He_Who_Knows

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It would be almost as catastrophically stupid as making giant walking XP piñatas called “Winter Lords” and putting dozens of them in each and every zone so that players could go from level 1 to 50 in just a couple of weeks, leaving the city overrun with high-level characters who cannot afford to buy their own SO enhancements and who don’t have the faintest clue how to play their own characters, many of whom quickly quit CoH because it’s boring and they’ve “done everything” (even though they have in fact done almost nothing).

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Let’s see… accidentally over-reward for killing Winter Lords… accidentally over-price empowerment stations. Accidentally over-reward for killing Winter Lords… accidentally over-price empowerment stations…. Accidentally over-reward for killing Winter Lords… accidentally over-price empowerment stations.


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Not to thread-jack here...but..how is it the Dev's fault that the players exploited something they put in for fun? Is it the Dev's fault that those players, rather than having fun with the game decided to do nothing other than PL themselves by exploiting the game? I was there for the Winter Lord fun, and while i made much xp off of them, I quickly went back to doing my regular missions. You know...the way the Dev's designed it to be.

Please don't blame player exploits on the Devs. The most likely reason they didn't limit the Winter Lords before? They thought of it as an ADDITION to the game, not the be all-end all the PL players did. And I don't remember seeing any Devs standing behind any of those players twisting their arms into PL either. Just because an exploit is there does NOT mean you have to use it. Those people who PL'd and then got bored..well as far as I'm concerned, I'm glad they aren't around to spoil things more for people who want to play the game as designed.

Of course, YMMV...

I usually don't have too much problem with longbow, except for Elite Warden with my Robots/FF character. Yeah, I usually lose my minions, but hey, that's what they are there for. While the longbow flamethrowers melt down the guys who probably aren't going to be doing much damage, my Protector bots and my Assault Bot are ripping them a new one in short order. With the stacked bubbles from me and my Prot bots along with their heals, I usually only suffer two minion casualties. And that's with me doing minimal damage as I only have the Force Bolt power slotted for knockback to keep em juggled so my boys can take em down in short order.

And they're just minions...who cares if I lose a few each fight.