Memphis_Bill

Run a VEAT.

Don't expect there to be a storyline. You might as well PL (well, after level 10 and getting your first non arachnos costume.)

When you get to 50, wait for the exceptional crap that is the cutscene in your "yay, your 50, go beat up states" mission.

Does it hurt you in ANY way, shape or form that someone has a solo SG, or just a tiny one, or just made one for the hell of it at level 10?

Are you you no longer able to make one yourself because of it? Are we out of SG registration space?

Are you unable to build or expand your base because someone else's SG is taking up the space? Are you running into their walls?

If the answer to the above questions is "no," then mind your own damn business about other peoples SGs. There's no reason to "make it harder."

This is correct.

That was awful.

...

/considers new alt.

Yeah, with all the attention they've given PVP in the last seven issues, I'm not sure how they could have missed... waitasec...

Bloody bay. Enter at 15. Caps out at 25, with up to lvl 30 powers available thanks to SSKing.

Now, as far as "Soonest you can PVP?" Go in the arena at level 1 and brawl each other.

Two completely different things. For Masterminds, the pet buffs would be like a Blaster not being able to use more than his first blast for the first 30 seconds of the mission, and nothing more than the second and third for the next 30. The pets are the mastermind's powerset. Not being upgraded, or having to take time to individually upgrade them, directly affect *the mastermind's* abilities.

Buffers do not have that issue. They're ready to go instantly, like everyone else.

You're comparing apples and roofing tile.

No, it's not "only true blah blah blah." It's basic addition.

You do damage.
The blaster does damage.
Together, you do defender+blaster damage.

Fort only takes a second to cast. Add your damage to theirs afterward. Your 70-100-150 points of damage added to what the blaster is doing are then 70-100-150 points of damage more than the blaster does on their own.

Has nothing to do with ambushes. Ambushes give XP. Demon portals, Death shamans, Praetorian Duray clones give *nothing.* Yet they often either (a) make a royal PITA wall-of-doom and/or (b) just keep spawning.

Honestly, no. It would be far more involved than that. MM pet stance is nothing like changing how a power actually works. And no, Swap Ammo is not like that, either.

Too simplified (and incorrect.)

We have a range from Lamprey-on-Dev-Bottom (aka Golden Girl) love it to "Kill it with fire" hate - but most people are in between.

I don't have *much* problem with it - I think the devs are nuts with level 20 as the lower limit, given the Stream O'Ghoulbomb among other things, and that Duray's teleporting could be toned down, but other than that, it's ok. It's not my favourite, but I don't dislike it. It's pretty "meh."

Which doesn't affect them the same way. You obviously weren't affected by it. I was. Friends of mine were. (And it's migraine, not seizure, in most instances.) Few people who complained about this - and I fought for this change for a solid year and a half, butting heads with the developers at times - were actually affected by the bubbles being on someone *else.*
Which means you're essentially building a whole new second powerset to do the exact same thing. And given a powerset is internally balanced, duration could well be part of what's changed. Or buff strength. Or END cost.

Personally (and yes, this part *is* opinion,) if they're going to do the work on a powerset that this would require, I'd rather see it done on a *new powerset.* Doesn't mean it has to be non-buffing, but doing more than just creating (for instance) "Force Fields 1" and "Force Fields 2." Remember, you wouldn't *just* be adding the new version of the powers - you'd be delving into quite a bit of work to make sure the old ones were still accessible, that something else didn't get broken in the meantime (such as what happened with Inherent Fitness in beta,) work in the UI changes and the like. Not an insignificant amount of work, given the number of buffing sets.

The answer is "The greater amount of damage, which is achieved by both the Blaster AND defender using their attacks."

OK. "Don't change it from how it is now." Status Quo is a legitimate stance to take. There's no need to change.

1. Duration: We've been told previously the buffs are balanced around current duration. Longer duration = greater cost of some sort. Either in END, strength, or both.

2. Duration and applying: I play buffers. I play a metric crapton of buffers. It doesn't take that long to buff a team, and if you bring up leagues, it's not my job to buff team 1 and 3 if I'm on team 2.

3. Endurance: "Buff everyone who doesn't have it?" First, I don't particularly trust the devs not to screw this up with the new leagues, and I'd much rather NOT burn all my END when it "happens" to hit 18-24 people.

4. Endurance, part 2: I can prioritize buffs if I'm in the middle of other things that require more END... such as debuffing. (See also thermal, cold.) If I hit my "Shield" button, I'm sending a bigger chunk of END out than I may want to right then.

5. Endurance, part 3: Masterminds. Multiple masterminds. And the rest of the team. END? What END? Oh, you wanted to debuff something? Sorry, no go. (Or someone or some pet that could USE the buff doesn't get it because you're out of END.

6. Not everyone needs buffs, no. Extra fire resists on that fire tank? Yeah, not needed. Past-softcapped defense vs most enemies? Why waste the end?

7. Buffs are NOT always good for everyone. Two words. Sonic Resonance. Examine the history. And I do know of other buffs (and other powers) that still affect people that way.

8. Not everyone WANTS said buffs, for whatever reason, and that should be respected.

Your suggestion: They get them anyway, and I burn the end.
Status Quo: I have much finer control over how and when buffs are applied. And no, it doesn't take long to do at all.

There are times buffing everyone blindly is *bad.*

Don't assume.

"Would make them more fun to play" is *your* opinion, not a fact. Don't call something my opinion and dismiss it and then put yours up as fact.

Nothing I've seen so far is any new idea related to this, you don't address the problems brought up in *every other discussion* about this either.

Please take the time to read more than "a couple of posts."

Given the "Heal badge farms" and the like that have gone on for years with no action taken (except, much later, lowering what's needed for the badge,) I don't think they actually care.

Yes, the devs need to take a good, long look at what's going on server and network side before committing to more multi team raids. It's rather irritating when I have a power I know full well should be recharged NOT be. (Ice slick is a prime example. I can keep that going - I should never be seeing "Power not recharged" when the old slick expires... or has been gone for 30 sec or so.)

While it's something that would likely not really be caught in beta, given server differences, it's not like it's a new phenomenon - years of Hami and Mothership raids, as well as Rikti and zombie invasions, have had this same issue.

... gah. Yeah, slight difference there. >.<

Extracted Essence(s) - they are, of course, on a timer, and have another condition for existance (successfully extracting from a defeated enemy.)
I'm *reasonably* sure the Necro extraction stays alive as well.
Possibly Illusion's Decoy Phantasm, but that's not "your" pet.

Lacking a condition like that, yeah, I wouldn't see the Lore pets staying alive. (I do wish they'd look at Ice Slick and the like though. Yes, they're pets, but it makes no sense for a patch of ice to disappear if I die.)

So shouldn't his name be ‾ʞlɐʍ‾? And do we have to type everything for him that way?