Dispari

"What do you mean it let me use my nuke, drained all my endurance, and did no damage because I just got hit with a stun?"

No disagreement here. Steampunk jacket is one of my favorite pieces. I'd like to use it with the buttcapron (good name for it). Also want an option without the stripes.

I think it looks good on my widow though.

That's good too. I also wasn't meaning what I said negatively. I actually hope the sale made good money and will help bring down the prices of some items for people in the future (enhancement slots anyone?). And fuel production of some cooler stuff.

It's also possible the sales were better than they expected, and they said in a Neo voice "Whoa," and decided to leave the sale up and make even more money.

I considered buying more, but I'm already sitting on 8 level 25 LotGs for upcoming chars. I decided to just buy the ones for my main character. She does a lot of exemping and she's one of my only two characters with purples. New chars can get by without the exemping perk.

It also caps at -150 per stack on higher ranked enemies, which means on really high HP targets (like say in trials) its contribution is a fraction of a percent.

Mercs could use some attention too.

IOs have different ways of working. Procs function at any level regardless of the level of the IO. So if you put a level 50 damage proc in your attack, it will work even if you exemp to level 1. Some interesting things are considered "procs," including Numina/Miracle/Regen Tissue/Performance Shifter, stealth IOs, and so on.

Set bonuses only apply if you're 3 levels below the IO's level, or higher. So if it's 25, it will function at levels 22-50. But if you go to 21, the set bonuses disappear. This also means you have to find the right balance between set bonuses and enhancement strength. If you slot all 25s they'll be a lot less powerful than if you slot 50s. But you'll be able to keep your set bonuses if you exemp. The LotG global is considered a set bonus, so if you wanted to keep it while exemped it had to be level 25. Which means you get less +DEF in the power itself.

The new LotG in the store which scales by level allows you to have both. The +DEF strength of a level 50 IO which still works down to level 22.

The same reason my favorite menu items at Whataburger are for a limited time only.

I went ahead and bought a few. I got my monthly stipend and I still have a big enough stack of points. And the number's been wonky since I got that dog pet. So I bought 5 LotG recharges. However, I only bought those for the advantage they offer: they'll be level 50 strength but still scale down to level 25. That's not something I can currently buy in the game. I only bought them for one character, and I have no intention of buying anything else that I can just get in the game.

This is pure BS. When people were whining about this I soloed him on an Elec Blaster with no secondary or pool powers, using just minor damage attacks to defeat him, with only SOs of 2x acc and 3x DMG. 0% RES, 0% DEF, no heals, not even a high damage attack.

Trapdoor is slightly harder than your average enemy just because he's an EB. People not understanding how to deal with an EB is not "devs balancing around IOs."

I did mention the two ways of buffing archetypes a few pages ago. Stats and adding gimmicks.

I do think that there's such a thing as too many gimmicks. If an AT becomes too gimmicky they can be too unwieldy and eventually be too conceptual and hard to balance. Adding extra gimmicks means extra variables and you can't always assign a value to them. So you can't balance them in a spreadsheet and trying to ascertain value from data mining people playing can be just as problematic.

Stalkers are one of the most gimmicky ATs already. I do think they should be careful about adding more.

Speaking as someone who uses the systems you're talking about in order to obtain the things they just put in the store, I'd see it as an improvement for certain people who have money they feel they can part with if they can acquire the things they want in order to go back to actually playing the content they'd rather be running.

I get Kinetic Combats and LotGs so I can excel at high end content, TFs, trials, farming, or whatever. I don't get them so I can be better at speeding through alignment tips. People don't run that stuff for the "actual content" if they're doing it for the rewards. They're doing it for the rewards. If they'd rather spend money than time to get those rewards, I don't see that as a problem.

Will I buy these items? Probably not. For one it's not that hard to obtain them and I already have a bunch of all of them. Two, I don't have enough money that I'd want to just throw it at that stuff. But even if I did buy them, it wouldn't be but for maybe one character. And I'd do it to improve her performance when exemped.

And I'd do it so I could go back to doing what I'd rather be doing instead of grinding alignment tips. "Actual content" won't be destroyed. If anything I could return to the actual content sooner. Calling the race to get Alignment Merits through tips "actual content" already makes me laugh. I already do everything I can to avoid playing them. I drop missions and stealth to the end. And since the SSAs come out, I just do those for Alignment Merits instead. Nothing of value would be lost by allowing people who don't want to do something the chance to not have to do it -- if they have enough money that is.

Do you really believe that a significant portion of the game would just spend large amounts of money to outfit their characters and then stop playing them?

The money people are spending on them takes time and effort to earn. Unless you know of a way to get free money in which case I want in.

City of Heroes is not an Olympic event. There's nothing at stake and you don't stand to gain anything by getting a head-start.

If you and I are having a friendly game of golf and some random person wants to just shoot the 9th hole and leave, what does it matter to me? If that's how someone wants to spend their time, who cares? They don't win anything by finishing earlier than me. My ability to play and enjoy a round of golf is not damaged.