Lemur Lad

Sam doesn't.

I call ********. No AT does everything equally well. If they did, we may as well be playing Red Man and Blue Man in Rockem Sockem Robots, because everyone would be the same.

Some foes are designed to piss of melee. Others are designed to piss off ranged. MOST of them are designed to make life hell for squishies.

The ongoing complaints about the very few enemies that make life a pain for Melee are unwarranted for the simple fact that most things out there, they get to ignore.

Lastly I'll say all this talk about one particular mob making a solo Mayhem so much more difficult is ludicrous for most of the reasons you just listed about why adding 1 person to the team isn't realistic for you.

A Solo Mayhem is very easy to rack up bonus times.
A Solo Mayhem has very small groups with enough spaces around them to avoid most of them if you choose.

If it's so untenable for you to grab 1 person to handle this mob type you don't like, then it's untenable for me to get behind changing it when there's MORE than enough margin for error in a solo Mayhem.

This has about as much relevance to anything you've said as saying "The penguin can't find his shoes."

The words Time Manipulation are nowhere in those screenshots.

Then it's not an issue. Time Manipulation will have no effect on existing characters unless you're on a team with someone with it.

Allow you to apply slots to what? I think you're missing some kind of fundamental point here.

Time Manipulation is going to be a new Primary (Defenders) or Secondary (Controller, MM, Corruptor) powerset. Not a Power Pool or Ancillary Pool.

I've read through your post and responses on this several times, and the things you're saying just don't make sense.

We don't know what kind of Slotting Time Manipulation will need. We do know that in order to get the pool, you have to make a new character.

You're getting hit for more than your current max hp, not more than your hit point cap. Buffs like Frostworks and Rebirth with +hp can both get you a lot closer to the cap for Scrappers, and make it a lot easier to keep you on your feet.

It's part of the teamwork aspect of the raid.

There are times that that happens. But mainly my advice would be to pay attention to the warnings given when you're given each contact. Crusaders tend to be nastier than Wardens, and you can take a few simple steps to avoid running for the meaner contacts.

Not exactly sure why they'd try to stop anything that isn't a violation of the Code of Conduct or EULA, but whatevs.

The first line of the Serenity prayer makes my point in better words:

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

What I'm getting at here is that I see the getting upset over things as a failure to know the difference. Having passion is fine, but repeatedly expressing your doubts and dislikes in negative terms is ultimately nonproductive. Both for you, and the people listening.

Negative reactions that continue and grow are not a necessary counterpoint to positive feelings and caring about something. You don't have to have one without the other, and neither one is inherent to the worth of the thing that inspires those feelings.

Considering they pretty much plan a year's worth of updates at a time, or at least commit to a year's advance planning, I'll just leave it at the fact that I think one year out of seven isn't worth getting too worked up over. Especially considering that most of the things that are making you happy now, are things they were working on during that span, they just didn't tell you about them.

If things or people in the game or the forums bug me, I take a break. As much as I love this game it's not worth the emotional effort to get literally upset over. Whatever ownership stake I may feel, it's illusory and the game isn't mine to change or not change.

Epic summation sir.

This is where the whole thing breaks down though. You treat the ongoing process like it's a boat that changes direction, and make assumptions about where that direction is leading. A lot of complaints do that. I'm guilty of it too on a few occasions.

But that's a mental construction that stems from our attempts to understand the development process. Our dev team is very open, but not when it comes to the day to day of what they're doing, and not when it comes what things they're working on for tomorrow.

These things you love now? The ones that you say indicate a change in direction? They were always going to arrive when they were done, and they were being worked on at the same time as a lot of those other things you happen to not like. Getting worked up over the fact they weren't done sooner or before other things ignores the fact that the people who did this probably had to learn the things they used to make it while doing those other things. The Whole is a process, and the process is ongoing, and you only get to see the tip of the fin above the water.

And a lot of the time, people weren't telling you your feelings about those other things don't matter, but that getting worked up about it was ultimately pointless, because there were indeed things coming you would like, its just a matter of which things got done in what order.

People would be a lot happier if they just packed up their tea leaves and stopped trying to guess what every change means for the game as a whole.

Agreed. I refuse to give myself a headache even trying.