BanzaiBadger

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I'm sorry but with ED, how can you suggest putting more than 3 of one kind of enhancement?

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Excuse my ignorance..still new to CoX but what is ED and whats it all about??

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ED was what the devs called "Enhancement Diversification", part of a patch awhile back that made it not worth slotting more than 3 of any type of SO. (DO's and TO's are still okay). Basically the maximum buff you can get for any ONE aspect of a power is just under 100%, slot a fourth SO and you'll get a much smaller bonus, like 5% per SO.

When a team member says "Wow, you're older than my dad".

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* You need to be at melee range to fully benefit from Fulcum Shift


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Which'll go nicely with Sonics sleep cone attack

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Radiation can debuff defense to the point where accuracy enhancements are unneeded against purple-con mobs.

[/ QUOTE ] Right...right...and how many people do you know take out their acc enhancements because of it? Do you know any Rads that take out their acc enhancements because of it?

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I used to and did very well, until ED meant I had slots left over so I might as well slot accuracy. IIRC, RI has a -30 to DEF.

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Allow me a brief, smug 'we told you so' here. Thanks for taking another look. Knowing how other Devs have handled similar issues in the past, it's really good to know that someone is actually willing to give the avid testers around here some credit.

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Should we go give the Controllers their rain back?

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It's only fair and just, isn't it? We couldn't keep what's rightfully theirs.

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They'll thank us for it, I know they will.

First off, thanks very much for looking into all these issues, must have taken a lot of time and effort.

Sad to say though that I found some of your answers disheartening re. defender/controller balance. It seems that they can get our primaries at a small enough decrease in efficacy so as to be unnoticeable and if it also happens to be a control effect they get it better than we do.

One would think that the balancing factor to this would be that we do better damage, but overall, our damage is pretty insignificant in large teams. Certainly not enough to make us an attractive team pick over a controller.

Shouldn't controllers be renamed to defenders? They do defend a team better than we do overall. Not sure what defenders would be called though...

Semantic question: How is a slow a control and not a debuff? The mob can still do whatever its AI dictates, it just does it slower. It's not held, slept, confused, feared or disorientated, it's just doing things slooooowly. I'm sorry, but that's a debuff, not a control.

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(*What the heck are crumpets anyway?)


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Quite tasty but hard to describe, sort of like a muffin, but not.....err... they've got lots of holes in them to soak up butter and jam.