Daystar_NA

having a MM that seems underpowered compared to other MM sets or other ATs is not a bug and should not be mentioned in a bug report. entering a new zone and having your pets stuck at the entrance, that's a bug. bug reports are for technical problems, not game balance issues.

if you think your toon is underpowered, for any reason, the best place to mention it is here on the forums. that way, you can get advice from more experienced/better players and perhaps fix your problems without the devs needing to get involved.

if there is a real problem, that lots of people agree on, then the devs will read about it here and decide what to do about it. sending in a bunch of bug reports for things that aren't bugs is only going to annoy people who aren't in a position to do anything about it.

[QUOTE=Skorpian_NA;3615477]You have a serious problem with blatant assumptions and seeing what you want to see. Stop responding to me and i will stop responding to you cause as it stands now all you do is see what you want put words in my mouth then respond offa that. Nothing you say has any credibility as far as i am concerned yet. All you do is say its your fault about everything be it right or wrong. I know how to play my class. And if you had actually read the post i made you wouldnt be asking question i already answered. Plus+ stop asking a question and then turning around and answering it yourself.

after looking back through this post, i've seen that a lot of people are using the same arguments (or, those same arguments are being said over an over by the same people) so i thought i'd address a few of the most common ones.

if i say "my bots aren't having any trouble" people respond with "well, bots are just better then ninjas, ninjas need to be fixed," and while i agree that ninjas aren't perfect, consider this, is fire the same as ice? no, it's not, fire does more damage, ice slows things down, they'll still kill an enemy, just in different ways. ninjas are designed for single target, melee damage while bots are designed for AoE, ranged damage. is ranged better then melee? yes and no, ranged is safer, while melee does more damage. bots aren't better then ninjas, they're just further from harm, so adjust your strategy to accommodate that.

the next major argument is that pet AI is dumber then players are (which may or may not always be true) but then, so are the enemies, and they don't have a player controlling them. if your pets are doing something you don't like, make them stop. it's true that the in-game controls are a little clumsy for that, so look at some of the excellent MM bind threads to learn how to control your pets easier. after all, it's not the grunts but the officers who are expected to lead.

the next two arguments come hand in hand, and they are "my pets are my damage, and they aren't very good at it" and "my secondary uses too much end". see, as MMs we are blessed in that we never have to choose when to attack and when to support. as a defender, you always have to ask yourself "should i be supporting here, or would attacking be more beneficial?" MMs get to attack WHILE they are supporting, and since our damage comes from our pets, we don't need to waste any endurance attacking and can focus only on our support powers. every other AT has to take turns and both their support AND their attacks cost endurance, but for MMs, only the support uses end, the attack is handled by the end of 6 other guys (bots, demons, whatever).

so, are MMs harder to use then some other ATs? yes. and do they do less damage in some places then other ATs? yes, but then, the same could be said for stalkers, or dominators, or even tanks. the ATs aren't supposed to all be the same, that's the point. but here's my point, if you don't like playing MMs because they are more challenging then the other ATs, don't play MMs, and don't cry for help just because they don't act exactly they way you think they should. learn to love them, or play something else.,

i'd have to sat that in general, MMs don't need to be buffed, they're fine as is. however, having said that, there are some places they are at a disadvantage. in normal missions and TFs you can adjust the difficulty so that if your tier 1 pets aren't doing any damage you can fix it, but in the trials, you have no choice but to fight +4s. however, since you can, eventually, get up to +3 with level shifts, giving MMs an overall buff is a bad thing because they will only become overpowered at that lvl shift. i think, if the devs did anything, the only help MMs really need is from AoE attacks while they are still fighting +4s. so, maybe give MM pets a scaling def to AoEs (in trials only) that gets smaller as the MM gains more level shifts. i think that's all they would really need to preform at an equal standing to the other ATs. i really don't think they need any kind of damage boost, because that can be taken care of with proper use of both alpha (+dam) and interface (-dam res) slots.

i had an idea for noxious gas and the whole "infect" angle. first, change the power to be a toggle that can be applied to either pets or allies and then make the debuff work as follows:

ever enemy within 15 ft. (same as disruption field) has a good chance (maybe 30% every 2 sec) to become infected with with the debuff for 30 sec (does not stack). that way it ends up applying it to every enemy in range eventually and works like a constant effect. but, to make things more interesting, each infected enemy also has a chance to infect other enemies. make this secondary infection maube 8 ft. range, 20% chance to infect every 2 sec but for half the debuff amount and only lasts 15 sec. this way the infection could be spread by enemies that run away or get knocked around, which is dangerous, and offsets the increased strength of this power.

one problem i see coming is this: we are now stronger, so we are asked to fight harder enemies, because we are asked to fight harder enemies, we need to get even stronger. but is it actually going to get more challenging? is fighting an even con minion at lvl 50 any harder then at lvl 10? the end game TFs are more difficult then the regular end game missions because our strength doesn't change but there are more/tougher enemies. if the ratio of "our strength" to "enemy toughness" stays the same, then what is the point of making us stronger at all?

they should just make vet rewards purchasable. i know the whole point is that they are for people who have played the longest, but they also end up being for the people who have paid the most for the game. i say for $10 you can skip ahead to the next vet level, but that you can only do it once per month. that way it will still take time to earn them all, and you have to spend more money but you can get them in a third the time. that way the people who feel left out can catch up, the people who don't care don't see any change, and paragon makes more money. that looks like a win-win-win solution to me.

ok, i didn't read this whole thread (too many "i'm not buying it/it's not worth the money" posts) but here's the thing, i did buy it (i bought everything else, so i figured "why not?") and i have to agree, it's not worth the money. so, $8 for 8 emotes, but what do you actually get? well, 1 of them is just the open gift emote that everyone gets during the winter event, um woo?, and the other 7? cool ideas but ultimately animated very badly. i really like the idea of these though, they consist of something like 3-4 sub-animations that are then randomly selected and strung together so that you arn't just looping the same thing over and over. unfortunately, the transitions between those different sub-animations arn't always very good and the animations themselves are often times jerky and clumsy. so basically, great idea with these, but they really weren't polished enough to be released for free, much less for money, and while i'd love to see more in the future (if they're done better) i'm not going to be spending any money buying emote-only packs ever again. also, these don't work in lobster form and that's really annoying, stop doing that. and while they do work in granite form, they look a lot worse, especially the sports ones.

i agree with what a lot of people are saying, but they are unlikely to make one-sided changes, so here are my ideas.

-make the ST debuffs stackable but reduce the duration slightly, maybe to 20s from 30s. that way you can get them stacked twice easily and three times with some work.

-i like that the poison trap is different from the /traps set, but an AoE sleep for a MM? that's just asking for trouble, especially when it's in trap form rather then a ranged location or target form. so, yeah, make it like /traps or just something other then sleep.

-make the T9 an ally toggle like sonic gets. they'd probably have to make the debuffs weaker to compensate, but if you could enhance the ones you wanted that could make up for it some.

anyway, those are my ideas. i like the concept of poison, but the execution is a little lacking.

I've been away from the game for a while and when I came back I noticed two things that seem different and really, really bad.

First: It looks like they've reduced the AoE radius of Twilight Grasp from 20 ft. down to only 10 ft. This cuts the area of the effect down to around 1/5th what it used to be. Combine that with the super long activation time, and the fact that it can miss, and it's really hard (for me at least) to heal anything. My pets keep running out of range while I'm rooted in place. This is the only MM AoE heal that can miss and needs an enemy to work, so reducing the radius makes it almost useless as a heal.

Second: The recharge time for Dark Servant has been set to 8min 20sec instead of the 4min that everyone else gets. This means that in order to have one out all the time, you need to invest heavily in recharge reduction, thus reducing it's over all effectiveness. If half the slots are devoted to rech redux then there's half as much room for anything else.

Now, I don't know about anyone else, but one of the main reasons I took Dark Miasma for my MM was so that I could heal my pets (which I can barely do now) and so that I could have a 7th pet with Dark Servant (which is now either up half as often or is half as useful). So, I guess my questions are: When did these get changed? And why?