GATTACA

I missed it as well, I was sleeping..

'Gratz,

And if the blaster doesn't have at the minimum four (4) debt badges, he wasn't trying hard enough

This is true, tanker primaries, scrapper secondaries, brute secondaries, and stalker secondaries may be given "No FX" option. You will still have to go through the animation, of course, but no colors whatsoever. There's also a minimum graphics option for some armors, encluding: Invulnerability and Willpower (I believe).

Reminded of: Bullet and a target - Citizen Cope

New Song: Welcome Home - Coheed & Cambria

I'll be there! Try to anyways..

Huh.. I think I was on for that.. Can't remember now.

They will probably add that option, I'm sure others feel the same way.

Now that i16 has hit open beta for everyone's eyes to see, what do you think?

Is it what you expected? Is it less than you expected?

I have made and played a few characters with the proliferated powersets and new powerset.



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Don't say I didn't warn you......










I will weigh in on the issue, now:
Let's get Villainous!

Earth Assualt: couldn't have made it better, a very excellent blend of range, melee, and AoE that has me jumping up and down waiting for i16 to go live to roll the real version.

Claws: *drools* Sooo nice, I really like the decission to move it over to brutes, instead of smashing and cleaving all the time, let's get some slicing 'n' dicing going.

Archery: Well, what can be said? I have to admit I haven't tried this on a corruptor yet, though, I have had multiple archery heroes (Defender and blaster) and both were deleted. I can expect the same from corruptors. Nothing against the set, I love the set.

Trick Arrow: This is the set that might make me roll a corruptor, I had a TA/A fender, but deleted him out of sheer dullness. Maybe with a little damage and corrupt-ness I can find some love in A/TA?

Thermal: No stranger to this set, I have an inactive fire/thermal corruptor over on Pinn, but this going to masterminds peaks my interest and has my full attention. Moving the set over for GoRo no doubt, I can't wait to see what people do with it.

Broadsword: I think I wasn't the only one scratching my head and saying "Ummmmmm... What?" It seems stalkers have been asking for BS for awhile now, and they got it. (Not longer than Ice melee, but they can keep dreaming and hoping.) After seeing the assassin's strike for this, it intrigues me to think where, again, people will fo with this powerset for stalkers.

Heroes

Let's start from the top

Radiation Blast: Giggity, giggity, giggity, Allll-rigggght! Oh! I rolled a rad/mental on test just for giggles and to check out the real issue maker, COLORS! I must say, it seems that rad/mental would make an awesome blaster, alas, I will not be going that route (yet). I will be making rad/em. Oh, yeah.. All the goodness of rad's debuff with the buffs and damage from energy manipulation (That, and I'm a sucker for */em). One small change in the set, Neutrino Bolt got a little change. No biggie, definitely NOT A NERF! Recharge was bumped up to 4 seconds, but a damage buff: deals 10.25 out of the box and I was able to two shot equal level minions at Lv1.

Cold Domination: I believe we'll be seeing more colds now, I like the transfer. It looks good in a controller's secondary, and will work nice with ice, illusion, or just about anything. (Earth/cold sounds nice.)

Traps and Assualt Rifle: Mmmmm-Mm! I love the sound of this. The assualt rifle is a nice added bonus, I love the traps part even more. I look forward to teaming with some traps/* defenders.

Electric Melee and Electric Armor: Once again, *drools* I have been waiting for Elea/Elem for tanks awhile now, and the fact that they added to scrappers as well is just an added bonus! Now I'm torn between making a tank or a scrapper.

...and while I'm on Scrappers,

Blaze Mastery: I can't drool anymore folks, I gotta get some water. Although it's almost a replica of Tanker's fire mastery: ring of fire, char, fire blast, melt armor, and FIRE BALL. The one power I thought they'd never put in and they proved me wrong. I think players will be pleased with what the devs have made up for their fire scrappers, and the pyros out there. That said, I'm debating switching to blaze on my dm/fa/dm. But, I'd need some kind of incentive to drop tenebrous tentacles + burn attack chain.


As far as powers and powersets go, that does it! Other issue additions worth mentioning:

-They added a neat little feature in the level circle that shows your current level. It will show Lv2 once you ding Lv2 and if you're SK'd it'll show you're Lv49 (just for example)

-An Arena quickstart to the menu, with hot key being "Z"

-Super Sidekicking, we all know about this.

i16 in a nutshell, I left some stuff out I know.. Just say it or keep it to yourself. Let's get this discuss underway!

Edit: I made a lame mistake.

Kin/* */Kin with Repel running all the time and running in the group before the tank.

Nope, nothin' better than hitting something to get mroe dmg and lower their's.

The MoKTF intrigues me, you can get through the whole TF without dying until the last mission.. It'll be interesting. And the MoITF sounds kinda easy..

After Fulcrum Shift, Spihon Power can top off brute's tremendous damage cap, since Fulcrum isn't going to cap them, plus, hey it's there.


And if you really want to get frisky, pop a end reduc or two in transfusion, sure transference is there for a reason, but it's not always there.

How about this then? Saw this on a TV show the other night -



That, my friends, is a 7 lb. breakfast burrito smothered in cheese and topped with chili, I could take one right about now as a matter of fact. Doesn't it look awesome?

Sounds fun, but I don't have an open spot on my character list :/

Good luck and complementary military branch statement. Goin' in alive, come out the same way