Emgro

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Tankers historically never "taunted" as much as the DEVs intended.
As you may have learned by now, many Tanks don't think that they need to take Taunt and that it is a useless power because it doesn't benefit them.

Tankers were meant to be "bricks" and "defenders" of the other members of a team. It was intended for them to "hog the agro" so AT's that did more damage, healed-buffed-debuffed, and/or controlled could do so without worrying about being attacked ---> because they tend to be squishy.

Since tanks weren't taking Taunt, the provoke-punch in their attacks were added.
When the inherent powers were added, the Tanks were still not "hogging" the agro enough so they were stuck with an inherent that made them do their "job" better.

As it is, Taunt is a far superior agro controlling tool than gauntlet or provoke-punch.
Enemies that are agroed by TAUNT can not be pulled away by someone that can generate more damage than the tank. The other agro/taunt that a tank can generate can be dismissed by superior fire power.

If all tankers thought that Taunt was useful, then the AT would not have been stuck with that inherent.
The Tanker AT gets what it deserves based on player usage of the AT.

That is to say DEV data-mining determined how Tanks were operating. They weren't acting as designed, so steps had to be taken to make them operate more closely to the intended specs.

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Fail. If the devs wanted Taunt to be the default mode of tanks holding aggro, they would have made it the Inherent power all tanks get. Dominators (and to an extent, stalkers) have a click power as an inherent, why not tankers?

From an RP standpoint, the idea of taunt is somewhat silly. "Hey you, hit me" is not a justifiable reason for people to come hit the impervious maniac who bleeds fire and swings a giant hammer, as opposed to the limp-wristed fellow chucking energy blasts.

Whereas having a hammer-swinging maniac in your face is a little harder to get away from.

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Spay and neuter your catgirls please

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O.o

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You don't know catgirls all that well, do you. Otherwise, you'd realize the importance of including both possibilities.

I do love accusing male demi-cat characters of being catgirls when playing my alien character, though.

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Yeah they had a commercial on last night with people turning into WoW characters and fighting it out in the checkout line.

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Which just proves Blizzard > Everyone else in gaming marketing

I'll admit, I've been playing WoW again for about 4 days now, and the little battlebot that you fuel with the Game Fuel is bad [censored] [censored]. Love it.

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Yeah, they're good at marketing, what with their eight million subscribers.

But they can't keep the gold farmers out, so I left. And CoX is starting to feel the same way, though not as bad.

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Sadly no..Its true..its dam true..unfortunately..Yet another sign of the impending appocalypse.

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We have been sent up the bomb. May as well make our time.

So I'm buying soda at the supermarket, it's on sale, but only if I buy this new kind of Mountain Dew.

It's called "Game Fuel," tastes like cherry in the medicinal chemical sense, and has WoW-themed packaging.

Please, tell me I'm hallucinating the entire thing.

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*Zips between Wendy's calves while trying to avoid the Nekokitteh and low altitude.*

Morning Wendy

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*contemplates mirroring the sackboy's maneuver*

G'morning, Wendy. I nearly joined Navy OCS for a number of reasons, then I realized that 4 years was going to be more like 8, and decided I'd find other ways to pay my way through college.

In playing my new DA/SM tanker, as per RadDidIt's suggestion, and went into Perez for a Kill 10 Hellions mission. I don't think I've been into Perez since CoV was released.

Yar. Another day goes by, and I regret having decided to exercise more this summer. Y'know how long a mile is? A whole mile!

*bangs on a desk*

I hunger! RAWR!

*wanders off to find a bagel*

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Considering it is essentially a sonic attack I think adding some -res to it would be a good idea, if not just adding damage to it like various NPCs with custom handclap get.

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Somehow I don't think the idea of giving the tanker set with the best damage buff a -res power is going to fly anywhere but into the trash can.

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I even listen to songs when I'm bored and chillaxing in The D yo, jo bronny.

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I hate the background noise in the D, and even though I have in-game music turned off, I can't seem to tune out the background beat in the D without just muting the game.

I do the same, as for reading bios, but I never got the theme song thing. Just seems odd to me.

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*emits a sonic based relaxation field*

puuuurrrrrrrrr

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Tribbles must be destroyed. Run, run!

*bangs on the desk*

I hunger! RAWRR!

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Wow smell the SS envy.

How many times you want them to nerf Rage?

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I'd like to seem them remove the crash and make perma-rage impossible, or leave the perma-bility as is and increase the effects of the crash.

Fastest solo to 50 would probably be a Brute. Fire/WP, maybe?

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Hello, folks. In irrelevant news, a ship hasn't been hijacked by pirates since Friday.

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I blame it on Global Warming.

*hits self with a donut*

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Coincidentally, one thing I can say from my research is that the supposed inverse relationship between global warming and piracy is irrelevant, as piracy has increased significantly over the last few years, while the noise about global warming has not decreased.

They can buff SS after they nerf Rage. As it stands, SS is an awfully powerful set for any number of reasons, and not really in need of improvement.

In all honesty, while I feel that Handclap is definately a weak power, the set as a whole is not weak. I'm torn as to whether a set having a "weak" power in a set is acceptable for balance, or whether balance comes from making each power equal to every other.

I think that in order to make the sets play dramatically different, we need things like the difference between HC and Fault (or Tremor, I forget the names) to keep things interesting.

Hello, folks. In irrelevant news, a ship hasn't been hijacked by pirates since Friday.

I'd take him to a doctor and have him examined for signs of the Energy Blast powerset. If that develops fully, he'll be picked on a lot in school due to anti-KB feelings these days.

I love my tankers because while both they and my brutes both use the line, "Come, and break your weapons upon me" to an AV, my tankers don't faceplant in five seconds 30% of the time.

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This video will explain all.

(no, it's not a Rick Roll)
(yes, you may wish it was...)

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I wasn't sure whether that was cute or creepy for the first thirty seconds.

After that, I was entirely sure.

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Marvel and DC are not doing this, NCsoft is. And you cannot trademark a color scheme anyways. NCSoft is just being paranoid and overreacting. If you stretch far enough every toon in the game can be called a rip off of some existing comic character.

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NCSoft is overreacting to having been sued, though. They are paranoid because they have a risk of stupid lawsuits in courts that don't understand the business they are in.

There are only eight colors, and three of them are on our flag. Something like forty countries have a some combination of red, white, and blue as their flag to boot.

Is Commander Nepal forbidden because his costume is red, white, and blue, or since his name is a combination of a military rank and a country name?

Seriously, Marvel and DC are paranoid, and you people should stop buying their comic books.

Damn, but that guy looks a bit like Dr Doom. Like, around the gut, there's those few pounds from livin' a bit too much the life of the genius and not enough the warrior.

Just sayin'.

Emgro's diet advice is to do a little martial arts, a lot of sitting around, and eat nothing but vitamins, soda, and two meals a day.

Admittedly, I do not recommend this as being healthy, and blame my weight or lack thereof on my metabolism, but it keeps me alive and insane.

If you know what I mean.

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Honestly? Collaborative fiction and fan fiction always make my teeth ache. That going away doesn't sadden me in the least.

Frankly, the content of the forum will shift over time, and probably go full circle in time.

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Personally, I found that at least the fiction was an honest productive effort on the part of the characters.

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Not saying it wasn't, just was never my thing. I've written some myself, over the years, and could never really get into it.