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Rather than actually respond to your main complaint, which has already been pretty much covered, I'd just like to point out that if you get offed by a turret in BAF, it's your own fault, and if you get offed by a turret in Lambda, well... I think those turrets ARE pretty epic, actually. :P

No, but neither are they doing it by giving them back the powers they removed when porting their primaries and secondaries, which would make them more like the scrappers they're so often compared to. Instead, they're buffing Assassin Strike, making stalkers more competitive at single-target dps, which is their team niche already. If you want to extend that as a metaphor to tankers, it would be that tanks should be good enough at their niche (survivability and aggro management) to stand out for it, not that they should become more like brutes.

Right, I'm not arguing otherwise. I'm arguing that although tank regen is higher, it isn't a major difference for characters that don't have +regen, and I was objecting to the statement that healing a tank is the same as healing a blaster, which isn't true because the tank has mitigation.
That's contrary to my own observations. I've seen low-level tanks frequently fail against any enemy group when they try to act like high-level tanks, and I haven't seen it happen any more often against Clockwork.
Negating the 6 hp/sec that a tank is regenerating is functionally the same as the enemies doing another 6 dps, such as by def debuffs. Against most enemies that is a pretty small proportional increase to the damage they deal.

You're misreading that quote. FFG + Ice shields wasn't the combo TheBruteSquad was pointing to as OP, after all, he only called it 'nice'. But FFG + Empathy heals would be even more powerful, and doesn't even run into the max limit you've proposed.

An idea like this can, in principle, be balanced. But you cannot just tack it onto an existing system and expect everything to work out. You're talking about an incredibly huge revamp, and it doesn't even do anything for existing characters, only new characters using the new AT. If the devs are going to spend a year or more of development on something, I would rather not have to delete characters to use it.
Good question. It's your suggestion, you should be making the case for why it's desirable, not us. Other than extremely overpowered combinations, what are the benefits of this system? What character concepts or playstyles does it make possible that cannot be done under the current system?

Not true, because like you said, the tank has res/def powers. It takes more enemy attacks to undo any given amount of healing on the tank than it would to undo the same healing on a blaster.
AV regen is powerful because their regen is very high. Level 50 AV's regen about 100 hp/sec.

Tanks, except for the few sets that have +regen powers, don't have very much regen at all - well under 1% of their health per second before you add set bonuses, which they won't have at the low levels we're talking about. That level of regen makes very little difference in, say, a 1-minute fight. It adds up over the course of a mission, certainly, but if you're losing individual fights because of -regen, you would almost certainly be losing those fights anyway.

When you see tanks failing to be able to tank for teams at low levels, it has little to do with regen debuffs - it's because their defenses haven't matured yet and they just plain can't handle all the aggro from a spawn by themselves. Low level tanks who want to act like high level tanks need a lot of support from their team. -Regen debuffs don't help, but they don't make much of a difference.

And note that "a lot" here means "ten feet instead of 7". It has no actual ranged attacks like, say, Claws.

Degenerative's -maxhp is supposed to work against AVs and above, although it caps at -150 hp per stack, making it several times weaker than Reactive. Or maybe that hasn't made it out of beta yet? In which case, it WILL SOON work against AVs and above, so wish granted I guess.

Degenerative's -hp is almost exactly as useful as Reactive's -res against normal enemies, whether minions or bosses. Neither is dramatic. Unfortunately, the cap at -150 makes it proportionally WEAKER against the targets which you would most want the debuff for.

Well, you can get up to +20% hp from accolades (~300 health on a brute).

If you're a hero, check out: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Gaining_...s_with_Effects
For villains: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Gaining_...s_with_Effects

No, that is exactly the story of how CO came to be.

For evidence I present Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Universe_Online
There might well be a CoH2, it just won't be MUO. I don't have any idea if a sequel would be successful, but if it could work I think it would be a nice opportunity to ditch the apparently very limited engine that seems to rule out 3/4 of all possible ideas.

Edit: Of course, it could just be a pervasive myth that has made its way into Wikipedia, as well as to the community of Champions itself as I saw in the time I was over there, but that's still considerably more evidence and reasoning than has so far been provided to the contrary.

Interesting... just hopped on beta and confirmed this myself. TW doesn't appear to have a redraw animation during Momentum (or if it does, it's so short that I can't tell the difference). There's definitely a redraw delay outside of Momentum, though.

To the first part of your question, I'm not sure of the exact duration of redraw. It might be different for different sets - Broadsword/War Mace/Battle Axe/etc all seem to use the same draw animation and thus are presumably the same length, but I remember Claws being faster (haven't played my Claws in a long time though, so maybe my mind is playing tricks).

Why does solo content have to be PURELY solo content? The only purely solo content in the game, that I can think of, is the Moral Choice missions in Praetoria, which is a pretty small category, and also relatively recent. Everything in the game that people usually refer to as "solo content" - normal contacts, tips, repeatable missions, etc - is actually "solo or team".

Moreover, what advantage is to be gained from making content that specifically cannot be played with a team? You can design the content to be soloed/soloable without excluding the possibility of teaming, and without punishing the player for not teaming. The SSA arcs, for example, are well within the realms of soloability, and provide the same rewards to a solo player, but you can still run them with a team if you want to.

Yep, was about to post the same link.

Part of this issue can be addressed by a sort of handwave about involuntary movements (biological functions, sneezing, etc) not using his full strength because HEY LOOK OVER THERE. Sure, for we normal humans those muscles seem to contract about as hard as they can, but his biology is after all not human, so all bets are off.
The remainder of the explanation is that superman DOES have such a level of self-control, and that's part of what makes him a hero. 'Parallel Universe' storylines sometimes feature Supermen who lost control, and the consequences thereof.

Well, they don't follow the same rules in the sense that they use a different equation to figure out their health etc, but both players and NPCs gain more health, do more damage, etc at higher levels, even before you count in the purple patch.

I suspect the reason that enemies have started getting level shifts is that the table of NPC stats doesn't go up that high. So if they want an enemy above level 54, they actually can't raise its real level any higher, so they have to use a level shift. They could of course try to extend the table/formula/whatever, but that's probably harder than just tacking on a level shift.