Adeon Hawkwood

That is true, but to be honest I don't really see an issue with including them. A lot of low level globals are in very limited (or no) supply due to the fact that the only way to get them is either park a character at that level and farm for merits/tickets to spend on random rolls (most of which will be vendor trash since in general only the globals are useful at those levels) or buy them directly with merits. Maybe have an increased cost to inhibit a global or proc IO but I'd say allow them to go down.

To be honest, I've never really liked ignite, it doesn't suit my play style in a large part due to the 4 second cast time and need to prep the enemy with an immobilize. With the new difficulty settings on my Blaster I just turn bosses off and have fun Full Auto'ing minions .

Basically Mids assumes you have at least one teammate in range.

Blame Tony
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=199700

I doubt it. Removing options is unlikely to make people decide to do more TFs.

The devs did state that making TFs ignore difficulty was a temporary solution to stop people running them at -1.

When was the last time you got real benefit from having 1.155 Acc instead of 1? Neither the Acc of Archery or the -Def of Radiation are particularly brilliant bonuses. However I would rank the -Def as slightly better for a few reasons. Primarily as I noted before the -Def does affect the entire team. Secondly because of the way attack mechanics work, the -Def is multiplied by your accuracy so it's a larger bonus (unless you already have large to hit bonuses or the enemy has DDR). Finally unlike Acc the Def debuffs from different powers stack.

The only advantage Acc has over -def is that you always benefit from it and it isn't affected by your enemies resistance.

Oh yeah, the flame wars over horribly unbalanced alternative weapons like the Sandman were nothing compared to the flame wars over cosmetic items.

If you're interested, here's the long version. When Valve introduced the hats they made it so that you could have one randomly awarded to you while playing the game, you didn't have to do anything (this caused flame wars). The natural result was that people would create "idle servers" where you could go AFK and still have a chance for hats (this also caused flame wars). After a bit someone figured out that you could make a simple program that would convince Valve you were connected to a server without the game running, allowing you to get hats without using up your computers processing power (oh, the flame wars THIS caused). Valve never made any official comment on whether using the idle program was legit or not and then one day announced that no, it was not legit any items you'd gotten through it had been deleted, and if you hadn't used it you got a Golden Halo hat as a reward (and the internet exploded).

EDIT: Oh yes, I forgot. Recently if you pre-ordered L4D2 you got a TF2 Hat (based on Bill's hat in L4D). Guess what happened?

The only practical way to get really large amounts of influence in a reasonable timeframe is to either become a marketeer or become a farmer and sell your drops. Of course the really hard part is resisting the urge to buy shiny things. With the decline in AE farming it takes longer but back in it's heyday I made over a billion through marketeering in about 4weeks.

Basically marketeering is the easiest way to make cash. I recently started a new character and with no cash infusions or lucky drops he still has about 60mil at level 20

It's a Resurrector
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Resurrector

I may do more screenshots eventually, but honestly that isn't my forte and I'm more concerned with correcting and filling in the missing information first.

I blame the sleepiness.

Because Radiation's -Def benefits the entire team not just the blaster. When it comes to team based play a -Def debuff is a lot more useful than +Acc self buff.

However, what it really comes down to is that Assault rifle and Archery have a crashless nuke for thematic reasons .

Shivans have ranged attacks as well as melee, tell them to hold position away from her.

They are a specific AT with their own power sets.
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Peacebringer
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Warshade
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Arachnos_Soldier
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Arachnos_Widow

Like the other ATs in the game they mostly come down to a particular play style that some people like and some don't. In general there seem to be more people who like the villain EATs than the Kheldians but overall you still see more people playing the classic ATs. This is partly because there are fewer powersets available to them than the classic ATs. With dual builds you can pretty much try all of the available options with only one of each type.

I didn't say mitigation, I said secondary effects. Fire has a secondary effect of more damage (generally as a DoT) while Radiation has a secondary effect of Defense debuff. They both have a secondary effect that is offensive in nature rather than defensive. I'm not really looking at the overall mitigation of the sets, some have higher mitigation (Energy and Cold for example) while others trade mitigation for Damage (Fire and Radiation).

I was actually going to write an in depth analysis to show that the lack of secondary effects hurts Archery in comparison to energy blast, but I'm starting to think you might have a point. Most Blaster ST attacks use a damage scale that is based solely on recharge time. I hadn't realized it before but both Aimed Shot and Snap Shot (along with Burst in AR) actually have a higher damage scale than they should for their recharge times. The scales are still lower than for Fire Blast but Archery has higher accuracy to compensate so it should even out (we'll ignore the fact that the higher accuracy isn't that useful once you start slotting IOs).

AoE powers are less consistent across Blast sets but even there Archery does seem to come out ok. Explosive Arrow does of course have a secondary effect. Fistful of Arrows is an interesting case. It's damage scale is similar to most other cone attacks, however it's range is 50ft rather than 40ft. Comparing it to Howl and Shockwave in Sonic Blast (which both share it's 50ft range) we see a solid increase in damage scale as it's secondary effect.

Ranged Shot could probably use a damage boost. It's secondary effect appears to be an additional 0.031 accuracy on top of the normal 0.155 Archery accuracy bonus.

In summary, my statement that Archery is lacking in secondary effects was erroneous. they are just very diverse and rather subtle.

I still disagree with you that FA and RoA need changing though, I like them to much

I agree. At least with Devices there is only one power that is conceptually bad, and even then we can skirt the edge of the Cottage Rule by at least keeping it as a power that makes a large explosion, all that needs changing is how the explosion is delivered.