EvilGeko

My DM/EA Brute is already soft-capped to Sm, Le, En and has nearly 40% to Fire and Cold. This settles it, I'm turning her into my main tanking character.

Naw, Statesman and Positron stated point blank that the idea was to ensure that everyone started from an even start with bases.

I'd bet that Wentworth's sucks more inf from the game in a good week than the inf->prestige conversion ever has. I have no idea who the "88s" are, but reading this thread I assume they are the top ranked SG. I've never looked at the list, and I doubt I'm the only one.

The devs already confirmed to me that something like this would work, but for a variety of reasons they don't want to do it.

A full respec removing all crab powers from every build does remove the backpack.

I do too.

If you go in with the bias that you're "forced" to do anything, it's going to affect how you feel about the behavior and how you engage in it. You already come in feeling anxious and angry, it's no doubt you don't feel very interested in social behavior.

Now before anyone says, I was assuming anything above, the poster confirms it right here.

How do you know? I'll have you know I often chat with people during the trial, after, and often wait around to see if something else is going on unless I need a break or have somewhere to be.

You emphasized the wrong word here. It is your experience. Not everyone else.

I'll be happy to instruct them on all the reasons their set is more powerful without the knockback, never you worry.

Only if I get cheap gaudy lei necklaces and Hawaiian greeting girl cosmetic pets. Like Arcanaville, I am not expressing a personal preference. It's objectively good for the game.

Colorblind tourist shirts plz. kthxbye.

Not exactly baseless as Prometheus basically tells us that we need to defeat Cole then we'll get to handle the Coming Storm. Whether that basis is sufficient proof for you I cannot say, but it's incorrect to say it's baseless.

Sam is right, since Incarnates came on to the scene in Issue 19 we've hardly gotten anything else, I mean seriously, all we've gotten is:

Issue 19 - Inherent Stamina, New solo story arcs in Sharkhead and Talos, repeatable missions for Resistance and Loyalists in Praetoria, Zone Event Missions in Praetoria, Alternate Blast animations for most blast sets, New Warehouse and Praetorian lab maps, Inspiration stores (Nurses) in hospitals, and hospitals in Hazard and Trial zones, Transit Merge, Tons of QoL improvements

Issue 20 - Player Help System, Admiral Sutter TF, Mortimer Kal SF, improvements to buff powers, Null the Gull


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Sure, but please understand where that leads. We already have that to a degree where if you exemplar below 45 you lose your incarnate abilities. This gives the developers breathing room to make content for all playstyles. Also, the Incarnate shifts are specifically gated to the trials.

The devs have taken the wise view to allow people who have went down the Incarnate path be overpowered in non-Incarnate content. If you take away the abilities, then folks will demand that ALL content be scaled to the power level of incarnates. Which creates, in fact, the very treadmill that people are imposing on themselves now.

Right now you really don't have to do the Incarnate trials. Incarnate power is fun, but certainly not necessary. I've seen what happens when the point you make is taken to its logical conclusion. I suspect many others here have as well, because many have expressed fears that the Incarnate powers would be necessary to "keep up" with new content. I have seen no significant evidence that the devs intend for that to happen. But it will happen should Incarnate powers be locked away as you suggest. Only it will be the players demanding it.

Shards components work only for the Alpha slot, so I don't think it's a fair exchange rate to consider then 5 threads. It is true that it takes 60 threads to make a common Alpha and 12 shards, but IMO, that's covered by threads greater drop rate. Threads are more flexible and allow you to imbue an incarnate with higher tiers of power. Shards must be converted on a time-gate to even be worth any threads.

Basically, what I'm saying is that threads do more and thus are worth more than shards and so the conversion rate we have now is more than fair.

This please. Want NAO!

What he said.

That's a much more significant change than you seem to acknowledge. That one change removed this Jekyll and Hyde feeling to the AT and turned it into a mainline DPS AT that can intermittently exercise extremely strong controls.

Like many arguments on these boards, we get hung up on this "fun" versus "effective" argument. The shapeshifting mechanic might be "fun" but it provides little real tactical advantage in the game as its actually played. There are other combinations in this game that can be a better blaster, tank, and jack of all trades all without needing to waste seconds converting from one form to the next and all at the same time I might add.

The Kheldian human forms are purposefully limited (no mez protection for example) in order to make the form shifting desirable enough for people to use. It's Castle trying to salvage Geko's poor design. Whereas Castle's creation VEATs have a synergy among their powers that is wonderous to behold. For example, on a lark I decided to make a ranged only Bane Spider. That seemed to be the crappiest VEAT combo by a mile. How did it turn out? WHOA! It's really good. It feels like the Nova form should. A heavily defended ranged gunner who can spam AoEs. I was just going to take that character to the 30s and then respec, but I think I'm going to stick with it. I'm always finding interesting things like that with VEATs. It's the mark of a very well designed AT that there are so many things you can do and still feel you have a valuable character.

With Warshades, you do get to a point where your character is solid and fun. But with PB, you just never come out with a character that's ever going to shine. It needs fundamental changes. If shapeshifting is the name of the game, then we need to make that conversion something that plays well with the game.

After Timeshadow's thread, I've really given up on Kheldians for awhile. The community is just too split about what needs to be done. Some folks want a major change and others want small tweaks. I don't see the devs moving too much while that rift exists.

Two things:

Electric Scrappers do not hide;

Electric Stalkers manipulate electromagnetic radiation for a variety of effects including protection, but also to hide themselves. Electromagnetic radiation exists in both the visible spectrum, that is, the wavelengths of energy visible to humans and other forms not visible to the naked eye. The Electric Stalker can cover their whole body in a form of electromagnetic energy that is invisible to the human eye. This allows them to hide in plain sight. Creatures (including super-humans) who have senses that grant them PERCEPTION greater than normal humans can sometimes see through the Electric Stalker's clever ruse.

The Regen Stalker has complete control over her body's cells. She uses this control to instantly regenerate her epidermis in a complexion to match her surroundings. Like a chameleon, the Regen Stalker can use her incredible healing tactically to blend into the shadows and even hide in plain sight.

See e.g. Ranma 1/2.

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