Fleeting Whisper

18.45 exabytes, if you want a name for it
1 EB = 1,000,000,000 GB

For perspective, global internet traffic for 1 month is less than 10 EB.

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If someone can't afford to pay $15/mo, why would they be able to afford $899.40 as a lump sum? ($14.99 for 60 months)

Also, objectively, money over time is more valuable to the company than lump sums are.

That depends. What swag will you give me?

So... when exactly did Outcasts get added to Atlas Park? And how is a level 2 character going to defeat even a level 5 Outcast?

Actually, Snow, creating a PDF is pretty simple and free. It's editing a PDF that gets expensive. For example, I've got a virtual printer driver on my computer that will print literally anything to a PDF file, and it was completely free. All it needs is a program that will access a printer.

Hell, you don't even have to keep at it. You just have to be willing to pay the monthly fee. You can stop playing for a year, but if you keep paying the subscription fee, you'll log in a year later with a bunch of new vet badges.

That shouldn't be the case... you should get Mission Complete as soon as the Hydra Head dies.

Well, Regen gets its T9 at level 28, for starters

Because critter AI makes sure they're firing off optimized attack chains. Oh, wait...

Of course Melee defense is easier to raise than a combination of Smashing, Lethal, Energy, Negative, Cold, and Fire defense. You're comparing raising one defense type using IOs to raising 6 (or, since they're all pairsed with respect to IOs, 3). Try comparing "raising Melee Defense" to "Raising Smashing and Lethal Defense" and you'll come up much better, since it's actually a reasonable comparison to make.

Scrapper Invincibility gives 4.5% defense for the first enemy, unenhanced (7.02% with 56% enhancement).
Investment: One power.
Result: 4.5% defense to S/L/F/C/E/N (this covers all but some psionic attacks)

Investment: One power, 3 slots.
Result: 7.02% defense to S/L/F/C/E/N

The BEST Melee defense set bonus (either in absolute strength, or in strength per slots invested) available grants 3.75%, and requires 6 slots.
Investment: 6 slots.
Result: 3.75% defense to M (this covers approximately 1/3 of attacks)

AoE defense from set bonuses suffers the same problem. Ranged defense from set bonuses is a little bit better if you've got access to a Confuse power (Coercive Persuasion grants 5% def for 6 slots), or if you've got both Sniper and Knockback attack(s) (Explosive Strike and Sting of the Manticore both offer 1.88% def for 3 slots each, for a total of 3.76% in 6 slots). Any special defense IOs offer defense for all 10 Defense types, so aren't part of the argument.

And if you look at Tankers (which get 6% defense from Invincibility with one enemy and no enhancements), the disparity is even larger.

Fully saturated Invincibility, of course, makes set bonuses look somewhat laughable (11.25% unenhanced for Scrappers, 17.55% enhanced for Scrappers, 15% unenhanced for Tankers, 23.4% enhanced for Tankers) in terms of cost-for-benefit.

Don't forget that due to small bugs in the server/client architecture and the way the powers system works, Invincibility can sometimes nearly double in effectiveness for short periods of time (18.75-29.25% for Scrappers, 25-39% for Tankers). If it has any effect at all, it will only help against a single attack, but it's a factor in Invincibility's favor that set bonuses do not have.

Because he's a perfect and unique snowflake?

Err... what? RttC keeps critters close to you (admittedly, not as well as the other Taunt auras, but it does try). It doesn't spread enemies apart in any way. How, exactly, does RttC work a cross purposes with AoEs?

If I recall the calculations correctly, old MoG did absolutely nothing for your survivability against most damage types, and it was the equivalent of -400% resistance against psionic damage.

QFT. And as someone who plays a hoverscrapper, constantly mobile, I boggle at the mindset.

I know there are a number of Masterminds who would quite happily pummel your Brute into a pulp for that statement. (Or, more accurately, get their henchmen to pummel you into a pulp)

Well, I'm glad that's settled

I have absolutely no problem with letting a player reduce their own KB in some fashion, either through enhancements or an options setting. The only thing I have a problem with is things like suggestions that have the team leader enforce a maximum KB magnitude, or ostracizing people who play with KB.

Really?

In my experience, the team usually ends up being separated into three sides on the issue:
- People who love/like/want the KB (usually, the people actually using the KB powers)
- People who don't care one way or the other, and would rather stop arguing and get on with the game (usually the majority of the team)
- People who want to start a witch hunt on someone because they used Crane Kick once (usually a single melee player)

Since this all got started talking about the Romulus Phalanx in the 3rd mission of the ITF, I'd love to see you attempt to get through the phalanx solo with just the resists and Dull Pain of Invulnerability.

Also, S/L/F/C/E/N defenses are not really any harder to increase than M/R/A defenses. (Psi def is a different story, I'll admit, but it's also not an issue for the situation we're talking about)
Considering Invincibility gives you a baseline to start from, vs. 0% if you go for M/R/A on an Invulnerable Tanker, you're actually much safer using Invincibility and building IO sets on top of that, than skipping Invincibility and going for IOs.

Is it possible to use useful without Invincibility? Absolutely. This game is easy. I still think you're an idiot for skipping Invincibility, though.

That what most MMs do. Though in the case of most MMs, they do it because the attack powers suck, not because they "don't look interesting".

I'm already a little annoyed by the CCPeacebringer and CCWarshade emotes, which can only be used if you're a Peacebringer or a Warshade, respectively. I could understand "You have to unlock EATs to use thee emotes", but instead it's "You must be these EATs to use these emotes".

As someone who is actually a part of the Scoop and has access to private Scoop-related discussions, I can say you're wrong.

(Though it may be accurate to say the Scoop is in the hospital)