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Its the new MineShield the Gadgets Pool that the Devs are working on.

@RandoHeroI do not agree with your position, but thank you for sharing.

I have a Beam/Rad Sentinel at 50. Solid but yes boring.

Was never a fan of the Goody Mob. I am annoyed by ones that phase. I dislike Sorcerers and Porters because they will sometimes port and say fuck it I'm getting coffee and that is when you realize oh, this is a defeat all. I respect Super Stunners, I think its a great execution of concept and powers, but boy is it annoying. Sappers bug me but not like they used to, a lot was mere OMG panic than actual threat.

I like your optimism. But there were umpteen layers of pre-existing forces in game and in real life that would have been brought in before this and thus my problem and no amount of tapdancing, or tweaking or even ret-conning will change that. KW just like every other zone is not a separate city with a separate law enforcement, they are parts of Paragon City thus all served by the PPD. so factoring out the other glaring dumbness here, regardless of whatever big terrible fuck up happened, the only things that would happen would be a cleaning of house by PPD, worse case scenario, all of PPD, in every district. Blah blah this isn't reality. Duh. Yep sure isn't but the games reality works in that it still frames itself in a veneer of normal among the abnormal. State Police, National Guard (State Activation), Federal Law Enforcement, National Guard (Federal Authorization), U.S. Military, Longbow (FBSA Sanctioned), Vanguard (United States and United Nations Sanctioned). All of those entities would have been brought in before some corporation, especially one where the city all but cedes control and oversight of to. Its too much horseshit to suspend disbelief on. Sorry. There are dozens of ways this great enemy (from a power and challenge standpoint) could have been brought in, corporate war between Crey and them comes immediately to mind. Le Sigh.

I am the guy who gets tossed out the window cause it works fine for me and I have had maybe one problem with in in years.

Those emoticons allow me to avoid more strenuous commentary such as the middle finger, telling individuals to copulate with themselves, directions on how to kiss certain rear facing (but smooth) parts of my anatomy. And with the sarcasm turned off, they allow me to acknowledge, either positively or negatively someones thoughts without wasting other people time with my blathering. I talk a lot, I write walls of text and often its lost in the noise of itself; I drift off tangent into sea stories. Often when I comment, I think I have something important to say (rarely is) so to minimize that noise I generate I will click an emoticon (though I still don't get 1/3 of the ones meaning). You have a fine Navy day.

I wonder if he will take my case relating to the Clanket incident.

Growing up it was cartoons and comics then it was Dungeons and Dragons. A creative spark was lit. I could create characters, even worlds. I tired all of the RPGs back then, including Marvel Superheores, Villains and Vigilantes and yes, Champions. The campaigns that we had and then the shitty, poorly drawn comic we drew afterward were fun. Then I suddenly become an adult, join the Navy and that had to be left behind to a degree, at least initially. But computer games arrived and SSI put out the gold box D&D adventures. Now I didn't have to try and scrape together friends I could play. First online MMO was in fact Neverwinter Nights on AOL. Then really serious adulthood occurred as well as locations precluding access. Then I return to the states and its right when CoH arrives, so I pick up up along with EVE online. And I fell in love. Everything was amazing then and most are still amazing now. The fact that you can actually record movies of your heroes doing stuff, in game without a third party program is crazy; they built that in game. I still have a video of the Babes of War from back in like 2008 after doing a Shard TF. The costume creator, all of those things are amazing. But really, for me it boils down to pure escapism, the military demanded absolute focus when on so when off you absolutely need to do the opposite. Even after my military retirement I still work full time in support of our country and that required the same focus. So when We lost CoH I was hard pressed to find my decompression space. When it came back, life was good. My spouse used to complain about the time I spent on the game when it was live, now she has straight up said I am a lot more mellow since it came back.

That right there is a truth bomb. I may just donate a few bucks for their honesty. Thanks BF, I mean PF.

Loved me Pirate Corp$ and Milk & Cheese. Dorkins art would work great with some of my less serious characters. Hmm. Dark Horse back when they had the Aliens license and were really making good product. Munitions Mistress would fit very well there. Also My really goofy characters would be fun in a Roachmill style world.

That looks terrible! I wasn't expecting it to look that bad. And those sound effects, it looks like those commercials form the mid nineties for learning game programming, its like . . . Lawnmower man level bad. I want to feel bad for their developers, but then I see them clipping through bodies and walls.

I didn't want to spoil for those who have not done the content yet, I am not that kind of Beam. They are a great enemy group to fight, tough, interesting design, etc. But the justification for their being there, garbage. Statesman (the hero character not Jack Emmert) would have ended that crap with a quickness just like he and the Phalanx delayed Foss's questionable expansion of Hero Corps or the Countesses Paragon Protector Program. Corporate policing never serves the public; in comics, in movies or in real life.

The content will answer your question (somewhat). Fight hard!

Paragon is filled with federalized forces (Longbow, Vanguard) and of course the RI State Police and National Guard, the U.S. Military. So frame job or not, whatever story, original or mirroring the Robocop OCP playbook, they would be called before these punks. As I said, I disagree with it; I'll leave it at that and move on.

The group is tough and a challenge and a welcome addition from the standpoint of a enemy group to fight. The justification for their running law enforcement in Kallisti; I still disagree with.

Secksi

There are several instances of this kind of non-clarity. Keep on truckin and it will work out.

Okay pass one in Brainstorm, with a respec and the suggestions posted in here. So I slid in mental blast form the psionic Mastery set and put Decimation chance to BU. That alone, due to the fast fire of the power actually enhanced my attack chain and the build up fires enough (I am shooting way more than the PPM rate). But that made a speed difference that made me happier to say the least. Now add that to the "duh" correction with regards to power Siphon and I am finally seeing the damage numbers i expected to see on the tier 9 (I am easy to please). Now Pass 2 will add the Gaussian Proc to see @Jacke said. I do monitor to hit and damage but not last chance. I will giver a add for testing. But I have a question. I have the Critical Strikes AT IO Set in Concentrated, hoping for that Crit trike fire. Is that the way to go? But all in all, this character isn't going into the bit bucket now, I don't feel bad about myself when I play her. But I would like to feel better 🙂

So I love almost everything. I tested a lot of it on Brainstorm and my only complaints then about visuals were that Pyro wasn't sparkly enough. That said when I built and tested, I did not include Catherine Wheel. You have to tone Catherine Wheel down a bit and shrink the circle by half. Just one, is constantly obscuring your sight. and I was on a team with three pyros, all had them out and it was blinding; regular play eyesight not sensitivity to light or seizure induction, just blinding distraction. Portals dropped cant see, enemies cant see, might as well have me in blinded status. I am not saying wreck the visuals. But think about singularity, not as large, not as bright, not as distracting. Just put sparkles on it or just shrink it. I mean it doesnt have to be damn near invisible like reverberant is, but please think about it, wont you.

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Thanks for the positive information. Will definitely be doing some tweaking and testing on Brainstorm. @Jacke, I truly didn't know the deal relating to the "build up and stacking", definitely something I was missing (I Tom Glancey'd it) assuming it was like all others and was firing it just before Concentrated. This alone may tip me into more fun than not zone if I am not spending seven minutes working over a +2 Boss 🙂 @Spaghetti Betty, thanks for the suggestions, especially the piece about the EPP hold.

Well at least I am not alone. I so want to like this set. I am not looking for the easy button or teh ubar; if I am having fun then I am good, and that is the big problem. Most of the time its painful. Granted after making that post I went in and did a Citadel and a Yin, both short on melee and long on pyro, it went faster and bad ddues dropped but I am pretty sure it wasnt me doing it. I thin a Defender had a Blackwand out. But on the Yin, with a lot of pyro, I had fun, more fun than I normally do on Penelope Smash. I just got to 33 with this character and the torrent doodle was never in the picture. I treat focused burst like a melee attack and is faster than the wind up on Concentrated. See I wouldn't mind the slow if there was a payoff. You would think that there could be a way to pull off one of those gimmicky things like they do with other sets. like its kinetic and you are building up energy and if you don't release it you might explode (or pee yourself). Though not like one hit to charge and one release with Energy Melee. maybe stacks so that say burst or concentrated burst then get the green light to go extra explody. @Spaghetti Bettylooking outside the primary for damage options, as in procs or something else, like hiring a guy to follow me around.