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Yeah, the difference between a capped Brute and capped Scrapper is quite small, with the Scrapper only winning out by a few percent. I don't mind, because on teams that lack a Kin (or other copious +damage) the Brute will still be outdamaging the Scrapper provided they're able to maintain aggro to keep Fury generation high.

Patron pools sucked a lot until they had extra powers added in I13 (and many still aren't up to par with their hero counterparts). What's funny is that Positron said, early on, that the patron powers were better because "we revealed the numbers" (referring to the plaques in Grandville which give some, but not all, information about the powers).

While this is true, assuming you open with Stalagmites or Earthquake (Earth) or Ice Patch (Ice), most of the mob won't be returning fire even though they're alerted.

You do realize that almost nothing in this game takes any skill, right?

I'm not sure we'd have enough active people to field an 8-man team even if the leaders showed up.

Bitter? No. I actually like most of the APP/PPP stuff coming up, but there are a few really really stupid powers in there, and I'm not just talking about PvP here. I don't think it'd be such a big deal if these were sort of last-minute additions thrown in to make leveling/side-switching simpler, but the fact they were there since almost the beginning of beta and remained relatively unchanged despite lots of people telling the devs they were problematic is sort of a downer.

As for bug fixes, yeah. I like bug fixes, especially since I've been constantly filing bug reports on most of that stuff since at least I14. Bug fixes are nice, but mechanics changes that would actually make the game fun to play again? None of those, unfortunately.

People have been pointing out this and other huge problems for months now, with nothing to show for it. Expect it to go live as-is, which will result in an uproar when duplicate/broken powers are removed or changed heavily.

The people that complain because they will now be able to kill faster amaze me.

I believe you are confusing Masterminds for things like melee characters.

1. Domination has its standard effects, AFAIK (anything else is a bug).

2. Not positive about the accuracy (the version before the change required a hit check, not sure if the current one does), but it does detoggle when mezzed which means you'll be retoggling a lot since the set lacks real mitigation.

3. There was a bit of code magic done to keep all the knockdown flying around from stacking on the same target and turning into knockback, so you shouldn't have to worry about your Gremlins tossing stuff around. It's kind of funny to watch whole mobs flopping around though - it's not quite Earthquake/Ice Slick levels, but it's useful as soft control.

4. I believe Static Field follows the same rules as other AoE holds with respect to duration, recharge, and radius.

5. Synaptic Overload would be a really nice power, were it not for the fact that the chain is slow to jump and if the chain misses, it's all over. It was certainly useful running at -1x6 when I was testing my Elec/Kin (where I had enough recharge thanks to Siphon Speed to have it up every mob), but it's not entirely reliable so it falls short compared to other AoE confuse powers.

Impale's nice for setting up spikes and all, but when you can put out more damage from a longer range using a patron power, it becomes pretty irrelevant.
lol?

This made me lol.

I believe the description at the vendor is pool C and D (old TF/trial drops). That makes the alignment merits an absolute no-brainer for anyone who keeps even one character "pure," as you'll be able to use global email to send the items you roll cross-faction. I could simply keep one hero "pure" and stockpile these merits, do lots of random rolls, sell the stuff I don't want, and email the rest to the heroes or villains that need stuff.

The one thing we never really found out was whether these random rolls are weighted for specific set types (or even specific recipes).

Hey, I'm not complaining. I think it was a complete dickmove to add a non-PvP method of obtaining PvP enhancements, so the stupid high cost makes up for that somewhat.

Errr, about that... the "warp speed" phenomenon only happens when you stun a mob that's aggroed and is moving from point A to point B. If you fire off the stun before the mob's aggroed, they'll just sort of wander in place.

Pretty sure it was changed to apply to ancillary powers...