Grey Pilgrim

Well, I'm used to such strong-minded stances as this from you, but I had to add in a quick point in addition to what others have said. Having such an opinion about yourself is almost always a sure recipe for disaster, even if it is true. People do not like such attitudes, and it leaves you open for making many mistakes and eventually making them.

I'd hope that I can say something worthwhile about Fiery Aura after all my experience with it, but I'd hardly go on spouting anything like you did. I guess I can see now how you post the the things you do with this attitude, but that's hardly a good thing. Might be a good time for you to reassess.

Lawyers cost money and stress. If a company can avoid a lawsuit by having a good policy in place, they will do it. They're in business to make money, not to wage holy war against frivolous lawsuits. They'll combat a suit that comes their way, but it's far more intelligent to avoid it in the first place.

Frankly, this is all I was looking for. I wanted to know if he was gone or not. If he isn't, a simple "he is here," would be good. Since he's apparently gone, the above does not say anything about him other than he is gone. Sure, I don't know my corporate law, but it seems like you should not get into trouble for this at some point, especially in an industry where you mention who is running what for your development.

I hate it when people at my university move on to other jobs (or just plain don't get a contract to come back), and hardly anything, if at all, is said about them going. Feels rather cold to me, if maybe somewhat expected for an instructor at a university. For someone well known and did considerably more at NC Soft, seems like something should have been said.

After being away from WoW for over a year, I read a reviewer talking about his experience with a (at the time) end level raid, where he was being critiqued severely for not having the highest DPS gear on his character, as they did not think he would be able to contribute enough to the team. Such gear was earned through the raid, so I'm not quite sure how he was supposed to have it all coming in (and he had the best stuff he could have gotten elsewhere).

Such common attitudes in that game are why I have avoided it like the plague for years. It's not casual friendly at all, and while that story is not typical of all people playing WoW (it obviously wasn't typical for me), I saw it far too much. Blech. That's why I hate that attitude here if I ever see it crop up, and why I counteract it whenever I form my own teams.

If you're setting up Regeneration to deal with its strength and weaknesses properly, you should have more than enough time to react to extreme situations. Besides IO bonuses, Tough and Weave add a lot of layering for Regeneration that helps a lot.

Alpha strikes are technically a weakness for Regeneration, but again, you can set Regen up so that you can respond to even that in time. I've actually gone AFK a few times (without meaning to) on my Regen, and had a few minions shooting at me at the same time. I came back and hadn't died or had my health budge at all. Not a huge performance metric, I know, but that does say something.

If Regneration needs anything, I'm dubious that it needs more healing or regeneration. It already does that quite well. Debuff resistance of some sort is the most I can see happening, as there aren't really any good reasons for it not to have some debuff resistance, either.

Of course, my arguments about Dark and Fiery Aura not having KB Protection not making sense haven't gone anywhere, either. So who knows if that line of reasoning is enough to make the devs budge. *shrugs*

Technically, yes. I know Grey Pilgrim is going to pick up an extra slot from being able to slot his Winter's Gift -slow resist IO into Teleport Friend, but then he's going to have the extra base slots in whatever power he picks, too. Probably going to grab stealth or the defense toggle from Leadership to slot a LOTG +recharge into. It'll be nice to be able to pick up more Ancillary powers, too. Melt Armor is only so good with 1-2 slots on it, but it'll layer nicely with Bruising for a bit, at least.

I'm actually going more off of poster on the forums in general, most of whom are not from Victory (though a few are). For design, Barracuda is certainly more interesting than Khan, even if both have Reichs, who is a bit annoying to deal with (I just hate all his HP... I've been on a couple failed attempts, though one of those was a failed Mo run that lost two members).

Yup. Ran a few TFs with vigilantes blueside that were originally villains, and that was quite annoying for how long it took them to get anywhere. It obviously takes anyone a little while to travel from Brickstown to KR, but for how long they were doing it... ugh.

I do wish they would do a bit more for the AE than add some map types and mobs. They did at least fix that NPC teammate issue that really frustrated a lot of people, but I haven't seen many other adjustments to the system that people do want. They're doing better with it than they have for PvP, at least (I'm still not sure why they made those adjustments to PvP if they weren't going to keep following through on them: I know Castle had more ideas for PvP that were not implemented at all).

Not sure what your impression of Barracuda is, but most people I see posting about it think it's more interesting and fun than the Kahn TF, and I agree. It's a little bit of a pain to have to track down the AVs in the last map (it'd make more sense if they spawned in near you or ran up to you), but I think it's better than fighting them all at once.

The Reichsman fight is more interesting as well: problem has been more with making those powers work right. But I've also met people who think the Kahn TF is the best in the game. I'd say they have more going for them than the original TFs in the game, at least (Reichsman is rather interesting to fight, it's just his mammoth amount of hitpoints coupled with a Tier 9 that make him really silly). I'd rather the new TFs were more on par with Hess, Katie Hannon, LGTF, or ITF, but that's it. Fighting War Walkers in Paragon seems like a pretty good idea that would be hard to fail with, but hey, I'll wait and see.

Well, who knows. They can sneak in buffs to powersets that aren't in the preview: they've done it plenty. Had some Scrapperites just find out over the weekend that Tanker's received a buff via Bruising with GR/I18. Go figure! I would like to see changes to Gravity as well, and I guess Stalkers need a little something more for people to like them more.

DC... you don't like the changes to the ferry/train system? Are you insane? You're still going to see all the zones that the missions make you go to, and that's not changing... so I don't see how this means we're seeing less of the zones. If I don't have to trek from one side of Steel Canyon or Skyway City so I can get to Talos or something, that's a GOOD thing. I'm still going to be seeing those zones plenty. It's not like you're going to know what side of the zone your mission is on, anyway, so it's still going to happen, anyway.

Rogue Isles is even better. It's a PITA getting to Mercy and PO, and you have to go there a lot, even at higher levels. This change makes me less annoyed about going to those zones in the first place.

I do agree that we'll have to wait and see on the TFs and alpha slot, but what they had for the alpha sounded interesting last time around. Hopefully it'll fit in better. And if they can lean the new TFs towards the Barracuda version of Kahn, I'm good.

You never know, Zam, the next Sewer Trial might be in the wings, waiting to claim a place in your heart as your favorite content! This IS a good issue! Get excited!

If you're just having fun, any AT you bring doesn't matter. If defeats start getting important, then what you are saying is certainly the case. It's not even an MoSTF where you have to worry about a Scrapper in melee, either. On an MoITF, more people in melee means more people that the healing nictus can make use of and def debuffs on a Scrapper can add up to danger even faster than a Brute or a Tank; LGTF has plenty of instances where melee is less useful (and a potential weakness, like with the 4 Riders that cause fear and -end, making it easier to fail); and Kahn has Reichsman, who does do a good amount of damage up close and has that PITA stun attack that mezzes through mez resistance. Of course tanks have to worry about this as well (*sighs* my Fire/Fire certainly did last night), but it is another reason to limit how many people you have up close to a hard target.

Good Scrapper players can do fine up close on those mobs, but they're also the easiest to get into trouble: especially with the average player, and even on a well-played one. Melee damage gets pity spots if you're really trying to min/max. Heck, everything other than extreme buff/debuff does for min/maxxers... there really are a few sets out there that are nutty for what they can do.

? I wasn't arguing against -recharge resists for Regeneration, I was pointing out that providing such buffs is perfectly thematic, as the post I was responding to said it wasn't. Guess I could have quoted them, but it's pretty clear that I'm saying a -recharge resist would be a thematic thing for Regeneration.

And it certainly would make sense. Fiery Aura received such a resist in Temperature Protection as it relies on offense and its heal to get the job done. Regeneration certainly relies on its heals and regeneration to do so as well, so it makes sense to give it -recharge resist to me as well. It's especially going to need it if it ever gets ported to an aggro specialist AT as well, though that's not the only overhaul it needs if Tankers get it (though do I rather wonder if sets like this are just never going to get ported).

Yeah, that's kind of what I was pointing to, earlier. Those regen debuffs are way ridiculous and (if anything) seem pointed to penalize sets that rely more on regeneration. While everyone benefits from the ability, WP and Regeneration are the main sets that need that ability to get the job done. That design mechanic seems odd to me.

The rest of your post just points to why it could use some more debuff resistance as well.

It's somewhat late in the game for veteran bonuses, but it's nice that you can get Combat Jumping and Fly if you wish, once you can pick a travel power automatically at level six. This gets even better once I19 hits and we have inherent Fitness, as you're getting another pool power pick if you want it.

I'm entirely thematic with my travel power picks, so if someone is a flyer, they're a flyer. It's not that much slower and maneuvers well, and concept means a lot more to me.

No, the counter is that Blasters can zip through content and contribute solo and on teams, so they are fine there. If there are corner cases where other powerset combinations challenges their damage too much, it's more of a case that perhaps they're overpowered and need a reduction, or that it's an out of the norm build for the regular player, so it doesn't matter. Debuffs are also an issue that adjusting Blasters to face would be a tad ridiculous, depending on how you approach it.

Arbegla covered the Scrapper AOE stuff well enough. Scrappers can do nice AOE in melee range, but they're still not on the level of what my Blasters can do. And I say this as someone with a lot of Blasters that I like.