PrincessDarkstar

I don't think the snipe change will have much effect to be honest, making it almost require Aim or Build Up essentially puts it on a 120s timer, or a 60s timer if you have both powers.

If they just made snipes into quick casting powers on those kind of crazy recharges people wouldn't be happy, but the tohit gimmick seems to have misdirected people.

I haven't played blaster in some time so wasn't totally updated on that particular power (And mids takes ages to load at work so I didn't check) but I would never want radial KB on any character in all honesty. If the power does stun though then I would have probably been the one person who took it, assuming I could find something to stack it with of course.

The PBAoE aura's do (I think it was Fire's that provides the absorb?), even with a 30' range that isn't very much (Or people wouldn't be complaining about Blaze), and as they get the shield based on what they hit then the closer you are the more effective they are.

For blasters to be as effective from range as they are from melee then survivability powers need to work at any time, or you are forcing those who want to play ranged only even more into a narrow set of secondaries because before we could just skip Blazing Aura now we suffer for that decision.

It would have been easier just adjusting base regen initially and seeing how that helped, with a long term (And well communicated) plan of incoroprating that regen into more active powers once the effect had been determined.

I wasn't around pre-inventions so didn't realise that. But HO's were never set as a requirement in order to partake in any other content that I know of, so you were never really required to repeat it and those that chose not too were never left out.

But they should buff what the power was originally intended to do so it works, not tack on a desirable effect to an otherwise undesirable power.

I don't know about Lightning Clap but it sounds like on of those god awful PBAoE KB powers and without fixing that then you are forcing people into bad powers. Also a lot of these changes force blasters into melee even more than before, which beggers belief in all honesty.

Which is the point of what I wrote.

Tankers are never going to get a lot of damage, the best you can (I think) hope for is that your niche of not dying will actually start to have a reason for existing. I agree with quite a lot of your posts (Though I don't eactly know much about you) but wasn't the reason you picked a tanker because you wanted to be the 'tank'?

In other MMO's (Which CoX now seems to be taking after) the tank takes more damage than anything else and keps the team safe by active use of their powers. Letting other characters get slightly more affected by damage so that they are actually in danger, but without completely overpowering everything with death patches is a good way to allow tankers to take advantage of that survivability. 20% unresistable damage on AV's isn't going to have any real effect on squishies which die in 1 hit anyway and will actually put brutes and scrappers in danger slightly, but not by a great deal.

You still won't be able to fall asleep during Marked for Death etc because you will have to pay attention to make sure you save the right person at the right time, and then you will get hurt by the power, so might have to make sure Dull Pain or similar is available for you which makes for a more active tanking style.

If you don't want tankers to tank then that is a different story and I think I know enough to stop the arguement there.

No but stopping others from faceplanting in the face of unresitable damage would be. People will be able to rely on a good tanker and won't have run to away from death patches and similar mechanics as much, which in turn will increase efficiency and speed. It would be like taunt, but for special game mechanics rather than mobs.

Edit: The death patch thing could be set so that if you are actually IN the death patch you take a certain % of damage away from everyone else to the point where most people will probably survive but you might be in a bit of trouble, which means you will have to pay attention even more than now. And bad tanking will be very noticable as it is in other games.

Edit 2: I do agree that you need something to help solo as well, but that can be entirely seperate and wasn't what I was talking about.

I am pretty sure it is and always has been +tohit.

There are several places where the devs swap accuracy and tohit around accidentally.

It occurs to me that they must be measuring this kind of statistic for all powers. And it surprises me that they don't have a threshold where if a power is underused it gets changed. Or alternatively they do and we are just wrong about power use.

I think a change to the modifiers and caps that brutes get can easily wedge them between scrappers and tanks without stepping too much on eithers toes.

The fact the game doesn't really need tanks even in incarnate content means people should be shouting at poor game design rather than for buffs or nerfs.

If tanks were the only things that could resist all AV's damage it would go a long way (IE: Make maybe 20% of an AV's damage unresistable and let only tanks resist that). You can still get by without a tank, but a tank makes things easier. Letting them stand in death patches or pull things like Marked for Death away from the random targets onto themselves (And then having less impact) would be nice.

Thus brutes stay where they are, but the very top end which most don't reach anyway is lowered, and tanks get some unique mechanics that people will actually want on a team.

I wasn't on about the team size. I was saying that just because the team needs to be larger doesn't show a new person that the trial is going to be significantly different from the rest of the game and require a whole new level of organisation.

In smaller teams though you get less people who don't show respect (People in general get more and more ignorant the larger a crowd they are in) and it is almost always less of an issue if they don't behave aside from the occasional side case. I have never felt the need to give a speech before any fight and never been in a situation where I failed completely due to not having an understanding of the mechanics (And I don't kick people from teams unless they are clearly being annoying on purpose, or talking to much because I hate that).

The way trials provide rewards also encourage people to get annoyed at the guy who isn't sure what to do, if you mess up earning a badge you lose rewards for the whole trial, if you mess up in a TF not much happens and you certainly don't deprive other people.

Maybe, but was that ever designed to be repeated over and over as the only means of progression past a certain point? I have done 1 hami raid and will never do one again unless they revamp it, but even as the tank I never felt that I could cause the raid to fail and annoy 49 other people.

None of those require anything other than a basic understanding of how to play the game (Not jumping onto 10 AV's at the end of the LRSF is fairly self evident), aside from the MSR, which gets explained by some guy you can't miss as you run through the Vanguard base. And if you hadn't read what that guy says you wouldn't even know about the MSR.

As I said above, the guy in the Vanguard base tells you what to do, and if you haven't seen that I don't think there is another way to even know the MSR exists. And as with the hami raid, one person who doesn't know about the bombs is never going to stop people earning rewards, and it doesn't have to be repeated over and over as the only way to progress.

Bingo.

Something which affect the customers should never get a 'don't care' no matter how small.

That is all I am saying. And no Schismatrix I am not lying (Or getting worked up, which I keep having to stress), but there are very few threads about things I really care about that people are replying to

In the restaurant analogy if one chef closes at 10 and the other at 11 that will annoy some people, so the owner should have had the sense not to employ 2 chefs with different schedules. If doesn't matter if the closing time is 10 or 11, but having it bounce around on the whim of whoever happens to turn up that day is not good business.

I totally get why it has changed, all I am saying is that the very idea of letting someone do it in their spare time was stupid in the first place. If a warm body was needed what were they on to decide to do it out of hours?

Also I am sigging this

Very few MO teams don't contain defenders.

I think they did it because they thought it would be a good idea at the time, but forgot to have a fallback of adding crates or something whever anyone can pick up a temp power to cover the missing ones.

Until seeing this thread and being reminded about this stupid mechanic I was looking forward to trying to solo this TF. But I will have to settle for the Khan version instead, which is so much less fun

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Somewhere there must be a file containing the word 'Critical' as is applies to scrappers, and if they put that on client side maybe we could edit it as we please.

If is no more confusing that black fire. Though perhaps seeing '*****!' or 'All ****** up!' appear above somethings head might not be such a good thing.

It is still an outlier by a decent margin, just no longer as good as running a duo on your own as it is when paired with Fire.

Bu is once every 90s? (Or is it 120?)

I already skip Build Up because the uptime is worthless outside of massive recharge builds, and being able to use a power I wouldn't normally use once in that stupidly long gap is no reason to take it and dedicate what would likely have to be 6 slots to it.

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I find this a very strange thing for anyone to say. Electric Blast is awful.

Judging by how careful they seem to be with wording everything they say to us I would take this is pretty close to the company line. Which means they don't have the stones they need to bring blasters up to the right level of performance because it would take a long time and upset the few people who would doubltlessly prefer blasters not even get looked at.

Imho every power in the secondary sets should get some kind of active mitigation added to it and have most of the damage removed. Primary sets should be looked at so sets don't end up with lots of ranged powers then a random pbaoe or useless cone. Snipes should be fixed instead of gimicked and nukes should be standardised as crashless and on long timers rather than allowed to be crutches for certain poor sets.

I would rather see nothing for ages and then a proper revamp done rather than pitiful changes made step by step until they feel we are happy enough to stop complaining.

The very size of the league makes it more likely that you will have impatient people in the team who have no patience for you not knowing what you are doing.

If a newbie attacks Anti-Matter early they will get jumped by the rest of their team, that never used to happen.

And I still don't fully understand some timed phases of Keyes so could run out of time there without a leader and/or a few people who do know what to do. Then there are always people who always make comments like 'If you don't know what to do with temp power A pass it along' which helps nobody, and 'why aren't you throwing that grenade at Marauder you noob'.

Where is this advertised? Or do you think having a larger team means people should automatically expect to be playing a different game?

There is no way to fail 99% of the normal content, and I would never expect to be able to fail trials either (I don't count not bringing enough firepower as failing, you should always bring a decently made team the first time you run something).

It may be a loaded answer but it would be a VERY telling one. Similar stats might show lots of skipped T9's for scrappers but that can be waved away by saying IO's do away with the need for them, nothing really does away with the need for more damage.

Compare the % of times an Archery blaster uses RoA (Use/recharge) to say a Fire blaster using Inferno.

I would love to see this kind of information. But of course the devs don't think they can find which powers we think are fun through metric according to a post in the Hybrid thread somewhere.