brophog02

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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Neogumbercules View Post
    If anything, this thread is convincing me to go the distance with my DA's quest to hit 45% S/L. Right now I have about 35% and the same to E/NE and I already have a hard time getting killed.
    I'm a huge fan of the partial soft cap.......anything over about 32 to cover with a small purple. Easy to keep inspirations around these days.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by seebs View Post
    As to reserving a specific slot: I've never found the need. Maybe it really does matter on some TFs, but I have yet to encounter anything where it mattered (but then, no 50s yet).
    The only ones that have any merit to 'needing' something are the top tier TFs, but even those "needs" tend to get grossly exaggerated. Even in most of those cases, the need is really just a want.
  3. brophog02

    Blaster Nukes

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Sqeak View Post
    as i said on my elec/elec/elec balaster i CAN nuke every min, its called 3 slots of recharge in blast+hasten, and at high lvls i got my IOs caped for recharge.
    It may feel like every minute, but you can't actually get the recharge down that low.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by brophog02 View Post
    If you need something, you need someone besides me.
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Taiyanna View Post
    Good luck on those hold-less LGTF runs, then.
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Taiyanna View Post
    Done it without holds, or done it without a control-type AT being responsible for the holds? That's a rather large difference.

    Either way, the point stands- there IS stuff in the game where tossing together random players without any planning *can* result in an impossible task.

    Mini-Hami, green mitos. It's not an absolute, 100% hard requirement, but it's WAY more trouble than it's worth.
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Taiyanna View Post
    I'm not being 'intolerant' of anything, nor am I being anti-fun. It being POSSIBLE to do without holds doesn't change that it's ridiculously easier to do it with them- nor does it change that *every single pug*
    You throw around absolutes like a guy throwing frisbees with his dog.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by seebs View Post
    Woah. Those look seriously awesome to my untrained eye. Cheap components, hour-long buffs that would make a lot of content way easier.
    And that's why they're almost never, ever used by the general population. Even on the forums, it takes a thread like this every 6 months to remind people of their awesomeness.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Valerika View Post
    The good guys seem to be winning, at least on the forums.
    There's a number of people in the game, too. I'd say that the ones that advertise they take anything at least equal or exceed those that require a pat down and 2 forms of ID.
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison View Post
    You know, it's not that hard. I know I've done it.
    Same.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison View Post
    I haven't seen it yet, but that's mostly because I only start my own teams by my rules.

    Rule 5: Any build, any budget, no exclusions.

    I've allowed concept builds on my teams.
    I've allowed petless MMs on my teams.
    I have even taken a level 36 /regen scrapper on an MoITF.
    I have kicked a billion inf invuln tanker jack wagon from my team because he cursed at one of the other players on the team.
    The second I hear anyone advertise anything else, I put them on ignore. The game is no fun for me with highly specialized teams. If you need something, you need someone besides me.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Jade_Dragon View Post
    Maybe they throw a shuriken or two, but if you're holding your Genin out of melee range, you aren't making use of them except as cannon fodder anyway.
    The shurikens are actually quite good. In fact, it can be more important to keep the genin out of melee for added AOE, than to allow them into melee. There isn't that much difference in their attacks anymore, the way there used to be.

    The problem, of course, is they now want to run into melee like everything else. I know a lot of people complain about that with the ranged pets, but for me, it made playing melee pets even more problematic. I had no problem using goto commands to put them into melee. I didn't gain anything (as some melee pets users surmise), I just lost more control.

    That's most of the issue here: control. Even with a good set of binds, the best we can do is kinda nudge them in a certain fashion. Most of the pets have capabilities already, they just don't know how to use them. A set like Ninjas has quite a few control options, but you can never be certain when they will be used (and in some cases, they're just buggy). That's a real problem for a set like Ninjas, and often overlooked. Their defense isn't made to be the be all, end all......it's made to complement their soft controls. The problem is that the AI is very poor at doing that. The user has some ability, but not enough, and most users forfeit what control they do have.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Magus_Prime View Post
    Michael Gambon nails it as a miserly old curmudgeon but was there ever any doubt?
    Nothing short of brilliant. That character has to be played with two extremes, but done in a subtle manner as to not make a complicated character appear as a lunatic.

    Regardless of what one thinks of Moffat's continued abuses against the time travel mechanics, this special is one of the finest christmas specials simply due to Gambon's excellent portrayal.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironik View Post
    Insinuating that veteran players are total idiots. Awesome.
    Insinuating that they aren't.

    Awesomer.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Xzero45 View Post
    I love how so many people compare this show to Justice League, and say how it sucks because it's not it.

    Yeah.

    They're their own shows. This isn't the mid 90's era of Marvel animation, either.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by _Echoo_ View Post
    Awesome special, brilliant stuff. It's classic Moffat; great pacing, brilliant dialog, and very funny.
    .........and lots of cheating.
  14. brophog02

    Annoying Players

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by _ACFU_ View Post
    A call came out that a STF was forming and was asking for tells with AT and powersets.
    That's as far as I get before I ignore them.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Snow Globe View Post
    All this leads me to believe that nukes will be likely be banned by the developers in yet another "hissy fit" patch (a patch that changes the rules so that the developer's "ideals" are upheld despite player tactics). The problem with those types of patches is that players do one of two things: find another way to overwhelm & ignore the developer rules OR simply ignore the badge because it is too difficult to achieve using "sanctioned" methods.

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    When do we get the hissy fit player nerf?
  16. It was a bad show on an even worse network.........

    .....still, it was more interesting than Caprica. Barely.
  17. Defender.

    I hate the set on a blaster. Absolutely hate it. The set feels slow, much slower than it actually is.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle View Post
    Further, as we are both well aware, explosive blast in particular has the charming side effect of scattering things out of energy torrent's cone and vice versa.
    As we all know.......no, it doesn't.
  19. Gotta love when EB's aren't immune to knockback.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Silverado View Post
    I use them all the time and specifically keep the appropiate salvage pieces on my salvage racks (knockback protection and recovery are very useful for lowbies, and the recharge buff is useful for toons of every level)
    Ditto. A hidden gem in the game.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane View Post
    Just for fun I went around to several servers last night during "prime time"; Freedom, Triumph, Virtue and Infinity.

    Apex and Tin Mage sat alone while Lady Grey and Imperious had plenty of company with people lined up to do their TFs.

    I think that speaks volumes on what the average player thinks about Apex and Tin Mage, as opposed to the vocal minority of Muchkin power gamers on these forums who've propped up these two disasters.

    May the i19 TFs and the devs "new development direction" be swiftly ignored, fall into obscurity and forgotten like the Shard TFs and other wastes of development resources.



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    And people wonder why the world sucks so much. Cater to laziness, get laziness. All the wannabe hamsters can suck it, as far as I'm concerned.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Santorican View Post
    I have to reinstall this on my comp and I can't get it to work, it keeps saying there is an error in the data base
    Use the version Shadow State posted and make sure it is going into the data folder.
  23. You're actually missing quite a few, including what may be the best Batman movie, ever, Mask of the Phantasm.

    ((Though that one isn't 'straight to DVD', but should definitely be viewed!!))
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
    They went back to the size they were a year ago.
    That's how the game's played.