Bionic_Flea

Thanks, Beber! Unlike Goliath Bird Eater, I appreciate these updates and especially appreciate you taking the time to put it in chart form with the added issue releases.

A sample nerd ambush:

Getting the identical message from Chrome.

Anyone know what Zwill said in that possibly hacked post?

Grats, Igor.

KO Blow over Spring attack every day in any build, ever.

Spring attack will only chip health away. With some damage buffs (oh look! rage!) KO blow can one shot minions and take huge chunks out of bosses and Lts.

I wanna see if you wanna see what it takes
To be the man with the master plan
Are you the man now?

Echoing others, I have not been randomly kicked out while posting or switching between threads for some time now, but I do have to relog in every day, sometimes several times a day.

Wow! That's a lot of time and thought you put into this project.

I have a few criticisms. The first is personal. I don't like the hellfire theme. I know that the other EATs have similarly limiting themes but my personal preference would be to go with the rune theme as opposed to hellfire, even if you keep the fire/toxic effects of hellfire.

The second is more objective. Too much -resistance. You have 13 powers that grant some amount of -resistance. Without doing the calculations regarding duration and animation time, the Elementalist could potentially stack over 250% in -resistance. That combined with all those fast animating attacks, rarely resisted toxic damage, decent shields, two self heals, and a number of ranged attacks puts you squarely in tank-mage zone.

But I love the concept of an armor/buff-debuff character and the choices you give with the mantles. I assume that the mantles are mutually exclusive, since you can't have dwarf form protection with nova form damage. With inherent fitness and inherent leaping travel you are really free to take lots of power or pool picks.

I thought those were dolls.

*runs out of thread, bobbing and weaving*

To TonyV and the rest of the Titan Network:

Thanks so much for all you do. Your dedication and work ethic is appreciated.

You must suck for Luck!

You and Foster City Stealth are still in the running though.

Oh yeah?

SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!

Grammar PvP?

The devs are so stupid and lazy that they have created a game that thousands of people send them money every month. Some of the players have been doing that for seven years. I'll take their stupid and lazy over the geniuses in this thread any day.

I agree with Thorizdin. I don't think that they are incapable of changing PvP, they just don't make the time to do so. And they don't make the time to do so because they would rather make Titan Weapons instead. They make new powersets because they believe more players like new powersets than they would like changes to PvP. And you know what? I bet that they are right.

Don't get me wrong, I hate the I13 changes. I've almost completely stopped PvPing since then. But calling the devs stupid and lazy is wrong. It's also a terrible tactic to convince them to make any change.

Some nice builds here. Thanks.

Happy anniversary of your de-wombing.

One of my favorite players and posters, TopDoc, sat down and calculated the best returns on ticket rolls. Here.

I don't like the I13 changes.

Although I don't consider myself a hardcore PvPer, I used to go into Siren's, Warburg, RV and the arena periodically and had fun. The zones had groups of players on both sides and we would frequently push back and forth between the villain and hero bases.

I even used to sponsor "Monday Night Arena" on Justice where I would set up random matches using different settings. Last man standing, squishies only was awesome! The melee one was fun at the beginning but then it was down to to a regen scrapper and stone armor tanker. That was going nowhere fast until the tanker suggested they fight without toggles. The scrapper agreed, thinking that he would out damage the tank out of granite, but the tanker held him and knocked him out. Classic!

I used to play pvp on an inv/ss tanker, emp, ice/kin, grav/ff controller, sonic/rad corrupter and anything else that I made. Even though they weren't made for pvp, I had fun. I got kills, I died, I contributed.

If my sonic/rad was a target, I could evade and heal. I could hit my opponent with rad toggles and try to mez them or out damage them. If I planned ahead and popped a breakfree, I wouldn't get my toggles dropped easily. Now his toggles drop if someone shoots a taser dart. Hell, my tanker gets held by a taser dart through unyielding AND unstoppable. My ice/kin could slow opponents and speed up teammates. Now he can't do either. My grav/ff could slow people too. Bubbles offered little help to my team then and now but at least dispersion bubble worked and personal force field actually protected me from death. Today, not so much.

Now I go to the zones on Justice and rarely see another player at all. And if there are other players it's because they are looking for badges, shivans, or nukes. The times I have gone post I13 have been nothing but frustration to me and apparently a lot of other people. The zones everywhere but Freedom are dead.

I understand that the devs felt that there were too many players that could avoid death by heals, inspirations, phase, hiber, and just plain running. They wanted pvp encounters to end in someone dying. Fair enough as a design goal but they went too far. Now, not only do pvp encounters end in death more frequently, they also killed my desire to engage in it at all.

If they hoped that these changes would attract more casual players they should realize by now that it did the opposite. It chased away vets AND casuals. The zone populations are proof enough.