HelinCarnate

Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha

So, it's my fault that I cannot purchase SOs before 22, only have a certain ammount of slots to put in powers till that point, run out of insps due to using them during fights and that mobs take a while to kill due to base chance?

Yeah, I'll buy that like I'll buy a pound of horse manure, thanks.



(Sorry, its been a long night, and I really don't appreciate being told what seems like a slightly rusted game mechanic is somehow my fault)

Originally Posted by Tenzhi

I was never really "pre-jaded." The early levels have felt like a tedious grind to me since the beginning. It's the most ridiculously tedious 20 levels of character creation I've ever trudged through...



Since I consider the mechanic itself to be broken, sidestepping the mechanic almost entirely is "fixing" it. Increasing expenditures as you level without increased resources to compensate is bad. Like having static HP as you level while the enemies' damage increases would be bad.

Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha

Inspirations are finite. Believe me, I've blown through so many damn blues on my MA/SR scrapper it's unbelievable. And, guess what? Im STILL back to 0 endurance by the end of the fight.

I would seriously ask for Rest to be given 0 recharge. Maybe a boost to base recovery, the debuff to Stamina only if it wound up with the same combined numbers in the end.

None of this is about 'Waaah, I don't want to rest!'. Believe me, I'd like to rest more. But I can't. And I object to being made to feel like sub-par for the 12-22 range, through no fault of my own. The fact that it has happened on every character EXCEPT those with /Regen or a Defender says a lot.

Originally Posted by SwellGuy

There're at least 2 I can think of. Impervium Armor boosts it 2.25 with 4 enhancements and one bumps it 1.8 (weird number) but I cannot recall which. Of course I couldn't work in more than 2 4-sets of the Imp Armor on him (Eclipse and Black Dwarf).

I'll return at lunch with the name of the 1.8 set I have on him.

Originally Posted by SwellGuy

It seems to me most players have not learned to use inspirations to overcome their character's issues.

It is far rarer to be able to dump an inspiration on a team mate than to get the message their inventory is full and they don't have room for it.

If I were the devs I would not touch fixing endurance as long as the data shows a lack of inspiration usage.

Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion

Two words - Kinetic Combat. How could it not be knockback heavy?

"The kinetic energy of an object is the extra energy which it possesses due to its motion. It is defined as the work needed to accelerate a body of a given mass from rest to its current velocity. Having gained this energy during its acceleration, the body maintains this kinetic energy unless its speed changes."

Say it with me folks "Knockback"

Originally Posted by SpittingTrashcan

It's been mentioned several times already, but it's worth repeating: the "speed" issues with TF and ET have a lot to do with when the attack effects are delivered. It'd probably take some animation tweaks to justify (and we all know how popular those are), but if TF and ET delivered their effect within a second or so of activation and then wound down, both the perceived speed and the actual utility of the powers would be notably improved.

I'm not sure what a character could do for 1.67 to 2.33 seconds after delivering a powerful blow that wouldn't look silly, though. Rub their knuckles?

Hm, what if ET started with the double-punch lunge and huge blast of energy, the energy halos around the fists then disappeared, and the charge-up portion of the current ET animation played as the halos restore? And for TF, a leaping two-handed uppercut, with the remainder of the animation being the landing and return to fighting stance.

Well, I'm not BaB.

Originally Posted by TonyV

/agreed

To people who engage in this practice:

I honestly can't remember a cutscene task force recently where someone wasn't spamming the channels. It's like a hundred brat kids are telling you the same stupid knock-knock joke over and over and over. It's not cute. It's not funny. It's not clever. It's not original. Trust me, you are not the one gem of a cutscene spam comic in the midst of all of the spam dregs. And yes, I've seen entire spam conversations. And yes, I've seen people in cutscenes doing elaborately planned out "skits," complete with emotes and everything. If that's not impressive to me, trust me, you sure as hell aren't.

Personally, I'd love it if they completely silenced all team, broadcast, and local chat for however long the cutscenes last, it irritates me that much. I know they won't do it, because it falls into the realm of not really causing any harm, but it annoys me enough that I'd still like it nonetheless.

Cutscene spam was clever exactly one time.

/my humble opinion, I realize I'm probably in a minority.

Originally Posted by Black_Marrow

All that means is you didnt bring enough DeBuffs. I only ever had 1 team unable to down honoree. My next team had 1 Defender, 1 Controller, 3 Corruptors, TanCrab (me), Fire Scrapper, Sonic Blaster. Didn't Stand a chance. It's all in the team makeup.

Originally Posted by Ocularis

First impression I got from the animations was it looked very DBZ-ish. Like when he gathers energy prior to his blasts. (macro the comegetsome emote prior to all attacks for the whirling hands of lolsmash)

KB and KD are very easily managed by a player with moderate gaming experience. I don't see that being an issue.

It looks to have lots of 2-handed animations, do you think it can be used with shields? Hmm, maybe not. I would be tempted to pair it with something like SR or DA.

Originally Posted by Ezoran

probably.

why play an arc that is not going to give badges, decent xp, or good drops?

who here HONESTLY thinks otherwise?

Originally Posted by Captain Fabulous

ED, GDN, and AoE caps were all instituted to discourage and slow farming, and this was well before loot was introduced. The merit system was introduced to further slow the rate at which rare items could be obtained (with rewards based solely on time, not risk, which is in complete violation of their #1 mantra of "risk vs reward"). Oh sure, they'll let us farm, but only on their terms and at their pace. Which kinda defeats the point of farming.

Considering that Positron vowed to delete characters that were shown to have reached level 50 too quickly I think shows how they feel about powerleveling. It's also one of the main reasons they implemented the super-sidekicking system; to eliminate the use of bridges and manipulated SK levels for faster XP gain. Again, PLing is ok as long as it's done on their terms, meaning slogging thru tired old content.

And Castle has stated numerous times the market is out of control and inflation has run rampant, with prices for items being many times higher than they ever imagined. Yet despite admitting to this they still do everything they can to limit supply of these rare items, further fueling demand, and skyrocketing prices even higher.

So they're really ok with farming, powerleveling, and a broken market so long as they have complete control over all of it. Which means you're not really doing any of the things you think you are. And when you are actually ARE farming, powerleveling, and getting what you want without dealing with the market, giant red flags get thrown up leading to a swift and heavy-handed nerf with the excuse "well we never intended this to used in this way even though we designed it this way and were completely fine with it until you started doing stuff we didn't like with it".

Are you really so naive to think it DOESN'T work like this?

Originally Posted by Captain Fabulous

I stopped trying to figure out what the devs of this game wanted a long time ago. I don't think they even know what they want. They tell us they hate farmers, they hate powerleveling, and that the market is out of control, yet they put items in the game that require farming to get, furthering the desire to powerlevel, and do everything they can to limit the flow of rare items that have destabilized the market.

So no, I am clearly not surprised they put buffbots in AE only to nerf them a year or so later claiming "we never intended people to use them this way". Really, well how exactly DID you intend for them to be used? And considering the game's history, how exactly could you NOT foresee them being used in a manner you now claim is inconsistent with your intent?

Honestly I'm so sick and tired of the hypocrisy. The endless carrot-on-a-stick is finally breaking my last nerve.