asking me all these questions for?
Joe: Just routine, ma'am, we just wanna' get the facts. May I have a look
in that basket, ma'am?
Little Blue: Be my guest.
Joe: Let's see. Sawed-off shotgun. Knife. Bludgeon. Box of dumdum
shells. Nothing suspicious here. All right, ma'am, we may want to talk to
you later, so don't leave the woods.
>dramatic music<
Joe (voice-over): She skipped on down the path. But she didn't know I'd
seen the concealed compartment in the basket. In it, what I'd suspected all
along - goodies.

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I still ain't made up my mind yet about Toledo...

Oh, and most folks call 'em green onions, but they're really scallions.

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EXCELLENT!!! I'm glad to see I'm not the only old fogey on this board!!

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"I'm St. George maam. Homicide maam. I want to ask you a few questions maam. I understand you were almost devoured by the maam is that right dragon? "

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"On September the 5th, the dragon was tried and convicted. His fire was put out and his maiden devouring license revoked. Maiden devouring out of season is punishable for a term of not less than fifty or more than 300 years."

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I still ain't made up my mind yet about Toledo...

Oh, and most folks call 'em green onions, but they're really scallions.

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EXCELLENT!!! I'm glad to see I'm not the only old fogey on this board!!

I'm SO glad I reserved "Virginia Dare" as a scrapper on Protector so many months ago.

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But the devs would never lie to us. I believe in the Alien invasion, that Paragon City is in Rhode Island, and that the biggest danger to our world is giant pile of jello. And i believe in the tooth fairy, Santa Claus, and the Easter Bunny too!

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But do you believe in Toledo? (old Stan Freberg reference)

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I will now perform a hitherto undiscovered poem by one S. Baldric for the first time. It is believed to be the complimentary piece to his most famous work, "The German Guns".

*ahem*

Doom, Doom, Doom
Doom, Doom, Doom.
Doom, Doom,
Doom, Doom.
Doom, Doom, Doom.

Thank you.

*Runs away before anyone can throw rotten fruit with too much accuracy. *

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Sodoff, Baldric.

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But he has a cunning plan...

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He wouldn't know a cunning plan if it painted it's self purple and danced naked on a harpsichord singing "Cunning Plans Are Here Again".

Now slam the door in their face before I slam your face in the door!

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If you're not careful, all the children will dance about outside your window singing sour-puss and grumpy-face, and you wouldn't want that now would you?

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I will now perform a hitherto undiscovered poem by one S. Baldric for the first time. It is believed to be the complimentary piece to his most famous work, "The German Guns".

*ahem*

Doom, Doom, Doom
Doom, Doom, Doom.
Doom, Doom,
Doom, Doom.
Doom, Doom, Doom.

Thank you.

*Runs away before anyone can throw rotten fruit with too much accuracy. *

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Sodoff, Baldric.

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But he has a cunning plan...

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Actually, while Roanoke is in modern-day North Carolina, at the time of the disappeareances, it was considered to be part of Virginia:


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Correct. At the time, the charter for John White's colony established it in Her Majesty's Colony of Virginia (which includes the modern-day states of North and South Carolina and the Commonwealth of Virginia).

(Disclamer: I grew up on Roanoke Island and now live near Jamestown, Virgina, so I'm very familiar with the story and legends of the Lost Colony. There are many ghost stories, for example, about Virginia Dare... )

Just sent you my AT info as well as the name of an SG controller.

I remember that griefer well, especially since I heard abut her all the way back from P.I. after begging for controllers.

Count me in whenever you folks want to try another raid. I like the challenge now that Hami doesn't get gang-rushed any more.

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So how'd you do it? Currently, I'm recommending that energy blasters make a costume that looks like a phantasm, so they can follow illusion controllers around and hope the controller doesn't notice the extra phant.

"w-t-f? when did they give phantasms a snipe? And NOVA???"

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Well, I combined SnipeFu's energy blaster guide with Concern's "Be a Better *******" philosophy, added a few range/accuracy/damage HOs, and created the ultimate long-ranged sneaky dirty-fighting sniper. I'd often snipe a Malta sapper from extreme range while stealthed, watch him turn around looking for me, then nail him with a second snipe without either him, his fellow minions or his LT seeing me. After that, BAM BAM BAM from range and they're "arrested".

Was it sporting? Nope. Was it fair? Nah.

Was I Being a Better Blastard? You bet your bippee!!!

I just wanted to quickly post that SnipeFu's Guide to Enery Blasters deserves to be voted the best guide out there. It helped me ding 50 tonight!!

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FYI - I'm a HUGE kaiju fan (giant monsters).

I collect all the figs, the theatrical posters, etc.

I've got Godzillas from the past two movies all around my office. And a Godzilla: Final Wars mousepad (theatre only).

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I smell a future expansion. First there was City of Heroes, then City of Villains, now........City of Kaiju! Of course, after hundreds of people create Godzilla, Megalon and Gigan clones, Toho will probably launch a frivolous lawsuit too.

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Nope, sorry, it will be "City of Kennys"(tm).

"Ohmygod, the Skull killed Kenny! You *******!"

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this just in, authorities have found what appears to be a giant egg off the coast of independance port.

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Superheroes scramble to respond!

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At my workplace, all the servers are named after various gods of mythology. I conside one of my finer moments convincing networking that 'Enki' was a good name for our new server.

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Ours were Harpo, Groucho, Chico, and Karl.

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We had Bart, Lisa, and Homer.

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Ours were Colossus and Guardian. (Yep, I named them and NOBODY got the joke.)