Grey Pilgrim

I would agree that Blasters have more flexibility in the escapee phase. My Controller that I have run through there does great on holding the minions, but it's frustrating for him to drop lieutenants, at least at times. My Fire/Fire Tank does great on the path or at the doors, of course, but the lag does make tracking down targets on the run more annoying. My Peacebringer should have similar flexibility, but that's hampered a bit by shapeshifting taking far too long when it's laggy.

It is a pocket case, but it is one that is applicable to other situations.

I'm not even sure why popularity is being discussed. Every AT can't be at the top of the heap, and as long as people enjoy playing each one, things are okay. Yes, you can argue about performance numbers beyond that, but debating popularity means squat, especially if it's Blasters not always being at the number one spot.

I do wish these were noted for players somehow. There are plenty of people on Victory all the time, but you have to be in the areas people frequent to see them (TF start locations, PD, markets, etc.) and most are only talking in chat.

I prefer MMOs with instances to camping spawn locations like happens in other games, but it does make people feel like there are fewer about than is actually the case.

Nope, this thread is an elaborate strategem to confuse you. Mwahahaha.

Christmas movie, but who cares, it's still an action movie looking to make money. I won't argue with you like some are over noses, when Holmes is more about personality than anything.

These movies do have a strong stylistic approach, but other Holmes movies have in their own way as well. I found the first one fun overall, though it did get a little heavy into fights... I think the one that pushed it over the top for me and my wife is when they had a fight in a room, Holmes chases the big guy off with the electrical implement, but then the guy suddenly stops being scared and we have another hectic fight around a ship in drydock.

Still, it was fun overall, hopefully this one will do even better.

As others have pointed out, every AT in the game is superfluous. ATs have different styles but overlap all over the place. Enjoy the ride and play what you want, most MMOs are not like this.

We are? Then where are the adjustments to Mission Architect's longstanding issues (the current filter is stupid... my arc is invalidated because the made up word "Bladed" is somehow profane in its eyes)? The adjustments to bases and PvP? The graphical fix to the final room in the LGTF? The improvements to certain sets and ATs that need a little help

At any rate, I haven't really heard any of the current devs say anything about travel suppression, has anyone else? I figured they had it where they wanted it, to be honest. And I don't really see it as a huge issue, either. *shrugs*

Why not take a break? It's not like the trials are going to disappear. I usually drop out after about 90 minutes and join some trials, so it's not like you can't do both, either.

I should be on tomorrow night... though I'm thinking now that I probably won't join a redside run again. I have some villains and that's enough for me. There's something about villainside that I just don't enjoy, at all. I'll make a couple vigilantes to round out my options for the occasional TF over there, but I generally dislike the missions and zones over there. The TFs are okay for some reason, but I find it really hard to solo or do any missions over there outside of Isos.

I wish I knew the magic words to get dev action on longstanding issues like this. It's utterly asinine that this many arcs are rendered invalid by this thing: it's doing far more harm than good.

I doubt they'll ever remove travel power suppression... you can already kite pretty well with inherent stamina plus combat jumping and sprint. I do it a fair amount on my Blasters and have fun with it, too. I think they were mostly okay with removing some of the pain of having travel powers going while fighting because of suppression, too.

Kheld adjustments (mostly just want a shorter shapeshifting animation and some adjustments to PB powers that still don't work as well as they should) and more customization options are big on my list.

New question that wouldn't be answered, probably... new TFs planned for I22? Any expansion of Cimerora on the horizon?

No guide is going to be the be-all, end-all. It's going to reflect that poster's interests and approach, though if they did a decent job, it should reflect a variety of approaches at least. I tried to do that with my Fiery Aura and Tanking guide, but it still reflects some of my own preferences.

I don't agree with Dechs in everything he does or says, but I like that he is so enthusiastic about Warshades. That's good for all Kheldian players, even if I'm not all that excited about Warshades.

I hope you can also see that you have opinions in that post that I would take umbrage with. Besides the tone, human form isn't necessarily all that. Some prefer one way, some another. There are pros and cons to each.

For me, I added a human only build to my Peacebringer once Clarion made that more viable, and I wanted to see how I could make things work there, since his main build is tri-form. I find both to be fun (and enjoy all three forms on the main, depending on what I feel like at the time, and what my team needs).

To the OP, I doubt the devs would ever want to get rid of the shapeshifting mechanic, and I would be irate if they tried. Shapeshifting is a major part of what makes the Kheldian AT what it is. That mechanic could be tweaked to be better (it's too long to shift), but getting rid of it would be a terrible idea. Getting rid of it would make for an entirely new AT, and we have plenty of those to choose from already. You can argue for a new AT if you want, but don't do so at the expense of a current one.

Oh, and I played my Peacebringer before the I11 changes, on SOs. It is doable. I played one when they first came out and soloed on it, even though there were significant nerfs to do so at the time.

You'd want to make that an alternate animation option, since I prefer the Peacebringer version. Warshade powers are nice to look at, but the extra... gob of something that the Warshade version has is weird to me. I like the traditional energy beam look of Peacebringers.

And I'm all for Build up being improved for Peacebringers somehow. Duration isn't long enough, and the devs now have plenty of options they could mimic with it that would be more acceptable. Fiery Embrace seems best to me if they are keeping Cosmic Balance as is, since you can get so close to the cap currently (depending on teammates and your own powers).

Eh, it's heavily debated and some people despise it when you do it. I teach writing and advise my students to rewrite without the need for the pronoun. That way, you sidestep the debate and no one should hold your preference against you.

On the forums, I refer to the poster by their forum name... tends to help you be more clear, too. Forums are big enough breeding pools for angst and misunderstanding without adding to the mix.

And sorry I misunderstood your joke earlier.

As others have said, people have been saying this for years. People will play what they want to play, and the simple fact is that you can do well in this game with any AT and powerset combination. Some sets are good and some sets are better, and it's all about what you prefer.

Some people love Brutes. Me, I don't. If I want a more survivable character, I go with a Tank. If I want straight up melee damage, I go with a Scrapper. I don't find Fury all that fun and prefer how the other two ATs work. I could put it elsewhere as well. Some people swear by Defenders, Corruptors, and MMs, but I just don't like them. But others do. No need to make a personal dislike an issue with the AT, though.

Honestly, this is the only thing that I think could use some adjusting. On one team, it wasn't so big, but in a league, it would be nice for Bruising to have some stackability.

It's not THAT big of an issue, though, since all of the trials often have separate groups and problems to work on. And when I'm on a squishy character, I prefer having a tank on the team, especially for Lambda. Brutes and Scrappers are nice, of course, but they don't really worry about aggro too much in the collection phase, which is a huge problem for all of my squishies. A lot of +3s running around like to stomp on them, no matter what I do.

That doesn't mean people play that phase stupidly and don't run in groups or pause to take out an angry boss at 10% health, but it's still preferable to have a tank to lead things off, at least.

I dunno... some of the pets seem to be fairly far away from what others can do. Are Seers punished for doing Psi damage, or something? Their support casting of a mini-fortitude is nice, but I don't think it makes up for much less damage they do than other pets, at least in the DPS lists I've seen from other players testing. I am glad to see how much variety we have (a lot of care seemed to be taken in choosing these from player feedback), I just am not sure they're quite all balanced with each other yet.

It would be kind of cool to be able to name our pets as well, even if they are supposedly essences of the well and all.