ClawsandEffect

Yeah, this has me a little annoyed as well.

It would be one thing if I gained access to Going Rogue via a subscription, like will be possible in Freedom. It's entirely different seeing as how I shelled out $30 on TOP of my subscription fee to buy Going Rogue. I should retain access to my Incarnate stuff if I should decide to drop to Premium status for whatever reason.

Otherwise, it makes the statement the devs have been throwing around (i.e. "you retain access to everything you bought or earned as a Premium player") untrue.

I've always called that the Kamikaze Express.

So, you can't talk in Help unless you need help?

Thus ensuring those people who need help will never get the answers they are seeking, because no one who doesn't need help is allowed to use the channel to answer their question?

Yep, I'm aware of it.

I know how powerful Dominators get later on, they just don't suit my preferred playstyle very well. I have trouble getting into Controllers and Masterminds too.

I'm very much an offensively oriented, primarily melee player. My 50s are 2 scrappers, a brute, 2 blasters, and my sole high level defender is a Rad/Sonic.

One of the things I enjoy doing the most is big-game hunting. Taking down AVs and GMs while solo or with a small group just screams "comic book action" to me.

To each his own. I can play my offensive, in-your-face characters, and someone who enjoys controllery support types can have them too, in the same game.

I'm chalkng it up to it being nearly as time consuming as power customization was, and they're pretty busy with a lot of stuff right now.

I mean, there's what, at least 3 new powersets being worked on, plus some proliferation and a whole bunch of new content? Not surprising that they haven't managed to fit in power pool customization yet.

Getting rid of redraw will require a separate animation for every power in the game that is not part of the set you want to remove the redraw from. They will do it by combat stances rather than individual powersets (Example: Battle Axe, War Mace, Broadsword, and Arachnos Mace all use the Single Weapon combat stance. Claws, Spines, Dual Blades, and Dual Pistols all use the Two Weapons combat stance.)

But...even if they do it by combat stances there's still a metric butt ton of work that needs to be done to change it. From what I understand the problem that BaBs had that stymied his efforts to get rid of redraw involved Shield Defense in some way, but he wasn't specific on exactly what the problem was.

It still amuses me that a set with only ONE AoE power is consistently named as a top AoE performer.

(I know, I know, Foot Stomp is a good power, it's still funny though.)

You're gonna confuse the poor guy.

There are 2 sets you mashed together there.

Crushing Impact and Smashing Haymaker.

There's no set called Smashing Impact.

I fall into this category.

Lets face it: I'm a dick sometimes, and I know it. For some reason, things I read on the forums stand a much better chance of irritating me than things I read in-game. And I tend to spout off when I get annoyed. It's just how I am.

Anyone who dislikes me on the forums would probably be very surprised if they ended up on a team with me in the game. It's almost like my forum and in-game personalities are 2 completely different people. Not sure why, I'm the same guy with the same thoughts. Maybe I can just blow things off easier when I'm playing a game than when I'm reading stuff on a screen.

That's a simple one to answer.

The second, third and fourth guy contribute more. Once the SG has a base stocked with everything they need, and decorated the way they want it, the guy who is farming prestige is engaging in a pointless activity.

The ONLY purpose prestige serves in the game is spending it on an SG base. Once the base is built, base rent is pretty trivial to pay.

The point about the Crazy 88's spending influence to take the top SG spot on several servers is a good one as well. I mean, does that number REALLY mean anything when you can drop tons of cash on it to artificially inflate it? They didn't EARN that prestige, they BOUGHT it.

Maybe we can add a feature showing how much real life money a person has spent on the game through their account as well, it would serve just as much purpose.

It's going to be difficult for him to do that. Soft capping Willpower heavily relies on having enough PBAoEs to slot Eradication in, and Energy melee only has one.

It might still be possible, haven't checked it out myself, but it'll be a lot harder.

Je saist actually already addressed the point, but I'll reiterate it.

Go solo an Empathy/Psi Defender, then go solo a Rad/Sonic Defender.

Which one levels faster?

Oh, and the fact that Radiation Emission for defenders gets pretty much all of it's key powers by level 12. Empathy starts getting it's good powers later, and Empaths are more expected than Rads to take Leadership powers and things like Recall Friend.

An Empath frequently takes 30 levels to start becoming the character it's supposed to be. Conversely, before IOs a Rad would be just about as good as it was ever going to get as soon as you could buy SOs.

Okay, that was an example of differing powersets in the same AT.

Now go solo a Willpower/Dark Melee tank and a Dark Melee/Willpower brute (or scrapper).

Same powersets, wildly different leveling speed. And again, they would level at the same rate on teams.

Whether you buy it as a valid balance point or not, the fact remains that it IS one of the balance points between power sets and ATs.

Stone tanks are only allowed to become as indestructible as they are because they are one of the weaker sets when leveling to that point.

Shield Defense characters in general start slow but get insanely powerful later.

Fire/Kin controllers? Yeah, night and day from level 37 to 38. getting Fulcrum Shift changes how they play completely.

You just named my undead Archery/TA corruptor.

Thanks

If you get rid of all the things we can discriminate against now, you'll still be left with gender. And if by some miracle that gets abolished, it will be something like left-handed people or something equally silly.

The explanation is really simple:

If we could use all our powers while using Walk, they would have had to redo every single animation in the game to work with Walk, just like with flying.

BaBs created Walk in his spare time, he certainly didn't have enough spare time to make new Walk animations for every power in existence.

It's also HIGHLY exploitable and destroys the balance between various powersets of a given AT.

Example:

Stone Tanks are virtually unkillable after you get Granite Armor - The balance point of that is you are rather squishy before you get Granite.

If Total Respecs existed you could level up as a Willpower Tank, who start out strong and level easily, and just switch your character over to Stone at level 34 (which is when you can 6 slot Granite Armor). Voila, you just got to the good part of a set without having to play through the weak part.

Same goes with scrappers:

/Shield Defense scrappers get insanely powerful at high levels, but much like Stone Tanks, they are a little squishy at low levels. Enter Total Respecs, now you can level as a /Regen scrapper (which still level very quickly) and switch to Shield Defense at level 35 or so (when Shield Charge is available)

Every AT has powersets like this that are powerful in the late game in exchange for being relatively weak in the early game. If you could respec between powersets at will you'd completely destroy that balance point, and probably get a LOT of those late game powerhouses nerfed into the dirt because there would no longer be any drawbacks to balance their late game power.

Ummmm, no.

You're suggesting that I should be able to be banned from a server simply because I happen to be male.

Let's tip this on it's head right quick. Let's have a server that only WHITE people can play on. Yeah, let's see how quick THAT hits discrimination lawsuit critical mass.

Oh, it's not right to only allow white people to do something? It's not right to only allow women to do something either. Especially since there is no way for anyone to possibly know your gender. *I* have been hit on in the game before, just because I was playing a female character at the time.

Not entirely sure what you're saying here. Because you said the above, and then you went on to say this:

You literally just compared a woman wearing revealing clothing to putting their merchandise on display. Do you not see what is wrong with making that comparison?

To continue your analogy though:

You say it's like a store putting it's merchandise on display in the front window?

The women I'm referring to would be like that same store putting it's merchandise on display in the front window and the store owner comes out and yells at anyone who looks at the merchandise as they walk by the store.

Sam, I was responding to a poster saying that he wanted "fair" fights in the game, andI was pointing out that very little in the game can be termed as fair because we almost always have a huge advantage over our opponents.

Basically, yes. Perma Dull Pain is possible without using Hasten at all, but it is extremely expensive, as it requires multiple purple sets.

I am not counting tier 4 Spiritual for this, because you can technically achieve Perma Dull Pain as early as level 31 if you are so inclined by using the lowest level available of the sets that give you the necessary recharge bonuses. I say level 31 because that is the earliest you can have 5 slots in Instant Healing, which is needed for the 3rd set of Doctored Wounds. (I suppose you could put them in Fast Healing or Integration, but that doesn't seem practical)

I do it the opposite of what you do. I leave Hasten on auto and click Dull Pain manually, because I like having the giant heal available if I need it. I don't keep my DP perma at all times, but I like knowing that I can if the situation warrants it.

No, you can't autofire 2 powers.

The only thing you need to change about your build is adding 2 more recharges into Hasten. Just on skimming it it looks like you should have enough recharge to pull it off. 5x LotG is 37.5% recharge, and you have 4 5% recharge bonuses in there which puts you at 57.5% global recharge, which is enough to do it.

Yep.

You'd think I would know better by now.

You're doing a really good job of completely missing my point.

And we're probably talking about 2 different things.

I'm talking about the kind of tops with a neckline so low you can practically see their belly button. Tops where the bottom strap of their bra is clearly visible. Tops where there is no doubt whatsoever that it was explicitly designed to show off a woman's chest.

And I'm not talking about the guys that will stand there blatantly staring at a woman's chest or make rude comments. I'm talking about the kind of guy who is going to look and then go on about his business.

When a woman wears a top like that and then gets pissed when a guy so much as glances at their chest, it's a little messed up.

Or are you trying to say that you have never in your life taken an appreciative glance at a good looking guy with his shirt off? If you have, you've got no real room to talk.

If you're wearing something that you know will draw attention to your chest because it's hot out, don't get mad when guys look at your chest. That's all I'm trying to say. If you're wearing revealing clothing for reasons unrelated to it being revealing, people are going to look. It's human nature. Regardless of your reason for wearing it, its going to attract attention.

I've seen well-endowed women wearing a bikini top with denim shorts getting irate when their chest is being stared at. It's kind of a "duh" thing. You have an impressive chest and you're wearing a bikini top in a grocery store, and you expect people to NOT stare?

I never said women wearing revealing clothing should expect to be harassed. But they should expect that a low cut top is going to draw attention to their chest.

I was referring to those women who wear a low cut, brightly colored shirt that draws attention to their chest, who then get upset when people look at their chest. Some people's definition of harassment is "that guy glanced at my cleavage when he was waiting on me at the store, he's harassing me!"

Also, you'd be amazed at the number of women who make a big show of being offended when someone looks at their chest, who are then smiling as they walk away.

(I work at a job where I have the opportunity to observe people without drawing much attention to myself, few people notice the janitor)