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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Issen View Post
    ...GG, that is dangerously close to Godwin, and you really can't make that comparison. Not even remotely.
    Umm... It's a pretty apt comparison to Tyrant. EDIT: Sam makes a very cogent argument as to why above.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Issen View Post
    Well, based on the lore, he was made "Emperor" because the people wanted him to be.
    Some people wanted the USA to have a king too. Good people knew better.


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

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    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.
    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.
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    Originally Posted by Obitus View Post
    And I haven't even begun to consider the Brute's advantage in high-buff team situations.
    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.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by OnimusPrime View Post
    Comparing a scrapper's damage with crits included to a brute with 0 fury? Not a realistic comparison at all.

    In any event, Scrappers outdamage Brutes in the general case and in most edge cases such as high levels of damage buffing.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Issen View Post
    Tyrant also has a rather nasty predicatment that semi-justifies his actions:

    Either he brings Praetoria in line

    Or

    Hamidon eats EVERYONE
    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.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Snow Globe View Post
    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.
    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.

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    Is consistently self-deceiving, with the intent of avoiding guilt and maintaining a self-image of perfection? Yes, Phipps is that.
    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.

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    Deceives others as a consequence of their own self-deception? Phipps has made this an art form.
    Phipps deceives a shelter, Tyrant deceives a planet.

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    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.
    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.

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    Commonly hates with the pretense of love, for the purposes of self-deception as much as deception of others? Phipps to the core.
    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.

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    Abuses political (emotional) power ("the imposition of one's will upon others by overt or covert coercion")? Cole & Phipps are equally guilty of this.
    Are you serious? Cole's scope of this is massively more than Phipps.

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    Maintains a high level of respectability and lies incessantly in order to do so? Cole & Phipps are equally guilty of this.
    Our Savior v. Nice Mr. Phipps at the shelter. Not equal sorry.

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    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.
    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.

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    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.
    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.

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    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.
    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.
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rigel_Kent View Post
    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?
    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.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Hqnk View Post
    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.
    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.
  9. 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.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Party_Kake View Post
    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.
    I don't think evil is best defined that way.

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    If you think that evil is best defined by destroying hope, Phipps has it covered.
    This either.

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    If you think it's more about the intent, he has it covered.
    This either.

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    If you think it's more about results, he has it covered.
    This either, but his results aren't that great.

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    If you think it's about taking joy in inflicting hurt on others, he has it covered.
    This either.

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    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.
    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.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Quinch View Post
    My vote goes for Calvin Scott. Whatever you may think of the resistance, the man leading it {especially in the light of First Ward} is little more than a charismatic, vengeance-driven monster.
    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.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Miladys_Knight View Post
    Do you mean things like melee classes not using their ranged damage modifiers for ranged attacks?
    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.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Hopeling View Post
    I suspect Zapp IS using the ranged modifier; its damage lines up exactly for that to be the case.
    Yes, that was the one I was looking at when I made the post. Will PM Synapse.
  14. 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?
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by _Pine_ View Post
    Scrapper numbers base:

    Soul Mastery->In Game Links
    Moonbeam: 102.32 damage
    Dark Blast: 62.56 damage
    Thanks. Knew something was off there.
  16. 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.
  17. 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?
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Anilo View Post
    I mean the always part. Obviously Kheldians won't always outperform.
    That's true, I didn't focus on that part.
  19. EvilGeko

    Genesis?

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    Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU View Post
    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.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Talen Lee View Post
    It's been five years, guys, IH as a toggle is gone, for ***** sake.
    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.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU View Post
    Yes, I was sad when my tanker stopped being able to out-DPS scrappers too!
    I was playing a Brute, a mainline damage AT. So this inane comment is irrelevant to my situation.

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    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).
    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.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by GuyPerfect View Post
    This right here is the core essence of everything wrong with how they did it.
    Not arguing with you. It's not like we didn't try to change their minds.
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by TwoHeadedBoy View Post
    Note the conspicuous absence of me presenting a defense against your statement for Peacebringers. In all honesty, there really isn't one.
    lol.

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