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Suggestions for the best COR // DOM // DEF // CONT to use for SOLO play?
roleki replied to Ted's topic in Archetypes
Grav/Storm/Stone. Starts off a little sluggish, but you won't remember that when you're Wormholing mobs across the map into a kill zone populated with multiple Lightning Storms and whatever Tornadoes you've wrought. If you take Thunderclap and Fissure you've got a 1-2-3 in Wormhole/TC/Fissure that will stun just about anything you'll run into in short order, then you just Gale/Hurricane everything into a corner and wait for Lightning Storm to recharge while your pseudopets grind everything into mush. Ill/Traps is another interesting drive, especially if you can keep your 'stealth' up to set up Traps while your Phantom Army distracts the nerds. I hesitate to call this one out for soloing though, because it's a bit tedious until you get Trip Mine and perma-PA. Once you have those, Ill/Traps is basically foolproof. -
Officially Unofficial Weekly Discussion #24: Temporary Powers
roleki replied to SeraphimKensai's topic in General Discussion
Seconding this; I'd use fly more if I could move about upright like General Zod or Graviton, instead of flying in the missionary position. -
A collapse in the market also lowers the game playability
roleki replied to Diantane's topic in General Discussion
Man. These cheap-ass boosters are delicious. -
If you go to Striga, at the base of the mountain where Council Vampire spawn at night, there's a donut shop where Paragon Police spawn during the day.
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They should change the default theme on the forum to brown, so I can see people contort themselves explaining how that's actually in everyone's best interest.
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Not to be that guy, but, I'm not seeing a cape.
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Yes, it does. But, it's a data point that aids one user to identify another user IS that user and not a parody or spoof, and to give further context to the comment in question. Think of it like 2-factor (3-factor?) authentication; I see a post I agree with, who wrote it? I recognize that name. I recognize the avatar/signature. I recognize the count/rep. Yep, that's the guy alright. He's alright. But, it's probably also used to keep track of people who can eat shit. Well, we haven't done the best job even with visible reps. And it fucking bums me out that I have to explain that I was - and am - fully cognizant that accumulated rep isn't going away, was never going away, and that people could see it by viewing their profiles. But only weirdos look at people's profiles. When I discuss the concept of lack of accumulated forum rep, I mean the visual representation of which I can examine immediately without further interaction with the UI.
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On the one hand, no accumulated forum rep will make it more difficult for newer users to develop an assurance that the person they tend to agree with most frequently actually knows what the hell they are talking about. Lack of rep will be kind of a 'barrier to entry' in and of itself, because when every reaction is based SOLELY on the content of the post in question, you lose most of the 'equity' built into leaving feedback for particular posters... that feeling that kind of perks up when you recognize the person you are agreeing with, and you rememebr you agreed with them on these 10 different posts On the other hand, forum rep tends to 'organize' into factions over time, with accumulated rep forming a kind of hierarchy of competing confessions. That doesn't always kill a community, but it will invariably lead to heavy moderation to keep things civil, which invariably leads to one faction or another feeling itself the 'victor' and the other the 'loser' and THAT is the kind of thing that will kill a community. On the third hand, I shudder to think what the forums would look like if folks of a certain personality type didn't have a forum reputation to protect, and thus no incentive NOT to say whatever the hell they want. The inconvenience of having to make another account isn't nearly as effective a deterrent as is the thought of a high-rep account into which you have put many hours of care, accumulating forum rep one post at a time, only to say something shitty and getting it suspended/banned. A community with no incentive to self-police is actually kind of shitty.
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Now that I am thinking about it, wasn't there a brief time where the XP/inf (both?) were doled out proportionate to how much damage the character dealt to the defeated mob? So Defenders and whatnot would get trickles of XP and the Scrappers/Blasters would get gobs of it? For some reason that sticks out in my brain right now, and I am sure that is why I shelved my first character (Grav/Kin) in favor of an En/En blaster, because I got to the Hollows and everybody was leveling-up every 30s and my dude was stuck in stasis. Typing it now, the memory seems right but maybe I'm thinking of another game, though I can't imagine which it would be. Anyway, point being, seems like the game used to TELL you how much damage you were doing without a damage meter, is what I'm saying, and I recall it being awful.
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I've seen some stinkers as well (and maybe traffic in them myself) but I figure, my weird is only MY weird in the context that it coexists in the midst of everyone else's normal, so efforts made to clean up what passes for normal will only tighten the boundaries around my weird, and I don't like that idea.
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Are you saying you would report my Water/EA Corruptor, Embarrassing Wetness?
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Actually, it's rare I don't get a name I want, but then, not many people have a dancing SS/En Brute named Twerkules.
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Whose browser is it, then?
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Fire Control Superhero Alien Write a story of a superhero alien who can control fire and protect allies with force fields "Once upon a time, in a far-off galaxy, there was an alien named Blaze. Blaze was not just any ordinary alien; he was gifted with the ability to control fire and create force fields to protect himself and his allies. Blaze grew up on a peaceful planet where everyone lived in harmony. But one day, a dangerous alien race invaded, threatening the safety of Blaze's people. Blaze, determined to protect his home and loved ones, used his powers to fight back. With his fire powers, Blaze was able to incinerate his enemies and with his force fields, he was able to shield himself and his allies from harm. The invading aliens were no match for Blaze, and soon enough, they retreated, defeated. News of Blaze's bravery spread quickly throughout the galaxy, and soon he became known as a superhero. Other planets in need called upon Blaze to defend them from their own invasions, and Blaze answered their call, using his powers to bring peace to the galaxy. Blaze's bravery and selflessness made him a symbol of hope for all those in need. He continued to use his powers to protect and serve, becoming one of the greatest superheroes in the galaxy. And so, Blaze lived a long and fulfilling life, always ready to jump into action to defend those in need, using his powers to bring light to the darkness and hope to those who needed it most. He will always be remembered as a true hero." Dang it all, "Blaze"? Unsat, AI. Unsat.
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Tell me ChatGPT hasn't interacted with living people who consider themselves cowboys without telling me ChatGPT hasn't interacted with living people who consider themselves cowboys.
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Well, that's fargin' weird. Answered this and went to edit it, and my response disappeared. Anyway, gist was: while the suggestion is not a bad idea in and of itself, I could see it leading to calamity of e-peen measuring. The game kind of already tells you where your DPS ranks with the AT icons; knowledge of the various primary/secondary pairings in a given AT will let you refine those rankings. I would also suggest that if you click a teammates Character Info and look at the Powers tab, you can kind of infer how the build is set up from there: if there's lots of set bonuses that fill the screen, or NO bonuses at all, they likely aren't using damage procs to Amp their DPS. If they have only a handful of set bonuses, they likely are leaning very heavily on damage (or other) procs and will out-damage their peers within that same AT.
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Newb question: Magnitude/duration for "Chance for X" enhancements ?
roleki replied to MrZork's topic in General Discussion
This is where COD (thanks. @UberGuy) comes in handy. Superior Frozen Blast imparts a 10s Mag3 Immob on proc, averaging 3.5 fires per minute. The link to check it out is here... https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=boosts.superior_attuned_frozen_blast_f.superior_attuned_frozen_blast_f&at=blaster -
But I am digging the new Forum Smells that are venting out of my browser.
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If I don't have slots to go for a full set of Gaussian in Aim, I like slotting it with Gauss ToHit/Rech, Gauss% and a 50 Recharge IO. I forget the exact combo, but spreading 4 Enhancement Boosters between the ToHit/Rech and the Recharge IO, you can get slotted enhancement to 74% - just under the threshold where local recharge impacts the proc chances. It's not 100%, but configured that way you can usually rely on the proc to fire every time, allowing you to predict when your damage amp will be at its peak and max the damage output during the effect window.
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I have a framework for every character, regardless of AT. I'm going to slot Miracle/Numina/Panacea in Health, PerfShift% in Stamina and if they don't have a heal they're getting the Power Transfer% as well. if they have a resist power, the earliest Resist power gets 4 pieces of UGuard with the proc, and then the two +Def uniques. Earliest Defense power gets three pieces of LotG and the two +Res uniques. If they're ranged, they get as many sets of Artillery as I can fit; if they're melee, then it's a mix of Winters, ATOs, Touch of Death and Obliteration. Once they have about 25% +Def in their preferred positional, I work towards whatever the secondary does best, then circle back and shore up whatever is least of +Res, +Rech or +Def until I'm out of slots. This approach doesn't lead to UBER DPS, but I usually end up with something that I can count on while I'm figuring out if I like the combo or not, and I usually only need to do one fine-tune respec afterwards.
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Question: do modded sounds get louder as you get near them, the way the default glowie sound does?
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Hold up now. Whereabouts are these MANLY HOT MILFS?
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It would have been a better story if Wombo Dream worked like it used to, before it learned to deliver average results. It used to take any prompt whatsoever and deliver the perfect fever-dream results. Now it has guardrails and delivers less-insane drawings. I mean, it's still GOOD, but it used to be great.
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Caillou started as a children's show, but it took a turn midway through the fifth season when a violent drug cartel moved into the neighborhood and set up shop right outside the school. One of the drug lord's 'children' (later revealed to be the drug lord himself, a 40yo man suffering from focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, 'Gary Coleman Disease') began pushing narcotics on the schoolyard playground. Caillou reported this to his Grandmother, who alerted Caillou's parents, who in turn notified the RCMP (Canada). This resulted in several low-level arrests but it was revealed that the capo and several of his lieutenants had diplomatic immunity, as the cartel were in Canada as ambassadors of the Pacific nation of Norfolk Island. In retribution, the cartel ran the family down in broad daylight as they were walking to the Ice Cream Stop, and attacked them with comically-long machetes. Viciously wounded in the initial assault, Caillou survived by climbing into the cavity created when his grandmother was disemboweled and hiding there until the attack was over; from his fetal position inside granny, he could clearly see every face of every attacker's committed them to memory. He was later found and nursed to health by a fictionalized version of Brent Gretzky (Canada), portrayed here as a highly-skilled martial artist and freelance assassin formerly in the employ of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (Canada). Brent Gretzky trained Caillou in the use of various deadly forms of martial arts and associated weaponry, as well as numerous techniques used to torture and kill a grown man using only maple syrup (Canada). In the five-part finale - the entirety of which was present in the form of a montage - Caillou was depicted tracking, isolating and systematically dispatching his family's killers one-by-one in progressively-novel and increasingly-gruesome ways; for instance, his first kill was stabbed in the navel with a pointy umbrella that was then opened after it passed through the man's back. Another took place inside a Great Clips, where Caillou ignored the Clip Notes on file and kept shaving the man's head until nothing was left of him but a pair of shins and gaudy snakeskin boots. Yet another was beaten to death in an alley by being struck 33,120 times in the same spot on his skull with the same banana, in a nod to the number of frames of animation typically used in a traditional Caillou episode. In the final episode, Caillou cornered the diminutive cartel boss inside a disused Kirby Vacuum outlet. After a lengthy battle that featured each man using improvised weapons found in the mmediate vicinity to inflict unreasonable wounds on each other, Caillou forced his opponent into a grievous tactical error wherein the doomed man attempted to use a Model 562 as a bludgeon; noticing the reversed polarity of the electric motor found in the notoriously-powerful appliance, Caillou activated the vacuum which proceeded to instantly suck the skin, subcutaneous fat, nerves, veins, muscles, connective tissues, cartilage, organs, and most of the skeleton into a receptacle bag, which then exploded, leveling the warehouse but leaving Caillou unharmed, holding only the man's denuded, diminutive skull. The shift to an ultra-violent (yet still, cartoonish) aesthetic turned off many longtime viewers, and the show was not renewed for a sixth season.