MunkiLord

Originally Posted by Roderick

This. There is absolutely nothing you can do to correct these people's behavior, and if you call them out on it, publicly or via /tells, and they later get genericed, it's quite possible that you'll be remembered and singled out for some kind of griefing.

Your only responsibility is to /petition these people. Do it anonymously and let the GMs deal with it. After all, that's what they get paid to do.

Originally Posted by Brillig

All actions reveal something about the actor, that's psych 101.

What a person labels an object reveals something about the way that person views the object.

All the rest is extrapolation.

Originally Posted by Seraphael

You might find them fun, but that is only due either to masochism combined with a love of Rise of the Phoenix nuke/self-rez or, more likely, an expensive defensive IO-build at endgame level. "Practice and get better" is just your flippant way of saying you value a power that is ONLY useful for hard-core players at level 50 with expensive IO-builds over something that could potentially be fun levelling with for all, but at the end not provide the same amount of destructive overpower/farming potential (with a particular expensive IO-build only) you prefer. Could you be any more transparent?

Originally Posted by Brillig

It's not of no importance. Actually, the term people use reveals something about their attitudes towards the game.

Originally Posted by Seraphael

Actually there are four -4- auras with damage available to Blasters. You rather handily neglected to differentiate between primary/pure damage auras and other auras with significant benefits besides damage. Both Hot Feet and World of Confusion have significant effects other than damage and can be useful. Blazing Aura/Death Shroud is the type of aura you advocate and which is absolutely horrid on Blasters. Instead of allowing the Blaster to arrest faster they will in most instances wind up getting the the Blaster defeated faster. Blasters lack of defenses means they cannot stay in melee range long enough to benefit from a pure damage aura or on teams survive the added attention for trifling amounts of damage. There's a very good reason almost no Blaster ever picks these powers (Blazing Aura, Lightning Field) you know. I wanted to put conventional wisdom to the test and found out the hard way.

Cloak of Darkness would be infinitely more useful as it allows the Blaster to line up cones effectively (of which Dark Blast have a great deal) without getting aggroed. Combined with Super Speed, Stealth or even stealth-IOs? it will become true invisibility which is EXTREMELY useful for any squishy. Cloak of Darkness would also provide the Blaster with typed and positional defenses which would work in synergy with Dark Blast -ToHit debuffs generating significant survivability (for a Blaster). That there's only one other stealth power in Blaster secondaries is in my book an argument for Cloak of Darkness rather than opposed it as you seem to think. We need new sets to provide actual tangible differences rather than regurgitating the same old news, or even worse - the same old mistakes.

In addition to Cloak of Darkness, something a kin to Chilling Embrace toggle aura would be useful and provide something new to the Blaster arsenal. Call it Essence of the Night or some such and have it provide -ToHit and -DmgBuff debuff in a minimum 10' radius. That or introduce a Blaster version of Chill of the Night (-ToHit and Dmg). Anything but a pure damage aura. I repeat; pure damage aura for the Blasters archtype always was and still is an exceptionally BAD idea. They are remnants of an archtype the Blasters lack of defenses never could become, less useful than the human tailbone. That mistake should NEVER, EVER be proliferated.

Originally Posted by Fusion_7

Blasters are very squishy and the majority of their powers are ranged attacks for obvious reasons being any close melee would almost guarantee a certain quick death and a trip to your friendly neighborhood Hospital.

Originally Posted by Schismatrix

You can say that, but it's all worth it now that i have experimentally verified that i stay crunchy in milk. SCIENCE!

Originally Posted by Schismatrix

Is true. i dunk head in milk out of shame now. Still crunchy.

Originally Posted by Frosticus

Search Castle's posts in the scrapper forum. He makes mention of how the power is supposed to work. Whether that is how the power will end up working or not remains to be seen, but it is a safe bet that when changed it will be significantly less powerful than it is now. Though in fairness, the power could be reduced considerably and still be very good.

Originally Posted by je_saist

My gut reaction is that anybody stating that Going Rogue will fail as a software product release, at this point in time, is possibly one of these types of marketing personal.

Originally Posted by Sprite Fire

plant kin does more damage with it's holds then fire kin (Carrion Vines are godly) ... though a well made fire kin will out damage it thanks to it's damage auras, and fire being less resisted in comparison to s/l


i'd say an Electric Melee/ Shield Defense Scrapper probably could challenge one, but that's only until i18, when they nerf shield charge. not much else in that class though; pretty much everything else... including the stuff listed thus far in this thread are clearly 2nd or 3rd tier to an El/SD, Plant/Kin, fire/kin

in that 2nd teir you have some good choices like spines + electric/fire/dark scrappers... or maybe a brute or two... though generally it seems rare a brute can keep it's fury high enough to put it into this type of classification.

Originally Posted by Schismatrix

There is no problem. The Incarnate system will be adding the equivalent of another ten levels, but it's more of a secondary career/path than just tacking another ten levels onto the game with recolored Hellions.

i appreciate the arrogance of your attitude in posting "i aked this 5years ago and still nothing whats the problem?" 5 years ago no Dev promised you or anyone else an increase in the level cap to 70, or anything past 50, and none has occurred, so obviously there is no problem.

Furthermore, i find your lack of apostrophes (and faith) disturbing.

So i now say unto you FNORD.
(You should now be feeling anxious about the subject for no conscious reason. If this is not happening please report to your nearest Illuminati endorsed salon.)

Originally Posted by Arbegla

Last count, put my masterminds build around 12 billion, but im a buy it nao kinda person. 5 full purples, the full heal PvP set (complete with proc) the +res PvP proc, the +def PvP proc, and a ton of hami's which V side are just plain insane.

Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba

I can't wrap my brain around "high DPS" and "going without stamina."

Originally Posted by Vodakna

Last night when I ran the Synapse TF and I tried to kick the healer that logged off it told me that the player did not exist. I know for a fact that I spelled his name correctly because I wrote down the name of every player that joined the TF so I wouldn't run into the same problem I did when we ran the Posi TF. Thankfully I set the TF at -1(x0) in preparation of this happening, however, this doesn't change the fact that having a tool to remove logged off TF members would be invaluable for all players.