EvilRyu

Kryptonite and magic were just plot devices that were added because they made superman too powerful to begin with. If he wasnt overpowered there would not be a need for this in the first place.

I agree here, as well as positional resistance, that would add a new flavor when they roll out more defensive sets.

Well here is my take on things. Stuff thats untyped is ok if you give us a way to deal with it ahead of time. Similar to the hami inspirations and the big *** letters that flash on the screen prior to nova fist that tells you to get out of the way. Now if its just random damage that is no warning and is spammed then no that is not ok at all. To me thats just lazy coding because the devs refuse to implement better critter AI/scripting. At this late into the game what have you got to lose at this point by making the mobs some what smarter? Yeah I know the standard code rant and such but to me thats an excuse especially when compared to other games out there that have not been out as long and have way smarter enemies.

This one part here is why I wont play the set on live until this gets addressed. I am literally murdering stuff with a brute on finishers. Why cant stalkers and scrappers to a lesser extent benefit from this too?

I have posted a few comments here and there but I dont think its going to matter if the devs just arent listening on the stalker issues. Its flatout going to take someone going face to face to talk with the powers team before we even remotely see results. In all honesty I wish it was something they would fix before the new issue went live. Last thing we need is for a bunch of new players to form bad opinions on the stalker AT starting out. Every issue they delay fixing stalkers the harder it will be to shake the "lol stalkers" stigma that we have been branded with.

So long as its extremely easier to soft cap positional defense vs typed, I will never touch this set. True enough its gotten easier but I see no reason to pay more to softcap it.

This I has never been the case for me. Anytime I have died on a stalker I am pretty sure I would have died as a scrapper. Meaning the extra hitpoints would have done nothing for me. Also for the record I was very against stalkers getting the first hitpoint increase because we simply do not need it. 1000 more hit points isnt going to do PANCAKEPANCAKEPANCAKEPANCAKE for me when I am closed in against tons of mobs with no inspirations or heals not on cool down. Stalkers should be squishie it adds to the whole playstyle of them, its just when that squishieness is not compensated with more damage then there is a problem. Hell I could argue that blasters need way more damage. They are the most naked of the ATs and should do at least 3 times the damage they currently do to make up for that. This is the only MMO where the range classes defense as range is a flat out lie. But enough about blasters, stalkers need love at this point and I do not see it happening unless someone is actually able to go to the devs one on one to talk about this. If I lived in the area I would do it.

I dont see why fury is a problem. I dont see why fury was ever a problem for any brute. Just put brawl or your tier 1 attack on auto fire. Ta-da near max fury all the time. Its just easier to do this with brawl since it recharges so fast and costs zero end to do. This is also the same reason why I do not ever see ice armor being a problem for brutes.

Totally agree with you here. I think people who think they are going to downgrade and just going to switch back after they realize what they are giving up and how fun the game is as a VIP. Personally I hate this whole free to play non-sense but I can see how it will bring in new subs eventually.

No, thats because heroes get more stuff out of the game thats why. People arent given enough incentive to be villains. Seriously see all the stuff I mentioned earlier and you can understand why more people play blue side. If all that stuff I mentioned was fixed you would not see so many folks on blue side. It wouldnt be the 90% to 10% we have now, it would be closer to say 60% to 40%. While these are totally made up figures thats what it sure feels like in terms of teaming and activity in the global channels. You see stuff for hero tfs all the time but very few people doing group villain stuff.

No the situation here is as follows. You guys have made the game so incredibly slanted towards making the heroes so much better in terms of almost every aspect. As a result redside was pretty much doomed from the start. The problems are as follows.

1. Perma-overcast in the majority of the game. No sunlight in many areas = depressing game. I am not saying everything has to have rainbows everywhere but red side is depressing with all the trash everywhere and grundgy look it has.

2. All original villain ATs came pre-nerfed out of the box, the the gimmicky inherrents tacked on to make the pre-nerf not seem so bad. The worst of this was dominators but alot has been done to fix that issue. Right now the biggest issue is stalkers which the devs for some reason will not recognize at this point as needing the most help in the game right now. For some retarded reason they think stalkers have aggro issues but the issue is damage.

3. All the content is so much harder on redside. Villains have to deal with insane smashing/lethal resistances alot early on. Psi defense and mobs with higher mez resistance. The higher mez resistance thing is why I will never ever roll another dom on redside or play there ever again. To me its like your punishing players for doing their jobs. It would be different if this was done against controllers who have a secondary to fall back on for protection but doms do not have this so its too unfair to make the mobs have higher mez resistance especially at lower levels. Lastly just look at the longbow. What were they thinking when they gave them grenades that can drop you resistance beyond zero when you have fully slotted resistance powers?

4. Un-equal rewarding on story arcs and sfs on red vs blue sides. The villain arcs are harder therefore should give more reward despite being shorter. The whole time taken thing is irrelevant due to how its easy to fast travel in this game so the time metric needs to be tossed out. The LRSF is a good example of why the time metric needs to be thrown out.

5. The lack of additional content to get parity in this game. There are almost twice as many hero tfs than there are villain sfs. That needs to be corrected. Fill in every where there is a level range for the. Basically what needs to happen from here on out until parity is reached is add 2 to 3 villain sfs for ever 1 hero TF they add. Also new villain zones like the hollows, striga and dare I say it the shadow shard. And for the love of gawd stop making so many tfs where villains have to be side kick to the heroes. In only a few comics you would have heroes and villains working together like this, realistically the villains would do their own thing to stop whatever force that is intruding on their territory instead of playing sidekick to the heroes. Just for once make a SF where the heroes are actually the sidekick of the villains where they are having to choose the lesser of two evils instead of the villains doing something for the greater good.

6. Lastly the Role-playing aspect of redside. Up until now there are almost no real villain story arcs. Your either barely in the grey area and I would hardly call it villainous. Aside from the Westin Phipps arcs I cant think of anything thats really evil in this side of the game. You do more evil stuff in the short time in Praetoria than you do in levels 1-50 on redside. Now thats just not right in my opinion and needs to be corrected. Reboot the storyline or whatever you want to call it just like they are doing with all the movies in hollywood now so that villains can be evil.

All these things are why red-side sucks and why you have so many people who converted when GR started. You do have a few massocist who like staying on redside but they are not the norm here.

What you can do as developers is look at whats been done and try to fix it in each of the upcoming issues. Otherwise you will end up in a situation similar to one other nearly dead in the NA, Korean NcSoft title which will remain nameless where the devs are offering huge incentives to play the losing faction due to similar imbalances which they took entirely too long to fix. True enough pvp does not matter as much as here as it did in the game where they are doing this but you can see why it happened because they made similar mistakes.

Nova fist pretty much will 1 shot anyone not at full hp, whether its scrapper, stalker or even tank. Its just that having full hp prevents that. Its one of the few times the 1 shot code actually works. So again more hp isnt going to help you here.

You will get gutted if you take away my flashing steel. I would rather give up Divine Avalanch before I would give up flashing steel.

Well I cant say that stalkers get better resists or defense than most brutes what I can say is we have zero surviability issues unless the player in front of the keyboard is stupid. I dont know why the same folks scream about hit points over and over like its going to matter in pve. If it can kill you with stalker hp it can still kill you with scrapper hp, thats pretty much how I see it. Its not like they are going to give us Tank hp or something. What I see to be the biggest issue is damage by far. We do not do enough period. Outside of Electric Melee stalkers pretty much got screwed over at every turn on this. A huge fix would be to make AS and/or hide inherrent and give us back the powers we lost for these so that we can be on par with scrappers. In addition to that we truely need some power reordering on some sets. There are so many ways to fix stalkers its just waiting on a dev to have the guts to do it. Lastly the devs need to get rid of that crazy line of thinking that stalkers have aggro issues on teams or that stalkers have survivability problems. I think once we move back from that things might actually get looked at.