docbuzzard

The funny thing was that after I quit the team (because I don't have interest in badges, and particularly wasting extra time in pursuit of them), they messaged me after I was in a mission to indicate that they had given up on master of, and were just doing it normally. However since they had already wasted 20 minutes of my time before that, I declined. Then I got on a Apex team after finishing my mission. That team got master of Apex. That's wasn't much trouble. We just had to follow instructions and play competently.

I have no idea when you could get the idea that sonic resonance is overhyped. In my experience it is the least common buff/debuff set out there, and there's a reason for that. It does a few things pretty well, but it's got serious issues, and is in my experience not overly well regarded (though oddly enough when I do bring out my sonic/sonic def, people are quite happy to have him along because of the sets). They are really only strong in one area, resistance debuff, and bring not much else to the table compared to other sets.

I would easily take a cold over a FF any day and twice on Sundays. They are not even comparable sets. FF is a pretty much few trick pony. You, you can buff defense really well, give status protection to those around you and do some tossing around of enemies. I'll take the combination of defense buff, resistance debuff, regen debuff, slows, and endurance buff over that any day. Now a FF member on a team which is composed of SOed squishies is a wonderful thing. However, in a world of IOs and fairly common softcapping (or at least decent defense IO buffs), FF ends up being overkill, and once that trick is unimportant the set falls flat.

I would strongly beg to differ here. Now let's assume that a defender only does, say, 50% of the damage of a blaster if they are both doing their jobs (heck, you can make it 40% and it wouldn't change my argument). This means the defender is buffing and blasting.

Do you know of a single blaster out there that wouldn't kill for a 40% damage increase? Yes, the defender won't be putting up the real big numbers, but the damage still counts, and it counts just as much as if it were just a boost to the damage dealers.

Umm, 'overhyped' means well regarded beyond their capabilities. Stalkers are easily the least well regarded AT in the game to the extent that they are almost never asked for when assembling a team (though of course, this isn't to say people will not take them on teams). As you yourself say, a scrapper can pretty much clearly out do them (as can a brute). They have no reputation to be regarded as 'overhyped'.

Personally I like playing stalkers, but I am under no illusion that they are an uber AT.

Name calling is pathetic, no matter the excuse.

I'm not sure you understand the term.

What did I say:
A) 'You have been whining about this since Beta'- demonstrably true. I can go back to those forums and cite examples
B) 'You want the game to be a walkthrough' an interpretation of your position based on your continual complaints about these TFs and the Incarnate arc being too hard.

Again, you don't know what the term means.

"If your idea of feeling more powerful is being able to walk all over the opposition, go wipe swarms of grays in Perez." is not an insult. It's an example how how you can feel powerful if you like.

On top of that, the game can't cheat. The rules are defined by the developers, and that ends that discussion. You might not like the rules as constructed and modified on occasion, but you don't get to define them.

This last complaint completely demonstrates you have no understanding of the term 'ad hominem'. You seem to think disputing your argument is a personal attack. It is not. I hold no particular opinion as to you personally. I just consider your arguments to be bunk. The TFs in question are hard, but fun and doable. As many others have stated they will be figured out in due time (like every other 'hard' content in the game) and then solved to an extent that people will effectively breeze through them with a competent team.

I will stand by my statement that overcoming hard content is a measure of powerful.

You've been whining about this TF since Beta and the arguments were no more convincing then. You want the game to be a walk through. There's plenty of content to that effect. Just because something is actually hard doesn't make it bad. It also doesn't give you lease to resort to ad hominems.

These TFs are fun, and very doable if people care to figure out how to do them.

If your idea of feeling more powerful is being able to walk all over the opposition, go wipe swarms of grays in Perez.

Some people have a different notion of powerful. It's tied to being able to actually accomplish something hard.

Umm, storm isn't a control set.

Quantum of Solace was a dog due to the writer's strike as well.

I've been running with Single Shot, Burst and Gloom, and it does seem to work out pretty well even with the redraw. The DPAS of the actual crab single target attacks are utterly miserable, so I decided to respec into the gun ones. It definitely has improved my single target performance.

They only get PPPs? I know you can get patron sets.

They did something to this effect with the defender damage buff which is maximum while solo and scales down with team size. Personally I think it's a bit lacking, and won't come close to make me solo a defender (I even find damage on the debuff sets to be unsatisfying).

I've just given up on that kind of balance happening. It would be nice if it happened, but I don't see it as likely.

And the empath and bubble defenders would do utterly lousy damage. The kin, OTOH might actually get rather powerful, but would still probably lag a blaster in damage even if they did get to fulcrum shift all the time.

That's the thing people tend to forget, even at the damage cap, a defender's damage is still rather underwhelming.

Corrupters with the higher damage scalar and damage cap would be more of an issue IMO. Then again a kinetics corrupter already gets the way high damage from fulcrum shift, and we don't see those breaking the game.

Personally I don't see all that much downside in letting the buffing classes self buff. However, I have other options so I don't get worked up over it. I can just play a SoA which is a good damage class that does force multiplication on the side.

Precisely this.