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alright - now that was cool States. Now please someone acknowledge that Unstopp to blasters has the ability to alter the balance of the future of this game.

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Umm, blasters cant get unstoppable till lvl 47. So your worried that the game mechanics from 47 to 50 will be ruined?

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Yes, that's right. PvP is coming. The level cap will eventually be raised beyond 50. Etc. Saying "it's only from 47-50" is very short-sighted. This has the potential to massively affect the future of the game.

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Regarding the line I've bolded: Source, please.

TargetLad!

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Source: Statesman himself. He said it's not a priority, that it's not going to happen for awhile (probably not until after CoV), but that it will eventually be raised. This was quite a while back; I can't find the quote anymore. It's probably been purged from the forums.

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alright - now that was cool States. Now please someone acknowledge that Unstopp to blasters has the ability to alter the balance of the future of this game.

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Umm, blasters cant get unstoppable till lvl 47. So your worried that the game mechanics from 47 to 50 will be ruined?

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Yes, that's right. PvP is coming. The level cap will eventually be raised beyond 50. Etc. Saying "it's only from 47-50" is very short-sighted. This has the potential to massively affect the future of the game.

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There is no need to nerf scrapper damg resist. We only get the same damg resist as tankers if we SLOT THE HELL out of the powers like RPD/TI/Tough so that we do get it.

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Sorry, but this is not true. Here's how you max all resists but psi as a scrapper:

Permahasten (6 slots of recharge reducers)
Unstoppable (3 slots damage resist, 3 slots recharge reducers)
Resist Physical (Base slot)
Resist Fire/Cold (Base slot)
Resist Energies (Base slot)

That gives you permaunstoppable and 90% to everything but psi, same as a tank. Total cost is 10 slots, 5 for Unstoppable and 5 for Hasten (which you'd probably max out anyway).

It's ridiculously easy. It doesn't weaken scrapper offense at all. You don't even need a power pool.

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Positron, I did the ENTIRE Alexander mission as an exemplar with a friend last night. I was exemplared 30 minutes before he got his badge. I did not receive the badge upon completion.

Here are a few things I noticed that were unusual:

1. The badge was awarded upon returning to the contact after mission complete. I exemplared one other mission with the same guy and we both our badges upon objective completion (he didn't have to return to his contact). Maybe there is some issue with a badge that is awarded by the contact.

2. I was zoning at the time he talked to the contact and got the badge. Maybe that was somehow related to me not getting the badge.

I petitioned but have still got no real human response other than email that says "we are working on your issue", which is frustrating because I am becoming a real badge fiend and I have no more friends left in that level range. Even if I did, I am not remotely confident that I would receive the badge, at this point.

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Excellent post.

This helped me find a bug in Alexander's mission where only the Mission Owner gets the reward. I have fixed this... it will be a while before the fix makes it to Live however.

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Pos, can you check War Wall Defender too? I did this exemplared to my wife 2 nights back. She was leading and got the badge, I did not.

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Positron, I did the ENTIRE Alexander mission as an exemplar with a friend last night. I was exemplared 30 minutes before he got his badge. I did not receive the badge upon completion.

Here are a few things I noticed that were unusual:

1. The badge was awarded upon returning to the contact after mission complete. I exemplared one other mission with the same guy and we both our badges upon objective completion (he didn't have to return to his contact). Maybe there is some issue with a badge that is awarded by the contact.

2. I was zoning at the time he talked to the contact and got the badge. Maybe that was somehow related to me not getting the badge.

I petitioned but have still got no real human response other than email that says "we are working on your issue", which is frustrating because I am becoming a real badge fiend and I have no more friends left in that level range. Even if I did, I am not remotely confident that I would receive the badge, at this point.

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Excellent post.

This helped me find a bug in Alexander's mission where only the Mission Owner gets the reward. I have fixed this... it will be a while before the fix makes it to Live however.

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It appears that the Field Marshal Ruladak Task Force in the Shadow Shard is similarly bugged. A week or so ago I was on a team that did the whole thing, I was there thru the whole TF, and was close to Ruladak when he finally dropped, took us 8 hours, and only the fellow (the great tanker named Impact) who started the TF got the badge.

The entire team got a lvl 53 SO, I did too, it's on my character. But no badge for completing the TF. Is there any hope that I won't have to repeat this long TF someday to get the badge?

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Actually, GB, it's a souvenir, not a badge. And over the last few days, a couple other players on the Ruladak TF have gotten theirs too. Check your souvenirs page for "The Legend of Ruladak". Yours might have shown up.

BTW, you're a pretty amazing tank yourself you know :-)

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Tankers single target attacks do about as much as Scrappers do. The upside for Scrappers realy is the crits against bosses. But if the bonus from this change is larger then the 15% crit chance against a boss, then more then just boss killing will be a problem.

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Actually, the upside for scrappers isn't just crits--though that's nice. The upside is that they get way more AOE's that do damage. Consider the power sets:

Tankers:

Axe: 2
Energy: 1
Fire: 3
Ice: 1
Stone: 1
Super Strength: 1
War Mace: 2

Average: 1.57

Scrapper:

Broadsword: 3
Claws: 3
Dark Melee: 3
Katana: 3
Martial Arts: 1
Spines: 4

Average: 2.83

Right now, AOE damage is king in this game. In a typical permahastened 5 attack combo, the average scrapper can AOE 57% of the time. The average tanker can AOE 31% of the time, about half as often. Combine this with crits and higher base damage, and tanks don't come anywhere close to scrapper damage output.

You have to look at everything a scrapper can do, not just crits. AOE matters, Znail. In CoH as it currently stands, it matters more than any other factor.

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Damage increasing over time doesn't really help solo tanker. Perhaps this isn't one of your goals anyway.

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Have to disagree with this. I soloed my invuln/superstrength tank almost the entire way to 50 since tanks weren't in demand for groups (and still aren't). Fights with typical street packs took a LONG time. Doing more damage as the fight dragged on would have helped a lot.

Interesting note: there's already a thread in the scrapper forum complaining about this proposed change: link

Guess it's not too surprising.

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As promised, I've been looking into the issues facing Tankers; I thought I'd explain the direction we're going. As we analyed it, Tankers have three very valid concerns (aside from the issues with specific power sets):

1. Without Provoke, they are not a real Tanker. Those people who enjoy the MMP role of "meat shield" have trouble holding aggro properly.
2. The Tanker's defense stats can be matched by a properly slotted Scrapper - but the Tanker can not approach the Scrapper in damage.
3. The Tanker doesn't "feel" like a comic book Tanker should. And frankly, this one really, really bothered me. Because our game is a comic book MMP.

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This is SUCH good news. As the instigator of the now-famous tanker scrapper war over defense caps, I am especially thrilled to see #2 acknowledged by a dev. Statesman, thank you. I also love the PBAOE provoke idea for all tanker attacks--in fact, I first proposed that at least a couple months back.

In short, WOOT.