Schismatrix

Which was completely unnecessary to boot. i mean, it's already been publicly announced that with i19 the Fitness pool will become available at level 2 as slottable inherent powers just like Rest and Brawl, and that the powers should have the same values as the current pool. So it seems that there was no reason to use closed beta info to make the patch/mod to Mids'.

Unless of course the values have actually been changed in the closed beta version of inherent Fitness and the Mids' mod uses those. That would be a bad thing to incorporate, especially considering that values in beta are always open to being changed.

Shouldn't be sisteren? Reads with less of a lisp that way.

Not in those exact words, no.

No, i'm not saying you don't know anything, but i am saying you don't know how to play this game well, and apparently something about its mechanics makes it so that you can't easily learn.

And in my opinion you're wrong. And that's speaking as someone whose current projects include levelling up a KM/DA Scrapper.

And yes, my opinion of your opinions is colored by your past assertions and threads where your supporting evidence involved scenarios that simply were not possible in this game being offered as proof of your correctness. So i tend to distrust any of your assertions on their face. Past behavior is generally a good barometer of present and future behavior unless something suggests that there's been a change. And in the past some of your assertions about endurance use have been so far from correct that they weren't even wrong.

i also agreed during your last crusade to have the game remade in your image of it that Defenders could use slightly better DPE, especially solo, as have many others, and that has been increased, but really it seems more like you simply don't want endurance to function as a limiting and balancing mechanism in the game at all. On that point i disagree.

Not a Dev post i take it? No idea offhand, but i know several posters have suggested things like that in the past. Recently even.

Okay, i'm now even more impressed with the commitment of a group who put this sort of work into a freely distributed player resource for a game. That's dedication.

While i recalled this as well, i couldn't remember the details, but that's okay, as i was reading your post i thought that i recalled it being stated in the patch notes as well, and lo and behold...

Master-Blade supplied the relevant notes.

Bravo, good sir. i tip my hat to you.

Honestly, i still feel he did some extremely good work here, and it's my opinion that the new company he's working for could really use him. The animation team that's here now has also been doing great work, so it's not like he left PS without a good animation team.

That is beyond awesome if it's true.

Read the comic preview, and the entirety of this thread. Honestly, this GN seems like it may be worth picking up. Not that i consider JMS a god of comics literature (i'm more likely to pick W(f'in)E for that), but this looks like it may be quite good.

On the other hand, i may just do all my builds over from scratch when i respec out Fitness anyway, so a clean start isn't so bad. The main reason i keep old builds saved is that there's occasionally a bit of slotting i liked in the old build and i can go back and look at it. That and occasionally i look at a character's slotting and go, "What the hell was i thinking?!" Then i go look it up in Mids'... "Oh, right. Still not what i would do now."

Edit: Just for the record, i love Mids' for designing builds and really appreciate everyone's work in keeping it current.

i do, but recipes like that i tend to vendor.

Still, Dam/Slow is an awesome description in context.

Wow, i even posted in that thread. No wonder his whines seemed familiar. The lying low for a bit approach worked on me, but only because the first time someone lays on the dumb like that i usually consider it a one-off and don't bother to remember them. Persistently helpful or obstructive posters i tend to remember.

*looks at prior thread a little more* And wow (again) he was even more smug and arrogant in his wrongness the last time.

i won't forget him next time, i promise.

Ultimo_, i know you can't and won't understand this, but it's not simply a personal attack. If someone kept posting that mob damage needs to be cut in half in almost every thread they posted in because all of their Tanker's defenses were usually slotted with nothing but endurance and recharge reducers and then assert their Tankers died in every fight in less than half the time any Tanker would with no defenses did in all other players' tests, and when told how to slot effectively insisted that they shouldn't have to slot like that... Well, if you saw them post the same basic assertion again and again and again would you pretend this was the first time they'd posted anything like that, or would you point out that they've been doing it for a long time, and have been demonstrably wrong all the previous times?

Most of us would do the latter, even though of course the person in question would see it as a personal attack.

The simple fact is that you have almost no useful understanding of the game's mechanics and balance. You have demonstrated time and time again that you don't care to know either, you just want to build a particular type of character and the actual game's balance mechanics and design goals be damned, you'll keep insisting the game should be changed to accommodate your desires regardless of whether it's compatible or balanced with the rest of the game's mechanics.

Whenever anyone points out that with a little effort it's possible to achieve what you want within the game's design anyway you simply insist you should have everything you want handed to you with no skill or effort required on your part.

Frankly, it's probably only a matter of time until someone links and/or quotes the dozen or so previous threads where it was explained, in detail, why what you want is undesirable (and unnecessary when a little knowledge about and skill with the game that's actually here is used).

Frankly, it's the fact that your past "evidence" has turned out to be absurd exaggerations or outright lies that are not possible within the actual game that has made it so that i can no longer take you at all seriously. Multiple players, including myself, have attempted to verify your past assertions and have demonstrated that they are either flat out wrong or only accomplished by actively sabotaging yourself. This is only a personal attack in the sense that you are being held accountable for what you have posted in the past and continue to post now.

If anyone else would care to do the honors and present some of that history i would be much obliged... Personally i don't have the patience or stomach for that Carnival of Wrong anymore.

WHEEEEE! Ultimo_'s back and nothing's changed!

*adds popcorn to the shopping list*

Yeah, you'll notice that he just stopped posting when dozens of people started posting about their real world knowledge and experiences regarding networks and latency. No mea culpa, no admission that he might not have had all the facts, just silence. i'm pretty confident that he's still convinced he was right despite all the testimony and explanations to the contrary and will make the same uninformed assertions in a few months when he thinks people have forgotten.

Despite the fact that the internet will still work just the same as it does now, which is not at all how he thinks it does.

Well, that's not quite accurate. The amount xp lost to the damage done by confused enemies is a fraction of what you would lose to an unteamed player's damage.

Per the wiki:
An enemy defeated entirely by Confused critters is worth no experience. An enemy that's partially damaged by Confused critters is worth partial experience. However, the split is not perfectly proportional, like it is when multiple competing teams fight the same enemy. When a Confused critter damages another, only 1/4 of its damage counts toward "stealing" experience. The other 3/4 is removed from the target's maximum health before comparing how much damage everyone dealt to it.

i'm hoping he meant a Gravity/Energy Dom. That is one of the closest analogues to Green Lantern i can think of in terms of general power usage.

Fixed.

i've recently encountered spammers at various markets. i always select "ignore as spammer" and continue with my business.

*shhhh* Still not wrong. It's reality that is incorrect.

Tactics on a Defender-
-6.488 Confused for 0.75s If NOT on a PvP map [Non-resistable]
Effect does not stack from same caster

Vengeance on a Defender-

• -10 Terrorized for 120s If target does not have Vengeance [Non-resistable]
  Effect does not stack from same caster

• -10 Repel for 120s If target does not have Vengeance [Ignores Enhancements & Buffs] [Non-resistable]
  Effect does not stack from same caster

Combat Jumping-
-8.304 Immobilize for 0.75s If NOT on a PvP map
Effect does not stack from same caster

Acrobatics-

• -2 Knockback, Knockup, Held for 1.25s If NOT on a PvP map
  Effect does not stack from same caster

That was my immediate thought as well, but then i remembered that according to je_saist je_saist is never wrong. So it's obviously the game that is wrong.