Lemur Lad

I'd love to hear your definition of what is then, because this sure sounds like it to me.

Blasters are allowed as much damage as they have because by definition, they're cutting loose and blasting, not "dodging" attacks.

Everything else (including your example) does less damage in order to get that added protection.

I don't think most people would be willing to give up damage in order to get this additional defense you're proposing.

My answer would be: You won't.

Take another look at those Purple sets you can slot. For example, lets just slot the Stun set, the Hold set, and the Immobilize set.

thats 12% bonus recovery
45% Global Accuracy
30% Global Recharge

1 of those will cover any increased Endurance costs, the other more than compensates for any missing Accuracy, and the last will be giving you more recharge at all levels. You even have some leeway with those numbers so that you can focus more on damage and procs to compensate for the one area you may lose some ground, damage.

My Dominator with some purple sets, and several lower level enhancers (Basilisk's Gaze caps at lvl 30, but with the 7.5% rech bonus it's still the best non purple Hold set in the game) can still hold onto Permadom while exemped into the 30s (before anything like AM or speed boost), or solo +4x8 at 50+1.

Then they failed at it, because on the grand scale of things in the CoH universe that's not very evil at all. Dr Vahz comes close to poisoning the city's water supply and making everyone zombies, and he's a low level contact. The best I can hope for as a high level villain is to make some kids' lives hell until the next longbow submarine makes it in with more donations from Paragon. Or play babysitter to a mad scientist who is lucky if he remembers what socks are for. Or get sucked into watching Television for 12 hours a day. Or go back to Mercy Island to deal with those damned snakes once and for all because the entire Arachnos military can't seem to manage it.

Don't get me wrong, those stories each are fun in their own way. But if we're looking at things on an absolute scale of evil acts, there's some real problems.

Like Snowy said, they never were. What you got once you met the participation minimum was random. Despite all the claims, there really was no way to get better drops by doing different things or bringing characters with better AoE or whatever the theory of the week was.

Email to your global handle, and it can be claimed by any of your characters.

Wish Granted! *bonk*

As you progress in the game you will find this less and less important. Only rarely is there an optimal kill order, and eventually targeting becomes targets of opportunity since in the mass of foes and the mass of Area Effect powers, things die too quickly to do anything but target the biggest things and let everything else die by attrition.

In the past they've explained that away as peculiar to female Time Lords.

And has infinite auto completes so he can skip the boring ones. And can't be played on Sundays.

As I said, this doesn't mean anything other than they have some weird system for sending out emails, because nearly every email I get from them comes twice. They can't all be from incompetent office workers trying to get them back, or accidentally hitting the button twice or whatever.

I think I can count the number of emails I've gotten 1 of in the last 3 years, on one hand.

Indeed. I'll probably get Street Justice right away since I have a couple ideas for it. Beam Rifle I have no problems waiting until something strikes me and I have a use for it. This is why the free points are such a boon, I have more patience than a 4 year old.

VIPs get 4800 points a year at minimum. That's $60 worth of points, 3 times what you said you're already willing to spend on Boosters.

In every one of these discussions, people keep making the same mistake. They equate not getting it the moment it comes out with not getting it. Whereas, with a bit of patience, and the normal adult ability to prioritize, you can get a steady stream of new things on a monthly or even weekly basis, as opposed to now when we have to wait months between new Issues or Boosters.

People keep claiming they will be annoyed if there are more cool things than their stipend+ the amount they normally spend on boosters can get them. When I see that I say: "But that means they're adding MORE NEW THINGS than they used to!" Keep reminding yourself of that before you get too worked up. Complaining that you're getting too many cool new things sounds really silly.

Anyone in closed beta that sees a thread with incorrect assumptions about vague information, or leaks, or anything that needs correction can, should, and often do send a PM to a dev or community person.

Then they quite often come in and correct what needs correcting and no one's NDA is broken. The only time there's a significant delay is the weekends.

I wouldn't be shocked to learn that's what happened here.

Even so there are times in past betas where those under the NDA got great enjoyment out of letting people spin off wild cotton candy mountains of fantasy.

No matter what anyone does, every bit of released info is going to be parsed, examined, regurgitated, buried in soft peat, and all manner of distorted as time goes on. There's little or no point in trying to stop the forum from being what it is, a bunch of puppies making a big deal over a limited array of shinies.

People need to remember one simple thing: Convention or not, dev statement or not, the only version of the release with accurate info is the one we download and login to on Live. Nothing else is set in stone and actionable, and any butthurt you get from reacting to nonfinalized information is your own responsibility. Not the devs, not the people under NDA, not the game.

The game has put up pay walls to certain areas for years. Then removed them later when most of the initial profit has been made and the work paid for. I don't think you should be shocked to see it happen again at some point. If we're lucky it will happen the way they're doing First Ward; visit and team for free, pay to access content yourself.

Better than the soon to be defunct Star Wars MMO where 90% of an entire generation of role played characters were orphans whose parents were killed by Imperials or Rebels or Vader or Boba Fett and/or 50% of them were ex-slaves.

No, I'm really not kidding. Sitting in the cantina on a sunday night and reading bios was a hobby.

Very nearly every email I get from them has a duplicate come in a few minutes- hours later. CoH mails included.

Thankfully gmail is smart about it and folds identical mails into the same subject thread.