Willowpaw

Are you aware that you pretty much repeated almost thought for thought what I posted earlier in this thread?

If your character does primarily dark damage, the axe may be the better choice, since there's plenty in the game that resist dark, meaning a good portion of your damage output is nullified.

But in the long run, it is how the power looks with your character that ultimately counts.

Also, even though the axe does extra damage to true undead (and there is plenty in the game that qualify), it also does pretty hefty damage on other critters as well, provided they are not heavily resistant to lethal.

Oh. Just remembered another thing in favor of Sands of Mu though.

If the character is a hero, then starting at level 30, you can use the Pillar of Ice and Flame to get a Ghost Slaying Axe at any time. It is charge limited and expires after a certain amount of time, but chances are you won't use it up anyway.

Select the "Rescue the Mystics and Defeat the Pantheon" badge mission. Accept the mission, then "Quit Taskforce"

Bingo, Pillar becomes Axe vending machine.

It's not just here (CoH/V) that has screwed up filters. Just a couple weeks ago during a LOTRO session, I was reminded that I had forgotten to turn off the profanity filter when I was talking about the skill my Loremaster just got that stuns undead. As opposed to my normal stun, I was referring to this as my spook stun, and it came up as $#@! stun.


That was a big wtf moment for me.


Oh, and that Count video was hilarious. I was rolling when he said "And when I'm alone, I like to BLEEP myself."

I thought that it was because it had longer range at one time. But then when they nerfed its range, they forgot to reduce its endurance cost.

Perhaps it is a cornerstone for every tank that you roll up. That does not mean that everyone who makes a tank absolutely has to take Taunt. As long as they can find a way to maintain aggro, that should be good enough. And with Willpower, the Neener Field called Rise to the Challenge should be a perfectly suitable replacement for Taunt. So can it with the "One True Build" mentality please.

Now that being said, I think I do have Taunt worked into the builds for all my tanks (though not always right when it comes available.) I like taking it because of the Perfect Zinger Psi Damage proc.

What? Did they finally heed the countless requests to make the @global part of the name transparent? Last I heard, everyone would be seen specifically as charactername@globalname (global visible all the time).

Random NPC: I heard Captain Spandex@McBoo foiled yet another Nemesis plot.

That is the type of nonsense we would see if CoH implemented it just like the other game.

Really? I was under the impression that this game's population was fairly average or a bit above average compared to most other MMOs.

Remember to eliminate the extremes at both ends for more accuracy. That means WoW would be removed from the equation for the top end of population, and whatever MMO has the lowest population would also be removed (I'm guessing that would be Eternal Lands...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_Lands).

It always looks great when it happens on Honey-Bree, my MA/SR Scrapper. That is because it usually happens when I finish off a foe with Eagle's Claw and PB reactivates the moment she lands back on her feet.

If you are going for perma-dom, then CC should get a full 6 piece serving of Kinetic Crash.

Carnies only because there is no Anime School Girl faction in the game. Correct?

It also determines which Yin Talisman SO your heroes can start slotting at level 10.

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Yin%27s_Market

Although I didn't design her specifically around the Yin Talismen, I was rather pleased to re-discover that Tech gets Endurance Reduction SOs from Yin. That made the early levels more bearable for Feisty Fawn, my Kin/Electric Defender, as /Electric is pretty endurance heavy:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y12...OH-Fawn-00.jpg


My Fire/Kin could have benefitted nicely from being Tech Origin. However, I would have to completely redesign her look and background, which would make her a completely different character.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y12...kle-Bat-00.jpg

Being Dark Elf with Black Dragon in her fairly recent lineage, and being from a world where magic is the primary force of nature...yeah, that makes her magic origin, which bites for her because Fire/Kin is painfully heavy on the endurance in the pre-Stamina levels (made her back in January and she has only been played to 14 since.)

If I ever do make another Fire/Whatever Controller, I will be going with Tech Origin. This will be one of the few instances where the character will be designed with the Yin Talismen in mind.


And as per the OP, I would not see a problem with an Origin change. Make it once per character, automatically convert any slotted normal SOs and DOs to the appropriate type, unslot and auto-sell any slotted Yin Talismen, and alter what your original starting contact says when you go back to talk to him or her later to reflect that your origin has changed (just for a bit of flavor there). The latter two items would only apply to heroes, since Villain contacts are not origin specific and villains don't get Yin Talismen.

Also, perhaps make the minimum level 10 to prevent any glitches with the starting contact, as he or she would be outleveled by then. Lastly, EATs and VEATs would have to be barred from changing origin I think. Or perhaps not, if someone could come up with a reason why.