ClawsandEffect

Erm, it used to be exactly that. It was changed after many people complained about a melee power in the only set that lets them stay out of melee completely.

Yes, it's worth taking.

If for no other reason, it makes a good place to put a Steadfast 3% Defense IO.

Also, you can pop a wakie and have the stun wear off from it very quickly.

Not sure if it's as useful in PvP, but you still have to level the character, right?

The REAL Marcus Cole........Jack Emmert

I responded first.....you guys just type faster

Except I don't think DT is a guaranteed knockdown, it's like an 80% chance or something.

That's Statesman's history, not Reichsman's.

Your "divergent reality" theory is assuming that all of those things happened exactly like that in every reality.

You are completely discarding the possibility that the divergence in YOUR OWN THEORY may have been prior to any of those things happening.

It is you who keeps saying that it's a divergent reality, yet you refuse to accept that the divergence happened anywhere else but where YOU say it did.

Reichsman is NOT Statesman, his life played out differently. Since his life played out differently he is the same person in genetics only. Like I said before, any number of things could have happened to cause the differences, and they could have happened before Cole was even born. Since we have been given very little information concerning Reichsman's early life, we can't assume it played out identically up to a certain point. If it DID play out identically he would be Statesman in every reality, and he is not.

Tyrant's history played out closer to Statesman's than Reichsman's did. His point of divergence seems to have been his decision to murder his best friend.

It seems far more likely that OUR Marcus Cole is the divergent one. Out of the 3 we have been shown, 2 of them are power hungry dictators, and ours is a patriotic hero. That tells me that out of all the realities in which Marcus Cole found the Well of Furies, more often than not he chooses to use the power selfishly. Most likely due to the fact that his life was not the same in every reality.

There is nothing that says he has to join the army in order to find the Well, he could have stumbled on it by accident while hiking.

There's nothing that says he even has to be American. In a multiverse with infinite possibilities it is entirely possible he was German, or French, or any other nationality. There's no guarantee America will even EXIST in any given reality.

I mean, do you really think Portal Corp has discovered and explored every reality that could possibly exist? That would be impossible in an infinite multiverse, which spins off new realities every time ANY living creature makes a decision. Every time you make a decision, new realities are created in which you did NOT make that decision.

Yes.

Well, the game is primarily combat oriented.

My reasoning for Deadpool is that the pair of katanas are his signature weapon, and he seems to view his guns as disposable. And while he CAN dodge attacks, he doesn't seem to go to much effort to do so, instead letting them hit him and healing it back. The teleport mechanic actually works for him, because he uses a device to do it rather than it being an inherent ability. He can't teleport instantly like Nightcrawler can.

Every time I've seen Taskmaster lately (notably in the Siege storyline) he has been using a sword and a shield, so that's my reasoning for him.

I suppose Rogue could be a side switched SS/Invuln brute as well. But again coming back to the fact that the game is pretty much all combat I figured Invuln/SS or SS/Invuln because more often than not she'll just punch them rather than use her mutant power, since she doesn't really like having all those memories in her head if there isn't a good reason for doing it. If you really WANTED to, I suppose you could use pool powers and Epic pools to represent any powers she may have absorbed lately.

Nightcrawler DOES use sabres, and he is exceptionally agile. The teleport mechanic in CoH is way too clunky to use it in combat like he does, but otherwise he pretty much IS a DB/SR scrapper. Unless you feel he needs to use a prehensile tail in combat that would describe his combat style pretty well.

What the **** are you smoking dude?

Wolverine is a CLAWS/REGEN scrapper. He is pretty much the reason those powersets exist in the first place. The default claws are almost identical to his.

You could make a good case for him being Claws/Willpower though, since his regeneration is completely passive.

Actually, he IS a Claws/Willpower scrapper, if you look at what the powers actually do.

Heightened Senses? Check, he actually has that EXACT power.

Mind Over Body? Smashing, Lethal and Psionic resistance. His adamantium bones give him the physical resistances, and the fact that his brain has been fried over the years gives him some resistance to psionic attacks.

Fast Healing? Duh.

Rise to the Challenge? His ferocity in combat would contribute to an accuracy debuff, and the adrenaline boost he gets does tend to speed his healing up a little.

Come to think of it, Wolverine may be a side switched brute. After all, he originally was a villain character introduced in an issue of the Hulk. And the Fury mechanic works perfectly for him.

What?

Sabretooth is a Claws/WP BRUTE.

Dual Blades/Regen scrapper with Teleport.

Yes, he uses guns as well, but when he's really getting down and dirty he pulls the swords out. And the Regen powerset actually makes more sense for him than for Wolverine, as he can heal himself at will.

Well, her actual mutant power can't be done, but for all practical purposes she's a flying Invuln/SS tank.


Sure it can, the vast majority of the time he is a Broadsword/Shield scrapper.

He uses a pair of sabres a lot of the time, and his only real mutant powers are teleportation and exceptional speed and reflexes. So he would be a Dual Blades/Super Reflexes scrapper with teleport.

You're only thinking of defenders here. -Range in Flash arrow would make a /TA controller pretty much invincible, since almost all of them have access to an AoE immobilize. Immobilize the mob, then Flash Arrow and pick off the enemies that can't shoot back at your leisure.

That kind of thing is exactly why all melee sets were given a ranged attack in AE missions, because of exploiting hoverblasting against mobs that had no ability to even attack you, much less damage you. Flash Arrow's recharge is low enough that you could permanently nullify an entire mob's ability to attack at all.


So, since they aren't going to add something to the defender version without porting the same change over to the other 3 ATs that have the set, its not going to happen.

Placate in Entangling Arrow probably isn't going to happen either.

This.

Drain Psyche is an awesome regen/recovery buff and you need to be in melee range to use it. Psychic Shockwave is one of the better PBAoE attacks in the game which also requires you to be in melee range.

Smashing/Lethal defense will protect you from at least as many attacks as ranged will. Gunfire, the most common ranged attack in the game, is lethal damage, and the vast majority of melee attacks have a smashing or lethal component.

Not always true. She has been portrayed as a heroic character from time to time.

Because of the effect unlimited amounts of purchaseable influence would have on prices in the market. When you have unlimited funds you'd think nothing of spending 30 million on a Luck Charm. Some of the high end IOs are already extremely expensive, if you add the ability to buy influence directly from the game like a server transfer or rename you'd see prices skyrocket as people start placing ridiculously high bids on things because they can just buy more influence when they run out.

Currently prices are regulated by the fact that you have to earn the influence you're spending (among other factors). Whether it be by farming, lucky drops, or playing the market, there is an investment involved that would not exist if you could just swipe a credit card and max out your in-game money. People are more careful about how much they spend if they worked for the money they're spending, when all you did was put in your credit card information the amount you spend is less important to you.

For a real life example, look at how many lottery winners go broke within a decade of winning. From their perspective it's basically free money, so they think nothing of dropping ludicrous sums of cash on ridiculous things, and living well beyond their sustainable means (meaning they can afford to live like that only for as long as the money lasts, and then lose everything when it runs out) A millionaire who earned their money doesn't generally blow it needlessly, especially since you don't become a millionaire in the first place if you're stupid about what you spend it on.

Fine....don't even try to fix it.

Just throw a temper tantrum and throw it away, that's clearly the most reasonable solution. It is YOU having a problem with the game, NOT a problem inherent in the game.

In short, it's NOT the game's fault you're having trouble running it.

And, just for the record, hyperbole doesn't make you right. I can guarantee there aren't 30 pages of people posting the same complaint. If there were, you would have found a solution to your problem somewhere in those 30 pages, leading me to believe that you haven't even looked for a solution, instead you decided to nerdrage and blame the game for your failure to run it.

Probably for the same reason a lot of Controllers don't pair them....In order to keep the mob inside Bonfire's radius you have to keep spamming Fire Cages...that eats away at your end bar pretty quick.

Well, at least that's MY reason for not doing it. I don't see a whole lot of Fire Controllers or Dominators who DO combine them, so perhaps my reasoning has merit? Or maybe it's the piddly damage thing.