Nuffdaddy

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The game should allow you to use the Accolades you have earned regardless of your current level.

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/signed

For the many, many reasons already brought up in the thread, please Devs, make this change.

I realize some of this may come down to pride (*cough*RV Isolator*cough*), but please, do the logical and not-completely-illogical-and-actually-quite-silly thing and make all Accolades stay in effect while Exe'd/Mal'd, especially in light of the new content that is specifically designed to be used by level 50's, which auto-exemplar's for the vast majority of the content.

Pretty please?

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Ugh. The only sense I can make out of this is that they wanted to make the AV encounters more chaotic no matter WHAT team makeup one has. 1 power can still negate that chaos, but only 1. Otherwise the somewhat nebulous aggro rules apply.

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Okay, while this "Stealth Nerf" is a decidedly underhanded move on the part of the Devs (or even worse, another Bug), I think everyone needs to stop and take a breath.

To say that requiring one particular Power to take down a GM/AV is somehow unfair or borked fails to look at the bigger picture.

Can you take down a GM/AV without some form of -Regen?

No (some would argue that it is possible to accomplish this, but I don't consider a 30-60 minute whittle-fest an acceptable way to do it).

And can you Tank (as in acquiring and holding aggro) a GM/AV without the Taunt power from any Tanker secondary?

No (at least according to recent personal experience & current Forum reports).

Are either of these situations fair & balanced?

I would say no to both.

Are either Game-Breaking?

I would say no to both.

All we can gather from the current state of GM/AV encounters is that the Devs want them to be only achievable (or at least resonably achievable) with what they consider a 'Balanced' team (one with at least one -Regen Defender or Controller & at least one Tanker with Taunt to keep everyone else from getting pulped).

Although I must admit that I'm mostly playing Devil's Advocate here....all my Tankers have taken Taunt as early as possible, and use it regularly, and therefore are unaffected by this "change."