elfgirl

Not a reply to previous, just a reply in general. I'd pretty much given up on the boards. ED was a horrible blow. It cut damage by a ton. This change to aggro...it hurts. Hurts alot. We really CAN'T do our jobs as tankers anymore. Not even alone, with no-one to interfere with the aggro. I feel like I've kicked in the gut. By a horse. Repeatedly. All of the changes make me KNOW that this is now the City of Slightly Better than Average People. I really, truly and honestly think that States and co are trying to turn this into a SuperZero version of WoW. The graphics are tending in that direction. (except for the modern citie scapes) Some of the "new" power groups in CoV are carbon copies of WoW graphics and powers. The plant controller is basically a Druid. Same holds, same graphics in alot of ways. I wonder if the WoW people have noticed yet? I'm sorry, States, if I wanted to play WoW, I'd be playing WoW. Which I do...more often than I'm on this game anymore. At least the world there is HUGE, there are thousands of storylines to follow and very cool loot that's useable as more than a base enhancement. No, I'm not going to quit CoH and CoV, if for no other reason than that I want to maintain my ability to tell Jack and his Dev team what cretins they are.

I've said it before, it's worth repeating. When I first got this game, I felt a thrill every time I logged on. The music, the costumes, the people in the game. They made for wonderful and addicting fun. That sense of fun, that thrill from logging on, was maintained until I4. Which I struggled through and learned how to deal with. It decreased my happiness in the game, but I still wanted to play. The Hami nerf just about did me in. I came really close to quitting at that point, and only that fact that people who had truly become friends were still playing kept me logging in and occasionally doing more than PL'ing, which I did just because I know it annoys Jack.

Then came I5. That horrible issue that found me logging in less and less. To be honest, the only reason I'm still ON CoH is because it costs nothing extra. I'm moving along to CoV (until you nerf IT to death also). My main reason for playing that? The opportunity to kill Statesman in game. Yep, that's my goal, my motivation. I need some payback for the horrible and continued [censored] of a once great game. Hey, I don't think that term is overdone for what you have done, either. In fact, it fits perfectly. All of my characters have been made to bend over and take it up rear. Repeatedly.

So....my response to this change? It's a total mistake. If you had done this INSTEAD of all the other nerfs to get rid of herding (and yeah, we all know that's the REAL motivation for doing what you did to the tanks) then it would have been fine. Making it in addition to all the other changes, that's pure and simple overkill. Lemme tell ya. Tanks now do MINIMAL damage, can barely survive without healer support and can now only aggro 17 villians at a time? Do us all a favor. Delete the AT. Be honest that you never intended to give us the ability to be Supermen and women. Make sure that includes deleting Statesman, though. Because HE shouldn't be able to be Superman either.

A success? No way. I really have issue with that comment. I also have issue with the fact that you folks took the cowardly way out on the latest nerfs. You didn't even ANNOUNCE the power changes to things like Greater Fire Sword, for which you change the animation and the EFFECT, making it harder to hit stacks. And of course, the one that makes Invincible setting worthless. Level 52 villians are now the MAX we can get??!! It's bad enough it was done, but why UNANNOUNCED??? Why the stealthy way of going about it? It feels dishonest when you guys do stuff like that.

******Not ment as reply to this poster, just a question in general*********

So, I preordered CoV. I've read something about "pre-order boxes". I've yet to see any such thing at my local Gamestop. The only "bonus disk" I've seen is the "free trial version" of CoH called the "bootleg disk". When/how are we supposed to get the info on the beta testing? With the game stores listing Holloween as the release date for CoV, shouldn't we BE in beta already?

While I agree that the only thing a fire tanker needs to do is lay down ice patch and burn...you haven't really given us alot of options. For enough res/def to stay alive with this (currently) 2nd most squishy tanker set, we have to take 4 power pool sets. There simply are not enough slots left to take a bunch of attacks as well as the defenses (both res AND def meant by that) to stay alive and attack well. Honestly, for the amount of damage that this particular power set supplies vs. the protections offered (even FULLY slotting every defensive power) I think it would be better suited to the scrapper AT.

The fact that you choose to pile 3 penalties onto this power smacks of overkill. People are putting down too many burns at once? As one person in this thread suggested, make it so that burn CANNOT overlap. That will get RID of your obsessive need to increase recharge times on this power, at least. Decrease damage? Certainly. When fully slotted with 50++ I can do 9 tics of damage...reduce so that comes to around 5, it will balance the output/cost of the power much better. Get rid of fear. The whole purpose of a tank is to gather and hold aggro. With fear in this power, you negate the ABILITY to do this job for the fire tank. And, btw...you will just make the almighty fire/ice tank a more frequently taken combination, as only ice slick will help maintain the damage long enough to take out the enemies. It will eliminate the very thing that most people found so innovative and amazing about this game...the ability to be the hero YOU want to be, not a "toon" forced into a cookie-cutter mold that negates any origionality and thought being devoted to a truly enjoyable and individualized character concept.

Godspeed and safe return for your brother. Real life comes first. No matter what.