Clave Dark 5

Please let me know who that pratfall of a team leader that was so I can put him on my blacklist too. That's the worst kind of player, period. I'd rather play with an entire league full of "how do I get to Pocket D?" n00bz than one self-centered fool like that. Sorry you had to get annoyed Snarky, here's hoping for better next time.

I had no idea such things existed

Mayo in the Netherlands

But then it would over run by "git gud" elitists who're even more smug than they are now!

It's been a part of super-speeders hero comics for a long, long time though. This in 1947, for one example. I mean, when you get down to it, alot of stuff in this game is silly. 😃

It's been low level kicking around these forums for a couple of years, there was again a thread about it somewhere, but I can't recall where. That said, I'm not sure if it checks against Illusion's Decoys.... interesting question!

I think I've settled on Doms as my fave these days too. But I also make number-ignoring choices and avoid cookie-cutter planning, so all this might be hokum for you: It's a matter of play style, but I'd stick with the Leaderships, because I'm not much of a fan of Stealthing missions and speedruns, whatever; of course if you are, ignore me. 😃 Being hard up for End, I've even dropped Tough+Weave on Doms before and still made things work - clearly a bad idea if you wanna do mad +4/+8 runs and 4-star material. I always team, so I tend to draw less notice and so avoid alphas that'll kill me when I even so much look at a group of foes. Plus that leaves open more power choices to pick up Tactics to drop the Guassian's proc into. Again, if you team, it proc-checks how many people around you that Tactics is affecting, it even can proc off pets.

Look, we Americans split away from Britain for some very good reasons...

"Knockback, Vectors, Claves"?! Who's in here complaining about me again now, whatever perfectly awful thing do they think I said this time to warrant more downvo-- Oh, caves... Never mind.

I think some got put in one place because it's something that would draw interest, like the top of a building with a radio tower on it, the bottom of a strip mine (redside, of course) and so on. Then there are ones in not so obvious places but that make sense, like the wrecked car. Then there are ones that are just wherever, "let's say Statesman defeated some trolls here at... uh, this street corner. Boom."

They're like sand...

I can understand that, so many issues like MM customization have been chewed over so much... I do wonder what one could do to unbreak KB though.

I admire the creativity of your response, but your sig is doing it no favors. 😃

This is the only MMO I play, and the only video game I play. I often get bored of it and yet, still here! I still enjoy making a new story for the AE, at least once I've finished wrestling with that janky thing, and I'm still susceptible to that happy confluence of events when character concept, name and costume all somehow come together and make the game seem fun all over again. I always enjoy the sense of camaraderie on a good fun-minded team, but those sadly seem to be fewer and fewer between.

I've been using it when a few group up near the rim to push them into the bowl. Both tactics are useful of course!

I built a stalker to take as many combat (meaning damaging) TP-like powers that I could, so he's a Shield/Savage, and he's really fun to play - no more chasing after runners or anything I just 'port on top of them. Elec probably would have been a better choice instead of Savage damage-wise, but I'm perfectly happy with him. I build up a Dom recently for all the damage boosts I could possibly get, sacrificing everything else when it came to choosing "more damage" vs. say recharge or more End or whatever. Set bonuses? Frankenslot for +damage. Incarnate powers? Go for +damage. You get the idea. I don't think she quite made perma-Dom and she's prone to KB and holds, but turns out she can still play just fine, and when the stars align (Gaussains firing off, BU clicked, etc.) I've gotten up around +250% damage, maybe more (I really should run a log sometime and check). I dunno if that's actually exceptional or not, and maybe I'm ignorant of a few good tricks to kick that up even more (I keep meaning to post her build and see if anyone can refine her more; also, note to self: make sure to use empowerment stations in my base), but I did build this weird thing myself, so I enjoy running it.

Mace is a lot of fun. I don;'t usually run standard melee toons, but I've run Mace a few times now, both Live and HC.

I think pulling a bad lip reading off a puppet is kind of cheating too...

That only happens to gullible people though!

I was thinking/readings they were discussing KB protection, even if they didn't make clear of it was the buff or protection.

After thinking about this topic since it was posted, I was coming here to say the same thing. During ToT, a TP-centric toon I had was one of the GM hunters who'd port the whole league to the GM for the beat-down*, or then back to the murder hotel after they were defeated. Mark me down as weird, but having a toon dedicated to helping people like that was loads of fun for me. The TP does still help here and there on normal teams (lifting a defeated team mate out of the fray so they can rez in peace, helping someone to the Night Ward mansion for the Cim badge, etc.), but it's rarely the same outside of that one instance now. *Going to be interesting to do this again come October now that the GMs have been amped up.

It's always a royal pain updating to the new Vidiot Maps, so I'll support this suggestion.

I won't go as far as to say "be original" because I've been known to uh mine pre-existing ideas for super hero gaming, even back as far as pen n paper games ha ha... One can do an homage as they I think still call it, more than just a nod towards the property, by putting a slight spin on it. Maybe Gambit could... wear a hat? Or be green! Call him "Cardz Trick" or something. Zing! Yer safe!

Yeah, things could be vastly worse. Imagine losing a random IO upon defeat or something.

I see it as more than just QoL, extending the length and stackability of any other buff is more than just a QoL, imho. But people really like to yell if you suggest they don't need more now always (as they've clearly demonstrated). Discussing this with you however has been fine, I must say - thanks for keeping things reasonable. 😃