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I dunno, sounds more like a smart player using his head rather than anything cheap.

Personally, leaning towards Reichsman though I'm wary of both my inexperience and some things like the massive lag ambushes of death. I think it might work well but it will have to be purposely a tiny bit slower run than most due to the setup of the final battle and I'm sure there will be people who have never done it before.

Plus there's silly people like me who tend to read the mission text the first time through a SF/TF.

Triumph actually has a dedicated MA SG on both sides and we've seen people come and go including what looked like an entirely different MA SG.

I'd argue that it is almost needed but in a less broken fashion. Even without travel powers, we usually outrun our enemies so one who actually stays out of the way makes sense. Plus, Taunt/Confront has a -range component that helps alleviate that since properly applied range will be a good NPC tool and taunts can be used to eliminate it.

I wonder if we should have a few enemies with a knockoff of the Ace of Spades temp. It's an autohit that slowly lowers defense but drains life in the process. Giving this to a ranged enemy will make them a subtle threat to tanks/scrappers/brutes but not instantly overwhelm them.

Actually, all of them were standardized to having five during I16. I can see getting the APPs sooner but not all the way at lvl 30. First off, there's the hero/villain parity since villains actually need to do an arc for theirs. With the design of the arc and missions, lvl 38 is probably the soonest these could be available. Also, I wonder if that was a deliberate move to not give the player access to all five of the powers.

In some ways, I wonder if it would be better to simply add a fifth pick to the regular Power Pools. Problem there is figuring out what should be added to some of them.

Seriously? It looks like a standard mansion which I could only see as being depressing if you are on the other end of the income scale.

The majority of the problem with CoV's visuals is not the buildings themselves but rather the skyline. If daylight was just a little bit brighter the zones would look quite different. I also wonder if Mercy Island would be regarded differently if we started in the Mercy neighborhood where things are noticibly brighter than the rest of the island. Nerva and Warburg both have multicolored buildings like those in the Jackpot neighborhood of St Martial but they don't light up in the dark.



Trying to get back to the original topic, a lot of the problem with the mmo trinity, and I'll bluntly argue that this favors Scrapper soloability, boils down to two simple problems--enemy stupidity and lack of enemy variance. If an enemy can fly and has a ranged attack but it spends most of its time in melee even if you never taunted them then of course it's easy for a Scrapper. Longbow Eagles are one of the few enemies that actually attempt some form of "stick and move" which makes them noticibly different to fight but they are generally too squishy for it to matter.

Enemy variance is another big issue. Stalkers, Controllers, and Dominators generally have a higher amount of worth if there's one or two unique targets that need to be addressed as opposed to just wading into a spawn with Footstomp on auto. However, we've got a few too many enemy groups where you don't have to actually pay attention. Also, enemies could stand to have just a few more tricks up their sleeves.

However, Rikti Drones can be placated from outside of their view range. If there is just one, Placate it and sneak past freely.

I see how that could be problematic. In a way, it's sort of the same problem with some of the smaller maps in the Arena.

I disagree for one small reason--hazard zone spawn sizes. I think it could be argued that it could be feasible to go up to 35 depending on the mission. However, I have one interesting concept. What if instead of pure numbers, it was a point/percentage system? With this, bosses would count for more "worth" (taking out the leaders if you will) and thus this would work well for powersets with ST specialization instead of AOE.

It requires a full team of 8.

That's a somewhat cynical view but in my opinion as the crazy new guy that is the main problem. The concept of splitting up the team is valid if done right but an 8 person simul-click means you only need one person to disconnect to ruin the trial. Lower it from 8 to 4 and it'll be fine. Cavern is actually very easy to speed run if just one person is able to stealth/tp.

Pretty sure it's the "but I wanna be heroic!" argument combined with superior player numbers.

Adding to that, there's a key advantage heroes get that villains don't. Heroes are allowed to save the world but villains aren't allowed to take over the world. In fact, villains aren't even allowed to take over a city which is disappointing since CoH maps show that the Rogue Isles DOES have uncharted islands. The one true advantage is getting Mayhem missions since it allows you to go to a city and wreak havoc.

The fact that the audio was put up or the exact info? As far as the latter, while most of the info has been covered, not only is this a good way to hear about the non-Praetoria stuff that people didn't do play-by-plays on, the actual wording and feel is different hearing it directly from the devs. For instance, some things that stood out was the fact that different panels had different opinions on the idea of coop Shadow Shard and that the team specifically feels that redside Reichsman was much better designed than blueside. I'm also curious about some things concerning the perceived "need" for brand new art and such for some things (like...well, anything new for bases) as opposed to innovative usage of pre-existing resources.

While I could be off since I'm newer to the game, this sounds like bad game design or at least bad enemy design. We tend not to have that many mob groups like the Tsoo who have a unique and varied bag of tricks. Most AVs and GMs seem to be of the lolfootstomp meatsack variety.

Ah but the concept isn't to eliminate the point of a character but rather to allow different skill types to shine. For instance, have an escort with high HP but also has a taunt aura and the goal is to get them to the door or clicky alive. There's actually multiple setups for this to work ranging from killing the approaching enemies, drawing the aggro away from the hostage, holding enemies as you progress, or even just repeatedly healing the hostage.