Erratic1

So Energy Aura would have healing, endurance recovery, recharge boost AND extra health? If the developer is already leary of porting Energy Aura to Tankers I am not sure how giving it more health than other sets is going to be a selling point.

If it is something tankers do not need then by definition giving it up should not get you anything as you have not really given up anything. The real problem with altering Energy Cloak to do something else more in line with tanking is that Energy Aura is, when you look at all it already has, a really good power set. It has healing, endurance recovery, and recharge boost. Shield, awesome as it is, does not heal you or keep you in a fight if you run out of endurance. Super Reflexes has neither healing nor endurance recovery and while it has inherent Recharge boosting, it cannot hit the highs Energy Aura does. Arguably for all that Energy Aura brings to the table, getting the minor defense boost that Energy Cloak brings along with the situational usage of stealth is its balance. If you replace Energy Cloak it needs to be with something that brings nothing more to the table.

I know how aura work. I am talking about how people play the game--a point on which I have been quite clear regardless of you need to repeatedly twist mine and other peoples statements into something other than what they are.

You keep saying, "no amount of stealth will keep them from seeing you" as if that is somehow meaningful. (1) In combat, not it will not. And? Nobody has said in combat it would. (2) Out of combat it will until you get close enough for some aura (or their perception...think Nemesis) to trigger them. As for "...you aren't a tanker then" that is YOUR belief. It is not written as a universal truth.

That first word is the big conditional in the sentence. People have all sorts of skill levels and all sorts of ways to play the game.

I think the problems with the entire, "shouldn't be stealthing thing" is that if you're going that way Scrappers and Brutes, who are there to deal damage, shouldn't be sneaking around either--things know you're there when you're sinking claws or swords into them. And just as sneaking around is used to get into position to deal damage so too sneaking around can be used to get into position to draw aggro (I'm now behind the guys so they will all turn and face me, for example).

So you're saying Spiderman emptied his inspiration tray? 😁

Gotcha! And a thing to keep in mind MCUwise is Thanos beats Thor and the Hulk. So that Spiderman is able to make Thanos struggle means Spiderman is not much behind (if at all) Thor and the Hulk in MCU. In the comics of course Thanos would not be someone Spiderman would really stand a chance against short of writer fiat. Of course there was that time when Cannonball defeated Gladiator....

Was referring to what Thanos is ranked at in the comics.

Yes. MCU he is able to make Thanos, who is officially Strength Class 100, struggle.

Spider Man was originally in the 10 ton strength class but is currently considered to be in the 25 ton strength class (as a result of Mephisto altering reality).

One more from the wayback days... The costume is really not that good, but the character is a teen so perhaps the lack of...refinement is fitting. I was definitely less in love with the costume than the character concept and how I approached the bio. I present my Electric Melee/Regen Brute, Solar Arc! I do not actually have a screenshot of the bio, but have a character xml file from back when there was hope characters might be restored at some point in the future: Q: Did you enjoy getting powers? A: No, I hated my powers at first. I was big into sports and you can't play if you have powers that give an unfair advantage. Even in non-contact sports my regenerative powers disqualified me. Q: But you came to like them? A: Dealing with villains is a sport of its own. Also flying is pretty cool. Q: Are you ever afraid when dealing with super villains? A: Of course. But they can't just be allowed to do what they want. I would rather fight and take the consequences than just let them hurt people. Q: How do you keep your costume on? A: Its mostly metal and I maintain a charge on it and an opposite charge on my chest. Attraction does the rest. Catch the rest of the interview with Solar Arc in next month's Superteen Beat!

From the live servers, my fist successful (as in I liked him) Tanker and first Tanker to level 50 (and then they shut the servers down), Pitchfire. I inverted the colors you'd expect for Dark Armor and Fire Melee, making Dark Armor orange and reddish and the Fire Melee effects shadowy. In the lower image you can see more of the Dark Armor as well as more of how the character actually looks when the illusion MAGI supplied him with falters. 😊

You would think I don't have costumes of my own that I think rock but keep coming across other costumes that are great. In this case unless you see it dynamically you miss out on what has been done. So its animated GIF time:

Two more from the Not Mine But Pretty Cool collection. Did not belong to the same supergroup either.

Its a version of number four if you consider "granted it" to be "channel it". In this case the channel is unwilling but they are still the channel.

Jawbreaker - You were going to be annoying, weren't you? Let's not have any of that.

Darn this thread...now I'm thinking about an Ice Blast/Kinetics Corruptor. And I already have an Ice/Time Corruptor, Ice/Time Controller, and Kinetics/Sonic Defender...I do not need to tread those powersets again.

Really this... ...especially if you have a rain power.

Well, there is the corner pocket case of Kinetics and Sonic Attack which works better on the Defender because the Defender most strongly debuffs the target's resistance and more strongly buffs damage.

v2.6.1.25 Energy Shield Entropic Aura for Scrappers does not show Recharge changes as the slider is used unlike with the Brute version.

Don't forget Beta Decay is screwing around with nearby (8 ft radius) opponent's ability to hit and you can set Particle Shielding as your auto power for an absorption shield which recycles every 40ish seconds or so by the build listed. There is also a bit of loss of action by your opponents by needing to stand up after you use Mass Levitate. 😀

Its not pretty, but it is pretty awesome!

Yeah, I really want to try Combat TP. Problem being I am trying desperately not to make another character (got as far as only needing a name yesterday before I stopped the process). I really want to work more of my characters in their 30s and 40s to 50 before starting something new.

Quibble: I know terms evolve and their usage and meaning shifts, but min-maxing has nothing to do with following a concept or not. The term which used to be opposed to concept/role-play was power gamer (at least 35-40ish years ago after I'd been involved with RPing for a few years). Min-maxing is a tool to achieve an end. It can further concept building just like it can further power gaming. For example, point based systems often did not give one enough points to fully represent a character. You might min-max to further your points so that you could pick up some extra skill/power to match the concept. Of course you could also do the same to try to end up with a more powerful character too. Don't even get me started on "Pay to Win" and how that term has shifted. Then I will become a true, crotchety, "Get off my lawn!" codger. 😊