DreadShinobi

You do realize the weapon flips upside down at the end of the stab, right? It's quite poorly done imo, but the weapon does spin technically. Watch it in the chracter creator, it's quite easy to see with the razor blade.

Would like to see this. And they could also make the wand or staff appear magically since, well, a staff/wand would be magic. Like in a puff of smoke or something, which could eliminate the issue of adding redraw to powersets that wouldnt have redraw normally. *shrug*

While TPN does have it's flaws (for me that's really just the repetitiveness of going in and out of buildings again and again doing the same thing over and over), it's my favorite trial as well. It's quick and to the point, it's very simple and currently offers the best time:reward ratio of any trial on live but also has a well balanced difficulty. If people aren't putting in the effort, goofing around, not paying attention, or the league has poor synergy or low level shifts, then things will go south, but that's how it should be.

Overall I love TPN, it rewards people for working together as an efficient cohesive group.

Well said.

That's not necessarily a bad thing. Progression and learning the content isn't necessarily bad. Walking into something under the premise that you should automatically win is not so good. With that said, if you can't beat a trial by the league's 3rd time through it you're doing something wrong and you should look at your strategy and/or your league composition.

All costume pieces are one time purchases, they apply to all your characters.

A small one time fee that will quickly add up with more small one time fees because they will not stop. This is city of microtransactions. It's also why I'm not paying them anything until they put out content of quality again.

who said I was worrying about what other people waste their money on?

I was pretty sure they fixed that a long time ago.

Erm, well to be fair you have 5 copies of what appears to be a fly pack. At least 1 button that appears to be your lvl 1 inherent attack. As well as numerous other temp powers that don't really need to be hotbar'd at all times, like a couple that appear to be valentines day temp powers, have they just been sitting there for a year?.


Then you did weird things like taking Stun, air superiority and the meds pool, *ahem* but I won't get into that as that has nothing to do with this topic.

You can use slow fields to make your moat look like actual water.

I don't think it's unreasonable. I don't have all the trays open at once but I do need to have the slots available to me so I can have those macros ready for when I need them. Not all trays are full either, many of my trays are only half full, but stuffing everything all onto 1 tray isn't what I need, all that does is make things cluttered and disorganized.

And while I am strictly someone who uses keybinds, clickers will definitely use more slots in their trays than me, though I guess they would also be using more than half their trays cause my tiny hands can't reasonably reach past alt/ctrl/shift+5.

Nope, I just have a normal keyboard. M4/M5 referring to mouse buttons 4 and 5, or in other words the 2 buttons on the left side of my mouse. I'm not cool enough to have a cool keyboard, just barely cool enough to have a death adder mouse xD

Stalkers were supposed to be the villain blaster, though, look how well that went >_>

Open your powers tab on your powers tray and then open the combat attributes tab
You can see your buffs and their source and who they come from.

Also for Time Manipulation none of the powers stack from the same caster with exception of Distortion Field. The Hold of Time Stop and the Heal in Temporal Mending do stack, but their respective secondary effects do not stack from the same stacker.

You can view all of this in mids hero designer by going options > advanced > database editor > main database editor > find power in question > edit > effects

Really? I didn't hear about that.

I hope it would have hoodies, it's one of the costume pieces I've wanted more than anything else, along with robes/cloaks.

And is it "soon" as in soon or as in soon(tm)

While a good idea in theory, most people want midnighter access before lvl 50.


I still think the arc should be required to access the midnighter club and cimerora, however I do think the hero version should be shortened to about the length of the villain version which is significantly quicker.

Staff fighting has been publicly announced already

A Brute can hold aggro just as well as a tanker and Brutes do more than "a little more damage" than tankers.



You're forgetting recharge, which is a large part of IOing and will do alot for your damage output as well as survivability.

Ok let's look at what softcapping to S/L means. It will give everything that has a smashing or lethal attack component a base 5% chance to hit you.

This means (off the top of my head, powersets the enemy groups commonly use)
-Weapon attacks (guns, swords, claws, etc)
-super strength or other punches, kicks, etc.
-energy melee
-energy blast
-dark melee sans midnight grasp
-ice blast
-sonic attack
-fire melee sans incinerate/scorch
-Radiation melee (though this debuffs defense)

What S/L will not protect you from that enemy groups will commonly use:
-Radiation Blast
-electric Blast
-psychic blast
-dark blast
-fire blast
-toxic damage
-many mezzes do not have a s/l subcomponent (freeze ray, dominate, blind, etc).
-cascading defense failure.

Now let's apply the awesomeness of electric armor to S/L softcapping's weaknesses.
-90% energy resistance removes the hole of radiation blast and electric blast completely. This is the best part.
-Psychic Blast will hurt, but you still can have 30-40% resistance to it, which is more than most can say. Really the only thing that specifically kills me from psy attacks is malaise in MoM trial who will promptly Blind me (his Blind is like mag 20), and then spectral wounds me with my static armor suppressed from blind, which can 2-3 shot me fairly easily.
-Dark Blast; typically found in Council/5th Column or praetorian shadows or CoT, can hurt but the enemy groups that it is found in are overall not that strong.
-fire blast; demons, I know I'm missing stuff, but demons are all I can think of right now, overall fire isn't that common for enemy groups
-toxic damage is rare
-mezzes aren't an issue, unless your name is malaise >, since you're a melee AT with a mez shield, this is mostly a point to bring up when softcapping to S/L for ranged ATs, Clarion has significantly reduced this hole.
-Cascading Defense failure - this is why layered mitigation is great. On a squishy this can be a big issue, but now let's look at what you have on an elec brute if your defense starts to fail:
*Good resists to all dmg, lethal and energy being the important ones here.
*Energize giving you a heal and regen
*Rebirth/Destiny/Ageless to deal with it
*Purple Insps to deal with it
*2000 hp to kill them before it matters.
*any mitigation from your primary such as knockdowns.

You talk about smashing/lethal defense like you will automatically die if you come across enemies that don't just use attacks with smashing/lethal components and this just simply is not true, but that also depends a little bit on build.

Of 2 blasters I have IO'd one was a fire/em with 0% defense and one was a fire/mm with 45% s/l defense, now unless I was specifically fighting S/L foes their survivability was roughly the same because if my Fire/MM was fighting, say, enemies with radiation blast I would be dieing super fast with nothing secondary to protect myself. However for my fire/kin corr, who has 45% s/l defense this issue is pretty miniscule since I have a huge heal that can cover most damage that gets through my softcapped S/L defense. Or my 2 brutes that have 45% s/l defense I have resists and heals and knockdowns to deal with enemies that don't use s/l damage.