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Then you weren't here when every player in the game had their inbox totally crammed full of gold selling emails to the point the devs had to change the rules on emailing and adding restrictions to trial accounts. They gave us an option to not get emails from people unless they were on our friends list, and made it so trials can't access tells or broadcast.

If they took away these limits, spammers could just fill up broadcast and/or start sending tells to every player online.

I'm willing to fight. Invoke Panic has the following attributes:

* Even if you double its duration and halve the recharge it's still not perma
* The effect only works on minions
* It has a severe accuracy penalty besides
* And it eats 1/5th of your endurance on top of that
* It has no other secondary effect, and fear is weak by itself

On top of that it requires two prerequisite powers. None of the powers you listed are that awful. At least all those powers only waste one power pick and not three.

Have you been away from the game for a while? Because it has already happened, in this game.

I always forget which is which so I didn't pretend to remember.

PvP doesn't count.

Bah, she's not on the wiki yet. For shame, wiki.

Likely you're referring to Spongebob. The thing is, there are restrictions on what all copyright and trademarks entail. For one you can't take a common item or name and use it as your own and prevent other people from using it. A chum bucket is an actual thing. In the same way, NetherRealm (formerly Midway) can't sue someone for just using the name Scorpion. They'd have to prove that it was an intentional ripoff of their actual character. The name is free to use.

There was also a case where a guy named his restaurant McDonald's. He was sued but won, because his last name actually was McDonald. You can't deny a person the right to use their own name through trademark either.

You don't have to be profitting from something to infringe upon a copyright. But even so, this is much too tricky a subject. If a free player buys $5 worth of points to get a costume pack they're now creating a profit for the company. So do they lose all their copyright infringing characters? Do the devs have to audit every account that pays money for the first time? Could it be argued that playing the game for free and talking to friends about it as a form of advertising creates profit for the company if those people pay money? It's safer this way.

Making enemies that are harder than normal (IE Praetorian content) already includes just increasing enemy stats. They do more damage, have more defense, or debuffs than normal spawns. They have more attacks than normal enemies in that level range, the attacks hit for more, and they have +ToHit buffs and other things. What you're arguing is that you shouldn't have to buff enemy stats, they should just already have buffed stats. Which again goes back to excluding other players.

And your solution for people who can't handle new content because it's too difficult is to not do the content at all. Neither of these answers actually address the issue.

If I have free power picks I'd get the concealment pool. You can add an extra three Lotgs with no slot investment. And it's not like those are hard to get with alignment merits. And the powers themselves actually come in handy at times.

I've said before that Invoke Panic is quite possibly the worst power in the entire game.

Not really. You start at +0/x1 with bosses and AVs off. Your only option for easier is -1/x1.

Your options for harder include up to +4, up to x8, bosses on, and AVs on. It's much easier to make the game harder than it is to make it easier.

If you aren't satisfied with how difficult something is, I encourage you to put it on +4/x8 and report back. For just about any character, your threshold for difficulty is going to be somewhere between +0/x1 and +4/x8.

It only doesn't contribute to the set's mechanics because you choose to play it that way. The way I play it, it does. Don't change my game just because you don't like to play the set the way it was designed.

Up your difficulty. Easier enemies are more inclusive to all types of players. If you want hard, you have the means.

Where'd you get this info anyway? Because the in-game real numbers for FE are notoriously wacky and sometimes not even present. Mids suggests that it adds 45% just fine. It may or may not affect combo levels though.

Did you actually do testing with StJ/FA and get those numbers?

I'll accept this argument when you point out where the devs decided that the monthly fee is being reduced from $15 to $10, and where I can buy a month for $10. Otherwise, I'm getting free points with the monthly fee I've been paying all along.

Actually for a while I was treating it like Head Splitter. Since it's a combo finisher I was using it a lot on single targets. If it hits another guy, hey, bonus. Now that I have a better finisher, and after I realized it's wider than I thought, I've been aiming it better.

If your only requirement for a set to be good is that it has to be better than SS, you'll probably never play another melee set again.

As far as Sweeping Cross: Its range is 7 feet, 50 degree arc, 8s recharge, 1.67s animation, 103.2 damage (126.7 at combo lv3, Scrapper numbers unslotted. I'm also using Mids so I don't have to pop in game this morning, so the numbers all include average crits, which means it already figures in that crits don't help combo levels).

In other words, its arc should be treated like Jacob's Ladder (50 degrees) or Shadow Maul (45 degrees). It's easier to hit people than with Head Splitter or Golden Dragonfly (20 degrees). If you haven't played any of those sets and aren't used to using those powers, I could see how you'd have to relearn how to use Sweeping Cross. But it's not hard to hit people with it.

It has less of an arc than Flashing Steel and Slice, but it does way more damage for the same recharge, even at combo lv0. It does about as much damage as Mace's t9, for less recharge, you just have to aim it better. At combo lv3, it does almost as much damage as Axe's t9, for half the recharge. And it animates faster than basically any other set's cone except for katana.

Incidentally, Spinning Strike does 106 damage at combo lv0, which is more damage than Whirling Axe, Whirling Sword, Typhoon's Edge, Lotus Drops, Burst, Dragon's Tail, Spine Burst, and Whirling Mace. Its recharge is 16 while most of those are either 14 or 15, but most of those powers do 70-80 damage, and have an animation time much longer than 1.8s. And that's all without any combo levels at all. At combo lv3 it does more damage than Fire Sword Circle for a shorter recharge and animation. And still does knockdown and fear.

Its AoEs are quite good, you just have to learn how to use them. If you're used to not thinking about it because your attack radius is "the front half of my character," then you may mistakenly believe the AoEs are rubbish. But having played Broadsword, Elec Melee, and Dark Melee extensively you learn how to properly use AoEs. And since these do a lot of damage with short animations, once you actually use them correctly, you might be impressed.

You're weird, or haven't had much actual field experience with the set. It's shockingly easy to hit badguys with both Thunder Strike and StJ's AoE. It's centered on your target, meaning you can just aim it where it will do the most damage. Just goofing off and running around after hitting 18 I had no trouble hitting large groups of enemies gathered around me. My main farmer is Elec Melee, and I was glad to see another melee TAoE power surface because I like the mechanic.

Not to mention if you use them as finishers they do more damage than your traditional AoE attacks. So it has as good or better AoEs than sets with just two AoEs, and should come close to sets with three (or two and a half, like Head Splitter et al). It should beat out EM, MA, Dark, Stone, and Kin easy. It may be on par with or close to Katana, BS, Axe, Mace, DB, and Claws. It probably won't beat SS, Fire, Elec, or Spines though.