Aett_Thorn

Lack of a decent controversy will do that to an AT. :-)

Because game balance involves both the primary and secondary of an AT.

Adding survivability to the "high-damage" AT means that they would have to lower the damage to compensate.

It would be like saying that you wouldn't need to adjust Tanker survivability levels if you increased their damage to Scrapper levels. If you did that, almost nobody would play Scrappers, since Tankers would do more damage, and have better survivability. Changes to the secondary can indeed impact the primary.

Alternate spellings of in-game characters are fine.

Edit -> To a point. As long as you're not pretending to be a Dev, you're fine, though. Going to a different language is definitely fine.

1) These DEvs have only this game that they are working on. NCSoft has multiple games, but they aren't sacrificing this one to work on others. In fact, they have put MORE money into this game that Cryptic did. So again, why do you think this is even close to true?

2) Tankers are Melee classes. They are not meant to have a lot of ranged attacks. Otherwise, they'd be Tank-mages, and would likely be imbalancing. Why play a Blaster if you can have a lot of Ranged attacks, and more survivability? Game balance does tend to take precedence over player suggestions from a few people. Also, if you want to have a Tanker with a very few ranged attacks, get them up to higher levels, and you can.

3) The Demon set is coming with GR. They got Pain domination, and Thermal. MMs are still one of the more popular ATs villain-side. So I'd say that they're not getting the short end of the stick. Giving them Kinetics is likely not going to happen, considering how multiplicative it would be for them. Empathy, we were told by the devs, was highly unlikely to go to villains, for thematic reasons.

4) Did you think that maybe, just maybe, you were just on the receiving end of the Random Number Generator's equation? Bad luck can happen.

5) Yeah, these were brought down by player request. So please shut up about the devs not listening to us. People were having to farm to get these badges, and they didn't want to have to do that. Some of them were just unreasonably high levels, and could be brought down to a level that still takes work, but isn't ridiculous.

6) Move out of a State that taxes the game? It's $15. It's not going to break your bank. It's cheaper, per hour, than almost any other form of entertainment. If you play the game for 2 hours, it's $7.5 per hour, which is less than a movie, less than most books, and less than cable. So it's pretty economical as it is.

First off, when you are trying to communicate in a written format, yes, it does help to make sure that you are understandable. In general, large paragraphs without breaks make it tough to read them. And proper punctuation can help the reader, who is the person that you're trying to reach.

That being said:

1) Except, many of them were waaaaayyyyy to hard to get without farming. The Devs 'nerfed' them down to a more manageable level, AT THE REQUEST of many players. Especially with the desire to not make players farm the AE, it was a reasonable change.

2) Doms and Controllers can color their pets, so thanks for checking in on that before you asked for it. MMs are tougher, though, and if you'll look around the forums, you'll probably find out why. Might we get this ability? Yes. Was it harder to do than the other powers, which is why it didn't come in round one? (Also note: Kheldian and VEAT powers, Power Pools, and Ancillary Pools) Yes.

3) Because it didn't really work before, either. Granted, their solution may not have been the best implementation, but you can't say that PvP before the changes was great, either.

4) It's still only $15 a month. Less, if you buy in larger chunks of time. I believe that IS about the same as most other MMOs. Please, show us cheaper ones, that don't charge for every issue, or make you buy expansions just to keep playing the game.

No, it wasn't a solid rant, because it had no basis in any logic whatsoever.

The Devs didn't make Tanks with Blasts, even though some players asked for it? Fantastic! Let's not unbalance the game, just because somebody wants something, okay?

The Devs nerfed the MA, even though they had asked the players not to exploit it, and the players did anyways? Yeah, they were going to do that, because otherwise there was no reason to play any other part of the game. The MA now might have lower rewards than it should for some tougher, player-created mobs, but stock enemies still give just as much XP as they do in the real game.

The Devs hitting the poor? How, exactly, are they doing this? By offering up some add-on packs, that aren't at all necessary to play the game in any way or fashion? No, that's not going after the poor. That's offering things for players. It doesn't hurt the poor to offer those packs.

Then he complains about the upcoming expansion pack, before he seems to even know anything about it, and forgets the fact that games have been adding expansion packs for decades now, and it's not a bad idea. Can't afford it? Don't get it. Simple as that. Doesn't seem too hard to me.

Then he seems to go on a rant about how heals and immobilizes aren't effective. Except, they are. Just because you need to use some strategy doesn't make something not effective. I've never found anyone in the game who didn't think that heals were useful.


So, no, this wasn't a good rant. It wasn't even a bad rant. It was a terrible rant, that had no basis in fact whatsoever.

When the frick did you get back!??!?!?

Welcome back, Tundy!

I believe, though I could be wrong on this, that the spiders (and I'm assuming that you mean the Arachnos Spider Bots?) use the same skeleton as the Nemesis Jaegers. Basically, a cylinder with "legs." Basically, the cylinder moves, but with no relation to the movement of the legs, which might look okay one something with mechanical legs, but on something that is supposed to be an animal, would definitely look quite odd.

The boxes probably are, but if you buy online, you can only buy the version for your region. If you're in Europe, you automatically get the EU version of the game, and can't buy the NA one. You need to contact customer support to get it changed over.