Talen Lee
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So you'd be giving ignorant players a passive that means they will think they don't need one of their most fundamental toggles?
(Also, I don't think this is really a 'buff to gauntlet' - it's 'a new inherent ability alongside gauntlet' by my eye.) -
It would involve bases, and therefore, never be implemented.
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Okay, you know how most sets have a single power that's 'out of type'? Like how Ice Blast has a pair of single target holds? Those are widgets. They're not part of the core theme of the set, but they are great tools that the players really want to have access to. Shield Charge is a widget, too.
When you have a set that is made almost wholly of widgets, it's a widget set. Electric Blast has a lot of widgets. It's almost more widgets than normal blasts. -
Yes, there are sets that call upon you to deal with different AOEs. That's pretty much expected - part of the skill of playing the game is maximising those different AoEs.
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Not with Earth Assault itself, but I can say that you can build a dominator for defence. Scorpion Shield, the patron armour, and a handful of set bonuses can very easily get you at, or almost at, the soft-cap for smashing/lethal, which will do a LOT to keep you alive. Until then, well, you do have that primary that can keep you alive.
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6-slotting hasten is a waste most of the time. When you've got Hasten so it's 1-2 seconds away from overlapping or being perma, it's very worth it to, rather than scratch for slots in other places, just stuff in more level 50 Recharge IOs.
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Bid creeping is for the patient and clever. I'm neither.
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Quote:Because any day now, if he just repeats himself one more time with the right inflection, the developers will suddenly realise he's right and recreate the game in his vision.Originally Posted by Ad Astra
But I do really, really wonder why he still pays for a subscription to a tedious, unfun game. If I truly found a game unfun, lI would stop playing it - in fact, I have stopped several games in my time for that very reason. And most of those tedious games are the free ones on FB or MSN Games - I certainly wouldn't have paid for them.
Hyperbole, but it's the hope that belies the words. -
Quote:This, incidentally, is part of why I keep trying to elbow Leadership and other incidental team buffs into my builds. Those rare occasions where I get to team with someone else who has them, they're really very tangible.Originally Posted by SpittingTrashcan
Maneuvers looks bad until you multiply it by 8. Then it looks really really good.
Edit: To clarify, a team of 8 Defenders running slotted Maneuvers runs at 43.4% defense to all. Even a team of 8 Blasters running slotted Maneuvers runs at 28.2% defense to all. Stacking buffs are really, really powerful - when people bother to take them, use them, and team with them. -
Quote:Holy crap!Originally Posted by Madam_Enigma
...when Dark Regen cost 50 endurance to use base...
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The plural of anecdote is not data. 52 people yay-or-naying in a single thread that spotlights the concern is definitely not data. It's barely even plural anecdotes.
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I suspect it's not possible to have it function this way, but Rest scaling up in recharge time from 1-20 could be a handy way to keep players from relying on it as their end recovery tool (we do not want players learning kill, med, kill, med and thinking that that's the way this game works) while still making it more available in those pre-stamina days.
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If I remember Silverado's comment right, Caltrops actually does more DPA than Blaze. Of course, that's an AV-fighter's perspective.
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DP/En also can be built so few of the powers need to be used when you're using your attacks. Conserve Power, Build Up, and Boost Range are pre-fight, so once you fire them off, you can draw and just keep blasting.
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Every time I see your sig, I remembenr a quote from Terry Wogan:Quote:
"It doesn't matter if you're rich, or you're poor, as long as you have lots of money." -
Quote:One of the buffs includes a penalty to defence.Originally Posted by Mokalus
I suppose my main question is "why was the Mystic Fortune prompt created in the first place?", because disregarding the occasional comment from a neurotic RPer, I honestly can't think of a reason it was thought to be deserving of special treatment.
Because it is possible to roll the dice on the fortune and come out behind in an area that is important to you, it is important to make sure that the player has an option to avoid it.
Me, I don't like the solution? I'd just ditch the penalty, tone down the benefit, and so on. But the choices have been made. -
Another test!
Let's see how this one pans out. -
Well, chalk that one up as a second data point.
Unless Goat bought it himself to corroborate his own rules... -
The thesis inferred by:Quote:is that everything in a game is supposed to be fun. This demonstrates no actual idea of what constitutes a game, or what constitutes fun. Everquest, for example, was crammed to the gills with things that aren't fun. Mario has things in it that aren't fun. WoW, LOTRO, Checkers, Awari, Tic-tac-toe, they're all composed of things that aren't fun and then ways to avoid that unfun-ness.
Why would ANYONE design a game where ANYTHING in it is not supposed to be fun?
Ultimo's statement is to try and cast everything in the light of common sense, and it falls far short of it because it only sounds reasonable and sensible to someone without any understanding of the elements he's talking about. Almost anyone can play games, not everyone can design them - but he seeks to denigrate expertise and design sense in lgiht of folksy common sense. -
And even then, when you stack up almost all the psi res/defence you can find, what you wind up with is... a bit of psi defence/resistance. You don't get much of incidental bonuses that mesh with one another the way that you can accidentally wind up with a pile of accuracy when you IO for recharge.
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Quote:Does anyone else remember how Ultimo started a whole thread complaining about how Forcefield didn't provide his defender enough mitigation?Originally Posted by Ultimo_
Force Fields is a defensive set.
So what he really means isWhich probably goes a long way to explaining why he thinks everything could be balanced if everyone could have everything.Quote:The Force Fields Set I Have In My Head is a defensive set
When a person demonstrates that when it pertains to a topic that they are either incompetent, or dishonest, it is not unwise to disregard what they have to say on the topic. Ultimo has demonstrated that he is both. -
There aren't really any 'synergies' betwee Gravity and Thorns on which to capitalise.
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At the same time, I want to disagree with you, Mac, about the Dominators. The Dominator's change was in need of fixing them in their usefulness against PTOD - basically, even solo, the dominator couldn't kill an EB quick enough with inspirations to keep 'em alive. The solution was not 'just moar damage,' especially since it had to deal with a commonly accepted exploit being so common as to become 'the norm.'
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So, here's me putting the rule to the test:
Even with the screenshotui at 1, you don't see the text; this piece has been posted for 25,000,500. Not really a diabolical push on the funds, but there's 0 supply, it's a good IO, and it's now for sale where there were, once, none. So let's see what comes of it in a few days' time. -
"Education is important because otherwhise, children will not learn about how the world was sneezed out of the nose of the Great Green Arkelseizure," is partially right. That doesn't mean the person saying it merits respect for their opinion, and when we do focus more on education, it's not because of the Arkleseizure's convincing argument.
