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Certainly, Death Shroud isn't going to completely negate the fear. But using the two at the same time reduces the potency of Cloak of Fear. As CoF isn't terribly potent as is (Oppressive Gloom has the same magnitude, will not be affected in any way by DS, and costs a minute fraction of the end), it doesn't need DS to cut any of its effectiveness.

The non-resistance toggles are clearly not meant to be run simultaneously. As proof:

Cloak of Fear and Oppressive Gloom are both the same magnitude (except on Brutes). Running both is pointless, as enemies do not need to be both Feared and Stunned.

Death Shroud and Cloak of Fear work at odds. The damage from Death Shroud breaks the Fear from Cloak of Fear, leaving the latter a waste of endurance.

The toggles are meant to be chosen at the user's discretion, activated based on the scenario. Just as setting Reconstruction on auto would be a foolish strategy, so too would running all of the toggles in Dark Armor at the same time.

As to the points in the original post:

The toggles available to a Scrapper (assumed by the fact that you're claiming Spines as the primary) by 30 cost as follows:

Dark Embrace: .21 end/sec
Murky Cloud: .21 end/sec
Obsidian Shield: .21 end/sec
Cloak of Darkness: .26 end/sec
Death Shroud: .52 end/sec
Cloak of Fear: .52 end/sec

In the first three toggles, the second endurance reduction only brings the cost down by 0.06 end/sec, equating to a total 0.18 end/sec. One slot in Stamina adds at least that, and a good bit more should you have any form of +End, such as the Atlas Medallion. Putting any of those slots towards damage in your attacks would up your damage/end far more than that, reducing the number of attacks necessary to defeat a mob and thus alleviating your endurance issues far more than by slotting them into the toggles. The return is nowhere near enough to offset the cost.

When your apology reads as "I'm sorry you got pissed off" rather than "I'm sorry I pissed you off", it tends to ruin the point of apologizing.

Or you could try a Mastermind, where you get *significantly* lower debuff values in addition to shorter controls, and you get higher END costs to boot. In fact, don't try a /TA Mastermind. You might as well not have a secondary at all.

Anything that makes TA work better gets a pass in my book.

According to Surveillance, even con Rikti Drones have somewhere in the realm of 30% defense. Add that to the effects of the purple patch, and it's not unusual to find yourself floored against them. Night Widows also have considerably high defense, which they always stack with their obscene Smoke Grenades. PPD have those completely broken Flashbang Grenades, which are something like 44% debuffs.

When either defense or -toHit is present in NPCs, it tends to be pretty high. And the effects of the purple patch can be pretty steep, especially when the player doesn't have the enhancements to deal with it.

You and me both, buddy.

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Technically, the problem with Moment of Glory was that after around 2/3 of its duration, it was actually reducing your survivability. The complete inability to regenerate damage and massive health cut didn't balance out the defense and resistance, so you could very easily pop MoG and be worse than if you used any of the other clicks.

We already know giant-sized entities can exist. Giant Monsters have been in the game since launch. However, they exist in very specific situations (either outdoors or in very large indoor areas), have a very small selection of powers, and still have issues (due to oddities with their hitboxes, they can have problems with flying enemies). The number of issues to deal with before giant-sized players can exist is vast.

In order for power customization to be possible, it took over a year of work, and that affected every powerset for every AT in the game. To get an engine change that would allow for drastic size changes, it would likely take a similar amount of work, and that would only apply for one (limited in scope) powerset. You can try wishing away that work all you want, but it still exists, and it's still not cost-effective.

Actually, he's said that he can't make it work.

If you're going to dismiss everything short of a direct answer from a dev, don't bother posting a thread. PM them directly. Any one of them will be able to answer, either with a direct response or a direction to who can better respond.

We're going to tell exactly what we've been told before: it doesn't work. There are too many problems with the idea to implement. If you're not going to believe us, then you're wasting both our time and yours by making us repeat this song and dance every time.

Only if you're:

1.) Playing only one character
2.) Fighting only Rikti
3.) Waiting a decently long time (or doing multiple ship raids)

If you don't meet all three of those requirements, getting the pieces is an insurmountable task. I've been trying to get the entire set on one character; in approximately twenty Borea missions, I've managed to get 10% of the way there. That means it'll take me two hundred (that's 200) missions to get the costume set on *one* character. If I want to kit out another character, I need to do another 200 missions.

Should there be more things to spend merits on? Sure. Should the costume pieces cost less? Yes.

Nope. It still defaults to Lost in the lower levels.

It still ends in a defendable, but it's different since the time capsule is used in the TF.

At level 4, 5-10 damage is usually 25-50% of the attack. That's pretty powerful, especially for such a low level character.

At level 40, 5-10 damage is at best 2-5% of the attack. That's so miniscule it's not worth having, especially when attacks at that level are going to have devastating secondary effects as well.

It's nigh impossible to find a nice balance between useless and godly for protection that directly subtracts from damage. A percentage based protection automatically scales perfectly, making it much more preferable.

I'm pretty sure that part happened while I was at work.

Archery always has a 15.5% bonus, regardless of AT (5% for being a weapon set, 10% as a set-defining bonus). I'd certainly like to see MA get the same, but I don't think it's really necessary.

Technically, MA's niche is its slightly higher accuracy and its wide range of control potential. How useful that is can be debated, but it is there.

If it didn't affect anything except the controls, I could probably be convinced for it. But if it affects the full range that regular Power Boost does, I'd be against it.

These two statements don't mesh. You can't claim that MA's inherent accuracy bonus is not a secondary effect and then claim that Claws' discounts are. Either both are or neither is.

Ah, right, that's the one you're talking about. My apologies, you are right.

One who properly uses logic knows that the burden of proof lies on those accusing the status quo. You're the one attempting to affect a change, so you need to prove that such change is necessary. We don't have to prove that the status quo shouldn't change; that's the base assumption. If you don't properly demonstrate the necessity of your suggestion, then it's not going to be implemented.

Technically, it gets slightly higher accuracy (the same as weapon sets get) and slightly higher crit chances.

One Thousand Cuts had its range increased because it didn't happen when the rest of the melee attacks had their ranges increased. It was more of a bug fix than a balance tweak.

And the devs made that change of their own volition. In order to convince them to do so again, you need a strong argument. This is unabashedly a buff to a set that does not currently underperform, and it's a buff that causes a power to break from the mold set for powers of its type. Thus far, there hasn't been much argument made beyond "it does low damage".

This is stronger, but it still doesn't completely prove that MA needs a solid buff, and it definitely doesn't lead into buffing the damage on Cobra Strike.

Highly, highly, highly unlikely. Castle hates all forms of Power Boost as it is now.

Very. In order for objects and characters to interact in that way, the devs would have to rework the engine. For the less technical, that's basically like reworking the laws of physics. It's a tremendous amount of work (as it essentially requires remaking the game) for a limited benefit.

Nope. Never had that problem. When I want to team, I turn to my friends and say, "Hey, let's start a team." That's the benefit of having friends.

Curses! You've discovered the evil RP conspiracy! The Pocket D Illuminati has the developers' children kept in a bunker to make sure the developers make it as hard for people to team as possible. That way, everyone who would be teaming must instead go to Pocket D and spend all their time RPing instead! One day, all enemies will be removed, all other zones will be removed, and the only way to get to 50 will be to cyber with everyone else on the server.

Heck, I've got a better idea. When someone logs into the game, they're immediately pressganged onto your team. If there's no room, they're stuck in the character select screen on a queue, waiting for a slot to open up. If you're on a hero, villain side is entirely shut down, and vice versa. And if, at any given time, they aren't fighting an enemy, they have thirty seconds to start, or they're kicked from the game and their account is deleted. That way, you'll never have problems finding a team. There won't be any other options!

Also, if someone uses the letters 'R' and 'P' in the same order - or even the same paragraph - they're jettisoned into the sun.

Like the resistance cap, it varies by archetype. Unlike the resistance cap, that doesn't really matter because even for the squishies, it's significantly above 45%. There's plenty of room between the two caps to allow for debuff protection, so the hard cap tends to be negligible.

Actually, you'll get pretty close. With two slots in Swift, Hurdle, and Sprint, and the occasional use of the GvE jump pack, you can easily travel as quickly as someone using Fly. One of my characters actually uses that, explained away as Parkour.