Scarlet Shocker

No need to bring things down to your level!

I find the elevators in this game to be quite uplifting

Snarky has absorbed all the darkness leaving only bright rainbow colours in his wake

I'm level 28 currently and not burning XP so I expect to stay that way for a shortish while. We play on Saturdays so I'm anticipating maybe 4 weeks at that level(ish) while we go through FW and NW and then back to Redside. I don't know if there's a comparison, but when I had a Spider on live, I deliberately went the Huntstman route at the respec - ie continued on that path and I was very glad that I did. He became one of my deadliest toons, delivering a sea of orange numerals with big AoEs and cones and was highly survivable. I am surprised more people haven't chosen that option honestly.

I thought I'd replied to this. Thanks for the build. Gave her a good work out last night, about 3 hours in First Ward, so tough content on a pretty good team and she is a lot less impressive post-respec than before. I far preferred her as a stock widow than I do as a nascent fortunata. Had to turn off XP to ensure we didn't outlevel content so that's an entire session without having to worry about learning new powers and it seemed a lot less satisfying than previously. I do appreciate that there is a drop off in the mid-level range in terms of powers and abilities. Lower levels are pretty impressive as a new character but this does seem to be quite sub-par despite that, compared to regular ATs. It's made me wonder if I shouldn't respec into the stock widow and use that as a core focus. How viable is that?

ain't no fucker tanning my knacker!

Train to Jo'burg then hitch hike to Lesthoto

Sounds like a new kind of vampire Snark-Thing wasn't so bad. Kind of obscure, but underrated

On live I had a few different iterations of Scarlet Shocker spread across Defiant & Union (we only had two English speaking shards back then) and here I've created Glass Fox and Vitric Vixen who are effectively two poles of the same character - there's an entire thread about it in the not too distant past if you're interested. I found that the latter combo was nigh impossible to play as a contiguous whole so they are largely retired, but I do love the concept of a glass character that once shattered rebuilds itself in a tougher variant. I got bored with different versions of Scarlet and I found they quickly became autonomous characters in their own right in my mind. What I don't grok with the OP is the difficulty in coming up with an original concept for a character. I find that one of the easiest things to do - often the concept comes first, then the power sets are taken to fit the character. A great example of that is I came up with the notion of the Praetorian Imperial Secret Service; an organization with a singular objective of keeping Emperor Cole's legacy alive at all costs. Then I needed a character who would fit that, fanatical, dedicated, tough, but not invincible, and able to boss the field of play, that fitted my play style. That became a no-brainer; a Plant/TA controller (this was live when that was a very respected combo and I tend to shy away from melee and VEATS weren't a thing) and all I had to do then was come up with a costume (gold and white of course) and name. Once all the background was slotted into space the name was simple enough; Barbed Quarrel. Yeah... I over think shit sometimes!

Or you take lots of powers just to slot strange procs! 😎

Suffocated Mule sounds like an interesting character choice!

This is one of my bugbears and I would seriously nerf them, if I couldn't delete them from the game entirely. I also have a big dislike of Vet levels, but that is more about the way it is presented than the actual recognition of the level.

Better there than where the sun don't shine! 😲

to me, it means more than just a game should. much more.

Ask nicely and we might let you back!

For the same reason underwear has a label in it saying "Keep Away From Fire!" Like if you're only wearing underwear and there's a fire, you're going to get as close as you possibly can! Also... THEY ARE CALLED CRISPS!!!!!! Chips are entirely different and good and wholesome.

Absolutely you can, no question. Play it your way! But once you've played every single combo of every single AT you've probably done everything you can in the game more than once.

I'm not a great badger, personally but I get the attraction of them. I think they do need to be in interesting places in order to capture the imagination. Where else would you like to put them?

If you hear anything of consequence, you'll find out soon enough. Don't take it to heart.

We are where we are. I would imagine it's very unlikely that we'll get any retconning of existing arcs or ATs just to make them "better." Agreed that all (V)EAT stories are less than totally satisfactory but they exist and work. Our volunteer dev team probably have more pressing things to consider and personally speaking I'm glad if that's where their focus is.

You can argue that Longbow already do that. They have a significant presence across the Rogue Isles despite the fact that they are (notionally) meant to be autonomous and under Arachnos control almost as a sovereign state. The reason there is no specific foe for VEATs is because when Kheldians first appeared players would cry like babies seeing void stalkers and quantums and stopped playing them. The specific foes had an overall negative impact on the EATs so Devs gave us a crappy clip show pastiche for VEATs instead.

So sorry Dad!

Do you add the +2 Mag proc to your holds?

All I did was open a door and you walked through it 🤣 I didn't specify location, period or mention any law suits, pending or otherwise. Nor indeed body or organization. Any inference you make here is your own

the more I think about OP's rant, the more it pisses me off. Here's a rant in return. It pisses me off because of his ignorant entitlement. His willing flaunting of the EULA and the conditions under which we play the game, which have been pretty consistent since I started in 2006. We have never ever ever been able to play copyrighted or trademark characters, and that's a given amongst 99% of the community. Now, especially, the one thing that can kill the game for us, and having it taken away forever is some wilful penicheese deciding that he can do what he likes despite what the rules say. That's formerpresident levels of entitlement. And it's dangerous because getting slapped with a lawsuit is probably pretty nail in the coffin for the HC team and our game goes away very suddenly. I'm gonna make a confession here: I do, have, and will, report copyright infringements to HC if I see them in game. Read above if you fail to understand why. I don't do it to "be a dick." I do it to stop dicks being a bigger dick to the community. If I have earned your opprobrium in the doing thereof, you almost certainly deserve to be put in the dick corner. If your singular lack of imagination requires you to make a wolverine clone rather the claws of wrath (you can have that name if you want it) then you need to consider why you're playing this game instead of trying to unstick the pages of your favourite Julie Strain comic anthology.