Oathbound

Well the Ski Slopes are kind of outside of the D. Rularuu's much to tall to fit inside the actual building, unless he weer laying down anyhow.

(Also, was he real Rularuu, or the Aspect of Rularuu (which if memory serves is the same size as Ruladek/Lanaruu/Faathim)?)

I agree that it's a vague and rather silly distinction to make.

If I had to hazard a guess it's that a SG Leader guides his subordinates towards an action, but that subordinate is free to go off and do it his way, or not do it at all instead. That there may be repercussions for the subordinates actions is unimportant, it's only important that the subordinate has the ability to chose not to do what the SG leader says.

A MM tells their minions what to do, and the minions do it. Period. I don't agree with that though, a Comic Book Mastermind's minions are easily able to ignore the MM's orders and go about his own business as he sees fit. (With the exception of those that are directly mind controlled, which None of the in-game minions are stated to be. (Player Character concept is irrelevant in this regard as You* are the one making the distinction here, not the game.))



*Nebulous "you" not specific "You."

Indeed the VFX are new, I was referring specifically to the Character animation in my post. Not sure about others.

Do you have Chain Fences (slotted for end mod)? I find that they really help with draining early on. They only deal 1 tick of damage so you don't really have to worry about them interfering with Static Field much.

People always argue that those are Supergroup leaders, not Masterminds.

You do, but once they get to that point (or anywhere near it for that matter) they stop being anything close to good looking. *cough*PaulyUnstoppable*cough*

There's a line at which it stops being interesting or sexy and just starts being gross. This comes from someone who loves tats and piercings and has, has had, and plans on getting several.



*Disclaimer, I'm not responsible for trauma suffered from googling Pauly. Likely NSFW.

heh. Green machine ftw.

I've never seen this one before. I rather like it.

Prior to clicking the link I assumed it'd be yet another image of that one that looks like a pipe organ (which is horribly gaudy IMO).

Be careful with that... I pointed that out a long time ago in another debate over a Hero MM archetype and got my head chewed off like what I said was down right treasonous and unAMERICAN.


Heroic MM concept. Defense primary, Pet/melee secondary.

You're the tank.

Pets are your Support/Damage.

YOU take the heat and they help you. You don't send them in while you stay safe, YOU charge bravely into battle and they follow at a safe distance. "Unheroic" problem solved.

It's been suggested before, and I'd like it, personally.

The only hits I can think there might be is that the +Res might have to be unenhanceable. I'm not sure, but I think I remember reading in one of the past suggestions that if a power did both + and - Res that allowing enhancement for the + would automatically enhance the - as well, which I believe gets into one of those sticky situations of -Res buffing itself, or some such (which would be why Resist debuffs are never enhanceable).

I could be misremembering though.

IF that's the case however, I'd say allow it to self stack, since it couldn't be enhanced. (Depending on value and such.)

I'd have to agree.

For being the "rare" and "exotic" damage type it sure is common as hell.

If I had to guess I'd put it at the 4th most common damage type after Lethal, Smashing and Energy.

And this:
Express exactly how I feel. There's nothin in Empathy that this change should be applied to, and any other changes to the set would be unrelated, so this is not the place.



(Just to note, I have an Emp/Eng Defender, an Earth/Emp Controller and a Rad/Pain Corruptor.)

Oi. I sure do. I even abbreviated it ID, so I dunno why on earth I typed Inertial Reduction...

Indeed. To expand on that, the situations where the bonus only lasts as long as the power are with Toggle buffs (because they constantly refresh and will overwrite the boosted buff with the normal buff when the boost effect has ended) and with Pets inheriting buffs from their owner.

Yup. At first glance Inertial Reduction seems to defy this, but Black Scorpion clarified that only the Resistance bonus from ID will be area of effect. The Mez Protection will still only effect your target.

Arguably Dispersion Bubble does protect against these things simply by making them less likely to hit you. (Autohit powers excepted, though far less common anyhow.)

It would mechanically make sense for Sonic to protect you (at least partially) against nearly ALL debuffs, because in practice Forcefield does.

Nah. Energy Cloak would need replaced with a taunt aura for tankers no matter what.

Something akin to Invincibility or Brute Evasion would work. By that I mean a taunt aura that provides defense (to replace that lost by removing EC), not a copy/paste of that actual powers.

Maybe he/she's hoping that they buff it when they give it to tankers, like they did Electric.

For my picks:

Dark Blast and Dark Manipulation for Blasters (there are enough dark powers to fill most of the set, and they could fill the gaps with new ones like they did for Mental)

Ice Melee and Ice Armor for Brutes (The fury thing is a non-issue really. Brutes have Dark Armor which has two auras that completely shut down incoming attacks, so pointing at Ice's -Recharge doesn't hold up.)

Traps and Dark Miasma for Controllers (Dark will probably need a look over beforehand, but Controllers already have control heavy secondaries (/TA, /Storm) so with a bit of balancing [drop Fearsome Stare to Mag2, increase recharge to 60-90sec] so, in the words of the fabulous Mr Gunn, Make it Work.)

Poison and Psychic Blast (defender version) for Corruptors (Change Noxious Gas to be Ally targeted instead of pet targeted. Across the board.)

Thermal Radiation and Fire Blast for Defenders. (Sure fire doesn't have a debuffing secondary effect, but neither does Archery or Assault Rifle(for the most part).)

Illusion and Dark Assault for Dominators (Dark Assault pieces together easy enough. Illusion...... hell I still don't think it'll be that good on a Dom, but have at it.)

Cold Domination and Sonic Resonance for Masterminds (They already have Thermal and Forcefield, buffs are good.)

Ice Melee and Ice Armor for Scrappers (May as well share the love.)

Ice Melee and Ice Armor for Stalkers (Running out of matched pairings, so w/e. Ice for all.)

Energy Aura and Martial Arts for Tankers (EA is about all that's left, and MA, well, just cause I like MA.)

My main SG on Guardian is just me (admittedly I inherited it with about 3million prestige) but it's up to about 7million now.

Most of the items I used in the room I did only cost 100prestige per item, that's not really all that much, even when purchased in large numbers.

How much prestige do you have? You could probably manage better than you think (depending on what functional items you have/want/need, that's where it really adds up).

There are still plenty of choices to cobble Dark Assault out of. (Plus with the exception of Earth none of the assault sets get ranged AoEs (and fissure hardly counts as "ranged"), so Dark O wouldn't really fit anyhow.)



I fully support Dark/Dark for all!

Really I just want them to finish across the board proliferation of all sets to all ATs.