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Like I said, I'm all for a Vanguard Mace, and even gave a suggestion for how it could be done. But yeah, like a poster above me pointed out, none of that mace is razor-thin blades of energy.

Looks like a dark version of the Sonic Resonance big bubble.

This is REALLY not the better way to go. Freedom has gone Live at this point. Making minor fixes every so often is FAR better at this point than pulling this back completely. For one, all of a sudden you have a bunch of people who are playing who no longer can, for an indeterminate amount of time in the scale of weeks to months, potentially. And even then, you still might not find every bug that will happen on the Live servers.

So, you basically piss off a lot of people who can't play at all for weeks or months, just to avoid a few hours of downtime here and there.

And here's the thing, if you leave what we have still live, only make fixes on the Beta server, then we STILL need to take the Live servers down for maintenance about the same amount anyways, as there will still be bugs there. However, now we have the Devs working simultaneously to fix the same bugs on Live and Beta, which doubles their work time to make any fix.

I know that this is inconvenient for some (maybe a lot) of people. But the alternative is far worse.

^This. The Vanguard Weapons are all for edged weapons. They are basically razor-thin planes of energy that you can use to cut through stuff. A razor-thin mace makes no sense.

Of course, the box doesn't make much sense either, but makes more than a mace would. However, maybe a Mace with a four-sided head that looks like the vanguard plates you can put on your boots would be appropriate.

Not all issues can be determined before a launch. Unfortunate, but true. For one, there are more players, doing different things than they would in a Beta, and they can find more problems.

Do I wish that they could figure out every issue in the Betas? Yes. But it's not going to happen. There are just too many additional variables on the live servers.

I am sure that the Devs are trying very hard to limit downtime, especially at this point. However, fixing the servers BEFORE weekend prime times is better than letting issues go unresolved until Tuesday.

1) Hyperbole will get you nowhere. The game has NOT been down more than it's been up recently.

2) They are upgrading the servers to better handle the increased load that Freedom is expected to bring in. New hardware means that they need to make sure that it's running properly, and is doing everything that it needs to be doing. This means a bit of extra maintenance right now, but it should calm down soon.

Just seconding this. What you're seeing in the description is the Gauntlet effect.

If you haven't yet, you might want to try installing the test server, and duplicating the character there. That way, you can mess with the respec there, and see if you like it or not, before doing it for keeps on the live server.

Fireball does not cause scatter.

But then wouldn't they get less answers, potentially? I mean, the point of having that section is so that they can ask questions, and VIPs would be the best potential answers.

Okay, if you had mentioned THAT at the beginning, maybe more people would have understood what you were going for. When you make a vague suggestion, don't be surprised when people don't understand exactly what you're getting at. If you were only talking about the speed of the jump, and not the jump itself, then why would you say that you want our SJ to be more like their SJ, instead of wanting our SJ to behave like their SJ only in terms of the speed of assent/descent?

Making a clear suggestion is the first step.

Rocket Boots only animate when flying. The piston boots do animate when jumping, but that's mostly a landing thing.

Yeah, I gotta say that after watching that video, I like our a lot more the way it is.

I think the problem here is the same for -DMG powers, and why we can't slot for that. I think that if we could slot -recharge in powers, it would actually be affected by +Recharge enhancements in the power. Either that, or slotting for -recharge would negativeley impact the recharge of the power it's slotted in, not just the enemy.

Considering I have no idea what you're talking about when you compare it to "that other game's" super jump, I'm going to have to say that I like ours the way it is.

Could you elaborate a bit on what makes it different?

Or become a Bane Spider.

There are a few ways. The first really good way is to make sure you hit up the Vault (one of which is in Cap Au Diable, just north of the market there (it'll be on the map). You can store a decent amount there.

Also, some of the market badges for selling various items, and I think badges for various crafting, can earn you more salvage inventory space.