Ironblade

True, but we don't know how Absorb is going to work yet - i.e. it might be one of the powers in a resist-based set so there would be no way for a defense-based character to have it. Or it may be an ally buff available in a defender set. Dunno yet.


Well, the one place we've seen it so far, it's pretty scruffy.
Nega Pendragon in the Magisterium trial has it.

No. I said it MAY be intentional. Unlike you, I don't claim to know how they intended for it to work.


<sigh> I wish.

Does that mean you can fly in RL, like in the comic?


My favorite toon..... yoiks. I have so many. Ironblade is broadsword/regen. He was my first, he's my badge hunter, he has... I think 8 Incarnate tier 4's. So, I still play him a lot.

Other toons I particularly like:
Tanks: shield/axe (50), ice/SS (50), stone/stone (50)
Defenders: time/rad (50), dark/archery (50)
Controllers: electric/storm (50), dark/dark (38)
Corrupter: fire/thermal (50), beam/traps (24)
Peacebringer (50)
Warshade (50)

So what you're saying is that the pool version is inferior in one aspect. Okay.


And yet the inspirations don't give anywhere near these benefits. Are they completely broken? Talk about ignoring common sense. The pool power just isn't supposed to be as good as a powerset power.


Ah, now *YOU* are the arbiter of how rezzes are "supposed to be used". I see. Tough luck for the devs if they intended something different from how you think it should be.


The power as it exists, or as you THINK it should exist?

Most market updates do not require downtime.
The WST change absolutely does not require downtime.
Patches are usually on Tuesday.

Maybe it's all about how you wear it. I'll just mention the Red Hot Chili Peppers and socks.....

Ah. I only have one brute and he's already 50 and not going to be upgraded. So far, I've really only looked at the tanker, scrapper, controller, corrupter and defender sets.

That appears under the 'Doublehit' entry for Assault.


Does anyone actually know the relative effectiveness of the powers, and how anyone should choose between the Assault options in the absence of.... well... clues?

But what if that's NOT the intention? Who says it's "obvious"? Clearly, that *IS* the intention for the powerset version and clearly it's NOT the intention for inspirations. What if the pool version is deliberately intended to lie between these extremes in functionality? Maybe the design intent is that you need to be more cautious with the pool version, or have a teammate grab the aggro before rezzing.

Actually, the usual maintenance day is Thursday.

<shrug> Plenty of people have been here for 7 or 8 years and you've already decided how long you'll be around before you even play the game to the higher levels? Play the game. If you like it, stay. If you don't, leave. To judge your "long terms prospects" in advance is just silly.

This was never a good place for PvP. It was not in the game to start with and, as far as I can tell, they never really got it right. Or maybe it never really had enough people interested because it wasn't there at the start?

er, no. It's normally only Thursdays and that's scheduled maintenance which happens every week. They do NOT go for weeks without downtime.

Tuesday downtime is only occasionally and when there is a patch. Sometimes, like long weekends, holiday periods, etc the schedule gets moved around.


It usually is just Thursdays.

And here we go again, where you claim to somehow 'know' how the power 'should' be working.


No, I didn't say that because, in order to know that, I would have to either be a dev or be telepathic. I said that pool powers are intended to be inferior to powerset powers (this is FACT) and so having the pool version be less effective in this manner was "probably" intended and not a bug.

Since this issue seems to be the only noteworthy deficiency compared to the powerset version, I stand by my statement that it's likely intentional. Feel free to check with the devs, or ask for it to be changed, but don't go claiming that you 'know' it's a bug.


Wrong. One is from a powerset, one is from a power pool. The pool version "needs" be to inferior. The devs have said so.

Yeah, the Freaks get the good names. I was in a mission yesterday and saw a Freak tank named 'Eleven'. I was thinking, "What kind of name is that? He should have a name like 5M45H3R4T0R." Then I got closer and saw that he was one of those sonic tanks. AH! Now I get it. His speakers go to eleven.

Oh, right. I have a lot of both lying around so I get confused.

I was under the impression that the lightning appeared where players were standing, like the blue patches of death in the Battle Maiden fight.

As I pointed out in the other thread, having the pool version be inferior to the powerset version would seem intentional and not a bug.
I'm not sure where the devs would rank 'vet' powers like this. This might be intentional or might be a bug.