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Originally Posted by Texas Justice

I was talking to some people the other day and they told me that BAB is getting seriously injured during the attack on Galaxy City. As in life-threatening injuries.

He doesn't die but his injuries are extremely severe and his brain is transplanted into a humanoid feline body, similar to Tigra from Thundercats.

But they are going to keep that as an NPC only model and not allow players to use that new body style.

They wanted to do something like this earlier but Chris refused to animate it. Now that he's no longer with Paragon Studios, no one else is objecting.

At least, this is what I was told by some very unreliable sources.

Originally Posted by Biidi

And I thought my idea of running old Posi with an 8-man team, no travel powers, enemies buffed and us debuffed was bad. You sir/ma'am are a sadist!

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

/unsigned

I'd much rather they stop listing the prestige earned altogether. The days when it actually meant something haven't existed for years. All it does now is encourage elitism and snobbery.

Originally Posted by Inazuma

I have no idea what this thread is about. What is this? Some webcomic?

Originally Posted by Cyclone_Jack

You know, I never thought of anything like that. Most of what I was thinking was along the lines of there no longer being a line drawn between Hero and Villain during character creation, thus they don't have to wait for 2 ATs before they can release.

Originally Posted by Halseth

So I've been thinking of leveling up a Dominator, but I've quickly discovered a distaste for the glowing rainbow aura that pops up whenever Domination either can be or is activated. Is there anyway to change the graphical effect for it to something different? I don't mind there being an effect, and I understand how it's important for there to be an obvious effect so that other players realize the Dominator is now a bit more dangerous, but having the graphical effect that's supposed to represent reaching the highest level of a Dominator's sadistic nature be...rainbows...just seems odd to me.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

Personally, I'd be happy with getting an equivalent amount of Paragon Points to what I spent to buy Going Rogue. What was that, by the way? $20? Isn't that something like 1600 Points?

Originally Posted by Father Xmas

You went from a 1.25 MegaPixel to a pair of 2 MegaPixel monitors. Possibly the scaling up of all the multiple frame and Z-buffers has eaten away too much of the video memory and now there isn't enough left to manage properly for immediate textures. The changing character texture level or flushing of the texture memory is, for a short time, allow the game to use the remaining memory more efficiently.

Also I half remember a problem with nVidia and driving two montors with acceleration turned on for both of them, but I'm fuzzy on that.

Originally Posted by Mental_Giant

Yeah, if we really want a PPC power the devs have to introduce a heat management model.

Originally Posted by BigBoss Eyepatch

That's the new character creation tool for after I21 lands? I think, call me old fashioned I rather the one we have now.

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

I'm glad you brought this example up Sam because it's the same thing we see every single time a new powerset is introduced to the game. There's always one person that wants to be able to change his powerset choices or even his AT because the new powerset fits his character concept better.


And we all have seen how effective that argument has been.

Originally Posted by Dr Harmony

Power Boost doesn't boost the defense of powers which also provide Resistance.

So that rules out the Kinetic Dampener temp power (which gives energy resistance) and the Vanguard Psionic Shield (which gives Psi resistance).

Has anyone tried it with the Combat Shield day job Accolade power? That provides 14% Defense to Smashing, Lethal and Energy (and no resistance), which would boost to 28% if this did work. It is limited to half an hours use per week once its acquired, and patchy due to Power Boost's coverage, but could make for a very useful mini-god mode for the right /Energy blaster otherwise.

Has anyone tried this?

Originally Posted by Jazra

I seem to recall that when the game first launched, Gravity Control used a special type of damage called "crushing" which was unique to that powerset, and unresisted by typical foes. That was supposed to be its special "thing" to differentiate it from the other powersets in the same manner that Ice has slows, Fire has additional DoT, and so on.

I also remember that it was very quickly changed. Does anybody remember why? Or am I misremembering? I notice that ParagonWiki has no mention of this at all, so my hallucinating is quite possible.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

Blaster: The Blaster specializes in taking massive damage at range. They have very little defensive potential, other than the ability to be a vengeance target. A Blaster can solo successfully, if your definition of solo includes having no enemies in the mission, but this archetype really comes into its own in groups, where Defenders, Scrappers, and Tankers can take the brunt of the enemy attacks, freeing the Blaster to use rez inspirations in relative safety.

Controller: The Controller specializes in being Fire/Kinetics. This is perhaps the most challenging archetype to play, except for Peacebringers, Warshades, Masterminds, Stalkers, Blasters, Arachnos Soldiers, and Dominators. Controllers have very little defense against enemies they forgot to mez, aren't being attacked by pets, aren't debuffed to ineffectiveness, and not confused. A Controller who wishes to adventure solo must do so with extreme caution, as petless controllers are laughed at a lot, except for mind controllers.

Defender: The Defender's powers focus on increasing their abilities and decreasing foe abilities, and healing. But they aren't healers, dammit, they aren't. The Defender has little offensive or defensive punch of his own, but can radically increase the effectiveness of even the smallest team - even if that team has only one member. The Defender is a suitable archetype for grouping, though soloing is possible. Difficult, but possible, especially when soloing Giant Monsters or Hamidon. However, the tremendous usefulness of Defenders' powers should guarantee that they will always be able to find a team to adventure with. Just say you have heals, even if its Aid Self.

Scrapper: The Scrapper specializes in hand-to-hand combat and challenge missions. A single Scrapper should be a match for several foes of equivalent level, such as Jack in Irons and the Clockwork King. Scrappers do not deal in ranged damage, except for Claws, Spines, Kinetic Melee, and Electric Melee. Half of all Scrappers do not deal in ranged damage. Their balance of offensive and defensive potential makes Scrappers by far the best suited archetype for solo play. In team ups they still solo. In a league of twenty four, the Scrappers are all still soloing.

Tanker: The Tanker is the "big man" of the hero world, except he isn't always big, isn't always a man, and isn't always in the hero world. He/She/Huge combines too much defense and too little offense. Tankers make effective solo Heroes, at their own deliberate (read: slow) pace, but they are also in demand by teams of players that need to lrn2ply. You know what just play a Brute already.

Originally Posted by Reppu

. . .

OH! OH. Oh my. I thought this was a serious thread.

Phew, good. I can laugh and not feel bad anymore.

Originally Posted by gameboy1234

The "cheque" used is also incorrect in context. I assume je Saist was being humorous.