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I am not sure I wouldn't say the change to Energy Drain wasn't a violation. I still have only barely played my /EA brute because without the heal in Energy Drain, I really have to respec and change some things around so I can pick up Energize. I had a great build that was pretty much ruined by that change. I still think it is likely the changes are for the better, generally, but I really wish they would not have messed with my heal.

When it comes to roleplay, nothing in the game forces anything on me. If I don't like the story as written, I'll change the little pieces that bother me.

Heck, it is easier in this game than in table top games. In table tops games, I actually have to care how the story exists for my friends, in CoH, I can pretend as I need for my own benefit.

Do I like when the story as written is how I prefer it? Duh, of course. Do I figure this GM has to write a modestly static story for tens and hundreds of thousands of individuals and can't craft it specifically for each gaming group? Pretty much.

That said, I would encourage the devs to allow more dastardly stuff in the villain plot lines. Vincent Ross is a great example. Heck, the enemy in that could have been CoT or Mu instead of Legacy Chain, and my villain could have saved the world (or at least Sharkhead) from those evil morons and it still wouldn't have changed the fact that I was working primarily for myself, with a little bit of aiding Vincent in his quest for vengeance.

SSA1 could have been more villainous with us still stopping Wade in the end, I agree.

You could choose to read it as, "Wink, wink, 'the greater good'. Man, we get away with so much when we claim that ********!"

Art is in the eye of the beholder, not just in the hands of the artists (especially role-playing games, where give and take between players and GMs has always been required).

Not that I am opposed to the idea of helping the big bad until the very end, stabbing him in the back, foiling his plans, and taking some of the uber for ourselves.

Hmm. I24. That seems a bit early.

I am missing the poor performance part of this. What about changing the time from X to y is poor performance? What about this needed to be planned out other than, OK, we will put stuff up on the market at time X. Months pass. Time X doesn't work for the new guy, we are changing it to time y.

That is poor performance? How?

Great idea! 'Dis I like very much.

Excellent.

We have them all fooled.

You're not there to siphon off power? Or steal powerful objects/technology? Or maybe you figure if you eliminate Cole then Hamidon will overrun Praetoria and wouldn't that be glorious chaos and destruction? Of course, with Cole out of the way, Praetoria is ripe for you to loot or take over instead of allowing Hami in.

Or maybe you just like that you might be able to go kill some people? Perhaps you egomaniacalness wants to prove itself against a truly tough foe, worthy of your greatness?

I guess it would be nice if the devs added some of that into more of the stories for you to read, but I can't really see why they need to when it is so much better to allow me to come up with my own reasons, rather than shoehorn me into one of many possible reasons.

I have never done this on a controller, but I have seen it done and I have done it on my Mind/Fire dom for various reasons.

Telekinesis sets up containment. Turn TK on, throw AoE, turn TK off. Done well the enemy ends up grouped nicer than before the TK. With recharge this is a once a spawn thing, but an SG mate of mine said it worked pretty good. Of course, with a corner it can be left on as needed. Granted, this only works on smaller spawn sizes, but I thought it was nifty when I saw it done.

Since at least 2007, that is very low priority.

ru sure?

Sigh. So true and it still makes me sad they never fixed it (but it is understandable that they didn't change it too). There is one potential way to grant blasters a form of defense that avoids the stacking issue, Elusivity; abosrb avoids the stacking issue for resistance. So there is hope.

I'd likely do it in secondaries since they have powers that make sense for that and it avoids issues (although now two primary sets will have heal powers, so...).

Is there anyway to gain traction on the counter-mez in the single target attacks idea?

Despite the hesitation against it, I still think some modest resists or defense is vital because the counter-mez plan is good and fits, but at the suggested radii I have seen, it will not be enough. Resists/defense give time to respond and alter course a bit. I also think every blaster secondary has powers that already make thematic sense to have some resists or defense added. (I guess absorb could work as well, and since these changes won't happen until I25 , that will give a fair amount of time for the devs to appraise absorb in live play).

+regen is also workable, but I do not think it will be as useful (alone) to the average player as it might be to stronger players.

Personally, I very much prefer adding abilities to current blaster powers and doing so in specific ways so each set retains different flavor. While some changes could be made AT wide, I'd rather see more variety. Obviously some things would need to be similar (i.e. if they added resists or defense, Sm/Le resists/defense would want to be included generally and range for defense), but after those then it should split thematically (Energy resist for Electric, Fire/Cold for Fire, etc).

I agree, plus it isn't all the time. Domination gets a bit annoying on my perma-dom. I love criticals, overpower, and the Dual Blades stuff though.

Woah (intended) is me! I only get to use this crappy Blaze power.

This should not be happening. The last I played with it in PvE, getting mezzed did not shut off the toggle. If the toggle is getting shutoff in PvP due to mez, I would bug it.

Dehydrate is a single target attack with a minor heal component (think Life Drain). From my testing, it is a solid attack and the heal component is a good addition.

Adding a heal on top of Drain Psyche adds mitigation, so they should work nicely together. Water Blast also has some good soft control, which helps allow the regen from Drain Psyche to work.

Someone has to make that decision, and that someone is not you. If they make a decision you agree with, you praise them. If they make a decision you disagree with, you denigrate them as if they were foolish.

I don't always agree with their decisions, but I hope I have never come across as looking down at them or belittling them.

No, and neither have you.

Blasters are the third most popular AT. In the high levels controllers get very popular. Neither of those are set and forget. As to which armored sets are the most popular, we have no idea.

I guess. I normally don't wait, I use something else instead.

And it doesn't occur to you that the information they have may point to the fact that more people find interactivity more fun? Your first thought is that your position is blindingly, obviously correct and the devs are ignorant of reality?

I most certainly would not prefer if it if I always survived. A 50% death rate per fight is higher than I would prefer, I think I like about a 95% success/fail rate. One death every 20 spawns or so works good for me.

For most solo endeavors, large -regen is more potent than -resist. Drain Psyche is an extremely effective weapon against AVs and GMs because of this.

On teams, -res is almost always more effective than -regen, because you are multiplying multiple sources of damage, but the -regen value is static no matter how many people you add.

I mean, sure, Ill, Fire, and Plant. But after those, I think it is up in the air where people will go. Some will like Mind, Earth, or Ice. Others Mind, Dark or Electric. Some hate Ice. But I think a fair number of people would put Mind in the top 4 or 5.

Not that I'd argue against a minor buff to Mind, but the whole nobody would rate it top five thing was an odd.