Rad_Avenger

You're thinking of The_Gamemaster, I think. I'm pretty sure the guy referenced here is *not* that person.

Well played, OP.

Well played.

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Been away from the game since last summer.

Checked out the forums this AM, and sure enough ... Champion drama.

Good times!

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The opposite.

I was at Comic Con.

Ocho and I were giving each other [censored] about the game and boards, etc.

After he expressed his strong dislike for pyramids, I told him I'd be making a monstrous one the moment I could get to the web.

As a show of being fun about it, he said he'd let it live until Monday. He lived up to his word. Srsly.

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That is so awesome.

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looks like you should be able to get the imps up to 37% def (sheilds, manuev+ 2 def procs, arc fog). That is some pretty tough imps. I like my fire/storm troller, but fire/cold seems like the 2.0 version of it.

The thought of playing another fire troller with bottomless endurance (other than kin) is tempting.

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Two words: Frostworked Imps.

Think they have an HP cap?

Devs: WE HATE POWER LEVELING AND WE WILL BAN YOUR [censored] IF YOU DO IT!

Devs: OK, we're kidding. Take that fire tank into a +4 mission spawned for 8 and wax that [censored]

Yet another /cold thread de-railed into a Frostworks rant, courtesy of Turbo-Ski.

Thanks.

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Then, Northern California, the home in Texas and South Beach.


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If you're seriously in South Beach, PM meh, I'll buy you a tasty beverage.

Digra. hehe

The APA and DIGRA are really not on the same academic plane. I don't the prof is going to be in trouble for presenting that essay - and he makes it pretty clear on page one that its an essay not a controlled experiment of any kind. That wouldn't have been looked at twice in any kind of meaningful research journal.

I sadly haven't read the newspaper article (nola.com is banned @ work), but I think the prof isn't in nearly the trouble folks were alluding to earlier.

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How Does Your Hero Exhibit Honor Before Glory: Dude PLs me like mad. MAD, I SAY.

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rofl....

Winner!

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No one PLs better than Web. Its a damned shame he isn't around for the AE extravaganzas.

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He didn't "Play to win", he played to make other people lose. His justification was: "It's not expressly forbidden in the EULA and TOS."


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I dunno. When Twixt was on Champion, he did everything you'd expect a player "trying to win" would do. The guy went from station to station eliminating the turrets, etc ... trying to win the zone for heroes. That may have changed when he moved to Freedom, but when I zone PvP'd he usually tried to win.

Other than his seeming autism and poor command of the English language, I never had an issue with Twixt. I loved Twixt-isms ... "Base Is Safe" and "Arean Boy" were a significant part of my vocabulary for a few months.

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Then those of you trying to take this to another level better be ready to step before a ethics review board to state your case. Otherwise, its your word against again...a ""internationally-recognized scholar".

Good luck with that!

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You're trying too hard, mang

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Twixt PvP'd. People cried.

But submitting videogame PvP as a formal research project? That's one of the dumbest things I heard in my life. Twixt may be a G, but he's about to lose his job.

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I seriously doubt anyone is about to lose their job....

lol......

I think more than anything, people are madadadadadad at getting ganked by a 55 year old professor while PvPing.

HAHAHAHAHA!

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Or all those formally responding never actually got ganked by Twixt. You know, whichever is actually true.

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Maybe, but then if that's the case, why do you care what this guy does with his research? It's not like the results impact your life in some way.....

There's plenty of ways to get your 15 minutes of fame rather than trying to make a statement by reporting some random professor for sketchy experimental methods.

All the meanwhile....he's probably laughing while raking in 6 figures a year. Something I doubt the majority of people here do. Its amazing to me what random people find is their business to investigate.

The guy is a "internationally-recognized scholar of digital media and play" yet you guys think you're going to get him fired over this?

Hilarious....

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I'm not trying to get anyone fired, and while I've been ganked plenty by Twixt, I usually didn't care ... Twixt was an easy kill. Pop an orange, a purple and 12 reds and wax that [censored].

Anyway, human subject research is usually taken pretty seriously - if he is publishing research as a sociological analysis, he's probably fine, but if he's actually trying to get something published in an APA peer-approved journal, it could be a problem.

Twixt PvP'd. People cried.

But submitting videogame PvP as a formal research project? That's one of the dumbest things I heard in my life. Twixt may be a G, but he's about to lose his job.

Hero Name: Web_Chambers
Global Name: Web_Chambers
Alias / Alter-Ego (If Applicable): None
Origin: Natural
Archetype: Scrapper
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How Does Your Hero Exhibit Honor Before Glory: Dude PLs me like mad. MAD, I SAY.

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You probably want a corr that can maximize rain of fire. It does 3x damage when is scourges and checks for scourge with each tick.

Fire/dark and Fire/storm jump out as the builds that can do it earliest and best. Fire/cold can do it as well, with snowstorm, but sleet is a loooong ways off.

If you are patient though I'd personally recommend fire/cold. If you are looking for more instant gratification - fire/dark. If you are somewhat patient, but still want results fairly early - fire/storm.

Fire/traps is a very good toon, just in a different way.

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I love my Fire/Cold but the wait till 35 was a looooooooong one. At 36 with slotted Sleet, it was a beast. A BEAST I SAY! And shockingly, its never been meaningfully nerfed. Still just as good today as it was 2 years ago.

I'll ante up $3.99 for a Starbucks Latte

Less damage, more recharge, more endurance?

That's the holy trifecta!

Ah, well. My Fire/Fire is still fantastic, but I reckon it would suck to level one up prior to lvl 10 ish.

Or is this attack a little horrid post I15?

I've taken a few months off, and came back to try out my fire/fire Dom under the new changes. At level 41, that Dom is freakin' awesomesauce. BUT ... due to the /fire recharge changes, I find myself using Flares a lot, and I don't remember it being this bad for the D/E/R prior to I15.

I screwed around a bit with a lowbie Mind/Fire and it (Flares) really does look off ... I could crunch some numbers but I figured I'd drop in and see if any resident Dom-o-philes had already tossed this bone Castle's way.

COngrats, this was a brilliant trolling effort

Elandil, I apologize for my lack of clarity - when I said magnitude earlier I was specifically referencing Hot Feet's slow magnitude. Mobs will run away alright - particularly under Burn's influence - but my experience with /fire is that mobs take a good firm "whack" first, and then get out of range of PBAoEs faster than I can animate my attacks. Grrrrr.

Things may have changed - I leveled up and Elec/Fire under SOs to the high 30s, and it was not for the faint of heart. Fun, but wild. Good luck - you might also consider a mix of positional defense that will get you into the low 30s to all, slot Short Circuit for end drain. Pop one purple per mob to approach soft cap per mod, drain 'em (mostly) and by the time they've fired off a few ineffective attacks, you've defenestrated them. I dunno, its a tough build!

This thread is like a license to print money. Particularly villain-side.

I made a number of rolls in the 10-14 range and while I thought I rolled a bunch of crap, when I scanned recipe prices, all I could think was "CHA CHING!"

So good.

Your melee defense is low. You have to be in melee for your big $ attacks to hit. The animation times on said attacks is non-trivial.

Burn and Hot Feet will create fear and Hot Feet will create slows, but the magnitude is much smaller than you're expecting.

In other words, you're going to get whacked. Hard. In melee. Many times.

With a decent defender or other buffer backing you up, the build can be fun, but you won't be solo-ing large mobs to the extent that you're planning to.