Johnny_Butane

There's always time for inconvenient truths.


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The game doesn't force this enough. Scrappers and Brutes have way more survivability than they need and are over protected while on a team due to buffs and what not. Solo or on teams, they experience little downside for having less survivability than a Tanker, and as long as Tankers are forced to trade significant damage for increased survivability they don't need, I say that's a problem.

People have said in the past all that means is that we need harder content. This line of thinking is bogus. We got "harder content" and all it did was make the double standard more prominent. Tin Mage and Apex are harder. The I-trials are harder.

But...
Battle Maiden's sword bombs will surely kill a Tanker as quick as a Scrapper or Brute. Angry Boobcat will easily tear up all three, but all three can be buffed and healed to stand up to her. Tankers still deal mediocre damage in both situations.

The Keyes pulse doesn't hit Tankers for significantly less, and most of the other special mechanics on this trial circumvent the superior survivability numbers Tankers get, essentially treating all the melee ATs equally, but Tankers still deal the least damage the whole time despite this.

The bottom line: Brute and Scrapper survivability is way up in all content thanks to the Incarnate system and I don't see a suitable reciprocated increase in Tanker damage, thanks to among other factors, a crappy damage cap. The "harder content" doesn't favor Tanker survivability over any other melee AT's survivability very much at all; if it's gonna kill a Scrapper or Brute, it'll kill a Tanker, and it wont kill any of the three when they're buried in team buffs. Yet the whole time, Tankers still have to suffer significantly inferior standing damage and caps to pay for more out-of-the-box survivability that seems less and less relevant when everyone's got Barrier Destiny these days.



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Taunt auras aren't needed for SR Scrappers. They were never supposed to be aggro monkeys.


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Right, but a lot of Tanker attacks sets don't get their big end sucking attacks until 20+. Even then, it's mostly their AoEs chewing end, which is part of why I asked before how many he was going up against.



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A silly notion. They have en entire power set of melee attacks. That's like saying Controllers aren't supposed to buff. By the same logic, Scrappers shouldn't be able to survive anything, because that's not their primary.

And "never supposed to" is something I'm pretty sure even Arcana has admitted is false given the sordid origin of the ATs. Do I really need to dig up the Emmert quote that they were supposed to be devastating and powerful and recount the history of Fury?

Why wouldn't you have had Stamina before?

Personally, the biggest improvement in my Tankers have gotten from inherent fitness has been the combat mobility increase from having both Swift and Hurdle. It makes the game feel less lethargic and I notice the movement suppression less.


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How are you soloing? Because Bruising really doesn't help AoE damage any. So are you just soloing at X1?

Also, I remember people vehemently objecting to any offensive improvement to Tankers, even ones that would have had less impact than Bruising. Funny how things change.


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Once I saw a Granite use Jump Kick.
In five years. One time.

I think it healed the enemy a little.



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Yeah, if they had a low or mid level mission where players recover the remains, replace them with fakes and turn them over to Arachnos, that would resolve the discrepancy.

Of course, for new players who've only ever known Galaxy as a tutorial, there's no discrepancy because they've never seen the bones there.


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I'm not thinking it would have any control over her, but magically empowered remains animated by a Shivan could have unexpected results.

Also, I'm not sure she or Scirocco would be cool with her bones walking around as part of a Shivan. So now that they're out of MAGI custody there could be new mission to Galaxy to retrieve them.


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As long as you're not being sent against grays, or an enemy group the zone only spawns a few of, like Carnies, I don't have any problem with that.

The problems is most hunts do that. And they're also obviously overused as padding in a TF.

As an aside, there should be occasions to street sweep. Most of the zones are wasted space between mission doors filled with enemies not worth fighting. There's something wrong in my mind about a "hero" being too good to bother stopping a purse snatching, and not getting any kudos if he did.

Kind of makes me wish ALL enemies in the game used the GM code.


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The problem is it's in an ancient evil magic book that the Thorns, Legacy Chain and Banished Pantheon and Carnies are all also after.


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You're contradicting yourself. Because it sounds like you're admitting to leaking information about an unreleased feature that you saw in a previous CB, and that you think it's OK because it's not this CB.

Is it still spurious if you admitted to it?



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You say that with the conviction of someone I think should no longer be allowed in a closed beta.


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OK, here's the thing:

Is the FC building the Phalanx's current HQ or not? Twice in the comics, a similar looking building was suggested to be.

Their previous HQ was destroyed in Boomtown. They're not having good luck with that.

If they were based out of the Freedom Corps building, that could explain why they're all in Fort Trident now, and why the Phalanx aren't being very effective from levels 1-50; they're still regrouping from Galaxy.

If not, maybe the FC building has been incorporated into Atlas's redesign. Because it always bothered me anyone can walk into Recluse's boardroom, but we never see the Freedom Phalanx's HQ. Or Manticore's mansion. Or Statesman's restaurant, which supposedly still exists.



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Um, wut?


The devs stated there will be two zero-costs badges in a Ustream.
You could infer from that which two badges they could be and further, that the tutorial would point people to them for the purpose of educating about the store.


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In Studio 55, he's surrounded by a half dozen girls and they're all dancing.


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Boom. The various in-game channels. Adding to the list.


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