Humility

Yep, it always sucks to have to explain to my kiddo that he can't make that [insert cool recipe] that actually dropped for him because some jerk wants to market pvp and the common salvage costs 90% of his character wealth. Yeah yeah, he can wait until tomorrow and I personally have no issues with it, but explaining to an 8 year old that he has to wait because someone is being greedy over some pixels gets old.

The difference, in my opinion is one of context, judgment and situation. Every time you use footstomp, ripper or assassin strike is likely a little different. Different targets, different terrain, different team interaction. With shields there is no judgment. There is no decision. Just a matter of targeting and buffing every 4 minutes.

I'm not advocating longer buff durations. Can't say I would mind, but that's not my proposition here.

If anything, I would think that making shields a team buff instead of single target means that nuke oriented buff players would be MORE likely to actually give you your buffs. This won't change the player, it will just make it easier for them to do the tedious boring portion of their job, so those not inclined to do so would actually be more likely to if such a change happened.

Your assassin strike being interrupted is annoying. It's also under your control. You can change the circumstances in which you are using it and suddenly it won't happen. You can ask team mates not to KB out of your assassin strike, or not team with KB set players. The control to change these circumstances is in your hands. If you play a shield powerset and want to do your job, there is no control or alternative to buffing tedium.

Each power needs to be evaluated on its own terms and by how it interacts (I mean directly interacts in gameplay) with other players and powers. Opposing or supporting a change because people might as for similar treatment to other powers is a pretty weak argument. If the other powers don't need similar changes, it's easy enough to simply say no.

Different priorities for different people. I've run one single tf ever with the 15 month vet badge on my account. It's not my thing, I'm not interested, but I don't begrudge you that or think the devs should stop making them. Again, this is not really directly relevant to the change in question.

Just a note, I tend to treat people how they treated me. There was no snark until it was thrown in my face, then I simply returned the courtesy (or lack thereof) that was shown to me. You put up a great and polite post, I may not agree with you but your opinion is your own and I don't have a problem with it. You were pleasant in your post, and if nothing else it helps me think through my own position better, I have no issues with that but when someone starts flinging feces in my direction I'm damn sure gonna toss it right back. Doubly so because he was talking down at me for things other people said, not things I said.

Suggesting any sort of positive change without some manner of tradeoff will draw louder and more fervent cries of DOOOOOOOOOOOM than the simple act of suggesting change does .

Upping the end cost wouldn't cripple it, and if it helped achieve the desired quality of life changes, it would be 110% worth it. Gotta toss something to the people who are pretty sure that reducing tedium will somehow cause the game to implode and cease to be fun.

If we're going to use large font and act like the other guy is a moron... (scratch that, I'm just not enough of a tool to use that kind of obnoxious formatting to try and make a simple point)

(1)Give it a generous area, enough to cover a good sized room [and see point 3]
(2)I was speaking in reference ONLY TO DEFENSE/RESIST SHIELDS. No one has reason to not want these, even if you don't need them there is nothing detrimental about having them. Please note that OTHER PEOPLE are suggesting other powers. If you want to respond specifically to my posts, then kindly READ MY POSTS and do not lump in other peoples statements when refuting the point that I am making. Me. Not them. Complicated, I know.
(3)Recreate the power with the following functionality: When you cast the shield buff it creates an invisible pet entity at your location (which then follows you) which exists for 20 seconds. Every 2 seconds it sends out an aoe which will cast the shield on anyone within range.

There ya go, no need to call for a team gather and since you can move closer to anyone out of range, you won't miss anyone unless they are a very hefty distance away from you. Problem solved.

Thermal for instance has a lot of interesting things in the set. It is much more than *just* shields. So people should be denied enjoyment playing thermal because a core part of the set is based around a bad mechanic?
Applying heals at the right times and right places instead of kicking warmth to auto and going afk.
Reactive/proactive application of Thaw and similar powers to the correct targets.
Appropriate timing and targeting of debuffs like melt armor.

These are the things that should define a good player. Not mindlessly recasting the same 2 buffs every 4 minutes for hours on end.
You're right, telling anyone that they shouldn't play a full robust interesting powerset simply because the shield buffing is badly done is a terrible approach. It is blindingly obvious.

I've seen only your opinion, not anything even vaguely factual to indicate that it would damage gameplay. You don't like the idea, everyone gets it. You've prevented no evidence that changing DEFENSE and RESIST SHIELDS in such a manner would hurt the game. I'm not talking about any other buffs, and never have been. That was other people.

See, here's the kicker. That's your opinion, which you're presenting as stone cold fact. The fact of the matter is, apparently these threads pop up regularly, which means that a number of people believe that changes like this would improve gameplay. Since you've presented nothing other than your opinion, presenting such as fact just makes it hard to take you seriously.

Here, in case you missed it... since apparently cutting and pasting to try and imply the other person can't read is how you communicate:

Just a thought... if you don't post in the tone of an arrogant condescending *****, people might find it easier to give your feedback serious consideration.

It's as simple as a y/n flag in the code. But I'm not really talking in reference to coding in this thread, and your point really is taking it a bit off topic in reference to making shields team buffs. For that matter, this entire derailment was really only in reference to speed boost which I don't particularly feel is part of the discussion for making resist/defense shields team buffs instead of single target buffs. I think it's a valid discussion, but not really specifically what I was trying to address here.

Honestly, from the community in this game I just don't believe that's likely to be an issue. Should the devs think it is an issue they could always add a little touch of code to the "event" when a player leaves a team (either leaves or is kicked) that removes their buffs from the team.

Anyone who wants to do this is already doing it via multiboxing tools, many of which are free. Synergy and Hotkeynet are both free tools that either let you control multiple desktops with one keyboard and mouse (synergy) or are straight up keycloning tools (hotkeynet). They're free, easy to get, easy to learn and easy to use. Put buffbot on follow, keyclone certain commands to it and bind SPACE through the keyclone so that it jumps when you do to get over obstacles. It offers the additional functionality of being able to heal/debuff when done this way instead of the theoretical zonewide pulsing buff.

Just for the record though, that wasn't my idea and I think it's a terrible one.

If it gets brought up a lot, I think it would be a good indication that a lot of people consider it a "problem area" of gameplay. Tedious gameplay isn't a balancing factor, its just tedious.

Just to clarify, I know this was not directed at me, but I think all those sorts of things are fine. Leave them as is. I was just talking about the core shield buffs that realistically should be kept up on everyone all the time.

We already know the game has coding that exists so that when POWER X goes off, it removes EFFECT Y as shown by powers like thaw. It should be a simple matter to add a slash command or right click context option so that a player can remove unwanted effects from himself manually. For the one out of 20 people who do not want a buff it might be a very little bit of extra work, for everyone having to pass out the buffs it's a lot of saved time and boredom.

I honestly haven't seen anything brought up here that shows how changing shields to a radius team buff would hurt gameplay (allowing for a minor fix allowing players to manually remove unwanted buffs). Like I said before, not a big deal by any means but it would certainly be nice for people to be able to play a buffing class and not have 500 unnecessary keystrokes in an evening of play just to keep basic buff functionality for the team.

Yes, but many of the recipes that fall within that bracket also are available at much higher levels.

Bronze 30-34 will roll any recipe that is available at those levels. Crushing impact is available at level 30, but the highest level crushing impact can be is 50. If you are rolling on a level 50, and get a crushing impact, it will be a level 50 recipe.

For blasting plus survivability you'll want a VEAT. :P

This. I tried it out a few times... and I want my merits back dangit. The 50K inf the quartermaster gave me was a distinct disappointment. Oh well, easy enough to make inf other ways and just save those merits up for some purples when I can settle on a character to put them into.

Level 50 sets on level 50 characters bug me. A lot.

When you exemp down to more than 3 levels below the set, you lose the set bonuses. Set bonuses are more important than the small effectiveness increase you can get from frankenslotting. Being able to slot 5 crushing impact for 25% global recharge (that is not effected by ED) is pretty sick.

Pimping your 50 from SO's to full blown IO sets chosen to fill out your purpose (usually either recharge or defenses) can be like upgrading from a toyota to a BMW so you drive in style.

Upgrading your 50 from SO's to IO set frankenslotting is like upgrading your toyota to a BMW just because the BMW has a nice stereo in it. Yeah, it's an undeniable upgrade, but you're kinda missing the point.

If you want to get yourself decked out in IO sets, I think you're approaching it backward. Don't choose sets and settle for what bonuses they give you. Look at set bonuses and then find the sets that give you that bonus. Yes, you might end up slotting some sub50 sets. The thing to keep in mind is that yes, you might be giving up 5-10% damage/range/recharge/whatever by switching that one power to a sub50 set however it is giving you 5% recharge (not effected by ED) to EVERY POWER your character has, including the one it is slotted into. Global bonuses are extremely powerful and with a little work can take your character from being powerful to being an unstoppable killing machine.

I... don't think this is right.

At AE for instance, if I (on a level 50) roll a level 30 reward roll I get the recipe at level 50, or the highest level that recipe is available.

I was under the impression that the slider was for viewing the recipes, but did not select what level you wanted the recipe to be. In the same manner as AE, if you select a recipe on your level 50 you will receive the recipe at level 50 or the highest available level for that recipe.

It's possible I'm wrong though, as I haven't done a whole lot of reward rolling outside some bronze AE ticket rewards.

Reading, learn to do it.

TL;DR for the ADD crowd some people have kids or other responsibilities that mean the sound is off. Some people outright don't like game SFX.

If you have nothing to contribute, don't.

Yeah, as an option in the menu would be important so it could be shut off in the menu.

I don't mean something to be intrusive though so much as just a fairly dim light and only around the outside edges of the screen. I know the very mention of WoW seems to drive people into a frenzy... but when you have your large map open it's full screen and blocks your entire screen, so if you get attacked there is a red border to let you know. Something like that was what I had envisioned in my mind.

Yeah, I was aware they were a couple and I have the cohtitan bookmarked actually. In this case it was just a matter of the first google result taking me to the wikia though.

Generally speaking, firefox+noscript+adblock trumps most casual issues with a basic visit to a site like that, so I'm not overly worried about that.

Good to know nonetheless though.