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Quote:This is highly dependent on the character concept itself.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
1. Can you think of any concepts that make sense with conventional Weapon sets, but don't make sense with Titanic weapons?
I have...Quote:2. Do you have any weapon characters? If so (assuming the set contains all classes of weapons), which ones are you leaving as is, and which ones are you remaking into Titanic weapons? Why?
1) A Dual Blades Tank that combines themes of samurai and wild-west dueling, who won't be rerolled because there's not as much finesse in a giant slab of metal (or something else of that size class)
2) A Broadsword Scrapper based on the theme of a contemporary, roguish black knight, who won't be rerolled becasue a gigantic sword doesn't seem quite as classy.
3) A Dual Blades Stalker --
Well, really, this is boiling down to a tradoff between a brute-strength concept and a finesse concept. I have a hard time believing we'll be seeing a Titan Weapon Stalker. I think we barely got Broadsword Stalkers.
Yes.Quote:3. Has hearing about Titanic Weapons given you any new ideas? Has it given you a new spin on old ideas?
Well, if you recall what little info was given during that one Ustream, our characters won't be wielding styrofoam models: the attack animations are going to start out slow and improve with successive attacks, if I recall correctly. Also keep in mind that over the years, many people haven't had the patience to work with attacks with long animation times such as Shadow Maul or Hail of Bullets (until the latter got the def bonus during the animation) because it left them vulnerable to respond on the fly; Titan Weapons users will have to learn to deal with this issue. I have to believe, however, that the burst damage of Titan Weapons will be even greater than Broadsword; but on the other hand, I also believe that to balance that again, your Momentum drops straight to 0 the moment you stop using Titan Weapons attacks (which makes sense, to be honest.)Quote:These, and a few others, are what keep me up at night, wondering what I'll do about Titanic Weapons when those come about. All of this assumes the set won't suck mechanically or be horribly ugly aesthetically, but on this account I choose hopeful excitement, so I'm looking forward to it. I just want to cover all the bases I can with little to no information so I'm ready to act immediately when that launches.
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I've got a LVL 39 Storm/Elec Defender for Eden and LVL 50 Dark/Dark Brute for Ice Mistral.
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Quote:To be very honest, all of the Incarnates I know that could potentially do this were already at that level of power before I19. As far as I've been aware, all of the Incarnates I've met that couldn't before I19 still can't (barring now-fixed Pyronic madness).Originally Posted by AmazingMOO
A level 51 with all four thread-based incarnate powers starts being able to solo great swaths of the level 50 taskforces, Arch-villains and all. If you mix, say, an ITF with some 51+ players and some 49s, the 49s really don't get much opportunity to contribute to the TF's success any more. They could doorsit and the 300 romans would be slaughtered just as fast and Nictus-powered Romulus would go down just as fast.
That is indeed unfair to the 49s. It makes them feel like they're being powerlevelled. It's boring and unfun. It contributes to the game's subscriber churn and will eventually cause a player to move on to more interesting subjects.
The issue of non-Incarnates feeling shorted on their efforts by Incarnates is a phenomenon I have only heard about on the boards, not something I've seen or experienced on my own characters ingame. I have never seen this discussion occur on any global channel I listen to, which includes both main server channels on my main server and the MA Arc Finder channel.
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Quote:It's not fair for my LVL 50 to have more powers via flashbacking than an actual LVL 11 character when I run Posi for the WST on their team. I never use them because they might feel insulted, flaunting my LVL 50-ness all over the place. I also make sure to take out all of the enhancement sets I've slotted for my character because it's not fair that I can get more enhancement value out of them per slot than the lower-level players might.Originally Posted by AmazingMOO
Accordingly, when I group with Mrs. Moo or any other 50 who doesn't have any incarnate powers, I don't like to use mine, either. It's not fair to them. It's not very fair to me to not use my stuff, but it's more unfair to them.
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Quote:That's a tad far.Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex
Incarnate is the new PVP.
Well, they happen every thirty seconds, so you'd basically be getting warning spam in addition to all the other messages popping up in front of you...Quote:Originally Posted by TwoHeadedBoy
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Quote:Your character does recieve something akin to the 'I HAVE A METEOR FRAGMENT' aura from Bloody Bay, and in addition, you receive a warning that Anti-Matter is disintigrating you that other people can see if they're paying attention. In the heat of the battle, though, it might be hard for other people to see either after the initial message if you don't tell them you're melting, like a guy I saw last night not do.Originally Posted by Lazarillo
Does it have some sort of ultra obvious visual cue? Like some giant pillar of light screaming "ALL HEALERS DOGPILE ME RIGHT NOW", at least?
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Quote:I saw that thread, but there's some auras avaialable that aren't previewed on the update page, and none of the emotes are previewed.Originally Posted by Fireheart
bA started a thread with screenshots of the armor and related auras from open beta, a while back: http://boards.cityofheroes.com//showthread.php?t=262114
Be Well!
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Does anyone know of any screens of the costume pieces, emotes, and auras that are new with I20.5? I figured someone might've posted some on the 20.5 beta forum somewhere, but if there is, I can't find it.
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Quote:But do you really need to?Originally Posted by Leandro
In order to unlock everything
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For nothing that boosts my game play, but just makes me look cool. The trials are grindy enough as is so I'm passing on these. -
Quote:Pretty sure this is going on a whiteboard somewhere once read.Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane
It would have been cool to have a giant abomination made out the smashed hero statues of Galaxy Girl, Orion, M1, etc; but with the body parts freakishly in the wrong places. So it's got like Orion's head for a fist and someone's partial torso for a foot, etc.
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Quote:Nope. Only 50+ when not examplared. I don't believe the chances increase with higher conning, either.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
I open with a basic question: If I'm running a level 50 character who has unlocked his or her Alpha Incarnate slot and isn't exemplared, can I get a Shard drop off a level 49 enemy
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I'd like to bring my Dark/Dark Brute.
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Quote:You're assuming that the Coming Storm and the Battalion are the same thing. We've never had a lot of solid info on what the Battalion is or has done. You're also assuming that what you're thinking of as two different plot lines aren't actually tied into one another, although that is also speculation.Originally Posted by Dante
Hogwash.
The Coming Storm had zip to do with the Well. Although now Ouroboros and their preparations for the Coming Storm have been completely hijacked by the Incarnate plotline, gods alone know what's become of the Battalion now. -
Quote:oh_u.jpgOriginally Posted by Arcanaville
This is Arcana reasoning:
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Quote:Right. However, that's just one of a few tenuous connections we can make between the Shivan meteors and The Coming Storm: that they aren't of this world (and that's just maybe, in the case of the latter.) The other two are that 1) the Shivans are being used as a type of 'scout force' for the Coming Storm (perhaps unwittingly), and 2) They both wanna wreck stuff on planet Earth for one reason or another.Originally Posted by Mallerick
Paragon Wiki:
"Twilight's Son is the last of his race. The Kheldians have been wiped out and used as a source of energy to power the ships of a deadly alien force in the far distant future.
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The Kheldians fled to many worlds. The "enemy" would need to have vehicles that cross the space between planets ... or teleporting ships. Or, TARDISes.
I'll go as far as to accept that any further appearance of new Shivans could be related to the Coming Storm, but only as a peripheral to any actual invasion.
As for the far future Kheldian plight, the Nictus are candidates for suspicion as much as anything else...which isn't to say that the Nictus couldn't be the force behind the Coming Storm, too, but I'm of the mind that the TARDIS comment is slightly closer to the truth than anything else. Slightly. -
Quote:And?Originally Posted by DMystic
Thinking about this for a bit I just remebered that the Coming Storm uses Kheldians as a power supply(per Twilight's Son).
Kheldians come from Space -
Quote:You cannot be certain.Originally Posted by Vel_Overload
coming Storm = Space
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Quote:The crates and tubes make a big bang when destroyed. There's a slight delay in damage application in relation to the animation of the object destruction.Originally Posted by Hercules
For example, you finish taking out a box in the warehouse on a Lambda. You start to run towards a corridor when suddenly you get hit with a major crit and die. These crits appear to happen more frequently from behind vs facing the enemy.
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A Teen-rated game, they said.
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Quote:Shhhhhh.Originally Posted by FlashToo
That almost sounds like a way to cover an oops by explaining it away, not that it isn't cool.
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Quote:Old beyond old.Originally Posted by FlashToo
Got it in one. Our green- and yellow-line trains are all labeled "Red Line." Oops!
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Paragon_Times/20050406
EDIT: I got scooped.
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I'll bite. Here's some from a few of my characters.
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Quote:Is that only because of the higher recharge and proc?Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
May I suggest swapping the Hecatomb and Kinetic Combat in Smite and Siphon Life? Siphon Life will benefit more from having Hecatomb in it than Smite will.
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More tweaking. Dumped Taunt and Oppressive Gloom for TP Foe (which I use) and Dark Obliteration. I'm also still thinking of taking Ageless Radial over Ageless Core because Cardiac is supposed to close the endurance issue, and Dark Armor has no -DEF resistance; any -DEF could crumple the defense bonuses I'd have worked so hard to get.
Villain Plan by Mids' Villain Designer 1.942
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Tinsel Black 08: Level 50 Magic Brute
Primary Power Set: Dark Melee
Secondary Power Set: Dark Armor
Power Pool: Teleportation
Power Pool: Fighting
Ancillary Pool: Soul Mastery
Villain Profile:
Level 1: Shadow Punch -- KntkC'bat-Acc/Dmg(A), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx(3), KntkC'bat-Dmg/Rchg(3), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(5), Mako-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(34)
Level 1: Dark Embrace -- RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx(A), RctvArm-ResDam/Rchg(5), RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(7), RctvArm-ResDam(7), S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+(37)
Level 2: Smite -- Hectmb-Dmg(A), Hectmb-Dmg/Rchg(9), Hectmb-Acc/Rchg(9), Hectmb-Dmg/EndRdx(11), Hectmb-Dam%(17)
Level 4: Death Shroud -- Armgdn-Dmg(A), Armgdn-Dmg/Rchg(27), Armgdn-Acc/Rchg(29), Armgdn-Dmg/EndRdx(29), Armgdn-Dam%(31)
Level 6: Shadow Maul -- Erad-Dmg(A), Erad-Dmg/Rchg(31), Erad-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(31), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(34)
Level 8: Murky Cloud -- RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx(A), RctvArm-ResDam/Rchg(11), RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(13), RctvArm-ResDam(13)
Level 10: Obsidian Shield -- RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx(A), RctvArm-ResDam/Rchg(15), RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(15), RctvArm-ResDam(17)
Level 12: Siphon Life -- KntkC'bat-Acc/Dmg(A), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx(19), KntkC'bat-Dmg/Rchg(19), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(21), Mako-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(34)
Level 14: Teleport -- Zephyr-Travel(A), Zephyr-ResKB(21)
Level 16: Dark Regeneration -- Nictus-Heal/HP/Regen/Rchg(A), Nictus-Acc/Heal(23), Nictus-Acc/EndRdx/Heal/HP/Regen(23), Nictus-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(25), Theft-Heal/Rchg(25), Theft-+End%(27)
Level 18: Dark Consumption -- Erad-Acc/Rchg(A), Erad-Dmg/Rchg(42), Erad-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(42), Efficacy-EndMod/Acc(42), Efficacy-EndMod/Rchg(43)
Level 20: Touch of Fear -- SipInsght-ToHitDeb(A), SipInsght-Acc/ToHitDeb(37), SipInsght-Acc/Rchg(37), SipInsght-ToHitDeb/EndRdx/Rchg(39), SipInsght-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(39)
Level 22: Cloak of Darkness -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A)
Level 24: Teleport Foe -- Zephyr-ResKB(A)
Level 26: Soul Drain -- Erad-Acc/Rchg(A), Erad-Dmg/Rchg(40), Erad-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(40), Oblit-Acc/Rchg(40)
Level 28: Cloak of Fear -- HO:Enzym(A)
Level 30: Kick -- HO:Nucle(A)
Level 32: Midnight Grasp -- KntkC'bat-Acc/Dmg(A), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx(33), KntkC'bat-Dmg/Rchg(33), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(33), Mako-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(36)
Level 35: Tough -- RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx(A), RctvArm-ResDam/Rchg(39), RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(46), RctvArm-ResDam(50)
Level 38: Soul Transfer -- Amaze-Stun(A), Amaze-Stun/Rchg(43), Amaze-Acc/Stun/Rchg(43), Amaze-Acc/Rchg(46), Amaze-EndRdx/Stun(46)
Level 41: Weave -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A)
Level 44: Gloom -- Thundr-Acc/Dmg(A), Thundr-Dmg/EndRdx(45), Thundr-Dmg/Rchg(45), Thundr-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(45)
Level 47: Darkest Night -- DarkWD-ToHitDeb(A), DarkWD-ToHitdeb/Rchg/EndRdx(48), DarkWD-ToHitDeb/EndRdx(48), DarkWD-Slow%(48)
Level 49: Dark Obliteration -- HO:Nucle(A), HO:Nucle(50), HO:Nucle(50)
Level 50: Cardiac Core Paragon
Level 50: Void Radial Final Judgement
Level 50: Diamagnetic Core Flawless Interface
Level 50: Seers Radial Superior Ally
Level 50: Ageless Radial Epiphany
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Level 1: Brawl -- HO:Nucle(A)
Level 1: Fury
Level 1: Sprint -- Run-I(A)
Level 2: Rest -- RechRdx-I(A)
Level 4: Ninja Run
Level 2: Swift -- Run-I(A)
Level 2: Health -- Mrcl-Rcvry+(A)
Level 2: Hurdle -- Jump-I(A)
Level 2: Stamina -- EndMod-I(A), EndMod-I(36), P'Shift-End%(36)
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Set Bonus Totals:- 23% Defense(Smashing)
- 23% Defense(Lethal)
- 3% Defense(Fire)
- 3% Defense(Cold)
- 20.5% Defense(Energy)
- 20.5% Defense(Negative)
- 3% Defense(Psionic)
- 13% Defense(Melee)
- 12.7% Defense(Ranged)
- 3% Defense(AoE)
- 5.4% Max End
- 5% Enhancement(Heal)
- 70% Enhancement(Accuracy)
- 50% Enhancement(RechargeTime)
- 4% FlySpeed
- 134.9 HP (9%) HitPoints
- 4% JumpHeight
- 4% JumpSpeed
- Knockback (Mag -8)
- Knockup (Mag -8)
- MezResist(Immobilize) 12.7%
- 16.5% (0.28 End/sec) Recovery
- 10% (0.62 HP/sec) Regeneration
- 7.56% Resistance(Fire)
- 7.56% Resistance(Cold)
- 4% RunSpeed
- 2% XPDebtProtection
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*looks at OP*
Ewok victory music.