Private Eyes

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

tl:dr nerdgarble

Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex

I love Cold Domination but I will stand by what I said about desiring it less than a Dominator for dealing with large groups of enemies. The Dominator is simply much better at dealing with the group than the Cold is, in general, and provides the same AoE -Resistance. Why do you feel its ok to compare Cold to FF but not Cold to Dominators, who also have power overlaps?
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Originally Posted by EarthWyrm

It's quotes like this that make me miss the rep system.

Originally Posted by Bocus_King

you sound like a broken record

Originally Posted by Grey Pilgrim

He was a tad snarky in his response to you, but it was warranted. You were getting annoyed about him making sweeping generalizations when he wasn't. He said he would have to look into it a lot further... here's his first post on that bit. "I'd have to look at specific builds and slotting to see what's going on there, but that's a project I don't have time for now." He wasn't saying that he would make a change to powers, just that he would have to look and see if there were outliers if he had time.

Then you posted what you did, and he replied snarkily because he already covered your concern. People do not like being misconstrued, even if it's almost to be expected on an internet forum.

For those all worried about a change to Shield Charge, here's a reminder of what he said:

"FWIW, nothing is going to be done about this for now. It's too big and widespread of an issue for me to unilaterally decide on how to approach it. I'll give folks a heads up on what is decided as soon as I know."

Castle isn't making wild presumptions, and he's going to look into things thoroughly. So no more overreacting.

Originally Posted by Castle

Gosh, I dunno, maybe that's why I said it was a bigger project than I could look into at the moment? I'm well aware there are a vast number of variables that go into performance, and that this particular case is rather "edge case" in the first place. Do I think there is a real problem with Dark Melee? No, not really. There *could* be, there is at least some "evidence" of it, but without deconstructing what's going on, I don't know. That evidence is NOT the fact that under certain circumstances, it can generate 300 dps, it *is* the fact that it can generate roughly the same DPS as Fire Melee, which is meant to have higher DPS than other sets since it has less soft-control.

Originally Posted by theheat

1. Thats way too many big words to understand after work and a few beers.

2. What about SC not being affected by AAO?

Originally Posted by Warkupo

Awesome comeback. You'll have to get all your stuffed animals together and discuss that witty retort.

Originally Posted by Warkupo

Except that it *was* intellectual, thus 'grown up' words aren't out of place. Personally I applaud anyone who attempts to use the English language instead of just mercilessly butchering it like I do. I'm telling you that you have bad reading comprehension because you obviously didn't read the entire thing where actual points were made, which is something I'm sure you've never actually done.

I'm insulting your intelligence, not confused about your message, but you're so thick and full of yourself you couldn't even pick up on that.

I'm doing this because I don't like you.

Originally Posted by Warkupo

no u

*EDIT* - Assuming you can get over the weally big tuff words, of course.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

What does ego have to do with anything. I don't have to guess not because I'm so amazingly smart that I can deduce everything like Sherlock Holmes: I don't have to guess because I discuss these matters with the devs often, and have for years, and because in many cases I've actually seen, first hand, the specific things I'm talking about. When I say "Castle can't just trivially sort the powers system into damaging and non-damaging powers" that's not a guess, and not an attempt to impress you with my powers of observation. Its a simple statement of fact.

Its no more egotistical of me to state that the powers system doesn't work that way than it would be for Castle or one of the powers designers to state that, or for another player to state that Power Blast does 1.64 scale damage. For me, its just a simple, completely non-controversial fact.

If you think I'm being egotistical because someone is calling me essentially either a liar or a really bad guesser, and further implying either malice or intellectual dishonesty by claiming I'm deliberately constructing strawmen to obfuscate the problem and impede a solution, when what I am stating are the actual facts of the situation, and I've decided to pack the dirt onto the hole after pushing him into it, well, *that* sort of ego I have no problem with. If you're going to try to capture the intellectual high ground with me and you think you can get away with doing that balancing on one leg while standing on beachball, I might decide to tip you over face first and then laugh. I make no apologies for that. Heck: link to the thread and proclaim that facet of my egotisticalness anywhere you want, because I'm not ashamed of that.