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What does Scorpion Shield look like?

Dispari

By Dispari,
Posted on: 2011-03-31 10:38 in Player Questions

 

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I'm thinking that Scorpion Shield would be useful for my upcoming cold/ice defender, but I might change my mind if it's a really I'M INSIDE A FORCE FIELD graphic. Anybody have a screenshot, or failing that a description, before I go through the effort of going villain and back?

 

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Only graphic is a little symbol that flashes every couple seconds around you, and a swirly non-noticeable thing around your body. It's not graphically busy or noticeable as a whole.


Your character does not have capped defense. Depending on your AT the cap is between 175% - 225%. Your defense is not teal in the combat window, it can go higher. STOP SAYING IT IS CAPPED! The correct term is Soft Cap.
I enjoy playing in Mids. I specialize in Melee Characters, other AT's usually bore me.

 

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It gives a purple swirly aura. It's small though. I actually used it on one of my chars for a visual perfume.

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It has this symbol that flashes occasionally.


 

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Hey look! Here is a demo of it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPRTkkqaLR8


Your character does not have capped defense. Depending on your AT the cap is between 175% - 225%. Your defense is not teal in the combat window, it can go higher. STOP SAYING IT IS CAPPED! The correct term is Soft Cap.
I enjoy playing in Mids. I specialize in Melee Characters, other AT's usually bore me.

 

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Excellent, thank you for your replies. That's definitely workable for my concept.

 

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In ultra...I really like the look of the scorpion shield aura....its pretty cool looking.

 

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It's actually a round purple bubble, just like Force Field with a body-hugging purple aura. A VERY transparent round purple Force Field bubble though. You'll only notice it in certain areas depending on how bright/light the areas around your character are.

It's not very noticeable at all in that YouTube video because of the background but I can just barely see it since I'm used to knowing that the bubble is there, even if it's very hard to see most of the time.