JayboH

Ok, this is pretty awesome. With this and the Retro costume, you guys are on a roll.

Happy Birthday!


...disturbing image there Hit Streak

I don't recall crossing paths but it is always sad to see someone from the community go. My sympathies to those affected.

Hey, there is nothing wrong with using OpenGL - sure it isn't updated as often as Direct X but you can make a game look pretty good with it.

Oh yeah, that has to be frustrating. Juggernaut ftw, btw.

I only read the OP so if someone mentioned it already, my apologies:

Issue 24 has been HUMOROUSLY joked about INTERNALLY as 'fix all the things' and is not a promise to the playerbase to actually do that.

I am still learning how to edit, so go easy on me. All footage was of my own gameplay. I just had some fun with it. It took me forever to learn how to get the two main beat drops in the song to be synced with the footage.

Pwned Cake

Anyways, hope you enjoy the music that Jay T came up with. This wasn't directed towards our veterans, who will quickly point out that some of the footage was fighting grays just for effect. Some characters are owned by my wife.

*starts bobbing head to the song*

Oh, if you want to know what this is all about, it involves a joke from another video here.

Yeah, I agree with most of what you guys are saying.

Yeah it does seem out of place.

Give a general description of sets that could get some attention - ones that just seem worse than other options for the same archetype. You are allowed to mention one bad power in a good set also if you want to go that way, but I was hoping to compile a simple list of actual sets that could use a balance review.

NOTE: I actually want fresh opinions to be posted too and not discounted - I do not think experience outweighs first impressions in this case - we all love a smooth leveling set.

My own general opinion, take it or leave it:

Energy Melee: Make either Total Focus or Energy Transfer into Sweeping Cross from Street Justice when it comes to implementation. Play with the numbers to make it fit the set.

Poison: Make the splashes do the full effect but make it unstackable and adjust as needed. Adjust Noxious Gas and make it a toggle for Masterminds - or give it Venomous Gas.

Sonic Resonance - adjust Liquefy's recharge to be up every other spawn on standard slotting. Have Sonic Cage become a toggle.

Trick Arrow - Trickshooter's Thread here.

Force Field - have Force Bolt work like Jolting Chain. Have Detention Field become a toggle. Force Bubble - not sure, seems like something could be done with this to make it more desirable - seems like it is just an aggro magnet for the most part.

Storm Control - raise Gale's accuracy a bit.

Thermal Radiation - lower Melt Armor's recharge a little.

Dark Blast - Make Umbral Torrent do knockdown. Raise Dark Pit's accuracy to 1.00.

Assault Rifle - Widen Full Auto and make it less deep.

Beam Rifle - set plays kinda slow for being single-target focused. Not sure on this one.

Electrical Blast - Raise Short Circuit's damage.

Radiation Blast - Electron Haze animates too slow and the random kb seems out of place - could be eliminated or turned into a higher chance for kb, or altered to kd.

Traps/Devices - Time Bomb... ugh - it's not designed to be used in a way that this game plays at all. It's all been said before. I think Hawk was looking at this one recently.

Ice Control - the set is a mess. Eliminate the knockback debuff from Frostbite and Chillblain. Arctic Air is considered skippable without the Contagious proc by some. Up the chance for kd on Ice Slick a small amount.

Darkness Control - could be just me, but it seems I eat alpha strikes with this set more than any other control set, perhaps due to a delay for the effect from Fearsome Stare kicking in or something - it was briefly discussed on the forums awhile back.

Mercenaries - Serum is a freaking joke - the recharge is insane and is only for one pet. The entire set seems to do the least damage of all other primaries, but it would be tough to balance right. A straight damage buff might work just fine in this case. See the MM forums for this set.

Necromancy - Zombie Horde pets die way too easily, other than that, it isn't too bad.

Ninjas - Would a heal be out of the question?

Beast Mastery - maybe speed up recharges or give them an additional attack or soft control (stun/fear)

Regeneration - sigh, good old Regen. I think turning IH into a toggle again wouldn't be a bad idea. Brutes and (eventually) Tankers have a hard time taking aggro with this set compared to others for teams. You get hit for (nearly) full damage and take all debuffs constantly and it's difficult to keep up for the average Joe.

Dark Armor - still not convinced Dark Regen needs to take such a massive amount of endurance, but the forum exploded in rage at the idea of touching this set at all. Cloak of Fear's accuracy is a pain and makes no sense to me.

Battle Axe - up Whirling Axe's damage just a little bit.

Ice Melee - buff Freezing Touch's damage a little and make it a burst or lower recharge. Make Frost do more burst up front perhaps - could play around with this set - awhile back I thought it was shown to be the lowest damage melee set in the game when it comes to real-world play.

Psychic Blast - Blaster version in particular, maybe raise Psionic Tornado's damage or play with the soft control to make up for it. Will Domination could use 100% chance of sleep (how do you explain Cosmic Burst otherwise for Rad?) Other than Psionic Tornado, this set isn't as bad as some make it out to be.

I think Physical Perfection should be available to ALL ARCHETYPES.

So the question remains: does this apply to Soothing Aura?

What haters? I only see people wanting it for other devices.

What about debuff and damage auras?

I bet that doesn't apply to Soothing Aura.