EvilGeko

Umm... It's a pretty apt comparison to Tyrant. EDIT: Sam makes a very cogent argument as to why above.

Some people wanted the USA to have a king too. Good people knew better.


So he didn't know those little girls floating around his capital were enslaved by a psychic monster? Hmmm.... no not buying it.

Bullpoo. The existence of the Seers is an unimaginable crime. It damns anyone who stood for it, but it most certainly damns the man who allowed it to happen with his blessing.

Brutes lose in high-damage buffing situations? What advantage do you mean?

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.

In any event, Scrappers outdamage Brutes in the general case and in most edge cases such as high levels of damage buffing.

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.

Much evil has been committed in history using this justification. I would hope we would have learned by now.

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.

You must not have actually payed attention to the Praetorian storyline huh? Because that's EXACTLY what Tyrant does on a scale that makes Phipps look like an ant against an elephant.

Phipps deceives a shelter, Tyrant deceives a planet.

You mean how Tyrant projected his failures and evil on the super-powered beings of the Primal dimension and started a war to cover his own lies.

I would call a guy who claims to have created a Utopia while having secret terror camps to destroy anyone who even deigns to THINK differently a bit worse on this scale.

Are you serious? Cole's scope of this is massively more than Phipps.

Our Savior v. Nice Mr. Phipps at the shelter. Not equal sorry.

No, you're wrong. It's massively worse to have a conscience and reject it than to never have it at all. That's EXACTLY why this isn't a contest. Phipps is a cartoon. Tyrant has happened in the real world. Tyrant is happening right now in other countries. This is true evil. Phipps is bad fiction.

Again, I can only assume you haven't actually played the Praetorian arcs, since there is a whole conversation with Tyrant where he displays this behavior.

TYRANT EMPLOYS PSYCHIC SLAVES TO ENFORCE HIS WILL AND IMAGE. What the heck are you talking about? Phipps isn't even in the same zip code on this.

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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.

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.


I know that Frozen Aura needs help. But this question isn't directed towards making Ice Manipulation better as a whole.

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 don't think evil is best defined that way.

This either.

This either.

This either, but his results aren't that great.

This either.

Oppressing people with the apparatus of Arachnos at your back isn't all that impressive to me. Captain Mako has done worse than Phipps and he did it himself, not through functionaries.


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.

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.

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.

Yes, that was the one I was looking at when I made the post. Will PM Synapse.

Thanks. Knew something was off there.

That's true, I didn't focus on that part.

^^^^^^

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.

Seven actually. It went to a click during Issue 5, in August of 2005.

(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.

I was playing a Brute, a mainline damage AT. So this inane comment is irrelevant to my situation.

No, I don't like the feel of the set anymore. Two very long animation attacks is one two many. I would have preferred, and argued at the time, to adjust the damage or recharge. Fast animations are fun. EDIT: I like to have three fast animating (sub 2 sec) attacks in every set I play. Sometimes that requires me to take 'weak' powers instead of much stronger ones.

I notice that since I showed how your comment was in error, all you could respond with was a veiled attack.

Not arguing with you. It's not like we didn't try to change their minds.

lol.

Would love to see your Warshade build. It sounds pretty awesome.