Aett_Thorn

In PvE, Taunt is autohit against everything, yes. The only enemies that it will not affect are those that are for some reason un-affectable, such as those that are phased. Taunt only needs Acc for PvP purposes.

Also as a side note, there are some enemies that are resistant to Taunt effects, which will lower the duration of the Taunt effect on them. Nemesis, for example, are resistant to Taunt effects.

You still didn't take into consideration some of the comments from your other thread on this.

Gymnastics provides twice the defensive buff as Combat Jumping or Hover does, and still offers more on top of that.

Equilibrium is less than half as effective as Acrobatics, and offers nothing else with it, either. It's a useless power, equivalent to a single IO.

Spin Kick just seems like a filler power.

And Swinging itself is the exact same thing as Super Jump, just the opposite arc.

This whole power pool just seems like power customization to get the arc changed on super jump.

Radio missions came out since you left the game. Basically, when you go to an city zone for the first time, at level 5 or beyond, you will get introduced to either a Detective (hero-side) or Broker (villain-side). They will give you access to either the Police Radio (h-s) or Newspaper (v-s). These will appear at the top of your contact list.

If you are in a zone appropriate for your level (for instance, King's Row for levels 5-10), then you can click on them, and it will auto-generate three fairly generic missions that you can pick from. They tend to be shorter missions, and aren't tied to anything else, but are ALWAYS in the zone that you're in, so that can cut down on travel time.

Just FYI: for most of the rest of the group, it wasn't. Which is one of the reasons that it was changed.


Probably a good idea to start a new character anyways, to learn to play the game from scratch again. Scrappers are always good, easy characters to learn on, with basically any combo. Also, if you wanted to check out City of Villains (which you have access to, now, for free), you could try Brutes, which share many of the same sets with Tankers, but play more like Scrappers.

Well, the tactic still works, but only to a degree. There have been a lot of changes to the game since you've been gone, including the Global Defense Nerf (GDN), Enhancement Diversification (ED), and the target caps. As such, your Ice Patch will only affect five enemies at once. Your burn patch will affect up to 10, but will cause the enemies to run. Since Ice Patch is only affecting five enemies, this means that 5 of your targets might run out of the burn patch.

It is still effective, just not as much as you might remember.

Also, you have an Aggro cap now, meaning that at any one time, you can only have up to 17 enemies focused on you. So, no more herding up whole maps and burning them at once.


You CAN pick Stamina on every toon. Is it required? No. Is it still very useful? Yes. Very yes.


Edit -> Also, two things that you should read up on, in addition to ED: ParagonWiki is a great resource that you might find useful, and while you're there, check up on Inventions.

Well, that was only one of the reasons that Ice Melee was taken from Brutes. The other was that it sucked. Remember, I6 came out before Ice Melee got it's buffs. So it had low single-target damage, next to no AoE damage, and the soft controls that it did have and specialized in hindered Fury pretty well.

Well, that is likely just one of the problems this person is seeing.

Right now, it is early morning in most of the U.S. As such, people here are either likely sleeping, at school, or at work. So they're not likely to be playing.

Also, Galaxy City isn't as used as Atlas Park, so you will see fewer players there. If you're unfamiliar with the team search tool, you might not notice that when you bring it up, it defaults to finding players in your active zone (at least if I recall correctly). So, if there are no players in galaxy City, it won't show anybody else that might be on. Fidget with the search options, and then re-search, and it should bring up more players.

Welcome to the game!

Well, it was pretty much agreed that Ice Melee needed a change. Our fighting typically tended to be about HOW it should change, which made it so that our conversations were pretty cordial and on track.

Me? I'm betting that the set's animations get faster the more you attack. Maybe recharge too.

Kind of slow attacks at the beginning, then you get faster and faster as combat goes on.

Sorry for the confusion. I know how the 3D is done, was more asking how this game would do it.

Base Salvage came out in Issue 6.

Except, how is this done? If it's done server side, then the game has to send you both sets of visual data, which will likely cause a lot of lag, even if you're not using the option.

If it's done client-side, then it might mess with people who play in windowed mode.

First off, you have the wrong definition of what the Suggestions forum is about. It isn't about Brainstorming, though it can be. It's about seeing whether suggestions are any good or not. If they can't stand a little criticism, then they tend to be bad ideas.

There is one timed mission that only gives you 5 minutes to do it. It's actually designed so that you fail it (of course, this is in the 32+ game, so maybe you've missed it). Most people think that it's annoying, not great. Mostly because the time limit is too short that it becomes stressful to try to succeed (which you actually can't do, if you read the mission text), and people play a game to avoid stress, usually.

Now, certainly the timed missions give you a lot of time to complete them. However, that is for good reason: you don't know what anyone else is doing behind the screen that might also take them some time. Also, you don't know how good their load times are. My old computer was very bad at loading, and took forever. If you gave me a 5-minute timed mission, I'd just skip it on that computer, since I know that I would likely get in the mission with a minute left, leaving me no time to actually do anything. Also, what if I need to do laundry, or cook dinner, or someone comes to the door and it takes a while? Then having some extra time can be a good thing.

They tend to be timed so that you can't farm them, at least in the upper levels, too.


Word Puzzle missions are kinda cool, until one person does them, and posts the results on the forums. Then everybody can find out the answer without undergoing the steps that you might set out for them. Then what? They become boring just like everything else. I've pretty much memorized the answer for access to the Midnighter's Club. I don't really need to do any missions to get the password, just to be allowed a chance to say it.


Now, scavenger hunt missions might be okay. But here's the catch there: if you get one of those, and it takes you a decent time to find something, then you are progressing slower, and it becomes even more of a 'grind' to get to the next level. So what do you do there?

Except, this is so broad that it doesn't mean anything. You're basically throwing out that you don't like the current ice cream flavors, and telling us to make you new flavors, but offer nothing along the lines of what you'd like to see the new flavor be.

"Give me different things to do" isn't good enough, in this case. Make a list of specific things that you'd like. Right now, they can make all of the new missions that you might like (of course, the MA might help you out there), but without any more specifics, they're going to be pretty much the same as what we have now.

For you, it may be. It is not for me. It is only a grind if you let it be.

Implying it doesn't make it true. I think that there is just as much incentive in the level 32-50 content as there is at the lower levels. You're getting your top-tier powers, ancillary pools if you want them, more slots so that you can finally 6-slot the powers that need them, and fighting more challenging enemies. That's enough incentive for me. It's certainly not less than there was in the early game (especially since for a lot of those levels, you're gaining 'standard' powers such as travel powers and the fitness pool).