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Personally, i'm of the opinion the End. Drain is useless. Lack of End. doesn't get a MOB arrested, lack of HP does. Anything you slot to increase End Drain. would be better slotted to increase damage. A MOB with 100% End. and 0%HP gets arrested. MOBs are arrested, or your dead long before lack of End. becomes a factor. Also, considering how often we fight AV's they shouldn't be a factor in your slotting.

End. Drain sounds great in theory, but is useless in application.

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I think the DEV team made the mistake of actually listening to the relatively small number (those who post) who said this game was too easy.


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Nope. The real reason is that we got rid of front loaded missions and this caused a bug.

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Personally, i would think fixing this would be the highest priority. I have to wonder how many new people are being turned off to this game that don't come to the forums to find out it is a bug.

How many newbies a day is this bug costing?

WOW!!! Boy did this thread get off topic... not a bad thing just a surprise. Usually my posts are pretty much ignored in the response department. Even I can't bring myself to read all this thread, and i read a lot here. Kudos to Statesman for the time and effort he's put into this. And Kudos to the posters for trying to get your points across without flaming each other.

I think Statesman doesn't see the "group penalty" which is that an individual's exp/hour usually drops, because he knows they have programed in a bonus for grouping.

Personally, my soloing isn't due to that, i just prefer to make my own decissions and not want to put others at risk. I want to play on my schedule at my chosen rate. But, i like having other people around, to talk to, to help occasionally, and they just add to the content. Its nice knowing your not alone, even though you are playing alone.

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I was soloing the mission against Dr. Vahzilok, only to discover that he healed at too fast a rate for me to take him down solo. I ran outside, shouted out "I've got Dr. Vahzilok alone in here, any one free to help me take him down?", and sure enough I had a handly little team ready to go in in seconds. Very fun for everyone (who doesn't like to take down an arch-villain?) including me. What exactly is the problem again?

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heh, What i did was complete the requirements for the mission before taking on Dr. Vaz. When i discoverred that i couldn't deal damage fast enough to take him, basically a Stalemate, I "Mission Completed" out of there.

"Just find a Group" or "Include such and such in your group."

As long as this game is advertised as one that can be played solo, those are not answers to problems/complaints people post in the forums. Please, if your tempted to make one of those responses, think twice. Your not helping and just adding noise that makes it harder to see the serious rsponses, especially in regards to update 2 which is coming.