Tyrrano

It is my understanding that the Complete Collection will NOT be prepurchasable. If you want the new powersets early, you won't get the free month of gameplay, though you will be able to purchase the 'item pack' apparently.

Your choice boils down to 'free month' or 'early access'

*shakes fist at Adeon* "Curse you, you faster-typing-person you!"

First guess, because you haven't pre-ordered Going Rogue yet, so you're not 'cleared' to use it. Or perhaps you have paid, but the code required isn't yet applied properly to your account.

I like it for Brutes, too. Especially in your tier 1 power - all the more reason to keep throwing attacks out there.

You're assuming the negrep was due to anything you said. Sometimes you just get it because someone feels like jerking you around and knows some exploit to dump -100 on you. I guess they get all giddy like a schoolgirl for all of about 3 seconds. Why do you think people disable reputation so much? It's worthless. Don' worry - be happy mon.

Soaring Dragon always seems to land them behind me. o.O

Anything like the terror in my heart when I get an email from my wife with the title (no subject)?

Pocket D lag is all about that transparent floor and the light effects. That place tanks my framerate far worse than the ITF does.

Storm, have you been watching me on the weekends again?

Are you sure the accumulation is that short? I ask because I solo a lot with an AR/fire blaster, which has lots of knockback. Many times it seems like the first KB attack doesn't knock down the mob, but the second one almost always does, and a third is pretty much a sure thing. Just the way it happens certainly seems to my eyes as though I'm building up a KB level on the mob. Is this just a perception issue?

Sadly, this is what passes for debate on the Intarwebz most of the time. I won't spend an hour discussing psychological whys and such, but suffice to say that it's *really* easy for otherwise reasonable individuals to come off as dismissive and rude. You gotta have a thick skin.

I think this is the root of the issue - what you see as 'broken' and needing to be 'fixed', most others see as quite acceptable. While I'm sure there are others as frustrated with it as you seem to be, I also think it reasonable to assume that it's a fairly small minority.

Granted, sometimes a change is warranted to help a small minority (remember the whole Sonic vertigo issue?) but in this case we're talking about a major change to the game mechanics to fix something that most would agree is a minor issue.

I'd agree, but perhaps discussion of this should remain in the 'Suggestions' forum rather than here. This forum would be more appropriate to discuss "I hate how I knock mobs around and have to chase them - what's the best way for me to keep them close?" and leave the mechanics-changing ideas in the forum meant for such discussions.

Heh, my Emp/ENG defender looks at that as extra mitigation. When you're as squishy as he is, any extra time you can leave those bad guys hanging on meathooks is a bonus.

Cool, never knew that. Of course I've never tried to turn it off - I just assumed I'd never stumbled across that toggle.

This. I duo'd a couple of nights back with a good friend, both on AR blasters, and there was so much explody goodness, I was grinning from ear to ear. Same when I team my Arch/TA defender with another archer, it really makes it loads more fun.

Well, did you consider that maybe it *is* deja vu?

Yeah, especially as a scrapper, since you've got to get up-close and personal with them. Best way to deal with Vahz zombies is to kill them before they get close enough to spray that poisonous bile stuff on you, and as a scrapper you just have no good way to do that. Same here, always willing to help a new player.

Oh, I understand what you're saying. But getting to 50 is also vastly different. Granted, if I just played one red and one blue, even at my 3-5 hours per week pace, they'd both be 50s by now. But I don't - that's a choice I've made because, like many, I like variety. I've even chosen to play my main without XP at times because I didn't want to outlevel content.

Requiring level 20s before unlocking EATs does give a decent chance that you'll learn a bit about CoX and how things work before 'rolling up' an epic. And making them available right out of the gate means they're no longer 'special' at all (even if lowering the requirement makes them less 'special' - an opinion I don't necessarily share but will grant it's validity).

I guess the bottom line is, the devs made a conscious decision to change this. I'm sure they knew some people would feel that their accomplishment was somehow 'cheapened' and were willing to accept that.

Not everyone can play CoX 12 hours a day. I'm well over three years into this game and still don't have a lvl 50. My main has been in the mid 40s for probably 8-9 months now. Granted, I'm in no hurry to get to 50, so obviously EATs aren't a huge draw for me, but it'd be nice to get to play with them. Redside, my highest is approaching lvl 30, so realistically speaking I'd probably never get to try the VEATs without this change. By the time I get there, they'd be taking the game offline.

That goes further to reinforce what I've been reading. (Heh, haven't gotten much real work done today ) Apparently this is the same issue that various Dell, HP. etc. laptops have endured - faulty nVidia chipsets. The northbridge chip heat-cycles and eventually the solder connections fracture. The result, no video. I'm looking into some methods for reflowing the solder connections - I may just spring to have it done rather than try it myself with a heat gun like some have done.

Blech.