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Originally Posted by LSK

OH they are fun to play, and I have out damages scrappers on mine.

Originally Posted by Infernus_Hades

Since you all continually CHOOSE to ignore it I will keep it in front of you:

THEY TIED COSTUMES, AURAS AND OTHER THINGS TO TRIALS.

Those are not trial only powers.

Originally Posted by Shubbie

With pretty much everyone with incarnate abilities having more damage coming out of every pore than a low grade nuclear weapon.

It leaves me wondering whats the role of an At that does damage and nothing else?

Especially with dominators, corruptors and some offender builds are matching blaster damage and add alot more to add to a team.

I know this is an old argument, but it seems in the new post incarnate enviroment its worse than ever.

Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane

You support raising resistance caps on Scrappers, already one of the highest performing ATs, without a commensurate decrease in damage. But Tankers aren't allowed to have their damage cap raised without gutting their survivability?

Hypocrite.


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Originally Posted by Residentx10

That's not fair

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

I've never sat down and tried to tell someone they shouldn't play pure natural characters. By all means, make all the MA/SR Scrappers you want, travel around with Swift, Hurdle and Combat Jumping and spin your RP as you like. But when you start asking for the game to be changed and power balance trampled so that you can have what is contradicted by a dozen different in-game systems, I step up and make the same old "pessimistic" post I've made on the subject every time "pure natural human" characters come up. If you want one, it's your responsibility to stick to concept.

Originally Posted by Fritzy

So much of my disappointment with the Incarnate System are the expectations set by the devs.

Hear me out: CoH is incredibly solo friendly from levels 1 -50. just about any player and any AT can solo their way to level 50+1 without ever need ing to join a team. Over the years, the devs went to great lengths to make virtually all regular content scalable for group szes 1 thru 8. They even implemented the difficulty slider to make it even easier. Crafted IO's and IO sets give additional strength and defense to weaker AT's. Almost every big thing they've done for the past 5 years has been to make it possible for any AT to be able to solo their way to max level.

By doing this, the many players who prefer to the solo (or small team) mode of play have come to view CoH as the most solo friendly MMO currently within the top 25. An expectation was set in these players minds that not only did the devs appreciate the value of solo play to many of its customers but that it would not stop providing such content. Nothing was put in wiritng, of course, but the history of and trends in the game's development reinforced those solo players expectations.

Then comes the Incarnate System and its decidedly solo un-friendly content. Suddenly and with very little warning, the solo players found their style of play totally abandoned by the devs and in fact had it "dissed" and insulted with the ridiculous shard conversion requirements for soloing up the Incarnate ladder. With the long established expectations smashed so severely and cold-heartedly, of course, many of the soloing crowd got really upset.

"After so many years of loyalty and committment to our style of play, how could you devs abandon us so completely in the post 50 levels of the game that we were looking forward to with just as great a sense of anticipation as the teaming/raiding crowd was?"

Of course we are upset and angry. Everyone else would be too if their expectations had been crushed in the same way. Just remember, it was the long history of the game that set our expectations. We did not pull them out of thin air or make them up after the fact. Due to how the game had been trending over the past 7 years, prior to I19, we had every right to expect that development of post-50 solo content would continue right along side of the team/multi-team content. We were conditioned by the game's structure to expect to have choices that included solo play and then post-50 that choice was removed.

The devs broke with the 7 year trend and abandoned our style of play and most of us perceive no good reason why they went that way by making the decisions they did. It is frustrating because it just doesn't make any good business sense for them to do what they have done. It is sad and disappointing if they continue to ignore the solo market in the post-50 content. They worked really hard to be the most solo friendly MMO and now they seem to be working equally hard to lose that title.

I'm still holding on to hope that the staff sees the error of their ways and restore the proud solo reputatioin of this game to its rightful place at the top of the heap.

Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle

Even if they did want to reemphasize the set's single target dominance, I don't think they would do it by just increasing the DPA of its attacks. Yes, currently total focus is mighty sad, worse than the basic or next best attacks in most scrapper sets, but it just seems like the devs are a little more creative than that. Look at KM, for example. Pretty much all of its attacks are in a very consistent, slightly above average area with their DPA. The reason it can do impressive single target is of course that instead of build up it gets mini-brute mode, with particularly good uptime for scrappers. Clearly they wouldn't want to repeat that exact solution for EM, but something a bit more flavorful than just "now it's slightly faster" could only help.

Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane

Actually, I'm ambivalent about Tankers getting more damage.

What I want is to see Tanker damage caps increased. Not the same thing.

Alternatively, they could have Brute resistance caps and Brute and Scrapper Max HP caps adjusted downward.

Obviously, the alternative option would upset some Brute and Scrapper players, while my preferred course wouldn't really upset the apple cart, according to what Arcana said at least.

Originally Posted by Graizl

Scrappers are getting energy aura, withouy energy melee? ;(

I know some still have that hatred against pink pom pom, but since we can change the colors now... why no love for energy melee on scrappers?

Originally Posted by Jibikao

My only problem with it is that this is the 3rd major proliferation and I think every AT should get at least something. I am not sporting a huge hard-on for Illusion Control. I just think that set is "ready" to be ported because the "awesome" powers in that set are pets anyway and there is no need for new animations/graphic.

What's working for Controller should work for Dominator as well and if it sucks, it sucks. It's not like Gravity control was well designed for Dominator's need anyway, but it still has one cool power in Wormhole, just like Phantom Army will be just as cool for Dominator. Dominator can skip Propel and I am sure some will skip the invisible powers.

Them not porting Illusion this time means that they are not comfortable with the current version on Dominator. And I wouldn't exactly classify Illusion as "exciting". If anything, I would guess we won't see Illusion at all (or it may be eventually a Cash Item because people want it too much). We'll see something different like Whip Assault / Crowd Control natural set. Now that's more exciting than Illusion. :P

Originally Posted by Scythus

So you can team up with that blond DP blaster in the red trenchcoat?

Originally Posted by TrueGentleman

My love/hate relationship with continuity ended ages ago. These days, I simply enjoy it when it's done well and ignore it otherwise. (I ignore a lot of new comics these days.)

Incidentally, this list leaves off the entire Wildstorm lineup, whose heroes are now somehow being incorporated into the regular DCU - a bizarre notion since so many of their characters were conceived as grim 'n' gritty analogues to DC's canonical heroes in order to comment on them.

Originally Posted by Mega_Jamie

To put that rumour to rest, I believe the UStream Highlights from the day this was announced included some discussion on it being included in i21.

New features being announced (Titan Weapons) or hinted at (Dominator Sets) which are not part of i21 itself have been expressedely stated they are not part of i21.

So no doubt in my mind this is happening i21

Originally Posted by Jibikao

I just hope it won't be a "cash item" by the time Illusion Control comes to the red side.

I am not too sure if the invisible powers matter that much. I mean my Illusion troller didn't even take it. I would rather take tough/weave instead.

Yes, it is true that few powers in Illusion benefit from Domination but is the current version really that bad? And if the current version is "too good", then what does it say about Illusion/Rad that can solo so many AVs already due to Phantom Army?

I just think it's bitter that Dominator doesn't get anything this time while Blaster got two new sets and I am sure those require testing as well?

And what is this "exciting" plan?? If Illusion Control did get transferred here several months later, what's "exciting" about it? It should have happened several months earlier...

Originally Posted by Forefinger_

I'm more concerned about PG's bustline; will it remain the same?

Originally Posted by Leo_G

I doubt it would have Hibernate in it too. Only the Patron Pools seem to have high-order defensive powers like that. Probably something like:

Chilblain
Ice Blast
Ice Patch
Benumb (I wish)
Ice Storm

Originally Posted by Flarstux

Oh, heh, I know what Rob's done that's bad - pretty much everything - but what I was asking is, what's Scott Lobdell done that's bad?