Kelenar

The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs, trying to turn itself over, but it can't...

It's entirely possible to build a single character to sap well against bosses and lower, and I've seen it be very good team mitigation. I've never seen it really shine versus AVs from a solo character, but I've seen lone sappers get them empty before they die.

Shadow Fall from a /Dark grants AoE +Psi Res, and Forcefields and Forcefield Generator should defend against them. I think the attacks would sneak past Forcefield if they don't have a positional flag, but if their attacks are anything like the counterparts players are packing, they should.

Only if it can combine with Walk so that you flick the cigarette over your shoulder onto it as you casually stroll away.

Er. My Thugs/Poison mastermind didn't really have any issues with the fonts. I think they killed my Bruiser a few times, but that was about it. The spouts were a pretty big annoyance, since I had to pull things out of the room to avoid having my pets scattered, but that was about it. It might have helped that the Bruiser was taking most of the hits, so the AoEs didn't do much.

No new Rikti, but there were ones that aren't usually in invasions, like priests and Master-At-Arms. And huge spawns of Heavy Assault Suits.

If they really wanted to scare us, they'd do an invasion of old-school naked Rikti.

If you don't have a macro to make them shout 'Cambot! Gypsy! Tom Servo! CROOOOOOOOOW!' as you summon them, I'm sad.

I forgot, the entirety of Stone Melee has to go on my list for this reason. After playing my Stone/ Brute, I couldn't tolerate any other melee for months. Not because Stone is especially stronger than the other sets, but because they all felt so wimpy without the huge crashes and screen shakes.

I'm becoming convinced that there are enough Exalted players on the CoH forums for multiple concurrent games.

Okay, all of my characters who are interrelated in any form...:
Freelance Rose is Erica Strauss' evil clone, but they get along pretty well. They have lunch together every Tuesday in the arena and discuss violence and biochemistry.

My Hero, Shatterware, and Battlecrash are all robots who were built by the same company, but they're not even aware of each other's existence. I mostly just used it as an excuse for why there are so many defective robots with superpowers running around.


And the giant trainwreck of continuities that is my old characters:
Kaelinia: Illegitimate child of a goddess of chaos, from another dimension and the distant past.

Aisha A.: The daughter of Earth Prime's version of Kae's mother (AKA Eris) and full goddess. She never really got any worshippers, so she sat around utterly powerless until she cut a deal with Kae to get enough prayers for her to manifest a physical body... and ended up turning to a life of crime eventually, which was sort of a big 'oops' moment for Kae.

Kai-Lian: Kae's daughter from a future that is practically guaranteed to not happen now. She's kind of worried about the fact that she was supposed to be conceived last year. Will pioneer the 'What Would Marty McFly Do?' bracelet.

My Hero/Mai Hirota: (now retired) Kae's biggest fan thanks to that one time that somebody in Japan made an unauthorized anime based around the adventures of her supergroup. Well, it used their names, at least. She mostly just jumps out at Kae in public to shout things like 'SUPA KAWAII KAE-CHAN GOOOOOO' and ask for autographs, at which point Kae scowls at her and chases her off with her sword.

I have a love/hate relationship with that animation. It takes so long that it's not even worth doing 3/4 of the time, and it sucks for my serious characters, but it just looks right for my goody-two-shoes robot.

Whaaaa? What's wrong with stuns? Keeping people wobbling around with concussions is a major source of mitigation.

Three issues of Reader's Digest from 1986 and a water-damaged copy of Don Quixote?

Tier 1:

• Scrapper - just runs off in a random direction and dies every time you summon him.
• Blaster - Follows you and spams Energy Torrent and Thunder Clap on everything.
• Controller - Instantly unsummons itself unless you're farming a Portal mission.

Tier 2:

• Defender - Follows you and just uses Healing Aura every two seconds. You can see in the pet's powers window that it has Fortitude and Adrenaline Boost, but it never seems to use these.
• Stalker - Just runs off in a random direction and disappears. If you give it any orders, it just responds, 'scouting.'

Tier 3:

• Tank - Just stands in one spot and responds to every order with 'sb plz.'

Yeah, thaaaaat's pretty much what I was thinking. Even unformatted, two megabytes => 2,000,000 bytes => 16,000,000 bits. The Library of Congress has more individual books than that.

I remain the only person in game who likes the ice shields!

... what...

That, just.

What.

I'm now intensely curious how quickly a team like that could take Reichsy.

Only about 3.5x the softcap... And very close to the hardcap for most squishies.