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Exactly.

I've nothing against buffing underpeforming sets, of which we have plenty. I'm against touching sets which AREN'T underperforming, just because they don't match the preferences of certain individuals.

Which would have been FAR FAR WORSE for me. That's why you should be very wary about changing anything - for all the people you please, there will be as many who you anger.

(It's actually my main reason for not wanting the set touched. I do not, under any circumstances, want the damage of ET reduced one jot).

Which, as others have pointed out, is purely personal preference. I.e. not a valid reason to change anything. I'm quite happy with longer animations, and since Brutes where changed they don't significantly impede fury generation. I know because I play a Staff Brute which is mostly long animations.

As for having two slow attacks - no-one is forcing you to take them both. That's where the flexibly of Energy Melee comes in. There is no penalty for including powers from outside the set in your attack chain. I don't have Total Focus in my current build. My current ST attack chain is:

(BU) - Barrage - Energy Transfer - Ice Bolt - [Boxing if I'm slowed]

If you really hated self damage, you could leave out ET and go with Total Focus as your big hitter.

Flexability, see. Unlike my staff brute who is severally penalised if he wants to include a non-staff attack in his chain.

Periodic review to make sure sets aren't over or underperforming is fine. Periodic review to make things fashionable is not. Without evidence of over or under performance there is no reason for change.

Yes, I was sad when my tanker stopped being able to out-DPS scrappers too!


I.e. you liked it because it was ridiculously OP, and now don't like it because it is no longer ridiculously OP. (ET is still a very very good attack though).

No they aren't. Because they are all clear before you choose the set. So you would only choose the set because you WANTED those features.

But it's a very flexible set. You aren't locked into it like most of the recent sets with their combos and gimmicks. You want a melee cone? There is one coming to the fighting pool in issue 24. Problem fixed.

I can assure you it is just fine on my tanker. It's probably less good for brutes, but most powersets vary in performance across ATs. You can still leverage it on a Brute with the right build (EM/Dark is very good for example).

A vague feeling is not a reason to change anything. Provide hard evidence of under (or over) performance, and we can look at it. Until then, there are plenty of sets with performance that is clearly out of line that need to be looked at first.

The changes to the animation time on ET where nesassary for game balance. I was well aware of how overpowered the fast animating ET was through playing it.

But no case has been made that Energy Melee is now significantly out of kilter in terms of power levels. Sure, it's weaker than SS or TW. But that's a problem with the other sets, not EM. No, it's people whining because they don't like stun, or being single target focused, or having self-damage, or being insufficiently gimmicky.

Change for balance is sometimes needed, but change for changes sake should be avoided at all costs.

Why sad? Because people don't prefer to live in constant chaos?

I have Energy Melee. I've been playing it on my main for seven years. I'm happy with it and definitely DON'T want it changed.

How long have you been playing Energy Melee? How long did you play it before you decided you didn't like it? Exactly why do you feel you have to abandon it? Because your powerset doesn't conform to the latest fads and fashions?


All the information is provided before you pick your powerset. Energy Melee is quite obviously a single target set with lots of stun. If that's not what you want, don't pick it. It's when people come along and start changing things that you end up stuck with something you didn't choose and never wanted.

I thought I had already addressed this.

In a comic book, or a movie, or a PnP RPG, and intelligent enemy isn't going to attack the toughest looking hero. No mater what insult they hurl. However, if said tough hero physically positions themselves in front of the softer target, the enemy has no choice but to try and go through them. But in an online computer game positioning isn't handled in a way that would make this possible to reproduce. So we get taunt instead. Making taunt less abstract, such as throwing a pebble or a glass of water, would be more intrusive and potentially sillier than the current beckon, which can be ignored just as we ignore all the floating numbers and symbols on the screen.

Which is exactly the effect Nolan is trying to achieve. Just enough uncertainty to allow people to make up their own minds.

Apart from the director's past movie history. In this case, Inception. Which is surely not so subtle that people who missed it first time round have to make up excuses...

You filed a bug report on that recently?

It's a different set of developers now. It's quite likely they don't even know.

As it should. But frequently not enough.

No. No developer want's to loose the players.

Players get used to things. The grow to love things. And if you take those things away, they will get mad, even if what you give them in return is "better".

There are ways to do things that DON'T require you to alienate half your playerbase in the name of "the vision".

Kinetic Melee is the prime example. This is, in effect, Energy Melee mk2. But added in such a way that doesn't take anything away from those people who like the original version.

True, and you could go with that interpretation if you wished.

But since Thomas Wayne doesn't say "I like to imagine that my son grows up to be a costumed vigilante" there is rather less reason to suppose this is the case.

Blade Runner: Unicorn. Sometimes director subtlety is lost on people....

This.

This isn't those years. The game has changed a lot since then.

Not yet available means you get it later. Which is exactly the same as slower.

If the content can be soloed, it is solo content. If it can't be soloed, it will be QQed amount just as much as a trial, and is, therefore, pointless.

The only thing wrong with Hybrid is it isn't really good enough to go to the trouble of unlocking anyway.

Okay, I've edited my post. Although out of granite it seems to be falling behind the newer sets (WP, Shield, Bio) especially when it's mobility debuff is included.

Definitely. I don't see this set as strong enough to need either debuff compared with newer sets.

Yes there is. Two actually.

The first one is:

It's a multiplayer game, therefore the multiplayer path must be faster. There reason this exists is that teaming takes effort. Therefore if a solo path exists it becomes the path of least resistance. Before you know it teams disappear and you have an online single player game. People who like the group path can't find teams and leave.

The second is difficulty. Group content is inevitably more difficult to learn and requires greater co-ordination and tactics. People won't do it unless you make them. Once they have done it a few times, they learn it, and it ceases to be considered difficult. But people won't learn it if there is an alternative option.

Apart from it exactly matching what Alfred says he likes to imagine.

The move doesn't provide any evidence that it's NOT Alfred's imagination, either.

Nolan is deliberately ambiguous. It's up to the watcher. You want Bruce to be dead? He is dead. You want him to be alive? He is alive.

Incandescence is not advertised as a heal buff, or a defense buff, or any other specific type of buff. Chances are, you will have SOMETHING that it buffs.

If you advertise a power of buffing something specific, then you dam well better make sure it buffs all instances of the thing it claims to buff.

It's the specificity that makes Field Medic different from Power Boost and related powers.