Ironblade

What does Granite have to do with it?
Did I ever bring a non-Granite tank? Yes.
Even better: Was I ever lead taunt on a non-Granite tank? Yes to that also.


P.S. A yellow dawn also resulted in epic, crippling lag as the number of entities in the area instantly doubled.

Once again, any technical difficulty or unpleasantness in the visual result is hand-waved aside. If it wouldn't be hard, then explain such a system to us.

Firstly, this sounds lag-inducing. Secondly, the results for the cases where disambiguation is needed sounds ugly.

They will never even out until some time AFTER they are merged, if that ever happens. In the short-term, I don't doubt that a merger would cause considerable disruption and I won't even try to guess what it might look like - because it doesn't really matter. We could have months of economic carnage, but so what? We got carnage when AE came along. We got carnage when merits were introduced. We got carnage when AE farming was nerfed. This would be just one more disruption to the economy. All of the other disruptions settled down. It would be foolish to assume that a market merger would be dramatically different and cause permanent damage.

In the long-term, I believe the game economy as a whole will be better off with the markets merged.

Early 2010.

That is correct and working properly. Under normal conditions, with no defense debuffs on you, your "Base Defense" will be listed as ZERO. Your typed or positional defenses are applied on top of your base defense to determine your actual defense vs a particular attack, but your defenses do not affect the Base Defense number.

Invuln powers, shield powers, combat jumping, weave, etc - none of these change BASE defense. Off the top of my head, I can think of just two things that affect Base Defense:
1) Defense dubuffs.
2) Personal Force Field

It can, if you have it enhanced for Taunt. My invuln has no ranged attacks and handles this fine. In the aggro calculations, damage is a factor, as well as proximity to target so a tank at range has both of those factors working against him/her. However, remaining duration on the Taunt also affects the numbers and that's where you can compensate.

What if he is a programmer in his secret ID?

You must be thinking of some other set. Integration is a toggle.

I predict additional hilarity when you take him to RWZ and run into some of the specialized Vanguard types (rangers, sorcerors).

I'm not sure why you're having such problems. What are the controllers' secondaries?

As for the whole 'keep away - keep pets away', you actually can have a crowd in melee if you force her to target elsewhere. If you have a tank taunting from range, she will only fire attacks that can hit at that range. One of those is a heal, but it's a single-target heal and you'll just have to do enough damage to overwhelm it. This is how we defeated her the last time I did the STF. I was the tank and it was a bit annoying since I had to keep running around - we didn't have enough immob to lock her in one spot.

Also, anything you can do to boost the defense on the tank is helpful since I'm pretty sure her heal is not auto-hit. (It's hard to tell by the animations but my tank was bubbled and she seemed to miss often with the ranged heal.)

I don't think it's so much 'self-absorbed' as 'thinking they know what's best for you'.

Close enough. The entire concept of teabagging says so.

The word is WHALING.

Okay, and now let's take that extra step and write the thread title as it should have been: Everybody's Kung Fu Fighting.

Oh, I disagree strongly. Firstly, going from 70% to 90% is a DRAMATIC improvement. Secondly, in a given situation, that range may just happen to including the 'tipping point' where you go from 'eventually defeated' to 'will live forever'.

It's like they say about regen: If whatever you're fighting can't kill you in 15 seconds, it never will.

According to you. My OPINION differs. I think it's more than sufficient.

Except I'm not saying that. I'm saying, "I think this idea well and truly stinks because it's going to interfere with game play for most people." Sure, that "most people" part is my subjective judgment. If you claim otherwise, that would be YOUR subjective judgment.


Back to this nonsense, eh? I have had no problems coming up with names on Freedom. Your personal difficulties in picking names are not sufficient cause to change the system for EVERYONE.

Okay, but why would that affect the price? The Trap of the Hunter pieces in Pool C are still considered garbage. Since the usefulness seems identical, aside from positional defense builds, why the huge premium? Are there that many people out there itching for the full set for the defense bonuses??

Who will love you muchly. My emp has 3 sets for the healing bonus.

Interesting. My drops have seemed quite random, except for one stretch where I got 5 from the same set . . . Absolute Amazement. However, this was quite a few months ago.

P.S. I wasn't displeased about it since they were dropping on my farm toon, a fire/kin, who could actually use them.