Emberly
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That much defense to two positions from three slots is totally out of order and the fact that it took the devs a long time to correct doesn't mean the fix isn't necessary. Someone posted elsewhere that it takes eleven slots from two separate sets to match the bonuses from three slots worth of BotZ. How anyone can say that isn't out of whack is beyond me.
Quote:This couldn't be truer. Having lived through I don't even know how many changes to how many power sets, it's always the same complaints of how unfair it all is. Yet, here we are, still superpowered after all the power set changes, global defense reduction, enhancement diversification, and the like. People are gonna rework their builds, lose some global recharge or whatever to make up the defense, and carry on. It's not the end of the world.Originally Posted by FulmensPeople tend to think that the "make things stronger" changes are theirs by right, and the "make them weaker" changes are abominations that should be destroyed. -
Yeah slowing down the murder machine so that you can set up traps is basically cutting off your nose to spite your face. If they are killing fast enough that you don't have time to set traps (and that's probably how it's gonna be) then don't slow down, just enjoy the ride. Be a bro and jump in to take the alpha now and again with seekers and poison gas trap or something, but don't make your brute buddies bleed fury off while you set trap after trap around some corner.
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Quote:Best advice in the thread, right here.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
You really have to work at it to make a bad character. Sure you'll run across build nazi's that will act superior and tell you your doing it wrong but ignore those infrequent idiots. As long as you're having fun you're doing it right.
Try lots of sets and combos. You will find some that you love and some that make you want to pull your hair out. Don't worry too much about screwing up your character, even a less-than-optimal character is more than enough to wipe out the baddies. -
Quote:I'm interested in finding the source of this information, as a cursory review of City of Data seems to contradict it. For example, Flamethrower, Neutron Bomb, Ball Lightning, Frost Breath, and Psychic Tornado all show as AoE only and their damage type, with no ranged component to check against. If I'm misunderstanding City of Data then that's another thing entirely.Originally Posted by Warkupo
AoE Ranged attacks still check for ranged (unless they specifically say they don't).
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Quote:No, it isn't. Where do you people get this idea? It's the DP equivalent of Bitter Ice Blast, Power Burst, Blaze, and the like. It differs in animation time and recharge, sometimes favourably, sometimes not, but its analog powers are definitely NOT the snipes.Originally Posted by ForumSniper
It's DP's answer to the sniper shot that other blaster sets have.
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(All opinion)
Redside by far. Trollers are boring to play, tanks are ultraboring to play, Khelds are garbage. I love scrappers, enjoy defenders, and like blasters. Of those three, defenders often feel too weak damagewise and blasters are all chewy centre with no crunchy shell.
Redside we have brutes, with the greatest inherent ever, Doms, like controllers only not boring and don't promote lazy play, and corruptors, with enough damage and buff/debuff to make things fun. Then you have Masterminds, a unique AT with great variety and utility. Stalkers are ehhh, but just like Dark Miasma and Black Hole, you gotta have one stinker
VEATs are awesome, they are proof the devs learned from the mistakes made with Khelds.
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Believe me, Knightie, nobody is trying to edge you out of the worthless generic IO market via undercutting. It's just folks with FC crafting stuff for cheap and selling it fast, or people working on getting FC, or people who just don't care.
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*sells LoTG +rech recipe to vendor*
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Maybe a better question: Heraclea, if you formed an STF, would you invite scrappers, or would you tell people to come back on their trollers/blasters/whatevers? Basically, are you part of the problem?
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Heraclea why can't you just start your own teams for TFs and invite whoever you want? Why are you forced to team with these scrublords you keep describing?
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Well I don't PVP but I wouldn't mind joining up and playing about, is that cool or do you want people with a modicum of experience and/or skill?
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Came to snark, laughed instead! Thanks OP
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Posting in a thread.
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Pretty much any scrapper paired with pretty much any defender is gonna make things fast and furious. Redside think brutes and corruptors for similar effect.
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Quote:You're pretending that nonoptimal ATs can't get invited to content. If this was true, then every single TF/SF would be formed entirely of whatever AT handled it best. This doesn't occur, other than people intentionally running all-$AT teams. Fact is, good teams are often comprised of multiple ATs, acting in concert. The best teams are formed of any ATs being run by skilled players. You're also pretending that you cannot form your own team and populate it with whatever you want. Anyone can start a TF, and if your server or clique or SG or whatever doesn't want your scrapper on the STF, then form your own STF on your scrapper.Originally Posted by Heraclea
Maybe, as soon as I get over being amazed at the ability of people to simultaneously
- maintain that all characters are potentially equally helpful on all content and will always find a place on teams looking to run it, while
- out of the other side of their mouths they acknowledge that at least one mission arc is designed to be deliberately hostile to some character classes.
This concerns me, and I think it ought to concern you as well. And if that is an issue with character that is somehow important, unlocking accolades or further story lines, you will be left out. Just as I'm left out of Dark Watcher due to my distaste for the Gaussian arc, and get told to bring a blaster or debuffer if I want to get in on a STF on a scrapper.
As far as being left out of the Dark Watcher because you are unwilling to work through Gaussian's arc, I don't know what to tell you. It's doable and not that difficult. You're cutting off your nose to spite your face with that one. -
Quote:Nothing you've said is logical, and your statements regarding tankers are so ridiculous that I do not need to refute them. You aren't fooling anyone in this thread.Originally Posted by Heraclea
Rather, logic tends to be inflexible.
Insult me if you feel the need to, but at least bother to include an explanation of how a tanker is supposed to contribute to a team's success here. Tell me how and why it's even desirable to have a tanker on a team running this. Explain how it's not the case that any other character would be helping more.
It's not intended to insult you, by the way, when I say you are willfully ignorant or purposely obtuse. It's just the way it is. Either you are actually ignorant of the game mechanics and roles of the archetypes and how they interact, and you refuse to learn (willfully ignorant) or you know those things and are pretending they don't exist (purposefully obtuse). Your posting has been refuted by myself and others, with explanations where applicable, and yet you cling to these wrongheaded ideas. If you take that as insulting, it's no skin off my nose. -
Quote:This is ridiculous.Originally Posted by Heraclea
The Gaussian arc has six missions that pit you against Vanguard, so it takes a minimum of eighteen days to get through it.
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So is this. Tankers are more than just alpha-eaters. You are being either willfully ignorant or purposefully obtuse.Quote:Originally Posted by Heraclea
What this means to me is that there really isn't a purpose for having a tanker on the team if you want to run this content. The tanker is only there as a favor. The team would be better off if the tanker were replaced by another character who brings something that actually helps.
Q. E. D.
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Quote:Except that as pointed out repeatedly in this thread, this doesn't happen. It just doesn't. There's nothing in the game that mandates this. Nothing. I've never told trollers to ditch pets for the STF. Never told scrappers to stay away from GW. Never asked masterminds to put pets away for the Rommy fight in the ITF. I can absolutely guarantee that I could finish the STF or the ITF with any team you want to assemble, assuming they are competent players who are willing to stick it out to the end.Originally Posted by Heraclea
On the other hand, being placed in a situation where you cannot use the playstyle or tactics that are the purpose of your AT is a situation that everyone ought to call "broken".
Which content is this? I've never been roadblocked in the STF or the RWZ.Quote:I just don't want there to be roadblocks to further progress along a story line or some other content the way there is with the STF or the RWZ content. -
Quote:How your solo controller plays has nothing to do with how eight controllers play together.Originally Posted by Heraclea
I have two high level controllers, an ill/emp and an ice/cold. The ice/cold is a lot more fun to play, but does not run missions at all; she'd take half an hour to finish a radio mission, and that's assuming that she stealthed to the end.
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Quote:Very little of the game takes place in the overworld. Most players are in one instance or another somewhere, teaming, SFing, in their base, being filthy in Pocket D, et cetera. That's why globals are so good. They will get you in touch with people you might never encounter.Originally Posted by Karnage1980
Perhaps thats why the game feels empty, because people are either in architect having a blasts or teaming their low level heroes/villains to play with high levels people.
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I've never ever done the STF with nukes, Shivans (other than incidentally, never specifically required) or demanding the tank have a million insps. If it was true that you needed shivans and nukes, then nobody would ever get the MoSTF badge, and I see that badge all over the place.
Every single run I have been on has been "bring what you got and let's rock it out," and I have never failed one yet. Hell, I've been on more than one run where a blaster tanked Lord Recluse while we beat on the towers. I can't imagine telling scrappers or trollers how to run their character in the STF. Scrappers just position themselves right and beat on her. The fact that I have never been on or run a failed STF, and that I often bring my BS/SD scrapper, tells me that things work out fine in the end. And controllers, holy hell I don't know what planet you are from but I don't think I have ever seen an STF that went as smoothly as the all-troller one I had the pleasure of doing.
If Ghost Widow was broken, then everyone would fail the TF when they had to encounter her. I've never been on an STF where GW was a tougher challenge than Recluse. Ghost Widow is challenging and requires more thought than "everyone hump her leg and beat on her," which is not the same thing as broken. The TF is hard! What's the problem with that? People still succeed all the time. The STF isn't broken. It sounds to me like you have been on some bad teams run by people who have had bad experiences, and this has made them think that you must have X,Y and Z or the TF will fail. Either that, or you are doing too much thinking about the subject and not enough TFing, because the problems you are talking about don't really exist outside the forum. -
Quote:Spruced that up for you a little, chief. If they do as good a job on Demon Summoning as they did on Dual Pistols, I will be very happy.Originally Posted by Spizzie
If it's the MM equivalent to Dual Pistols, I'll be STOKED AS HELL. You are one of the GREAT MANY PEOPLE that believes Dual Pistols to be impressive. Visually it's impressive, although sometimes overdone. But as far as gameplay is concerned, it's rather VARIED AND INTERESTING AND MORE THAN UP TO THE TASK.
I hope Demon Summoning is not just a shiny, pretty set that isn't going to have much substance when it comes to numbers and playability. -
Saw you advertising for this but I had to go to work
Hope you get a good bunch of chill folks together!
PS Don't let Quaterfield hear you refer to him as Doc Quantum, he is pretty embarassed by that phase of his life
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Quote:Sadly, educating them rarely works and teams are so easy to come by I just don't bother wasting my time on the ones that are highly likely to be bad. However, on teams I lead, when someone says "we need an X" I just say "We sure don't!" and we then wildly succeed no matter what. I guess that counts as educating people.Originally Posted by KingSnake
Then how are they going to learn? Honestly. They could just be noobs who need to be shown the way. Tell them they don't need such and such, and if they'er responsive, great, you've just helped evolve a better teammate. If they'er pigheaded, leave.
I'd rather teach some of these noobs to be better teammates so there are more of them around when i need them. heh. -
I am very angry about video games