Adeon Hawkwood

This is somewhat team dependent really. A lot of teams don't really need a tank or at the very least can manage a spawn or two without him by firing off their long recharge powers and so will continue to the next spawn while he's resting. For example on my TA/A defender if EMP Arrow is up then I really don't care if the Tank is resting or not, I'll lock the entire spawn down rendering a Tank unnecessary (unless it's Romans or something with else with mez protection).

To be honest, I'm not a big fan of designating a point man. On most teams it will quickly become clear who is most comfortable playing point man and letting them take point is normally more effective than trying to force them to play in a way they don't want to just to satisfy the desire to have a designated point man of the correct AT. As for who goes in first, it depends a lot on the makeup of the team. For example if the team has a FF Defender then I'm quite likely to jump in an take the alpha with my Blaster. Sure I don't have the survivability of a tank, but with the shields up I've got enough survivability to take out the minions in the spawn by which time someone else will hopefully show up to deal with the bosses (my Blaster is AR so bosses are hard to kill). Similarly if an Empath is foolish enough to cast Fortitude and AB on me at the same time I will happily go into blasterlock until I die or the buffs ware off. In a more general case most Scrappers and some defenders (Traps Defenders in particular) have the survivability to take a bit more aggro and so jumping in at the same time as the Tank (or just ahead of him) is reasonable. As long as people aren't dying why should it matter?

In my experience Traps Defenders (and presumably Corrupters as well) are actually less tactical than you might think. Sure you can lay a minefield and pull enemies to it, but it's much easier to just fire off seeker drones to take the alpha, jump into the middle of the spawn (relying on your FFG to protect you) and set of a Poison Gas Trap.

You are correct that players did not request the Supreme Leader rank. The reason that it was implemented was for the benefit of the GMs and the NCSoft customer service team. Having a single clear leader for an SG makes it much easier for them to solve any petitions related to griefing in an SG.

Because I have to believe that my combination of wit, sarcasm and intelligence will magically cause trolls to realize the truth and acknowledge the error of their ways or else I would lose all hope for humanity.

Well it's a personal preference, but I find that Bad Analogy doesn't really need three range enhancements, just one is normally enough unless you're using it to pull AVs.

Also, I find that Recall Friend is wasted on a Troll unless you're using it as a mule power for set bonuses. In general though you'll probably find Flee from Thread to be more useful.

I do not recall ever seeing someone respond this way to a post asking if a powerset was fun or not. The only times I can recall seeing it are when people asked how powerful a build is.

You're correct, Mids doesn't tell you how you're going to perform in the game. However that is pretty much impossible to tell outside of actually leveling the character and seeing. For transferring information about a build Mids is the easiest way of doing it. Most of the time people post the full build not just the data chunk so you don't even need Mids to be able to use it.

No IOs are not the only factor in how well a build performs. However the power sets are NOT completely balanced against each other. In general different sets perform better or worse in different situations. The difference is that some sets have their high points in situations that are more common while others perform better in rarer situations.

For example, Devices is commonly regarded as a poor Blaster secondary. It's actually reasonably decent BUT the place where it shines is when you're soloing and even then it's slower than other sets that offer similar mitigation. In team play Devices offers very little to help the team.

Again I've never actually seen people trash talking someone else's power set choices. It is normally presented as a warning that the set might not perform to the person's expectations. Again this is a simple fact. For example consider the Tanker primaries Stone Armor and Shield Defense. Without team support a SD Tanker will not have the survivability of a Stone Tanker. This is a deliberate design decision by the Devs, SD tankers have higher damage than other Tankers (especially Stone) but it comes at the cost of lowered defenses. So if someone posted a thread saying that they wanted to be an awesome Tanker and were going to use Shield Defense then a post warning them that Shield Defense tanks are kinda squishy compared to other tanks would be reasonable.

If you ask someone for a build and give them no guidelines then they will almost certainly give you their build simply because they have it available and it's a build that they like. Compared to most MMOs CoH is extremely free of cookie cutter builds. There are a few power set combinations that do get used a lot (mostly because they're good for farming) but even with them there is quite a bit of variation.

I don't dislike you because I don't know you. I do however consider you extremely annoying.

Primarily the ones that people want are the ones that provide PvE bonuses that aren't available elsewhere. The obvious one is the +3% defense IO from Gladiator's Armor, since that's a lovely bonus for anyone trying to softcap multiple types/positions. Panacea is also popular because it has both a useful proc and a combination of set bonuses that aren't available in the other healing sets. Javelin's Volley is nice because it's a relatively high recharge set compared to the other options in TAoE although IMHO Positrons Blast is still a better choice.

Well technically they could increase the supply by making them drop through activities other than PvP although I guess they wouldn't be PvPIOs if they did that.

Unfortunately there are apparently clipping problems with having permanent jetpack costume pieces . Regarding ray-guns what I'd like is for the pulse rifle's that robotics MMs get to be expanded into a full blast set and add a few classic ray-gun style skins to them.

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I think that you're slightly mis-interpreting my post. By catering to min-maxers what I mean is that the devs should set things up so that builds have viable trade-offs where you get better at one thing at the expense of another. This doesn't have to lead to cookie cutter builds (although done poorly it can). Min-maxing is about optimizing a build given the trade-offs. Conversely if the devs catered exclusively to concept players you'd end up with a situation where all builds are identical and the only difference between characters is the concept, the costume and the animations.

Some people want to play a character that appeals to them and as long as it can handle a basic level of challenge don't care about anything else. Some players only care about character power. Most players of course fall somewhere in between. To some extent the devs need to cater to the whole range to keep everyone happy. This means that things need to be set so that a character has a decent enough basic power level that someone who never pays any attention can follow. But at the same time there needs to be trade-offs between build choices so that those who enjoy min-maxing can spend time tweaking their character to eke out that extra 1% performance.

To use the travel powers as an example there is a trade off in speed versus utility/convenience. Concept players will pick the one that appeals to them for the character. Min-maxers will pick the one that appeals to them based on their preferences and playstyle.

That definitely sounds like they're blocking it. As for your question, I would assume you will be fine once the land line gets setup (assuming your contract includes a sufficiently large bandwidth allocation) but that is really the sort of question you need to ask them (I'd also have recommended checking that before you signed the contract ).

I'm aware not everyone min-maxes, that's why I mentioned concept. However I also feel that when possible the game should attempt to cater to both sorts of players. Players who choose travel powers based on concept will do that no matter what speed fly is set to, and keeping it as a trade off appeases the min-maxers who like to feel that choices have consequences.

As for the trade off itself, it's not a matter of safety it's a matter of convenience. Fly allows you to go anywhere you want just point your character in the direction and go, the only restriction is the need to steer around obstacles. Super Jump characters need to make sure they have somewhere to land to start the next jump while Super Speed characters have minimal vertical movement unless they use other powers (or temp powers) to supplement Super Speed.

I guess that was directed at me. I stand by my statement, that particular idea is stupid.

This is a deliberate trade off, fly gives you perfect 3D movement so it's the slowest travel power overall. Super Jump gives decent 3D movement and is the middle in speed. Super Speed is the fastest but offers no 3D movement. If Fly was as fast as Super Jump there would be no reason to take Super Jump as a travel power except for concept reasons (or if you really, really want Combat Jumping rather than Hover).

Maybe not the first missions, but definitely by the second or third.

80' is the default range for all blast sets except for Assault Rifle. Ranged Shot does the same damage as all other Blaster snipes except for Blazing Bolt. I agree that some of the Archery powers could use a decrease in activation time. Finally why the heck should Archery get a melee attack? It's a Blast set, blast sets do not get a melee attack. The only semi-sensible way to do that would be to make an Archery Assault set for Dominators.

Because there are very few occasions when people actually slot for range. The only powers that really benefit from range are cones where a range increase makes it easier to hit more targets. For most other attacks range is not really worth enhancing.

Randomly dumping new product onto the market is probably a bad idea. Increasing the drop rate for some items would be nice, but the fact that the devs haven't already seems to suggest that they're happy with those items being in very low supply.

You're right it's controversial, it's also stupid. Why should a four year old character that never gets played be better than a new one that gets played alot?

Another good option is to make a solo SG unfortunately it takes a lot of work to make a decent sized solo base but even a small one has room for a enhancement table which will allow you to store 100 enhancements (so you'll have to craft them first).