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Quote:What have you done to that poor man's spine!?!?Originally Posted by Arcanaville
(This was a particularly weird weekend in City of Heroes.)
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Quote:No. Just no.Originally Posted by Remaugen
Dropping "Foot Stomp" from the list and adding "Sucker Punch" in for the Assassin Strike should make it work just fine.
I am all for it!
Foot Stomp is the set's only AoE. There's no way they should ever see it as reasonable to repeat the mistake of Martial Arts by removing Any and All AoE capability. -
Quote:Originally Posted by TwoHeadedBoy
One of my previous specs for my human form Warshade took and used Provoke very often. I could also see it being useful for a human form Peacebringer, and maybe even some defenders (though, good luck finding room for it.)
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Level 50 Magic Defender
Primary Power Set: Time Manipulation
Secondary Power Set: Fire Blast
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Leadership
Power Pool: Presence
Ancillary Pool: Power Mastery
Hero Profile:
Level 1: Temporal Mending -- Dct'dW-EndRdx/Rchg(A), Dct'dW-Heal/Rchg(3), Dct'dW-Heal/EndRdx/Rchg(3), Dct'dW-Heal(5), Dct'dW-Rchg(5)
Level 1: Flares -- Acc-I(A)
Level 2: Fire Blast -- Decim-Acc/Dmg(A), Decim-Dmg/EndRdx(7), Decim-Dmg/Rchg(9), Decim-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(9), Decim-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(11)
Level 4: Time's Juncture -- DarkWD-ToHitDeb(A), DarkWD-ToHitdeb/Rchg/EndRdx(11), DarkWD-Rchg/EndRdx(13), DarkWD-ToHitDeb/EndRdx(13), EndRdx-I(39)
Level 6: Fire Ball -- Posi-Acc/Dmg(A), Posi-Dmg/EndRdx(7), Posi-Dmg/Rchg(17), Posi-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(19), Posi-Dam%(19), EndRdx-I(40)
Level 8: Distortion Field -- BasGaze-Acc/Hold(A), BasGaze-Acc/Rchg(15), BasGaze-Rchg/Hold(15), BasGaze-EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(17)
Level 10: Rain of Fire -- Posi-Acc/Dmg(A), Posi-Dmg/EndRdx(21), Posi-Dmg/Rchg(21), Posi-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(23), Posi-Dam%(23)
Level 12: Time Crawl -- Acc-I(A)
Level 14: Temporal Selection -- Dct'dW-EndRdx/Rchg(A), Dct'dW-Heal/Rchg(29), Dct'dW-Heal/EndRdx/Rchg(29), Dct'dW-Heal(31), Dct'dW-Rchg(31)
Level 16: Time Stop -- BasGaze-Acc/Hold(A), BasGaze-Acc/Rchg(33), BasGaze-Rchg/Hold(33), BasGaze-EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(33)
Level 18: Farsight -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), DefBuff-I(34), RedFtn-Def/Rchg(34), GftotA-Def/Rchg(34)
Level 20: Boxing -- Acc-I(A)
Level 22: Tough -- S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+(A), ImpArm-ResDam/EndRdx(25), Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx(39), TtmC'tng-ResDam/EndRdx(42)
Level 24: Weave -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), RedFtn-Def/EndRdx(25), RedFtn-Def/Rchg(37), RedFtn-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(37), RedFtn-Def(46), RedFtn-EndRdx(46)
Level 26: Slowed Response -- Acc-I(A), Achilles-ResDeb%(50)
Level 28: Blaze -- Decim-Acc/Dmg(A), Decim-Dmg/EndRdx(37), Decim-Dmg/Rchg(40), Decim-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(40), Decim-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(42)
Level 30: Hasten -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(31)
Level 32: Chrono Shift -- Dct'dW-EndRdx/Rchg(A), Dct'dW-Heal/Rchg(42), Dct'dW-Heal/EndRdx/Rchg(43), Dct'dW-Heal(43), Dct'dW-Rchg(43)
Level 35: Maneuvers -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(36), RedFtn-Def/EndRdx(36), GftotA-Def/EndRdx(36)
Level 38: Assault -- EndRdx-I(A), EndRdx-I(39)
Level 41: Power Build Up -- RechRdx-I(A)
Level 44: Temp Invulnerability -- Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx(A), TtmC'tng-ResDam/EndRdx(45), ImpArm-ResDam/EndRdx(45), RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx(46)
Level 47: Provoke -- Mocking-Taunt(A), Mocking-Taunt/Rchg(48), Mocking-Taunt/Rchg/Rng(48), Mocking-Acc/Rchg(48), Mocking-Taunt/Rng(50), Mocking-Rchg(50)
Level 49: Vengeance -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A)
Level 0: Call to Justice
Level 50: Cardiac Total Core Revamp
Level 50: Clarion Partial Core Invocation
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Level 2: Swift -- Run-I(A)
Level 2: Health -- Mrcl-Rcvry+(A), Numna-Regen/Rcvry+(45)
Level 2: Hurdle -- Jump-I(A)
Level 2: Stamina -- EndMod-I(A), EndMod-I(27), P'Shift-End%(27)
Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- Clrty-Stlth(A)
Level 1: Vigilance
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 4: Ninja Run
This is just my current Defender's build swapping Combat Jumping for Provoke. He'd lose about 4% defense, but has enough spare that he'd still softcap.Code:| Copy & Paste this data into Mids' Hero Designer to view the build | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| |MxDz;1503;686;1372;HEX;| |78DA65544B6F126114FDBE32B402A5BC0BA5BC4BCBAB2044772E4C6AD5C440256AD| |C1252A6749402011A75E9AFA88FBD4B376AADEEDCE9BE0F5F6B1F89AF7F8097B987| |42C224933373E6BBE7DCEFCC9D29DD5F9F7D7EF5E14521E72E35AADD6E655DDD529| |B35B5632C55EBDAA6181C337486877C656D776B2B774BDB512BA56A536BEF36AA3D| |ADD5F49F3EBF516DD6D55AEE8AD6512B6B24D913D672ABD520A2BEDDD39A75B37E7| |7B3ADAA359B7E5954AB54D7DDD6DA0EFD7E5CD679B9AD6DE6CAAD7B245C222DB5F3| |C047DD64E83C720B1C7D4514A51005454C95801B8CCA756099F1DBA84608BFD0B9E| |FC449E8C83D828422A61F319E790C7CC2687ECA784C3506C93586FD295DC77CC038| |FB06F8967125CA3E3FA8C6C83E46E30BE6A65F32DA5F313A5F030F1813A8FDE8E6B| |740B5869943D20D2A62EE0878CC683F61FC496B4DD88F093E6EF8B8E1330F9F79F8| |1C528D05B95890CB097156E858916F00F906906F08F98690EF27AAB1A14F1BFA8CA| |0CF08FA8CA0CFCFB4D6C1191A1C1EA973D1107B472DAC17354A3D6F499B77A13F17| |FA3310E741BDC7CBF5BE38AF5FC9737D2A8DF74F6BBDBCD6E8F530E73333C6E115B| |73266E78036C62FD4E7027BCB057817DED11E5C8AF845CF1691D12266273E981DEA| |2581D949607652989D18F512E45E6430C37A21E057D20B63AEC2C83C85CCD3C83C8| |DCCD3C8DC417A31E410C3DE96EC40EC7149E15C9CB47619DECB98ADE17CBE370891| |44C649F4F381B80CB433C8741599AE22EB6C88D14FDA39CC776E9B67FFAC06BC03B| |CCB5868007718DD549B87771EB3F0DB4CDF257B0B99E57EFE8E3829AFB1EFEA6DEE| |E7CFF8FA24AFFF37E2A6648439FF10F7D83BA08CFD13FA7488F404939F600A13CCB| |909E6FC04531C674CECBF31E0B8C77E5939FD1709A95798ECF4A76166ECD8B7EB0A| |23F6027D1D05883C1BBBFE0F426BF0C2| |-------------------------------------------------------------------|
Now I kinda want to mod his build to include it.... cause the idea amuses me.... -
Honestly I don't see it as an issue. Char animates twice as fast as Fossilize, even faster compared to Tesla Cage. Stone Prison is very slow compared to most other single target immobilizes. Lift animates almost a full second faster than Levitate.
Animation time really isn't that much of a balance concern (for the Devs, players are less forgiving) unless the power has an extremely long one (3+ seconds), and when the game was first made it wasn't taken into consideration at all. (Just look at Gravity Control, almost all of it's powers had animations over 3seconds in length.) -
Quote:One thing to keep in mind before respecing out of Propel is that the current Live version is not the final version.Originally Posted by InsipidClownfish
While I'm happy to see some changes to Gravity, it also means I'm going to need a respec. Which is fine because I think I can free up some slots on overslotted powers to optimize my build a little more.
I think I am going to drop Propel. Yes, it is amazing compared to what it was. But Lift is now amazing too (at least on paper, I haven't tested it yet) and actually has a higher DPA than Propel. I was never a fan of the clutter Propel caused, and now I have solid reason to take Lift over Propel. (Yeah. I think Lift did more DPA before too. But if I recall, not by much.)
Trading in Propel for Lift will also allow me to skip Crush. I rarely ever use it on my high end build, and when I do I feel like I could be doing something more useful. Not to mention if I really need to spam an immob on an AV I still have crushing field.
With a power selection freed up from dropping Crush I'll pick up Dimension Shift. However, since I am already specced into Phase Shift, I may drop Phase for a travel power. Sure, playing two phases off of each other might be fun, but I dropped the travel for performance, not preference. Still undecided on that, though.
But I'm not likely to respec right away. What are the other Grav players out there thinking?
Once it finally gets patched in Propel will "Splash" knockdown 3 additional targets around your primary target (The damage will not splash, just the Knockdown). This doesn't improve Propel vs Lift for damage, but it does add extra soft control that may make it worth keeping. -
I could see most of these selling well actually. I don't see why they were rejected.
The R2-D2 wet bar was awesome. The Flashlightsaber was cool. The Cloud city lamp was neat.
And I'm not even a Star Wars fan. If I were then I'd definitely be saying:
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Quote:I don't think this is really accurate. Darkness Control has an AoE Hold and an AoE Disorient, that's the standard for hard control. Most sets have additional AoE controls (Earthquake, for example), but they're soft control which Darkness also has in Fearsome Stare (And Umbra Beast's cone).Originally Posted by dugfromthearth
Darkness – good single target damage, good single target control, -to hit in powers, few AoE hard controls
Mind is actually the only one with three AoE hard controls (assuming you consider Confuse a hard control, which I do in that it prevents all attacks against you for the duration , and isn't broken by damage), Telekinesis, Total Domination and Mass Confusion. -
I think they could just modify Snipes in the same way that Assassin's Strikes were modified.
Now, there's no way to base the activation on "Hidden" status, like AS now does, but I think you could manage it using the same "combat" flag that causes Stealth Suppression.
Out of combat (pulling, etc) Snipers use the long interrupt period and deal Superior/Extreme damage.
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Quote:But... Ghost Widow's already dead... I mean, you can still "kill" her, but all that'll do is dissipate her for awhile until she can reform.Originally Posted by Rabid_M
In this order: Ghost Widow, Wretch, Lord Recluse.
I want to see Recluse move in to deal with Wade, and send his people in to attack. Wade, with both his magic toys and Statesman's power, kills Ghost Widow right off the bat.
The others see the "unkillable" Ghost Widow fall, and they run away. Mako, Black Scorpion, Silver Mantis, all of them. Wretch, however, goes berserk and charges in, his fury taking Wade by surprise for a moment.
This gives Recluse enough time to give up on yelling at his minions to get back in there and fight. He turns to see Wretch fall, and realizes that there's no way he alone can take down Wade. So, instead he sacrifices himself to weaken Wade, giving you the opening you need to beat him.
Also, GW is the best and I'd never want to see her get removed. Heck I'd like to see her take over after Recluse gets the axe.
If I recall correctly, the Magi vault was in Galaxy City, so Azuria wouldn't actually have been the one at fault for those things going missing. All these years she's just been the one taking the blame.Quote:Originally Posted by CentralNexus
Azuria was the one that always got to me -- Her idea of keeping things "safe" requires a new dictionary. Far too many thefts laid back at her feet -- some eager MAGI official should have taken her job and made sweeping changes YEARS ago. She's got to be a plant by some evil mage group. That's the ONLY thing to explain why she'd still be there after all that.
So much this. Also, I dislike Des more after taking over the Carnival of Light. SHE'S NOT EVEN A PRAETORIAN why on earth is she now leading the Praetorian Resistance? What reason would they have to trust her? It's not like she's played -any- significant role (or any role at all) in their fight for freedom up to that point.Quote:Originally Posted by Paragon
Maelstrom and Desdemona - Gag reflex from being force fed their extreme power-ups and retcons over a very short period of time.
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Quote:Indeed.Originally Posted by Hopeling
Pyronic has the same animation as plain ol' Fireball, so I doubt that's close to the main reason.
None of the 4 original judgement powers have unique animations. Particle effects, sure but not animations.
I dunno, Reactive's debuff proc directly increases damage for you and the whole team. I find it incredibly unlikely that Precognitive's chance for confuse could even hold a candle to Reactive's damage contribution, particularly since a confuse is absolutely irrelevant (as a damage tool) against single targets, which is generally when interface procs make the most difference.Quote:Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle
There's the toxic and psi interface powers, yet those have additional effects on top of the damage. Confuse, I can see why they thought that would be strong enough to merit slightly reduced proc damage. -HP, uhhh... the devs aren't perfect..
Precognitive and Degenerative's lower damage was specifically due to the potential of exploiting a "less resisted" damage type against specific mobs (Incarnate bosses and Archvillains). This ignores the fact that Psionic and Toxic resists are actually fairly common among NPCs. Psi in particular is HEAVILY resisted by mobs that have protections against it. -
Quote:This. So very much this.Originally Posted by UberGuy
I would like a Psy judgement. I have some fear, though, that they would give it lower damage than the others. They seem to like to do that to Psi and Toxic damage, based on the Interface damage procs.
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Quote:Unfortunately that's how the cookie crumbles in comics, and even greater fantasy in general.Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven
This!Quote:Originally Posted by jeanngray
We need a lot more male eye-candy it seems since only 4-5 names keep showing up on this thread.
We need a few dudes as slutty as folks like Mother Mayhem to equal things out. Typically, I would not support such an idea... but since boob-toons like her aren't going away, the Devs might as well play fair. Also, I think we need at least one GLBT character in-game... I don't think the Lore makes anyone officially fall into that category.
More emphasis is put into making female characters attractive, than is placed on making male characters attractive.
There are of course exceptions.
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Interesting.... so Darkness Affinity and the Gravity Control updates are going live without their latest changes being tested at all? (Or without the latest changes for them even being in the initial live build?)
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Honestly the masks should be available in both Detail 1 and Detail 2 categories.
That would allow players to chose if they wanted to use the masks with the upper head details -horns, headspikes, the carnie crown-ish details- or with lower head details -Jester ruffle, umm... the lace collar from the steampunk pack? (Not too familiar with detail 2 for women since I very rarely play them)- and open up a lot more customization options.
(Edit: Likewise I think all of the "Horn" details should be added to the Ears category (for everyone). Some of the ear details already connect in similar manners to the horns, and having the horns duplicated in a second category would allow people to pair eye details like Sunglasses with them. -
Quote:We actually do,... well, at least we know how she looked back when she was an art student, before she got the mask:Originally Posted by StormSurvivor
I also really like Vanessa DeVore. I can't say if she's physically attractive, as I'm fairly sure we don't know what that face looks like. But the way she presents herself is memorable.
(Image links to her titan wiki page.)
We don't know if Praetorian Vanessa DeVore looks the same as Primal VdV or not though. -
Well, of course I have to mention Ghost Widow. Then I'll agree with those who say Mirror Spirit as well. And finally I'll add Praetorian Vanessa DeVore... even though we don't actually know what she looks like.
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Quote:Hmmm.... I hadn't considered the official artwork... if we're including that then I think Serpent Drummer was pretty hot in the comics. I could be misremembering though.Originally Posted by BrandX
Hmmm...this is a tough call! Do we base it purely off the NPC in game models or also official/unofficial artwork of them?
A lot of them are also lacking in developement.
Just seeing Foreshadow mentioned makes me think it's just in game model and personality is not an issue.
Inwhich case, yup...going to have to go with Maelstrom. He just has the look!
If we base it on personality though, I think I'd go with Synapse! He seems setup to have a Flash style personality (it's how I seem him anyways), with the rugged five oclock shadow going on to give him the appearance of having an edge to him.
He obviously needs a new outfit though.
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Quote:Half the votes in this thread are from guys, so why wouldn't another one count?Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Personally, I'd go with Foreshadow. I'm not sure why that his. He has a very "stylised" look, he is ever so slightly mysterious, he has a nice build and he was the guy who replaced the Statesman on the cover of City of Hero. That wins my vote, though I'm not sure how much a guy vote counts in terms of "attractive." (I doubt it's really half, but a sizable portion of them.)
Seriously though, I don't think one needs to find someone else personally (specifically sexually) appealing in order to appreciate their beauty. I'm not interested in women that way, but I can still recognize the features and characteristics that makes them attractive to many of those who may be interested.
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Quote:Well, I mentioned Jimmy, but ya know... Meh. Face.Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake
I'm acually surprised nobody went for Jim temblor.
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Quote:Ah, good ol' 1876. 'Twas a fine year.Originally Posted by Mephistroth
Took this one a while ago.
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General forum consensus seems to think that it'll either go live on the 6th, or the 13th, since those are the two patch days left between now and 2XP weekend...
I'm inclined to think that if it goes live one of those days, it'll be the 13th. There are still many powerset changes that have happened internally that haven't made it to the beta build yet. -
Quote:I suppose that would indeed make sense...Originally Posted by Tenzhi
Possibly because they (Khan and his followers) were found naked in cryo-stasis and issued Starfleet clothing.
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Quote:They cut it's animation from 3.5seconds down to 2.07seconds.Originally Posted by Cathodian
What's the damage per activation change on Propel? Say for a lvl 1... how much activation time did they shave?
And a buff to singy is just a sweetener, he's already a top tier pet
Ultimately it's still fairly low on DPA compared to most of your ranged attacks.
Here's how Propel stacks up compared to Assault set ranged attacks. I also included Lift, since you'd have access to it as well.
Sorted based on DPA, Lowest to Highest: (Edit* replaced Damage Scale with Raw damage, since that's easier for most people to use or comparison)
Power Act Dmg DPA
Stone Spears 2.1 52.83 25.16
Psionic Dart 1.33 44.38 33.37
Hurl Boulder 2.5 86.64 34.66
Thorny Darts 1.33 50.61 38.05
Impale 2.43 103.34 42.53
Flares 1 46.37 46.37
Propel 2.07 103.55 50.02
Lightning Bolt 1.67 86.64 51.88
Mental Blast 1.67 86.64 51.88
Subdue 1.67 86.64 51.88
Charged Bolts 1 52.83 52.83
Power Bolt 1 52.83 52.83
Ice Bolt 1 52.83 52.83
Propel+Impact 2.07 119.39 57.68
Power Blast 1.67 103.55 62.01
Thorn Barrage 2 124.47 62.24
Lift 1.03 69.73 67.70
Power Burst 2 137.36 68.68
Ice Blast 1 69.73 69.73
Power Push 1.1 86.64 78.76
Lift+Impact 1.03 85.58 83.09
Fire Blast 1.2 105.35 87.79
Bitter Ice Blast 1.07 120.45 112.57
Blaze 1 152.42 152.42
UGH that's a jumbled mess, but I dunno how to make it look more presentable. I tried adding spaces so the columns lined up and it removed them from the post.
Long story short, even with the lower cast time Propel's only really decent for Earth, Thorns and Psi; and makes a reasonable third blast for Electric.
Lift will always outperform it be quite a bit though (depending on how you feel about the 2second delay before the damage applies). -
Quote:I agree, for the most part. The very low res kinda hurts it a bit though. It(he?) has very kind eyes, and the salt n pepper scruff on #1 doesn't hurt either!Originally Posted by Zombie Man
Face model in pics #1-4: Hello, Daddy!
Foreshadow is nice, but almost too pretty.
I've always had a soft spot for Jimmy Temblor, even though I don't really like his face. (I only really like 2 or 3 of the male faces in the entire costume creator... which is why I almost always use the same one.) -
Quote:Certainly seems possible. He's human looking and strong enough to challenge (best?) a vulcan. His being an Augment seems likely... though I don't see why Khan would be wearing a starfleet uniform (At least the shirt is, and the pants look close enough to Spocks to also be part of one).Originally Posted by Tenzhi
It's certainly easy to jump to that conclusion, particularly with him replacing Benicio del Toro.Quote:Originally Posted by warden_de_dios
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