TwoHeadedBoy

I've actually put a lot of research into this subject, as a matter of fact, thank you kindly! We're talking about the Gold Standard, right?

...But if you know of any beer that includes its current economic worth in gold within its own contents, please PM me the link. That sounds CLASSY AS HELL. In capital letters.

I'm sorry. Would you mind repeating that in a lower register?

Ah, I'm glad that I am now appointing you lord of Harrenhal!

See, what Adeon brings up is great! He has identified the Laniste... Err... Dev's spawn point! We've seen all these new Mods and Red Names coming out of the sky lately- I mean seriously, does ANYONE know who the Fire Truck guy is?

Ahem...

The point being, now that we know that when one Dev leaves, another Dev enters, and they have no shortage of new Dev's and otherwise red names.... And Adeon has provided us with their spawn point...

WE CAN FARM THEM!

Yes, that's right! The spawn point (or "ambush trigger," if you will,) has been identified!

We know that when old ones leave (Avatea, Beastyle, RIP) new ones just keep coming!

As far as we know, they'll never stop!

.....AND WE KNOW WHERE THEIR AMBUSH TRIGGER IS!

Yessir, it's time to farm us some Dev's. Reset at 750! Invite lowbies, 750 mil per run! We have an attack plan!

I think the best response is revolt.

We, the players (who, from here on out, will be known as the North) declare ourselves an independent Kindgom! Once we show that we have the bannermen, we can force the Dev's (who, from here on out, will be known as the South) into a tight spot, and they'll be forced into a treaty. There's no possible way that this can go wrong. I bet we win a bunch of battles!

That's not very indie of you.

(P.S. Indie. not Indy. Someone's not from New York.)

How many alts do you think I have!? And reaffirming alignment!? Pfft.

No, no, This is not the answer! Nerfing Dev's is the answer!

Are you guys with me!?

Dude, calm down, calm down. How large do you think my booze budget is!? I lost so many times to this post that I'm going to have to start posting on the Blaster forums soon. I'm at that dangerous stage of intoxication where all of my inhibitions are gone, but I still know how to open spreadsheets... Tread carefully.

You my friend are a terrible Rangers fan!

I'm glad we're all on the same page here, because I have a proposal that will BLOW YOUR MIND. In CAPITAL LETTERS.

What is the solution to all of our problems?!

Wait for it.

WAIT FOR IT.

We NERF DEVS!

The rest of this thread will now be dedicated towards logistics. Go!

...So I need to drink every time I log on to the forums? That's sort of what I've already been doing. Will I be retroactively rewarded with more booze? Also, if anyone ever tries to get me into AA, can I tell them, "Don't worry, Dark Respite said it was okay!?"

This all sounds so great!

This, I got wrecked on purple investments post double XP weekend. I ended up having to repost >10 'high demand' set pieces (profit pieces intended for reinvestment) yesterday for 10-15 million less than I had been selling them for previously after this most recent price plummet. Granted this isn't a very big loss and I still saw a decent amount of profit off of them, but not as much as I was anticipating.

Another option is if Freedom and Virtue are allowed to colonize the other servers! That would be super fun. Say, once we send out small factions of our playerbase to overwhelm entire server communities, we can force them to pay Black Market taxes in scaling percentages based on the value of the item sold! It would be super fun until all the other servers go bankrupt and are ultimately absorbed by the greater entities.

My name is THB and I just single-handedly fixed the low population server issue, the character slot issue, and PVP. All in one paragraph. Tell your friends!

See, this hasn't been my experience on any of my characters aside from maybe my DA Brute. I find that generally by level 20 I have enough slots to work with to get my endurance under control, whereas before that level I feel like my slots are always stretched way too thin to properly enhance powers for anything primarily aside from endurance reduction.
I don't think making the penalty for missed tohit checks less over the top in extreme cases of long animations equates to making the game too easy.. Shrug.
Oh, really? So lucks are going to single handedly break mez and buff tohit and defense out of the red? There's already strong support on the forums for mez/debuff suppression because the stacking effects are excessive. This isn't just my opinion, so I haven't been focusing this thread on it. I've been making a separate point for active means of EARNING mez/debuff removal outside of just "chug all yer potionz lol."
How do you figure? I've seen Lambda leagues fail due to overwhelming Add's. I've seen Tanks die during BAF just trying to PULL the AV's. User error and conventional damage can still defeat player characters more than you seem to be willing to admit. Those tanks and brutes who can sit there and Tank the hell out of things indiscriminately will be the ones who earned it by building high end Tanks and Brutes. If people who utilize the IO system intelligently and invest heavily in the best stuff aren't rewarded through gameplay, what is the point in even having a build metagame at all? We might as well all go back to SO's.

I've been equally advocating a relative buff for defense sets, if we assume 'unresistable' damage is still going to be used. Also don't forget about the buff that building for resistance in general is going to bring with the next issue.

To paraphrase from earlier, retype the currently unresistable attacks as Psi/Toxic and to add on a bit, scale the damage on them up and keep the ToHit/position check as incarnate level AOE damage. Alternatively, I've mentioned adding level 50 +def/+res to Incarnate damage for Tanking AT's- Perhaps just Tankers themselves since this would give the AT a much needed relative buff.

Theoretically, sure- But that wouldn't be how it actually played out. User error still causes a large amount of deaths on incarnate trials, and objective-driven phases like powering up terminals in Keyes and synchronizing glowies in TPN still allow for intuitive and challenging gameplay that doesn't turn conventional survivability on its head. Players are still routinely defeated by standard resistable/defensible attacks during trials as well- Being overwhelmed by adds is a fairly common cause of defeat during parts of many trials, and they deal conventional damage.

I just don't agree that unresistable damage is the best way to avoid trivializing content. If that were true and players could be made 'literally indestructible,' every standard level 50 TF would be done as a master run without batting an eyelash. While sure, it would be theoretically possible to time barrier casts and Support Hybrid durations in a way that could have this effect, it would hardly be as easy or common as you seem to think.
Well that's true I suppose, I was a bit strict with my wording there. The spirit of the idea was that defense shouldn't be completely removed from any equations involving surviving incoming damage any more than resistance should.

Editing to address this:

I would actually prefer increased raw damage for Incarnate AV's over unresistable/indefensible gimmick attacks. This would give Tanks an actual purpose- Granted a lot of those big attacks would be AOE's, which would mean more often than not squishies would still have to back off from them, but I don't see anything wrong with high end Tanks being drastically more survivable than anything else. And yes, min/maxed inf per second FOTM Tanks/Brutes/etc. will be noticeably stronger than concept-based lower end builds, but that comes down to a choice that players make when designing their characters. The game shouldn't be balanced around people who CHOOSE not to perform at the highest possible level of performance; I have a few concept characters too. When I made them and when I play them, I knew/know that they would not perform up to the same standard as my more min/maxed builds. I don't expect the same caliber of results from them because they weren't intended to perform at the same level.

Yea I meant to mention that and forgot, I was editing the conclusion into my thoughts as you posted this, hah.

I don't think losing a tohit buff should matter when considering this tbh.

Damn boxes. This is supposed to be a judgment free zone.

See I'm trying to avoid dumbing down the game with the mez thing by adding an active means of "earning" mez/debuff removal outside of just chugging inspirations.

I don't think cutting animations on long animating attacks, specifically things like shadow maul, and other multi-hit attacks would dumb down the game, I think it would help the game make more sense while removing what I consider to be excesive penalties for failed tohit rolls.

And no build strategy in the world outside of Incarnates will give Blasters and other squishy sets status protection or debuff resistance.

I kind of think a reasonable solution would be a separate tohit check for each tick of damage. I mentioned ST's specifically because that's when the silliness is at its peak of obviousness. If rains already make a separate check for each tick, Shadow Maul and other multi-striking attacks should do the same.