Code_Red

Way to only read part of my post, Dumpleberry. Even when my account was off, that didn't stop me from RPing with people over other programs. I never ONCE said I expected to do what I could pre-I4. Not once. That's an assumption YOU made.

I would have liked to at least be able to take a mob's ALPHA strike without being completely in the red. Maybe then I'd feel like, I dunno, a TANK?

But screw it. The mechanics make no damned sense to me anymore, and I just don't give enough of a damn to bother. I'll just go back to my PS3 until TOR is released. Been fun.

That opens a whole new can of worms.

Let's look at the Invuln powers. It has TWO powers focued on Defense. Invincibility, and Tough Hide. That's it, and ONE of those can only take 3 slots without getting mauled by Diminishing returns.

The other SEVEN powers are Resistance exclusively? That strikes me as a pretty massive freaking screw up in the design department.

Yes, I'm pretty bloody agitated by this, mostly due to the fact that I have closing on 6 years worth of RP, playtime, and thought invested into something that doesn't apparently matter for anything. ...starting to wonder why I should bother playing, let alone making an alt that most likely will end up in the SAME situation somewhere down the line...

Just a few examples:

Anything involving PvP. At all.
I did ITF today. Invuln Tank. 3/4 Alpha Strikes would kill me. No time to do ANYTHING.
Oh, an AV? Either drop unstoppable, or just drop.

Needless to say, the amount of damage I was taking? I did -not- feel like a tank. Not one bit. I spent more time in the red than anything else, and it's infuriating.

EDIT: As one player told me, "Oh, you need to have Tough and Weave to be a decent tank at the top end". So that's TWO power Pools I'm apparently required to have (Fitness/Fighting) to be able to function worth a crap at the upper tier of the game. Purely ridiculous.

My main is an Invuln/EM Tanker, and after returning following a year-and-a-half hiatus, I've discovered that CoH has lost one of the key elements that kept drawing me back.

Once upon a time, There was no 'required' power pools. You didn't have to stress over Set bonuses or 'Optimal Slotting'. In short, The game was playable (and enjoyable) no matter how hardcore or how casual I decided to be.

Now, however, I find that without specific power pools, specific IO sets, and perfect Spec, I can no longer just jump into any aspect of the game I want to and be competitive. It feels that the post-50 game has devolved into a gear race/Theorycrafters only kind of game (primarily because of the invention system).

What I want to know is why did this happen? ...and when? Why did one of the things that made CoX unique in the MMO world get destroyed like this on top of the Ridiculous weakening of Invuln over the years?

(Yes, I'm feeling considerably bitter about all this.)

Always a pleasure seeing one of your posts first, Rook.

HEROID!!!

I remember you, dude!
(Nothing else of value to add)

Well, I might as well be. Finally returning post roster-wipe many moons ago, CoX doesn't even seem to be the same game these days. As a result of the changes, I'm pretty much learning from the ground-up again. With that in mind, I'm pretty much limiting myself to one character (for sanity's sake), the silent storm of steel-for-hire, Ebonstryke (Dual Blade/Willpower Brute).

Though I'm not sure if Virtue's the hub of RP activity anymore, I -am- still a Roleplayer (and exceedingly disturbed at the number of -- well, characters that wouldn't see celluloid outside of a X Rating), and have NO bloody clue where to start to get in on this. Tried a bit of lurking at the D, and I have NO clue where the RP Hotspots are).

SO!!

If anyone has suggestions or comments? Feel free to PM me or post 'em here. I'm looking forward to it!!

I-- Just...

*Facepalm*