Aett_Thorn

However, I do love the confusion they cause with me. Hmmm... a thread about Threat? I'll have to check that out. Wait a second, I posted in this thread? What the heck? I don't remember that! When was this...two years ago!?!?! Holy hell!

It's going to depend on the Mod, most likely, as well as the subject matter. Common subjects are likely to get Modded faster than subjects that rarely, if ever, come up. Also, if you're keeping it on topic, it might still be useful to people to ask clarifications on.

On top of that, it depends on if anyone actually reports the thread for notice. If the Mods don't know about something, they can't exactly read every thread on the boards just looking for stuff.

Thirdly, it also depends on the manner in which is was brought back up. If it's just done randomly, for no apparent purpose, it's likely to get locked. If, however, someone brings back a thread saying something like, "Sorry to bring this up, but this is the first thread that came up in my search on subject X," I bet the Mods will be a little more lenient.

This is kinda my feel on it, too. It's pretty easy to type a "sorry for bringing this thread back up, but it was the first one I could find on subject X."

I can buy that there aren't many posts on some subjects, so a search might turn up an older thread that you want some clarification on. But it's the 2+ year old threads that get brought back with no explanation that really irk me.

So, basically, you want a character that never, ever needs any support. How would that be balanced with the other ATs?

I haven't seen this decline, really. Also, passive powers tend to be weaker than toggles, due to the fact that they don't rely on endurance to run. As such, a Monk would have less resistance/defense than a similar Scrapper/Tanker/Brute running armors. So he would have a much tougher time surviving incoming fire, and therefore die in situations where the other melee ATs wouldn't.

You do not need to spend 3 billion influence to solo a Tank, Brute, or Scrapper. They can solo just fine on just ordinary SOs. Sure, if you want to crank up the difficulty up to ludicrous, then you may need to spend some cash, but you can solo just fine at lower difficulties. Heck, my Ice/Ice Tanker can solo at +2/+4 just fine, and he barely has any set IOs.

So I'm wondering what it is you really want. Because if your intent is to create an AT that can solo at +4/+8 without any IOs or support, I think that is a little unrealistic.

The Devs were on record in around I6 release saying that ED would allow them to do create new systems that would allow the characters to become more powerful, something that would be highly imbalanced without ED. This was later confirmed to be the invention system.

I don't get how you can think that Scrappers and Brutes aren't solo machines right now. They have enough Defenses to survive incoming damage, and can put out impressive damage themselves. What more do you want?

Even if they did allow for origin respecs, I'd still be fairly mad. I mean, my namesake character is based off of an Ice Demon from Norse mythology. He was summoned by Circle mystics, and escaped because they made a mistake in the summoning circle. He's a magic origin. He just is. But the 1-2% Defense would help him much more than the magic bonus. So, I'd have to choose between having an origin that makes sense but is sub-optimal, or changing origin to something that doesn't make sense to get the bonus I want.


Arcs which you can do for flavor, but don't really restrict anyone, are fine in my opinion. I think it would be fun to have single-origin arcs in the game (especially since others could tag along to see them, in case they only make characters of a certain origin, which I've seen on the boards once or twice). However, bonuses and penalties to character stats based on origin is a bad idea, IMO.

What? Are you suggesting that the Devs give long-time players the ability to choose any two powersets and put them together one a character? If so, that kind of thing was done in the Alpha phase of this game, and it was horribly broken. You could either really create a gimp character with no offense (tougher to do if you're experienced, but still possible), or a character that was just horribly out of balance in favor of god-mode (say, a Fire Blast/Stone Armor character). The ATs were put in place to try to prevent this.

The amount of rebalancing of powersets that would need to be done to allow for open power selection would drive most existing players away, I think.

It depends on how much damage is incoming. That's the point. You can compare theoretical amounts of Defense and Resistance and see how well they'd do against varying amounts of incoming damage. But as soon as you start discussing Regen, you need to know a set amount of damage that is coming in before you can really see how it will be effective.

Dual Postals? How do I get that set?!

Gah! I'm so old!

1) You never said in your first post that they would have attacks. Don't be surprised when people can't understand what you're thinking if you don't put it down. Nothing you were saying about them in the first post made it seem like they could solo.

2) the Devs will NEVER give an AT the ability to attack with absolutely no chance of return fire, which is what you're suggesting.

3) I don't think that you really understand how threat works in this game, nor how modifying the Threat formula to account for -Threat would allow huge exploits into the game.

You still haven't addressed the fact that every ranged attack in the game can be used at melee range if so desired, nor the fact that enemies can close to melee range pretty quickly, thereby nullifying this AT's ability to do much of anything after the first couple of shots.

You meant Executioner.

And yeah, being all melee damage is fine, right up until the point where you get hit with anything.