LostHalo

That's just terrible.

For all the people that mention this stupidity:

We have the Alpha slot and just two of its four tiers, at that. It is also the first of ten slots.

If we consider each slot as being "5 levels" of Incarnate, with each tier dividing equally into that "5 levels"... There is no player in the game that is currently higher rank than a level 2.5 Incarnate. We can assume that Statesman at least has up to the final tier of the Judg"e"ment slot through his use of Hammer of Justice and Zeus' Lightning Bolt (based on the powers information you can look up for two of the final tiers for the Judg"e"ment slot powers in-game). With that, we know that Statesman is at least a "level 10" Incarnate versus our puny 2.5.

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And then of course there's the "It's a game. You can't expect to be the pwnzor out of the box" argument.

So what you're saying here is that you have no idea what you're talking about.

Not like it's unheard of for them to disallow it.

Just off the top of my head of something that was specifically changed: Lord Recluse in the STF. Yeah, you can still pull him...just not "away" from his Towers. And while it's not exactly pulling in the classically defined sense, the last patch dealt with making Director 11's mine pets less easily bypassed (not to mention the small room they make you fight him in, complete with ambushes).

Another interpretation? Battle Maiden can't be pulled "away" from her swords of doom; additionally, her painfully slow crossbow attack and extremely long range with it also strike me as being another form of anti-pulling. Also, you can consider the fight against Nictus Romulus in the ITF. Yeah, you can separate him from his pets but it does require coordination beyond "hide in the hallway" and isn't completely guaranteed as a tactic.

Get over your persecution complex. Yeah, I didn't need to say the argument was fighting shadows (which it clearly is, based on the way the thread has gone), but the portion regarding Inspirations is still valid and anyone that would refuse to use them should be disregarded.

Breakfrees. Ramiel sells them. So does the Combat Medic or whatever it's named in RWZ.

If you have any objection to using Inspirations, I don't care. I really don't. All it would prove is that arguing with you would be like trying to fight shadows with a dirty flashlight.

I don't think anyone underrates Wormhole. It's the general low opinion of Gravity that damns it to some level of obscurity. Hell, a power that lets you move Hamidon in the LGTF? Nobody can think that's lame.

As for the thread topic... Cage powers. Though to be fair, their good uses are absurdly situational as to be meaningless. And this only really refers to the single-target ones slotted with a certain HO.

Actually, just giving it real accuracy instead of a penalty would probably make all the difference it would ever need. As it stands, you have to practically devote yourself to making it worth the time and even then? It's still not a plausible power until you get to SO-level enhancement numbers. For such an early power, it really shouldn't have such drawbacks.

Honestly didn't mean to. The posts kind of blended together in my head due to the great deal of amusement the Morally Justified crowd kept bringing and the cat analogy sort of railroaded where I was aiming; your views are more than reasonable.
That and I was partially annoyed at my original point of "Guys...it's the same ****, just a different pile. Get over it (and yourselves) and let the devs deal with it when they get to it" being attacked under some accusation of trying to hold on to my apparent last bastion of 'sploiting teh xpz.

I would dispute that. Being proud of your fanfiction doesn't make it good. Fanfiction Fridays on Topless Robot can attest to that.

Then again, I find arcs like The Footsteps Initiative extremely irritating because they encompass everything I hate about above-average writers who are making a bad attempt at being funny (it's hard to describe...but if I were to try... the arc makes me feel like the author is reading over my shoulder, laughing at their own jokes). As such, my views on quality in the AE system are probably very separate from most.

It's a 6+ year old game on an engine that was outdated when the game was released. Issues abound.

I've never owned or even heard of a cat this stupid. Even the dumbest cats I've had the displeasure of experiencing self-regulated their intake. Either your grandmother was an incompetent caretaker of cats or she was mistaking her cat for what people in the business like to call a dog (that said, if your dog has the above issues, you're doing a poor job of taking care of your dog, too, but most people don't want to accept that accusation).

Your argument is still silly. The people who left because of the--at the time--completely justified claims that there was nothing to do at level 50 would have left regardless of if it took them 2 days to level or 2 months. That's what they do.

"That group of people who actually make the effort to be organized enough to destroy any of the content in this game are clearly exploiting because they don't get stonewalled by [insert new "challenging" TF content]."

"Thus, I demand we introduce Issue 25 - Vonnegut Equality: Don't Suck at the Game? Eat Piercing Noise!"

PI Broadcast, circa Issues 1-15:
"FILLER/BRIDGE LOOKING FOR TEAM/FARM WILL PAY FOR INVITE"

It's not a new concept. Get over it.

Uh-oh, the "I'm a vet, my whining is relevant!" speech.

Christ people, it's a game. The devs are aware of things, they'll deal with issues as they see fit.. Let it gooooooo.

I get so tired of reading this here and in bad character descriptions.

You run 46 kph without a second's thought, wearing any manner of goofy CosPlay gear and improper footwear.
You jump 10 meters into the air at any time of your choosing and under any regular conditions.
You take multiple shotgun bursts to the chest before faltering at the first level of power.

No one is "Normal Joe" in CoH. Period. Note: That doesn't mean not "Natural". Just not Angry Regular Man, wearing their duster and trench coat with Assault Rifle/Devices.

Reading that crap just makes me miss the old Blue King (name? something like that, I don't remember) comics that had player-written stories in them towards the end of each issue that were actually all pretty awesome.

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I'm not attacking you but for god's sake, lighten up to some level on it. Your tasks at 50 include giving beatings to another dimension's god's BAD MOOD.

No. The major difference is that it is far easier to build for defense than resistance (Weave? Defense +all. Combat Jumping? Defense +all. Tough? Resist +smashing & lethal.) so we end up seeing defense being the general source of patching up a character's shortcomings. If the set bonuses for resistance didn't suck so badly, you might see alternative builds.

There are counters being put in place more and more often. While you're obviously not going to self-Soft Cap in Praetoria, a lot of what those mobs do and are capable of are clearly a sign of things to come. So no, I don't see a problem.

Huh? Well, if you're talking about protection against resistance debuffs (which are incredibly rare for mobs to have, sadly), that's a part of the mechanics behind resistance in that it protects itself against debuffs. Yeah, I suppose it's not the same as outright avoiding the debuff but oh well. In general, the resist sets do have additional debuff protection (Dark Armor's Murky Cloud) but it tends to be centralized with their mez protection (Rooted, Static Shield, etc.). Though it does occur in auto resistance powers as well (Temperature Protection, Invuln's entire set, etc.).

See response to #1. Yes, I believe that the resistance bonuses are pretty awful (just as a comparison point, if the silly conversion is used, the existence of Kinetic Combat's stacking +3.75% smash/lethal defense should imply a stacking +7.5% smash/lethal resistance bonus exists somewhere) and don't really mean anything except in the most extreme cases (someone using Stone Armor wanting to be silly and cap their resist to mostly everything while in Granite).

You won't see me turning down Sonic Resonance or Thermal shield buffs. +Resistance is great.

In IOs? Yes. In the general game? No. And don't ask leading questions.

The only other grievance I personally have is that Sonic Dispersion doesn't have psionic resistance when it really should.

This assumes a problem I haven't acknowledged as existing. No answer.

It's situational. Additionally, having one or the other isn't an advantage. You're best off maximizing both.

Normalize +resistance set bonuses in IOs (possibly reducing the total number of available bonuses, doing something like making the bonuses into +Lethal/Negative/Cold, +Smash/Fire/Energy, +Toxic/Psychic to reduce the overly dispersed nature of the bonuses).

You should have called DOOOM at least once, possibly including the use of the term "F2P" as well, just to be sure.

Force of habit. The less "wild" aggro, the less likely a squishy gets caught in the crossfire. I have plenty of experience with "strong" Brutes or Scrappers that get too much aggro...then go and hug the squishies (or alternatively, a squishy goes to try and save them) and get said squishies killed in the process because they bit off more than they could handle. That isn't to say all of them do that, but they are out there.

And to be honest, I wouldn't give a flying rat's *** about your bruised ego if it meant one of the other support teammates stayed alive longer.

If you're not aiming for any specific set bonuses with three slots for Stamina, leave it at two slots (assuming two level 50 generic IOs) and put another into Health. With that, you can slot the Numina unique and get a net bonus to your total recovery.

Just memorize your card information like I have.

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While they're "fan" projects and not official, I'd say the game would be woefully incomplete without their work. When Red Tomax's first solid Hero Designer arrived, the game truly became interesting to me since I could finally quantify progress and not end up with having to rely on the more or less random nature of the in-game information.

Been tempted to supply guides to the various high-level TFs (mainly because the guides that used to be included in the STF/LRSF entries made me want to grind my teeth when I read them--and finding the guides on the forums here can be an annoyance) but other than some minor misinformation, the new "Editor's Notes" are more or less satisfactory.