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It's worth noting that, with SOs, a tank can hit the defense soft cap to Psi with Minerals (and pool powers). So moving the other armors up to par with Minerals would let the set hit the defense soft cap to everything (except Toxic, which doesn't have a defense) on SOs alone. Much as I like the set, that seems like too much buff -- it would be better than Super Reflexes if you cut granite out of the set entirely and put nothing at all in its place. That wouldn't be fair to the other sets.

I love KB too, but Gale has that accuracy penalty and Hurricane is autohit and has a monster debuff.

My take on the OP's question is "Storm by a mile." A Stormie can floor enemy to-hit with Hurricane alone on SOs, and to paraphrase Alien, "In solo, no one complains about knocback."

Hurricane's debuff is actually better than the defense soft cap. Enemies have the same floored chance to hit you, but 'Cane's knockback has them ragdolled a significant portion of the time, during which time they cannot attack at all, so their chance to hit is zero. If you don't mind throwing things around, it's awesome.

Storm has other fun powers too, of course, including one of the game's best debuffs (Freezing Rain). But when you can literally reduce your enemies to rag dolls flopping helplessly at your feet with one power, all the other powers are just gravy.

Nevertheless, buffing Blaster ranges would be a direct buff to Blasters without adding anything at all to melee-centered ATs or the buffers/debuffers.

Well, this looks like a compromise between the pro-knockback and the elminiate-all-knockback factions. You can eliminate knockback in one key area, but it won't disappear from the game.

Since knockback is a fundamental -- perhaps THE fundamental -- superhero effect, it never seemed likely it would be entirely eliminated from the game. This compromise may be less than you hoped for, but it does have some utility.

I can't tell what you're trying to say here.

This, for me, is huge. The short-range attacks are the heavy hitters. This change will eliminate the need to close in to use them; they can be chained with the other attacks at standoff range, adding both speed and ease-of-use to their already strong damage. VERY nice. Good news for hover-blasting too. :P

Perhaps (non-Blaster) characters with Force Bubble will like this change the most, though. :P

I don't think so. By definition, "grind" is a word used by people who resent doing what's required to earn the exp. I submit that anyone who considers himself to be "grinding" will not find the time spent "reasonable."

Nice that they fixed it, but did I miss the announcement? I always try to read the patch notes for stuff like that.

Your screenie is hard to read at that resolution, but it looks like there's another sale for 999,999,999 in the last 5? Good gravy, you did find a nice niche.

I dunno, I see a lot of min-maxers dismiss mezzes as not that valuable -- particularly weak mezzes, which a Tier 1 pool mezz would indeed be. I hardly ever see power players recommend skipping status protection, however.

So Redoptic is using Nethergoat as an example of an outsider the forum regulars picked on?

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Heh.

That's funny, because everyone else also gets annoyed by being misled. How odd that anyone would think it has something to do with nerds!

Context, my boy, context. If you can quote it you can link to it, so the rest of us can see the full context of what you're talking about.

Yeah. But so what? If people as a whole don't like suggestoins, you can't make them like suggestions by changing forums. Wherever suggestions wind up being put most of the time, people will grow accustomed to seeing them there and, if they don't like reading them, ignore them or the subforum itself. Unless you start tricking people by titling the threads deceptively, which is just lame, or deliberately hopping from forum to forum and hiding each suggestion in a new place, like an Easter egg. "I put this into a different forum to generate more views" is kind of abusing everyone else's goodwill. And I say this as someone who has posted numerous suggestions in that forum, and who frequents it.

On every message board I've ever seen, there's always someone who insists that the regulars are hostile to outsiders/newcomers. Usually I don't see it, and I don't really see it here, either. I suspect a certain amount of sour grapes might be involved in the perception that it's only a club for insiders.

Just look around the forum. Good suggestions seem to generate a fair amount of positive response, no matter who they come from. People are quite willing to say, "hey, I support this!" It's never occurred to me to judge a suggestion on anything but its merits as I perceive them. There are a lot of posters whose names I recognize, but none I feel any need to suck up to with false flattery.

Badly-thought-out suggestions, redundant ones, and incomplete ones tend to fare worse. One pattern you'll see often is when someone posts a very commonly-asked-for suggestion, because that person himself/herself hasn't been reading the Suggestions forum regularly, and people are dismissive. Sure, they might be coming across as rude, but it's not a very solid counterargument to say "I want you to pay more attention to me even though I myself haven't been paying attention to everyone else."

People who put in at least some effort to see if their casual inspiration has already been suggested, and discover that it HAS been done to death, typically refrain from posting it. We don't see those threads, of course, which may bias casual readers toward the impression newcomers are dealt with harshly. Without endorsing harsh treatment of anybody, I would argue that the preponderance of threads that garner significant negative responses actually did at least one thing to deserve, if not negativity, at least indifference.

You could search on this topic -- there's a lot of past discussion available.