I have a question.
Stateman suggested that we allow our blasters to be damaged so that they can get more damage? Isnt that using the Defiance system? After all, we are with I5 forbidden to have multiple pets (even though the power was slotted so that you could), Tough and Weave got nerfed because players were using it to get uber toons, the Inv tanker was seriously nerfed because players figured out how to really build them. Herding came about because of these "exploits." And now Statesman suggests we exploit Defiance? I thought exploiting was "bad?" Im a little unclear as to this good/bad thing.
What I expect is to see players, who seem to be more clever than the Devs, keep a blaster at 1% throughout a mission and toast everything in it. I dont know how you would go about it, but then the devs never planned on herding and farming either.
Then it will be nerfed in I6.
Whilst I am reticent to be negative, and thus my post ignored, I have to say that the players seem to be much smarter than the developers. Being a gm of a LARP at one time, I resorted to such "drastic measures" instead of admitting that the group as a whole was smarter than I. After this I came up with an idea. What I did was to take the top exploiter and use him to test my storylines, etc. before I ran them. Of course, the exploiters will not be on test testing it, because they will figure out how to exploit the new system and keep their mouths shut till I5 goes live, and then its Dreck/Chimera all over again.
But I ramble
