Nihilii

Sometimes people say seemingly clever things and it looks great, then someone else points out it's just a mindless rehashing of a popular joke and the illusion is shattered.

Hence I'd go Plant. /time provides so much survivability you may as well have some AoE damage from your primary to make use of that personal mitigation.

COH had one of the nicest MMO communities even before community managers were involved at all.

One might want to argue devs have been talkative from the start, but on localized EU servers (french, deutsch) most players didn't speak english so had essentially no communication with the dev team and yet were just as nice.

Dollars to peanuts the friendliness of the community has much more to do with the game itself, being so casual friendly and mostly PvE. When you don't need to have a specific amount of players going through very specific steps for any given task, people are much more relaxed - and it also weeds out many of the elitists, who have to be able to look down on someone to feel good. Much harder to do that when everyone is awesome and able to complete any task.

You have the opposite example with MOBA games. As the gameplay is PvP, team-based and reliant on virtuous/vicious circles, a single player can wreck the effort of a whole team entirely. As a result people in these games are extremely abrasive. You can see it even in games where the devs get involved with the community - see LoL and DOTA 2.

Yep, it was. This is what BillZ refers to when he says

Hi! Name's Nihilii.

Edit: oh whoops, 2 weeks bump for a silly comment. This forum sure is dead.

Blue Centurion is overstating the problem, but you're exaggerating how reliable the solution is as well.

The truth lies somewhere between these two extremes. Sometimes, the threat that forced you to use Unstoppable will be gone and Dull Pain alone, or Dull Pain plus your teammates, is enough to keep you upright for the ten seconds it's going to take for you to retoggle. Sometimes, the icon starts blinking while you're in the middle of a +4/x8 spawn, and trying to do the strategy you suggested results in instant death.

It also assumes you're saving DP for the crash. That can be a reasonable assumption most of the time, but there are situations where DP is already needed on top of Unstop to survive and will still be recharging for the crash.

Eating luck insps is of course another option, although sometimes, especially on highend builds, you can have more efficient results by eating one luck insp per minute than using Unstoppable and having to use 3 lucks before the crash to stay alive.

Either way, no matter how good you are you will generally have to retoggle (even capped recovery won't guarantee you get a tick of end at the right time), and that is an imcompressible amount of time. I would also argue most players don't pay perfect attention to their buff bar all the time, and getting killed every once in a while by a crash is close to inevitable unless you only use the power once in a blue moon.

I think Unstop has its uses, especially on a SO or light IO build. It's just not without drawbacks.

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My point being maybe endurance drain is the problem and not mez stacking? I thought defensive powers weren't supposed to drop anymore.

In Mids, Options -> Configuration -> Effects & Maths -> checkbox "Use Arcanatime for animation times".

The value is shown in the same power window, although you want to toggle the "Enhance" tab to see it. No base value or anything to tweak here, damage enhancement is always damage enhancement.