Schismatrix

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My sixty-odd characters across five or six servers are all simultaneously looking at the OP like this.

[/ QUOTE ]Yup. Though i think i might have more.

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artic left champion to join me and a few other friends on freedom, i can assure u we are very much not sf and im not stryker

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^ Stryker

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Stop that. Someone especially gullible might believe you.

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Are you getting tired of the game nerfs? If so, plaese speak your mind here.

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I don't know of any true nerfs...so no I am not tired of the game...

Am I allowed to still speak my mind?

If so, did you know MLB umpires have to wear black underwear?

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i did not know that. Also, i do not feel my life has been enriched by learning this.

Well, this would be a real small thread limited to people who are butthurt* about MA fixes and who don't understand the common definition of the term nerf if only people who agreed with the OP posted here.
So yes, you are allowed to speak your mind.

*That's a terrible portmanteau employed by socially and literately inept misanthropes. Never use that word. Ever.

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Carp Melee?

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For a second, I thought I read crap melee.

Scary...

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i still want to see its companion: Carp Armor. Read that as you will.

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Freakin' Sticky

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You said Freakin' Sticky!

Anyway, i agree that this would be a good thread to have stickied. (Rawr!)
PK gave some good advice that should be common sense, but is easy to forget sometimes. (And if this gets stickied there may one day be people reading this thread who have no idea why the OP is referred to as PK.)

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Insightful post that already encapsulates my feelings on the topic.

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But nooooo, i have to make some sort of silly post, and then, at best, stick a line or two at the end stating which poster or position i agree with. Which is very nearly what i just did again. Oh well.

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If people weren't so deluded into thinking a healer is needed to survive in this game, then we wouldn't have this problem. A good stormy, with or without O2 Boost, far outperforms an average empath.

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this pretty much sums it up.

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And a good empath far out performs an average stormy.

Healing is definitley not required. Some people prefer different powers but I would figure the majority of people broadcasting for healers aren't aware that all defenders primaries are capable.

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Good Empaths do far less healing than buffing. At least that's been my experience when teaming with good Empaths. i've been on teams with mediocre to bad Empaths that quit because the buffs and debuffs from other team members made healing largely unneeded beyond patching up minor damage. Many of them had taken the Medicine pool in place of non-healing powers like Fortitude, Adrenaline Boost and Clear Mind. Others has some of those powers but would only use them after repeated requests.

i've also teamed with good Empaths who would toss Clear Mind on debuffers when fighting mezzing opponents, throw Fortitude on any teammate who tended to receive extra aggro and generally supported the team by buffing those who needed it and tossing out a heal when required. They didn't sulk and eventually quit when they had no reason to generate green numbers, instead they helped turn the team into a juggernaut.

Empathy in the hands of a good player is not primarily a healing set by the mid levels.

Well, you can always ask a moderator to delete the thread.

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I've only read this, haven't done it myself.

While you're in Ouros, select a mission from one of the Cim. contacts. Use the crystal to teleport to the contact. Drop the Ouros TF. Say "Huzzah!"

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I use this one all the time to log my Tank out in Cimerora.

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i can't believe i hadn't thought of that myself.

Stop it with the Candle Jac

What puzzles and wounds me is how vehemently they've rejected my fawning praise and adulation...

*GASP*

How could i have not seen this before?! The forum overlords have subverted me! i'm a Manchurian candidate secretly at the beck and call of the masters of the forums sent to damn. them. with. effusive praise? Wait, that's not right...

Aha! i was actually sent to attempt to infiltrate their ranks, but they saw through it before i even had a chance! *sobs* How could i? HOW COULD I?!

SO MAD AT YU CARTELITES RITE NAO!!!

Stop hatin' on Inhaler and BI. (As much as i loathe the term "hatin", i like it more than all your persecutin' of these two gifted people. They recognize grand conspiracies orchestrated by a cabal of mysteriously powerful and erroneous prolific posters where i can not. This superior perception has left me in awe at the magnificence of their ability to pierce to the truth hidden from the rest of you. Everyone else here just sucks. Especially those of you who don't even know that you're orchestrating a vast conspiracy to hold the forums as your empire of bytes.)

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The rest of you have consistently failed to make me constantly howl with laughter (literally) or facepalm (metaphorically) while reading this thread. Failures, all of you.

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Also: i like yogurt.

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Um.. put away the Apple 2E and buy a new rig? Upgrade? I dunno..

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Good point. i'm currently limping along on one of the early Core2Duos with only 2 gigs of RAM and a GeForce 7900GS, so my system sometimes bogs down near the AE buildings. i swear i'll upgrade to a modern system one of these days, but in the meantime i'll do my best to suck it up and deal. Thank you for putting things in perspective without resorting to hyperbole.

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Kinda like Zombie Strippers, except there were a few other good reasons for that one...

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Heh, yeah. Stupid [censored] flick, but worth watching

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We're making the Shark happy with our progress.

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The movie this thread is about looks dinky, but I would watch it one time through.

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i just acquired 4 of the original Gamera movies on 2 DVD's. i expect the transfer quality to be awful, but they will still beat Shark vs. Octopus.

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Anyone have a video of a team w/ no defenders or controllers running and successfully winning a STF? Oh, and extensive use of temp powers, aid other, etc, invalidate that as "your team" isn't really winning, then...

I just don't buy that you never need any kind of heal whatsoever, apart from respites, for some of the hardest content in the game. I've been on teams w/ an ideal makeup, (like a kin, stone tank, rads), that didn't succeed, so you'll have to prove to me that you don't need them.

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Is this an example of moving the goalposts? i can't tell.

Having heals on a team, if you include power pools and self heals, is hard to avoid. i do recall a team of either all Blasters or Kheldians completed the STF, but they almost certainly had some Medicine on hand. (i think it was Blasters.)

It may be possible to complete the STF with no heals of any kind, but that sort of a team makeup is such an unusual edge case that it's unlikely to ever happen without creating a team specifically to do it. Still, i'd be willing to volunteer for it if anyone wants to try.

Still, for over 99% of the content it's not necessary to have any sort of power that heals others. i once completed the Numina TF on a team that was nothing but Blasters, Scrappers and my Earth/TA Controller. i forget if we had 5 or 6 people at the end, but Jurassik wasn't all that hard to defeat. (Admittedly i did have the Call of the Sandman proc in PGA, but it's only there so that i do in fact have a healing arrow.)

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Or go with Leadership. Yeah, another toggle, I know... but more of the "harder to hit" and "hits harder" fits, too, doesn't it?

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Just leave the toggles off when you get tired or are solo. It's easy enough to justify them as inspiring and being inspired by your teammates when on good teams, and when you get tired it's hard to maintain that level of enthusiasm.

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Honestly? I'm hoping Going Rogue breaks the 'no teaming, no friending, no trading' ban between sides. I'd love to have a Supergroup base that members on both sides of the pond can enter. Just make it so only Neutrals and Heroes can use Hero Teleporter locations and only neutrals and villains can use Villain zone teleporters.

-Rachel-

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FWIW, I do believe Posi mentioned merging the markets - so removing the other barriers, well...

And I wish I'd seen the rest of this earlier, I'd have saved you a run to the D. Tested that *long* ago - no cross-faction level pants. Er, pacts.

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...I am curious as to why you left that typo in. Amused, but curious!

Still, it was a good excuse to get rollin' today.

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It was, of course, intentional.

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All typos by obviously literate writers should be considered intentional unless they are not humorous.

It will be interesting to see what the answer to this is, but i suspect it will be the less interesting option of "level pacts are severed for the one who changes alignment." Actually, i'd prefer affiliation in place of alignment, particularly since we'll be able to stay in the grey area rather than going completely to one side or the other.

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i like pineapples.

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First, I been afk damage farming for born in battle (i pvp alot and never have a hard time finding action and i am a freedom native) i have 10 tells in the past hour with no LFT flag up, no description of what i am in my search comment.

You are just doing it wrong, and God doesn't love you.



Lazy ignorant people think they NEED stamina

Lazy people just pick up stamina even though they KNOW its not needed, cuz they rather do an easy build than one that needs a bit of forethought

im a lazy person, i have 30 50s all with stamina, i could easily with IOs and Accolades make staminaless builds and be highly functional but that would require time and effort

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The problem is that you're one of the "Forumistas" and therefore suspect at best, and an irrational, reality-warping liar at worst. The only 2 "rational" people are Ares and B_I, and the rest of you, that is to say those who do not instantly agree with the only two rational people, are irrational liars whose own experiences are inherently less valid. (Incidentally, i find it interesting that to be rational you have to ignore any evidence that does not support your premise or change the conditions to exclude it.) Anyway, the only two rational people in this thread are better than the rest of you. The rest of you have consistently failed to make me constantly howl with laughter (literally) or facepalm (metaphorically) while reading this thread. Failures, all of you.

Offering clear, detailed suggestions makes posts tl;dr for those who are truly rational. Not taking an arrogant and dismissive tone the instant someone doesn't agree with you is also irrational. Using actual numbers and concrete examples? Irrational.

Become rational now, cast off those chains of not agreeing, lest ye go on to succeed doing it differently from the two truly rational posters in this entire forum. Oh, and CityLife. i'm pretty sure CityLife would qualify as rational by the standards of the two rational people here, so now we have three rational people to lead us, hallelujah![i]

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Hey now, don't be dissin' Starflier's avatar, I think it's one of the coolest I've seen. Hey flier, did you make it yourself, or did someone else do it?

[/ QUOTE ]I'm not disrespecitng it just looks like one of my fears in animated form and I wanted to be told "No he's just a fan and not pervy at all".

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No, he's just a fa...
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i can't say it with a straight face.

Wait, wait, i can do this...

He's *snerk* not.. *clears throat* a.. *ahem* Perv. And a fan.

Really.

[i]Edit: Got distracted by the derail. Personally i would go for Hurdle, and quite possibly Health. i actually have alts who've skipped travel powers in favor of Combat Jumping and the full Fitness line.

Just felt the urge to pop in and say~

Rhetorical question is rhetorical.

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Honestly, I'd like a travel power set that'd actually make sense for natural characters. Perhaps some sort of mini-vehicle power: pneumatic jump, gyrocopter pack, motorcycle.

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Pogo Stick power activate!

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Just make a pogo stick alternate animation for Superjump.

It's not free, but it is efficient.

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In game terms - just because Mako taught you great power, doesn't mean you can't use that great power against him if you switch sides... for example.

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i would have to go double check, but i could swear that every single patron arc eventually involves fighting and defeating your patron. Your PPP's are not locked out during or after you do this.

After i cancel out your double negative your statement still is that Mako taught you great power and you can use that great power against him. i agree that this statement is reasonable since it already is that way in game.

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what do you think upping the lvl cap would do to purple enh...

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Is that a trick question? You have to be 50 (or higher) to slot them, and only mobs that can drop level 50 (or higher) recipes drop them. Neither would be affected by adding levels.

It's already been explicitly stated by the Devs that the current power/level system is incompatible with adding levels past 50, so unless Going Rogue restructures the entire level system (for 50+ at minimum) for the whole of CoX it's not terribly likely that more levels will be added.

Duck season!

(Also, so that i can contribute something useful to the thread i'd like to say tha- ...ooooh, shiny! *distracted by friend meeting Henry Rollins*)