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Now you're just being silly...

Do you honestly believe that the recent changes to those two ATs were the result of people like you telling people like me how badly our characters were gimped? Really? Because I'd almost be willing to bet that the changes have a whole lot more to do with those of us who actually PLAY those characters making comments and observations about them here on the forums or in coversations with the devs than from your critiques of other players.

At the same time, it's also pretty safe to assume that because of people like yourself, any of us who play those 'sub-par' sets or ATs have ALREADY heard the stalkers-are-gimped/peacebringers-suck/force-field-defenders-are-useless/ninja-are-useless song and dance often enough to find it more annoying than in any way helpful. As someone who plays a fair few of those types of characters, trust me on that one. There's no shortage of people all too willing to tell us how awful our characters are. You really don't need to worry about adding your voice to the chorus.

Also, as a general thing... don't mistake silence for apathy or anger or any of that. Some of us just don't have the typing speed to both play the game and chat at the same time. When I'm on a team, I tend to believe that my team-mates would prefer for me to be be doing my "job" rather than stopping in the middle of a fight to reply to someone's cheesie jokes. If we're between mobs, I will... if not, I'm going to be more focused on the task at hand. That's not an uncommon thing.

For the record, I never said the set should be changed...
If you love it, fine. To each their own, and have at it.

It isn't required for everyone to think it's the best set ever. I hated the interuptions and the choppiness of the animations. For you that may be a "little roadblock", but for me and a few others it was a deal-breaker... and that's okay. Different preferences and all that.

No reason to get grouchy, dude.

For what it's worth, I rarely do MSRs or trials any more and I've always disliked running with large teams. The noise and visual clutter are a big part of why I avoid them.

I'm with Steele on this one... My own TW guy only made it to about 20 before I said "no more". I really dislike the disjointed, stop-and-go way the momentum mechanic worked in play.

Like others have said, I *know* how dangerous a TW character can be at high levels (FCM's TW scrapper, Principle, is an absolute force of nature-), but it just wasn't the set for me. I like a more continual attack chain that allows one animation to flow well with the next... think Dual Blade (my favorite), Broadsword or Kin Melee... TW was more or less the opposite of that. So much so that I found it unplayable.

How about I just use /ah and not worry about it? That way you can leave your auras on and I still don't have to listen to them.

On this point... We're in complete agreement.

It's not so much a matter of not liking the "style", Sam. It's that I don't see what we have now as doing that style much justice... When I look at the Urban Blight zones in CoH, I get what they were going for. I really do, and I have no problem with it. Having Gotham vs. Metropolis contrasts is a-ok in my book. The trouble is that the existing content and art assets in King's are really bad... I'm all fo rmaking it run-down and "gritty". I'd just like to see it done well, in a way that looks more like cities do.

I know you would prefer the game to be so old-school that it might as well have come from Atari, Sam. You're certainly entitled to your opinion... But not all of us want to be stuck in 2004, and some of the things the devs have done to revamp the game really are improvements, rather you see them that way or not.

Heh. As usual, I'm pretty much completely on the opposite side of this from Sam. I *like* the new Atlas Park. It's visually a much more interesting zone to get around in since the revamp, and while the content is too limited and does get old once you've seen it a few times, it beats the hell out of what it replaced. I even tend to pick Atlas to run tips on my higher-level characters these days, since I find it more attractive than most of the other choices.

King's Row, on the other hand? It's the only zone in the game I like LESS than Skyway. Aside from being one of the ugliest zones in the game (Sky and Bricks are also way up there on the "drab attempt at urban blight that really doesn't look much like a real city"-scale, but King's is the worst of the lot to my eye-), it's just BORING. The contacts, the missions, the goons... 'Dull as endless brown blocks and dish-water. Like Skyway, I actively avoid taking characters there if I can.

So, have at it I say. Knock down those boring brick boxes and replace them with something that looks more like a bad neighborhood. Give it new content arcs and updated enemies. Having seen Lambda, I know our location artists can do "run down" in a way that looks right. The place doesn't have to be gentrified to get a make-over.

That's just adorable, Tarty. I love the chibi-brides.

Karasu seems to do just fine. (She only has four of her Rad attacks, and they're almost completely unslotted... But then I built her to be as close to a "pure defender" as I could. It might be considered somehow gimping her in the name of concept, but it was an intentional choice.)

As for the gremlins, my own Electrical Dom had them for all of a week... 'Tried the things. Respecced Cardinal out of them almost immediately... I found that I absolutely *hated* having to deal with those two brain-dead, hyperactive idiots. They made my job as a control-ish type much harder than it ought to have been, because I found I had to constantly keep a lock on multiple groups as they dashed from mob to mob aggroing every single thing in sight. It was like having two Lady Janes in the group.

So, while I know some people love them and think they're great... I don't blame you at all for giving them the boot. I wouldn't be shy about saying so if given a hard time about it, either.