EvilRyu

Let me just say this. Last night I had quite a few people to message me about getting incarnate stuff. They all asked the same question which was do you need a team for this. You dont but it goes exponentially faster with a team. I dont see whats the big idea why so many are against teaming in this game to do a lvl 50 tf. I can understand there maybe schedule issues and such but how hard is it to set aside 2 to 3 hours on one day to do this? I know on some servers they are starting tfs as late as 3 am. This game is an MMO for a reason and doing this solo is only going to make it harder on yourself. Also being solo unless your doing farm missions set for 8 people then you really have no real use for this slot anyways so you arent missing out on much.

Dude there are times where the long blasting animations are going to get in the way of getting that needed heal off. I could see if everything in this game was insta cast but its not. I seen many folks end up healing a corpse all because they blast. Again its going to be a case by case basis depending on how intense the battle is. I am not saying rock the aura, but heals need to take priority over blasts if there is a chance of defeat.

Its got nothing to do with babysitting. Its about accountability. Too many times I have seen the **** hit the fan all because someone wasnt paying attention or not doing their job on a team. Lately its been happening alot where players because they are softcapped run off from the rest of the team to make the squishies fend for themselves. So in the event that happens its good to have one person at least on the team dedicated to support. As a troller there is only so much you can do with control especially villainside with all the damn control resistant critters. And dont even get me started on the ITF. I know alot of people are so against the trinity of heal/tank/dps but its proven that it works 99% of the time. I am not saying we as players cant do other stuff either and be successful, its just everyone seems to want to bash heals like its not a valid thing to do. Going back to the OP being a pure healer for teams is only going to hurt you solo but even still its not much of an issue if you use a second build.

Damn it, i just responded to an earlier post with that one.

I seen something do more than that. Remember when IOs first came out Touch of lady grey was bugged enough to 1 shot hamidon with his 99% resistance.

We got a long way before inter-AT balance is even remotely where it needs to be. Some sets its blatantly obvious where they still need fixing. For instance if you take masterminds, the ninja powerset is the most squishiest pet. In theory they are supposed to have the highest melee damage. Alot of good that will do if the pets die way before they get to do that melee damage. I find it odd that they get paper thin defense but yet stuff like thugs and bots who are range are way more durable. You pretty much have to pick an extremely active secondary to make ninjas work for you. If you look at defenders trick arrow still lags behind many years after the fact. All because of the fear of controllers having another hold in the set. Seriously who gives a crap about that when the set has no real way of keeping you alive till the damage you need to do is done.

I wont say that inter-AT balance isnt getting better. They have done wonders to the martial arts powerset and dark melee, sets that I said I would never play again till they were changed. I think for all of the rest of the sets to see a change the devs are going to have to step out of their little dev world and see the game as players do. A good example of how out of touch the devs are is with stalkers. On the beta boards I asked Castle to repost his response in the stalker forums. The response is that stalkers problem on teams is the shared aggro issue, but from a player perspective that could be the least of our issues on teams. We all wanted a better way to contribute on teams be it more damage or utility in some way. If they saw the game as to how things actually worked instead of how things are supposed to work we would be so much better off right now with balance in general.

Lastly I wanted to make a comment on the soloing thing. There are just some sets where soloing just isnt a viable option. It doesnt make sense to do it at all because its faster watching the grass grow. Whenever you get a combination where its faster to watch grass grow or paint dry then its a non-soloable set in my eyes.

Its really going to depend on the game. This one game I play (not going to mention the name other wise the ocho will lock the thread). I was shocked at how their range ATs do so well compared to our blasters. While the critters had range attacks the damage they did wasnt enough to put you in any serious danger. You could pretty much drop any of the standard mobs well before they got to you, and that AT got crowd control abilities. I was like why do every single mob in the game out ranges blasters unless you slot range in your attacks plus have boost range.

As for as buffs go my biggest gripe is the duration on ally buffs. There is no reason why the ally bubbles cant be 10 to 20 minutes long. This would give us something else to do with the endurance instead of worrying about attacking too much and not having the end to rebuff. Buffs in our game arent really significant unless its the defense buffs and even still with all the debuffing goin on those lose alot of their value. I still think we have room to allow self buffs at least at half strength. If not then change things up, like say let dispersion bubble give more defense than the ally bubbles so the defender/controller/corrupter/mastermind isnt practically butt booty naked.

Yeah I read that, and you know how much work that is to keep that maintained? Alot. Most folks including myself are too lazy to do all of that on a defender if you could. It be just easier to play the blaster.

CoH was my first MMO and when I played a few others I was like OMG, you can do good damage and self buff? Why do our devs make our characters suck? Outside of technical limitations it defies all logic for self buffing to not happen. Just think of all the characters in various comics that can help their allies with their abilites as well as themselves. By not allowing self buffing it goes against what this game is based on which is comics. Its crazy to be able to give your team awsome defense but yet you are the weakest link on the team if your a bubbler. You toggle up personal force field and your team suffers for it while you still cant attack. It makes no sense what so ever. I hope in CoH 2 they address this in some way.

You still wouldnt be soloing anything like AVs or GMs regardless, thats my point and even if you could how is this any different than what scrappers do now with IOs. My point is the game is in a completely different place now than when this artificial limitation was put on the support ATs. Its time to remove these shackles, even if its done at half strength on various buffs. It would go a very long way in making this game compete with other MMOs. Think about it like this, it took the devs creating the VEATs to create a supporting AT that doesnt have damage penalty and gets great buffs/debuffs. That in itself was huge in them finally making dominator damage not suck anymore. So why cant this be applied to the other ATs?

And I still dont see why this is a problem, your still going to have piss poor damage as a defender/controller/corrupter so its kind of pointless if your hard to kill or your attacks recharge faster. It flatout needs to be changed to allow self buffing. It would put support ATs as well as melee on the same level for a change.