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Do you believe this because you haven't seen other reasons or you chose to ignore them?

That's not quite right.

It's 0 damage for less than 10% of an extended fight's duration (8.33% of the time), give or take a bit depending on when you click the buff. Considering attacks continue to recharge during that interval, the loss of damage is even less than that.

With fury and enhancements, you've got what, max 290% damage buff? So, from 390% damage (including your 100% base), rage takes you to 470%. That effectively increases your damage about 20%.

20% > 10%

If your fury wanes, the benefit of rage is greater. DPS calculations that include attack chains are a bit more complex and chafe my hide, but would -slightly- magnify the benefit of rage as the attack chain wouldn't have to resume with lower DPA attacks at the end of the crash, and could start off with knockout blow or somesuch.

Unless you're approaching your damage cap, there's no reason to avoid rage, especially in prolonged fights.

edit: if you insist on precise DPS values from an attack chain, you'll have to submit specific build details, like if you have gloom, fiery embrace or against all odds, etc.

when did defenders get a 500% damage cap?

It doesn't list them but it explicitly states how many are found.

I agree with the frustration at those situations, but this happens with bids constantly in CoH. I'll have an 8mil bid, and when I check it a day later I'll sometimes see the recipie bought for 8,000,001. The relevant difference here is that people in Eve can see what the buying and selling prices are, rather than just the transaction history, making it significantly more common. Listing fees aren't the only thing mitigating this chicanery. That, and I'd say money is more important in Eve, so there's more incentive there than we will ever see
here.

I'd rather get rid of the listing fees and implement spay and neuter laws on the "+1" bidders, even though I realize that's a somewhat difficult solution.

I think Eve's economy is the most fascinating aspect of that game, and while it simply would not make sense in CoH —as if Wentworth's does— I would hope that Eve's market is an example of something done right.

Cold has those as well. It's not a bonus to storm.

The slotting MoG needs is for recharge, not defense. If you can throw in a resist/recharge IO, that'd be good too, as it'll allow MoG to cap you resists. The defense is so high there's no reasonable application for enhancing it further.

Slotting fast healing beyond the 95%ish heal is only for set bonuses, which would be decided after everything else. In this instance, yeah, it's better than slotting MoG for defense. Although, I don't have fast healing slotting with anything beyond the default heal, as the extra regen is like spitting into an ocean.

The thing with not going for regeneration set bonuses on a regen scrapper is that for each bit of regeneration you have, each additional bit means relatively less and less. It's like bribing Bill Gates with a $50. Defense and resistance, on the other hand, means more and more with each bit you get.

That, and all the regeneration in the world won't save you if three crey power tanks thunderstrike you at the same time.

I don't see situations that justify the use of sonic repulsion as those that warrant the the use of disruption field, generally. If there is a tank with disruption field who is using it effectively, the addition of sonic repulsion on anyone in the team is very likely going to counteract that, especially if it's left on long enough for the endurance cost to matter. If disruption field isn't being used effectively, then it might as well be turned off to save endurance, which I've done on more than one occasion.

If the power is only being used very briefly, then comparing the toggle costs aren't very informative, right?

That's not an attempt to justify the endurance costs, it's just that I can only see powers like forcebubble and sonic repulsion being more problematic if they had no endurance cost, as people that don't care about the consequences of those powers would turn them off.

You're from Khazakstan too?

Considering powers like repulsion field, force bubble, personal forcefield, and sonic repulsion are rarely used in typical combat, and even foolishly used if all at once, I'm not sure your comparison is relevant at all. If you try to use disruption field and sonic repulsion in the same place at the same time, you'll have larger issues than endurance. The same goes for PFF, repulsion field, and force bubble.

The major necessary costs associated with the two powersets comes from the click buffs and the dispursion buff, neither of which causes more endurance problems for one set than the other. Disruption field is the most significant endurance difference, and its costs are normal compared to the only other -res toggle in the game.

It's not so much that the powers have innapropriately high endurance costs compared to other sets, but that the combined sum of the powers that a player is likely to use constantly inhibits any other action, especially before stamina.

Given the lack of any power in forcefield that directly increases a team's damage, I'm not sure forcefields comes out the winner.

The problem is that there is nothing you can say, no matter how utterly ridiculous you may find it, that is not a possibly serious comment from someone else across the internent.

See: Superstrength. Rage sucks, and is overpowered. There is no comment positive or negative enough that it can't be echoed with seriousness by some poster. If you go so far as to be factually incorrect, then you get mixed in with everyone that spreads misinformation through ignorance.

While it may seem cruel and insensitive, some of my most intense boughts of laughter at work come from coworkers' serious comments that any unfamiliar witness should find as sarcasm. Seriously, box A needs to go where box B is, and box B needs to go where box A is. "So, what's the best way to do this?" I had to walk away to avoid laughing in his face. Work with people like that for a living, and obvious sarcasm is not so obvious.

I've only had one person that repeatedly dropped caltrops at my tanker's feet; usually it's just a person throwing it wherever seems fun. After half a mission, I asked if he could drop the caltrops anywhere but my feet as it made agro control a bit more complicated. His response indicated that he thought he was doing me a favor, and he quickly stopped.

I've never seen anyone throw a tantrum concerning the placement of a particular power, so I'm curious how often this is an actual problem. Perhaps this is a problem with traps defenders that don't have any real mitigation yet?

You could just turn off your agro aura when caltrops gets thrown at you and watch people die. The game is supposed to be entertaining, after all.

The portion brutes don't have is so difficult to notice and nebulous that it can be completely broken without anyone noticing.