Delta_Strider

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Ok, devs - how many cheesecakes for a closed beta spot? How about 4? One for the community team, one for the programming team, one for the design team and one for the art team...

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You forgot one for marketing, which will be declared delicious upon arrival and result in the firing of the employee declaring it delicious.

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You can keep repeating it, but it doesn't make it true.

MA has been a fantastic success, and one that's provided a shot in the arm to a game that's going to face some stiff competition.

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Ah yes, a shot in the arm, from the spoon of genius and candle of ingenuity....

... Wait, MA isn't Heroin in the original metaphor, is it?

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So my Empath, Pain Dom, Kin, and Blaster are all 'doing it wrong' because they took Flight?

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Weren't we right here like, nine months ago, except it was PvP, and it was Stalkers "doing it wrong" by taking Hover?

I've noticed that the Ranged attacks that melee sets had were high, but I didn't notice it for long because my other Custom Critters were summoning two sets of Voltaic Sentinels and had Short Circuit. Show's what I get for not checking what was changed with the power selections.

I'm going to tie in all the Archetype Discussions right here and now....

This is why Scrappers need Pistols, Blasters need more armour, Brutes need Claws, Kheldians are fine and you people need to lern2plai, Doms don't know what they want, Masterminds need to trivialize content more, Controllers need mores soloings GMs, Tankers need more damage, Defenders need melee, SoAs need more better Banes, Corruptors need H34lZ0R5, and Stalkers need their Placate back.

So we don't need this crutch that is the forums.

You can die before Total Focus ever makes contact fairly easily since the animation time is 3.3 seconds(I know it's technically more than that since people started factoring for server lag or some such). Pretty sure that's the balance for it doing a 100% Stun.

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• Pet Powers Change:
o Recharge times on pet attack powers will no longer be affected by any outside source. This includes buffs and debuffs. What this means is that pets can no longer have the recharge time on their powers increased by player buffs (like Speed Boost) or their recharge time decreased by player or NPC debuffs. This change was made to allow pets to correctly cycle through their attacks instead of getting locked on using the same attack over and over and neglecting to use other available powers.

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I've already bugged this on Test but this is not working for Grave Knights. They still stand back, pull out their swords and spam Dark Blast and Gloom unless a mob comes in melee range or I move the pets within melee range. And even then melee is sporatic. I've seen them stand on top of the mob and use ranged attacks rather than melee. So this fix is not working for Grave Knights.

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We're sorry, but "Recharge not being a legitimate cause for poor A.I." has been made illegitimate by the people pushing this change through with the grace of god and a sharp stick. It's the cause of your problem, even if it's not present. Just trust what other players tell you even though the facts don't back it up and you'll statistically never notice this change when it goes to live in a number of weeks, because that's what they've been telling us will happen.

What's the worse that could happen if we put our trust in people that don't care? Worked for the market...

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So should we expect in i15 that we can't buff/debuff teammates now?

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I find your hyperbole to be greatly delicious AND amusing along with your lack of understanding of the situation. Post more plz.

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I don't think that, "Can't buff your Pet's recharge" is as hard to grasp as you think.

Someone is just suffering from a Global Humour Nerf. Set that Nerd Rage to stun!

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My Nerd Rage and Snark are always set to kill. And honestly I don't know how to take that when there are a few posters who have pretty much taken the same tone and were dead serious.

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If you're talking about the post: People are allowed to be sarcastic in lieu of a drastic change to their characters that is unwarranted and will not help in the end(Speaking of Mastermind Henchmen here). The problem is that on Live, the Ninjas won't engage in melee, which is unacceptable for the Jounin, and acceptable for Genin/Oni. My Ninja/Storm doesn't actually have Hasten, nor did my Thug/Poison before I deleted it(I'm not a firm believer in it for most of my character), and both the Ninjas and the Bruiser fail to engage in melee on their own for every battle, or even every other battle. How can the issue be recharge when it's not present in slotting or the Mastermind?

That's basically the problem, and it's not getting a solution by a widespread change. I'm not saying that VS or LS or Gun Drone attacking more often should or shouldn't happen, but the people with Masterminds are getting a solution that they don't want, or doesn't actually help. I personally think that the Bruiser might actually perform worse after this because it won't engage in melee, and you can't make Hurl fire more often to make up for it.

But really that's just what I think of the whole fix.

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So should we expect in i15 that we can't buff/debuff teammates now?

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I find your hyperbole to be greatly delicious AND amusing along with your lack of understanding of the situation. Post more plz.

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I don't think that, "Can't buff your Pet's recharge" is as hard to grasp as you think.

Someone is just suffering from a Global Humour Nerf. Set that Nerd Rage to stun!

I'm waiting for this "fix" to go through, then Castle to have to turn around and remove Hurl from the Bruiser, then the Ranged attacks from the Jounin.

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What gets me is that evidently most of the people who are really upset by this change have figured out a way to play that most players never even think of or can't afford

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Yes, because Hasten is so obscure, and so very expensive.

And Speed Boost, and Accelerate Metabolism, and Adrenaline Boost ...

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we were wrong to believe that pet centric toons benefit from playing in teams.

M = massively?
M = multiplayer?

My earth/kin still is waiting to hear why this nerf is going to hit it.

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Powerset Diversification.

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Like if they made a MM set that gave enhanceable sonic bubbles and this happened would you be crying that you were no longer able to through Io's to increase the inherent resistance of your pets through a loophole?

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That wouldn't work anyways. HOWEVER, the loophole would be that Damage enhancements were buffing the Sonic Bubbles, because it would. But the Devs wouldn't make that mistake in the first place, so they'd prolly just make the bubbles uneffected by Enhancements and make the Bubbles buff for the unslottable difference.

FYI, that's why you can't enhance Henchmen Armour is because the Damage Enhancements would enhance it already.

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New issue, new costume bugs. I fixed the ones I could between issues 12-13. One bug that has bothered everyone was VEAT female and their lovely butt cape. Well it has been added, sound the trumpets.

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Where is it hiding?

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Behind you. On your butt.

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Guess I'm slow today because I have no idea what that means Delta . . .

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I'm just being an [censored].

The Dominator Issues List is the most lulz-worthy. "Wah, Castle is looking at us funny! We're too much of attention whores!"

Classic.

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Love the video....

ticketing system? replacing merits or a THIRD currency system?

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Well, fifth. Sixth if you separate Influence from Infamy.

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Well they're definitely not equals, but I think that has more to do with the market. I still want Issue 15 because other than a planned series of Challenge Arcs I don't know what I'll do with MA. Maybe that'll change when I get my hands on it.

I thought of something that Dominators are affected by: Non-standardized Holds. Some sets have silly long animations for their ST Holds, which really brings down their effectiveness.

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Edit: Sorry to the OP, I would love to see a damage increase. Power Bolt (tier 1) for Blasters does more damage than Power Blast (tier 4) for Dom's and Power Blast (Tier 2) for Blasters does more damage than Power Burst (Tier 9) for a Dom, That doesn't even sound fair, and defenders have better ranged damage than we do.

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You're saying a damage increase across the board or just for Energy Assault? The low damage for Energy Assault is already in the list.

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Across the board, it is not fair that /Elec gets melee stats of a Blaster, I beleive all secondary melee attacks should be on Blaster values, its really not fair that one does. As for ranged attacks, I don't think we should be on Defender values they should be at the very least Corruptor values (pre - domination).

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What are you talking about? All the sets use the same modifiers.

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He means that powers in Electricity Assault aren't the same as other secondaries in base damage. Since Charged Brawl and Havoc Punch are the Blaster versions as opposed to Brute/Tanker/Stalker versions.

Charged Brawl(Blaster): 1.96

Charged Brawl(Dom): 1.96

Charged Brawl(Brute): .84
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Havoc Punch(Blaster): 2.6

Havoc Punch(Dom): 2.6

Havoc Punch(Brute): 1.32
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Bone Smasher(Dom): 1.64

Bone Smasher(Brute): 1.64

Bone Smasher(Blaster): 2.6
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Hmmmm, a leader who's experience with the AT is out of date and probably would be speechless if they ever tried the AT in comparison to other ATs as it is right now.

.... You know, I don't think you could do much worse for a leader.

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Capped Hover/Flight is slow and useless in pvp.

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fix't.

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I'll disagree.

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Well, Capped Fly takes more slotting to achieve than other Travel powers, it caps at a lower speed than other travel powers, and has many counters in PvP as well.

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I just want the game to be fair. If burn has a fear component, then so should Fire Control's Hot Feet (Because that is more controlling).

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.... So all damage auras should fear?

Castle, do it up!

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Hot feet is like a mobile burn in the hands of Fire Controllers. I say, if Burn gets fear, then Hot feet should as well.

If it has a fear component, it must be like mag .5, because I never see anyone run away from my Firekin. Immobilized or not.

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Hot Feet has Avoid ticks same as Burn. It's only Mag 3 while Burn is Mag 50, along that Burn ticks 3 times every second while Hot Feet is only every 2 seconds, but essencially works the exact same.

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11/28/04 to 6/23/08

Now that's some major thread necromancy there...

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how the [censored] did this thread survive 4 years when posts on Virtue for a Super Team completely disappear in less than two [censored] months

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"Bitter? Oh a tad..." [/Joel]

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Johnny Butanes belief system is a game should be horribly unbalanced and retarded in the name of realism. (As long as it only makes the characters he likes ridiculously powerful, starting with Inv/SS)

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I just want the game to be fair. If burn has a fear component, then so should Fire Control's Hot Feet (Because that is more controlling).

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.... So all damage auras should fear?

Castle, do it up!

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[u]Most Wealthy Archetypes[u]
Heroes: Scrappers
Villains: Brutes

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I'm surprised that it isn't Controllers and Dominators.

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Definately Brutes and not Doms, and the fact that Scrappers have been Scrapping for 4 years(granted they were outshined pre-crits, but still lots of damage and armour for 4 years) and Controllers are just the new flavour with i9(last time I was on Heroes I think there was more Fire/[Kin or Rad] than any other ATs ).

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Hurrah, Castle sounds happy!

Let's try not to change that.

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Happy Castle?

I smell DOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

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Happy CoX comes from Happy Castles!

Happy Castles come from California!

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That just sounds wrong.....

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I like my CoX happy. Thanks California!