Frosticus

edit: I have a 50 fa/ss/pyre and I like it quite a bit. It's the only tank I've ever really liked and stuck with to 50

However, it's probably because Shield greatly overshadows FA as an offensive set. So if you want to build an offensive tank bypassing shield is a conscious decision to take a substantial cut in your offensive abilities.

Even elec in a lot of ways provides comparable offense to FA through unlimited endurance and a recharge boost.

Both shield and elec armor are newer to tanks too so one would expect them to have elevated popularity.

That said, Castle mentioned he'd look into improving FA in one of the Shield nerf threads, so hopefully it comes out on a similar offensive level as Shields after he is done with both of them.

It indeed would be if it is presented like it was in the screenshot. Glad you agree with what I said.

Fair enough. Based on what was presented in this thread you are entirely correct.

I'd like to amend my statement. My hope is that the majority of our moral, or multiple outcome, decisions are made on the fly rather than as a choice prior to the mission commencing.

Because if I'm an evil villain that likes eating puppies why would the same person hire me to save OR kill someone? Of course not everything is so black and white, like someone may hire you to go in and steal some files and while you are in there you make the decision to nuke the entire building and kill everyone or let them live. So that kind of choice could be presented before entering, but then should be completely optional once in there. Thus more or less eliminating the need for it to be presented prior to entering unless the contact specifically wants to weigh in with their opinion of what you should do. ie. "I need you to steal this, but there are a lot of innocents in there so try to keep casualties to a minimum". You then have the choice blow up lab, or don't once inside regardless of whether you agreed to do as he asked. Depending on the polarity of the decisions made and how far they are from the contacts own stance you'd think 1-2 severe enough actions would lose you the contact. Unless the contacts are presenting themselves as unbiased observers...but that would be silly.

if that makes sense.

Might be an outdoor mission?

When I look through the app/ppp's I think every instance where the recharge has been massively altered to make the power weaker is a load of crap. It is unnecessary from a game balance perspective and only serves to make the lives of casual players more dull while disproportionately giving extra reward to min/maxers.

Sadly though, when the time comes dollars to doughnuts says defender SD gets its recharge doubled.

bots/traps

Proc'd out with high recharge the question is will a rad/son/soul out damage a son/rad/soul +patron pet?

Lose the pet and the answer is yes by quite a bit. Against a somewhat large spawns the answer is yes by leaps and bounds. With the pet against a single target the answer is probably not.

A large part of that is simply because defender soul drain is stronger and recharges twice as fast.

I'd expect some shuffling around in GR though and quite frankly if they let controllers have patron pets the question of what does more damage a corr or defender will be answered by - a controller can do more damage than both of them put together. I'm only partially kidding with that last statement too, it wouldn't be twice as much.

Ya it's not bad at all, but don't mistake hundreds of missions for hundreds of arcs. 100-200 missions really isn't that much content.

Hundreds of missions in a game like fallout 3 would indeed be tremendous. Lots of them take like 2-3 min in this game, so you'll find you go through the stack pretty quickly depending on how you play.

Dam you are right. I should have said. "only if you are tru warrier"

Maybe for fiteclub pvp, but not the rest of pvp.

In that same thread Castle stated he didn't feel AAO was a very big buff... it begs the question what he does consider fits the description of being a big buff, but ya.

There is no way to say for certain and abide by the rules to confirm whether or not i18 will include the changes to SC. So the person who said it would be i18 was either speculating or leaking info.
i18/GR is a major update so I expect major power changes to be included at that time. The absolute best time to tick off your customers is when you are distracting them with a pile of shiny. So if Castle can squeeze in the SC changes I would expect them to show up sooner rather than later myself.