Sunstormer

Oh hell... i really hope they fix the loss of items bug... i still had a gladiators strike pvp IO on sale that i didnt pick up

Fully agree, whenever I play now I always get people asking if im male or female irl, in all honesty i just stopped answering now because the instant you refuse to use ventrillo, your usually shouted at and called all sorts of stuff lol.

In all honesty I couldnt give a damn what people want to believe but id rather not have people randomly abusing me because I refuse to do exactly as they say.

Two times now i have spoken to sg on vent, two times i got a bunch of weirdos asking for msn, pics, facebook and phone number etc. These guys seriously dont understand the term 'no' and its also the reason ive left SGs in the past and had to block half the SG members lol.

It is funny, but at same time its kind of sad that people can be so closed minded.

That being said, Ive also known people who say there female too, yet are blatently obviously men. One told me he was female at first, then after speaking a bit said he was male and said he plays females 'because hes not gay and would prefer to watch a women from behind all day rather than a man'.

Another who added me, was actually using the pic of a girl i knew irl lol, they had just stolen it off her facebook. When I mentioned her name, i was blocked ingame and on msn lol.

How you dress in game though doesnt mean you are one sex or the other though, some people say there is but thats what the /ignore command is for

Quoted for irony, thats vinyls

Hmm with the designs available I sincerely doubt you would be able to design anything extremely offensive, other than the possibility of using the chest letters to spell out profanity.

That could be sorted by simply still allowing only one letter per chest piece, since it would take a long time to sort through all the people that would do it and it would take a long time for the system to be made to find out whats profanity and what isnt on costumes. It would mean coding an actual letter to a design, which would mean a huge change coding wise and then the profanity filter could be added.

It would be easier to just limit that one design....

That being said i just realised you wouldnt be moving letters anyway, so they would still overlap each other and make you unable to use them anyway.

Its not an aoe set, why do we need another set thats exactly the same as others with a different glow? Energy is unique as it is, leave it alone. If you dont like Energy because it has rubbish AoEs, dont play it lol.

On par is a joke of an assumption... without rage, yes it sucks big time, but with it its more powerful than the lot over time since its always got boosted damage. If it wasnt so powerful why would a majority of tankers play either that or elec?

It isnt gone in pvp format, its just crap for stalkers which doesnt mean much because there still a pain with gank forces anyway. PvE side it was never that popular on tankers anyway outside of PvP so why try to change it now?

Again theres nothing wrong with energy melee at all, if you dont like single target hits, play an AoE based set and stop moaning for 'equality' because its talk like that, that got us i13 lolpvp.

Can hope for that but I think its unlikely.

Think it was more than likely the 'New superpowers' suggestion or something very similar to that.

Little bit harder to decryptify this one lol but il have a go anyway....

**** ****** ** *****
work before an issue

No idea what the first word could be... was thinking 'time' originally but it doesnt make sense.
Its something marketing needs to do before an issue release... hmmm lol.
I have to say though, im finding it quite fun trying to figure these out.
Work makes sense, but not sure why he would block that out...

For an experienced tanker its easily sorted yes, for a noob though its the point you think 'oh ****'

As for tools like SC and AAO, they are good yes, but shield is not the best tanker set for anything other than defence and defence isnt that reliable to tank with until its softcapped anyway, even then heavy -defence mobs can flatten you in seconds if you dont have any purples.

There is a lot of -defence mobs out there too, all guns for instance are -defence, that alone counts for most of the NPCs in game.

Shield/SS has died down a bit, you do still see them but nowhere near as often as you did when shield first came out. Your much more likely to see some form of Elec now since its the new fave of month. Next will be kinetic melee and so forth.

Thats why theres more than one mission in the game, so people arent forced to play how others want them to, running one farm map isnt exactly a choice is it when theres nothing else happening. People also dont pay $15 a month to run exploits for very long either. Its not me telling you how to play the game, its the actual rules in the EULA.

Im a pvper myself, but you still talk outa your rear end. Yes a majority of the PvP community are the ones whining for exploitive farms back so they can level there next PvP toon but that doesnt make it right, it also doesnt count for more than 1% of the population.

Your comment about PvPers running PvE tfs better is laughable too, id like to see an entire team of x/psi or x/energy blasters run a TF better than a regular team, i really would.

You shouldnt be showing these players how to play the game at level 50 to begin with, if you think thats acceptable your an idiot.
Level 1-20 they should figure out half the things the still dont know at 50 because of AE. That is whats destroying the game, that and idiots like you trying to use PvP to justify destroyed PvE.

PvP was never the main point of this game, it wasnt even in the game when it was released and was never a huge portion of the game for a majority of players. However the bitter ones thats left come to the forums to whine and distort the rest of the players opinion with there lazyness.

I PvP myself and I dont mind taking extra time to level my charecters rather than being infested with level 50 idiots who cant figure out what enhancements are.

As I said, you cant please everyone. I have a load of 50s myself, i know how boring it can be but coming from EU ive also seen the damage its done over there and its happening here too yet people still remain blissfully unaware that its killing the game.

Disagree with minority completley, there were at least 5 noobs a day at 50 in teams before the nerf joining TFs and teams and destroying them before they began.
Helping out a new player is one thing, but you shouldnt be doing it with whilst trying to do the most difficult content in the game.
NCSoft can do nothing to the noobs in AE without hurting the vets using it to raise there charecters too, its because they havent figured this out yet why we are still getting half finished patches in the first place.

Agree, it happens and farming is always going to be there but at least in the old demon farms, TV farms, Freak Farms etc you didnt get an influx of level 1s getting in because the teams had to be picky about members in order to complete them.
Thats the way it should be.
What goes on with AE is way too far, you might as well not have a leveling system it breaks it that much.
Yes you do still get retarded 50s from beta, but nowhere near as many of those as you get AE noobs running around, stop trying to make it sound like there arent that many because there clearly is and denying that is just making more and more vets leave.
In my SG alone 4 people were talking about AE farming earlier this week, saying if it makes a comeback in i17 there subscription is gone. I have to agree, mines included with it.
Also the 'majority' of players you say that enjoy farms simply do not exist either, people do farms to level, not because they enjoy them. You would have to be braindead to find the same mission 1000 times enjoyable. Perhaps you find it enjoyable, but thats not the majority im afraid.

Assume what you want but the fact you even stated 'All your PvE skilled pals quit' just proves that you agree people are in fact leaving due to AE farming.

Insulting players is also a bit of a worthless tactic isnt it if your trying to prove AE is worth running exp? Your doing nothing but cheapen your own arguement. Besides that if its just me, then why are there so many people stating the same facts on the forums whilst the AE farmers such as yourself claim its easy to get teams outside despite not having tried to do it themselves?

I do run teams, or try to, frequently, however unless enough members of my sg are online to join, you have little chance of recruiting elsewhere because everyone wants easymode 50. If you do get a member, they leave within a mission to go look for a farm team again although since the last nerf this isnt the case anymore, thank god.

At least before AE you had a choice whether to take part in farming, now you have no choice whatsoever because its ridiculously hard to get a team going outside of AE.

i17 un-nerfs it, plus theres still ways to exploit it. Another half worked patch being released again which delays more actual bugs from being fixed like ITF lag, instead the devs waste more time fixing the newest farm exploits in AE and create some more whilst doing it -.-

If exp was gone from AE it would save a lot more time working on more important things in the game, like some more content for 50's and a PvP system that isnt laughable.

Ironic, your arguement that you raise your charecters for PvP in this broken system through farming, yet in reality its farming thats part of the reason
PvP isnt being looked at in the first place since the devs are busy elsewhere sorting out the newest exploits.

Castle already stated ages ago on forums that he wasnt sure if SS would keep perma rage, but he hasnt nerfed it yet so theres hope yet. The fact its survived so long surprises me in all honesty.

Usually when the devs want to feed the nerfhammer they feed it within a couple of months but SS has been the same for at least a year now.

I did role one ages ago but the reason you dont see it is because of the rage debuff, -defence really kills shields a lot.

It is manageable but its easier to just pick a different set

Elec melee is popular at the minute with shield, because of the teleport powers which i dont understand since lightning rod has a stupid recharge for its damage anyway and shield charge isnt any better.

/fire all the way for AoE damage

I stopped reading here.

Energy is not an AoE based set and I wouldnt have it any other way. Energy is my second favorite attack set on tankers now, it used to be my favorite pre-i13 because of energy damage. SS being 2nd at the time and now first.

If anything its SS that needs changing, Rage buffs power permenantly and doesnt affect resist based sets like elec, fire or dark at all.

Energy is usually my PvP first choice, Build up > Energy transfer > Total Focus is great spike damage, and the best there is on tankers. SS however has the advantage in current pvp simply because it has a range attack and perma rage with knockout blow.

Energy has its own specialisation, which is good it makes it unique. Dont knock it until you have tried it to 50. You cant judge a powerset you have only seen in mids, which a lot of people seem to do.

Even in PvE, although it has its lack of AoEs, taunt and whirling hands is more than enough to hold agro combined with taunt aura. I know, I did it for 3 years on union lol and got team invites from people the second I logged on because I was in that much of a demand, it is in no way gimped like some people claim it to be and the -hp part of energy transfer is a minor annoyance yes, but since when does that much -hp bother a decent tanker with SO's or IO's? Never once have I died because of it.

The set is aimed at doing more damage to the Alpha targets such as AV's, EB's and bosses, not at taking down full mobs. Fire excels at that however you should try that.

Also if you did change it, it wouldnt just affect tankers, the same set is also on brutes and stalkers too (not sure about scrappers, never play them ) Those two would also get a remodification and Energy is still one of the brutes best sets too. Stalker not so much since the Energy Transfer nerf but you still see them running around.

I should mention I have played a few energy tankers to 50, in fact upon just checking now, I actually have all the possible combinations of energy to level 50 except for elec, which I havent tried yet since Ive moved to american servers.

The hardest hit by -hp was fire and dark, both heavily heal reliant. However this can be said about SS using rages -defence debuff with ice or shield. Its part of the set, you work around it however you can. Tankers can perform wonderful things with any build, if you know how to use them.

Ice is the most gimped set in tankers abilties by far. Even Dual blades despite needing most of the powers in the set could still deal damage with combos. Dark has its -tohit, fire has DoT and AoE heaven, axe and mace are both average sets at best but they have been buffed since i played them, stone melee is basically SS without rage but higher standard damage and slightly better control, and SS its heavy damage alround because of perma rage whilst energy has single target damage in bursts higher than any other.

Each attack set specialises in something, and as they are its only ice I think thats underperforming, everything else works great if used right. Frozen Aura is a laughable power in any level, the fact its tier 9 is just an insult.

In short: Energy is fine as it is. Any changes to it would be stupid and pointless and hurt the powerset rather than do it good.
If you want to change any tanker set, it should be SS with rage, it makes all the other sets pointless despite the fact without it, it is poor but who skips a perma +damage power that high?
It should not be able to be perma simple as, make a 10s or 20s gap after set bonuses to put it in line with other sets.
The fact that a lot of the population of tankers is SS or Elec tells you something.
I dont think ive seen anyone without a concept playing an /ice tanker high level since I began the game. Its just a poor set, the slows dont do enough to justify such terrible damage and a useless tier 9 power. Frozen Aura is the single worst power in game, it needs changing to a long recharge hold or something not a sleep to make the set worthwhile.