MunkiLord

I get what you're saying and don't disagree in general. But with the OPs question as I understand it, I don't think that's really realistic because of all those variables. I feel a general ST damage Stalker > Scrapper > Brute > Tanker is best while mentioning a few outliers gives the OP the desired answer. Now if the question was a little more specific like which AT should I choose if I want to play Electric Melee, then we can give more specific information as that eliminates a lot of variables. Even then it's going to depend on specific slotting and character goals. If the OP is wanting some master list of all the combos and ATs rankings, then I'm out. That's way too much work.

Copyright law is too complex and what is considered infringement is often very subjective, so a sticky wouldn't really be able to clarify much. What is considered infringement can vary wildly depending on the judge or jury and how the choose to interpret it. Sure some things are pretty obvious, like sharing movies via torrents. But when it comes to things like fair use and homages it's very often unclear until there is a court ruling. And that's just in the United States. Canada and Europe have their own laws and exceptions.

Tony V has stepped down. https://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php?topic=13601.0 I don't know any details beyond what is in his post and therefore have no opinion one way or the other. But it seems relevant, so I'm sharing.

I vote for Archery. I just love Rain of Arrows.

I love all of these ideas.

I'd rather have Freedom

Anyone that has a moral objection to homage characters while playing on a pirate server is a hypocrite.

I feel like people are trying to be too specific. It's an impossible question to answer with specifics. In general burst ST target damage will be Stalker > Scrapper > Brute > Tank. For AoE it's generally going to be Scrapper > Brute > Stalker/Tank(not sure on this one. Tanks do less damage but generally have more AoE, so my assumption is Stalker does more). There are exceptions to this as TW/Bio Scrappers will outdo anything a Stalker can do. And Elec/SD Stalkers are better than Scrappers because of the way the two nukes don't crit and don't break Stalker Hide. Spines/Fire is better on a Brute because their taunt mechanics override the fear in Burn. The damage obviously goes to zero if you face plant, so that's a consideration. If it stays alive a Stalker will generally take out an AV the quickest, but Stalkers have the least HP out of the four, so they also face plant the quickest. Also, if the Tank changes on test go live as is, they are going to be moving up that AoE list.

As someone that does fire farm, I agree it's an exploit. But I don't think all exploits are automatically bad, and I think that is where a lot of the disagreement comes from here. People associate the term exploit with being bad, wrong, and/or immoral. I disagree with marketeers being stymied at all. I've just had to change my tactics. I made a couple billion on the market last week. It's still an incredibly more efficient use of in game time to make influence compared to farming.

Dark Melee. But you need a TON of recharge and a lot of enemies. Even then I think it caps lower than Rage. But that's the closest I can come up with.

You can get KB protection for less than 10 million.

Question, wouldn't it need to be used in some sort of commerce in a field in which DC owns the trademark and lead to potential customer confusion for it to be a trademark violatio?** **In theory anyway, in practice many companies treat trademark law as an extension of copyright when the original intent was consumer protection.

I'm not saying that it takes a large amount of unique creativity to make these clones. What I'm saying is that the so-called original characters that most of us make are generally no more creative than clones.

Eh, we're all hypocrites in one way or another.

There are currently a few FOTM threads that show the number of ATs and powersets used, so the data is available.

Using limited tools to recreate other characters absolutely takes creativity, the amount of creativity varying depending on specifics. In general just as much creativity as someone creating an "original" character that has some variation of common origin stories, looks, and character names.

What Kiri said. I suggest checking out the Scrapper forums, there are likely some builds floating around there you can use for ideas. Also Scrapper forums are generally the most helpful and always the best.

Very interesting. Is the time gap when you became versed on legal stuff?

I've played about three tanks a combined 25 or so levels, so I firmly believe my opinion matters less in this discussion. But, I'm on board with these changes too. Enough so that I plan on making a tank assuming these changes make it live.

What about Doms????????

I rewatched them last year and they are not nearly as bad as people make them out to be. I think the third one is boring, but all the hate is over the top in my opinion.

All this arguing about Hami and RWZ raids makes me glad I get almost all my loot from using the market.

I do this shit all the time.

Exactly. Now if we're fighting and the Tank jumps ahead a couple groups and pull them onto the next mob, that's one thing. In that case nobody is standing around waiting while the Tank goes around herding mobs. Hell if a Tank does that and sets up the next 30 enemies in a neat little bubble, I'm all for it as it means we can blast the **** out of them.

Not in any detail, just a couple references like this.