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Wasn't sure.

Anyway I've seen a petless bots/Traps in action.

Sit down kids, let me tell you the tale of Professor Freak.

Professor Freak was a man who sold out his enormously flawed superscience to the villain world at large. Always thinking grandly and delivering poorly, Professor Freak was loved and reviled, depending on whether you were on the bystander side or receiving side of his genius, respectively.

In 50 levels of my teamings with this NoBots/Traps, I was surprised to find that he still was as valuable to the team as ever, even if his only sources of damage seemed to come from pulse rifle blasts that could barely melt butter and seeker drones that actually managed not to slice their own master's head off in carnal lust for blood.

One time, I saw what the fuss was all about, and it was a doozy. The sun, if you could call it that, was dimly lighting the obscured sky of the ruins of Atlas Park in some dismal, grisly future where Lord Recluse finally had hiked up his gonads, roflstomped Statesman, and proceeded to crap all over his kingdom by letting it calmly burn to ash around him. Content that he was secure in his Fortress of Burning Lolwut, Professor Freak merrily hopped, skipped, tripped occasionally, and finally stumbled across the landscape unnoticed within Recluse's shadow.

We engaged Lord Recluse in all manner of attack that some would call downright uncivilized. Professor Freak spent most of his time tickling the Spider with his guns, until finally Recluse turned and looked at him angrily - only to be shot in the face ten times with an acid mortar that was loaded to the gills with Damage Procs, and a couple of seeker drones buzzing at him like angry metal bees. Oh, how the Spider hated the bees!

Knowing he could not go it alone, or even with my assistance, Professor Freak calmly asked a few friends to assist in the beatdown.

What I saw next was something that blew my mind. The team descended, and in pitched battle the Spider taunted them all with his army of Banes and his sliver of insurmountable health. Then, from the heavens above, descended a single Assault Bot. The label above its head was emblazoned in green with the moniker "My Life's Work" and it promptly landed, shouted an error code and made the bootup noise from an OS9 PowerPC, then exploded, killing the Spider. Sparks flew from Professor Freak as the Super-Villain Advisory Board granted him clearance to level 50. My jaw hit the floor for critical damage. This little turd of a character violated his idiotic noPet rule for an equally idiotic chance at glory with a marginally idiotic use of Detonator. I then imagined what he could have done if weren't an idiot.

Never in my years had I ever seen something so amazing, until 3 weeks later when an Ill/FF named Subconscious scored the final blow to Lord Recluse, at the feet of Grandville City Hall, with a baseball bat after we took down his WEB device.

That's the story.

I know all too well the power of Bots/Traps in reality, but to say that even WITHOUT pets, you are super useful, is something else. Also Professor Freak is very real, he's a good friend of mine, and he's far from an idiot. But that moment blew my mindhole wide open.

Even when CoV launched, there was still content going to "Haves" and "Have Nots" every issue. I'd worry not, but the $$ for GR is well worth it, having played in the beta. Don't be left out, P-Town (Praetoria) is awesome sauce.

I'm just here to give props and throw in my .02 on corroborating your viewpoint. Not troll. I just found Emberly's comment humorous and couldn't let go of it.

I came back here after leaving from coming back after leaving to back up this statement. Again.

If you get the arc done, it's like 3 days of tips to go back and respec properly and you're back in business. Or you can reinvest in a second build with all your IOs in duplicate... *shudder*

I returned here to back you up after I already left.

This is true.

I thought spines and shield didn't work together.

I just want to see scrap metal stapled all over the Eiffel Tower.

I haven't had any problems on any dom with a +end power and domination, personally.

/jranger

Fiery Embrace becomes Embrace of Fire and does not carry the new buffs.

Consume, I don't think gets buffed either. Domination is a nice enough boon, I don't think Doms need it. I'm probably alone in that thought but I didn't see any feedback on that happening nor did I test it. Though I could, I'm just too lazy.

COH2? No no no...

WORLD OF HEROES: AFTERMATH

Following the apocalyptic events of the Coming Storm that saw the end to Statesman, Lord Recluse, unleashed the Leviathan from its tomb and set back Portal Research 40 years, World of Heroes takes you across the globe; from Rikti-ravaged Tokyo, to the Hamidon's new resting place in Rio de Janeiro, to the Freakshow-run military state formerly known as France. Encounter new foes, new friends, new powers, and a vast environment that not only answers the question of "What's outside the War Walls?" but also answers the question: "Where could I be safe from the Battalion?"

Stay tuned to 2013.

*looks at what you wrote*

Ah I see...

*looks again at your post count*

HEYWAITAMINUTE

I love the way you type

It almost implies you're rapping

Kind of the like Antoine Dodson

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