EvilGeko

What if I like to argue and complain? I am a jerk and darn proud of it.

You know better than me, but is that feasible with the troubles the game had giving all characters only 3 extra slots?

I agree, but that seems to suggest that the forms should simply be buffs and all powers should be usable in the forms. So instead of getting four blasts only usable in Nova, the human form blasts would have different effects based on if you're in Nova or Dwarf form. But I can see there being an uproar if that was suggested by the devs.

That would be neat.

Then we could still remove Team Teleport and put something else useful in its place!

Sorry, but that's just insulting someone because they disagree with you. I don't care about my personal DPS nor have I ever bothered to try and figure it out. I do care if I can complete missions, level my characters and complete the games challenges.

You didn't see me say that considering that I spent most of Issue 19s beta proving that any combination could complete that arc on SOs.

Then the basis for a great many buffs falls out. The main reasons for many of the positive changes is that the affected AT or powerset didn't earn rewards at the same rate as other ATs or powersets. Of course, the things you're talking about are rewards, but it's almost irrelevant to a balance discussion to say, "well anyone can do it." When it takes one combination 20 times as long as another one, that's a problem any way you slice it.

Well, then I disagree. No need to have hard feeling about it. We disagree on a lot of things.

They can run up and do the same thing? They really need to take three powers in the Teleport pool for that? OK.

This isn't WoW. Our combat speeds are such in this game that gap closing is trivial. We don't need Team Teleport to do it. You're reaching.

Who's complaining about the ST taunt in Presence going away? Anyone? If they changed Team Teleport to an Assemble the Team clone and there was an outcry, I would agree with you. I doubt it would happen though.

Are you really saying that something that people paid RL money for to get is 'utterly useless'. Yeah OK. That's not even worth arguing against.

It would find its way into a great many more builds if it were.

Again, I tried to present this in the most non-confrontational way I knew. It wasn't personal. But seriously Bill, you consistently seem to take powers that are regarded as not being very strong or particularly useful.

Of course, that's your choice. I was just wondering if you intentionally did so. I do actually sometimes take powers and powersets that are not the strongest. I do it on purpose. Lastly, you don't have to 'play a spreadsheet' to just plain understand that the game rewards killing lots of enemies quickly. I genuinely think that's a shame. I wish the game would find way to reward players for using powers like Team Teleport.

On that power. Sure, one AT (MMs) can find some use for the power. But it's not controversial to say that Team Teleport isn't well liked and not particularly useful to most characters. Heck, this whole thread is about changing it. Personally, if they could just add Assemble the team to the Teleport pool, great. But if it came to a choice, I don't think the Cottage Rule (which is followed too dogmatically IMO) should prevent the change from a power with objectively minimal uses from being changed. To many sets and powers are locked into mechanics that don't reflect the game that is actually played.

Total Focus was a MAG 4 stun. It was reduced to MAG 3. Which for Blasters was one of the most unjustified nerfs I've ever seen.

lolwut?

Correct. My poor Water Corruptor though. I guess there are much worse problems to have than 4 AoEs!

Heh, heh.

Changing Group TP into a lower recharge Assemble the Team is not a Cottage Rule violation. Both before and after the power teleports your team. This would be much less of a stretch than Energize was.

While I think there's a place for powers that are situational or of marginal use, sometimes a power is just so poorly accepted by the playerbase that replacing it with something better is appropriate. As for the possibility of there being 6 powers in the pool, yes conceptually that's correct, but in practice that creates the expectation that every pool will have six powers.

Serious question, I know that the internet doesn't always properly convey tone, so I want you to know that I am genuinely curious.

Do you purposefully take powers/powersets that are weaker or have minimal uses?

Why?

Tough and Weave are very useful on most melee builds, but not necessary. And with the need to take Boxing or Kick, not a no-brainer choice. What the devs saw is that everyone was taking Tough, even if they ignored the rest of the pool.

Crabs need buffs?

They tried it on beta when they first allowed travel powers to be taken without prerequisites. It made Tough and absolute no-brainer pick for EVERYONE, but especially all melees.

Wolverine was the template for Scrappers.

Sabertooth is a Brute though.

1 by your definition; 6 by my definition (T3 in every slot)

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Most of my Incarnates pre-existed Incarnate content. My Water Corruptor will be a full incarnate by my definition.

Plenty; I have about 20 Level 50s and I just don't feel like picking them up again. They're done.

Not giving up my Scorpion Shield for anything.