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I figured they picked Rhode Island because its small and the original development team didn't have enough manpower to get the kind of scope of New York, Chicago, etc. done in a reasonable amount of time.

I'm putting down some wild and wacky speculation. Cities around the world. You'll get to visit many different cultures along with their own Heroes and Villains. It's not just about America anymore baby!

Doh. I probably should have listed the changes in the first post. I will scrounge up the patch notes for Fiery Aura.

[Edit] Ah whatever. To lazy to scrub the patch notes. I'll just put the changes down in my own words.

Paragon Studios hiring a Lead Concept Artist.

Responsibilities include:

- Work collaboratively with the Art and Design Leads to help shape and communicate the vision of our next MMO
- Develop concepts, style guides and documentation throughout the course of the project
- Inspire and motivate others through artwork and leadership
- Mentor and guide concept art team

Wait a second. Lets take another look at that list of responsibilities.

I've considered making a MA/FA Scrapper before, but never really got around to it. I very much like the idea of fiery kicks.

I too believe that before Shield Defense, Fiery Aura on Scrappers was not unplayable. I actually did quite well with my Fiery Aura Scrapper, but I never felt like the amount of offense capability was enough for the mitigation the set gives up. With the changes in I18 I believe it is much closer to where it should be. When Shield Defense came into the mix it was good (and later made too good), but also served to make Fiery Aura's disproportionate trade-off much more glaring.

When the changes started rolling into the Closed Beta I was flipping out, smiling ear to ear like an idiot. I made a revision to Sacred Fire's build and am actually considering Purple IOs for the first time, because of Alignment Merits. At the very least, the 3% Defense IO. Haven't quite figured out which of the sets to use beyond the previous consideration. This is the build post-revision: http://tinyurl.com/24yzxfz

With the buffs to Fiery Aura in Issue 18, how many of you are interested in playing the set now? Burn has had its Fear component removed, does most of the total damage upfront, with some of the DoT afterward. Consume has an additional effect of +Recovery for 30 seconds (I think.) Fiery Embrace now gives a 45% Damage boost to Primary, Secondary, and APP/PPP powers. This is not strict, as some powers actually gain more than the 45% damage boost. Overall this should be more damage, which even works when you are at the Damage cap.

Are there any of you that have played Fiery Aura extensively, found it to be not to your liking and shelved the set? Are these changes enough to make you play with the set again?

When Fiery Aura was proliferated over to Scrappers there was a decent amount of discussion going on, but ever since that small surge in interest there hasn't been many talks on the set. There was the thread asking what could do better than Shield Defense, which got the ball rolling on changes to a few sets. Even then though, I had to butt in that thread and repeatedly say things like "Hey! Fiery Aura is a mostly offense set and Shield Defense outshines its very own gimmick!"

From my observations in-game, I don't see many Scrappers that pick Fiery Aura. But what do I know? I only play on one server. I think this will definitely get more people to play the set, but I still feel that it isn't going to cause a big surge in played time for it.

I know I probably should have made this post after Issue 18 hits the live servers, but I'm just anxious and maybe a little discussion in advance might not be too bad.

... and because tags are no longer in use I'll add my own in the post: Fiery Aura Best Aura, Scrappers on Fire

I was going to post Medic Bot, but I guess someone... did that for me.

How do I enjoy City of Heroes?


Okay, okay. So my setup is CoH/V fullscreen on the main monitor with Skype group chat, WinAmp, and Firefox on the secondary monitor.

I got the Veteran Reward, but it doesn't show up in the Veteran list. Only in the Recent badges.

Going Rogue is almost here! Going Rogue is almost here! Hooray!

Very well put, Sam. Parts of that were essentially what my post was about, so I'm glad you've saved me the trouble of rewriting.

I had a lengthy post, but when I hit preview the page took me to the NC Soft store.

I will just say it succinctly: Only a matter of timing and money. We'll get it sooner or later.

Well, for the blue text I see the Resistance logo behind it. The gold text I see the Loyalist logo behind it.

Great job on this Veteran Reward. I will be making full use of it.

"Huh... ? When did the Resistance base get a makeover? Holy spooks, what happened to you miss Vetrano?!"



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It's my birthday today! Gimmie Kinetic Melee early!