Sykar
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20 minutes ago, Snarky said:
too late, i am a few months into my babbel experience on German. i have a grammar book arriving Freitag! i plan to study this a year or two. hopefully get good enough to watch movies in German is my main goal, and read books.
Well good luck with your studies. I learned English by reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy with a dictionary next to me and I read it several times.
25 minutes ago, cranebump said:As someone who's had more than one colonoscopy, I can tell by the after-pics that proc'ing was absolutely done, but I was not awake for it (which may or may not be a good thing?).
I had a gastroscopy done while fully conscious and I cannot recommend that because it felt like I needed to empty my stomach every 10 seconds and the examination took a while. I doubt it is much better if that thing goes up your rear end.
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As a German I can recommend learning Swedish! It has only 2 articles of which one is approximately used by 70% of Swedish nouns which makes guessing a fairly good choice when in doubt and the grammar difficulty is simplified to a large degree compared to German.
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Why not make it like /kin group jump which is a buff that lasts a few minutes?
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4 hours ago, Go0gleplex said:
Used to be a thing online where you could put screen clips of your toon into a combat card format like these. Dunno if it's still around; doubt it, but it was pretty fun. 🙂
Major... Holocaust.... just....
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On 7/24/2023 at 9:19 AM, Player2 said:
I saw a review of the Barbie movie by The Critical Drinker on YouTube, and let's just say I will not and cannot support anything about this movie. It took something timeless and pure and twisted it into something ugly. No thanks.
TCD is one of the laziest and dishonest reviewers.
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9 hours ago, Frostbiter said:
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8 hours ago, High_Beam said:
I am a retired Navy Chief Petty Officer, the F word is a noun, verb, adverb, preposition, proper name, flavor of food, shade of a color and in general the best, multi-purpose word ever invented by humanity. Use it. Use it often and feel joy in your life.
Nah that is still the c-slur which the Australians have made into a word even more universal than any other slur.
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Ghost Runner had a tech Ninja protagonist.
Could be an inspiration for someone.
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I will never understand how people can stand turning via keyboard instead of the mouse. It is so slow and sluggish by comparison. The only reason I would do so is if I play with one hand only Al Bundy style. 😁
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13 hours ago, Player2 said:
By the way, before you try to make excuses for this one, the second item under the Content Guidelines section of the CoC states:
"Hate speech is defined as anything threatening or abusive towards a specific group based on their race, religious beliefs, political affiliation, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity"
Identifying a character as lesbian and indicating they are useless is BLATANTLY abusive toward gender identity. And the GM who ignored this is JUST as offensive for letting it slide.
Lesbian is not a gender identity it is a sexuality. As to abusive, that is debatable. The player might very well have meant it ironic, or it can also really just be that particular character with no further intention than that. You have not presented clear evidence that the person went out and made a statement about all lesbians and in fact you cannot. You only have shown that you personally seem to take great offense to the name and seem to expect that everyone else has to agree with you.
I would rather say that someone making a character named after a goddess of womanhood and give her water blast power set turned red to simulate menstrual blood is far more offensive or at the very least exceedingly childish.
But what I find truly offensive are players who would ruin other players experience by crashing servers because they throw a tamper tantrum.
8 hours ago, Player2 said:So you think "Useless Lesbian" is fine... but "F-Bomb" isn't?
Let's talk about that. My daughter is a lesbian. I find the reference offensive. I asked her about it. Her take is that she sometimes feels useless, but that's not something that should be celebrated and thinks it's in poor taste. Explain to me how the system goes where you appeal to some people's offensive sensibilities but not others.
The F-slur is clearly a slur and understood as such by basically everyone even in non-English speaking countries. The character you seem to have a problem with is not such a clear case as I have outlined earlier and in fact not in the slightest. Poor taste maybe, but a slur? That is a stretch unless you can show via chat screenshots that the player is clearly bigoted towards lesbians.
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My Grav/Time controller.
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Rebirth and TS have had it for several years in fact. They also added all missing pool power sets though they have not done the proliferation.
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Buff affecting the caster makes sense. Why would I not be able to buff myself? CoH is literally the only game where I have seen buffs giving me diddly squat. This is aggravating on FF controller for example because in early levels you get your two team buffs already and Personal Force Field and they do nothing for you outside of PFF which is mostly useful for traveling. It really is nothing but an outdated antiquated notion. Furthermore you still only get half the buff effect so the general idea is still retained. I always hated the idea that I need to be grouped at all times if I choose a specific class basically. It is part of the reason why WoW was so much more successful than its predecessors.
You know what this buff not affecting the caster reminds me off? This pathetic waste of space from the utterly terrible New Warriors comic:
http://newwarriors.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/safespace.png
I approve of the pet at level 1. The first 10 levels are easy either way, so I do not care if they get easier. Past 10 it starts to normalize again and at 20 it is a little easier in that you are not levelling at a snails space on lower damage control sets, which basically all but Fire, Grav and Plant, but you cannot be asleep either even on standard difficulty.
Not sure what you mean with damage increase for pets. Gravity and Wind are both low damage pets that mostly offer extra CC and an extra body enemies can attack. MC has no pet so the point is moot. Illusion Phantasm is not exactly a damage monster either.
Furthermore pool power attacks are now on par with AT attack powers giving a lot more variety and viable builds. They even removed the recharge from Brawl and people have been making Brawl builds that are not just laughing stocks. Defenders now have access to some melee sets so if you want to you can make a melee defender. Or use a ranged set and supplement it with Fighting, which now also has an option for melee weapons, and make a blapping defender.
All in all, I prefer the way TS has handled things, you can argue that the numbers should be lowered or scaling be changed but other than that? Better compared to HC in some ways for me especially that you do not need those idiotic prerequisites for pool powers and epic pools which never made any sense whatsoever since AT powers also had no prerequisite powers only level requirement which are still in place. Let us not get into difficulty when HC hands out IOs like candy late game and trivializes most content at 50.
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Yeah, I am having a blast, pun indented, with a wind control dominator on TS atm. Also made a MC controller because TS gave much needed buffs to MC and they make MC a lot more fun.
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I only use my left hand on the keyboard. I could never get used not using my mouse. It is by far the best instrument in games like CoH to me.
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16 minutes ago, Mir2 said:
Since I use my right hand to activate abilities, it’s too slow to use mouse to click in window and then activate. Another example that “my way” is suboptimal.
I’ll give your way a shot.
I am not saying that my way is better. It is just the most comfortable to me. Well second most, my favourite is having a 20 button mouse with 1-12 on thumb buttons on the side but my last one broke down so this setup has to do for now.
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I just click on them in the team tray. My favourite AT is controller.
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e,d,s,f to move. 1-4, q,w,r,t,a,g for abilities. Those in conjunction with alt or shift to access my other two trays though the "alt" tray I mostly use for toggles and buffs with long recharge. I got a fourth tray for stuff I use rarely, like long range teleporter.
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That was an awesome costume. He did well capturing Dr. Strange even if it is not allowed. A shame but understandable that the devs do not want to get into trouble with Marvel.
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Well look at that, Thunderspy has Wind Control:
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4 hours ago, Panache said:
On a Kin where you’re going to be at or near the damage cap a good chunk of the time, Procs can contribute a lot of ‘extra’ damage, so having an extra 70% global recharge is A Good Thing.
It’s also a lot easier to manage a click power with a two minute duration than it is to rely on firing (and hitting with) the nearly 2 second long cast* of Siphon Speed every time it recharges. To replace all of Hasten’s 70% bonus, you need 3.5 Siphon Speed stacks.
Lastly, including Hasten in builds means needing to chase fewer +Rech set bonuses, so it allows for more IO flexibility.
All fairly obvious points, but I hadn’t seen them pop up yet. I do have a Grav/Kin and it does have (perma) Hasten, and capped range, and a ton of procs and yadda yadda. It’s fun.
*Might not sound like a lot, but you’ll need 4 casts of Siphon Speed to equal Hasten; or we can just forget about the Hasten comp and look at 3 stacks of SS. That means you’re firing it about/at least once every 20 seconds, with a nearly 2 second cast time. I don’t want to spend 10% of my button mashing on keeping up that buff.
Again, your CDs are short as it is and with 1 minute CDs on your big abilities those 70% seem nice on paper, in practicality you shave off 3-4 seconds once you are just even somewhat geared and that is not even counting in Incarnates. As usual you people love to throw out the 70% recharge without any further context. Once you hit endgame the bonus from Hasten becomes even less relevant. And no you do not need Siphon Speed at 4 stacks, it is utterly superfluous to try to stack Siphon Speed that to compensate Hasten. 1-2 stacks is more than enough just do not let it expire.
Far more important is that you get sufficient defence and resists considering that you are operating at dangerously close distances and please spare me the "just CC bro" nonsense, it will not always work.
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1 hour ago, alphamax said:
Mentioned aspects of this in a different post... been with HC since 2021 and I'm running out of steam.
I have lots of maxed out characters, but really all I play are:
- Damage: Fire/EM blaster - haven't found anything that outdamages/dps this blapper
- Control: Grav/Psi dominator - haven't found anything that outcontrols him
- Unkillable: Stone/Rad tanker - haven't found anything that outsurvives him
Every other ATs I've rolled (20+) are just a hybrid of these that just get overall outperformed by those 3, so feel lesser than.
At this point, there's not much more to do in the game (I'm not going for badges/vet levels).
Any AT/powersets I'm missing?? Which ones keep you all excited/playing, without feeling that it's just a lesser version of another one of your characters?
Thanks!
What is /Psi supposed to be for controllers? Or did you mean dominator?
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On 7/21/2023 at 4:51 AM, Crysis said:
Sents are literally the perfect beginners hero AT. Highly survivable, mez defense, decent but not great damage. Tank mages, but scaled down dps. Fun to play, but you tend to outgrow them quickly.
Nonsense. Character concept > anything else. Furthermore there are plenty of concepts like Iron Man type power armour wielding heroes that go best with Sentinel. Also they have the fastest recharge on their T9s so if you are into spamming one of those sentinels will let you blast to your heart's content. Their AT active is also appreciated in group content. I have not once seen anyone asking someone to leave because they are sentinel and I had groups with 3 or more sentinels and we did just fine. In fact I recently ran a SBB with a sentinel, 2 defenders and me on a controller and it was smooth sailing. They have a place and perform well enough. Blasters are overrated. The only people who care overly much about not playing sentinels and try to bad mouth them in an effort that they are no played seems to be a particular brand of elitist min-maxers that I can happily give a wide berth in-game.
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No it is not that good at least not on /kin compared to for example illusion or dominators. But as I said before you do not care anyway so this is where I exit this pointless exchange since it is getting boring reading the same drivel over and over.
Proc as a Verb?
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Posted · Edited by Sykar
There are some similarities on the grammar side but the differences are much more prevalent. English is also not really a Germanic language but a wild mix with significant influence from Latin, French and Nordic for obvious reasons since they invaded and occupied large portions of the countries for centuries.
German has nothing on Finnish when it comes to grammatical complexity.