LostHalo

Get the right person and you can change by more than 500 points of rep in a single vote. This was back when you could see comments without jumping through hoops but I had gone from +340-something to -174 with the addition of a single negative comment. Now admittedly, it could have been more than one person but the rep comment was adorably vitriolic and was countered to +20 or so in a few days off the same post, so I like to assume the person's anger fueled the subtraction of rep.

Knockback threads are amazing engines of change where rep is concerned.

Purple patch modifiers make tier 1 and tier 2 (though to a lesser extent) pets much, much weaker against level 54 enemies (relative to you) than they do against level 50 enemies. Couple that with the various modifications that MM secondaries can have to their efficacy and you end up with more or less a wash on the "better" option.

Sounds good.

Looks fine.

Three Controllers, albeit at a low level, and a TA Defender isn't enough aggro control for you?

Snark aside, the perfect team is a core of trustworthy people. The rest of the spaces need only include bodies, which only have to be lukewarm.

As I already play without sound (performance issues with this game--anyway), I would love for my powers to have the garish comic book sound emotes.

An inherent problem I see with your suggestion here is that it seems to over-complicate itself quickly, which doesn't bode well for it as a solid solution. As much as I hate the general dev methodology of blanket solutions to problems, this is a valid place for it. Just a couple of ideas I idly suggest would be some sort of "momentum" endurance discount (more actions taken over time, the larger endurance discount granted) or "breather" end. recovery bonus (more time idle, the faster your recovery). Neither are really viable but suffer less issues with needing special exceptions thrown in all over to yours and the thread's suggestions. Of course, this is all under the assumption there is a problem.

Thing that always frustrates me is that the arguments always follow on the line: "You have to spend $xxxxx.xx every year to even have a viable rig and then it's impossible to keep it maintained what with all the evil spywarez [or other such nonsense]." What makes it worse is that the hyperbole gets recycled again and again, even on sources you would consider reputable.

Oh well.

What excessive hyperbole. No map is reasonable, everything stops you from walking, even just changes in textures along the same surface. Sarcasm aside, there's nothing you can't walk over in Granite/Rooted that you can't walk over any other way.

Then don't take it. Case closed, everybody go home.

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Smarm aside, Conduit of Pain is worth a gimmick slot simply because if you happen to team, the buff it gives you is glorious. Granted, you might end up "not paying attention" when someone's bar goes into the red and the rez is up.

Because I like playing the game, not sitting and staring at the same cutscene I've seen for the 500+ time. It's not a hard concept to grasp, as Lemur Lad obviously seems to understand it being a more-or-less silly form of protest against having to sit and twiddle thumbs for a minute or two.

I don't remember if it was Batman Begins or The Dark Knight but my brother ended up yelling at the screen because, as we clocked it, there were 55 minutes of pre-movie advertisements. Not the stuff on a constant cycle that the theater itself runs, advertisements on the actual reel for the movie. Got some weird looks but nobody shushed him.

Nobody seemed to have a problem when we kept making fun of Spiderman 3 to ourselves, though. Granted, I think that's because everyone was probably thinking it.

/irrelevant side note|Cool story, bro.

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Because we can't skip them and after the hundredth-plus time of seeing Dr. Aeon act malevolently, it's gone way past being old.

I'm sure everyone that watches age-restricted trailers/videos is actually 120 years old.

I would suggest something that blows more.

Reeee-caaaaaaaaaaaaaap.

Should be noted that "standard accuracy," when you're talking about a +4 AV-class critter, means that their ToHit floor is still going to be 10.5%.

This game is still a cakewalk on SOs. I don't play very much lately but I would still surely consider myself a powergamer, yet I still use SOs and generic IOs that have conveniently dropped mainly because I'm horrendously cheap and lazy.

The STF, when it was released, was accused of being impossible, even with the plethora of tricks available to cheat him away from the Towers. It has only gotten harder as these glitches have been fixed (and even new gimmicks added, such as the Resistance on the Red Tower) and I, as valuable as limited anecdotal observation is, have not noticed nowhere near as much complaining about its supposed impossibility.

You know, the only endgame encounter I have participated in, in years, that has made common (but by no means mandatory--hell, I'd call it more tradition than anything) usage of the PvP zone powers is the Hamidon--and that's just the Nukes. The Shivan AI is usually so laughably bad that the times they get summoned tend to be overkill scenarios or something akin to throwing the Halloween "Rock" at one of the AVs.

TFs are supposed to be a team effort. If you haven't prepared said team--which does not mean "OMG ONLY GRANITE ALLOWED"--you're going to have poor performance from your team, requiring you to utilize substandard tactics like having someone sit out.

You get out what you put in, it's that simple.

Do you use your T9 shield powers against Rikti Monkey spawns? How about Nukes against AVs? If so, is it for any actual reason other than a lark? There is precedent in the game where certain powers are disadvantageous to use, which is not exactly a challenging strategy requirement. It doesn't stop you from utilizing them, it just doesn't get you the automatic return other situations might provide.

All the game is doing is taking advantage of the tactics you might use on every other encounter. It's subverting the tried&true methods yet this is somehow claimed to be pigeon-holing people, which I just find funny.

Prove it. Other people have made this exact argument under different circumstances and it has yet to be shown true.

You know, every new challenge (and all the old ones, too) is accused of being impossible. This has been handily shown to be false time and time again as people have learned and adapted to meet the challenges the game provides. You seem to be under the impression the game should give you free license to not think about what you're doing at all and hold your hand the entire way through. It should do that, and it does. Just not the few times when it's tasked with trying to beat you.

The encounter isn't broken, your methods are if this is how you think the STF goes.

Uh... I can't get the link to work for me but if that's seriously what they're calling a melee set, I'm going to have to start a campaign of harassing the red names until they open up a physics text book and realize what a stupid name this is. I understand it's probably a reference to the Kinetics support set but the name should be recognized as unacceptably silly to anyone with a cursory understanding of mechanical physics...

That said... I would love to be able to yell out "Fulcrum...PAAAAAAAUNCH!" should that be a power name.

I have a proposal.

I'd like everyone to refer to this link to Urban Dictionary (mildly NSFW website--get back to work anyway, slacker) and look over the list of phrases and definitions provided. Upon finding a satisfactory one, I implore you to use only that term when referring/replying to Part_Troll from now on.

I, personally, am a fan of Gary Grumpy-Pants, possibly accompanied by a frowning emoticon like somewhere in or near the name.

Since this is obviously targeted in my direction, what with quoting my exact phrasing, my point had nothing to do with whether or not an action was justifiable but regarding the affixing of arbitrary definitions.

I don't really want to get into it on a forum setting like this but even in the cases you reference, while the actions and their results are undeniably atrocious, affixing the title of "good" or "evil" to those at the front of the line feels unsound. Not trying to continue the Godwin, but if you want to bring up the obvious guy, you have to answer the question: Had the rest of Europe not allowed the ideal conditions to be set in place, would he have come to power? What of all the relevant parties involved sitting on their collective haunches, when the dangers were readily apparent? Or for some more recent conflicts, how far back should we assign the blame, particularly when it comes to having ignored Lawrence and letting something like the Sykes-Picot Agreement go through?

It's not that I'm acting as some sort of apologist for the obvious people but I just don't feel comfortable affixing such a weighted label when the greater sum of humanity is rarely innocent of some of the guilt. Again, it's not an apology for those that carried through with their decisions, just an affirmation that a stock label only begets blindness to full understanding and the ability to learn.

Bleargh.