Memphis_Bill

No, with all the work that would be involved you may as well say it's new powers, for all intents and purposes.

You have to ask yourself, what would you rather have them do - take that time to create actual new powers and powersets and get them into the game, or try to wedge them in to two multiple-year-old ATs, shuffle powers around, add new restrictions (limit 2 forms plus human, for instance - there's already a slot crunch in a triform, after all) and so forth?

Seems like a lot of work for not much benefit - and for not many players, even with the upcoming "unlock at 20." (And then, of course, we'd have massive complaints from VEAT-side...)

Not sure about that...
Now, that would depend on when they left, wouldn't it? They could be coming back after two months - in which case, not much change - or two years, in which case they have a lot to catch up on.
"Digging around," like the stuff on the updater heavily pushing GR right now, and providing links to the forums, news, and more? How is that digging around?

And as far as "not as optimistic," i say you're making another assumption as to why the person quit in the first place. Maybe they were in school (I know we have a few who quit while they went to college, resub over the summer, etc.) or were sent overseas. Maybe they lost a job, and are coming back now that they have a steady income. Maybe they quit over the i13 PVP changes. Maybe they personally didn't like Jack. There's many reasons for someone to quit, and assuming they'd all be "not as optimistic" is - well, assuming a lot.

Much as the OP is, along with making unrealistic statements and having unrealistic expectations - especially when he's posting on the forum, where not too far above this one it mentions I17 JUST going into beta.

Besides, it's not as if 2xp weekends are rare. Maybe not as common as "One or two a month" like Aion's been doing (and talk about overkill there,) but it's not exactly a once a year thing either.

Yeah, I see the complaining in the team window.

I don't see anyone saying "OK, grab some purples." Cysts are just not that hard. Bad surprise as you came around a corner? OK. So's an AV if you're not expecting them to spawn there right then.

Also, you've been playing the game how long? I know you're not ignorant of slash commands or of Paragon Wiki. A few seconds of "Wait, is there a way to target by name?" would have brought up precisely what you wanted to know.

Frankly, reading just what was in your team chat window, it looks like you *expected* to fail at it. Obviously I don't see the rest of the chat, but if you're going to go in with "These are auto-teamwipe, we don't have a chance without lots of deaths," which I see both here and in your posts, you're not *going* to look for another way, and you'll end up with a self-fulfilling prophecy of personal dooom.

You have two choices here, Alpha.
1. Take the advice being given to you - about targeting and purples. They are coming from *experience.* And that experience is being relayed by people who, yes, see cysts as no big deal... because they just plain aren't.
Or:
2. Take it as a blame game, keep seeing them as too difficult, unwinnable instant-team-multi-wipes, ignore what you're being told, and keep complaining.

Right now, looking at your responses in the thread, you're going down the path of choice 2. I'd say you'll have far less trouble in the future if you take choice 1.

If I feel that way, I stop looking at the market for anything. Of course, I rarely look to begin with...

If we're talking a CC, a small one at 1 mill for lowbies is great. Anyone turning up their noses at that doesn't have to enter. CC's mostly for fun, anyway.

Personally, few of my alts have over 100 million, and that's usually from a lucky drop somewhere. 30-40 is where I'm comfortable.

So they should never have updated the servers capacity? You do realize they have done so several times... which is why what used to cause a red load now barely rates a yellow. Seems most people would think that was a good thing.

As for me - finished getting another version of my forum-namesake to 50, got the bane that's been irritating me for so long up to 48 (and saw there's still no Gaussian's Rech/End on the market - well, one, total, but going for more than the INF I have on that character,) few levels on a few others. Spent most of it hanging out with friends and running "just whatever."

The other EATs are very generic. They're a blank slate, a set of powers for you to do whatever you want to them. The EATs are specifically designed around and with a backstory explaining their powers and why they are what they are.

Therefore, yes, they'll "just be there." Any new EATs will also "just be there."

No, not really.

/this.

It's like complaining spawns are too big because you're playing on /+8. And given that it had to be aggroed to *put* that many fuzzballs out, well, somebody left out some info (like "Oh, I'll just scout ahead" or "The team was standing around for a bit just around the corner.") It does take time for that many to spawn - time enough to pull out of range.

Yes, I *have* dealt with spawns like that. By chewing down purples. And my Warshades would *love* to see that spawn. It's an invitation to double-mire.

The thing is, Defenders almost didn't *get* an "inherent power." Villains were designed with them, and they were tacked on to heroes. Defenders have always been seen as pretty well balanced, so there just wasn't anything much to add, need-wise or theme-wise. Vigilance got tacked on last, of all the inherents (not counting reworks for blasters and doms) primarily because of Defenders mentioning running low on END in the middle of big fights while buffing/debuffing.

You should not be able to boil water.

IIRC the hottest an Athlon 64x2 should run was 90c - and that was full load for a while. 40-50c, I wouldn't worry.

true...
You do realize defenders do much more than "healz," right? Unless I'm missing where FF or Sonic are recovering lost health, or - well, any and all of Trick Arrow, much of Rad (my debuffs help me survive MUCH more than my little heal aura, or even AM) or Storm, or... need I go on?

/this.

I damn sure know how to play a mastermind, thanks. And yes, I *will,* on occasion, take attacks*. You don't like it, too damn bad.

*In preference to other powers, typically no, but if I have nothing else I want to take at a power point, I'll be more than happy to add some pew pew.

This, for me, pretty well sums it up. I'm not sure what you're playing, OP, for tanks - you might be happier with another set. I'm regularly running my Fire/SS and certainly not complaining about my damage. I'm not *as* impressed with my Fire/EM.

The flip side of it is seeing people complain about Energy brutes not being able to tank - well, no. They're not tanks. Play mine (first villain 50, pre-IOs) like a scrapper or "heavy stalker" and I'm perfectly happy with it.

No, I don't think GR is going to see any great decline in tanks in favor of brutes. If there'd be any competition, IMHO, it'd be between Brutes and Scrappers, as - to me - they sit in the same niche, with your choice being "Do you want a chance to crit or a build up of the damage you do?" (sets aside.)

The solution isn't "change tanks," it's "Build what you enjoy playing, when GR goes live, and take it where you want."

Announcements section: "Sticky: Issue 17 "Dark Mirror" Closed Beta Starting Tuesday, March 2nd!"

What would make you think in the *least* that it would be ready this weekend?

Besides, marketing wise it's great. People are going to see people running around with dual pistols and ask "Hey, where'd you get that?" They'll then be told they pre-purchased Going Rogue to have them unlocked, getting others interested - potentially enough to prepurchase it themselves.

Pfft. I have a high level resist TO I used to use for that. Think I still have a level 50 slow TO as well, but I haven't used that in a while.

re: PVP, with the i13 changes, pretty much *any* hold will affect a player. The question's purely one of duration, as all mez protection turns into mez resistance.

Hmm. Don't ask me how I missed that the first read-through. >.<

Um... what?

Are you saying the NCSoft store servers being busy would affect the live servers? Or that the test server (being taken down for the closed I17 beta tomorrow) somehow will affect the live server?

In either case - how would they affect each other?

Not quad-wielding!