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Well, I would never purposely try to give someone debt, I want to get the kill, not let some stupid NPC get it. But no matter how you get it, debt is really not hard to work off, even at the cap, which is quite low compared to how fast a good team can gain exp.

If you don't want to be attacked by a player, don't go into PvP zones. If you do go into the zone you might get attacked, maybe repeatedly, maybe by the same person, you might even get debt. If you can't handle that then please don't go to the open PvP zones, the last thing we need is people crying over spilt milk when we're trying to have fun.

It's an open PvP zone. How many times will this have to be repeated, by how many Heroes, Villains, and Dev's before people actually listen.

If you don't want to deal with it don't go there.

If you want to have your safe happy fun time, stay in PvE.

If you want a safe happy fun time against other players in a pre-arranged meeting, go to the arena, or defeat the people attacking you in the PvP zone.

Thanks for coming through with some improvements to SR. The combination of Damage Resistance Inspirations, Resistance to Defense Debuffs, and this interesting change should make my SR hero more fun to play. However, I'm very curious to find out what the specifics on this will be, such as:

1. How will this Damage Resistance be typed? Is there a mechanism for positional typed Damage Resistance?

2. Will the buffs in the three auto powers stack with each other? Or will they provide resistance to different types of damage? Or will just having one of them unlock this innate escalating resistance auto-power.

3. Will this buff be enhanceable? This would be a nice option, as I'm sure you're aware there aren't many diversification opportunities when slotting the SR powers.

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Do the resistances stack and apply to all debuffs?

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Yes.

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I agree wholeheartedly with the spirit of this proposed change, but I think that it misses the primary problem with Defense-based sets (in PvP at least): the overpowering nature of toHit buffs. With a single click, an unslotted Aim, a moderately slotted Build Up, or a heavily slotted Focused Accuracy/Targeting Drone negates an entire Defense-based line, even fully 6-slotted.

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Understood; we're still working on this.

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In my saner moments this kind of thing makes me feel good about the direction of the game.

At this exact moment, I am [censored] pissed off about how worthless /SR is in the arena. I entered a 6v6 SHW match and came out with all my defensive "guns" blazing. I toggled up CJ, FF, FS, and Evasion, I clicked PB, and Elude, and Eye of the Magus, and 4 small lucks. You know how long I survived? 10 seconds. Some Ice/Eng just clicked Aim and 2 attacks and I was worthless for the next 5 minutes of a 10 minute match. Hasten was down forever, PB was down forever, Elude was down for 5 bloody minutes, and I'm just a punching bag for the other team. My team would've been better off if I had just quit the match.

I guess I should have used at least 8 lucks on top of my passives, toggles, Elude (a situational power so incredibly strong it needs a 1000 second recharge to be balanced, yet is completey useless against anyone with Aim, Buildup, Focused Accuracy, Tactics, or Targeting Drone), and Eye of the Magus. Then I would have been able to actually play for 60 seconds before getting annihilated and rendered useless for the next 4 minutes.

I still have hope for SR, but I really do not enjoy it as it currently exists.

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If you're in your weight class, Hamidon Enhancements are killer.

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Well, guess if I don't want to get blown away in PvP I better join a time-flagged guild and start raiding the Planes so I can get into an elemental-flagged guild and get the uber armor drops.

Oh wait, that's Eq, and it sucked.

Seriously though, I am looking forward to some fun battles on Test with a lvl 44 copy of my hero, but I won't force myself to sit through Hami raids full of jerk-hackers just to compete at 45+ when it goes live.