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Not all Nordic costumes have to be Thor lookalikes even if they have hammers
Besides, even if I do go Mace, I might not even give him a hammer... he's a giant, after all; I might just give him a massive club. About the only thing he shares with Thor is the winged helmet anyway... blue skin and a massive beard set him fairly far apart IMO.
I'd screencap the costume to show you but my client is updating D:
Maybe I'll play around in Mids and look at the numbers... kinda leaning towards Axe anyway since I already have a Mace/Invuln, even if she's really low level, and a Shield/Mace tank.
Other question: How viable is Stone Armor as a set if I skip Granite? Both this brute and one of my tanks would have a lot of trouble reconciling it with their themes, seeing as their Stone Armor is being used as recolored stand-ins for sets we don't have (Radioactive Armor on the tank). I know, I'm probably crazy for suggesting it. -
I managed to get the Crystalline stone armor to look like pretty good ice, and put together a costume for a frost giant (will obviously have Arctic Mastery epic pool) - but I can't decide on a primary. I want something really Viking-ish, so that'll be axe or mace. Which one works better with stone armor?
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Yeah, I had that happen to me last year - one was standing right on top of Vitaly Cherenko, before I got his phone number. Fortunately, I managed to get myself close enough to talk to him before I was shot down, and being dead doesn't stop you from talking to contacts.
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I had the same problem with the boxing gloves, shorts, and boots a while back - good to hear this was fixed
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Ice: The one element that for some reason I've never bothered with. Alas!
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I doubt being in melee will be a problem, with Hurricane+DarkBlastToHitDebuffs keeping me safe, and I didn't have anything else to spend those two power picks on, so Thunderclap+Dark Pit might get a fair bit of use from me. Thanks for the tip - I'd never have even considered Dark Pit without the idea of stacking it with Thunderclap to make it actually useful.
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Theme: Malevolent ocean spirit (Dark powers colored like seawater). Currently I just hit level 10, so Leviathan isn't going to be in the picture for a very long time, but I figured I'd mention it anyway.
In any case, I've never played a Stormy before, though I have a Dark/Dark in the high forties - so I know what powers I like in general from the Dark Blast set, just not how well they synergize with any Storm Summoning powers. Really, I just like to get a little advice before trying new things, so I'm more likely to get it right the first time.
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I dunno about anyone else, but I was glad when she decided to switch back to having only one face. -
Funny... my two purchases went right through, no sweat.
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Quote:Um... yeah. They are. Because I wasn't trying to talk about Vigilantes in the first place, just Rogues and whether or not a "great scheme" would always be the thing a Rogue would do.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
All of those are ROGUE tips
EDIT: To clarify, this was the part of your post I was responding to:
Quote:Plenty of Rogue missions have me abandon the chance for a great scheme in favour of saving some guy's *** from his own trouble -
Quote:I wasn't talking about Vigilante tips anyway.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Off the top of my head, there's one mission that has you save Scrapyarder leaders from Arachnos, one mission that has you find a cure for a mobster and one mission which has you save a wealthy man from the Family. I don't recall seeing a single mission to save anything in any of the vigilante tips I've seen.
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Quote:First one of your incessant troll posts that actually got to me. Good job.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Humans are special - they're higher than animals (etc etc etc)
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Quote:I have no problem with that one. Consider these characters:Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
A lot of Vigilante tips are worse than some of the VILLAIN missions I've done, let alone the Rogue ones. Plenty of Rogue missions have me abandon the chance for a great scheme in favour of saving some guy's *** from his own trouble, with the narrative almost apologising for this by telling me "But... But... You'll get paid!"
A smuggler and gun runner. He's got exactly two good friends and he's committed several crimes against the government in place. He doesn't do practically anything unless he's paid, and if he gets paid to go and rescue someone, why the hell not? He's certainly well-equipped enough to do it. Also, eyewitness accounts indicate that he's committed preemptive murder to save his own skin. Yeah, that's a Rogue. Oh, and he's also risked his neck with NO offer of reward to save someone else's bacon at least once.
A bounty hunter who's famous for being a stone-cold badass, and like the smuggler, getting the job done. However, while he's outright feared to some, to others he's a bit of a folk hero. In spite of his stone-cold-badass reputation, he has spared some marks... but only the ones against which he had personal grudges, not ones for whom he was hired. Obviously, as a bounty hunter, he's apprehended dangerous criminals as a portion of his jobs - such is not solely the domain of a hero. Sounds like a Rogue to me too, given the sparing-personal-grudges aspect; that's not compatible with a vigilante. Also, he works among exceedingly seedy folk. As for "great schemes," he doesn't work that way. Not every Rogue has to.
A pirate. Flat-out a pirate, undeniably a criminal in the robbing-and-murdering for personal gain sense. Cowardly and craven, when he can't run away he fights dirty. Also a protagonist and a genuinely sympathetic character, in the "hero party" because TREASURE AND WENCHES! Rogue all over. Gets caught up in something greater, fights for the greater good, and never stops being a Rogue. Great schemes? Yeah, that might be dangerous. Saving this other guy is less likely to get him killed, and still nets him some nice gold, so why not?
In case you didn't recognize the characters, they are Han Solo, Boba Fett, and Jack Sparrow. "Abandoning a great scheme in order to save someone's ***" hasn't been my impression of... well, any of the Rogue missions I've seen, but if they do exist, they fit right in as part of the hero-ward end of the Rogue continuum.
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I know right? I actually WANT most of these things (as well as an option of having the Visual Sound Effects from that one April Fool the devs pulled that I was disappointed not to actually get). Especially the guitars thing. I want a sidekick for my Rad/Sonic, Power Balladeer.
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Quote:HOW THE BALLS DID I NOT NOTICE THAT?the "these aren't the droids you're looking for" hand-wave -
Quote:Nah, that wouldn't be an Ouro arc. It's incompatible with my crackpot theory that Lord Nemesis has only one Day Job badge, and it is Clubber, if you get my meaning...Originally Posted by Steelclaw
* An Ouroboros arc where you go back in time to discover DJ Zero financed his club by a major multi-dimensional crime spree... I mean, come ON... he can open worm holes ANYWHERE and decides to use his powers to make a disco?!
And if you don't, I'm saying DJ Zero is Nemesis. Why else would there be Nemesis soldiers in the Shadow Shard? Clearly they're keeping Rularuu away! -
I'd probably be one of those crappy Empathy defenders who didn't bother taking any powers from my Sonic Attack secondary.
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Quote:Originally Posted by OneWhoBinds
....I like it.
This is an idea that works very well! The 'Blobs' could easily be interpreted as several different origins (Science, Magic, and Mutant), unlike most of the other sets available.
They could even be Tech! Gray Goo nanobots, anyone? -
Quote:I kinda want to meet him with my heroic zombie MM now - he and his men are only undead because of a poorly-worded oath. Literally no misanthropy at all: he swore to protect the bloodline of his king for the rest of time, and a thousand years of being dead isn't stopping him. Of course, I wouldn't expect him to trust this character right away, or even eventually... I just think it could be interesting.Originally Posted by Next_Player
I have a friend who plays a character that is very anti-demon, anti-undead. He maintains that there are no good demons or undead. So forget what you've learned about vampires with souls from Buffy or sparkly non-human-killing vampires from Twilight, if you're playing a good vampire and bump into him, there is no way in hell you're going to roleplay or OOC change his character's mind about teaming with you.
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I want to be an incarnate of Rularuu.
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I hear ya, mate. My Ill/Rad has all her powers colored pale yellow and passed off as light control. The APPs we have do not match that theme and would be very out of place next to everything else she does... when she gets to high enough levels to start taking Primal Forces Mastery (the closest match to the concept) I'm probably going to chew my own face off out of sheer anal-ness. Damn it, the Legacy Chain can have the right color; why can't I?
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Quote:I liked Beast Wars.Originally Posted by SenseiBlur
Am I the only person in existence who actually remembers Transformers: Beast wars and actually enjoyed it? =P
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Because I can't fullview images, read my messages, or submit anything at all, comments or artwork (the sumbit buttons are gone).
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...You don't watch much anime, do you?
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Quote:My sentiments exactly - and from someone who HAS the items!Originally Posted by Lothic
As a player who's been around long enough to have pretty much every "exclusive" item this game has ever released I will state for the record that I wouldn't care less if they decided to repackage and sell all these things in new Booster Packs for people who missed them years ago.
The only things I think should remain PERMANENTLY exclusive are Vet Awards. Unique Vet Awards should remain Vet Awards otherwise what's the point of the Vet Award system? But if whatever you're talking about was not originally a Vet Award then sure it should be made available to anyone who wants it.
Notice in my paragraph above how I highlighted the word "permanently" in reference to things that are exclusive? The one thing people often confuse about exclusive items in MMOs is that they mistakenly assume that anything labeled as "exclusive" is PERMANENTLY exclusive. Nothing could be further from the truth.
In legal terms simply using the word "exclusive" does not necessarily guarantee something will remain exclusive FOREVER. An item can be "exclusive" for six months or a year and then be released to everyone and still satisfy any legal interpretation of the original use of that word. Remember the Devs of this game have never specifically used the words "exclusive FOVEVER" in reference to anything. They just simply let people's imagination's connect the dots and assume that these things are permanent as a classic marketing maneuver.
There is no way NCSoft could be successfully sued for this kind of thing. Sure there might be a handful of people who feel like they were "tricked" or "cheated" out of something, especially if the period of exclusivity is not reasonably long enough. But frankly that's their own naivety for thinking they were getting something PERMANENTLY exclusive in a game like this.
More voices!
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I'd be content with just being able to give my robots a new paint job.