Mirai

The only part that really bothers me is Grandville. I think I may be able to get away with an Ouroboros path for my level 40 blaster, now that we can get XP in flashback missions.

You're going to be very busy here if you're going to keep correcting people on their links.

A person finds an interesting article on a site he/she frequently visits. The person posts a link to that article, thinking others here might be interested. The person does not care about further researching the topic, and so does not bother tracking down the original source. If others here want to look into it further, they can do the research themselves. This is quite normal and understandable.

This is not a professional debate society here. It's a bunch of geeks talking about stuff.

Whoops. My reply doesn't apply then. I was referring to MMOs. I'm not sure what the single player version entails.

We've often had more than one draft going at the same time.

It's easy to overestimate the damage output of the mastermind pets, because the mastermind can sit back in relative safety while the pets attack. But paying close attention, it certainly seems to me that my blasters blow through enemies much more quickly than my masterminds. (But at much greater personal risk.)

I'm also thinking of moving a blaster to the villain side, but not really because of the damage potential. My Ice/Energy blaster is a bit redundant with my Ice/Ice and Energy/Energy blasters. She wouldn't be as redundant if she was doing the villain-side missions from a blaster perspective.

You blaspheme against the Kolchak!

Yes, I've thought about it. It would improve the situation for Mind/ controllers too. Other ATs besides dominators and controllers wouldn't really be affected. Why would my scrappers care whether elite bosses have PToD or not? Show me a balance issue that I've missed.

It's aligned with the other ATs because they can ignore it, for the most part. If you remove it they won't be ignoring it any more, because it won't be there to ignore.

There may very well be a considerable software problem in removing the PToDs. We don't know. The devs have always refused to comment on the problem, for some reason. I don't assume that it would be easy. But as far as I can tell, the problem for dominators would be removed by removing the PToD for elite bosses. A simple idea, but not necessarily a simple fix.

Not all that many. But I'm one of them. I love my dominators. They match my play style. I just don't fight PToD elite bosses with them.

You seem to be saying that since some people enjoy playing them, there is no problem, and that anyone who has an issue with the dominator weakness against PToD simply has a different play style. I disagree. The PToD issue can be fixed... by getting rid of the PToD for EBs. There really is no reason for having PToD on EBs that I can see. They actually make the PToD EBs more protected against control powers than AVs, since EBs start with some control protection. Fix this problem, and more people might play dominators.

I'm thinking of having my Ill/Kin controller switch sides, just so I have a good EB killer with a control primary on the villain side.

Personally, I would say that the PToD on elite bosses needs to go away. Increasing the Dom damage would make them overpowered against all other opponents, factoring in their control abilities, so that would be a bad thing.

I'll face PToD elite bosses now and then with my blasters. I just finished wiping out all the Praetorian EBs (except Shadowhunter) with my Ice/Ice blaster. But I won't bother fighting PToD EBs with my dominators.

This may make you feel even worse, but...

... I didn't really like Cowboy Bebop all that much.

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