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  1. bAss_ackwards
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Santorican View Post
    Without the help of inventions yes shields does have a lot less defense debuff resistance then super reflexes. However with double stacked Active Defense with 3 Membrane Exposures, Battle Agility at around 50% enhanced defense, and Grant Cover you will be at 95% defense debuff resistance.

    I have to point out that with Fire/Shield you don't require a lot of recharge to have a good attack string so that allows you to focus on beefing up your resistances, regeneration, and recovery.

    With Dark/Shield you'll need to focus somewhat on recharge if you want to obtain the best attack chain. It leaves your resistances wanting, but due to having Siphon Life and Dark Consumption you won't need to focus so much on passive regeneration and recovery.
    Quick question on the Defense Debuff Resist: How much global Recharge do you need to have it double stacked all the time?
  2. bAss_ackwards
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Thirty_Seven View Post
    I am unsure what intent I am supposed to take out of this.
    Not serious: Forbin_Project
  3. bAss_ackwards
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Schismatrix View Post
    i saw an Angel Furry on Champion the other day. Funny thing is she had no animal features at all.

    So far i've seen some "uptightness" expressed, but the only real hypocrisy has been from the OP.

    Personally i'm fine with MRP, but prefer to keep my ERP RL. IMO it's much more fun that way.
    Still, i don't care what two consenting adults do out of my line if sight, or even in it most times, as long as they don't assume i'll play along.
    Perhaps they meant fury.

    Or maybe they misspelled both words and meant to type Angle Fury! Behold the furious angles!
  4. bAss_ackwards
    Loved it.
  5. bAss_ackwards
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by JadeTora View Post
    Apologies, I thought the acronyms were well known.

    As for it being a Teen Rated game, yes.. But again, consenting adults should be allowed to do what they want to do in private, notice I'm specifically mentioning in private because I do agree that public ERP is just.. Not right.. It's a Teen rated game, yes and it's not appropriate when there may be younger players or RPers around but in private who is it hurting? I think perhaps even the gms and mods may agree with me on that term, if it's kept private then it's not a big deal.
    What consenting adults should and should not be allowed to do in private is not up to the players. It is up to the people that run the game. If such roleplaying is a private affair, why this concern being voiced publicly? How do those people that are uptight and hypocritical even know which person to make fun of? When this above Teen rating atmosphere spills out into the open in the game, then you are violating the rules.
  6. bAss_ackwards
    What are all these acronyms? I don't know em', but keep it Teen rated. That is how this game is rated and governed.
  7. bAss_ackwards
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Catwhoorg View Post
    Earth is for HUMANS!
    (And sometimes Kheldians.)
  8. bAss_ackwards
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by N'Iv I'Ene View Post
    Ship: Deployed
    D00M: Imminent
    You n'wah!

    (Oh wait, wrong game.)
  9. bAss_ackwards
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by A'V At'Ea View Post
    Target: DumpleBerry
    Survivability: Poor
    O_O;
  10. bAss_ackwards
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
    Aha, so I should, instead, have asked why your text is so frikkin' tiny?
    Because I have good eyesight. The more text I can fit on the screen the better, ne?
  11. bAss_ackwards

    The Longest Wait

    POST-ACTION

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake View Post
    It has been a very long time since issues were "a couple of months" apart(presuming you mean 3-4 months). As it stands we have verifiable proof that the new hires were hired, so really there are only 3 conclusions one can draw. 1. the developers suddenly became incredibly inefficient and this will lead to no extra content versus the 15, now its not untrue that new hires do take time to get acclimated, but it seems unlikely that they have just been sitting on the other 30 people.2. the developers are going onto a second mmo from paragon, seems unlikely that nothing at all would have leaked there, but i guess possible. or 3. there is going to be quite a lot in going rogue, more content than in several issues(we will exclude 14 and 15 because 14 was one single thing, and 15 was more of an anniversary deal than a real, full issue) and the commensurate wait is going to be longer. I'm leaning towards 3 myself, but some teaser info would go a long way to maintaining interest.
    I certainly hope it isn't number 1. Number 2 might be interesting but I'm more interested in what's in store for CoH, Issue 17, Going Rogue, or otherwise. Number 3 is what I hope it would turn out to be. That or Issue 17 and Going Rogue both have loads of content split between them.
  12. bAss_ackwards
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by MDanger View Post
    I had already submitted a bug report on this. Seemed an odd thing to overlook given the number of years they've had to plan for this event.
    Ahh, but you forget. The villains have had years to plot against this event as well!
  13. bAss_ackwards
    It's a bug and if I vaguely remember reading about it from patch notes or a developer sometime ago that it was at least acknowledged. Guessing it's been internally fixed for a while now waiting to get into a build.
  14. bAss_ackwards

    The Longest Wait

    POST-ACTION

    Oi... lets hope for something on Wednesday.
  15. bAss_ackwards
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill View Post
    However, the comment still holds true. The buff-everyone buttons take more END overall... so do you wait, since another minion may die, or do it now? And what else are you running that may drop?
    You can enhance endurance reduction. You can't enhance how many pets you upgrade in a single click.
  16. bAss_ackwards
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Scythus View Post
    I stumbled across this just now and now I grow curious. Since we already have the thugs, and the demons are on their way, when are we gonna get the pirates and clowns?
    Grabbing these juicy bits from that link:

    Quote:
    As for pets sticking around when you zone. Yes. We do want this. You're right about it being a non-trivial thing to do, zoning your pets is actually a LOT different code-wise than zoning a player entity.
    Only took how many years to get this one done?

    Quote:
    Also, we most likely will never give you a "buff everything" button. When playing a Mastermind you have to make tactical decisions on what to resummon and re-buff if you happen to lose Henchmen during a big battle. If you could summon your guys and fully buff them in moments, well, tough situations aren't so tough anymore, are they?
    Never say never, as it were, because this did happen. Now we have our Upgrade 1 "buff everything" and Upgrade 2 "buff everything" buttons.

    Again... years. How many it took. Etc., etc.
  17. bAss_ackwards
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Scythus View Post
    This. It might be a template default text for all destructable objects.
    Oh I definitely realized that, but the pairing with something you're supposed to save was just too funny.

    *looks at the thread tags*

    Ah ha! The villains are trying to cover up their tracks now, they're going to default-template-text this thread!
  18. bAss_ackwards

    Okay, So...

    POST-ACTION

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Obsidius View Post
    I'm beginning to notice a trend on the forums...
    We're definitely getting antsy, if not a little bit rowdy.

    C'mon, give us info!
  19. bAss_ackwards
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
    Why is your info window SO FRIKKIN' HUGE?

    Ahem...

    That has got to be a pretty embarrassing slip up, since they likely copied it from a villain mission crate. But it's actually quite ironic, given that the crate has something like half a hit point and a zillion angry villains want to destroy it. Makes sense for the game to be honest about it
    Because, Sam, at 1920x1200 resolution it isn't that big to me.
  20. bAss_ackwards
    [minor spoiler ahead?]

    So I was doing the (freakin' unskippable) cape mission to get to my aura mission from the City Hall rep and I get to Hero 1's letter. I figured I'd check the info on it to see what nice tid bit flavor text the developers might've put into it, but then I get this:



    Uh... what? Are the voices in my info box telling me to go rogue already? I didn't think I would start having these problems of alignment until at least 4 or 6 months from now.
  21. bAss_ackwards

    Okay, So...

    POST-ACTION

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dispari View Post
    Okay, so...
    ^ This! ^
  22. bAss_ackwards

    Knives of Artemis

    POST-ACTION

    How do I fight them? I fight them with my own Knives of Artemis character!



    They get a taste of their own medicine with their stupid Caltrops!

    Seriously though, I have no special tactic against them other than using Ninja Run + Sprint to get out of the Caltrops and the occasional use of the Nemesis Staff and Blackwand.
  23. bAss_ackwards
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Windenergy21 View Post
    Just looked real fast at the build for the ma/fire Bass, why on earth would you waste a defense/end hami on combat jumping? Those things are expensive to be saving .02 endurance/second Just go with a 50 common Defense IO, i think you'll be ok for the .15% defense loss.

    Also missing out on blazing aura which is a huge boost to your damage. Would not skip that, which is almost double the aoe DPS of fireball before factoring in focus chi/FE. Bout 1.5 times more when those are factored in.

    You'd really never use boxing (or shouldnt especially with that slotting) You should REALLY move those slots into consume, which you can slot a full set of obliteration into and give consume some good boosting stats as well as get that melee defense bonus (which is more than from razzle dazzle "actually" putting you over the cap). FYI for the end you'll gain by slotting consume, and from what you're build has already easily ditch the numina unique out of health for your last 6th slot of obliteration in it.
    I don't actually have a Enzyme in my Combat Jumping. Yet. Most likely I'll just stick with the 50 Defense IO I have in it already.

    That one came down to playstyle. I knew I'd be missing out on DPE or the likes, but I wanted Fireball so I gave up Blazing Aura for it. This is why I posted With and Without Blazing Aura builds. It's up to the player to see what they enjoy more from the game.

    In the build I already have 5 x 3.75% Melee Defense. No going beyond that, as it were. However, you did remind me that Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control also gives 2.5% to Melee so I boosted that instead. Alternatively, I could take out the slots in Boxing, move Obliteration into Consume as you've said, and then maybe put Multi Strike into Fire Sword Circle, but then trading a 2.5% for a 1.88% would bring the set further down from the Melee Softcap.

    Consume is there for me for when I am facing -Recovery or Endurance draining enemies. It does not get much use.
  24. bAss_ackwards
    Switching out the Fire/Fire/Fire build for MA/Fire/Fire it would look like this:

    Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.601
    http://www.cohplanner.com/

    Click this DataLink to open the build!

    Sacred Fire: Level 50 Magic Scrapper
    Primary Power Set: Martial Arts
    Secondary Power Set: Fiery Aura
    Power Pool: Fitness
    Power Pool: Leaping
    Power Pool: Fighting
    Power Pool: Speed
    Ancillary Pool: Blaze Mastery

    Code: 
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  25. bAss_ackwards
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by DaveMebs View Post
    Could you possibly post your build?
    Sure.

    Without Blaze Mastery:

    Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.601
    http://www.cohplanner.com/

    Click this DataLink to open the build!

    Sacred Fire: Level 50 Magic Scrapper
    Primary Power Set: Fiery Melee
    Secondary Power Set: Fiery Aura
    Power Pool: Fitness
    Power Pool: Leaping
    Power Pool: Fighting
    Power Pool: Speed
    Ancillary Pool: Body Mastery

    Code:
    | Copy & Paste this data into Mids' Hero Designer to view the build |
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    With Blaze Mastery:

    Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.601
    http://www.cohplanner.com/

    Click this DataLink to open the build!

    Sacred Fire: Level 50 Magic Scrapper
    Primary Power Set: Fiery Melee
    Secondary Power Set: Fiery Aura
    Power Pool: Fitness
    Power Pool: Leaping
    Power Pool: Fighting
    Power Pool: Speed
    Ancillary Pool: Blaze Mastery

    Code:
    | Copy & Paste this data into Mids' Hero Designer to view the build |
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