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The only example I could find of his assertion was a write-up of Star Trek Online by some website I've never heard of that was clearly mistaking City of Heroes for Champions Online.

Not that I suspected he could be right, more that I was genuinely curious on if it was ever even suggested as a possibility.

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As a side note, commentators on gaming websites must all be exceptionally poor people, since $15/month is apparently the bane of human existence (unless you're talking about WoW).

Yep. My experience up there is my group's only example of it and that happened back in Issue 9. Still laugh about it because people were running around in Recluse's spawn area and got greased after the cutscene.

I know. I respect the devs to the point that they're willing to make sweeping changes for the game's betterment but I'm still extremely skeptical of a successful outcome from the process.

The bigger fear I have of such an alteration comes from thinking about the fact that the change could easily be a double-edged sword. If suddenly our debuffs received such an enhancement to their effectiveness, would it not justify a similar strike against multiple buffs placed on players? Though one could argue that the increased debuff potential would offset the loss of a DR-inflicted buff system but it's all hypothetical blegggggghhhh. Probably just being paranoid but still, the unmentioned drawbacks can be troublesome. I'm not saying a moderated, measured system would inherently be bad, just that the devs tend to like making a system they can easily copy-paste on the first implementation and then "patch as needed". Eh, an obvious consequence of the cost of development I suppose.

Conceptually, that 20% "partial dodge" is the difference between taking the full force of a punch versus rolling with it.

That said, no, you don't have a difference between rolling a "critical failure" and a regular defensive failure, so your complaint is wholly justified. Though it would require an entirely new mechanic to take into account how "badly" a defensive ToHit roll would have failed, while also comparing it against some sort of failure ratio (I would like to see that added as an in-game value) to apply a necessary amount of resistance to the attack. Would be curious as to how they would compare the ratios between a 25% defensive failure and a 5% defensive failure, though. While the percentages would be the same, the 25% defensive failure would have a greater margin for error due to the increased range, despite the 5% example being "better" at the defensive rolls. Perhaps a hard value comparison would be in order...though I don't think the devs would like giving players the potential of having a 5% chance to be hit...with a constant 90% resistance to back it up solely from the system's mechanics.

You're still wrong but hey, why fight shadows...

Because clearly more DR would be a good idea.

The point, which you've made an extremely good attempt at ignoring, is that you can easily learn how to slingshot yourself past many obstacles, with or without Kinetics buffs.

You only need two Endoplasms slotted into Sonic Cage on a Controller to cage the level 54 STF AVs (barring Recluse, of course). I believe that ends up being mag 12 or something around there.

The Rikti are humans, too. Parallel doesn't mean identical, especially when the subject revolves around things like a multiverse.

Intangibility acts in the reverse to other mezzes. Enhancement of and Resistance to Intangibility actually affects the magnitude and not the duration, which is fixed.

You can cage the Towers but when they added the +Resistance to the Red Tower, they made the durations of the buffs last longer. Essentially, that 1 or 2 seconds you leave the Tower un-caged, it places another buff on Recluse that lasts long enough to cause issues (I don't remember off-hand how long it is, but it's long enough to mean that caging the Tower may hurt more than it'll help). Depending on what your team's damage layout is, you may or may not be able to cage the Red and ignore it (it gives Recluse immunity to Smashing, Lethal, and Energy damage, all three of which are probably the most common for players to have in the game). Additionally, that buff duration makes the Green Tower more or less an unacceptable option to cage as well.

With a team that doesn't have a lot of Smashing/Lethal/Energy damage? Destroy the Green and cage the Red and/or Blue, ignore the Orange.
With a team that does have a lot of Smashing/Lethal/Energy damage? Destroy the Red and Green, ignore the Orange, cage/ignore the Blue.

I had this problem. It has to do with the automatic updater screwing up and missing some values somewhere. Essentially, your level 3 slots are stolen by a power in inherent Fitness and one of the prestige sprint powers.

Just reinstall it is all I can recommend (it's a small program anyway, doesn't take any time). Your builds are saved to a My Documents folder and an uninstall doesn't touch them, so don't worry about that.

You can sometimes have a bit of a wait if your team is destroying each rush in under 4-8 seconds. The biggest annoyance in those circumstances comes from trying to ascertain where the EB is coming from so you can get the team over to it rather than waiting for it to slowly lumber on over.

But yes, it's a matter of just a few seconds of waiting as opposed to say, the 90 seconds of the Aeon cutscene. Yeah, it's neat and novel the first couple of times...and then your team in Issue 9 decides to farm it literally hundreds of times over the course of a few months. We stopped counting somewhere around the 300th run, once it was pointed out that we had had to sit through the Aeon cutscene for over 7 hours of accumulated time.

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I really do like the novelty of the Incarnate TFs. It's always fun to see a first-timer on the Tin Mage get surprised by the Goliath War Walker's death surprise.

Goes back to DnD. While yes, the Wizard is casting an Empowered [insert ranged touch d00m spell] in the back, giving the Fighter or Paladin you'd have to run past a flanking opportunity isn't much of a better option. The Fighter/Paladin is a pain to take down but if they can be toppled, the rest are squishier. Additionally, you'd be better off holding that Fighter/Paladin's attention so they don't go and introduce themselves to your own vulnerable support.

Anyway.

One other side to this issue is that toons in this game are extremely powerful in the context of MMO characters. A mob can only be so clever when tossing an immobilize or other placating mez on the incoming Scrapper/Brute/whatever gets ignored 99.99% of the time.

That said, I expect to see more event fights like Battle Maiden or Trapdoor popping up, alongside mobs with scripted AI like Romulus' Nictus pets, and things like, say, a mob that specifically targets ATs with certain mezzes (of course, play a Force Field or Sonic Resonance and you'd swear every single target Sleep gets sent your way...).

Wrong.
My Stone Tank on Guardian only now has Teleport because of the inherent Fitness change. She has never "required" it.

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My only opinion regarding it is that the -jump should be capable of being negated by, say, a 100% jump-enhanced IR (or two IRs) instead of the number it is now. Yeah, it makes Kinetics+Stone Armor even more of a pair but honestly, finding a Kin with IR these days seems pretty hard, let alone one that would actually waste the slots on enhancing it that much.

You, specifically, answered him no less than three times when I was waiting for you guys to finish organizing the raid in Indy (and I do remember his name, though I know the forum hammers strike when you name names, so...). I know that several of your team leaders mentioned what you were doing a couple of times as well. Apparently he wasn't watching anything but [Local] or waiting for a personalized tell or something stupid like that.

He then went immediately into LFG Alpha and started whining there, which prompted me mentioning in VU that the complexities of dealing with the "public" on a highly in-demand raid like the CoP may result in some loss of communication and that you should get over yourself if you're spazzing out about it. And that it's particularly relevant if you're not involved in organizing the event and having to deal with the dozens of lines of communication all flooding in.


That above is part of the reason I've never had the patience to try and get organized runs of the CoP despite having several SG members/Global friends that would be more than happy to help lead and what-not. Fatheads with bad attitudes and entitlement issues like "that guy" make the events less than enjoyable to organize.

I'd say it has more to do with buff/debuff powers being, on average, two digits of effectiveness out-of-the-box.

In the classical design of MMOs, having a single target 15% damage debuff at level [insert individual game's cap] was akin to being a god of support classes, even if the skill had a downtime to uptime ratio of 20:1.

'Round here? That's a level 1 Kinetics Defender with Power Siphon. And it stacks easily on each casting for -25% damage at a time while also granting +25% damage to the surrounding team. Hell, a level 12 Force Field Defender can grant the entire team 25% defense to virtually everything without any extraordinary effort and zero investment on their part.