GavinRuneblade

I expect them to be lazy.

Therefore I expect them to take the existing signature story arc tech and modify it to one or maybe 2 story arcs. I expect them to be 5 missions long rather than 3, with about a 30-minute average time to complete. I expect the reward choices to be 1 astral or 10 threads 1x/week or a repeatable 5 threads or 1 super insp infinitely available. I expect that threads will drop during the mission.

I expect 1 or 2 badges that give either a common or uncommon when first acquired.

they will talk about adding more arcs in the future but not do it. They will talk about a future method to convert astrals to emps but not implement it. They may or may not talk about something equivalent to the WTF for incarnate content but if so, I actually do expect this to be implemented.

I add my voice hoping for the incarnate zone, and I do hope it is the shadow shard.

also, the devs consider EBs to be group enemies. Yes they know some of the players can solo AVs, but they still put warnings to gather a group for new missions that have a single +0 EB (see part 2 of the signature story arc final mission). Therefore I do not expect them to decide that non-incarnates need a team for EBs but incarnates jump multiple levels of difficulty and can handle AVs (one step would equal assuming you can solo EBs whereas they currently assume you need a team for them).

Edit: And I also add my voice to those who feel that the people acting like they deserve a solo path to everything are expecting too much and acting far too entitled. I also add my voice to those who feel that the devs neglect the solo community too much and that those who constantly criticize the all-solo-all-the-time crowd are often being gits themselves. In short, I think both camps are acting like spoiled brats. No one is entitled to anything. No one deserves anything. We don't even deserve a bug-free game that works all the time. We hope for it, and if a company gives us this it is good customer service and smart behavior on their part. But we don't deserve it. Vote with your money if you don't get what you want. Raise concerns. MMos have people who like to solo. MMos are based around group play. Both sides need to accept the other will always exist. Both sides need to accept that nothing will be perfectly geared for their desired style of play.

Can't we all just get along and kick praetorian *** as a semi-unified group of humans, metahumans, mutants, aliens, robots, cyborgs, science experiments gone awry, catgirls, megalomaniacs, escaped looney-bin patients, mass murderers, enraged dockworkers and lolstalkers until they give us someone better to abuse? (/rantmode)

Two weeks ago I saw three elecs in a single BAF run. I think I see more elec doms than anything but plant.

Personally, I'm Meh about the whole thing.

My only key change to the queue is I want to see "join a trial in progress" changed to let you into one that is above minimum but below maximum. Instead of the current "below minimum only".

The biggest change I want to COH I know I'll never get. Never. And that is I want a huge female body model. But since it would require revisions to every animation, every power and every costume piece in existence... Well, I'll be checking the thermometer in hell if the devs ever finally say yes. I won't stop asking though. =)

Actually, I had an idea.

What if as an inherent Stalkers could get a 97% or 98% chance to hit?

I know it doesn't seem like a lot. but I was running a quick tip mission last night, and even with 95% chance to hit, I missed 5 out of 13 attacks.

And it would tick stalker damage up a bit overall. Plus, it's totally unique.

Note: From a code level this might be impossible or really ungodly messy.

That's a very good insight. I also know that one of the side reasons is that not only do the scrappers have many vocal supporters, but those supporters are balanced, and have math/mechanics to back them up.

We don't have too many who can or will do the sorts of analysis that Obitus, Werner, and Arcannaville do. I know I can't.

And unfortunately, a lot of our people want huge changes or unbalanced changes. rather than the ones that are actually in line with what the devs might reasonably implement.

Honestly, I wouldn't attend even if they held it in my living room.

I LOATHE conventions or anything similar.

Lan parties are cool in groups of like 5 to 8 people. Anything more than that and I'm out.

Out of curiosity, what are the key set bonuses for time? it needs some recharge but doesn't seem to need a huge amount (certainly seems to be fine on less than traps for example).

Also, turning off sprint doesn't always end the stealth effect right away. I had some trouble with that over the weekend on escort missions.

Necro, other than the igniter, is there anything else that does decent damage?

I noticed that not only is the damage pretty good, those things are very accurate (I'm guessing they have the pet +25% base accuracy that malta gun drones have but not sure).

I did like hte idea of melee buff/debuffers. that's cool I'd totally play something like that. As an alternative, I'm not sure how the numbers would play out, but if stalkers are supposed to be melee blasters and top single-target damage, then run this theory to it's logical extreme. Also, don't make stalkers AS machines, that is one part of the stalker, but not the whole thing.

I agree on rolling back the HP buff.

reduce the mez protection in all secondaries slightly.

ensure all secondaries have a hole.

Rebalance AS into a crashless nuke. Up the damage so that we can kill +0 lieutenants with AS and no buildup needed. AS + buildup = dead -1 boss in 1 hit. Devs obviously intend AS to be used in combat and out of hide. But the current implementation doesn't encourage this. Increase base recharge by 2+ seconds, remove or massively reduce the interrupt, reduce activation time, and increase damage as above. This is our melee nuke. It should function like one. Blasters get ranged nukes that can wipe whole spawns with a single shot. We should be able to kill a boss with a single shot. I do NOT like most of the suggestions about tagging on debuffs etc to AS. The hit itself should kill. Put crippling debuffs on other attacks.

Personally, I'd also like it to accept sniper sets. I am not saying let it be a ranged attack or use the ranged damage scalar etc. I am saying accept sniper sets, nothing more nothing less. And I also would like them to allow the range bonus to work not be wasted. This will help with getting it off against a moving target.

Melee damage scaled up on nearly all sets or attack speed upped (with limited reduction in damage) so that we can chew through groups via single-target attacks without it feeling like a damn chore. Dark and KM are the only ones I've played that have this feel right now. Claws and nin are close except for the prevalence of -lethal resists around every corner.

If we're making AS and hide inherent, make both available at really low levels (1-4 for AS).

Make all of our hides unsupressed just like /ea and /dark for brutes and scrappers get.

screw the teaming mechanic. Let all attacks have a chance to reset the hide state rather than a higher crit chance directly.

Drop activation time of placate by .25 seconds, drop base recharge by 1 sec.

Give us full 100% buildup.

Redo powers like dull pain and hoarfrost so we get full benefit when slotted, and that means giving us something positive in exchange for the lower HP value. Redo combos on dual blades to remove AS from the chain unless it is a finisher. Make AS a finisher in Street Justice.

Let us keep our AoE attacks our cones etc, but reduce the max targets (if scrappers get 10, give us 5, if they get 5, give us 3) and/or range instead. I'm looking at you eviscerate, I want my cone back dagnabit!

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I think with faster attacks, AS rebalanced as a crashless nuke, and generally redone sets to support their intent, we would be the kinds of single target damage, and would be far enough ahead that it is worth giving up the AoE.

But I kind of like the idea of melee debuffers/buffers better. =)

The supergroup recovery buff is also handy. Lasts for 1 hour, persists through death and you can use the base teleports to get to your next mission almost as fast as using the o-portal.

Aett and Necrotech nailed it I think. It's not the toggles it is your attacks. How much end reduction do you have in the controls and attacks?

The cold demons are a specific faction within COT. I forget their leader but it is a bit specifc. It would be cool to see them in paragon city, but it is also cool to have unique enemies on each side.

Sadly it does appear to be a server load issue. I also have a character who had a retinue and enjoyed it.

In practice with the fear aura on my /dark I don't find it interrupts my crits very often. Does CE tick faster than fear?