Jack_NoMind

Sabbatical.

Edit : If you actually need to offer incentives other than maybe a 'credits' menu button mentioning donors to this community, everyone here is an ungrateful selfish *******. That being said I bet we could do a twitter campaign for them to put in a Mids' logo chest costume option in the game and give you codes to distribute. I might do that anyway just because it's win.

No, you just have to get it to 10s downtime, and bounce it with Aim or BU (they'll have the requisite <45s recharge easily by that point).

Don't need Hasten.

Actually even with Spiritual Alpha you'll only get 45s out of it; the last 45s the secondary effect buff is too weak to push you over the 22%. (Without Spiritual Alpha and good slotting you'll only get 10s out it, so it's just another Build Up on a longer and unenhanceable cooldown).

Combination of effects. If it *was* 90s as you believed, you'd have 110s/120 with Aim and BU. It isn't, but "for the first 65s of each encounter" is a pretty good argument for 'damn close to all the time' unless you're taking more than one minute to clear a spawn on your Blaster. I hope you aren't.

And I don't have one to dull. I play exactly one Blaster, a DP/MM fun concept character. I'm only interested in correctness.

Pfft. On so many levels, that's obviously false. All of this "Oooh, I can't natively perma-snipe!" whinging is ludicrous; a small yellow provides 60s of fast sniping on-demand if you bother to build for it, and on like 80% of all teams -- 99% of those built with any kind of deliberation -- someone else will be running Tactics anyway and you can stack two. A proportion very likely to go up now that so many Blasters have an incentive to get Tactics themselves. Not to mention Vengeance, which if your team isn't arranged you're almost certainly likely to get a lot of mileage out of.

We don't even know what kind of powers are going to be added to the other power pools, including the leaked Sorcery or Force of Will (and probably three others for the other Origins), which will be going in at the same time. We don't know what new Enhancements will be released, and even the ATE2s aren't finalized.

Hell. You can even use IR goggles (+5.something% ToHit) with a well-slotted Tactics (+Kismet, ofc) to do it.

So this whole

is just so much hot air.

This will increase the effectiveness of Snipe on every Blaster who doesn't obstinately refuse to allow that to happen. Nearly all of the ways I've listed are actually better than Power Boost or Aim/BU bouncing because they don't have the severe cast time penalties, and those are already a direct improvement to most Blasters.

Yeah... no, that's not true.

http://tomax.cohtitan.com/data/power...on.Power_Boost

And not "Permanent" but "damn close" is

http://tomax.cohtitan.com/data/power...adial_Epiphany

Nobody's making that claim as far as I can tell. They're making the claim that people don't run around at max potential -- especially Brutes, who can't ordinarily be capped even Fulcrum Shift. In fact, the claim is largely the opposite -- that Brutes have a higher maximum potential precisely because they have such low base ratios.

Tankers' hp cap is 110% that of Brutes'.

Well... hm. No? Not exactly, anyway. There's a distinct difference in how villainous or antiheroic bricks behave versus how heroic bricks behave. Villainous bricks are siege engines, while heroic ones are fortresses. In a comic book, the same character can switch back and forth between the two, but the easiest way to do this in CoX is with two separate archetypes (much like how say Gambit is sometimes a Scrapper and sometimes a Blaster -- complete with durability shifts -- in different books). But 'rage' being part of a brick's portfolio definitely indicates an antiheroic bent which they may or may not struggle against.

It's interesting in its simplicity. But I'd rather see suggestions targeted at bringing Tankers into their own as fun to play because they're really good at managing enemies than because we couldn't think of a way to make them different than Brutes.

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I don't know the code but I have a strong suspicion it would be impossible to do this in any kind of straightforward way without horribly breaking the AT -- or possibly like, all the control powers and probably targeting and mob AI. But it's still a worthwhile discussion to have For The Future.

Plus I also have a strong suspicion that it can be solved with psuedopets, which once would have irritated me but now mostly just amuses me.

That's scary, but not especially evil. I'd say evil is more like virtue perverted. Mako is essentially animalistic; he's vicious and cunning, even intelligent, but as you say he is amoral.

A memorably evil villain has a morality. But it's one in which their goal is the highest possible good -- whether it's their own power, the acquisition of knowledge, the destruction of the world, or even something like protecting their family. In the pursuit of this goal they are more than prepared to sacrifice anything else.

And for the worst of them, that goal is coupled with another -- the misery of everyone who doesn't share it. Not just death, although they may inflict this on a large scale, but the awe and terror of the petty sheep who would have stopped them. They want not just to defeat their enemies, but to break them and force them into compliance with their own ethos.

The truly terrifying thing is that that's not so far from what a hero wants.

Probably. But I need a good selection of +Def powers for LotG slotting anyway, and Maneuvers and Vengeance are easy choices (the latter especially with Fallout). I suppose I could go with Assault and free up some slots, but it didn't seem necessary. Besides... it's Assault. ;p

Edit : Oh actually, maybe it's a moot point -- I'll have to see what changes roll out to Leadership in i24.

Edit 2 : I somehow read Tactics as Focused Accuracy; the nonsense above may make some sense in that light. I'm not wiping this post only because I deserve to be ashamed of it.

Well, yes, your attacks do do a larger % of their health in damage, but also they're regenerating fewer real HP per second. Both are relevant; the two effects do not eclipse one another.