Adeon Hawkwood

Even in that case I'll tend to start without them. I realize people can't help it if they have long load times and I don't hold it against them. However I don't feel any need to stop my fun just because they can't have theirs. Losing a spawn or two's worth of XP won't really hurt them and means the rest of the team is having fun rather than hanging around waiting for them to zone.

I very much doubt it. It sounds like it's being reimplemented outside of the SG/base system. Of course I could be wrong.

Nah, it just means he has experience. From what I've seen it's very rare for a highly placed executive of a company to screw up so badly he actually has to retire. Even if they are fired they normally manage to find someone else to hire them.

Well a useful way to verify this is actually to check the page history over at Paragon Wiki.

Here's the page as it existed just before I16:
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/w/index.php...r&oldid=142080

As you can see Conserve Power only accepted Endurance and Recharge generic IOs and no Set IOs at all so it would have been impossible for you to have any unique IOs in it. I guess you could potentially have slotted some HOs in it but since there aren't any HOs that would have provided benefits beyond what could be gotten with SOs I doubt you did.

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Yeah, unfortunately the mechanics of the game do mean that certain powers (primarily ones that are granted through pseudo pets or that actually give a temporary power such as Mystic Fortune) would be categorized under such a system. I was largely going for the 80% solution since that would benefit a lot of players whilerequiring significantly less work than the 100% solution (I assume it would anyway, it's impossible to say for sure).

Except you're more likely to get 100% of the jerks staying regardless of how many constructive people stay or go.

Because the game was originally designed around the trinity of Tank - DPS - Support. Over time the balance has shifted and Blasters are basically being left behind.

Personally I think this has less to do with the leader setting rules and more that someone setting rules is more likely to spend time recruiting a moderately decent team setup. For the most part you can run with pretty much any team setup but some combinations do work better than others. Personally I tend to take whomever wants to come and let the chips fall as they will but taking the time to recruit more carefully does yield more reliable results.

This is pretty much pointless. You can say it all you want but at the end of the day chances are most of the team will fall into one of three categories:
1. People who will follow the Tank anyway
2. People who will charge off randomly and die
3. People who will outpace the tank because they are more aggressive than them and know their character well enough to survive (mostly Scrappers/Brutes and certain types of Defenders/Controllers)

In all of these cases saying "follow X" doesn't make a lot of difference. In any case CoX players are like cats, you can't herd them you can only hope they know what they are doing.

(My Traps Defender is a good example of number 3 by the way, if the Tank wants me to follow him he'd better be moving fast.)

This one REALLY bugs me. If someone is taking a long time to get to the mission because they stopped to train/sell or are taking the senic route I feel very little desire to wait for them. As far as I'm concerned once there are enough people in the mission to start it in reasonable safety we should get going (this generally means 50%-75% of the team depending on size and composition).

That's because you're over-defining your job. A Defender's job is to support the teammates near him. If half the team wants to go tearing across to the other side of the map that is their prerogative. If they want tasty buffs and the occasional heal then they should have stayed near you. Some teams can manage just as well with a split team as with a single group (Scrapper/Brute heavy teams in particular are good at this) but Defender is not a babysitter. As far as I'm concerned once you get more than about 100ft away from my Defender then you're on your own. If you can't handle that then I'll come and scrape you off the floor when I have the time.

Well lovely. I don't have a Facebook page and have no intention of getting one. I was tempted to go back to WoW when Cataclysm comes out to try the new stuff out but I don't think I'll be doing that now.

EDIT: For some reason the whole achievements linked with Facebook thing reminds me of the Apple TF2 comic where the heavy gets an iMinigun which fires bullets programmed to update his blog with his kill count.
http://www.teamfortress.com/macupdate/comic/

Yeah missed that

Not quite. AV resistance means that even with Infridgidate a single col dom only gets them to about -25%, you need more people with -recharge to get them all the way. The upside is the benefit of -recharge increases very fast so a single cold dom increases recharge times by 33% but 2 cold doms double them.

While I would love to have FFG on a devices Blaster it would be so horribly broken Castle would need to get amnesia to even consider it. Upping the ranged defense on CD to a noticeable level (say 7% unenhanced and unsuppressable) would probably not be unbalanced but also probably is not going to happen. From comments the devs have made I don't think they're happy with people soft capping blasters as is so I don't see them making it easier.

Yes but most people slot with about 95% damage from enhancements so the +30% damage effectively increases overall damage by 15%. This means that solo Defenders and Corruptors have the same basic damage neglecting Scourge (also Corruptors get more benefit from other damage bonuses such as inspirations of Fulcrum Shift).

Here's the actual math:
Defender: 0.65*(1 + 0.95 + 0.3) = 1.4625
Corruptor: 0.75*(1 + 0.95) = 1.4625