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Originally Posted by Tzedekiel

The Beta server is the final version of the game that anyone will ever see - you will never have another chance, come play blasters on Beta!

- Respec tokens can be had free from the points store
- All IO sets can be had free from the points store (no farming required!)
- Incarnate slots and abilities do not have to be farmed up through repeated Trials (just pay inf basically, which you can copy over from live)

Your only motivation for doing stuff is PLAIN OLD FUN, of which there is still a month's worth to be had blasting the crap out of stuff. Are you nuts? Are you stupid?

Originally Posted by Crim_the_Cold

That gives me an idea. Standard code rant applies to this but doesn't it to everything. How often in comics do we see thugs and other minions blasted backward by a Superbeing and knocked out or otherwise incapacitated by their landing? Pretty often right?

My proposal is this: Introduce a scaling dmg effect to knockback that is affected by two things. First the magnitude of the knockback after an enemy's knockback protection and resistance are applied determines the base damage. A safe number that makes a good example is 10 damage per point of knockback that makes it through protection and resistance. Then that damage is multiplied by the enemy's class modifier. Minions get a 2, lieutenants get a 1, bosses get a 0.5, EBs and AVs get a 0.25 and Player Characters get a 1(its only fair that if it affects them it affects us). So if a minion gets hit with a mag 4 knockback it does 80 additional smashing damage but if a boss gets hit with a mag 4 it does an additional 20 damage.

The numbers can be played with until they are reasonable and powers that have a very high number can be flagged with a limiter. I only used 10 in the example above because it was an easy number to work with. This would make knockback more damaging to the enemies it is most likely to disperse causing them to be defeated faster. It makes knockback more useful and less annoying to the min-max crowd and the I Love my KB crowd get to do more with their KB.

That and when I go Minion Golfing in the Hollows with Force Bolt when I pop a Troll Slugger into the side of a building the impact will defeat it like it should.

Originally Posted by Sailboat

Cranky rant coming, since you asked.

Knockback is a critical part of superhero/villain culture. It's usually good for the team. Certain uses of it can be detrimental in some ways, sure, but certain uses of DPS are ALSO potentially detrimental (don't believe that? Ask any Kin who's seen the target of Transfusion killed before the animation finishes). Do you want to change the game to let people turn off damage, since it can (in theory) be detrimental?

Games are about choosing how to play within the rules, not necessarily about lobbying to change the rules. Sure, pawns in chess would be "better" if they could move any distance and capture in every direction. Chess is old, why do we "still" have weak pawns? Do ranked chess players argue for stronger pawns? Why not?

I don't want to turn off my knockback and, although I don't really have a right to want this, I don't want munchkins turning off their own knockback either, whether that's because they can't figure out how to play with knockback, or because they only want DPS and nothing else. The game's worked this way for seven years and comics have worked this way since they were first published. I'm not against change, but this is fundamental change for what are, IMHO, not-very-good reasons.

I've been annoyed by people misusing area knockback too, believe it or not. (In my case, it's almost always Peacebringers, for some reason.) But the constant pressure to "turn off" or get rid of knockback vastly exceeds reasonable response, IMHO.

For a slightly parallel example, look at all the complaints about slow-animating attacks like Energy Transfer "corpse blasting," i.e., taking so long to take effect that some other player defeats the target first. So what? Imagine that ET had hit quickly, defeating the target -- then the OTHER player's attack(s) would have been wasted by "corpse blasting." In BOTH cases, the target is dead and exp is earned, but there's still monumental grumbling about the illusion that MY OWN click should have done it instead of YOURS. Yes, it can be irritating, but again, not worth all the electrons spilled over it down the years.

Originally Posted by Mega_Jamie

So I'm being unrealistic hoping for Dark regeneration on Doms?

Originally Posted by nytflyr

"the tentacles have been replaced with more of an inky shadowy feel." does that mean the same for other darkness powers? i hate the tentacles!

Originally Posted by Kractis_Sky

Staff Fighting is actually the new MM set miexd with sonic:

1. yell at employees: foe -rez all
2. intern: basic pet, needs a lot of texting time
3. screem: pbaoe sonic
4. train lackey: pet upgrade
5. repremand: high damage sonic
6. secrataries: 3-5 pets
7. staff meeting: leadership-like uprade for entire staff +acc +def
8. manager high grade pet
9. Restructure: after long years of devoted service, "restucturing" causes general enragement +dam and randomly targetting an employee to be fired, sending your manager in a blind *RAGE* ending with self destruct

Originally Posted by Wonderslug

Ah! Then how, pray tell, can you be certain they're not all using female forms right now?

For all you know novas could be waving their ovipositors right in your face.