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Originally Posted by je_saist

Don't forget to hop over to the AMD forum link and post your experience there.

Originally Posted by Grey Pilgrim

No, they're not really all that close for damage for PBs. Energy Assualt's damage blows what PBs can do out of the water, and the comparison gets worse for Fiery Assault. Looking at straight damage numbers, Incandescent Strike is the closest thing to being competitive, but then it recharges and animates more slowly, as well as not being a ranged power (while Doms do have melee attacks, they do have mostly ranged attacks, and good ones at that, something that cannot be said for human form). And of course, PBs can't mez like any Dominator can easily do. Even if they got Pulsar at a guaranteed Mag 3 AND Solar Flare did KD, they wouldn't be in the same boat.

Originally Posted by oreso

Do that Dom and Warshade have similar levels of IO slotting?

How well would they compare on SOs or pre50?

Cheers!

Originally Posted by Texas Justice

You can turn that off as well. It may be possible to disable it during installation but I haven't checked lately.

Originally Posted by Hyperstrike

Honestly, if you can get away with it. Get yourself a decent laptop for school work (college student), and build yourself a (relatively) inexpensive gaming workstation. It'll be cheaper and easier in the long run than trying to cram all your expectations into a laptop.

Originally Posted by Shadow Wail

Whats better with 11.8?

Originally Posted by Diesel Punk

Its amazing how many people refuse to admit that an AT has a genuine problem, and then further ignore that the people who want it fixed arent saying 'Make Stalkers into scrappers'.

While we're at it, HEATs are absolutely fine and never need a buff again, Dual Pistols and Elec Blast are the top performing sets in the game, and Dominators getting an AT revamp is a waste of developer time.

Originally Posted by Angelxman81

I mostly play melee characers, and some ranged/support too, but always DPS based.
I mean, scrappers, brutes, blasters, dominators and corruptors.
I have this crazy thing in my mind, about petless masterminds.
How would they work?
Soloing possible with a, lets say demon (Whip) Storm, Heat mastery?
Anyone got any experience with this weird thing?
Are they worth it to try and level?
Thank you!

Originally Posted by Llydia

Old name: Yydr
New name: Llydia

Reason - short version: Too much thinking and too little sleep.



Up for discussion: Have you ever changed a character name? Your global name? Your forum name? Any other names (besides from marriage)? What lead to the decision, and did you like the result?

Also, do you have difficulty getting people to pronounce your name(s) correctly? If so, how do you react?



Reason - long version: A ramble to entertain myself. I don't really expect anyone else to read further.

Mostly I blame Comicsluvr's thread What's In a Name? It got me thinking of why I care about my character names. A lot of thinking. That much thinking can be dangerous.

It lead to me realizing that while I had let it slide for years, it bothered me that my main, Dynexus, was usually referred to as a 'he'. As was I! I gave into an impulse and paid for a rename token to make her Ms Dynexus. "There!" I thought, "Now there can be no question to her, and I, being female." How disappointing when there was no change. The same proportion of references were he. When I bemoaned that neither my character nor I were referred to as 'she', a player remarked that they thought I was faking it.

Faking it? While we are still the minority, female gamers are hardly a rarity anymore.

I decided to run a silent experiment while I teamed. As people joined, I tried to guess from their global names if their players were male or female, then learn the answer from observing how people referred to themselves. Turns out I got it wrong most of the time. Even other characters I saw with 'Ms' in the character name were dubious as many were parodies. And what about characters that were horrendously disproportional with little modesty? Hard to think of that player as female. In the end I, too, was guilty of assuming someone was male unless another player consistently referred to a third player as she/female.

Before I had arrived at that conclusion, however, I decided to take more drastic measures. If people couldn't tell that Yydr was female then I would choose something more traditional. Something obvious that no man would claim. I can't remember how many names I considered. Probably hundreds. Normally I try to avoid any name that is close to myself or people I have know for internet security purposes. I like it best when I invent a name that gets zero search results in Google. That gets harder every year. After some deliberation I suspended that rule to choose Lydia. Besides, I have liked the name Lydia since a girl a few doors down and a few years older was a good influence and friend to me as a teenager.

Except that there were already several variations of Lydia on the forums, and I still had a craving to be unique. I'd like to claim that I came up with Llydia as a tribute to the double-Y of Yydr. But the truth is that variation was inspired by The New Alphabet song. Specifically how the part "L is for llama. / Hey wait a second, what's so special about llama? / Well, you know, it starts with two l's. / What's the second one for? / I don't know. Maybe to give the first one moral support." made me laugh.

Thus I settled on the full name of Llydia Verety (meaning: "Noble" and "Truth"), though I doubt Verety will be used much beyond this post.

So after psyching myself up to it, I changed my global name at 4 am. Honestly I was a bit surprised that going from @Yydr to @Llydia worked. I thought my name defaulted to @Dynexus when global names were first introduced and I had used my one-time change to make it @Yydr. Wasn't going to complain that somehow I had picked up an extra global rename token in the intervening years.

Yes, when I woke up later in the day something like buyer's remorse kicked in as I worried that maybe I could have come up with a better name. Thankfully that didn't last. In fact, the longer I have been Llydia, the more thrilled I become.

Some pros of Yydr:
- Unique
- Short (a big plus when sending myself in-game emails)
- Familiar
- Aged (it has become rare to see people misspell it as Yddr, Ydrr, etc)

Biggest downside of Yydr:
- No one could say it correctly more than two times in a row, even when instructed that Yydr is pronounced "yɪh-dər" which rhythms with "bidder"

Some pros of Llydia:
- Easier spelling (people have commented that Yydr was hard for them to type)
- Feminine
- Common pronunciation of "LID-ee-ah"
- It is more 'me'
- I smile big every time I see my new name


Thus far the City Of Heroes community members that have noticed the change have been very supportive. Thank you for encouraging the decision to be more myself!

Originally Posted by Airhammer

I have been saying this for years.. I have directly emailed the Devs about this issue..

There is NO REASON WHATSOEVER why Solar Flare is totally different from every other incarnation of this power in the game..

I am a PB.. I have strong melee.. I use Solar Flare.. now every damn foe is out of my melee range.. yay...

I am a PB.. I have Solar Flare.. I use it on teams.. It scatters folks in every direction.. People HATE that on teams.. So basically on a team I NEVER USE THE POWER..thats a great solution...

Pulsar a weak stun that takes waaaaaay to long to animate.. I wouldnt mind the animation if the stun was a mag 3 but it isnt and GP as already pointed out it is WEAKER than the Warshade AoE Mez power and they should have SOME balance.

And to say they are worried about PB's becoming overpowered is utterly ridiculous. Overpowered compared to what ?? The Warshade which is already way better ?? The VEAT's???? Come on please.. stop....

Originally Posted by BrandX

I don't know. 6% of the world population was me just wiking it Cuz hearing it be faily common I was curious, so I thought I had to check.

Just didn't seem fairly common to me.

2% of the population has red hair (which I have) and I never thought red hair was a fairly common trait.

But even if that was case, I don't think it's something the devs should take into consideration at all, when it comes to colors of effects.

If they did, we'd have very limited use of color.