High_Beam

Don't forget the apparent requirement for stealth and ATT so you can do content as fast as possible skipping as much as possible in order to get the Merits/whatever's because its the destination not the journey! Because leadership is defined by winning not quality of the game right? Le sigh. Wait, I am not Snarky. Yay everything!

I am going to say Belly Bubbles, at least that's how I see it in my impending fan fiction.

Thank you for that response.

Caltrops - I have perused the forums and have found no specific conversations in this arena. I have seen some builds with damage procs in Caltrops (Positron Blast for one), others do not and I am wondering if those are proccing when someone steps on them or are they procing when first tossed and there happens to be some targets in the toss, or are they even firing and someone was just Mids theorycrafting?

My main on HC is not my main from Retail. Retail it was High Beam, based on the character Thunderball I created from the old P&P days playing Champions and MSH with my brother and I drawing really bad comics telling the story of the adventure we just ran. But when I discovered HC I tried to recreate her but the name was taken and even though I created a copy with an OG name in front, that coupled with the fact that I actually got sad when I played her forced me to stop and move on. I have in fact avoided recreating any of my characters from those days (Highland Hammer, Eternal Amazon, Snap-Shot, ParaMedic, Siberian Shield . . . if those names are available, take them and have fun!). If I could get High Beam (No underscores or X’s or any of that junk), I would run her back up but yeah, it hurts. I guess the old saying you can never go back applies. Here on HC its Di Di Guns, a DP/MC Blapper whose name is a tribute to an old SG mate from Retail (though the original DiDi was an AR Blaster so mine is her daughter). Or Runeslinger who is climbing the ranks of regular go to and my Nukems of course (at least two of them).

Yeah as everyone has said, it depends on the EB and the AT you are playing. Nosferatu has ponded me into cheese flavored dog food so many times on so many ATs that I have to pull up the wiki every time to make sure its not the mission where he kills me 40 times because I have forgotten the exact one due to trauma. Then again I have a couple of characters that are so Brokey Smurf that -1 Bosses wreck them 🙂

I have some fan fiction involving them and certain other corporations secretly working together for a greater purpose based heavily on the AMA Lore relating to the Coming Storm. People should think long and hard as to why the Freedom Phalanx which also included the Dream Doctor as a member at one time, pushed so hard against the establishment of HC. I have never trusted Rebecca Foss.

The first thing I would ask is why? I am not being snarky (different Snarky), I am trying to figure out how you could be that put off by any powers at that low level because that might be what defines why you dropped it in the first place. You can sneeze and get to level 10 at the most casual level in like a couple hours. Did you take a 1-1 balance of primary or secondary or did you load up the 5 Primaries leaving only 2 devices.

Wow. I can barely solo the Matthew Hashaby arc with mine 🙂

I love my Blasters, all 11 of them but regardless of the damage numbers on a Corruptor, you have to admit that seeing "SCOURGE" flashing in the air over and over again does feel kind of seksi.

Gasoline!

My first Aeon and Tinpex were both super speed and I seriously didn't even known where to go. I felt . . . unheroic. It got better. All of the advice above is good and I myself have used it. I actually PUG quite a bit when not doing SG events because as mentioned, there is a random mix of powers, skill and style. Sure there are frustrations that go with it but you wont get bored. I have accepted that certain TF/SF are going to be speed unless I run it and say "kill all/most". Khan, Aeon, Kal and Yin are all in that group. There are others but because of their design, even speed runs still require patience and pacing so you don't get as lost in the sauce. I feel useful in speeds as a Blaster regardless of how fast it goes cause I am getting shots off. My trollers and defenders contribute. I leave the Brooting and tanking to the others because I am slow. Masterminds, yeah that's one that just hurts at times because even when not speed, an MM is left in the dust, well minor buff and debuff and then, "okay final mission, call your pets but don't draw aggro". Then again an MM can solo most content 😛

Its a great fun film if just for the pie fight and the frozen mustache. "Leslie escaped with a chicken!?"

My running joke when doing the Mortimer Kal Strike Force is in the mission where they call Odysseus by the full name Odysseus Hill I will always say he's friends with Hercules Johnson. It's not so funny the fourth time I do it.

Yeah that I figured. Its just funny mostly.

Yeah I saw that as well but it really should be the mechanism there not stun as its sand . . . in your eyes . . . it doesn't make me suddenly unable to shoot a gun or stagger around, it makes it hard for me to see straight.

His friends now call him Jeff.

Fun and favorite are two different things. Favs are Hess becuase of the reveal and the revamped Posi 1 and 2 because the stories are good and tough but not Rollister building tough like the old posi. Fun are just for creative smash which are Yin, Sutter and Market Crash; its fun beating on Freakshow and Sky Raiders.

I was playing around in Mids (Version 3.4.5) looking at my DP/MC Blaster and noticed it had removed the ToHit Enhancement from Throw Sand and now shows only Stuns as allowable Set IOs. I looked in the Patch notes and there it was, I totally missed it. So I logged on and saw that the Cloud Senses: Chance for Negative Energy was still slotted in Throw Sand and I was able to fire it and it proc fired as well. But the description in game now says that only stun Set IO's as per the patch notes. Funny thing is that in addition to the proc firing on some it actually has a stun affect apparently. No ToHit Debuff but a ToHit Debuff Enhancement. I assume that if I respec this character I will not be able to slot it back in but am I breaking anything by not removing it and letting it stay there? As a side note, I don't understand why they would take the ToHit Debuff out thematically since sand in your eyes would kind of reduce your ability to see straight as opposed to stunning me but whatever.

I thought it was Dastardly of Faultline as in a reference to Dick Dasterdly from Wacky Racers and of course Laff Olympics but now I am questioning myself considering there was a Muxley as opposed to Dastardly's dog Muttley; age, alcohol and hope probably all a factor in my confusion.

Lets see, I have a lot of odd or strange names but not so many actual pun-driven names: Jennifer Chilly - Ice/Ice Blaster a play on the actress Jennifer Tilly Violet Femme - Punk rock dressed (purple) Plant/Poison controller Adorabrawl - WP/SS Tank - super tiny and super cute and super punchy. Gibrawlter - Stone/Stone Brute - Get it the Rock of Gibralter There are a few others that I used to have but now that I read this post and post I want to re-make so I don't want to give away the name. Darn you altitis.

I guess they were worried about someone creating an FU character.

Manos: The Hands of Fate Hands: The Hands of Fate

So what name are you going with since I am confident Herakles and any possible l33t speak/number transposition variable was taken. Maybe Heraklea . . . go girl!

That is good to know information, I was not processing that it was a proc firing off. Does it add absorb to others or just self because I don't have it yet.