Johnny_Butane

The leprechaun buffs your Inf reward rate. The flying disk has RP uses.
The items are not useless, even if you personally don't desire the things they do.



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Hi, I'm Craig and I'll be your tentacle this evening. Would you like to see the wine list?



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But was that Silos speaking in the last caption?

I'm not so sure.



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They've definitely set up Dream Doctor to oppose Ouroboros. Both are working to avert the Coming Storm, but they're working against each other.

Of course, at this point since Ouroboros and Flashback are integrated so deeply into the game, it's an easy guess who we'll ultimately have to side with...unless Dream Doc changes his mind about trashing the place and takes over Ourboros with some help by phasing tech and the player.



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Then you'd likely would never finish Max's mission with Black Scorpion, because on the STF he's a level 54 AV. That is what he is when he's not "underpowered". Or the mission with Reichsman and Requiem, the former would be like Statesman from the LRSF.



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Sure thing. Just wait five years like and endure a cavalcade of trolling and insults like I have.


I don't really want Tankers to get "damage buffs". I've got three already that bump into the damage cap. No benefit in putting more water into a full bucket.



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I won? Hardly. I never win.

I'm willing to bet if anything happens at all, the devs blow off the thread except for the people asking for the aggro cap increased and then up the HP modifier or double Gauntlet's taunt radius or something.



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That is the case for the rest of the game as well. The Notoriety Contacts say it specifically:
"I want to fight enemies at their full power, not as Elite Bosses".
In the cases of EB to AV scaling, AV is the 'real' one.

Except in DA where there are no AVs because we're supposed to be that powerful, even if you happen to be on a Defender who can't stand up to an AV.



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Yes. You are an outlier that doesn't reflect the majority of players who probably still can't solo AVs.


But hey, as long you want the devs to cater to extreme minorities, I know a Tanker player who thinks they have damage issues. He'd like that looked into so they could do things like solo AVs as well as some melee ATs can.



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More than likely.
Some of the mission design decisions seem to be made with the purpose of padding out the arcs past a minimum amount of time they must take to throttling reward rates. Notice how the fist arc, usually regarded as the fastest one, has a lengthy conversation in the middle that really didn't need to go on as long as it did. And the following attack waves are spaced out quite a bit as well. And in the second arc, again a long cinematic with Scirocco on what would otherwise be a mission you could run to the end of and kill the boss. And the missions without these kinds of cinematics/conversations are the ones that have you hunting glowies or killing X number of named bosses. Pretty much all or most of the missions you can speed to the end of have conversations and cutscenes to lengthen them.


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Until the option exists to run the trial Incarnate path solo, there's no need to give teams more options for the DA path. They already get a whole path to themselves that is faster than the only option open to solo players.

And this isn't even about that DA doesn't allow teaming and locks them out like trials lock out soloists or that DA discourages teaming in some way. It's about complaining DA's content is not satisfying to powerful teams and doesn't cater to them.

Newsflash: DA is too easy for teams because it's not designed for teams. It's not designed for teams because it is intended to be the solo Incarnate tract.
Take the hint.


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So, having him scale up and be in an AV in DA sometimes would fix that? Introducing more inconsistency will fix the consistency problems?

No, it doesn't.


As I said in my previous post, enemies shouldn't be used in that way.



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At least someone gets it.


Additionally I hate the EB to AV mechanic. Some characters have no ****ing business ever being AVs. Arbiter Sands on the STF; he's a nobody in the grand scheme. I beat his head in solo back in Faultline. He's got no story or lore rationalization for suddenly popping up 8 times stronger than me.

A character who's roughly on peer with the player character shouldn't suddenly be able to take on 7 others. Instead of bloating them up to an AV, they should not have been used for a challenge in team content to begin with. Either give said character backup in the form of additional EBs, or have them subbed out by someone worthy of challenging eight heroes of any given level. In the case of Incarnate content, there should be very few individuals that fit the bill considering the smack down we lay on Reichsman, who as the dialogue states, is roughly on par with what Statesman used to be, meaning we're now AT that level or above.

So, as an example, if they had Tub Ci spawn EB class "Honored Ancient Spirits" to back him up in his mission when teams run it, or have additional Ravagers spawn for teams in the encounter with Mot's Avatar in Dream Doctor's arc, that'd be a-ok with me...

But, specifically for DA, I object to catering to teams on principle. Teams have a ton of trials and content to run, AND they're vastly more rewarding for the purpose of powering up Incarnates. Leave DA to the soloists and small teams and go back to running trials if DA fails to please on a large team, because trials are for that.



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It's causing a ruckus because if the situation was reversed and someone posted asking that that Diabolique trial be soloable, they'd get run out of their own thread on a rail and the devs definitely wouldn't do it.

That goes for any other trial, all the TFs and what have you. I remember during the beta for the Sutter TF, for a long time it didn't require a team to start as a bug. I found it quite soloable. A little tough, but surely doable for more people than the ITF or others that only require 4. When it was fixed, the flack I got for asking that that requirement be dropped makes anything I said in this thread sound like little Mary Sunshine.



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The burden of proof isn't mine. I'm not the one trying to have something changed in this case.


Since the Incarnate system was rolled out, people asked for a solo path, myself included. I didn't make demands to be able to solo trials, and I don't think anyone else did.
Now we have two different paths to serve solo players and teams, so why should one path completely cater to both while the other path completely shuts soloists out?

Being allowed to team in these arcs period is more than trials do for solo players. And on top of that, the solo path is way slower. So, as fair as I'm concerned, anyone complaining the DA arcs don't serve teams well enough can get bent. They have a superior path available to them already and should stop being so damn greedy and demanding.


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Because not all the content in the game needs to accommodate teams. Just like not all the content in the game accommodates soloing. People insist there be special content that is team only, so, again, I see no reason this solo oriented zone should do more to accommodate teaming than it does. It certainly supports teaming better than iTrials support soloing.


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Because people who run Incarnate content to become more powerful and then complain when they get more powerful that things are too easy are hypocrites.

You want challenge? Run trials without your level shifts. Not challenging enough? Take out those expensive IOs. Still craving challenge? Do the above on a Blaster.


The DA content is fine. Solo oriented content does not need to fully support large teams anymore than TFs and and Incarnate Trials need to support soloists.

If someone complained that the STF wasn't good for soloing, and expected the devs to change it, people would laugh at them. Because the STF is for teams.

DA isn't for teams. DA is the solo Incarnate path.

It's perfectly fine to have content that isn't really team friendly, especially since we have a glut of content in the form of TFs and trials that certainly isn't solo friendly.


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Then go run a trial and be satisfied with the other 98% of the game's content, which is strongly team oriented. This content is clearly not intended for you.



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We don't even fight him directly.
You refer to the last EB? Yeah, that's not him, just a small aspect of him. One of his Lore pets, as it were.
Essentially, you kicked his dog.

The entire last mission is us battling Mot. That includes clearing the 200 BP and everything outside, so I'd hardly call it a 30 second curbstomp.



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Which major villain?

Tub Ci? You're an Incarnate, he's not. Last time I fought (Praetorian) Tub Ci in the teen levels, I stomped his head in. Why should he be a challenge to me and 7 other 'demigods'?


Neither is you and 23 other 'demigods' struggling against Nightstar, Marauder or Boobcat.
Nor is 'demigods' getting wrecked by citizens tossing stones.

Ever stop to think maybe it's NOT for teams?

DA is written and designed with soloing/small teaming in mind. Hence, things like the Lone Wolf badge. You're not LONE if you came with seven others. In eight years years ONE zone comes out that is explicitly oriented towards soloing. DA is it. Sure, it allows for teaming, but it's clearly intended to favor soloing. Which is why you're rolling it so badly on a team.

The REST of the game is the opposite. There, soloing is the afterthought. It's supported, but the enemies are scaled down to be EBs. Even the Notoriety contacts say that the enemies are natively AVs and EB is a watered down concession.

So again, you're better off playing a trial or TF if you want to be a faceless cog among many, battering a big bag of HP and regen.


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CoH had a card game, Heroclix, a monthly comic book published by Dark Horse, two full length novels (with a third that never happened) as well as misc busts, t-shirts and even had the movie rights optioned.

Honestly, I miss those days. It made the game feel like it was part of something bigger that was City of Heroes. Now, it's only a game. A decent game, but just a game.



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If you don't want to fight EBs on a team, don't; stay out of DA. That's what the zone is for.

Go run a trial. Then you can be one of 24 faces in a crowd who has to struggle against Nightstar who's 20x stronger than any player there.



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Heh. It's actually only 1 thread. If you DARE to repeat the repeatable missions, there's a 20 hour cool down that takes the 2 threads option off the table and makes it 1 thread or reward merits.


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