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Recluse is redside and redside hasn't suffered so much as a scratch yet so I don't think it'd be him.

My money would be on the recently recovered Hero 1, the Statesman from the other side of the pond.

Killing people that annoy you, or for no particular reason at all, is a redside perk.

Much like that other game, the writers seem to have decided that the blueside is going to take body blow after body blow (and like it) to tell the redside story.

D-list villain pulls off a Nemesis grade plot and the blue team has permanent possession of the idiotball.

Redside: Waah! We don't want to save the world!

Summary of most posts in this thread.

Easy solution, don't run those missions. Willfully not taking the easy solution leaves taking the co-op missions away so you can't be "forced" to save the world anymore.

Heroes never get to twist co-op missions to their benefit either, redsiders don't end up getting punished for past deeds and the Zig is little more a resort spa with a bad dress code. For every omnicidal villain there's probably a homicidal vigilante with a "red means dead" ethic, and guess what, the game doesn't cater to them either.

Really what it sounds like is the redsiders want their access to the co-op missions removed, if it would stop the whining, it'd get my vote.

That should say something about the fun factor of the arc. Between Lady Suicide Mission and the why-o-why-didn't-I-take-hasten vaccination its fun cannot be expressed in positive numbers.

For the record, I bought the cape and, more importantly, the aura unlocks, so you should complain about that laziness too.

If it was priced like the cape and aura account wide unlock I'd still shell out for it even if they didn't fix the bug. A couple of bucks is worth it to not have to hassle with spamming for and finding someone doing that mission.

ID only lacks sleep and confuse +res when compared to stimulant, transfusion will take care of sleep, leaving only confuse as a hole in Kin.

To put it bluntly, Kin is a buffing set that happens to have a heal. If you're dead set on playing a "healer" you're limiting yourself and your team. Heals are the weakest form of mitigation defenders have available to them. Use them when everything else fails.

<snark>Well, there's your problem</snark>

<slightly less snark>Try going for outstanding defender and see the difference.<slightly less snark>

Kin is very good at making others make things dead before you should need to rely on pool powers. Death is the ultimate debuff. Help your team apply it. You have a whole set of powers to do so.

My preferred input device for CoH is a gamepad. Location based powers are basically a no-go for that because of the very (over) protected nature of left click. But I love TA/A enough to play it with a mouse. Low level you can get by without disruption arrow and rain of arrows, oil slick is awesome enough to make me use mouse+gamepad to fire it off, mid-levels, not so much.

Even if they don't change the powers to be enemy targeted I would love for /macro to get some ability to target location powers at the location of what you have targeted or at your feet. Caltrops sticks out in Devices and Traps because everything else is dropped at your feet. Shield Charge is best used when you're already surrounded. Adding that to macros would still leave the functionality to set things up ahead of time.

-Per, controller grade mega stun, nothing that generates green numbers, oh how I do love that set.

But death is part of my El/En/Fire blaster's attack chain. CP->Nuke ... Nuke -> Death -> RotP...repeat.

Great, so an arc villains will hate because they are "forced" to help those inept heroes, yet again, cutting into their precious purse snatching time, and heroes will once again have to save an ungrateful redside while carrying the idiotball so both their "allies" and wish-they-were-B-list villains can play them for fools, yet again.

The fear is that if DA provides (any) meaningful growth the iTrials will lose critical mass and be relegated to Shadow Shard TF status, they'll only get done by people that want to do them specifically.

GG (and possibly the devs) wants to protect the iTrials at the cost of DA and the non-iTrialers.

I'm a VIP but I only see beta forums for issue 21 which is the current issue and I22 is the one in beta or am I completely missing the actual beta forums?

In LFD and LFR you don't get to pick who's in your group. You queue up and go. If it takes you 20 minutes to hit the join button, that's your problem.

That other game, the one with LFD and LFR, redefined it.

Casual? Especially in casual-stock-standard-enhancements-are-all-that-you-need(ed) CoH?

Anyways, since the rest of the post was about devs the go big or go home was directed at them. You don't do a good endgame on a shoestring budget or a skeleton crew. You've got the snowstorm's budget and manpower or you shouldn't do one at all.