Scarlet Shocker

I'd just like to take a moment to remind you that this is actually a game, rather than an automated process. It should be played the way individuals enjoy it and more than two decades of game play have amply demonstrated that the proverbial cat can be skinned in multiple ways. If you feel there are too many crap powers, you are perfectly at liberty to leave them out, ensuring they never appear in your rotation, come not within a single parsec of darkening any doorstep to which you happen to be approximate to and not let such terrible sub-optimal powers trouble your weary head, ever again. However that last part may be tricky because they do seem to be living within your cranium at a hugely subsidised rental.

You get No Stars. Zero, Zilch, Nada, Nought No Stars, no proto-Stars, no gas giants, no minor astral bodies. But you can have some random space dust with which to line your Sarcoughaghost

I'm inexpert in melee but I have a Rad/Kin tanker that's a delight to play. It's slow but doesn't seem to be lacking in performance and is highly survivable. My only suggestion to improve it would be maybe make a tiny bit more damaging per attack!

So this one gets filed as "Inarticulate rage" Right. Got it. Ok.

That'll be 50 million inf pls

When it gets very trollery...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_Project September 2003 21 years old almost 22. that's when I first began to play wtih Linux but my first real distro was SUSe

Well that was over 2 decades ago. As old, in fact as City of Heroes, give or take

Red BWHAHAHAHAt?

Congrats but that's a euphemism I didn't need first thing on a Sunday morning. I've not yet finished my first cuppa!

reminds me of MechWarriorOnline 🙂 good find

I genuinely have no preconception (that I'm aware of 😎 ) It's a very open question and there is no bad answer, I'm simply curious and your response was very interesting to me so I thank you for it!

I think if you toggle so much to have 1500 prismatics you'll go blind so other colour options are irrelevant.

I have a LOT of toons. Not thousands, but the reality is I think of concepts and create the toon and maybe do a bit with them but they can get shelved not because they are wank (they won't last that long if they are) but because the next shiny/concept/interesting idea comes to mind. So I have many many concepts. I have relatively few 50s - and of those 50s I play few infrequently. I'm growing the next one or doing something else. And yet some I have a deep love for them even if they don't get played too often. They are fantastic, work very very well and do what I require of them but they still only come out on high days and holidays. Sometimes events get bring them out. The Valentines event saw me work on many alts in rotation to win the Cupiditous lovlinesses and my base is well stocked with a few sets. I found myself teaming with a good friend and we'd rotate for a couple of hours a night straight. But other than that they often rarely see the light of day. A strength, and weakness, of this game is that we can play so many toons but we neglect good ones in favour of the next project. Who would you play more of? Or am I unique in this?

Ok, that makes sense and while I kinda think I knew this already you've clarified the point. The only way to take your damage beyond the pre-defined game cap is to proc the shit out of it!

Absolutely possible for OP to swap names and/or costumers from one char to another Anything is doable and we shouldn't be able to try. I'm guessing reading a bit between the lines his question is as much about the "feel" of the character and will swapping their names impart that "feel" to the new character. That's obviously a question we can't answer because we don't live in OP's brain. I would suggest that alternatively he can remake Elastic Bandit and begin again from level one. This might help recapture the "feel" and imprint that persona on the new toon. It needn't take long at all, under 15 hours of gameplay if that's what he chooses.

I think @Erratic1 hit the nail on the proverbial right there I've never heard this before. Is there actual data to support this? My (admittedly limited) understanding of Procs is that they have a very individual performance and a lot will depend on the proc itself but the idea of a single piece being better than the set is... weird. I genuinely love this idea. Not to add to confusion but the idea that if you have say 10 pieces and you perm the best (up to) 6 from that you could technically give a power a different flavour to suit your personal needs. You couldn't obviously have a set bonus for slotting all ten pieces in a single power but you could potentially have the ability to slot 4 of the pieces in 3 different powers even if most of those are Uniques.

@Neiska That's super detailed and I appreciate it but I have to say I'm not much of a VEAT fan. The only one I've ever had much luck with was a stock spider that I went Huntsman route with; when they made me do the forced respec I went the centre path and got a guy with a gun who had great defence and resistance and delivered a sea of orange numbers. The only thing lacking on that build is the lack of a hold (which made soloing LGTF impossible at Hamidon stage) I've actually gone a Dark/TA troller and I'm loving it for now.

I do love Dark as a control set, and this had occurred to me. My one issue with it is the pet at T9 the dire wolf which whilst a great power doesn't feel right with the character somehow This would be a great stand off combo though Storm I agree - it offers a lot and gives great defence via its KB and Freezing Rain is Sleet only a few tiers lower than Ice

Ok I guess I'm gonna have to type slowly... When I say "Stand Off" I mean specifically those characters that do their damage from range, and very rarely if ever get into melee. A character who can prevent all but the toughest opponent from approaching and engaging in melee combat due to holds, immmobs, slows etc so that any foe is discombobulated en route to delivering the big smackdown that sends you scrabbling for a wakey.

I have followed their progress since they first announced their project. I think when they changed it to "Ship of Heroes" it lost some magic for me. I mean, they could have made it work. They could have made something darker - Babylon 5 with a superpowered crew maybe? But this is just "Capes in Space" and my few dives into various demos and betas have not given me any zest for it. I don't feel any affinity with it nor do I feel the need to look for another Supergame because I have one here. I wish them the very best of success and I don't discount ever visiting them again but currently there is nothing in their offer that is enticing me to do anything than casually observe their progress from a distance.

Latest Scientific theorems suggest we might actually be living in a Black Hole. That's kinda scary too

I'm thinking of reworking my Angel of Mons character. Read "The Bowmen" by Arthur Machin for further details and the legend here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_of_Mons Obviously Bow and Arrows are a big part of that tale - a lot of course harks back to the legend of the Battle of Agincourt where the English archers decimated the French knights - sometimes history is a heavy burden. So she needs at least one arrow component and I've never warmed to her as TA/Archery Defender In my own mind, she's not the symbol of good heroism she is often portrayed as. Despite the fact that this is an entirely fictional story I imagine her much more as a parasitic leech character living off death. Historically, had the BEF been defeated at Mons, it's likely that WWI would have taken a very very different turn and there would likely not have been a sequel in WWII. So I figure she might be rogue-like at the very least if not a villain. I am leaning towards TA as a stand off set but in the light of these discussions what do you guys think would be an appropriate complimentary power set? Please show workings for extra credit 🤣 Edit: I've looked in Mids and I don't like any pairing with TA for this toon so I'm thinking Archery might be a better option. I've not fully decided. I leave it to you, dearest forumite

You thought of this on the hoof, I can tell! Bendis, Oeming, Dark Horse. A Study in Scarlet - repurposing a very famous title for my main!

Storm is excellent for that. You've got a few powers that tell your opponent "gerrof" in no uncertain terms.