Techbot Alpha

If we could get the rune effect used for the spell you get in Croatoa in one of the arcs (+damage vs the various Fae there, irrc) for the blast sets, that'd solve the problems. As it is though, yeah, magic is the EASIEST origin to cover effects with, by far.

Naturally! Et, voila;

*Sigh*

1) Because its a kick, not a martial arts kick. Oddly enough, the two can exist in different places

2) No, no it wouldn't. Because not everyone WANTS it as an MA kick. I know I'd be pissed off if my archer character suddenly started doing high kicks when she doesnt known kickboxing.

3) Yes, thats because Maelstrom is a jammy NPC who has access to set combos we players dont get. In his case, DP/MA.

/Unsigned

Uhm...well, yeah? The dude would also be fully justified. If he was the kinda guy who took ALL his secondary and neglected his primary (the hint is in the AT name, y'know?) then, well, he'd be a pretty terribad controller in my opinion. If he was a Kin/Something, or FF/Something Defender, then sure! Thats his primary function in the team. I know my defender still attacks, but she has a few select, higher damage/mez attacks that I use as needs be and in support of others. My praimry is my heals and buffs.
As a controller? Yeah, his praimry focus IS his controls.

And, really, FF won't stop you dying if you're already into the orange/red already. In fact, he's probably helping more by trying to keep mobs locked down with controls. After all, they cant hit you if their locked down.
Now, if he's not buffing AND is failing to lock stuff down, then yes, he's a bad player and deserves whatever abuse gets hurled his way

Hey, don't you dare lump me in with lesser ranters, you cad
You obviously haven't been keeping track of my strong opposition to the (in my opinion false) belief that 'New shinies are better than Revamps!'

Revamps ARE new shinies, on account of having new content in them! The only reason I've seen given by the devs as to why they haven't been revamping old zones is the incredibly lame 'Because it takes as much work to revamp an old zone as it does to make a new one'.

Well, thats all fine and dandy, but what about the utter dross thats still left over from the Jackanist days of cryptic? (Yes, I am fond of that phrase) You know the missions Im talking about; Needless Fed Ex's, Hunt 50 carnies, Arcs that send you to every corner of the City and refuse to give you a mobile phone number (ok, the I19 transport fix has made this a little less horribad)
Arcs that plain old don't make sense. All of the starting contact 'arcs' are not in fact arcs. The missions in them have next to no corrolation, and tend to be as mind numbingly dull as 'Defeat all, defeat all, Fed Ex, hunt, defeat all'. I just summed up Rik Davies mission in Atlas Park. ALL of the pre-Villains contacts are that bad.

I'll drag out the analogy I use every time this arguement comes up; the Game is like a car. A six year old car, in this case. The 'new shinies' are like a new paintjob, big spoilers, shiny wheels, rediculously loud exhausts. The Revamp stuff is applied to the important things. Like the chassis, drive shaft, gears, stuff like that. And, in CoX, those essentials are the core game. Yes, Praetoria is awesome. I don't contest that. It's also not the core game. It's a paid for expansion. You can drag out 'Oh, but GR brought new 1-20 content!' Yes it did. And its STILL not the core game. The Core game is the Isles and Paragon. And they are going rusty. We have...lessee...six whole, fully made zones in Paragon. Six. Zones. That have NOTHING in them, except the one off hunts, mission doors or other dross like that;
-Dark Astoria
-Boomtown
-Perez Park
-Eden
-Terra Volta
-Crey's Folly

There are six zones there crying out for content, a la the Hollows. Hazard zones with decent content, and over-arching plot and stuff to do in them. How can that NOT be considered new shinies? Not only does it save you having to build six entire new zones, but that times saved can be used to revamp the old content that is seriously showing its age.

That IS a disconnect. It makes perfect sense to revamp the old stuff and fix up the chassis of the game so that it doesnt rust. Because a car can be as shiny and pimped looking as you like, if its going rusty underneath and the engine needs a clean, then it ain't going to change till it's polished up and de-rusted.

Even though I consider myself a pretty good Empath, people still faceplant from time to time. On the sorta stuff we run, it's inevitable. I may be busy healing someone else, I may be throwing out the next round of Forts, I may be activating the twin auras, I may be busy trying to kill off the guy who's trying to stave my face in at that point in time.

If the guy/gal is genuinely playing a little sloppily then, ok, fine. It still happens though, everyone has off days. But expecting someone to forget everything else, just to attend to your needs is not only unrealistic, its also a tad arrogant, y'know? I doubt it comes down to 'not feeling like using a power or two'. It's much more likely to be 'Busybusypleasegimmeasecagh!'

I guess people just get hacked off with being...I think likely the only AT/Set combo that ever gets treated like a personal team slave, y'know? I'd sure get hacked off if people kiept telling me exactly what to do with my Empath, to the point I'd simply sit there and do nothing. When asked why, I'd tell them exactly what I thought of such behaviour. At great length.

You do your job, let your team mates do theirs. You request buffs, you don't demand them, you greedy little trogs!
/general flailing rant

So, myah

Since when was Castle leaving?

I aim to please

Well, very few other people seem to have a problem with the mechanics. And a new mechanic would simply throw balance completely out the window.
So, you're just gonna have to like it or lump it, frankly. Because, unlike certain sets that genuinely have problems, none of the buff sets suffer from brokeness that I've noticed atm.

Fix't