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Foolish sackthingy, unable to understand that which is good and just to those of cat heritage is not evil. It is only your perceptions of cats, as taught by the ideologies of the Canine Continuum, that convince you of what is good and just to be evil.

!!! A kitty saving a puppeh?!?!?!

TRAITOR!!!!

nah, that's not how you funish a puppeh. This is how a you funish a puppeh.

*hooks up a firehose and turns it on full blast at Cien*

3212: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Hit_Points

ACK!

*whips around to find a trap-door has swung open and crunched Sai's lil kitty tail, and watches a sackthingy head for the donut platter from the revealed exit*

Alternative exits huh. Must be a Vanu Sovereignty sackthingy.

didn't you know that Georgia is where you can go to get exorcisms done on your computer?

We have a kitten pout! Quick! Bring the fuzzy furry purry swarmming kittens!

*looks around for the class of kittens and finds them hovering around the Sackville door*

Oh kitties, Neko Ali needs a snuggle...

*the kitties look at each other, then swarm over to Neko Ali and snuggle Neko Ali*

hmm... just what were those kitties up to...

*investigates the entrance from Sackville and finds 6 bottles of chocolate syrup, 3 bottles of whipped cream, 2 yards of yarn, and a book on Sackthingy Shibari*

Mewit... I knew it. The kitties were corrupted.

yes you do. Left click on that little Red Triangle on the lower left hand corner of your post.

Type into the nice little box that comes up what is in your rep comments.

Sit back and grin as whoever put the out-of-line comment there finds themselves with a "I'm sorry, your account has been banned message sometime in the near future.

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Oh, I've commented on that several times. I often point out that all posts made by an account can be traced or tracked through viewing a forum profile. It's quite easy to see whether or not somebody asked for a rep boost in the gimme rep now threads.

It's also quite easy to then throw them on ignore.

Their Triumph, their pantless, their all-together hatless
and in this network their invading your forums
Their insult dispensers, they shop at lot at Spencers
On Triumph Watch Adventures get a does of no decorum!

Question. Why did you make maps that could be exploited to begin with. Shut up.

Sister Twelve: same goes for you. Shut up. You aren't gaining any sympathy, and at this point you've managed to get people un-involved with this whole mess willing to step in and tell you it's time to close your mouth.

He can't. I tied him up and pushed him into a closet. Since he won't give me his password, I'm having to brute-force it. I do like his screen-saver though. I wonder how he got the picture of BaB's in high-heels...

um. right and wrong.

While Brutes cap at 90% resist, they get the same exact base values as Scrappers. That means that when capped into Enhancement Diversification, their resists are not going to get close to cap.

For example, an Invuln brute with all of the Smash / Lethal resist native powers and Tough will only be pushing 67.5% resistance... a far sight short of the cap. A stone brute in granite with tough will only have 73.125 resist, again, short of cap... and the ED capped stone skin will only be touching around 84% resist...

The difference can't exactly be made up in IO's either. The devs are aware of the disparity of resist buffs versus defense buffs in the various IO sets, and comments from the developers indicate most future sets will have resist values.

The solo(ing) advantage to brutes is that they do get a higher native HP cap, around 3200, and a higher base HP amount, around 1500.

Really then, if you are going to make the argument, play a different archtype, when it comes to resists, the argument is for tanks, and not brutes, stalkers, or scrappers.

nuuu!

*ish dragged away from the burlap treat*

Kitties, nom! nom at him! nom the sackthingy!! Nom I sammmmuuuppphhhh

*breaks free of Detra's boobs*

We can sew him back together if one of you uses too much teeth, now nom!!! nom awaaaaaammmmuuurrrppphhhh

*breaks free of Detra and WHAMTACKLES Fedor*

CHEWTOY!!!!!

*ish followed by all the little kittens bouncing up and down wide-eyed at their chance to try out a real sackthingy chewtoy*

You'll need to define what perform well enough means. If you mean in terms of mob survivability, no. You won't be able to sit in a mob and hack away at enemies.

If you mean in terms of kill first, live later, then yes. All of the elemental sets have damage aura's, and those auras can rack up on damage counts.

Now, each elemental set has it's own advantages / disadvantages.

Electrical Armor has the best resists, great endurance management, and a regeneration buff that if you can get close to perma, will be putting you alongside willpower's and regen's for sheer annoyance.

Fire Armor has not so great resists and unless you take combat jumping and acrocatics, or take combat jumping and slot multiple knockback protection IO's, a tendency to be flat on their back. That being said, Fire's damage aura is more powerful, ticking off 13 points of damage at level 50 versus 12 points on Electric and Dark. Okay, it's not that much more powerful. Anyways, Fire also gets a quick self-heal, endurance recovery, and a self-rez micro-nuke. Oh, and Burn. Really great for sending enemies at the front of a map running in fear to the back of the map.

Dark's advantages are it's stealth and status effects. Most of the dark set is about giving your scrapper time to output some damage, then get away from the fight. Dark's tend to focus more on getting into a middle of a mob and cranking the damage, or hit and run tactics.

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For a scrapper, the two best armors really are Dark and Electric. Electric actually shows how unbalanced Fire Armor is, and there's a vocal minority within the player base that's upset that Fire Armor still hasn't been looked at since it was knocked out of balance with the I5 ED changes.

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On the attacks. Well, fire melee on scrappers is great for single target damage. There have been players with Fire / Shield scrappers that claim to drop AV's and Giant monsters on a regular basis.

Electric attack is a bit better on the AOE front, and includes a couple of mezzes... which can really help out survivability.

Dark Melee is a bit light on the directed damage side at low levels. However, the set does get a self-heal, which helps survivability immensely, and a self-endurance recovery. It also gets soul drain... which in mob environments turns light directed damage into where did everybody go?

So, the attacks really depend on what you want to do.

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If you do a lot of soloing or challenges, Fire Melee / Electric Armor is a hard combination to overlook.

If you are going for sheer damage and are backed with a controller that can keep mobs from running in fear, Dark Melee / Fire Armor is hard to overlook. A controlled mob hit with a Soul-Drained Burn is as good as dead.

If you like to team a lot and run lots of task forces, Dark Melee / Electric Armor isn't as hard-hitting out front, but is better equipped for a wider range of potential battle situations.

ack! chew him kittens! chew him! he's a sackthingy!!! *is held in place by Detra and is unable to escape*

*ish nommed upon!*

This.

Remember. The characters are presented to the world as bubbles. There is no direct animation to object interaction through the game. This is why whenever you click on objects you get a basic hand animation on the cursor, but don't actually touch the object. This is also why your attacks always animate the same way, and don't change animations even if your target is larger than you (common with the Tuatha) or smaller than you (common with the RedCaps).

One-to-One element interaction is extremely processor intensive. This is why most games only have generic interactions with objects in the world. Games like Assassin's Creed, Mirror's Edge, and Prince of Persia also spend a huge amount of their development budget on creating interactive environments, and the systems worked for a couple reasons.

First, these system only had to worry about one player controlled avatar with a static size and skeletal frame. The developers did not have to account for 3 different skeletal structures and a scaling size frame.

Second, these systems only had to worry about a largely single player experience. There's a difference between having to organize a game environment for a single player, and having to organize a game environment for hundreds of players needing to communicate all system data through an internet connection.

These computation problems basically mean that one to one environmental actions won't occur in CoH for several more years, and when, or if it happens, there will be two caveats.

Players will need a dedicated processor for physics. With OpenCL this isn't such a big problem as an older graphics card or CPU processing core could be tasked with handling the physics calculations alone.

Players will also need a much faster network connection, which means that companies like AT&T will have to stop spending money on keeping the Iphone exclusive and start spending money on upgrading their Internet Backbone infrastructure. Companies like Comcast will also need to stop paying people to cut off other companies internet connections and spend that money on new equipment as well.

You're going to corrupt the new kitties!

*demonstrates a Sackthingy chew by tackling Fedor and nomming a Sack(arm)*

nuuu! Sackthingy's are for chewing! Don't corrupt the little kittens!

Hi there. Would you like to meet my class of kittens?

Hey look. Just because you bribed him with a case of beer and tickets to the Nukem High Ball does not make him your homie. You'll need to also get him the wide-screen edition of Fuzzy Furry Purry Kitties Gone Snuggly.