Nalrok_AthZim

This would be excellent, especially considering how the Ice Manipulation Sustain power will provide Absorb.

Whoa whoa whoa there. I've never mentioned I'm gonna quit.

Giant pink-rhinestone words on chest of low-cut babydoll t-shirt?

"STOP STARING AT MY CHEST YOU PERV!"

Doesn't mean I'm going to stop pushing for better redside writing. I'd be willing to bet that if the shoe was on the other foot, you'd be clamoring for better hero writing like I am for villain writing.

We've been doing that over and over and over and over again. We shouldn't have to keep using the same excuse every time new content comes out. I have a great number of villains. They are not all the same. They do not all care whether or not the world blows up tomorrow. They wouldn't lift a finger to help the heroes.

I've hit my limit of having to use the same lame excuse to make the lore work. I can't justify doing it any more.

So, you guys have to go redside to get Patron Powers while villains have to be heroic to get:

Alpha/Judgement/Interface/Lore/Destiny Slots
Badges from the RWZ/Cimerora/Dark Astoria/Holiday Trials
Completion of SSA1

Please don't compare the two. You guys get 4-5 badges out of going red, getting your powers and swapping back alone. Sure, we get APP's for free but we still get shoehorned into being heroic everywhere else in the end game.

Villains get the short end of that very stick. Disparity much?

Ah, gotcha. My apologies.

Agreed. I don't understand why we didn't have two more options:

"Shut up, Townshend. You have five seconds to tell me where I can find someone to kill."
"Enough with the sob story. You have a problem. I have free time, superpowers, and some spare bloodlust. Let's help each other out here."

Powers that sustain you. :/

Thanks for the clarification!

I can't remember if this was confirmed or not, but it's my understanding that the self-affecting portions of these upcoming "new" powers do not need to hit enemies to work. Is this true?

EDIT: Also will the "new" powers be receiving any visual changes?

Except not all of the Loyalists are evil. Many of them are true heroes with good hearts. So you're telling me that you enjoyed smashing other heroes?

Then don't tell the people who do how they should feel about it. Thanks.

That was a great, great flick. It was nice to see a horror movie you had to think about that didn't rely on an entire orchestra going "HWHONK" every time something relatively unsettling appeared on screen.

Anywho! /derail

That'd be interesting. On top of that they COULD up the range on the non-snipe sets to compensate somehow. Or, hell, they could strengthen the secondary effects.

Lots of HoT's, some debuff, and absorb mechanics.

Me? I'm waiting patiently for Sorcery.

I try.

Honestly, the recent AT 'upgrades' have been pretty phenomenal, and the numbers team is really on the ball as of late. I have a feeling that whatever they do with the non-snipe sets will make them just as desirable as the sets that have snipes.

EDIT: You know, thinking about it, I've realized Paragon does power/game change in a way that all developers should: instead of nerfing everyone for one set underperforming and/or nerfing one overperforming set (Looking at you, Blizzard), the team brings other sets up to overperforming ones and/or boosts up the one set that's underperforming.

Oh crap, was that the one with David Caruso?

I don't know, man, I have a 30 Water/Poison on Beta and I haven't had that much fun with a Corruptor since my Beam/Time, Beam Time.

And I suppose if I'm tired of having an upper respiratory infection I should simply stop breathing, right? Try again.

No one has implied that it should be.

Yes. That is the complaint. Well done.

Except is has, in Dean MacArthur, Leonard and Vincent Ross. It's been done. It needs to be done more often. You can't tell us it can't be delivered when it already has.

Would you prefer the alternative?

Honestly I'd rather have overkill Stalkers than still-sub-par Stalkers.

That's your opinion. It's also subjective. Prior to Assassin's Focus every Stalker I ever played felt anemic and withered when compared to any of my other characters, even my buff-oriented Controllers. The change was for the better and I see absolutely no reason to look down on it. It seems like you're approaching the Stalker changes from a center of resentment, like your favorite AT didn't get the new shiny and you're upset that now an under-performing AT is performing well.

Good. That's what Stalkers needed.

By the way, what exactly are you talking about when you say "all the other stalker changes"? The scaling crits? The PBAoE suppression in hide? Those two things happened long before the AS change and the max HP boost, and Stalkers were STILL way underpowered then.

You realize that's what I've been saying all along, right?

That theme has been stale for years now. That's what happened. I want someone to make a comic where a villain looks at new content, is asked to fight a greater power, replies with "You think I'm going to do that AGAIN?!" and just walks away laughing. Then, the next four panels are the same villain saying that phrase and walking away laughing from Imperious, Lady Grey, The Midnighters and Prometheus.

I'll assume they went into the trash, considering the first dialogue options villains get with Heather Townshend are:

"I'll be playing the role of hero today."
"I'm here to save the day." (or something very, very similar)

Why the hell even bother?

Enhancement Boosters might help.

Look, I understand what you're driving at. Would it be a bad thing to give something like this a more neutral tone, so at the very least it doesn't feel like the rest of villain content?