Edana

Indeed. The UI is bad enough to put people off using it to sell stuff. People can only play for so long before needing to sell stuff. If it actually reaches the point where you've got people avoiding play so they don't have to put up with the market UI when selling their rewards; surely that says there is a problem worth looking at?

Since the LGTF seems to be popular at the moment lets go with that. A "kill everything" run takes a couple of hours; for that you get a metric ton of influence/infamy, several thousand chances at a drop, a load of vanguard merits and 37 reward merits. The fastest I've ever done it was 22:46, and I don't think anyone got a single recipe drop, half of the time people were bailing from missions prior to completion so they could get to the next entrance faster, shivans were being dropped at almost every serious encounter and even a few warburg nukes got tossed into the mix. Did we run it like a 5 mission long farm? No. Did we put any less effort into it though? Hardly.

In the end the mission is to save the world; if you view actually saving the world as more urgent than beating the inf out of an endless supply of rikti, you shouldn't be penalised further for doing so.

Getting Glacia killed to save time ought to reduce the reward though... Infernia not so much, she talks for so long you can clear half the map waiting for her to shut up.

You weren't the one complaining about it though were you

This.


Well, mostly.

While I wouldn't call respecs hard, taking a fully slotted level 50 through a full respec to swap one power is a not inconsiderable effort. Such is more a reason for upgrading the respec system than introducing an entirely new system of infinite minispecs though.

From my experience, no.

Expending a power choice on taking a rez lets your team know that they can be more aggressive. More aggressive players kill stuff faster. Dead stuff doesn't kill people.

So taking a rez stops you from needing a rez.

Edit : To the OP.

The same reasons as last time you asked.

This is right.

This is not.

200/(1+0.2+0.7) = 200/1.9 = ~105 = 1 minute 45 seconds.

Remember that the enhancement screen numbers only taken enhancements into account; set bonuses and powers are not included.

Not even a valid reason actually. You can't balance pistols low on the basis that the archetypes using it have a lot of alternative options, the character can only take one at a time after all. In the same line you can't balance demons high on the basis that mercs suck.

Ignoring the whole "you can't compare apples and oranges" thing since obviously you can, them both being fruit of approximately equal size and... ok, stretching analogy. Demons and pistols might be different sets on different archetypes; but that in no way invalidates the fact that they ought to be equally good at doing the job they are for.

And they are. Demon summoning lets you summon demons and unleash hell on earth. Dual pistols lets you prance about like a lunatic* and unleash remarkably few bullets in the same direction.


* No offence to any people that like the animations like this, but anyone that thinks a 360' spin between shots on the same target is a good use of time deserves whatever happens to them.

I take it from the (rather selected) comments quoted that you mainly use /SS on tankers. On the other hand my experience comes from three SS/ brutes. The improved accuracy presumably is more important than them ignoring +damage when you aren't cruising along on +240% damage bonus.

Actually vet powers ignore damage buffs; use them with double stacked rage or during the crash, they'll do exactly the same damage.

Do you mean this one?

You probably have too many open missions; finish or hand in some.

They do? I tend to swallow a blue pill and keep beating stuff up at the same rate; eventually I run out of either inspirations or valid targets.

Can you tell I'm a brute?

Mesmerize is actually mag 3.5, not that it makes any difference anywhere that I've noticed. On widows scramble thoughts is a mag 4 stun. Dominators pretty much work off being able to peak at mag 6+ on everything. Soft controls like ice patch/earthquake, or in an extreme case phantom army, also work on most bosses.

A full end drain aoe with chance for -recovery/-end bursts would have much the same effective mitigation as either of the knockdown patches, with the advantage of melding with your aoe immob much better. Heavy single target endurance drain might actually be harder to balance, since having a -100% endurance drain on a timer the length of a single target hold would allow a controller to fully drain an AV in a reasonably short time.

This would be more understandable if protector bots actually had a melee attack.

My SS/SD has it primarily because on ITF speed runs she needs the DDR to take on the general spawns while the majority of the team do the computer. Outside of that TF it's only there to hold an LotG +7.5.

It is obviously not required; so many people skip it I've toggled it on in a team with 4 other /shields and none of them recognised the animation.

I didn't mean to imply that it was necessary, just that it still has benefits even on high end builds.