Tenzhi

I wouldn't call those "completely different to any other control set." AoE sleeps abound, and the latter ability seems similar to Hot Feet.

I'm curious as to what they are going to do that will be so different, myself, and whether it will be different enough to distract me from the Kinetic Melee set.

Many people have a tendency to focus on the negative without dwelling as much on the positive. I'm probably guilty of this, myself, having noted elsewhere on the board that I'm a horrible, cynical excuse for a human being. Suffice to say that I have played many MMORPGs over the last decade or so, and this is the only one to have consistently held my subscription. I believe I have purchased every expansion pack for the game, including getting the Mac version even though I do not have a Mac. If I am a bit... enthusiastic about changes I would like to see or things I think are wrong with the game, it is because I like the game and see the potential to like it even more. If I didn't like the game (and, believe it or not, the community, including most everyone I've butted heads with over the years) I wouldn't still be around.

The first time I wandered into Perez Park and there was a higher level Tanker a short distance from the entrance being dogpiled by what looked like hundreds of enemies.

Later, I greatly enjoyed leading such Perez Park Parades myself.

Sadly, such is no longer possible.

3. He/she spent gratuitous amounts of time/inf/merits/effort on various sets and now wishes to use different sets without all of said t/i/m/e going to waste. Thus, selling them on the market to recoup some losses while rebuilding the self-same character. Which wouldn't be an issue if the IOs weren't ultimately overpriced (or, if said prices are considered fair, the amount recouped for lost enhancements during respec more closely matched that "fair" price). Less likely, but a possibility. And such a person might look into using the alternate build for such experiments in character building if it's not already in use by them.

Very good point. I have noticed the Endurance problems more while playing Defenders, Controllers, and Tankers solo (most especially pre-20) and that's probably why.

I dispute the amount of time and effort it takes to outfit a character with IOs, and more specifically with merits I dispute the kind of time and effort it requires. But nowhere did I say it shouldn't take any.

I would attempt to fail, of course. Paradox for everyone!

I was looking forward to ChO, but I was under no illusion that it would necessarily be a "promised land." I have too much experience with such promises not panning out. This game, for instance, didn't deliver what was initially being "promised." And ChO failed to do so to the extent that I could not replace this game with that one and thus came back here.

And I do not dislike this game. I know that it is hard for some of you to wrap your minds around the concept (whether they're small minds or it's a broad concept is not for me to say), but it is quite possible to dislike some things about a game and still like the game itself. It is not a binary situation.

And yes, Sam, I used the term "fuddy-duddies" - there are a number of people around here who seem to be largely anti-fun and who vehemently spit upon any idea that threatens tedium in the game, though I wouldn't call them a clique. Occasionally, they may have a point, but I'd say a large part of Bill's copy-paste is pointless. There's a minor point in Archetype switching (which I would counter by having a requirement for a full character change be having a character of the desired AT at level 40 or 50), and the main point that the Devs have said no. Other than that it's essentially a long-winded bit of over-referenced horn-tooting. And it is kind of dismissively rude, as well, like replying to someone with a form letter.

And to whoever was neg-repping (more please! my sig will love you for it) on me grousing over Regen being "nerfed" - I don't care that it was nerfed so much as the play style was forcibly changed for me. I went into it for viable passive Regen and it got shifted to being necessarily more click-intensive. When Going Rogue comes out (which I prepurchased ASAP because I do not, in fact, hate the game) I plan on finally rerolling the character as Kinetic Melee/Willpower. The "Tai Chi" style fits him more, too, so I'll finally have enough reason to start him over.

And finally, the first 20 levels or so of this game aren't "friendly", alt- or otherwise. If said levels ever cease to feel like a tedious twently levels worth of character creation, I'll cease to be annoyed with trudging through them.

I'm doomed to never have a good day since I don't have a bed.

I still haven't "rerolled" my MA/Regen Scrapper as a MA/WP. First they made changes which killed Regen for me, then they made WP which was more what I wanted in the first place. Yet my Scrapper still sits there languishing at level 35? or so, because I don't want to take that particular character through those 35 levels again. I'd like to play him all the way up to 50, but I can't stand Regen for very long these days.

It's not really a *bad* idea. I'd go for it. But it's largely rejected by the fuddy-duddies around here due to the largely terrible reasons in Bill's copy-paste, and unlikely to get implemented in any case due to the only important statement in Bill's copy-paste - that the devs have unequivocally said "no".

Well, to start with I don't think you should have to do TFs at all. Nor do I think one should have to play for a significant time on a daily basis to have a chance at getting them in a timely fashion. I would say that 8 hours of play should easily be enough to acquire at least one full set (that's one set, not one character's worth of sets) of any level-appropriate non-purple IOs. And that's doing any non-AE missions, not just TFs and story arcs.

If I take it, I'll give it to them when I deem it necessary and/or proper. The more often they ask for it/demand it the less necessary/proper I will deem the bestowment.

Especially if they're asking for it while I'm cycling buffs down/up the team list and they're at the bottom/top of the list. Or if they're already under the influence of said buff.

I haven't really started, so asking me to stop is a bit premature.

Well, I don't consider myself a "noob" Mastermind, but I'm definitely a lazy Mastermind who doesn't micromanage the control of his pets (I will, however, spread around buffs and such to the team if I have them and the End to spare).

If they're creating a blockage I might tell them to move to a particular spot to get out of the way. Of course, half the time they don't listen and just stand there dumbly blocking the way until I dismiss and resummon them. Could be that's improved since last I played one.

I came to thoroughly dislike playing redside and haven't been there for awhile. I have a Fire/Rad Controller named Sympathetic Devil who I'm thinking of rerolling as a Blueside-bound Demon/something Mastermind when Going Rogue comes out.

That's not really a nice thing. A nice thing would be if they were accumulated doing any given non-AE PuG content.

The reputation of MMs can't get any blacker.

Ooo... I'll have to check this out from home later.

In these sorts of discussions, I find that 'longer than I want' may as well be 'an infinite amount of time.' In general, they're both equally out of reach.