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Those tentacles are only in that promotional picture, they are not in Mender Ramiel's arc.

It's got Moon Bloodgood and aliens. I can't wait.

What is that? I thought it was a Rancor form RotJ, but it's more reptilian.

No, but LR doesn't drop you out of hide. If everything gets knocked down your next attack will crit. If something remains standing they have the chance to attack you and drop you out of hide.

BU, LR and Thunderstike is a nice combo and a bunch of AOE damage. Thunderstirke is also the slowest animating attack in Elec,which means you have an extra second or two for the mob to land an attack and knock you out of hide before you land a crit. Whereas a fast animating attack like Chain Induction will Crit close to 100% of the time.

My dark corruptors have all the tools they need to tank for pugs at level 10, powers like Fearsome Stare and Dark Servant are just icing on the cake. I can get invited to a PUG where half the team is heading back to the mission door from the hospital and the other half is inside the mission saying buy wakies. I know with my dark I can turn that trainwreck of a team around starting with the first mob we run into. Not to say Traps can't save a doomed pug, but that requires getting control of the tempo of the team.

Before SOs what awesome power in Traps is recharging in less then a minute? Twilight Grasp and Darkest Night recharge in 10s. No matter how fast the team is you join, they could be slogging through spawns at a snails pace or burning 8 man spawns so fast Force Field Generator doesn't even have the chance to catch up, Dark is always going to have a power recharged that can help feel usful. The biggest downside to Traps is that the faster the teams going, the less a trapper can contribute.

Look at Task Forces, people want to just race through as fast as possible, fighting nothing but even con mobs. They just want to charge every mob and move on. My dark can manage to stay close to the front of the pack and alternate Holwing Twilight and Fearsome Stare and manage every alpha, handling the majority of the aggro and mitigate large amounts of damage. Traps ends up jumping into every other spawn with nothing but Webnade recharged.

My goal isn't to knock traps, but it's a distance third and tied with some other set for best (de)buff powerset. Rad and Dark never end up feeling like dead weight on a team. Put Rad or Dark in the hands of a button masher or a rookie, your team is going to get some pretty good results out of the player. Both sets have a nice buffer of idiot proof built into them. Traps can't make that claim. Comparing how a powerset handles in the hands of a bad player might not be far to you, but I've pugged with bad trappers and bad Darks. A bad dark is an adequate teammate a bad trapper is just dead weight. No matter how awesome a set can be in a skilled players hands, its not going to be any awesomer then Rad or Dark in a skilled players hands. All sets are tied in that hypothetical situation. Out in Paragon City where everybody is average, Traps is getting outshined by Dark and Rad big time.

The second worst thing about Traps, your last three power picks are borderline worthless on teams. If Seeker Drones would detonate a little quicker when you cast them in a mob, maybe I would move it off that list. Its 2 seconds to cast and then takes that long for them to explode. Powers that require the team to stop and wait don't make good team powers. Having to level a set up through the upper 2Os and 30s and not having any powers to look forward too is lame. Traps must be the only powerset that gives you that "there's nothing to look forward too for 15 levels" feeling.

The third worst thing about traps I can't use jump to get around getting rooted. The only power Dark has the forces me to root in place is Shadow Fall. Ever other animation in Dark and Rad will play out during your jump. 4 or 5 powers in Traps require you to stand still and not be flying to use them. Maybe you don't think mobility is a big deal when comparing powersets to you, but being able to cheat the root system in this game allows Darks and Rads to use any power safely from behind a corner. And luckily this game is nothing but instanced maps of warehouses, labs and office buildings which come with a variety of corners to choose from.

So in closing Traps is awesome and I love my Dark/Traps but traps suffers from "the dead weight, no cool powers left, can't jump, rad and dark are better, too damn slow, can everyone slow down" syndrome. With the Star system, where you rate other players, I've used the term awesome rad or awesome dark numerous times but I've never went out of my way to use the term awesome trapper in any player notes.

All IMHO of course.

Rad and Dark can start toggle-tanking for 8 man teams at level 4. At what level does /traps get the abilty to start managing the alpha, aggro and the damage mitigation for a team of 8 all by itself?

I slot recharge in the early levels, I'd rather have it up a little more often then heal for a smidgen more.

That guy needs to hang some tapestries on the walls and invest in some lamps so he doesn't have to be under that overhead light all the time. Easiest way for someone to mellow out is to mellow out their environment.

Does he look like a chubby Rodney Mckay to anyone else?

I did.

I decided the thread needed a dose of Mark Twain.

What other program in that movie was willing to sacrifice their existence for Flynn? Except for Tron's hero turn at the end no other program stepped forward to help Flynn.


Quorra was the only one making choices of her free will, she chose to fight for Flynn. every other program was reprogramed by Clu to oppose Flynn.

You don't think the ISOs qualify as an AI? You recently had a whole thread on AI, have you tried to apply the questions you asked in that thread to the ISOs?

Kevin Flynn believes the ISOs have souls, Flynn viewed Quorra as a real person. He hid her, he protected her, he replicated things from the real world just for her. Flynn would and did lay down his life for her.

Before you even saw the movie even decided Quorra was just a computer program and not worth caring about.

Flynn didn't want to leave the Grid and leave Quorra behind, he loved her. Father/daugther or they were banging, doesn't matter. Flynns only goal since the revolt has been the protection, care and education of the last ISO in existence.

You should have seen it in theaters instead of pirating it off the internet.

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