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I would add a giant red ball that spawned randomly in zones accompanied with a PPD alert along the lines of "HOLY **** A GIANT RED BALL HAS APPEARED IN [...]"

The Giant Red Ball would take advantage of the physics engine, and can be effected by running into it, or by targeting it and shooting it. Different attacks would result in different trajectory, of course.

After about 2 hours the ball would pop, and drift off into the wind. Only to return again the next day in another zone.

After about a year of this, I would release a Task Force centered around the Giant Red Ball, and you and a team of Heroes/Villains must join forces to take down the mastermind who is supplying the Giant Red Ball with power. The ending of course, will shock everyone...

'evil' and 'good' are largely based upon who is perceiving the action.

Freedom Fighters think they are doing good.

The country that calls them a Terrorist Organization would disagree.

Rarely is the world so comically black and white that you can look at any situation, and decide for certainty, that someone was evil. I think very few people in the world would ever label themselves as evil, and so you must also ask yourself who is judging good or evil, and are they worthy to do so?


But to play with your question, I beleive the intent is more important than the action. If you were *trying* to slaughter everyone, but wound up making the cure for cancer instead, you were still *trying* to slaughter everyone. Actually slaughtering them just gets you our attention, but it doesn't make you any more or less evil, just more infamous.

Conversely, someone who was trying to save everyone, but did it by capturing random people off the streets, preforming experimentation on them, and recreating them into horrible abominations in the belief that doing so would cure them of all disease and grant them immortality meant well, but committed actions that broke a number of Laws, and is likely to be perceived as something they ought not have done. They will be punished for their actions, and they may even be met with hatred for their actions, but this does not make *them* evil. Misguided, perhaps, but not evil.


Law and Chaos are the missing factors of your example, and are guiding factors for good and evil. Unlike Good and Evil, Law and Chaos are set in stone, and are not changed by someone's perception. The choice to break the Law can have either good or evil intent just as often as choosing to uphold it can. Which still leads us back to the same place; Good and Evil are decided by intent. *actions* are what make them matter.

It could work, it could fail miserably. It really depends upon the story.

I'm typically more accepting of a 'bitter-sweet' ending. A real hero might screw up along the way, but he's not just going to tuck in his cape in go home either. It's not realistic, to me, that after the villian blows up the school bus, I would just be like "Well darn!" unless I am also dead. It would irritate me to no end if the story just forced me into not going after the villian or doing anything at all.

After we get the villian, play up all the horrible atrocities he committed, and then force us to question if we couldn't have done better. But don't just force me to quit.

I'm going to throw Tactics in there as well, mostly because Gaussin': Chance for Build-Up is just so sexy and I can take tactics on everyone.

Seriously? I vote for Desdemona because Infernal is a push over. I mean, seriously, I kicked his *** at level 20.

Kinetics. All of it.

Even Repel.

You're all forgetting something significant about Dr. V in that he perceived himself as a Good Guy. Praetorian Dr. V, as a fully evil bad ***, might have decided to put his medical knowledge to a far more sinister application than 'Good Guy' Dr. V, who was already pretty far off into the ****** up territory.

It's fully likely that Praetorian Dr. V is working *for* Tyrant. Tyrant gives him access to dead bodies, likely people who have stood against him, and sicks him upon the sewer system where he knows the resistance is gathered. It's a win/win for everyone, really.

Assuming he's behind any of that at all, of course. It could be something we've never even heard about, but the giant red collars point to a 'tech' based aspect, and Dr. V is the most obvious person to have scientifically created undeath.

From the scrapper forum:

Clearly this is proof that the Praetorian Epic Archetype is going to be mannequins with developed muscles.

how is he getting his pants to glow?

I do think they're somehow affiliated with Dr. Vahzilok.

It would make sense if he was ordered to flood the underground with zombies, or was just given free reign to do whatever his "evil" (Dr. V was TECHNICALLY a good guy) mind felt like doing, in order to get to the resistance. Instead of sending people to try and sniff the Resistance out, it makes far much more sense to just flood the place with zombies to keep them occupied/dead.

*questioning eyebrow* Vazhilok? Is that you?

I got most of my levels on a team. I beleive I picked Freedom specifically so that I could team on my peacebringer. Most of my solo stuff has been for the Kheldian Specific Missions with Sunstorm so I could appreciate the story without being rushed. Yes, Cosmic Balance is pretty kick ***. Yesterday I was teamed with about 6 defenders, a blaster and me. When I punched things they died.

It seems like any team make up would be good for my dwarf form. Assuming a lot of blasters or scrappers my resistance goes up, assuming a lot of defenders I'm probably getting buffed anyway, and controllers will be holding things all over the place to mitigate damage further. Seems like a win in my book.

I'll probably make a dual build at some point that focuses mostly on Nova and Dwarf, just so I can fully appreciate Nova. I'm sort of in the transitioning phase of DO's -> SO', so I'm a little too broke to be slotting up another independent build at the moment, but I'm definitely interested in it.

On that note, a mighty thank you for whoever made up dual builds. I think one of my biggest hang-up's with the AT is that I couldn't figure out where to put a focus. Now I don't have too~

I recently got on my Peacebringer again after a 628 day hiatus. Partially intrigued by the updates I had been hearing over the years to Kheldians, and deciding whether or not to delete the character, I hit up a team and was pretty happy with how I was doing. My single target blasts didn't feel so anemic, and my melee attacks felt freakishly deadly. I was only 18, but I could tell this guy had potential.

So I started making a build for it, ultimately decided to just scrap Nova altogether, as I was able to achieve pretty similiar damage without it. Focusing mostly on recharge set bonuses, and taking advantage of Dwarf's naturally high resistances, I pieced together a build I was pretty happy with. All that was left was to play the damn thing.

The human form, as mentioned, is a blast. I only have Incandescent and Radiant Strike, but both make the enemy hurt and both usually knock the enemy on it's back. While I would find this annoying on a scrapper or tanker, I found it offered pretty good mitigation with my PB, especially since I could then just shoot at the enemy until he got up again.

I hit 22 tonight and unlocked Dwarf, and even without any slotting in the thing I already love it. It is very nice to be able to switch into dwarf form if the pressure is a bit much, or I get mezzed. I usually open up the form with that foot stomp clone, and then proceed to beat enemies faces in. Usually on the second footstomp I'll drop back into human form and use my melee attacks to finish whatever I'm fighting off before it can get back up. It's ridiculous fun.

The Voids don't seem like a huge deal to me either. Perhaps it's because I'm used to fighting Malta Sappers (I completed every single mission in Indigo and Crimson's arc because I thought the Malta were a refreshing challenge on my scrapper) or maybe because they do reduced damage than during my initial introduction. I typically find that hovering above them, dropping down, hitting build up, and smashing their faces works pretty good, and is incredibly satisfying. On teams I like to charge at the Voids, splattering them across the wall with my ridiculous amount of KB effects while my team looks at me with what I can only imagine is concern.

I'm also midly roleplaying my Kheldian as a ridiculously naive and polite person, which is fun for me while I'm vaporizing people's faces with solar energy.

I wasn't really expecting to ever like this AT, but I have to say, it's quite fun.

No, because I want you to suffer.