brophog02

Only bad teams, bad builds, and bad players have one source of support.

Everyone has support in this game; both in their powers, in their inspirations, and in their ability to keep cognizant watch over their team and situation.

That's also where your attacks come in.......killing the enemy BEFORE trouble begins.

Not providing your share of offense only leads to more trouble, not less. All deaths occur because the battle didn't end soon enough. The longer any battle goes on, the higher the risk for failure.

Not to mention effects scattered throughout the attacks, outright mitigational attacks, recovery/regen powers and other utility powers.

There is a lot of utility and mitigation in Blaster secondaries, and more than enough when combined with similar aspects in the primary.

Ostrichman, is that you?

I'm quite sure people have left me comments, and I've never seen them. I must be super skilled at avoiding such things.

That's your opinion, of course.

Then there are other opinions, such as the many you will read that say simply this:

"I'm taking all of my toons to blueside and never looking back".

It is a very valid, very serious concern. Despite everything you've said, redside is already only a small fraction of the population of blueside.

That's why the enemies are doing it........

I agree the new defiance is superior, but I do miss the old one from time to time. I have an AR/ENG that I made back then that I never play because he was only fun because he was always at the edge of death. For some reason, I just don't enjoy him like I did back then.

That was changed when the Devs changed the Blaster inherent power a few issues ago. As was already said, it only applies to the first two primary powers and your first secondary power......and only for Blasters. The game wasn't designed with that in mind, it was simply a change to make Blasters a little less vulnerable to mez effects.

As you've probably no doubt found, it is particularly nice on Energy Blasters who retain some amount of damage and mitigation through knockback.

That's your confirmation, folks.

Which means a few things:

1) Say goodbye to the Rogue Isles.
2) The markets, in a sense, will be merged because everyone will be at WW, anyhow.
3) Those of us that will be taking hero ATs redside should either group up or plan on soloing a lot.
4) Nobody will want to stay a Rogue very long.

This argument is overused and never works.

Never.

Players die. You can be the best rad in the world. Everyone could have stacked defense. Sometimes, players just die. Lucky shots happen. Ambushes happen. No one goes through this game never having died.

Whether you decide a rez or rez-related power is worth it, is ultimately up to you, but never assume, even in the best of circumstances, that no one is going to die simply because you were there.

TF Farms.

Really boring, stealth the entire dang thing for merits, TF Farms.

I have the feeling a lot of people will be that way, if for no other reason than what is keeping people on redside are metagame factors that are going away.


I just don't see GR being friendly at all to the Rogue Isles..........

There is such analogous argument in this game. This game has never applied that kind of argument to what is power balancing, and combat jumping is essentially free in terms of endurance (.07 is so neglible that it is, by all practical terms, a free power). By the same token, why does it cost more than 30 times the energy to swing the sword, than to swing the shield to block?

See, the argument completely, and totally, fails.

Your assumption is still that a shield power costs too much, and in that respect, Sprint costing a tiny fraction more is too much . The reality is still, in terms of actual endurance usage, that the shield power at .24 isn't costing much of anything, by itself. There are a lot more expensive toggles than that (just look at a Stormie, for instance)........but, of course, that doesn't fit the argument the framework for this incredibly weak argument.

I not only don't see it changed, but even if Sprint were made entirely free, it wouldn't help those having an endurance problem. It's nothing more than the tiny slice you turn off, with other tiny slices, when you're having major endurance problems. By itself, it's not much of anything.

It shouldn't work any differently.

The sooner everyone realizes that metagame comes before role playing, the quicker any game moves forward. We could all pretend it won't happen and stick our heads in the sand and wait for inevitable, large scale 'nerfs' such as AE brought.

I don't know how much more proof ones needs than the last few years to realize people will look to exploit things, both in PvE and PvP. It only makes sense to expect and anticipate such things in designing a set.

Parity is not how this game works, and it never has been that way.

If XP/rewards is better at AE, that's all anyone does.
An event comes along and you can barely find missions/TFs.
Among the level ranges that heroside shares in multiple zones, one zone is almost always used exclusively of the other.

The players are lazy and opportunistic. If you merge the markets, making little reason to need to stay redside, everyone will completely go blueside. The population is already there. The archetypes will now be there. With a merged market, now you wouldn't need to play redside to get/generate items, which would be the primary meta game reason to still play over there, rather than to start converting your villains to blueside. The people that would stay redside will be like the people that stay in AE.....they'll do it for storyline/content, but it'll be as functionally dead as Galaxy City. Good luck generating redside teams then.

The market redside has problems, and I know the counterargument here is simply that a merged market means you could play redside, and get all of the stuff you want through one market structure. Then again, at that point, you're playing for immersion and a shared market breaks immersion. You don't go out and steal Picasso's and then take them to the art gallery for sale! The Black Market, from an immersion perspective, represents the underground.

I'm almost as terrified about GR and its ramifications as I was with AE, and sadly I was spot on with AE, and not coincidentally I renewed after the AE nerfs came in. There are a lot more people looking to bring Brutes/Corrupters/Masterminds (in particular) over to blueside than there are anyone wanting to bring anything redside. I have a few Blasters made strictly with GR in mind, because I've always wanted a Blaster type redside, but it seems I'm in the minority wanting to work characters in that direction.

Believe me, I understand the frustration not getting anything on the Black Market in a timely manner, but one of the goals of this venture is to maintain CoH and CoV while generating a new middleground for conceptual reasons. I'm not sure this is the right direction, however.

To some extent. However, certain steps need to be made to keep redside from becoming totally extinct, rather than mostly extinct (which is the real problem with the markets).

The "framework" of GR is also not that you are switching sides, completely, but rather becoming more ambiguous in your nature.

It is consistent damage for a power of its type. Its not a lot, but it does add up in a team setting.

And some teams will surprise you sometimes. On a random GM team last night, we drained Jack of endurance, rather unintentionally. We just happened to have enough electric powers on the team that it happened.

Was kinda neat, at least I thought.