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Heroes are way overpowered.



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For what? Not for PvE they aren't. I play villains now instead of heroes because Tanking is dead...but that does not mean that heroes are 'way overpowered'. This is the kind of rhetoric that gets nerfsman all fired up about nerfing things. Stop it.

I loathe pvp, so I do not do it. I am going to use a straw man simple argument, because pvp does not warrant anything better; if you think that heroes are so overpowered, play one and stop complaining.

Positron...can you please undo the nerfs? Take a look at Tankers...they are husks. Please breathe life back into them. I don't want to use the word 'suck', but I cannot apply a more meaningful, less offensive term to their performance.

Providing feedback.

Who gives a hairy rat's hind end about new badges??? I don't. Why not just get rid of those GODFORSAKEN experience penalty 'badges'?

Seriously, this is what the development team worked on? Instead of coding so that we would not have nerfs, THIS is what they worked on?

CuppaJo, this is not good enough...not by a long shot. The team urgently needs to rethink the entire 'issue'.

Update your signature, Flaw. Vormico is 50 now

I have been one of your biggest detractors of late, but it cannot be an easy thing to see your brother go to Iraq. I hope that he is returned to you safely, and soon.

SheBoom is right. We don't have to roll over and accept the table scraps that are thrown at us as if we were dogs.

Also, there is ONE more difference SheBoom forgot...appearance...we have CoH fashion game. The costume contests are probably going to be the most exhilirating thing to do in this game. Other than that and travel, it is exactly like every other freaking MMO out there except one...and I am enjoying that one. This game SO needs a new development team it is palpable.

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This is how I feel the developers are looking at things. Like GMs of a game that's slipped away from them, and they want to find ways to rein things in again, even drastic ways. Maybe I'm so far wrong that it's not even funny. but I just can't shake the feeling that the developers are sitting around going, 'What can we do to make this game FUN again for everyone?' rather then recognizing that it's already fun, we just want more of it.

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Precisely. Well worded. I think the developers have strange control issues. Why the game needs "direction" is quite beyond me...you know, I still play the Final Fantasy Games and KOTOR and KOTORII. Sometimes the first direction and auto pilot are good things...most of the time they are.

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Every Archetype should be extremely happy when the Defender provides a resistance or defense buff...

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The only resist or defense buffs I want are versus Psionic/Toxic. Anything else I am supposed to be "extremely happy" about simply means I have been nerfed up beyond all recogonition ( NUBAR ).

What is it about developers ( GMs in pen and paper games too ) that they want us to play a game the way THEY want it played? Why can't we play it our way? This is becoming more and more like EQ with every passing comment I read that Statesman makes. He might be passionate about the game, but I think he needs to get his finger on our pulse.

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Why do we assume "challenging" means "as challenging as avoid getting boned in prison"?

I'm sure there's a middleground between "breezing through missions on Invincible" and "how come my blood is all outside of me?"!



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Thank you. I was feeling rather depressed, but that made me laugh.

I dunno why there seems to be no middle ground, but my feeling is that something is either too difficult or too easy. Right now, for me, the game is right where it ought to be. To increase the difficulty puts it in the realm of masochistic difficulty.

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Nerfs: Mr. Emmert throughout the lecture constantly said that arising to challenges = fun. He said that all Ats should be able to do a mission on heroic solo. However, if invincible offers no challenge prepare yourself for the nerf bat (there goes my illusion/rad <sigh&gt. Right after that he said that if you can agro 50 guys and not be defeated something is wrong. He also stated that no one should be able to cap with out a defender. I’m assuming this means defense but it’s one of those shorthand notes and could also mean damage. He mentioned that the 30’s game and above is NOT Balanced (his emphasis). He said that he wanted to make it more challenging and exciting to get a Yes!! I beat it feeling. He didn’t mention specifics other than differing damage types.

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Simply awful. I wish a new development team would take over...one that understood wimping is awful and masochistic challenge is not fun. I can guess that the "YES!!" level of challenge equates to hamidon level of difficulty. This is precisely why I left EQ.

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How about this:

-You can only earn XP from missions and the mobs inside.
-Street mobs earn double Influence, but no XP.
-If you have debt street mobs will reduce it by the normal amount.

This will allow players to get that extra INF for Enhancements or that costume change without outleveling content. This will allow players a quick way to clear debt without slogging through a mission at 1/2 XP.

Yes this means the only way to gain XP will to do missions. Which is the only thing that really makes sense. What kind of "learning" or "experience" does someone gain when fighting the same mobs over and over. Missions show progress of a character through the story.

Unfortunatly the zones are not laid out to facilitate this. Seriously DEVs, you create giant zones like IP or hazard zones like Parez and stuff them full of easy to kill mobs. Then you wonder why people street hunt???

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That would kill the game.

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Couple of changes we're making in I5:

1) Instead of the first five levels being debt free, the first TEN levels will be debt free.

2) XP debt will be halved on mission maps (that includes outdoor mission maps, too).

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Yer the best! No more complaints about debt again! I love this game and the development team! The humanity behind the red names is palpable. You guys are awesome. I hope you have a fanfaire and provide us with the opportunity to meet you. Take care, guys. You are awesome.

Looks good

If I may, however, my scrapper is not ma, but Claws/Super Reflexes.

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First of all, it'll be a Unisystem game - but with tweaks to combat.

Secondly, I might be GMing games of it at the big cons (Gen Con, Origins, etc.) - so keep your eyes peeled.

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I imagine I will be picking up a copy, then.

M&M is playable, but caters to balance over logic and fun. This leaves holes in the rules that are difficult to overlook.

I will check it out, and if it is not another clone of the dnd rules I may buy it.

Jordan heard a scuffle, a few muffled echoes in a darker part of Kings Row. Shadows told the tale that hearing prefaced, a woman being mugged by three large men.

Hellions...She seethed with bloodlust and a thirst for revenge. She may never have satisfaction for the death of her friend, her dear friend, but she would visit vengeance upon all violent criminals. Jordan was thoroughly unhinged by Paragon's criminal element.

The men, now aware of her imminent attack, turned to receive her, all but one. He was not quite the thug the other two were. He was sinister. He kept his back to her, knowing that his colleagues would provide time enough for him to thrust the stock of his firearm upon his victim's skull. Doing so split the woman's skull and she began frothing and convulsing from the trauma. Jordan's blood curdled, her voice became savage and her words completely incoherent.

The two thugs began firing, but Jordan was gracile and completely centered. The advantage of their range to her was closed so rapidly they had not time to draw their close quarters weapons. She gave them the second or two to realize they were going to die...she relished this moment.

Suddenly, the two thugs were smote, but not by Jordan. She was setting for the strike when the blast from the murderer's weapon came. The mask wearing murderer was slightly nonplused to discover that he succeeded in killing his accomplices without harming Shi Noire at all. She was even a little startled at the brutality. Determined to keep her edge she rasped, "You will not regret your behavior...you will regret mine" in a tone so dangerous and chilling that he halted. Before he could reset his weapon, she severed his trigger hand from its proper place on his arm. She then hobbled his legs.

He lay, broken, sobbing but not cowed. She was displeased. He did not give her the expression she wanted, she could not read his true desires. He gasped for breath, and pain twisted his expression, but he was not afraid. Instead of arresting him and instead of killing him she watched him. She patiently waited for him to ask for life so she could take it, or for death so she could savor his suffering. He did neither. The intensity of anger she felt was washed away in a crimson tide almost as quickly as it set in.

There was satisfaction to be had in revenge, but the payoff was small. It simply required the enumeration of her punishments to derive the same satisfaction and peace as this "forgiveness" or "justice" that people so often extol.

What origin did you choose and why?
I elected to take Mutation because my scrapper was mutation. I made the scrapper mutation because I wanted the powers to be inseperable or something that was not from outside interference. I did not want her power to be the result of a suit or an experiment, and as she was human I thought that mutation made the best choice.

For my tanker, my current and probably lasting main, I used Mutation for her even though for backstory it made more sense to be Natural. She is a goddess displaced from her world and happily situated in Paragon for the time being. I used mutation because after 50 scrapper levels, I was familiar with mutation and knew the stores and such. I wanted the powers for my tanker's power to be as natural to her as it is for us to have skin. Natural would have made a lot more sense, but no biggie. I kinda like mutation.

What origin( s ) did you choose for your hero and why? Was it a matter of convenience or just a random thing in character generation?

I am hoping for the body morphing stuff.
I hope to be 50 on my second main by then, and I hope to kill skuls.

Eh, I think the two labels you used amount to the same thing. One could be a psychological term, I dunno, but it seems you are overthinking it. Let's not make "genderbending" or its practice a pejorative. Let's just have fun, play the game and make friends.

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Really to confusing for my tasts. Its like do I say he or she. I just don't know. And then you say the wrong thing and they are all like "Hey, I'm not a chick." And then I have to sheepishly say "sorry, but from my point of view you look like a woman." And then they say "Well I am a guy, and if I knew where you lived I would beat you up for calling me a girl." And then I end up sleeping with one eye open for three days before deciding that the shemale didn't know where I lived.

All in all it is safer to keep your gender.

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Anyone who does that has serious issues. By the way, you could report that person for harassment. I play almost entirely female characters. Meh, I just prefer it. I do not attach any psychology to it, I am playing a game as far as I am concerned. Both chars listed in signature are females.

Our entire SG knows I am not female, and they do not have a problem with it. Anyone I befriend knows, because I feel that the start of good friendships, even though I will never meet these people in person, depends upon honesty.

Well, that's my ramble. Happy hunting.

My scrapper I named because of her backstory. The long and short of it is that a confidant was murdered and it drove her to extend her claws for the first time ever...Shi means "death" in Japanese as far as I know, and Noire means "black" in French AFAIK ( I thought it meant night ). I wanted something macabre without being obvious, so I went to foreign languages.

Nuur'Zae is nothing...just a combination of letters that is fairly genderless ( unlike a name ending in 'na, 'ina, 'ette, 'ine et al ) and I thought the apostrophe lent an exotic flair to it.

Thank you for making such an awesome game.
Thank you for addressing our concerns and being FAR FAR more accessible than in any other MMO.

Thank you for your continued hard work and efforts.
Thank you for an awesome UI.
Thank you for making such a stable game.