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Originally Posted by Atomic_Woman

Bobcat in Tin Mage puts out some ridiculous burst damage, too. But overall, yeah, Willpower is an extremely sturdy set. Especially if you're talking about an IOed character.

Originally Posted by Katten

Willpower: It's very difficult to enhance this properly, it is very strong on it's own, probably strong enough to do anything you need it to (against any damage type). Givin a bit of mitigation from the primary or a single purple you become very tough. However, there is a point it plateaus out, and fighting single strong enemies (for lack of strong self heal) is not it's forte. Also It's boring as hell. Click and Go If you like not doing anything, this is the set to choose, effortlessly glide to 50 and rot in the monontony of encounters.

Originally Posted by EvilGeko

While most players wouldn't necessarily understand this, I would love if the Omega slot increased your base AT modifiers in all respects and removed the HP cap.

So for example a Scrapper has a melee modifier of 1.125 and a defense/resist buff modifier of .75.

Let's say the Common Omega multiplied that by 1.2. Now that Scrapper would have a melee modifier of 1.35. Let's say the Ultra-Rare Omega doubled your modifier. Now that Scrapper would have a 2.25 melee modifier and a 1.5 resist/defense modifier.

Originally Posted by EvilRyu

I skimmed thru the video you were mostly fighting the drones, they already do piddly damage. Try this against say arachnos or carnies and then we will talk. Rikti are hardly an end game challege. Essentially the main damage type needs to be high hard hitting energy/n.energy/cold/fire damage or even all psi. Rikti are lethal energy and weak energy if you look at the drones. Also pick a map thats not a cave.

Originally Posted by Eiko-chan

From the stance of "absolute XP earned" - or even "XP earned per mission", it does. Confuse does not steal XP from "rate of earned XP", but it does "steal XP".

Originally Posted by EvilRyu

I never do that ever. Its just not worth giving up huge percentages of enhancement besides you dont have enough slots at 30 to do this and be any where near as effective.

Small edit: The lowest I go on lvl of the enhancement is lvl 49 unless its one of those procs that need to be at a lower level in the event that I do exemplar. The main reason I go for higher enhancements is that if I do exemplar then your enhancements get gutted it will not be as bad as if you used lower enhancements.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

In those days, cairns buffed each other

Originally Posted by Atomic_Woman

Now I'm curious. I should try to track down these challenges and see how well my scrapper does.

Originally Posted by Eva Destruction

They used to cap out at 45, period. Then the devs decided to add more Crey content with i7, and came up with that stupid all-tank garbage. They are on my list of Enemies to Avoid Because They are Tedious and/or Annoying but Not Actually Hard.

Originally Posted by Atomic_Woman

Ah, see, my 'main' is MA/Inv, so I basically have no choice but to kick their butts one at a time. I can see how if you're just leaping in and AOEing (which is awesome for 95% of stuff) then catching multiple Vengeances stacking would be an issue.

Originally Posted by Atomic_Woman

I tend to find Nemesis easier to deal with simply because their Vengeance isn't a real 'screw you' until it's stacked 3 or 4 times, at least. One single quartz emanator will totally negate any defense you have. But yeah, I guess it does come down to preference.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

I never complain about something being hard for me personally. Nothing is likely to be a serious impediment to me, and honestly, if I just don't *like* a tip mission, then ironically at 0x8 I earn so many tips that I can just drop the ones I don't like and as long as I have at least one I do like I'll earn more in the act of running that one. I don't even really have to *drop* tips I don't like.

If I say something is unbalanced, its because I believe its objectively unbalanced for the average player unless I say otherwise. If I find something that is "too hard" my instinct is to go beat on it until I pound it into the ground.

I was on an ITF where the team gave up and quit on the last mission and I tried for two days to figure out a way to solo complete it. On an energy blaster.** If you think I'm complaining about personal difficulty ever, you're misunderstanding. I would continue to play this game at difficulty levels that would make EvilGeko wince.


** You can range snipe the Nictus without drawing aggro from them or Romulus, and with enough damage you can kill them from range. Having them all gone would help someone solo Romulus, although my energy blaster isn't one of those things that can do that in any reasonable amount of time. Apparently.

Originally Posted by Eva Destruction

Nemesis and their stacking vengeance is easier to get around than DE and their cheating. If you're smart, Nemesis don't start cheating until the fight is almost over, and you've already won. DE open with a cheat.

Originally Posted by Bosstone

That's nonsensical.

0/x1 is base solo difficulty. The game's content has been tuned so that anyone and everyone, regardless of build, should have a reasonable expectation of soloing at 0/x1. That's baseline, not the norm. Some ATs, some builds, and some players are able to run at higher levels. Great, that's more challenging. But if you fail that challenge, then that's entirely on you, because you opted to run at that higher level. The only guarantee is at 0/x1.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

Virtually everything about the game you play except the visual artwork is math.

Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim

It's WST.

We're not in high school.

Originally Posted by Zwillinger

We're going to be talking about some plans for additional Sneak Peak testing (to be scheduled for this week ideally) so please keep your eyes peeled on the announcement forums. We really need the Community's support to put i20 through it's paces, so if you can spare some time we'd be very appreciative!

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

They really should consider having a lower level difficulty story path for new players that buy Going Rogue. I don't mind the existence of the newer more challenging path: for people like me its just that: a challenge. For most people, I suspect its an exercise in frustration.

Originally Posted by TonyV

Because, as I've said before, the developers don't want you sitting there three days after Issue 20 comes out saying, "Okay, what now?"

The simple fact is that there must be both short-term and long-term content in order for most players to be happy. The problem is that if the developers simply open all of the content up with a trivial amount of time or effort spent on it, the game gets really boring, really fast. That poses a much bigger threat to their long-term subscription numbers than anti-teamers ever could dream of.

This is also part of the problem. Most players are focused on one thing: They want the rewards, they want them now, and anything that stands in the way of them getting said rewards must be bad. Game developers know that this is not in the best long-term interest of the game. There are basically two solutions: 1) develop new content as fast as players can consume it, or 2) take measures to slow down players so that you have time for development cycles before everyone gets bored and goes away. Only one of those options is practical.

Also, here is an obligatory link to some of Positron's thoughts on timesinks, and also read his thoughts on cooldowns, which is arguably more informative in this context. He's not stupid, he knows that they can be frustrating. Still, I think it's naive and impractical to think that it's really easy to simply do away with them.