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I know, but that doesn't mean that s/he or other gender-neutral terms are suddenly widespread, nor that somebody who doesn't know your gender will magically somehow know your personal preferences.

English doesn't have a good gender-neutral term ("they" tends to create awkward-sounding sentences, and can be ambiguous since it sounds plural; constructs like "zir" are not widespread in general use and tend to just cause confusion). A majority, IMX, of MMO players are male, or at least do not wish to be recognized as female since it completely doesn't matter and tends to attract unwanted attention, so assuming that any given player is male unless they say otherwise is usually a pretty good assumption.

Male privilege and etc surely plays a part too, but that's even further from the topic than the formatting thing

It isn't. I see no reason to turn this into a confrontation at all. I happen to agree with Rangle, but that doesn't make him unassailable, nor does it make it OK to attack you.
Here is the beef: your first post is painful to read. Literally, physically painful. I used the phrase "headache-inducing" for a reason. I don't think it is unreasonable to ask that you press Enter a few times to avoid causing me physical pain. You are not obligated to do so, of course, just as I am not obligated to read your thread, but it is not impolite to ask.

You have the privilege to post whatever you want, within the forum rules. I'm not saying you can't, and neither is anyone else in the thread, as far as I can see. We are asking you to please go edit your post and press enter a few times to make the thing more readable and less painful. This isn't a right/wrong thing - you can refuse to change your post all you like. But that will severely limit the discussion you'll actually get (which is a shame, because a "powerset vs powerset" pros-and-cons discussion can be interesting, and is usually filled with good information for newer players that happen across it), as you can see by the way it's derailed this thread.

I'm not following you from thread to thread. Nor, I expect, is anyone else. The forums are just a relatively small community, and you'll tend to see the same names in threads all over the place.

I had never noticed that until now. Wacky.

Have you run any pylon tests or anything yet? It sounds like the damage per cast is impressive, but I'm not sure how much impact on overall DPS it will have due to the longish recharge.

No one forced you to come here and read his reply.

Either read it or move on.

Why is your posting style and method of presentation unassailable, but everyone else is fair game?

Yes to both.
Numbers for Super Pack 1: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=284104
Numbers for the upcoming Super Pack 2 (numbers subject to change before release, of course, and subject to some margin of error): http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=292324

For what it's worth, even on average, and after obtaining all of the Elemental Order costume pieces, a Super Pack has only a roughly 1 in 9 chance of containing a Catalyst. Personally, I got zero from my 24 packs, and only three from the 30 packs I later purchased with reward tokens.

Edit: 1 in 9, not 1 in 7. My bad.

Double Edit: Also, I've found that catalysts are pretty easy to get from Incarnate trials. They don't exactly rain from the sky, but I usually get a catalyst every few runs. They can drop in Dark Astoria too, but I haven't found them to be nearly as common there.

Yep.

Looks like you've got things pretty much right with your edit, except the PPM formula uses just the animation time, it doesn't account for Arcanatime.

I think we're just subtly different, in ways that seem immaterial to people who haven't been us very often, but actually make all the difference to the experience of being me compared to being you.

My /FA brute has 24% S/L resist from IOs, by accident, with just my Live build copied over. (Technically, I maybe should only claim that 19% is by accident, since I have 5% on Live. But still.) With some tweaks, I'm pretty sure I can have capped S/L resists - again, on a /Fire brute - without giving up much of anything.

I don't know if that makes you happy, but if it doesn't, you probably had wildly unrealistic expectations ;P

Similarly, a bunch of people talking about it doesn't make it a good idea.

Well, sure. "Build for Defense" vs "Build for resistance" is no contest, if for no reason other than the 75% resist cap most ATs have. But you don't have to choose between defense and resists. You can build for defense much the same way you do now, and also get significantly increased resistance.