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And then there's the villain arc that cribs from GUNNM, and the Penny Yin arc that cribs from Wacky Racers IIRC. It just makes me giggle, really.

In regards to brutes and scrappers:
Brute Shadow Punch at level 50 deals 35.03 damage unenhanced, or 297.76 damage at their 850% cap.
Scrapper Shadow Punch at level 50 deals 52.55 damage unenhanced, or 262.75 damage at their 500% cap - but they also get a chance for criticals.

In regards to resistance: Having n% resistance to a damage type means all incoming damage of that type is reduced by n%, so if you had a total of 400% damage enhancement and were hitting a target with 50% resistance, the net damage would be equivalent to having 200% enhancement and hitting a target with 0 resistance. Damage resistance is not subtracted from damage enhancement; it is a reduction factor on total damage. This is distinct from defense, which is subtracted from tohit enhancement. Also, because damage resistance resists damage resistance debuffs, damage resistance is not subject to cascade failure: whether your target has damage resistance or not, applying an n% damage resistance debuff to them increases the damage they take by n%.

Edit: addendum on caps. Certain inherents such as Scrapper and Stalker criticals and Controller Containment allow an attack to apply an extra amount of damage under certain conditions. This is sometimes referred to as "breaking the damage cap". Technically, this is not correct: the damage caps remain in place. However, the attack ends up doing more damage than the damage/endurance/recharge formula indicates it normally should, effectively doubling the efficiency of the attack. This is not a guaranteed effect: the special secondary damage is an attribute of each power that has it, and the amount has been raised or lowered in various cases.

/em facepalm

... That's my suggestion, not my reaction. It's the most used emote that doesn't actually have an animation.

Also:
- I would like /em yoga as a flypose. It already has a bobbing-in-the-air version for hovering.
- I would like to be able to set any continuous emote as my non-combat-mode stance. (Continuous: crouch, crossarms, waiting, eatfood. Not continuous: slap, belch, howl.)

Oh, and I just remembered. The snipe animation for Zapp looks somewhat off. You do the brace-arm charge up, and then a blast of lightning shoots from your hand... and continues shooting for a while after your hand recoils. Please consider changing this to an animation more suited to a continuous beam.

In this thread: a half-joking list of the terrible things that heroes are asked to do. Setting aside, of course, the grossly disproportionate retribution to various criminal offenses (setting a man on fire for loitering?), there are some missions whose explicit text asks our would-be heroes to engage in some highly questionable practices.

For starters, there's anything involving the Hydra Man Dimension. Apparently the Hydra Men are simple, peaceful creatures that really want to just be left alone. So of course we're sent to try to communicate with them by... punching them in the face. And then, once our brilliant scientific allies discern their means of communication, we're sent to test the translation machine by... punching them in the face. And then, when the Rikti engineer a Hydra Man based disease, we're sent to get Hydra Man protoplasm samples by... punching every last Hydra Man, Woman, and Spawn in the face. Until they collapse into goo.

HEROES!

Or there's that time that Daedalus needs some parts for his Time Shield Thingy. So he tells you to straight up steal them from a Crey warehouse. Now, Crey is by no means an innocent party, but theoretically they are entitled to protection under the rule of law from things like random breaking and entering. Also, they like money. You could, theoretically, buy things from them. But no! Off you go to beat up their security guards and steal their property.

HEROES!

Any other examples of egregious heroic wrongdoing you can think of?

Why don't you just reroll? It's not like it's hard to get to 10.

The pet uniques are good choices for Hell on Earth, but if I have room in the build I'll also toss in 2 recharge IOs. It's a pretty good buff, but more importantly, it's never the wrong time to make my demons fart imps.

I would also like this.

To be scrupulously fair, FourSpeed, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to play a game written by business application programmers. The part of this game where you run around looking cool and punching bad/good guys is pretty well executed. Paragon Studios could benefit from hiring one or two coders from outside the entertainment software domain, though.

I think I have maybe three characters who consider themselves evil. One is a demon, and the other two are worshippers of elder gods whose primary ambitions are to be first in line to be eaten. The rest are either doing what it takes to survive or following an ideology they believe in.

Personally, I prefer Dominators to Blasters, for the same reason some prefer Brutes to Tanks or Corruptors to Defenders, but I've yet to see a convincing argument that any of the specialist ATs are eclipsed by their generalist counterparts in their specialty.

Hey, weren't we talking about Assault Rifle?

Sam, your model works fine for all animations where only the hip and heel positions are crucial. I'm worried about what happens in animations where the knee position matters. The case I'm most worried about is the /em kneel position, which has the heel quite close to and somewhat behind the hip, which could shove the digitigrade knee into the floor depending on the angles.

It occurs to me that I could probably create a Lego model of the plantigrade/digitigrade rig pictured and play around with it to see what happens in various cases. I'd need to add a little extra rigging to ensure that the digitigrade knee and ankle angles were the same. Then I can try moving the plantigrade leg into the various positions that it goes into in our animations and see what happens to the digitigrade leg.

Single hard targets are less challenging to teams including mitigation, damage dealing, buffs and debuffs, than to solo characters. A Mastermind is a team in miniature. Hilarity is frequently observed to ensue.

That said, I prefer playing brutes, because being reliant on AI-controlled pets drives me bonkers. MMs are powerful, though, and no mistake.

To other players, I am other players.

I roll randoms, starting at character level 30, in recipe range 30-34, and I sell the ones I can't use. I live what I preach. I do all right.