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I don't mean to interrupt but I got a delivery here for some gasoline. It says you ordered the matches separately and are just waiting. I don't know when you are gonna use it but someone needs to sign for it.

Superman - But not so much everyone's super strength deal. I was more like Invulnerability and Flight is what makes me think of the Man of Steel. The Flash - Super Speed is the only thing I attribute to him. I know that isn't all he has but that what my mind evokes. In game, I think Flash when I see a super speeder, even if they are a pixie sized female character with butterfly wings and a vivid purple costume. The Punisher - Assault Rifle and Body Armor (Munitions Mastery). You have a rifle, that's who you are. That's who you were thinking of when you made your character and you know it 🙂 The Human Torch (Johnny Storm version) - Fire/Fire Blaster is spot of and the only thing I think of. You can be dressed as a cat girl and you are still Johnny Storm, cat girl. Wolverine - Claws/Regen - You know what you did and that's okay. But most don't truly evoke a specific hero (or villain) for me in large part because of the fact that they never quite fit. Sometimes it is pure costume aesthetic, the way the power manifests in game doesn't quite sync up with the character in comics. Other times its the mechanism of the power as it is rendered. That is part of why I enjoy the game so much because the powers don't fully mesh up with a specific character. You have a shield and some melee power but you aren't throwing it doing three point ricochet shots so you aren't the First Avenger. You have the costume and chose devices but you cannot be the Dark Knight because post comics code says no guns. You have the satin tights and you want to fight for our rights but try to make the powers work there, you cannot be the Princess of Themyscira. No webs no Spiderman . . . the list goes on and on. And that is great. That allowed me to make my own characters (albeit always locked into a specific gender but that was my choice) and therefore able to create my own stories. The Munitions' Mistress, a hard core merc and mother with a lot of issues. Krystala, a rock Blaster and renegade from the Circle of Thorns who now hunts them. Boom Boom Britta, the inexperienced Kineticist from Praetoria struggling after the loss of her home world. Runeslinger, the awesome magic girl and her awesome pistols Sigil and Glyph. Tempus Fabulous the temporal scientist from an alternate earth where science is respected who desperately tries to get people in this earth to listen to reason before its too late. All because the game evoked the spirit of super heroes not the super heroes themselves. I know it sounds like I am up on a soapbox, and I would be lying if I said I hadn't made characters inspired by comic characters (albeit Punisher with breasts), but the copies, the ones where I tried to be like those comics characters never lasted.

Joke inbound, stand clear of blast zone: Defenders? It depends if you are talking old school comics or the Netflix series. Old school definitely take Dr. Strange. If you are talking Netflix then Luke Cage for sure. Joke detonation complete. Secure from alert.

Yeah, the devs stated in a different post the mechanics behind why this was happening and that the time crunch precluded fixing it this season but will fix for the future. With that said, there is almost always a large League running in both PI and Kallisti Wharf where you can get in on the badge/Aether fun. If your goal is to knock on doors alone, maybe see if pulling up a Ouroboros mission below 25 will exemp you down to where you could door knock in say Talos and EBs shouldn't be in the mix (I have not tested that theory). Also, as a side note, I sat next to the Banner of Scorn in IP with a level 43 MM/Trap Merc with the boys on auto-fire and just wiped them as they spawned for 15 minutes, almost like the door experience except no badges.

It's kind of secksi when it happens too. All of that Aether in one fell swoop makes ya tingly for a few seconds.

Adjust your difficulty sliders.

I totally hate Benny . . . and not just because of that suit jacket he's wearing.

I do this on one tank and of course its Burst of Speed on my DP/MC Blaster. Its neat.

I get the original buff which when I started was unslotted. The problem was after adding slots the other two troop types saw increases commensurate to the addition of additional slots and enhancements but Soldiers stayed flat at the auto slot with no enhancement. I took screenies of the final numbers but not the progression (or rather absence). After work today I am gonna yank the SOs from them and screenshot incrementally.

Thanks Gene Siskel! Now I feel as loved as Troo!

Well nothing says class more than marble columns.

The issue was specific to the Soldiers bit getting it at all beyond the baseline. Spec Ops and Commando were getting it and any additional is nice. This was the post in the Bug Forum with the data I gathered:

So a little update. Its solid as hell. The Presence Pool shtick was in fact the better choice than what I used a respec for (additional items from Medicine). I got Serum in and that's nice. Not chasing perma on it though. The +RES and DEF slotting really nice except for the fact that Soldiers are not getting the buff (Bug Post made). Munitions Mistress is more fun that she used to be which is all I could really ask for.

I totally love my Rock Blaster Krystalla . . . super fun.

That dolphin is awesome!

Well I jumped the gun and right after work yesterday I went home, reframed my Merc MM and executed a respec . . . and like my first marriage, I have significant regrets. I kept telling myself to move her to Test again and respec that way but I got ants in my pants and now have to burn another to dump the suck Pool Power I took to restore the less sucky pool power I dumped. Also my new DP/EA Sentinel needs to stop an Atlas Park thingy because she needs a Raptor Pack and there is that Fire Sentinel.

Sadly, Brainstorms are those things I E-Mail to a single character then every once in a blue moon craft them for for the rare. Honestly it would be nice to see some sort of modification or improvement to the mechanism for accumulating them. Perhaps some sort of radio-like mission structure that can be given out by the Universities that yield a small number of them, not so that they profitable from a farming standpoint but where they are at least not as much of a pain in the buttocks as @Ukase accurately describes.

Well to be both snarky (no relation) and semi-realistic, if they removed the "tax" power pick prerequisite they would likely reduce the values (enhancement numbers) that Tough and Weave provide to balance since the historic statement and precedence is that no Pool Power should function greater than a Primary or Secondary (yes I know Sorcery is staring at me). Similarly if they added even a miniscule +DEF or +RES to those "tax" powers they would be even more inclined to notch numbers down.

Hey, I got a work order here to deliver a tank of gasoline and a blowtorch, I need someone to sign for it.

True, ergo the grindy sound. And now, in order to fully derail this thread: Christopher Eccleston was the best of the modern Doctors.

Technically the way the TARDIS works on the show is in large part due to the fact that it is broken.

Did you dismiss and then resummon after slotting right, I learned I had to do that on test. My Mercs Soldiers have an issue (posted in this forum) but initially I had to remember to dismiss then resummon for the improvements to show up in stats.

BLUF: Soldiers are not seeing their Resistance or Defense increase from slotting in Equip Mercenaries and Tactical Upgrade. Is this intended? So I preface this with being up front when I say I tested the changes to the Resistance and Defense slotting in the Equip Mercs and Tactical upgrade when it was on test but only looked at the numbers from Spec Ops and Commando but NOT Soldiers (I was lazy). I love the change and it drastically improves survivability. What I am here pointing out, which might be a bug but maybe not is that while Commando and Spec Ops improve when you slot (and resummon) Soldiers do not. I actually spotted this when I was doing my respec on live. This is not a complaint about the numbers being not enough or too much its pointing out that Soldiers are not receiving the same benifits Munitions Mistress - Level 43 - Mercs/Traps - Heavily Set IO Slotted including all Pet RES and DEF Procs. Baseline (Zero Enhancements slotted in the Auto Slot for Equip Mercenaries and Tactical Upgrade). Numbers from the Combat Attributes look in game, not Mids. Commando - Resist From Equip 25.41 - Defense From Tactical Upgrade 6.05 Spec Ops - Resist From Equip 25.31 - Defense From Tactical Upgrade 6.03 Soldiers - Resist From Equip 25.20 - Defense From Tactical Upgrade 6.00 One Resist and One Defense slotted In Auto Slot (Level 45 SO) Commando - Resist From Equip 31.00 - Defense From Tactical Upgrade 7.38 Spec Ops - Resist From Equip 31.15 - Defense From Tactical Upgrade 7.41 Soldiers - Resist From Equip 25.20 - Defense From Tactical Upgrade 6.00 (NOT A TYPO - STILL SAME AS UNSLOTTED) Two Resist and Two Defense slotted In Auto Slot (Level 45 SO) Commando - Resist From Equip 36.49 - Defense From Tactical Upgrade 8.69 Spec Ops - Resist From Equip 36.79 - Defense From Tactical Upgrade 8.76 Soldiers - Resist From Equip 25.20 - Defense From Tactical Upgrade 6.00 (NOT A TYPO - STILL SAME AS UNSLOTTED) Three Resist (didn't slot third defense as this was not my plan and this was a live respec vice test: Commando - Resist From Equip 39.87 Spec Ops - Resist From Equip 39.82 Soldiers - Resist From Equip 25.20 (NOT A TYPO - STILL SAME AS UNSLOTTED) So there ya go. I would love to know if this is a thing or is for some reason intended.

Sorry but I don't like Incandescent. I don't mind change but moving Castle seems like change just to change. That's why if I train in PI (which isnt often) I greet with: "Hi Not Castle." Then depart with: "Bye Not Castle. Bring Back Castle." Admittedly, this one time a nearby player let me know that Castle had jumped the shark when he got amnesia and they did the whole loc-sat (sp) conspiracy thing. The fact that I got his reference made me have to stop and take stock of my life for a little bit 🙂

I worked this on test a bit and as it stands right now I am adding two slots (for three total) on the Equip (RES) because it seemed to translate to less of them getting zeroed down fast. I tried with the defense and it wasn't as noticeable with regards to mitigation. Keep in mind I have all of the RES and DEF procs slotted that I can. Focus fire was nice. I had a thematic use of Presence that was in there but now I am pulling out two (I need the slots as well) and swapping in Serum (its a good AV/EB fight aid now that it affects the whole squad). They were noticeably stronger and survivable on test and in sum, I don't have to gut my build too much. There is some tweaking of course because of certain exemplar benchmarks I have but overall, so excited to get home and play. The Munitions Mistress is coming for you!