macskull

I PvP, but at the same time I am patient with the market and know how to build a good build on the cheap. I have no need to use RMT, as I earn far more simply selling my drops than I spend on even the more expensive builds. Like Uber, I'm capable of buying several +3% def PvP IOs at the drop of a hat, and most of the PvPers (and almost all the PvEers) in my circle of friends are the same way.

I don't see anyone using RMTers except the stupid or lazy people, honestly.

My Fort's 60% ranged/melee defense gets DR'd to about 40%. I managed to push almost 52% after DR in RV last night but that was with Grant Invis, Mind Link, and PB'd Fort.

Oh christ, you are Charnobyl Man? I don't know what build you're running but you need more HP, knockback protection, and a crapload more +acc, because when your hit rolls with Char are less than 10% against my Fort without any external buffs and I can KB you with TK Blast, your build is bad.

One potential solution is to give all the squishies mag 6 protection to all mezzes and cap mez durations at 15 seconds, keeping toggles up when mezzed. This way you still have to stack mezzes, and Breakfrees/CM/whatever will prevent you from being mezzed (but as mezzes deal respectable damage as attacks that isn't such a big deal since you can still DPS), but running out of Breakfrees won't be a death sentence like it was in I12.

This is, of course, not a perfect solution, but it's sort of a halfway point between the old and new systems.

=o.o=

I play this game to have fun. If I'm not having fun, I'll drop the team. Of course, not playing on PuGs tends to eliminate much of the frustration of being on a bad team...

From a powergaming perspective (i.e. just about everything I do, such as balls-to-the-wall fast TFs/SFs), every melee AT except Brutes - and Scrappers, now, thanks to the I18 Brute nerfs - are largely obsolete simply because you can stack a team full of buff/debuff, add a Blaster in for the extra damage, and you can steamroll 99% of content in the game. I'll take a mixed team of 8 Defenders/Corruptors/Controllers over just about anything, thanks.

Every time I go to bid on salvage with a last 5 around 10k, and I can't even get one for 100k, I curse the gods and wish a flipper had paid attention to that salvage.

1. Travel suppression is needless, stupid, and should be completely removed anyways. It contributes nothing to balanced fights and is only decisive if someone gets caught out in the open against, say, a Blaster, or is jumped by a large group. Travel suppression makes ganking single targets infinitely easier than it was before I13. End of story.

2. Heal decay is also needless, stupid, and should be removed, so the focus is a bit less on damage spam and a bit more on support. If it's kept it should probably be reduced to a minimum heal value of 50% or even 75% (instead of 25%) so heals at least have some usefulness to a spike target.

3. The issue with Psi attacks (specifically Blasters) is not that the damage numbers are off (the DPA for the various Psi attacks is actually within the expected range, as most attacks have a PvP DPA of 80-120), but that due to projectile travel time you can essentially have three attacks' worth of damage hitting the target at once. This wouldn't be a big deal if you could get away from the Blaster or heal the damage, but you can't. Solution? Get rid of travel suppression and heal decay and use geometry to your advantage.

4. If two Stalkers manage to get AS's off on a target within a small enough window for the target to not hibernate/phase/pop greens/catch a heal/break line of sight, either those Stalkers are good, those Stalkers are lucky, or their target is really really bad. Generally it's the third condition, as most double AS's happen when a target is standing still. It's your own damn fault for making yourself an easy target. Stalkers got hit really hard by I13 and if anything they need a damage buff to AS so a single AS actually causes some concern to a target. Can't see the Stalkers on the other side? Team with an Emp/Pain/Storm/Sonic for +perception. Team with a VEAT. Learn what options are available and how to counter what your opponent has instead of complaining about your opponent being overpowered. 90% of zone Stalkers are trash, and people who think Stalkers are a serious threat post-I13 amuse me.

5. Sharks just needs its damage lowered. Nothing else needs to be done here. Regarding Hibernate, complaining about it is laughable because it renders its user immobile while it's active, giving you plenty of time to crowd around them, drop debuffs, gather the Stalkers to AS, or whatever, not to mention that once they come out you've got at least 90 seconds to kill them before nophase wears off and Hibernate recharges. If your problem is with the commonplace use of Hibernate, again you need to blame travel suppression and heal decay, which make escape powers mandatory unless you enjoy being a farm target.

6. Good start would be to revert the mez system to the old (PvE) rules, or find a halfway point between the old and current system. TP Foe is fine, it's a complete joke, especially with the phase period on the target after they've been TP'd. Complaining about it is hilarious when you have so many options to avoid it (bring oranges, team with a Kin, play one of the sets with TP protection, or best of all, stay out of range of the person with TP). If you're getting TP'd on an MM, follow the same rules. It's your own damn fault you keep getting TP'd away from your pets.

Increasing the secondary effects of attacks, sure, but that would be difficult or impossible to balance. Removing -fly? Hover already prevents most -fly powers from working with just one application, so use Hover, or take a real travel power that actually lets you remain mobile.

You spoke of I13, but based on your forum reg date you weren't around until nearly two years after so you couldn't possibly know what things were like before I13 or even when all the changes were just hitting the servers. What's ironic here is that you blame I13 for a bunch of problems (which is true, by the way) but then you proceed to suggest out-of-line nerfs to various powers without understanding how those powers actually work, which is exactly the sort of thing that got us I13 in the first place. I realize that complaining about things that beat you is far easier than figuring out why those things beat you and then doing something about it, but it's by far the worse option.

They've got something ridiculous like +100% tohit.

It's been that way since I11 I think, or whenever the Acro nerf happened.

And you are?

10 seconds, regardless of mag.

Meow?

I have not had any conflicts with Time Machine and CoH.

lol