Iannis

Nah, Oni actually is sort of lame. Mechanically he's pretty cool since he spams holds and immobilizes, but the oni is a demon--not a ninja. I can't remember if they had Archery in the game when CoV launched, a ninja archery/TA boss probably could've fit the theme of natural ninja henchmen better. But, that isn't going to change so not much point in complaining.

I just hope the Demons don't make the Oni look like a total putz. Genin are already the squishiest feeling minion, and then to to have their shining gem of a Boss outdone...geez.

And they come from a faction that used to be american nazis funded by an old gestapo war criminal (the Center), but magically all became a faction of fascists and aliens run by an old Italian guy (the Center) overnight. The Council is *made* of goofy dumbness. And just try to untangle Requiem--most I can figure is he's trying to play the Center and the Reichsman against each other in his continuing mission to become the Nictus Emperor on Earth. Only way I can imagine him sending Columnists from his temporal strongholds to free Reichsman and recontact Axis America.

At one point I had logged into the dead Victory server to take a looksie at my ancient no longer played year 1 DM/Regen scrapper there (a character that predated I1) and discovered I had a number of Acc/Dam HOs and the spiffy heal/end ones in IH from back when I used to raid Hamidon way back when. Massively overslotted, of course, because of ED and because IH isn't a toggle anymore.

Also, looking at costumes from that long ago is nostalgic. Course, I think the ugliest one was a Supergroup uniform that a guy kept bugging me to make so I'd fit in on SG groups.

I could put up with concept builds, but I really don't understand the petless MM. The no speed boost Kin? Dude got SICK AND TIRED of having to SB the team every 20 seconds, probably. Long as he didn't skip Fulcrum Shift: now that would be really dumb...that's why I sorta want to make a DP/Kin corr when GR's special edition comes up for sale but at the same time I know I'd hatehatehate it because they're expected to be nothing but buffbots for the brutes. Screw dat, i'd go Trick Arrow first and then I don't have anything to buff nobody with. Glue and oil, glue and oil!

The petless MM is ignoring the defining aspect of the AT just so you can have a few really poor quality Pulse Rifle Blasts, though--I don't even see how it could function without a team. But in my experience teams only want an MM slightly more than they want Stalkers but would much prefer MOAR DAMAGE or corrs or doms to either AT. But at least no more petless Thug MMs now that DP is in. I expect Pulse Rifles to be proliferated eventually and be some kind of half AR half energy set, and then these petless abominations will be done for.

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Nah, you just needed QR and Stamina. 6 slotting them was to...I guess insure your blue bar NEVER moved from 100. I recall my earliest DM/Regen tried my best to NOT take Stamina because I hated the idea of required powers (Stamina and Hasten being the main offenders), but I eventually caved since running IH was a monster hog like running Focused Accuracy is, but I never had a problem with endo again after stamina. Maybe I had just learned how to manage my blue bar better (like turning off sprint in combat--how hard was that for people?)

I still dislike the glowing pom pom hands of Hasten. Geko could've saved himself a lot of trouble if he had just gone after the root of much evil, Hasten. But in those days he had to worry about things like Regenners being ubergods who couldn't die without taking a massive alpha hit because of IH, Fire Armor using burn to PL off incinerating swarms of rikti monkeys and DE swarms, City of Blasters crying about how they were in permanent debt, Jack demanding they put lolpvp into their MASSIVELY IMBALANCED GAME instead of doing something useful with their time, and Castle...well, Castle probably just doesn't want to rock the boat that much once he took over I guess. Here's to hoping Babs gets Power Pool Customization in so you can turn those stupid glowies off. I still think Hasten should've traded places with SR's Quickness. Hasten is so ludicrously powerful...even moreso back when you could perma it without trouble. I mean, nowadays you can perma it again with IOs, of course, but that costs time and money and fiddling around with builds in mids.

That happened in the competition's game, I noticed. You were kinda dumb not to be a flying character when fly was not only faster, but also safer.

Say Fly sucks when you're trying to get around the Shadow Shard, though. If there were more floating islands in the sky and dumb jump pads things would be different around here!

Yikes. If you're just theorycrafting builds atm and don't have billions of influence, remember..PvP IOs trade at, like, the max tradeable inf cap. Of course, apparently some people have trillions or some ridiculous amount like that.