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It's been a while, but there's a particular level range, (I want to say in the late teens to early 20s), where you're fighting a lot of CoT ghosts and, IIRC, Death Mages, that can just overwhelm you with tohit debuffs, and in that level range, you are sorely lacking the extra powers, slots, and/or IO set bonuses, to adequately combat them. Similarly, unless you specifically have slow resists, your recharge can also get floored, leaving you nigh incapable of defending yourself...

Was that added by the HC devs? Maybe they implemented it as an outdoor/possible combat zone instead of a "safe" interior one...

Ya lost me at sardines... BBQ... 😜

TBH, no - With 2 'trollers, containment won't be an issue, so you can really leverage the extra damage - maybe throw in a pool attack if you want to fill in some gaps - Toxic Dart is a surprisingly good choice, because unless I've misread the power info, it deals the extra containment damage up-front as lethal damage, instead of an additional toxic DoT...

Was that the series where the MC creepily rode his partner/mecha-horse, who then turned into a humanoid form?

Agreed - it's a "nice to have", but not a "must have", for most of my builds...

Of all the things requested over the years, this, frankly, seems like one of the most benign...

Level 50 Dark/Dark/Soul Dominator LFT, oh Peter!!!

That's actually the FX from savage melee - no separate aura. The red is to make the actual slash FX red combined with how the background was red, and remove.bg kind of mixes things together a bit.

The question is "played by whom"? The most straightforward would be something like a stone/ss tanker and a fire/kin controller, IMO. But if you have 2 particularly skilled individuals, I'd agree that 2 controllers would probably excel...

I find the tohit is just as useful, especially versus some enemies that can really drop your chance to hit via debuffs. Additionally, you can slot a unique IO like Gaussian's, to essentially get double the benefit. It's also great as an opener, if you don't have a lot of fury built up, and can provide just that little bit of extra "oomph" to take out a particularly tough or troublesome enemy...

The biggest difference, which is a significant one, is the lack of a -range component in provoke; Without that, enemies may be taunted to your character, but they won't close in on them... EDIT: This is especially important if you want to pull an enemy off of an ally or need enemies to be close to you to further empower some of your armor abilities. Also, IIRC, taunt is auto-hit vs normal enemies, while provoke has a tohit check.

From a developer standpoint, why bother implementing that, though? They didn't even have flapping capes or cloth at launch. Heck, they didn't have power tinting, either - All those things were cludged together later. Since they could just create a new character and insta-level them to whatever level they wanted, along with giving that character whatever enhancements they wanted, they could just reroll anything they needed for their purposes, so why bother implementing AT and powerset change commands?

Now imagine Ghost Widow with Lois' voice...

I was talking about one possible implementation, not the subsequent testing involved. I should hope that even the most miniscule change would be tested before going live...

It depends upon how the powers work. For instance, if anything less than a value of 1 for a KB power turns it into KD, then you could simply apply a -KB magnitude debuff to the player...

What about "Mutition"? Maybe it's special sheep-bullets...

I mean, if you have the mini-map open, just use the little arrow icon of your character to determine the direction you should be facing, then head to the nearest 'F' icon...

"What we do in the Shadows" makes me wonder if they could reboot "The Munsters", but maybe play up their supernatural nature a bit more...

I believe the costume files literally use the extension ".costume", so you should be able to search for that as well, (or create a costume and save it with a very distinctive name, then search for that).

I'm not going to speak for @Snarky, but let's go with a best-case scenario - he received no warning points. He was still contacted and warned. Now, if the person didn't do anything wrong, then why warn them? Either something was an infraction or it wasn't, and in the case of the latter, then leave it be...

Or an elec blast/nin blaster or elec/sr/ninja sentinel, (if Sith)... EDIT: Another idea: katana/sr scrapper with dark mastery - torrent to represent a force push, petrifying gaze to represent force stasis, or energy mastery, (conserve power as a form of meditation, physical perfection, then energy torrent for the force push).

I feel like, if this is the approach they're going to take, that they then need to enforce a strict "stay on topic" policy, meaning that ANY response post that doesn't directly respond to the OP, (or subsequent posts), and which includes any sort of commentary MUST then be scrubbed and/or acted upon, because clearly, if you do otherwise, you're being insulting...

Awwww Snarky, we all know that's just how you express your unwavering love for all (un)living things!

Might have to force some missile pods on whatever takes the place of the assault bot...