rsclark

No, but it makes sense to, at least, try to be inclusive of as many people as possible. The more restrictive you are, the less inclusive you are.

So, your point was to list three things and have two of them be selfish and the other be the exact opposite of selfish?

That's an odd point to have. This is about greed, selfishness, and working for the general good and wellbeing of all.

To note that on a single mission set at a particular difficulty, I can solo 2 groups while my teammate lies dead on the ground, but while he's "helping", we die repeatedly to a single group does not require a complex understanding of the game. It simply requires eyes.

It's not about perfect play. It's about the only power type in the game (possibly apart from intangibility) that can make a character's contribution to a group a negative. It's not just about comparing a character to another hypothetical, it's about a character who contributes more by standing at the door and leaching than by attacking.

Yes, that requires bad play, but it's a much lower threshold of bad play than you can pull off without knockback being involved.

Only if you don't care what words mean.

He never claimed they did. He said that if you're going to make a requirement of people based on the "massively" part of the term, then you should make similar requirements based on the "roleplaying" part. You can't pick one part to be a requirement based on nothing but the word being there and not do the same for the other words - that's hypocrisy.

You should think better.

It doesn't work for AD, but it still works for MindLink using defense sets (you just need 4 IOs to cap recharge instead of 3 HOs).

If I'm on an Emp standing off to the side healing and buffing, I would still prefer the SS brute and the fire blaster to unload their AoEs over the PB. It's not selfish to want to use your power instead of another character's if yours is better. That benefits everyone, not just yourself. Selfishness only comes when you want to use your ability to the detriment of others.

Much less than it would be by someone with an area sleep - already a weak situational ability.

And, as has been said a million times, it's not that knockback cannot be situationally useful, it is instead that knockback is often tied to attacks that would not otherwise be considered situational.

A big knockback power might be taken as a power similar to the aforementioned sleep if it's something the character has room for. But if that big knockback is also tied to the only good area attack you have, then listing one or two situations it may be useful in is not good enough. Your high damage AoE needs to be part of your regular attack chain, and if you can't use it as such, it becomes a detriment to that character.

That is some pretty faulty logic there. By that logic, it was also an "exploit" to play the game normally and run the 10-20 level mission with a normal 10-20 level character that you intended to keep playing. After all, that "loophole" was closed as well.

That's because people try to be polite ingame. It doesn't mean you aren't irritating the crap out of them. I didn't complain to the guy who kept killing me with his knockback - I just 1 starred him and moved on after we finished that mission.

If one way of doing things is effective and efficient and another is wasteful and slow, then they are not diverse. A choice to suck is not a real choice.

For a single character as long as you level quickly. Really, if you're using it as part of an attack chain, how long is a 25 charge bat going to last?

Nothing in this set gives you this ability.

That's just a picture of a med kit, nothing like that actually comes with the pack.

The pet is nice, but it's less than a quarter of the pack and can be purchased separately.

And in the process invalidate 90% of my characters.

Wasn't that explained in great detail? When you claim two mutually exclusive things, it indicates a hole in your argument.

KB is a powerful tool.
and
KB is hated by min-maxers.
are contradictory statements.

Anyone who makes both of those statements needs to have their ideas given greater scrutiny, because something is clearly wrong.

That's the problem here. With the exception of the whistle, none of the temp powers really benefit the player. using the attacks results in a lower chance to hit and less damage than if you used a normal attack. It's not a choice some people can make if they need an extra boost, instead it's a con to get money from people who don't understand the game.

It's difficult to think of a consumable that would be worth buying in this game, and while I understand the devs wanting consumables to be popular, they have not yet succeeded in finding any that are actually useful in this game.

What an odd way to make purchase choices.

So it's aesthetic. In other words, this is equivalent to a temporary costume power - that just so happens to reduce your effectiveness if you use it.

We didn't, because that time never existed. The weekly updates and the market started at the same time.

They have never said this is an exploit. Slotting damage to easily cap resist is an exploit (using one type of enhancement to affect another), but simply slotting something not normally allowed has never been called out as an exploit.

For def and res playing to strength is better since they get better the higher you go. But regen isn't like that. Adding X regen is no better if you're at 300% regen than it would be if you were at 10% regen. If your strength is regen, build for max HP and visa versa. They complement each other, but not themselves.

No way. You could have stats for Alcoholism and Philandery.

Not only do they price the consumables backwards to other MMOs, but the consumables in this game are worth vastly less than in other MMOs.

Really, what are those inspirations and self-rezes worth? 1000 inf and a minute and a half using global mail?

If you've got that much money to burn, it would be cheaper to hire someone to sit there and mail inspirations to you when you need them.

My bad. You got censored so much in that first line, that I was kind of guessing what it said.

It's called feedback - you know, the reason this thread exists in the first place.

That's too big of an issue. How do you complain about "overpriced by infinity percent", which describes the first 4 items on your list.

Even for a learning process, you should (at least) start in the right general ballpark. Next time there's a big meeting, ask the person who proposed this idea to explain why they thought it would be a good idea. I'm having trouble coming up with even a strained justification.

One of my local restaurants has a daily special that provides variety, but somehow they have still never attempted Turd Sandwich Thursday.