Lady_of_Ysgard

Obvious counterpoint: So just make a generic chainsaw weapon model and have the character hold it like a sword or attach a different handle to it so that it can be held like a sword, then call it a 'Modified Chainsaw.' and there goes any chance of legal repercussions.

It's not a chainsword, it's a chainsaw HELD like a sword and clearly still has a regular chainsaw motor on it. If a basic shovel can be both a mace and an axe, why can't a chainsaw be put under swords if it's still obviously a normal chainsaw?

I mean, if that alone were enough for a claim of copyright infringement then I'm obviously completely unclear on just how broad the definition of a 'ConflictMace' chainsword is, but I have a sneaking suspicion that they wouldn't have a leg to stand on since the model in-game would be nothing like their concepts, figures, drawings, sketches, technical specifications, etcetera.

Considering my only incarnate is a Crab, I have to agree with this statement. SoA's that can spare the endurance should definitely pick up at least a doubled assault.

Okay folks, you NEED to stop thinking of everything in terms of how many SHARDS it takes.

A common alpha does NOT cost twelve shards, it takes three components which can be made with 12 shards if you can't be arsed to do the TF's that will simply get you the components you need directly. Everything but the Penumbra of Rularuu and Gr'ai Matter can be gotten via TF reward table. Play the TF's that will hand you the exact components you need and all of a sudden your 'shard cost' goes down drastically.

32 shards to upgrade a Notice to a Favor.
8 shards for each Common to Uncommon upgrade

One only NEEDS a grand total of 56 shards to make a Very Rare Alpha.

Yes, you read that right. 56 Shards if you aim specifically for the TF's or other task that will hand you the components you need instead of crafting from shards.

Add an extra 16 as a buffer zone for people that refuse to do the CoP or rely on the random Gr'ai Matter drop, so MAYBE 72 for them.

And yes, that 56 accounts for the two common to Uncommon upgrades needed for Uncommon tier Alphas as well as the 32 to upgrade two NotW to FotW and one Uncommon component for the V-rare.

All you people that are grinding away and complaining that it takes a hundred shards to make a very rare:

You. Are. Doing. It. WRONG!

League is a general term for people that are cooperating with each other and is unable to be copyrighted by itself, or trademarked.

This is also the reason why so many Transformers figures with 'classic' or 'G1' counterparts have the faction they are on as part of their toy name these days: Hasbro can no longer Trademark common words like Jazz, Ravage, Frenzy, Rumble, Hot Rod, etc...

Paragon is not going to be sued by calling a huge group of players participating in one event a league, no matter the muscle behind the new 'competitor' because it is a common word in the English language and has uses beyond the scope of 'The Justice League of America' or whatever pretentious crap DC is foisting on people these days.

Destroyer bosses tend to resist every control you throw at them, solo. Teams can SOMETIMES control a destroyer boss, but in general a Big Dog is effectively immune to any and all basic controls in the game, especially softer controls like Slow, Sleep, and the Knock effects.

They are basically Brutes with better status protection at lower levels.

It's wording like this that confuses people.

The Alpha Slot is NOT a global enhancement. Global enhancements are mostly from set bonuses.

The Alpha Slot is a Global PER-POWER RESTRICTIONS Enhancement. It buffs every power that can be buffed by its effects via normal slotting. People keep calling it a global enhancement when it does not actually function as such.

What constitutes a good use of YOUR level 50's time and anyone else level 50's time is completely different.

My Incarnate is an actual hero, and thus takes any opportunity to fight against those that would undermine the stability of Paragon City. Sure she might not have a huge stockpile of 'lolzmygodimportantstuffincarnateshardzzzzzzzzzzzz zzz' as another Incarnate, but she also doesn't NEED a titanic stockpile because she knows how to get the components she needs without using them unless it's needed for a conversion.

To get a Very Rare you need 32 shards to fuse two Notice of the Well components into a Favor of the well. This means that an incarnate NEEDS a grand total of 48 shards to get one Very Rare tier alpha boost, that's it. 32 shards for the Favor, and 16 shards to upgrade two common components into Uncommon components for the uncommon boosts needed to upgrade into rares.

48 shards is chump change for someone who's been running all the level 50 TF's for their incarnate component reward option at the end. If said incarnate is intelligent and saves the shards by actually running something other than a LGTF or ITF so they can get something other than the ancient nictus fragment and hero 1 DNA sample reward options.

Run something other than your precious ITF once in a while. Other TFs do exist and do give incarnate rewards. Stygian Variolus got 8 shards or so on an STF last night, in addition to the bonus merits and notice of the well. I even took the doubled merit reward option because I had no use for an Essence of the Incarnate at the time!

Fixed a few typos and cleaned up some easily misread statements to what I think is your original intent...

That being said, your logic is flawed. Our Incarnates are Slow Growers, we will mature into our incarnate abilities slowly because of the way the Well is allowing us to advance. Forcing Incarnates to do a TF that strips their newfound powers from them IS a good idea, as it provides the observant Well with an insight into the character that willingly sacrifices this new toy for a while to help those with less power when they need it.

The developers are far from stupid, and the implementation has roots in mythology for supernatural beings taking note of someone they have marked doing something extraordinary while held back from their usual full power.

If nothing else, think of it as the Well noticing that while you can do an excellent job of stopping crime, your incarnate is still willing to take their time and rescue that stranded kitten or help the old lady cross the street despite the fact that such minor things do not earn you anywhere near the same fame and glory as curbstomping some silly Roman guy for the umpteen-millionth time.

Actually, it is perfectly right and thematic for the superhero comic genre for something like this to happen. Think about it for a second. You're denied access to the best of your powers as a player and as a character. In game system terms it's purely systematic to ensure that the TF isn't too easy even with the new exemplaring rules.

In terms of your CHARACTER, however, things are quite different. Your character has just begun tapping into his highest potential, and is still eager to explore that new potential. An opportunity comes along to do something HUGE and it's that much easier for your character now. Then, your character WILLINGLY enters a situation where they cannot use their newest ability, sacrificing their ability to outperform the average superhero in order to help wipe out a problem that should really be beneath their notice...

A character who willingly restricts their abilities to a lesser level than they usually perform in order to render aid to someone that they could easily simply ignore while staying superior in their own mind? A character that has only recently begun to tap into that new potential?

The well knows your character the second you begin walking the path of the Incarnate. As you begin drawing more power through your connection to the well, the well takes more notice of you. To then sacrifice that power temporarily, to temporarily and voluntarily stop using what the well has granted you to help someone resolve a situation that SHOULD be beneath you and thus not even worth your time? That gets the attention of a supernatural entity.

Look at it from the well's perspective: "You set aside the extra abilities I've given you to help her with that small problem? You're more interesting than I thought." (Favor of the Well granted.)

To put it another way: Two known fencers of disparate skill decide to have a friendly match. In order to make things interesting, the more skilled fencer decides to handicap himself by only using his off-hand. Even with this handicap, he manages to beat the other fencer, earning the applause of the audience for overcoming an opponent in an honorable fashion after ensuring that the fight would be interesting for everyone involved. The well is the audience, and your character is the more skilled fencer.

Proliferation is only for things that already exist.

Your staff concept does not exist, and never will. Castle and BAB have gone on record many times in stating that the only thing harder than rigging up a staff/spear set of nine powers in the game would be making an actual whip melee set...and since the three ENERGY whip attacks from Demon Summoning took as long to animate as a full set of nine normal powers I have only two words for you.

FAT CHANCE.

So they must have been using the second server that's been grayed out forever to do it during the i19 beta. I mean, that's the only way they've been testing it constantly since then.

Yeah, I was in the i19 beta, and loved the experience, but it did kinda rankle me to know that a second 'elite' group of testers was working on other stuff at the same time.

Dude, the horse is dead already. We get it, you HATE tankers the way they are right now, which is balanced towards survivability more than offense, the Stone Wall (sometimes literally) to the Brute's Mighty Glacier and the Scrapper's more Lightning Bruiser style.

We already understand that you have no concept of balance, or how to play a tank properly. Your join date doesn't matter, your prior experience in the game doesn't matter, you want the developers to make the tanker the strongest melee AT in both offense and defense despite the fact that this would kill all semblance of balance in the game when tankers are already QUITE capable of performing as they were intended.

Yes, there are some builds for the other two non-stalker melee AT's that can reach Tanker levels of protection in defense, and for Brutes Resistance. Those are what are called Outliers, builds that go beyond what the developers expected and intended for people to do with the given tools.

I mean, Christ, I haven't even been active on the forums for two years yet and I'm already sick of hearing this. Every time I see your username I know the thread's going to be hit with a post complaining about how tankers aren't 'real' tanks despite the fact that they do the job their name implies better than any other AT in the game.

I have a crab build that has positional defenses either capped or almost there at all times without outside buffs. Oh no, a range-biased character with positional softcaps!

Balnse iz teh runed!

Except...crabs have no Defense Debuff Resistance, so they are heavily vulnerable to Cascading Defense Failure...just like every non-melee AT that builds up a significant amount of +def bonuses from powers or set bonuses.

And yes, I DO have a tank myself. Shocking thing is that the only thing I dislike about her is that I wish BAB had managed to figure out how to alter Granite so that Stone Armor was completely customizable.

That's because I understand how Party Roles and Group Dynamics WORK. Blasters nuke, Scrappers shred, Defenders buff, Controllers mez, Kheldians suck*, and Tankers take one for the team.

Of course, you're obviously confused by this perfectly sound logic because you THINK that Tankers were named after tanks, as in the military weapon, when in all reality they were named for their ROLE as damage sponges.

Perhaps if the developers had used that logic and named them after something used by the military to force the enemy to waste attacks on something that isn't going to be damaged easily rather than something known outside the MMO community as a major source of damage, you'd think differently.

The only problem is, 'Decoy' doesn't sound very heroic.


*I'll gladly invite one if asked and there's room, but I just don't like playing as them.

I do believe that the intent behind his insultingly-worded phrase was to point out that anyone that burns two respecs to pull two SINGLE enhancements from a character is doing it wrong. That means you were foolish enough to perform the respec with a full or near-full tray of other enhancements that were also kept.

There is nothing WRONG with that accurate assessment of ineptitude as it was never stated if said multiple respecs were for more than one build, therefore the assumption is that two respecs were used on a single build, which is what gives the accurate impression of utter foolishness on the part of the person wasting respecs.

Were it specified that said pair of respecs ran across multiple builds, well, that's the way the system works normally, so the complaint is inherently invalid to begin with.

Either way, attacking him for pointing out the blatant foolishness in burning two respecs to pull two single enhancements is little more than trolling as you are in the wrong for complaining about your own ineptitude to begin with.

The proc states +10% Endurance, 20% chance.

Base Endurance is 100

10% of 100 = 10

Obviously if you have power/accolades that boost max endurance, the proc will NUMERICALLY do more for you, but still only recovers 10% endurance.

Since it's pretty much impossible to have more than 120 endurance though....the extra doesn't amount to much other than an average boosted end recovery of .2 E/sec