Bill Z Bubba

Then cancel your sub. You're not going to get better answers than you've been given.

Pre-orders are a good way to get quick cash.

Ultra-mode progress occurred faster than expected so they decided to get it out early. Getting stuff sooner than expected makes most people happy.

GR is an expansion based on a new world to explore with 20 levels of new content and a way for existing players to switch sides.

Incarnate levels were not known to be coming by anyone until the PAX thing to my knowledge.

If the fact that you're getting MORE than you were told you were getting and some of it SOONER than expected bothers you so much, cancel your subscription in revolt.

What *should* be is already meaningless.

Scrappers *shouldn't* have gotten fiery or dark melee.
Brutes *shouldn't* have gotten claws or dual blades.
Tanks *shouldn't* have gotten dual blades.

But they did. The old "rules" are meaningless now. After GR, they'll be even more so meaningless.

All that's left is AT modifiers and inherents.

Want aggro control and higher base mitigation? Go tank.
Want steady high damage at the cost of somewhat lower mitigation? Go scrapper.
Want to be a scrapper solo and a tank that actually deals damage on teams? Go brute.

What reasoning is left for scrappers not to get ice and energy melee? They've already got dark and fire. What are brutes lacking? Broadsword and ice?

Why shouldn't tanks get broadsword?

I have to agree with this. Port 'em all. Same goes for the mitigation sets.

Is it too much to hope that some of this might be sinking in?

So... you're upset because you paid for X which was to be delivered some few months down the road.

Instead, you're getting part of X now, part of X when stated, and a bit of Y at the same time.

And you're griping because the rest of Y, which wasn't even part of what you initially paid for, won't be coming with the rest of X.

You're getting more than you were told you were getting and you're griping about it.

That says much about you.

Or, if you'd prefer, I can make the case that any AT in the game is more desirable to have along on any mission in the game than a tank.

In other words, what you're requesting is dumb. Fear the sorcerers? Tell your troller to lock him down and not to worry about anything else. Then you can deal with aggro management on the rest of the spawn. Or tell your defender watch you more carefully as you tank and tell that scrapper over there to unload everything he has on the sorc.

Call targets. Plan. Use tactics. Learn to play.

Quit with the "herding to here" crap that became useless, boring and a waste of time as soon as ED, GDN and aggro caps were introduced.

Then delete all your tanks. They are NEVER needed. EVER.

Vanguard are specifically designed to put the hurt on melee users, as mentioned.

If you're trying to tank for a team of 8 against vanguard and that team doesn't realize what you're facing and act accordingly, then yes, I'd expect you to faceplant regularly.

However, a team expecting you to tank vanguard should damn well be buffing the snot out of you and debuffing them.

Solo? Go to base difficulty and realize that vanguard are to you what everything else in the game is to a squishie. That is by design. Don't expect to run at x8 while solo against them.

That would be like me taking on an aggro cap's worth of autohit Romulus fluffies with my SR scrapper.

True. And that's even worse. "We're not going to make the content difficult enough to require a team, but we will throw in some simul-click glowies to cover that fact."

I'm betting that after I-19, we'll get to take the STF and LRSF off of that list.

I've never heard of anyone soloing it, so it should probably be added to the list.

What the hell are you talking about? Gaussian's arc may be rough with the difficulty cranked up but it's by no means impossible to solo for anyone. Unless you just plain suck.

I've never purchased it either.

Pets apparently still have a base 75% chance to hit rather than the 50% they should have.

Which is... horse manure. Stinky, nasty, sticky horse manure.

"Masters of" badges are not required content. If GW holds the tank and it dies, I bet someone on the team can rez the tank if it doesn't have a wakie.

Does "run it in the way that your teammates will expect you to run it" mean that a tank is never supposed to fall in combat? If so, I find the statement silly.


I guess defense based scrappers aren't part of the "most scrappers" statement. Last time I did the STF I stood at GW's back ripping her to shreds while the tank taunted her from range. Her heal became laughable at that point.

As for your fears, I doubt that you're the only one to have them. If CHV goes the way of WoW with the Incarnate system, I'll be incredibly annoyed as well.

That's not really an option for me. Part of the game is tweaking my main and namesake to the highest performance levels I can given the limitations of claws and SR.

The Incarnate system will obviously be used to increase existing power levels. In order for me to continue enjoying my main character, I must have more power.

MORE POWAH!!! MUUUAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHHOHOHHAHAHAHAHO

Natural. This lets you choose staff or wand based on which one fits your costume better.