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- 23 second Pylon time.

- Solo pylon run then holding off Rikti in the middle of the bowl all by myself.

Crab spider completely broke the game for me. Ridiculous damage, awesome support, and superb survivability just made all my other characters look like zeroes.

I'll never forget the awesomeness of the Jinrazuo spider.

This reminds me of the debacle behind the store bought Performance Shifter proc. Paragon decided to change how it worked and offered no compensation to early adopters, basically giving them the big "f u". Well, now we have this.

GW2 is a great game and I find myself enjoying it a lot. I understand we're all hurt over the CoH fiasco, but you can't fault the good people at ArenaNet for that. Eventhough CoH will always be dear to me, honestly, it was getting pretty stale and I just wasn't finding myself excited for it in these past few months. I continued subbing mainly because I just felt so invested in it, but not a whole lot of motivation beyond that.

GW2 is a refreshing change to the MMO and leaves you scratching your head as to why it's taken so long to get things right. The combat requires a more twitchy approach as opposed to just standing there cycling the same power chain over and over. The questing is seamless and not annoying. Exploring areas actually serve a purpose unlike something like Shadow Shard where you have giant zones of nothing for no real reason. The world itself actually feels immersive as you travel through towns and listen to all the city banter which sometimes even leads to events. As much as I love CoH I've just never really felt that level of immersion to the actual world and lore as I feel in something like GW2.

Anyway, kinda feel like I'm just rambling now as I approach the end of my graveyard shift, but bottom line is that GW2 is a fun game and you're doing yourself a disservice by avoiding it because of CoH's unfortunate demise.

Agreed. It was fun dominating with THE BEST archetype in the game. You guys rock.

Gaben save us!!!

My biggest gripe with Trip Mine is the procs IOs don't work in this power. With the PPM changes there's a lot of lost potential here.

Never!

I believe certain powers don't seem to benefit from Control Hybrid. For example, I sat on a Pylon spamming Web Envelope from Mace Mastery while monitoring combat attributes and not once did I see a +1 mag bonus. My guess is that it doesn't affect APP/PPP powers and not many have noticed. I've reported this several times but I guess it's still bugged, like other aspects of Hybrid.

They've been there before when they really didn't have any big announcements. PAX is pretty much THE con for the gaming community so it's odd to see Paragon not making a presence at all after so many years of attending. Guess I should've seen it coming since they didn't do New York Comicon or PAX East this year either. Bummer.

They confirmed no incoming buffs for Crab Spiders. =(

Well I hope there's SOME new content. I know we don't have all the info yet, but so far i24 is just power changes. I think power changes are great, but I'd like some new content to enjoy while using them.

I've got many people in to this game through Steam sales of CoH when it used to be on the service. It was great.

Steam as a whole is excellent for me. Awesome sales, ease of use, very convenient, friends list, voice chat, and so on. Their digital distribution gaming platform does it right.

Of course, if you're a tin-foil hat wearing type then you're gonna hate every single service that gives you the slightest funny look (Facebook, Steam, etc..). So, honestly, if you're that person then you'll hate it and you're probably just kinda miserable in general.

You like crabs? Well then, you're okay in my book!

This one, in particular, is the coolest.

Cool post.

I can confirm the same. I tested this long ago with my Crab and it's spider pets and was disappointed at the results.

My thinking on this is that pets are a power of the player character so if the character is 51 it's using level 51 powers. In other words, if I'm a fire/fire dom I don't understand why my Blaze has level 51 values but Fire Imps have a level 50 value. It just doesn't seem right. A level shift, is a level shift regardless of how it's obtained. On magi, trial, if I'm +9 and spawn my pets, they come out as +9.

The common rebuttal to this is as you've heard "lol, pets shouldn't get insps!". I honestly believe, however, that this is more of a technical hurdle Paragon just doesn't have time/care to address so it's just left as "oh well... WAI I guess *shrug*".

If you're going pet heavy go Assault Core. It's currently granting 34% dmg on each stack on pets instead of 15%. Devs don't seem to be in a huge rush to fix this as I've reported this 2 months ago in beta testing. Once/If it's ever fixed, Radial may be better but it's hard to say with the upcoming PPM formula nerf in I24.

Support Core sounds great on paper with a potential double buff to pets coming up to 24%, but this is also not working properly. Pets get 12% and player characters get 6%. I reported this at the same time I did the Assault bug so who knows when they'll bother to fix this.

I recommend you just take Assault Core and melt enemies. I can take down a Pylon in 22 seconds now with Assault Core so I'm not going to bother screwing around with anything else.

Good luck.

For my spider's big game hunts I go either radial degen or reactive. Degen seems to slightly outperform reactive for me but not by much. You'd be fine with either of those.