Nihilii

Considering your choices all rank in the top performers, I find that conclusion funny.

Agreed. It's much more fun to try to figure out things than to redo what was already done over and over.

...Additionally and alternatively, it's also much more fun to hang out with people who try to figure out things than with people who just redo what was already done over and over.

I would add to that with incarnate powers being so drastically powerful, the appeal of twisting and tweaking your build to eke out a few more DPS points or a slight survivability increase has somewhat lessened; and, although the following might be entirely personal, with the most efficient obtention of these incarnate powers being tied to large group content where your skill at playing the game is much less important than your skill at managing people not only makes creating new highend builds much more time-intensive but sends the message individual performance just isn't that meaningful.

All I'm reading in this post is him saying he has experience playing many characters. How is that bragging? I'm in the same boat, and I just don't see what's so impressive about it mentioning it becomes supposedly bragging. It just means I have spent a lot of time playing a video game.

That's strange. It seems obvious your control issues, making you angry at the mere idea of someone else not playing exactly the same way as you think they should, are the likely culprit.

I will never understand this argument, related to CoH specifically. How could you lose in the old game? Outside of Hamidon, the highest threat you ever faced was a lone archvillain at +3. At a time where AVs regenerated less and resisted debuffs and holds less. At a time where invul characters had 90% res to everything, regen had perma-IH, rads had much stronger debuffs, ET activated in roughly one second, Burn recharged in 5s (IIRC?) and did much better damage, Fire controllers would hang out with a dozen imps. The old TV respec trial was already a joke nobody save for people with broken builds and terrible playstyles could fail.

Which is likely the crux of the issue. You long for a time when the game was harder, but in reality it's your knowledge of the game that improved significantly just as much as anything else. This game has never been hard or even about giving a challenge at all. That's never been the point - or if it was, it has been a spectacular failure right from the start, because for anyone who knew what they were doing, you could close your eyes and power through the entire content, save for Hamidon, on the maximum available difficulty, autorunning with a single power on auto.

Compare that to right now. Try to sit AFK against one of the foes using patches of autohit unresistable damage, no matter how many IOs or incarnate powers you've got, you're going down eventually. For that matter, if your entire league went AFK on autofollow in a trial, you'd get a big, nice mission failure after half a hour and a boot back out. Again, compare that to those supposedly hard old TV trials where burn tankers just sat still and obliterated anything without pressing a key.

This game is nowhere near hard, but it's definitely harder than it used to be. Claiming otherwise is misplaced nostalgia.

Beautiful.

Both this IO, and the inevitable reaction from the haters and forum goers pretending to do whatever suboptimal strategy for the sake of looking different and "cool".

Just beautiful.

There's logic errors in here alright. An AI adjustment in a video game setting isn't necessarily making it more life-like, as the primary goal of a game, which takes precedence over any sub-goals individual aspects of that game might originally have in a vacuum, is to entertain.

Yes, it's not like one of these options require a significant time investment and constant attention while the other is just one click every minute...

Illusion would be terribly overpowered on dominators if it was a direct port from controllers. I'm all for it! Power is fun.