Fleeting Whisper

Arakhn brought the Nictus to Earth. Requiem is just some Italian dude with a Nictus inside him.

I wouldn't say Exalted is designed around min-maxing, but I also wouldn't even attempt to claim that min-maxing is impossible, or even difficult. For example, Dexterity is squarely in the "god stat" realm. Dex is used for hitting things, dodging things, running fast, climbing, manipulating devices, catching, and more. A character with low Dex is frequently left behind (figuratively or literally)

Edit: In Mass Combat, War is the god stat, since just about everything you try to do in Mass Combat is capped by your War rating. (I'd have to look it up, but I believe this does include Mass Social Combat)

Fortunately, in my opinion, there are only two truly "broken" Charms in the published sourcebooks. One of them (Void Avatar Prana, last Charm in Dark Messiah Style supernatural martial arts) should be considered a giant typo (it was added by the editor, not the author of the style), and it is extremely easy to claim that it simply doesn't exist. The other (Zeal) should be considered "lost", since it's in the Dreams of the First Age book. If you want to play a First Age campaign (in which case, all of the players are rulers of the world and they're brokenly overpowered regardless of what Charms they take), fine, allow Zeal. If you want to craft an entire story about learning the existence of Zeal and then rediscovering it, fine, it's an epic story for an epic Charm. In all other cases, I say, "Nope, everyone forgot".

There are a few other scarily strong Charms, but they also tend to require obscenely high Essence ratings (not that Zeal doesn't...), such as Fantasy, which essentially turns a character (not player) into storyteller for a scene.

Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff.

Arakhn. I'm unsure about the darkness alien squigglies, but I know I don't want the blades.

Ghost Widow. Again unsure on the squigglies, but I know I don't want the spikes.


Wait, did you say "cute"? I think I may have gone somewhere completely different...

Is your global really misspelled like that, GG? o.o

What is that supposed to even mean? ._.

I mean, I could understand the questions despite typos, but I don't understand how you get 910% out of 173...

Hey, I saw a full team of 'em just a few days ago...

Some others already have triggered spawns. The Kronos Titan, for example, spawns when ou complete the "Stop all Wildflower Agents" mission, after you exit. U'Kon Gr'ai spawns after you've placed bombs on the Rikti mothership.

It doesn't really make sense for a fair number of them, though...
Jurassik: He's mutated by the chemicals in Crey's Folly. Who're you going to punch to make chemicals mutate him faster?
Lusca: She's... an octopus.
Paladin: He has to be built by other clockwork. I fail to see how punching clockwork is going to make him spawn, since you need the clockwork there in order to build him.
Sally: Really?

That's only for Thugs

Edit: And I'm not certain whether different players see different Thugs models, just that the model is selected randomly.

Both are, actually.

The only connection between Arachnos and the Council is that they both began in Italy. Arachnos was founded by The Weaver, who never had anything to do with the Council. The Council was formed by Paolo Tirelli (The Center), who absorbed the 5th Column (then led by Ridolfo Uzzano+Dirge of Entropy=Requiem).

Ridolfo worked for Mussolini before becoming Requiem, and Arachnos (under leadership of The Weaver) helped bring Mussolini to power, so it's hard to see how Arachnos could be a splinter group of the Council. As far as I know, the Council didn't exist (at least not in any significant status) until after Requiem had leadership in the 5th Column; Ridolfo didn't merge with Dirge to form Requiem until after he worked for Mussolini; Arachnos helped Mussolini get to power.

Mako? Is that you?

Who else would be ordering a Hero off the grill?

It is important to remember that there is NO requirement for the Attack Types (what Defense checks against) to match the Damage Types (what Resistance checks against) for a given power. The attack types might as well be called Hard/Sharp/Hot/Icy/Dark/Bright/Mental/Long/Short/Large for all it matters to the game mechanics.

There was a Rad/Son Defender superteam a while ago. The entire video I took of us killing Babbage lasts 58 seconds.

To the OP: Since your team of friends is more than 3 people, and you're specifically looking at the 30+ game for your steamrolling hijinks, I strongly recommend a team of Empathy Defenders. Not healers, but actual Defenders - you don't need Stamina, since you can cycle through Recovery Auras; you can stack Fortitude on each other for Defense; you can prevent mezzes with Clear Mind; Regeneration Aura helps keep you alive without necessitating heals; and, once you've got Hasten, Adrenaline Boost, and the nuke from your blast set, you can get crashless nukes, just about every single spawn.

For CoV, I'd strongly recommend a team of 4 Thugs MMs. Enforcers each have Leadership, and their Leadership powers extend to all Thugs, not just your own. Many Thugs MMs together can get pretty ridiculous, especially with Gang War

For both CoH and CoV teams, I strongly recomend getting Leadership powers for all 4 of you.

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Of course, I think the robber also spawns 5 minutes after anyone enters the mission. So if one person enters when the rest of the team isn't even there yet and just waits patiently at the door, the robber might still spawn

The only time more -res is unwanted is when the target is sitting at -300%

(Which, AFAIK, is also impossible to achieve while solo)

Does the pope wear a funny Catholic bear in the woods?

Wait, that didn't come out right...

I'd hit it