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Quote:Some people wanted the USA to have a king too. Good people knew better.Well, based on the lore, he was made "Emperor" because the people wanted him to be.
Quote:As for all the things done while he was in power, I'm fairly certain a good majority of it was done without his knowledge. I mean, look at what happened when he discovered what Duray did. He punched Duray's face into a fine mist.
Quote:I'm almost certain if he knew Tilman was slicing up people's psyches he'd had issues. He already had severe issues over her trying to mass-brainwash the populace after the TPN incident. I get the feeling most of what the Praetor did was taking place without his consent, or the reports he was being fed about their projects was written in a way that avoided mentioning the icky bits. -
Quote:Brutes lose in high-damage buffing situations? What advantage do you mean?And I haven't even begun to consider the Brute's advantage in high-buff team situations.
At the damage cap:
Scrappers
(1.125(Base mod) * 1.05(base crit chance))*(damage cap)5= 5.9
Brutes
.75 (Base mod)*(damage cap)7.75 = 5.8
That's against minions. Against higher ranged critters it's better for the Scrapper. -
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Quote:Nonsense. That predicament means he should have alerted the populace to the threat and the deal he struck. He should have allowed a democratic government to decide what to do. That predicament doesn't justify his evils. Tyrant doesn't get to make these decision for everyone. He doesn't get to declare himself Emperor. He doesn't get to create terror camps. He doesn't get to enslave children. At a certain point the medicine is worse than the disease.Tyrant also has a rather nasty predicatment that semi-justifies his actions:
Either he brings Praetoria in line
Or
Hamidon eats EVERYONE
Much evil has been committed in history using this justification. I would hope we would have learned by now. -
Quote:No. You are taking Tyrants stated goals at face value. Strange since there's no evidence that he has or ever had Praetoria's best interests at heart. But no matter, Tyrant enslaves children both psychically and corporally. He fully intends to do so. There is complete harmony between intent and action. I would note that he only allows this to be done to little girls and not boys. Although adding misogyny to his many crimes seems almost petty.I think you are confusing actions with intent.
Tyrant's actions are evil. No question about it.
Phipps' actions AND intentions are evil (and destructive) in a way that no other NPC in CoH can match.
Quote:Is consistently self-deceiving, with the intent of avoiding guilt and maintaining a self-image of perfection? Yes, Phipps is that.
Quote:Deceives others as a consequence of their own self-deception? Phipps has made this an art form.
Quote:Projects his or her evils and sins onto very specific targets, scapegoating others while appearing normal with everyone else ("their insensitivity toward him was selective")? Phipps to the core.
Quote:Commonly hates with the pretense of love, for the purposes of self-deception as much as deception of others? Phipps to the core.
Quote:Abuses political (emotional) power ("the imposition of one's will upon others by overt or covert coercion")? Cole & Phipps are equally guilty of this.
Quote:Maintains a high level of respectability and lies incessantly in order to do so? Cole & Phipps are equally guilty of this.
Quote:Is consistent in his or her sins. Evil persons are characterized not so much by the magnitude of their sins, but by their consistency (of destructiveness)? Nemesis, Hamidon, and Tyrant aren't consistent in this respect. Phipps is.
Quote:Is unable to think from the viewpoint of their victim? Other than to think how much pain his actions cause, this is true of Phipps in a way that Nemesis, Tyrant, or Hamidon can't achieve.
Quote:Has a covert intolerance to criticism and other forms of narcissistic injury? Most of the big villains suffer from this, but Phipps goes out of his way to make sure that any criticism is deflected onto others.
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This post just illustrates my point even more. I don't think people can internalize the scope of Tyrant's evils. Where with Phipps because it's more manageable they can. This has actually been studied. It's why we can cry at the starving of one family, but yawn at the famine of a country. The scope is too big. But folks, take a step back and it's abundantly clear that Tyrant and Phipps aren't even a contest. Hell Nemesis and Phipps aren't a contest. -
Quote:That's wasn't the purpose of the question. I am not thinking of the set holistically right now. I'm thinking specifically about these two powers. I didn't say it would be an improvement. I asked people if they would care if it changed.Let me put it this way: If you think swapping Shiver for ISC would be an improvement, wouldn't then swapping ISC for a port of tanker Frozen Aura be even more of an improvement?
I know that Frozen Aura needs help. But this question isn't directed towards making Ice Manipulation better as a whole. -
Thanks for the replies.
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Quote:I have a pretty thick skin, but those arcs really were disturbing. I had forgot about them (blocked them out). You may make me change my mind.I just finished the First Ward story arcs for the first time in a while. Mother Mayhem is still the most singularly non-deific evil I've run across. The flashbacks are...enough to make me want to run M.O.M over and over to defeat her until the dirty sensation washes off.
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Would you have a problem with it?
Please note, I am not suggesting that they do, nor do I believe they will. I'm just asking if anyone would have a problem with it. -
Quote:I don't think evil is best defined that way.You're overlooking the obvious.
If you think evil is best defined by hurting a single individual or someone and their family, Phipps has it covered.
Quote:If you think that evil is best defined by destroying hope, Phipps has it covered.
Quote:If you think it's more about the intent, he has it covered.
Quote:If you think it's more about results, he has it covered.
Quote:If you think it's about taking joy in inflicting hurt on others, he has it covered.
Quote:If you think that it's all about ruining or destroying the lives of others, Phipps has it covered, or can't do it but does as much as he can.
In my opinion, Tyrant is easily the most evil villain in City of Heroes. All the suffering that he causes and he supposedly is in it for the 'greater good'. He allows that team of monsters he calls Praetors to act as they will. He was willing to enslave the people of two Earths. He consigns little girls into slavery and a loss of their individuality for the crime of having been born psychic. This meglomaniac was willing to steal the souls of his own people to maintain his power.
Phipps would have been nothing more than a PPD stooge in Praetoria. Evil he may be, but he's more pathetic than evil. -
Whatever you think of the Resistance's methods, Calvin Scott wouldn't make the top 25 most evil villains in City of Heroes. Everyone is entitled to an opinion of their own, of course. But IMO, that contention is absurd, especially in light of what we learn about him during the Praetorian storyline.
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Quote:That's more a function of melees not being given sensible ranged modifiers in the first place. Scrappers should have a 1.0 ranged modifier like Blasters have a 1.0 melee modifier. Stalkers should be around .85-.9, Brutes and Tankers at about .65-.7.Do you mean things like melee classes not using their ranged damage modifiers for ranged attacks?
Setting the melees' ranged modifier at .5 ensured that they could never use that modifier lest players ignore the power with it. I suspect that this was part of their general overvaluing of ranged attacks. -
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OK, but now I'm confused more. What justifies Zapp doing less than half the damage of the other snipes? Does anyone actually have this power?
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On a Scrapper I would go Elec/Energy/Mu. All the theme with little to no sacrifice.
Edit: Or Elec/Shield/Mu. The devs did everyone a great service making shield almost theme neutral with all the options. -
I was looking over my build in anticipation of Issue 24 and I noticed that the snipe powers in the Patron Pools don't do much, if any, damage more than the ST Blasts. If Mids and City of Data (I guess its the same people now) are right, then why would anyone ever take the snipes?
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Quote:^^^^^^Something that isn't yet another superfluous panic button would be nice. I'm not keeping my hopes up though.
What he/she/it said!
I always thought of Genesis as the beginnings. Where hybrid is supposed to allow you to branch out into other ATs attributes, Genesis would help you be better at what you always have been.
How you enforce that with the structure of the Incarnate abilities is beyond me and I suspect that's not anywhere near what we'll get anyway. -
Quote:Seven actually. It went to a click during Issue 5, in August of 2005.It's been five years, guys, IH as a toggle is gone, for ***** sake.
(The rest is not responding to Talen Lee)
I don't think Instant Healing as a very high regen power is appropriate as a toggle. But I don't think it should be a long-cooldown click anymore either. I would prefer that they redesign the power, but apparently it hurts people's feelings to have a power made better. Except for when they did it with Conserve Power/Energize, or with Moment of Glory, or Light Form.
It's interesting. This argument that you can't change things for the better doesn't seem to hold when you're talking about nerfs. Instant Healing was changed drastically for the worse. For the good of the game I'll admit, but nevertheless it was changed. Sometimes it needs to go the other way too. There are some powers in this game that are so lackluster, that they need to go in their current state. If it's OK to annoy a large number of players with nerfs, it should be equally OK to annoy a small number of player with buffs. -
Quote:I was playing a Brute, a mainline damage AT. So this inane comment is irrelevant to my situation.Yes, I was sad when my tanker stopped being able to out-DPS scrappers too!
Quote:I.e. you liked it because it was ridiculously OP, and now don't like it because it is no longer ridiculously OP. (ET is still a very very good attack though).
I notice that since I showed how your comment was in error, all you could respond with was a veiled attack. -
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