LordSquigie

Wrong. In Wow, 1% chance to crit = 1% increase to DPS (for melee, and casters with increased crit damage talents). Dual-wielding one-handed weapons deals more DPS than one two-handed weapon because two one-handed weapons have higher DPS than a two-hander, even with the to-hit penalty and the off-hand weapon dealing 75% damage (50% base + DW spec talent). Two-handed and DW Warriors have vastly different talent specs and gear, with two-handed Arms Warriors preferring Mortal Strike's high burst damage for PVP, while DWing Warriors use Fury's high DPS for PVE.

That's the short version. In the long version you're even wronger.

The alternate KO-blow has the character bring both hands down on the right and swing together upwards with the left hand leading, so that would probably look pretty decent with a shield. Also, the alternate Jab looks like you are hitting the target with the edge of the shield.

Since all powers used by a SD character have to have a "with shield" animation, it should be possible to make that animation striking with the shield while the normal animation is a punch. Of course, it would mean extra work, and since the editor cannot display more than one power active at a time (yet) you would not be able to see the result before paying. Still, would be pretty cool.

Yukito Kishiro

/signed

Pool powers are identical for all archetypes. What makes the numbers come out different is AT modifiers, not a specific decision to make some powers better for certain ATs. Changing Stealth to work like Cloak of Darkness and Energy Cloak would be a significant and unprecedented departure from the existing system. This is the continuing problem with your reasoning: faulty assumptions backed up by incorrect numbers and misunderstood mechanics.

Stealth does not interfere with your ability to tank, and the defense buff is of inarguable benefit. At the very least, CoD stacks nicely with the to-hit debuffs in Dark Melee and the defense buff of Parry/Divine Avalanche, while EC is in a defense based set.

To a varying extent, almost every power set has skippable powers. Superior Invisibility and Quick Recovery are superior to their power pool counterparts in the same way as CoD and EC. They are an integral part of the theme and identity of their power sets. If Dark Armor and Energy Aura are in need of buffing, it should not be done by stripping out their more unique powers.

If a second spawn is precariously close to the first, then pull the first back to a safer location. Fire off a ranged attack/taunt/a temp power or just body-pull them and duck around a corner/behind a crate/pillar/up or down a slope. While you are doing this your unsuppressed stealth is still helping you to not aggro that second spawn. Seriously, pulling may not be as frequently useful as in some other game, but every melee player should have at least learned the basics fighting Vazhilok.


For a real problem/strange power, look at Sonic Resonance/Sonic Repulsion. It is a clone of Kinetics/Repel, Energy Aura/Repulse and Force Field/Repulsion Field, but it has to be anchored on an ally and costs 2.5x as much endurance per enemy knocked back and 1.33x as much endurance per second. Repulse powers are already of limited and situational usefulness, making Sonic's version seem almost completely useless except for griefing meleers. In addition to the absurdly higher endurance cost, Sonic Repulsion basically requires you to have a teammate familiar with the use of such a power and to actively communicate about when it should be turned on and off. Does anyone ever use this power?

Unless one or more of your posts is invisible for some reason, your first post is the one I quoted in my third, your second post consisted entirely of making light of the superfluousness of FF on a team already soft-capped, and your third post was in reply to me, claiming I misread one of your previous.

Your point is that if said h33lor had used more powers than Healing Aura, Heal Other and Resurrect they would have drained her endurance, resulting in multiple team wipes, or at least you imply such with how much you credit her for the team's success. My point is that using even one of the other nine non-inherent powers available to her, including the attack she could not have skipped, would have resulted in greater success. Furthermore, I have not made any comment on the desirability or effectiveness of Fortitude; I have only mentioned it to correct perwira's insistence that having it available by level 15 would be impossible or an unbearable burden.

If a Kin were to use only three total powers, I think it likely that some would object to their receiving undue praise.

Ahem.

See? Right there? In your post that I replied to? The part that I bolded? The part that indicates that you did not read more than the first post, if that? I see you did admit it to Luminara though, so good for you.

I'll try to clarify things for you, since everyone you are arguing against is apparently being entirely too vague. An actual level 15 empathy/archery defender could have the following powers available to them in addition to the 3 this he4lzor made use of: Snap Shot, Clear Mind, Fortitude, Assault, Maneuvers, Grant Invisibility, Brawl. Using any one of those would have just about doubled her contribution to the team.

We are living, thinking, sentient beings capable of possessing sound judgement and making use of it.

Travel power prerequisites are available at level 6, not 12. Neither Hasten nor Super Speed buff defense. I, and many others, have made it to mission doors in dangerous neighborhoods in the old Hollows using sprint. If the aforementioned h3alb0tt had a leadership toggle she never turned it on. If she took a travel power at 14, she could have taken both Swift and Hurdle, but most people only take one of those and Health, leaving her with a spare power pick. On many of my characters I have taken the primary power available at level 12 right then, and all of my characters take a travel power at level 14.

For the record, I do not hate healers. They just make me, and the baby Jesus, cry. (Like the rad/ defender I teamed with recently, who, in the mid teens, had only Radiant Aura and Accelerate Metabolism from her primary, and Aid Other.)

So, you start an Oroboros mission and get ported to the contact, who is likely in a zone with a trainer. A quick hop over and a quick hop back and you are ready to go. That does not take 15 minutes.

Like, um, the second reply to this very thread?

If the two of you had bothered to at least skim the other posts by OneWhoBinds (on the first page even), you would have learned that the healor in question was level 47. Also, Fortitude is available at lvl 12, not 14. She used a total of three (3) powers the whole time, so any possible endurance issue could only have been from spamming heal aura when no one needed it. An actual lvl 15 empath could have had Fort 5 slotted with DOs and still had all the powers she did use and a travel power and maneuvers or assault. She also never used her unskippable archery attack against Vaz. Vaz. With their negative lethal resistance, my lowbie axe tanker chops through aboms like a greased scrapper.

Above all, though, you two failed to discern that the specific issue that so incensed the OP was the fact that the h34l0r was praised for doing a great job. She did an adequate job, not great. Great isn't even on the same server as her. I don't know about you, but I am somewhat sympathetic to the idea that a player should not be personally heaped with lavish praise for a mediocre performance that could possibly be out done by literal facerolling.

They could have the loan tied to the account instead of a single character. People are less likely to abandon those, especially since the level 20 requirement would mean trials can't take out loans.

Of course, people with more than one account could default on massive loans on the primary and use the secondary to buy enhancements. The collectors could raid your inventory for assets to liquidate, but it would still allow for much abuse.

Honestly, adding complex financial systems to the current economy seems like an endeavor very unlikely to be fruitful.

Force Fields is h4x. FF gets substantial toxic resistance to cover the hole in its defense, but then also gets positional defense.

Death to bubblers! Viva Sonic Resonance!

Ah, Orc women. Killer bodies and such wonderful dispositions. "I have no respect for people with small piercings. I say go full hog. Put a spear through your head."

Compare this with this. The difference may not be too substantial, but it is there.

Yes. Yes I have. Not the kind to take home to mother, but, damn, the girl's got style.

EditWhile I would love to see female Tank Freaks, it is unfortunate that we will probably not get to see them firing lasers from their robotic nipples (~1:27) or launching them as missiles.

See Zamuel's post about the Tsoo fight clubs. Given the ninja stylings of the Tsoo, it is odd they do not include any type of kunoichi.

Since I didn't have any numbers available I erred on the side of caution. Do you have any statistics for the Axis powers?

I think the dislike of smashing damage may be a factor in that. I picked up 2 of them to slot in my energy blaster's aoes (Posi was too expensive for my budget). It's nice, but doesn't really do anything to improve knockback.

They kind of already do, or at least enemies cannot get up while they are still ragdolling. A neat trick is to knock back and enemy at the top of a hill/staircase. They will slide slowly down the slope, unable to get up until they reach the bottom. Unfortunately it is not something that will be easily noticed in the chaos of a large battle.

Nemesis soldiers are human, not automatons. There are a few Nemesis hunt missions blueside with the express purpose of discouraging recruitment. That guy floating in the Warhulk tank? He was one of those recruits. Nevertheless, Nemesis is at least implied to be sexist (as well as racist), so female Nemesis Army soldiers are unlikely.

The Mooks are another faction of the Family, which, as you noted, would be unlikely to have female members.

The appropriateness of adding female models to existing factions I think breaks down like this:

Hellions and Skull - These are based on traditional American gangs, wherein women are either somebody's girlfriend, or everybody's girlfriend.

Outcasts - Mutation doesn't discriminate, and I have not seen any indication that the Outcasts would either.

Trolls - The recruit is given an enormous dose of Superadine, and must simply remain conscious. It does not matter if the recruit acts improperly or loses his or her sense of judgment – in fact, such wild activities are encouraged – as long as he or she remains awake.
Some highly muscular female models would fit in with the Trollkin, and perhaps some used-to-be-feminine models for the lieutenants bosses.

Lost - The Scroungers could use some female models; the other ranks are too mutated for it to matter much what sex they originally were.

Vahzilok - They already have the Face Reapers and Face Harvesters as the Facemaker's minions, as well as the Freakshow Meat Doctors.

5th Column and Council - Women fought, in small numbers, on both sides in WWII.

PPD - "These brave men and women watch over Paragon City, dedicating their lives to make it a better place."

Malta - While they do have their sister unit, the Knives of Artemis, that's not enough reason for the Malta Group to be male only.

Crey -So girls can be agents and Paragon Protectors, but not guards, scientists or tanks?

Freakshow - Geek and Punk chicks are hot. Techno-punk chicks with crazy cybernetic limbs? Even hotter.

Circle of Thorns - About half their possession victims are female. While the robes could conceal a lot, they still look decidedly male.

Tsoo, Sky Raiders, Goldbrickers, Luddites, Wyvern, Legacy Chain - No reason not to include some women.

Adding new models to the existing enemy groups (and maybe giving their powers a once-over) would make for a wonderful QoL issue.

Voices in one's head would be hallucinations, not multiple personalities. Multiple personalities would be, ya know, multiple personalities.

Allow me to let you in on a little secret. There are these people, a great many people, who desperately want to give you their money. All they ask in return is some of the nearly worthless trinkets you pick up along your way. The key to making a decent amount of inf? Sell. Sell sell sell. Sell everything. If you list everything for 1 inf those impulse buyers will, on the balance, give you enough for ten characters worth of SOs.

Want IOs for you low level alts? Forget sets; all the low level one suck and you don't have any slots anyway. Level 15 common IOs are pretty sweet though. It's like having +3 DOs from 12 to 22, but don't bother crafting your own. Take the money you got from selling over-priced common salvage and place some low bids a while in advance. Then go play the game, the real game. By the time you reach 12 some of those bids will have been filled by badgers. The rest of your slots can be filled by DOs, which work almost as good.

It's that simple. It really is. 80k inf Never-melting Ice is a quirk of the times, not a symptom of an unsalveagable system. If you are ok with normal enchancements you can ignore the market completely. It only makes buying the first full set easier. If you want to franken-slot, that takes a little effort and a bit of patience. If you want to solo the STF, well, then you gotta play the market.

Seriously, don't horde, sell. Especially low level salvage. Sell it all. Just look at the price history; those people are filled with an all-consuming need to give you money.

I came across a battle in Steal Canyon between 3 level 13 5th Column minions and 2 level 12 Council Minions. That was the only one I took the time to notice, but it does seem the odds are stacked against the Council.