Necrotron_RO

The best ideas I have seen to fix MA yet. It never made sense that my Storm Kick was traveling through the bodies of 5 people, but only damaging one.


This too. As it is, I almost never use Eagle's Claw because of the delayed damage, high chance the target will be dead by the time I get the damage off, and the low DPA. A quicker animation time sounds like the best option to make it viable, assuming of course, it still feels the same (like they did with Archery and Assault Rifle animation times).

Perfect!

That was my first level 50 DM/Inv. It is a nicely effective build. One addition I used was Teleport to hop into the center of a mob for fully saturated Invincibility from the onset of combat.

As for the original question, most of the buff/debuff sets are very, very strong with SOs only. Cold, Rad, Kinetics, Dark, etc.. All of these are behemoths without any set bonuses.

And also the fabled Power Boosted Vengeance.

Maybe I overstated it a bit. Moderately useful, maybe?

It's nice to have, but in high end play, taking 4.33 seconds to heal back 40% of your health, you might be better off having cast another mitigation power in that time and simply converted an insp to a green. My blasters absolutely love Aid Self. Never have taken it on a Controller though, they have plenty of tools in their arsenal already.

I might consider it in a second build or if I didn't have any other powers I wanted to take, however. It does help, and I could see it useful on a build focusing of self-survival. It's not that hard to use in combat, from my experience. And with Power Boost, you could heal something like 63% of your health back in one shot. I like it, but it wouldn't be my first choice.

Earth's Embrace would indeed be a much better choice for most all occasions. As would Hibernate, in a lot of situations, as Local stated.

That, or your last quantity. It's quite frustrating when you never know if it will save it or not. Especially when you're trying to buy 3 of a bunch of salvage and halfway through it forgets the 'quantity: 3' and you end up with only 1 of some of them.

Fully endorse this. I've been wanting this since they started messing with the XP percentages of custom mobs.

I was never into the whole AV required team-up thing either, that's why I usually fight things as EBs unless I'm being socialable and teaming. I dunno, it's just game mechanics, so fighting them as EBs doesn't really feel like watering them down to me, it feels more the pace of what I'd hope for from an epic AV battle (rather than the 10 minute slugfest and lightshow of whacking on a bag of HP). Thankfully, that's now possible, and I don't have to feel 'subpar' to all these 'lesser' signature characters.

True, but the can and do often fill the same role very well. Almost all of my Brutes tank.

Punchvoke on Tankers works quite well, my Brutes and Tanks will often favor a punch to get the attention of a single target over Taunting them.

Still, Taunt is extremely useful for the -Range compenent, pulling things in close, and the ability to very quickly grab aggro of those not near you, 5 at a time.

Eh, I haven't been participating in the debate. Just thought maybe my quick rehash would help, since it seemed people were a little offtrack talking about 'all buffs' when these have legitimate differences from other buffs, and precedent for having a prompt to exist until a better solution than just 'remove it' can be made. I guess that's old news now.

I'm totally in favor myself of 'no prompt at all', as I find it annoying, but I didn't find that really relevant to the debate.

Nice! Thanks for the info.

They stated they had put off the permanent fixes to the XP system especially regarding ally reductions to XP until Going Rogue.

They stated they have a fix for that slotted for Going Rogue. Yes, it's frustrating to wait so long for certain fixes, heck, TF difficulty changes made several members of our coalition leave for months till they were repaired. If it's a determinant enough of a factor on players' enjoyment of the game, they can simply leave. If AE was what I wanted to do everyday, I would have left like those who left over easy TFs. Luckily, it's not, it's just a 'feature' I'd like to have, but mostly ignore exists at the moment.

Exploit fixes are priority I suspect because A) they destroy the leveling curve (which destroys the time to level model of MMoGs, thus potentially decreasing revenue as players complete their 'projects' faster and get bored and leave) and B) they put a negative connotation on the AE in general. Also, most of the exploit fixes have been 'easy' fixes to create, whereas the repair fixes seem to require more 'back end' changes.

That's actually a good idea. Risk/time versus reward seems kinda outta wack on those.

If will come, ...eventually. They've promised as much. It's just one of those things they unfortunetly can't/haven't been able to get published yet, and we have to wait.

Winning back players' interest in the AE will definetly be an uphill battle for many. Months and months of changes, fixes, and generally unpleasant experiences of overpowered mobs, bad arcs, invalid arcs, low reward arcs have polarized a large percentage of the playerbase against it. Still, it remains usable for telling good stories, as for providing 'fair' rewards always (or almost always) while doing so, that's coming.