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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

That's not a freeform powerset, though. It's just a branching powerset. Things like these have been suggested for a long time - since before Soldiers of Arachnos, actually - and they've always been good ideas. However, retrofitting existing sets to behave like this seems like an impossible undertaking, just for the sheer workload it would involve.

I'd like it, though.

Originally Posted by Cyber_naut

At the high end, fully slotted and io'd, there wasn't enough of a trade off, again imo. But I do agree the devs apparent crusade to make defense worthless is headed in the 'going too far' direction.

It's ok for top end builds that cost billions to make to be almost unkillable. Even in the regular content, my uber toons can die in various situations. But with the current trend, my uber 50s can die like a level 10 blaster far too often and far too easily. Maybe the devs have a different playstyle, but I don't enjoy going to the hospital every five minutes on a top end character. If some players like to die a lot, fine, up the difficulty capabilities to +8/x16 and let them go nuts.

One of the bigger reasons this is happening is giving enemies things that literally make defense useless, which overly cripples builds and powersets that rely on defense. And they tinkered with this in the regular lvl 50 content when they added tip missions, and they upped the to hit ability of enemies like DE.

Originally Posted by Katten

Firstly, I find it a must have, yes. Watch your damage % numbers in combat apps. Hovering between 40%-120% damage bonus more than half of every fight is nice, It is also the balancing factor for CS (which doesn't crit, it recharges siphon) AND (I don't remember if this is right) I believe you have to have it on to trigger KM's -dam debuff.

As for MoG yes it is 15 seconds, but it's on a shorter recharge timer, no longer prevents healing, reduces your health or crashes.

So basically, it's short duration but has ZERO downside other than that. It is god for breaking alphas (an old /regen weakness) so definitely keep it.

Originally Posted by Ironik

That was quite funny. Excellent spoof.

Bee Tee Double-youse: Here's the awesome VW commercial they're spoofing, for those who haven't seen it.

Originally Posted by Elegost

apparently I'm the only one still in favor of kat/regen :[

Originally Posted by SupaFreak

Thank you, Sei. Hard to make him out in the face... you happen to have a pic larger is size?

Originally Posted by Chaos Creator

I know ya'll against scanlation but Kurohime has been fully scanlated if you want the story Now.

Originally Posted by Rylas

This isn't meant to be rude, or uncaring, but why does someone who insists on soloing and never doing TFs feel they NEED these things? They're cool and all, but I don't see how they'd vastly improve much of your solo experience, especially since the level shifts only apply in the content you won't be playing.

On a side note, if you can find yourself able to get along with other people for 30-40 minutes, you can get these things much, much faster. The first few times you run it you may feel it's overly difficult, but they get much easier with practice. A LOT easier.

Originally Posted by Arnabas

I know it's pretty common, but I just never knew why. Especially a lead time of over 2 weeks, which seems like a lot. I've waited this long, I can wait a bit longer. It's just the whole pirating thing that makes me think it's a bad idea.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

3. Allow click status protection powers to be activated while held, slept, stunned or terrorised. In essence, allow these powers to work like a Break Free inspiration. There's nothing dumber than getting held just as your Practiced Brawler is going down because you neglected to "press X to not die," but allowing players to activate the power when held, waking them up from the hold would fix that problem and give click status protection powers a distinct advantage to offset the easy convenience of toggle status protection powers.

Originally Posted by Pampl

Sure, it's easy to keep Practiced Brawler running even without using autoclick. I'm not threatening to quit over how hard it is or anything. It's just that I think it would be more elegant, and improve the gameplay a little, if there wasn't this basically pointless difference between it and other mez protection.

I use Dull Pain the same way. I'm ambivalent as to whether it should be changed to a toggle, which is why IIRC I didn't list it with the others.

Originally Posted by Dark_Respite

Coz til now, I've TRIED to keep it as close to canon as possible. The fact that he was so blatantly unattached made it easy to write (and Synapse is the same way).

I *was* amused, however, when I logged in to the Devs' Ustream thing, that Zwillinger KNEW what I was going to ask about, and said, "I can neither confirm nor deny what might be implied."

Thanks a lot, Zwill.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

Perosnally, I feel free-form building is a bad idea in general, and for a couple of reasons:

1. It's hard to balance so that a few optimal builds don't completely overshadow all the others, and it kind of defeats the point if such a balancing were even possible.

2. Not everyone gets into these games to play them like a developer. Not everyone wants to compose an entire build from scratch, determining how much protection, AoE, single-target, buff and so forth make for a good character, especially outside of any specific regulations. A lot of people - myself included - would prefer to see the game do most of the work in balancing our builds.

Freedom isn't just sunshine and rainbows. It's also a responsibility, and a game which slaps you with too many consequence-heavy choices too early in its gameplay rarely has good retention.

Originally Posted by The_Coming_Storm

Yea... no. Force people to spec into a travel power if they want to move quickly THEN we will talk about this.

Originally Posted by Largo

My lvl 32 Kinetic Melee/Regen stalker just hit 32 today. I took Concentrated Strike as my next power choice. In the description of the power, it says its supposed to instantly recharge the Build Up power, instead of giving criticals.

Does that mean, it only recharges the BU power when I attack using CS from the hidden state?

Because when I use it in an attack chain, it does nothing to instantly recharge the BU power.

So should I be going BU, AS, placate, CS, then BU will be instantly ready?

So far I have not seen BU instantly recharged ever.

Or is that some text that should have been removed but wasn't?

Originally Posted by Katten

I don't have numbers for it, but since I replaced lunge with fire blast my damage has very obviously gone up (I just stole all the slots, since I can't completely retire lunge).

Burn (and this is going to sound wierd) I think is actually my strongest single target attack (stronger than ripper, unless ripper crits). It is an absolute beast, I fight those rikti battlesuits pretty often, and they don't seem to go down until burn, where they drop like half their health.

The effect is odd, I have both almost a full ranged ST attack chain, and a fully ranged AoE attack chain (because I use fireball too). the only melee attack I use (as in I actually contact the enemy) is ripper. It makes you feel much more like a psychotic Dualy damage aura'd blaster than a scrapper. Esp considering BU+FE is pretty much Aim+BU