Fleeting Whisper

Then again, Containment doesn't care how the target became contained. A teammate can cast the mez. Or even stationary targets, such as Turrets, Snipers, Lusca, etc. with are stationary due to the fact that they have an inherent power giving them an immobilize.

Too. Much. Information.

No, Fire Ball is not Ranged/AoE/Fire/Smashing. Rajani was pointing out that Fire Ball is typed with AOE_Attack/Fire_Attack, but the effects of the power are to deal Fire damage and Smashing damage.

It is important to separate Attack Vectors from Power Effects. Despite the fact that many of the Attack Vectors are named identically to Damage effects, they are not the same thing.

Attack Vectors directly map to Defense Types:
Smashing_Attack => Smashing Defense
Lethal_Attack => Lethal Defense
Energy_Attack => Energy Defense
Negative_Energy_Attack => Negative Energy Defense
Fire_Attack => Fire Defense
Cold_Attack => Cold Defense
Psionic_Attack => Psionic Defense
Melee_Attack => Melee Defense
Ranged_Attack => Ranged Defense
AOE_Attack => AOE Defense

Note the lack of 'Toxic_Attack' and 'Toxic Defense' - these two things do not exist.

Damage effects of powers map to Resistance types:
Smashing damage => Smashing Resistance
Lethal damage => Lethal Resistance
Energy damage => Energy Resistance
Negative Energy damage => Negative Energy Resistance
Fire damage => Fire Resistance
Cold damage => Cold Resistance
Psionic damage => Psionic Resistance
Toxic damage => Toxic Resistance

There are also damage types such as "Unique1" which have no matching Resistance type. There is also "Base Defense", which is added to all defense values, and used against attacks without any attack vector. Base Defense is hard to come by; you'll most commonly see it from Defense Debuffs, and from [Personal Force Field].

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This is not true. The heal from Dull Pain is still based on your original max health (or, more accurately, a value which just so happens to be a constant percentage of your unmodified max health at any given level, but is not directly tied to your unmodified max health)

The +MaxHealth portion of Dull Pain is broken into two halves, one of which is unenhanceable. So if unenhanced Dull Pain gives you +X max HP, Dull Pain enhanced by 100% gives you +1.5 X max HP, rather than +2 X max HP.

The Heal portion of Dull Pain is not broken into two halves, and is entirely enhanceable. Unenhanced, the heal is exactly equal to the +MaxHealth. However, since the +MaxHealth is only partially enhanceable while the heal is fully enhanceable, and both are affected by the same enhancements, the Heal portion is automatically more powerful than the +MaxHealth portion as soon as you put a -3 TO in the power.

Or artificial insemination
(Which, if only female parents were available to provide genes, would always result in another female)

I don't see why you come to this assumption. CoV was an expanshalone. GR is a normal expansion. (You can't use GR if you don't already have a CoHV account)

The closest things we've had to an expansion are Good vs. Evil edition and the Mac Special Edition; they didn't increase the number of character slots we had.

Unlocking VEATs/HEATs has absolutely nothing to do with story.

You should wait until Christmas Eve to get a tree. They become much, much cheaper as time goes on. I remember one year we got a tree that was originally something like $150 for about $10.

Worth nothing, but even -KB doesn't really help keep a target within range of Hurricane. Hurricane applies both KB and Repel, while the -KB applied by some controls only stops the KB portion, not the repel portion.

Correct, Gravity Control has the -KB swaped between the Holds and the Immobilizes, compared to other sets.

Yes, that's the incident I was referring to

Rajani means we don't really know for sure, because Paragon Studios hasn't told us.

Why the hell would I try to convince her otherwise? More people's always better at Thanksgiving!

Again, this list is about biggest impact on the industry. Say the letters N, G, E to someone in the game industry, and they'll know exactly what you're talking about, and how bad it was.

While they could create NPCs matching your character's powersets and costume, they couldn't make an NPC that replicates your character. For one, a level 50 character gets 24 powers, and the critter AI can't handle that much decisionmaking.

Other than that, it seems feasible. I'm not exactly sold on the idea, though.

Inside joke. A while ago, there was someone who claimed to be a casual player and they were complaining that they couldn't afford to purple out their Warshade.

We already get that one.