rian_frostdrake

well, im not going to rant or yell, but the corset needs fixed post-haste, and the face, it really shoul be an option available for those who liked the shade. never used it myself, but i can see how it was important.

You know, in all seriousness, it would be tough to add a completely unkillable supernatural terror to the game due to the mechanics of most missions and the desire to make us feel like we are beating evil, but something like this in an extended story arc from something that pursues us at low levels and we finally hunt down at the apex of our career might be nice, you figure that while superheros are what most people think of with comic books, the weird tales books have a long history in comics and could add another dimension to the game. It could even randomly appear in non timed non fail-able missions to throw us a curve. the music would have to change too and it would have to be freaky.

Its a thematic fit, I support this unreservedly.

a. welcome back, wondered where you got to.
B. yeah tips are amazing. the writing is great and i feel they really revitalized the game. if you have a 50 hero, do "one good spider" its a morality mish that drops after you fill your hero bar. it is the definition of a "big damn hero" moment.
C. oh yeah, the resistance..you know the old saying, one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist? well, praetoria is a 90's comics era gritty story, there are people with good intentions who do bad things, and people with bad intentions that incidentally help some common interpretations of the greater good. praetorians will get their hands dirty, that can be used to enrich a back-story with layers, but you wont do a full on pure good or bad guy. generally power loyalists are glory hogs, responsibility loyalists are good cops in a bad situation(usually) crusaders are terrorists and wardens are generally freedom fighters, but everyone gets dirty.

crey is interesting, one villian that could really be written in a more sympathetic light, while still retaining the horror at his methods is dr. vahz. a good writer could make him a really conflicting character. he kind of comes across as a xerox of who people who haven't read the book think of with dr frankenstein and he could be a very compelling as well as revolting character.

the argument could be made that farming is about maximizing rewards while minimizing risks. while eventually getting level shifts and running with a solid crew minimizes chances of failure on incarnate trials, they lack the capacity to truly minimize risks in the way most successful farms have.

you can report farms and get them shut down, right? or has that fallen by the wayside?

not intentionally. the "nipples" were an accidental effect of polygons joining awkwardly. they were not ever officially nipples.

well, im a melee nut, for me the game becomes the game once im surrounded by an 8x spawn and im tossing people around lime lawn darts. It doesnt hurt things that melees tend to have mez protection and nothing is more annoying than being chain mezzed by a rikti mentalist and noticing you dont have any break frees or 3 of a kinds.

anyhow, how i view them. usually for me, tanks are characters i view from character standpoint of protectors. they are the big stompers who wade in and make sure all the heat is on them. not really great on the hitting side of thing, but their job is controlling the flow and stage of combat, and for the character concept, they tend to be the protective types.

brutes. these are the monsters and forces of nature. evenif they share skills with scrappers and stalkers, i tend to view their approach as an onrushing wave of destruction. play style is hyper aggressive, and personality wise, these are the ones who are pretty much feral and if they are good guys, they make the punisher look like a carebear.

scrappers- these are the technique guys, trained martial artists, refined swordsmen/women, deftly accurate with their claws, whatever, the primary thing is for them its an art, for a brute, its a consequence of overwhelming action. on the same token, they look far cooler destroying a huge spawn of enemies, as its all done with style. widows also fall under this subheading.

stalkers- now dont dogpile me, but these guys are the weak fighters for me, not mechanically but personality wise. they are the chars who cant really stand up in the middle of a fight with an unearthly monster, so they make due with technique and ingenuity and hit really hard. i kind of like writing stalkers, most of them have some heavy character flaw that drives them, but also pushes them to hit way above their weight class. in a way these are the little guys who catch the much bigger bully of guard with a folding chair and in doing so, deflate his power over them. usually for me, these are the human characters, just trying to hack it in a world run by giant robots, massive demons, and super soldiers.

i also like doms and defenders, but nothing flowery on them. usually defenders are the caring heroes, the ones that protect everyone else. and doms tend to be defined by the insane moments later in their careers when they have a full set of powers, hit dom and just slam down an entire encounter. since my main dom is a plant dom, i love turning a room into a forest with vines, creepers and the like. for me a dom is an aoe monster.

if you alt a lot, patrol exp builds up. i tend to rotate chars, so usually when i log someone in, they have a full level of the stuff. plus, if you take time for the zone events..it builds up.

it is a sound i have heard many times over the years. you dont even know what i want in my full list of ma alt animation demands. i feel i should have a white cat and a quippy mi6 agent nemesis.

in my full interpretation of rian frostdrake, he integrates capoeria, drunken style kung fu, muay thai, tang soo do, savate boxe francais and seven star praying mantis style kung fu, as well as hapkido, but there is no way in heck we are getting a grappling style.

i'm with zwill on capoeria as an alt anim for ma.

ah well, nothing for doms, not thrilled with that, but they do promise something cool for post 21, so we will wait. an ma/sr tank, interesting.

eh, its a specific, one-note joke, i woudnt complicate the forumla too much. It serves its purpose and really doesn't bear a whole lot of scrutiny.

my guess is he will be a part of the new tutorial, a lot of the people here are the original team, so i suspect they will respect the original intention. as for iso-jailbreak,they already said it will be in oro, so i suspect it will be the way for those badges.

EDIT: ok, so zwill just rendered my conjecture irrelevant, good to see. i never met coyote, but certain actions of the devs were just good things to do, and including a valued community member that died was unquestionably one of them.

its a joke about the boat.

i have found doms are very helpful on the baf. keep in mind if you lock down the minions, that means less targets for the damage dealers on the walkways to waste hard hits on, and various sets have gimmicks that help too. i know my plant thorn dom seems to help a lot with stacked slows, immobs, and the occasional aoe hold. different powersets will work differently, but i'm really pleased with my dom on the baf. the lambda is ok, but comparatively that is more a direct damage dealer's job, though confusing a crowd of enemies with dom running and watching them destroy their own weapons crate..thats good fun.

no switch ups, but i have an idea or two, will have to see what all is included, but will probably make at least one alt out of it. if its just swords, hammers and axes, then probably just one, if they get weird with stuff, then i may find a muse for more.