Smersh

Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane

To date, almost all of the dev's 'challenging content' has been like that. The STF, Reichsman's stuns and damage, etc. Now they promise content that's even harder. Forget midground, I suspect Recluse on the STF will be on the lower end of the new stuff.

Regarding softcapping Defense: I suspect any new enemies we'll be facing will heavily debuff Defense to counter that. The irony I see in that is, a lot of times that doesn't bother the softcappers and hurts people with only a medium level of Defence first; the first couple of -Def attacks hit, and then more land and stack causing Defense to cascade down to nothing. Meanwihle someone with high defense may never get hit with the -Def, or not hit often enough to start the cascade past the tipping point. Cimerorans do that. I've watched Invul Tankers without Tough or softcapped Defense get chewed up by them at the wall while a Scrapper who's softcapped but with much less HP and resistance walk away nearly untouched.

Castle may be willing to live with everyone having the same softcap, but he better have something planned to deal with situations like the above.


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Originally Posted by Grey Pilgrim

But Castle made it clear a few months ago that he is living with everyone having the same defense softcap, and (if I'm reading notes right) the removal of changes to the Brute resist cap seems to indicate that is not going to happen. I'm not sure, though, as no one seems able to tell me what happened there. Grrr.

Originally Posted by Werner

Well, my Martial Arts/Fiery Aura Scrapper has apparently been significantly buffed, and I was already enjoying him. I'll keep leveling him, at least when I can pull myself away from committing crimes against humanity with my Fire/Shield.

And now I have to give serious thought to Katana/Fire instead of the Katana/Electric I was thinking of making.

Originally Posted by Stormfront_NA

Mmm...

The changes to fiery aura are a great step in the right direction in bringing the fire tank back into the mainstream as opposed to the closet...

There are two critical short falls fiery aura has at this moment that makes a fire tank suspect:

1. No Knock Back Protection
2. No Toggle based Immobilization Protection

Burn has been improved from a "scarecrow" power back to an attack power, that is excellent, it helps the fire tanker with their mission to hold aggroe for the team.

Burn atm provides very time limited immobilization protection, I have found myself often in a span immob situation, and frankly burn just don't cut it, the immob break free seems to only work within the field of fire, and as soon as I step out of the fire I can be immobilized again; this effect seriously questions my ability to move against mobs attacking my fellow team mates and getting my taunt in range to help the belaguered Defender...

While Knockback protection should really be a standard, I can live with this short fall, because I can buy IOs to help with it, the cost of them is painful, but one can a gal do?

But the immobilization is a real problem in allowing me to perform my mission as a tank in my group, and there ar no IOs to protect me from it,besides making the time I am stuck shorter; which is of little solace to the Defender getting two shot killed, because I failed at my job as an aggroe magnet.

I would love to see were Fire Aura would give me KBP MAG 12, and Plasma Aura give me Immob mag 12 resistance.

Stormy

Ps: I want my Fire tank to be a real tank

Originally Posted by DSorrow

I haven't checked yet, but is KM available with SD?

Originally Posted by Cheeze_Head

I think the subject speaks for itself but I suppose I'll explain a bit more. For my first GR toon I was planning on making a DB/SR scrapper (because it seemed ub3r cool ) and then I realized the following; why bother with SR since many secondaries can do what SR can, with the added bonus of other utilities and whatnot, by just IOing it up. I realize it would take a bit more work for other sets to soft cap than SR, however, I feel the point remains valid.

Originally Posted by Attercap

I think there's a clause in his contract where his characters must die in 90% of all his projects.

I love the books and I only hope GRRM can keep up his writing "schedule" before the show is forced to deviate too far from the fiction due to lack of printed work.

Originally Posted by USA America

No it is awful of the devs to give people who pre-purchased very little time to beta test it. I would like to be able have input in GR, but at this point all the features are locked and probably 95% of the bugs are squashed. I also will never pre-purchase from them again.

Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang

Eh, he worked with what he had.

We've seen that Affleck can act, but the creative team behind Daredevil certainly didn't help.

Originally Posted by Hemily

yes, i'm quite aware of that.

What i mean... that does not look like a eye patch, looks more like he's installed a harddrive in his eye socket.

Originally Posted by Coin

Can I ask, what's a Zen site?