Castegyre

On my Bots/Traps the only power I skipped from traps was Detonate. Some people like it, I don't. Especially now with the new way pets are upgraded I find it a waste but it's all personal taste.

As for the Bots/ powers I took one attack just for fun but I didn't waste too many slots on it. They all kind of stink so they're all skip-able imo. You -can- stack Photon Grenade with your ProtBots, but that's a once in a blue moon timing thing. I don't like taking powers on the off chance they might be effective at some point.

Repair is not a bad power but if you're taking medicine pool powers I would put Aid Other > Triage Beacon > Repair in order of importance for fitting into your build. Triage and AO are both far more useful on a team later on.

Just my $.02

You know, the only thing that bothers me about minions dying from time to time is the new upgrades. I actually liked it more the old way. Otherwise, I expect them to die at least some of the time.

This thread has inspired me to make a Ninja/TA as my 5th MM. Seeing as how I generally don't PL my characters it may take a while to get him up high enough to form a real opinion. He's not a steamroller like my Bots/Traps or Necro/Dark, but so far he doesn't suck at all and is easier starting out than either my Thugs/Poison or Mercs/Storm.

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I guess you have a point here somewhere, but darned if I know what it is.

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Maybe because you addressed my impressions of someone else's opinion and ignored the intent of my post which was stated in the last paragraph? I dunno, could be. Either way, I'm secure enough in the size of my e-peen to not need to debate the matter of your opinion of my impression of someone else's opinion.

Somewhere mid-read in the OP this is all my brain was taking in:

I really like oranges, and since they're also fruit, I want to really, equally like apples. The thing is that apples simply aren't as good as oranges. I mean, look at the two. Oranges and apples both have skins, but orange peals are way thicker. They're both juicy, but oranges are way juicier. I can make a glass of juice with only a few oranges and little effort, but it takes a whole bunch of apples and a lot of processing to make a good glass of apple juice. They both have seeds, but apple seeds are in the core which you totally can't easily eat but you can eat the meat of the orange where the orange seeds are. They're supposed to be roughly equal fruits but oranges are clearly superior in every way. And let's not even get into the fact that some apples are green while others are red, but oranges are just orange. WTG God/Mother Nature/Natural Selection!

I love Dark. I have for a long time, long before most people seemed to even figure out what it could really do. I fondly remember the days of people asking WTH a Dark/ Defender even was. It's been a while since I personally played around seriously with TA at all (Devs, please give us Archery/TA Corruptors!!!), but I really do not recall ever having any complaints about it playing it or with team mates other than it still suffers from the same condition Dark used to suffer from. Most people just don't seem to get what TA is/does.

That doesn't make most of them right, less annoying, or overly effective either.

I would also like the option to turn off email for a character. I never use the in-game mail system anyways.

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In my opinion overly restricting the trial accounts is counter productive. It obviously is not hindering the RMT spammers in the least, but it is annoying potential customers. This is a very good game with a great community, but how long can it continue to stay that way if it makes the introductory experience for many new people more of a hassle than it's worth?

Wow, that's friggin' awesome!

That is a really amazing pic.

I like the entires so far, very creative stuff!

I wanna play too...

Trance-Fusion

I have been playing MMOs since EQ was in beta. I don't think any news in any game I have tried has ever impressed me or made me so excited as this. I love this dev team.

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This was one of the hardest sets to define. It falls out of line with the "normal" Defender sets. It isn't a buff set, its a debuff set. Its really a different playstyle than Defenders have had before.

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Dark/Rad/Storm are debuff sets. They may have some buffs in them, but they are defined by their debuff centered playstyles. In fact, the only thing in Dark that can actually be called a buff is Shadowfall. Even the heal and the res are also debuff attacks.

Wait, no, shouldn't compare anything to Dark/ or it will likely get nerfed to the brink of oblivion and ignored.

While I do think that 10 seconds is a tad too long, what really boggles me is the -def on some of the powers. Why have a def component on the power at all if it is just going to be reduced at the very moment you even need it? I mean, you don't need defense while stealthed because nothing is trying to attack you. The stealth is your defense. Then you get into a fight and your stealth drops taking your defenses with it right when their use actually comes into play? It makes no sense.