Nethergoat

Huh, so you've played every mission in MA and hated them all?
Impressive!

There are many, many, many 'professional' writers who I wouldn't trust to write their own names.

And what do you make of Doc Aeon, who's arcs from his previous life as a 'mere' player are still available?
Are they acceptable because now he's a dev, or are they still garbage because when he wrote them he was a "user"?

it's sad that they're overpaying so wildly.

other than that, eh whatever.

lol!

good point!

fire/ice will get you the same lovely synergy without any of /dev's limitations.

given the content of your original post, our options were limited.

LAWL!

I read that post, thought "whenever he's that adamant about something he's always totally wrong", scrolled down to your reply and actually laughed out loud.

STOP WITH THE CRAZY TALK!!111


but seriously....just search "ticket farm" and look for enemies you have high resists against. =P

this post makes me wish we still had rep.

=(

Again, I'm not saying it's "broken".
It is demonstrably less poweful/useful/whatever than other available sets.
CAN it work? Sure! The game simply isn't that hard. I levelled my Regen scrapper up to Instant Healing in the old days when Regen gave you practically NOTHING before the glory that was toggled IH. So, sure, EA can 'work'. I got my guy to 40 mainly because Stone was a great set, not because EA did anything but let me steath newspapers.

It's 'selling points' are either redundant or depreciated in the modern era.
End drain? ELA does is way better, and is a resist based set on top of it.
Defense? SR does it better.
End recovery? Not the big deal it used to be.

EA isn't broken, it doesn't "suck" or whatever.
It *is* derivative, outdated and less appealing than pretty much all the other Brute sets. I'd like them to address that before any proliferation takes place.

for the stuff I craft I list it *slightly* over 50% of the 'going rate'.

I'd say 95% of the time I get paid the "going rate' anyway, and 99% of the time I get millions more than my listing price. It's very, very, very rare that I get paid my listing price or a few million more- nearly every one of my crafted IO sales is 80-100%+ of the 'going rate' at the time I listed.

Historically Marvel's ideas of how to handle their own properties do not inspire confidence in this moviegoer.

I will, however, look forward to Big John's next directorial endeavor.

The slotting is a genuine benefit- I ended up keeping Cloaking Device on my ar/dev because six-slotted Red Fortune had a part to play in getting me to the ranged defense cap.
Of course, 'set mule' isn't a fantastic selling point for a power either. =P

Looks like defense is 3.8 to all, which is nice assuming it doesn't suppress like CD. I realize that dribs and drabs like that can be important if you're working towards a defense cap, but it stills seems like weak tea when the primary function of the power is available for a few million inf or an evening's worth of missions.

And again, I'm not on any kind of EA pogrom here.
But the set underperforms and if it got some attention from the devs many more people would play it.

Fiery Aura is a good example of what a couple of relatively minor tweaks can do to seriously upgrade a lackluster set. I labored my way up to the mid-30s pre-buff- it was a concept character I really liked, although he wasn't 'good' by any objective measure. After the buff, I played him like crazy and he was 50 in no time, and he's still one of my most played characters....he's not all that much more powerful, but he's ten times as fun as he used to be.

I'd like to see something similar happen to EA.

Uh Swell....I wasn't grief-hacking you, I was grief-hacking our buddy the CASUAL GAMER!

They don't have to be bad, they just have to make it not as good as other stuff.


It's great y'all think it's a bitchin' set that everybody should love, but they don't, and there's a reason they don't. I mean, beyond people saying mean things about it on the forums.....which has about as much impact on in-game performance as you saying nice things about it.


That isn't what I'm saying.
I'm saying it underperforms and needs an update to be competitive with other sets.

Recharge is stackable to amazing effect.
Regen is stackable to great effect.
Quick Recovery powers are indeed depreciated in the 'modern' game, as I mentioned in a thread about the sorry state of Regen a few days back.

With stealth, you're basically *buying the power* with a single IO. I have the same issue with /dev's Cloaking Device. It's "power" in the modern game is saving you a few million inf or a few tip missions- very underwhelming.

When you can buy a power replacement in IO form, then IMHO that power needs to be made more useful.

The addition of IOs significantly changed the game. Some sets need to be reconsidered in that light and EA is one of them.

A bit of defense for a defense set isn't much to sing about, neither is saving a very minor investment of inf or an evening of running tips.

I happily 'sacrifice' one slot and a few million inf for stealth on nearly all of my characters. It's incredibly handy, and used to be a good power choice for the sets that offered it.
Now anyone can do it. I'd like the sets affected by it to be compensated, because the value (perceived and otherwise) of those stealth powers has been depreciated.

Who's saying it has?
Formerly one benefit of ATs with stamina tools was that you could skip stamina, which freed up power choices. That was a not inconsiderable benefit, which is now available to *everyone in the game*.
It is no longer a selling point for EA (or other sets with similar utility), because anyone can do it.

You're really going to bring up EA's END DRAIN as some kind of meaningful effect?
Huh.


My hypothesis for why EA is generally unloved and unplayed is that people can tell it's a relatively weak set with multiple redundancies. I've given some examples of why I think this in my previous posts.

What's yours, that people saying mean things on the forums scares away legions of players who WOULD love EA if only someone would let them try it?

Please.

Here's the thing- there are many, many powersets in this game that you don't HAVE to "make work". You love EA for some reason, goody for you- whatever floats your boat. "The Playerbase" doesn't share your enthusiasm. The devs addressing some of the sets obvious shortcomings would do much more to change that dynamic than you insisting everything is fine and that "haters" like me should go suck eggs.

can do!

that would be so awesome.

heehee! =P


Aside from all that boring IRL stuff, I want inf sinks because right now there's an entire class of player for whom inf has no real meaning because its so easy to make and there are, relatively speaking, so few things for us to spend it on.

That's one of the main motivators for the Crazy 88's...blowing tens of billions on meaningless prestige has given a bunch of us a reason to care about making inf again.

It'd be nice if the *game* gave us more ways to destroy inf instead of having to make up our own.

If AF isn't the most-ignored person in the market forum it's not for lack of trying.

You won't miss anything but reams of self-serving balderdash.