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Attention horde? Laminated raccoons? Where are these tags coming from?

Also: POST HOC ERGO PROPER HOC!

Man, it's so much fun saying that.

I've seen a few used over the years...

* Thanks! I'm a 46-year-old obese man in real life, but I take what I can get.

* You're paying $15/mo to talk like that? A fool and his money may soon be parted, but they sadly seem to have an awful lot of money to part with.

* This is the Internet Crimes Division of the FBI. Your account has been traced and officers will arrive at your premesis within minutes. You will be arrested and charged with soliciting minors online.

* lol no u!!! ... Seriously, shut up. It's not cute.

* Do you say that to everyone you meet? Tell me, are you in prison?

* I lost half my face to a bacterial infection, but it's good to know people still think you look good!

* If you talk that way to pixels, what will you do when you meet an actual person?

* And I don't even have the Chest slider maxed! Although I think you broke the Dumb slider with that one.

* Yo hittin' on my girl, dawg? Might not want to do that while I'm sittin' here next to her.

And before any dev gets any funny ideas: No, do NOT nerf the Defense bonuses to compensate for lack of Resist bonuses. Buff the Resist bonuses.

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*facepalm* You know who I am, right?

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The soon-to-be Villains enthusiast. The first step is giving it a try and not complaining about the graphics or enemies in Mercy Island!

I have a Mastermind with no summon powers at level 33 and faceplanting its way to glory! Pistols/Poison with a secondary focus on pool/epic melee FTW. Fun to play, though!

While not CoH-specific, my favorite one-half-liner of a super hero joke has got to be "Say your prayers, Clergy Man!"

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Anyone who would say what you say, and actually listened to themselves saying it, would shut up pretty quickly out of pure embarassment.

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Only sensible people know when to be embarassed. As for Nethergoat: Report++

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Is abusing one's self tolerable?

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Like "its self," this is technically correct on a grammatical level, but there is a word you should have used there instead!

In my experience, all the other rewards come as a sort of by-product to grinding for XP. Whatever doesn't drop from enemies or mission completions you can generally purchase with merits, tickets, or inf on the market.

Like how Hamidon Enhancements intended to buff self movement can also be used to enhance foe -movement powers, grinding for XP falls into the category of "by design." There are only two real options here: 1) Remove any substance from the game and let people get all the XP they want without grinding; 2) Leave it as it is, trying to make grinding more interesting.

To avoid the grind altogether, a name needs to be built from the ground up without being based on the idea of experience points. City of Heroes is not such a game.

I have neither, but when I feel like spending $10, I'll go for Magic just 'cause of the costume change emotes. If they go back and add new CC emotes only usable by those with the Cyborg Pack, I'll likely buy that one too.

In Praetoria, players objected when their powers to build small cottages were nearly changed into snipe attacks.

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In Praetoria, players left the game in droves when they were no longer required to have their Enhancements diversified.

Hamidon uses Blue Steel-Os as it is, so I doubt he's after Enhancements.

Oh! I almost forgot to mention what happens with the alignment system. See, you can choose to start out in Paragon City as a Hero, the Rogue Isles as a Villain, or just in Praetoria as Neutral. Even though City of Civilians (green side) didn't make the cut, Going Rogue's white side certainly has a lot to offer!
<ul type="square">[*]Gawk! New game lore covers Paragon City's eternal struggle between good and neutral. Discover the exploits of how one person inadvertantly and unintentionally absconded with another's mystical item and the other person not worrying about it.[*]Thrill! New open-zone NPC encounters spice up the gameplay by featuring civilians that don't care one way or another that they're getting robbed. Save them or not! "This may or may not be the only noteworthy thing that has ever happened to me!"[*]Ponder! New neutral powersets give you that super-effective happy medium between things like Fire and Ice, Light and Dark, and even Healing and Damage! Take advantage or disadvantage of the new tools available to you.[*]Enhance! Players who choose to take sides with neither good nor evil will become exemplary neutral, which doesn't offer any particular bonus one way or another that aren't available by any other means.[*]Craft! New neutral Invention sets offer a handy way to use up extra Enhancement slots without worrying about modifying a power.[*]And so much more! There's nothing more.[/list]

I just got a PM from a very high-ranking plantation manager at Paragon Studios who is generally responsible for brandishing, cracking and even utilizing various lengths and styles of whip to get the employees motivated. He says that Praetoria (from the upcoming Going Rogue expansion) is effectively like our dimension except it's got good and evil swapped around. Remember the evil Freedom Phalanx and Carnival of Light? That's just scratching the surface of the tip of the iceburg. A few other details have been revealed and I'm authorized to share them with the general public:


Catnos
Arachnos will be good, of course, but they won't be dealing with scary spiders. They'll actually be an avid group of humanitarians running an orphanage for abused kittens called Catnos. Of course, in this sick and twisted world, that's just about as unlawful as it gets, so they still stick with the criminal theme. The Catnoids that resulted from Project: FURRY have one heck of a hairball debuff that you don't want to get caught by.


Mime Domination
The 5th Column already hopped worlds to Axis Amerika, so their absence needs to be filled with the 5th + i Column, which is a group of militant mimes bent on saving the world using their assortment of imaginary powers. Mime Domination is made available to neutral players, using a few unorthodox means of manipulating your foes and aiding your allies. A few powers from this set include:
<ul type="square">[*]Walk Against The Wind: Turning around and making a sort of fanning gesture with your hands, you reduce the movement speed and recharge rate of all foes in a cone area. Some foes, for an unknown reason, may choke and become held, or even vomit. It's silent, but apparently deadly![*]Trapped In A Box: Encase an ally in an unseen fortress that's just barely big enough to breathe in. They will be untouchable in this state, and cannot affect or be affected by anyone (including using the chat feature). This power is a toggle power with indeterminate duration, so how you use it is up to you.[*]Invisible Sandwich: Toss an ally a low-fat, low-carb snack if they're paying attention. Recovers some of their hit points as well as endurance. Now they too can has cheeseburger![/list]Characters who select Mime Domination gain access to the Air Guitar emote.


Red Foil
The trainer in Peasants Rank, Red Foil, may have a visor and snazzy shield, but he's just about the most pitiful excuse for a meta human there ever was. Approaching him results in a frantic "Please don't hurt me! Here, I'll just let you level up regardless of how much experience you've gained!" Ironically, due to balance issues, this functionality may need to be nerfed.


Powerset Proliferation
The powersets will be proilferated to the new Going Rogue archetypes using a Praetorian twist:
<ul type="square">[*]Kinetics will become Potential, a powerset that has all sorts of powers that could theoretically be awesome if only you were able to use them.[*]Dark Blast will become Light Blast, a powerset that mainly benefits from shining glare in the enemies' eyes, reducing their ToHit. It also comes with a laser pointer placate power, which is especially useful against Catnos operatives.[*]Poison becomes Narcotics, which ends up being a self-debuff set more often than not. But hey, who cares! Tell them to get their own.[*]Fortunatley, the proliferations of all the control powersets still negatively affect enemies. It's hard to fight when you're laughing uncontrollably!.. so to speak.[/list]
Nemesis
Nemesis does not exist in Praetoria. If everything is the opposite, then nothing is a Nemesis plot and that in and of itself rendered him nonexistant by way of paradox. Incidentally, the resulting tear in the fabric of time and space enabled the Praetorians with interdimensional travel.


Invention Sets
A slew of new Invention sets have been introduced with Going Rogue:
<ul type="square">[*]Masochistic Tendencies: This one will be popular because one of the Enhancements boosts damage buffs. Unfortunately, it only applies to damage inflicted on self, which doesn't go over too well with the set bonus that grants negative debt protection.[*]Vocal Doomsaying: A placate set that effecitvely renders your character nonexistant and ignored by all NPCs and PCs alike for the rest of your super-powered career.[*]Retrospective Regret: Set bonuses include +300% Damage, +400% Recharge, +200% HP, +500 Endurance and +100% Damage Resistance to all damage types for slotting the full set. Unfortunately, the recipes require base salvage and those really old mez-protect inspirations to craft.[*]Initiative of the Homeless: Each item in this set has a 10% chance of Enhancing the power that it's slotted in. Set bonuses include squandering finances and mooching off of strangers.[*]Tyrant's Sympathy: Huh. There don't appear to be any Enhancements available for this set.[/list]
Hamidon
Hamidon raids are present in Praetoria, but no one is sure exactly what kinds of rewards he receives for completing them. Seeing Hamidon with a cape is almost worth watching him do a raid, though.


These are just some of the fabulous new features we have to look forward to with the upcoming Going Rogue expansion and Praetoria. Stay tuned for more info in the coming weeks!

Will my Mastermind be seeing the updated Knockout Blow animation choice(s)? Or Boxing, as it uses the same animation as Jab?

Hang on, Toasty. Did you read the post? You've confused me.

Besides, the only Potential problems with Issue 16 is that they weren't able to come up with a good antithesis to Kinetics. *Wins today's obscure joke award*

I believe it's because of how the power FX work on some powers. Notice that Empathy is in there and not Pain Domination. Pain and Nictus, for instance, use a subtractive blending function that doesn't lend itself to colorizing very well. Other sets that use alpha blending or addative blending have been given the color options.

...Well, except for Poison. Not sure why that one didn't make the cut.

I got gotten. I don't get gotten very easily, but this got me good.

While I'm not one to encourage playing the game as a farmer--maximizing reward versus time--I do like to have the option for whenever it's convenient. I have a Super Strength / Willpower Brute that really busts up the Rikti in their War Zone, and I've used that character several times to help teammates make that terrible trek from 49 to 50 in about two hours.

Now, I like that the zone is co-op and even has an Architect Entertainment in it for fighting non-Rikti enemies, but there's just one little facet that's keeping me from letting the Brute be the end-all for farming issues: drops and Influence. My villains collectively have over 300 million inf now, while the heroes are stuck around 150m... only, heh... This is primarily because of that Brute as well as getting a LotG +7.5% Recharge back before merits that I posted on the market for 10 inf and got rich off of...

Anyways, how does this apply to Kheldians? Well, I'm doing one of each archetype, see, and I still don't have a bust-em-up character hero-side. I still need to do Controller, Scrapper, and Warshade, and under no circumstances will I be going that Fire/Kin route (in fact, I'm considering Ice/Sonic for that one). Using a Scrapper's just shaping up to be Brute 2.0, so I'd really rather use a Warshade for these purposes.

So I ask of you guys: please fill me in on what Warshades can do in the upper levels. I'm sure things will become awesome, but I want to know ahead of time so I can plan this stuff out in advance.

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you know, from babs sig, 29.95 one looks like it was choreographed by the guy who did our MA animations.

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It's Jimmy from marketing. He's still recovering from the mediocre job he did on the Issue 13 announcement.

I made a Fire/Kin villain-side once. It didn't get invited to teams like I'd hoped. (-:

Everyone knows Super Strength / Willpower is a better farming combo than Fire Control / Kinetics anyway. Need moar brootz!

I'm reminded of that Shoryuken animation... How did that work, again?