Do you Exercise Purposeful Gimping?
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Agonus,
Posted on: 2012-03-24 22:32 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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When I take Fire Melee, I tend to go the other way with it - ignoring the sword attacks altogether.|
Originally Posted by Leo_G
Another is my Fire/SD/Mako brute. I'm still quite proud of his build which omits all Fire Melee attacks except the swords and fire breath. Since he's a dragon-kind, they don't shoot fire from their fingertips but instead from their mouths (he's got a good mix of damage, acc, endurance and range in Breath of Fire) and conceptualizes the sword as a type of dragon magic.
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But I've often wished Fire Blast had a mouth-blast animation option for most of its attacks.
Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
But in my heart's the memory
And there you'll always be
-- The Fox and the Hound
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I strongly recommend you never look at any of my builds cuz you'd probably have an aneurysm.|
Originally Posted by Draeth Darkstar
The most important part of a character concept, to me, is conceptual development. It actually really irritates me when people say "I refuse to use X because it doesn't fit my original concept." Concepts can grow. Characters can grow. They can gain things they didn't have to start with.
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I skip powers for concept reasons.
None of my 50's have bothered to finish unlocking their Alpha slots.
I never use IO sets.
All of my builds are a mix of SO's and basic IO's, because I refuse to pay the ridiculous market prices. And the only time I craft recipes is if it's something I can sell for the same prices I refuse to pay.
I have characters that I never bothered to respec into Inherent Fitness because I'm happy with their Fitness free builds.
I frequently ignore Inherent Fitness on new characters because the free slots it comes with meets my needs.
I ignore travel power pools unless a concept requires something other than Ninja/Beast Run, Rocket Board, Magic Carpet, Coyote, or a Jet Pack temp power.
Oh and I NEVER slot Speed in Speed Boost, only End Mods.
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I actually discussed just this angle with people over Global yesterday. The suggestion was for my hero Stalker to grab Soul Mastery for Moonbeam because it's a decent power, with me insisting that it's out of character for Kim to do outright villainous stuff. Suggestions were made to push the angle of "going undercover" and it kind of makes sense, but again, we're back to the same old problem that I just don't want to. It doesn't fit her concept.|
Originally Posted by BrandX
I know how you feel with the judgement powers, and yeah, sometimes it's suckie to handwave the story away to grab Soul Mastery because you (for example) prefer it's visuals over Dark Mastery's.
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Besides, Darkness powers don't work for her. Weapon Mastery is a lot more appropriate, even if it's not "better"
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Originally Posted by BrandX
Though skipping the pet always seems easy enough, so I don't see the problem there myself. But Soul Storm is animation love
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Which, yes, means ignoring the pets, but I hate uncontrollable pets anyway.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Well, let's be specific, because difficulty level is malleable, not to mention choice of content will make a difference. If you are playing a Batgirl-grade character and taking on Maria Jenkins arc at +4x6, with archvillains when soloing, then yes you may want IO sets. But I bet the same level of challenge could be achieved by running an all SO build through the arc at +1x1, except that you would stay truer to a concept like that of Batgirl.|
Originally Posted by BrandX
Nope. While the story might say incarnates are all that, when done with just SO builds, they don't really feel all that incarnate
 And I'm not even looking to play what the game calls incarnate level superheroes. I'm happy with Spider-Girl, Batgirl, X-23, Gambit, Spider-Man, Wolverine level of superhero. Without IOs that feeling just isn't there. |
At least that's how I would do it.
@Winter. Because I'm Winter. Period.
I am a blaster first, and an alt-oholic second.
I enjoy learning the mechanics and working the system to know how to get the best possible performance from something. Some people play chess against themselves-- growing up, I played Axis & Allies vs myself and studied probability and stats solely to determine the best possible strategies for various contingencies. I knew the best possible options available to Russia on the first turn and the best statistical results Germany could have based on that Russian player's various options. I had a 1-inch binder "playbook" of various scenarios covering both "statistically probable" outcomes and my "more likely" results that came from the "bad dice" curse.
Yeah, I didn't get out much.
It was the only way I *could* play the Doom boardgame, all my friends weren't interested in it.
I sit in my zen of not being able to do anything right while simultaniously not being able to do anything wrong. Om. -CuppaJo
It is by caffeine alone that I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning. It is by caffeine alone that I set my mind in motion.