rsclark

If you're going with 4 slots and the perf shifter proc, you might as well go all 4 perf shifter and put in both End Mod/anything. It knocks you just below the red ED cap, but the 4th set bonus is 2.5% recovery, which more than makes up for the amount you lose. It's really close, so I'm guessing it wouldn't work for QR, but for stamina, 4 slotting perf shifter is slightly superior (I think only by 0.01/sec compared to 3 50 common IOs, but still...)

7.5% recharge is worth 150 million. One SB (for my Emp) is the difference between one more person getting that 30% damage/23% def fortitude and keeping AB perm on that nuke crazy blaster. One SB shaves precious seconds off of my next SC on my scrapper, which might mean the difference between once every 3 groups to once every 2 groups on a fast team.

And recovery is (as always) the difference between fighting sensibly while managing your end and opening a can of whoopass with the best attacks you have at all times.

Who does this favor?

I know you are going for "def based builds", but it's just flat not true. For a positional defense build, the typed defense power is completely worthless (except for a little psy def), and once they cap, both defense powers are worthless. So, for all the speed TF running stuff that they are really data mining for to make changes, it's far more likely that the defense aspects of this power will have little to no effect. And since it's unreliable, no one will be able to alter their build to focus on something other than def with the assumption that it will always be there.

Add to that the fact that I have plenty of builds - ie all of them - that will benefit more from added end recovery or recharge speed. The power may be too strong, but it really isn't strongly biased towards any particular build or powerset.

This.

A character built purely for utility can become cookie cutter. A character that's pure theme can be dull or even unplayable. Not all utility powers are necessary, so you can leave them out if there is a major problem. And themes are created by you, so they can be adapted by you as well.

I wish I could have the power on without the animations.

Path of least resistance. It was certainly an easier decision to make given the overwhelming support for the idea. Few decisions are made for a single reason.

That would be unimaginably overpowered.

That it would be silly to place expensive items for auction at that point unless you were certain of selling them before the deadline.

I can read it. And it doesn't contradict a thing I said. In fact, it agrees with the fact that fire/kins tend to not take sb. And no one has said SB isn't taken, only that the standard fire/kin player doesn't take it. You do realize not every character with kin is a fire/kin, don't you - hell, there are two whole other ATs that might occasionally take it.

And as for ...
That would be a very odd point for you to have in a post responding to a comment about why fire/kin is FOTM. Basically, you just claimed that you responded to a post about why the build is popular with a 2 word non-sentence, yet people were supposed to magically know that you had changed the topic from why the build it popular to why players with that build might get invited to teams.

So, either you are the worst communicator known to man, or you're just trying to retroactively cover for that really stupid thing you said.

The only thing you have destroyed is anyone's respect for your reading comprehension skills.

He never said that fire/kins never take speed boost, only that speed boost is not the reason people make fire/kins. Fire/kins are as popular as they are because they are a good farming build, and SB is worthless for that. They may take the power for the occasions when they want to group, but it is not the reason for the popularity of that particular combo.

What you're missing is the durations.

good buff = 20 minutes
bad buff = 1 minute

It's not something you use in the middle of combat and have to keep up all the time. If it's not up, hit it at the end of a mission when people take a break to sell and it will be up through the next mission or 2. If you get the 1% monkey, then everyone laughs at and taunts as you hop around before the next mission.

If you die because of this power, there is no one to blame but yourself.

He's complaining about powers changing too much and you're trying to send him to champions? That's just mean. They don't even have a cottage rule there - my power to pull enemies together into a bunch turned into an AoE slow.

This is where I stopped reading. Wow.

But in the real world, we don't take on the same challenges. I may have a different set of useful skills than a MMA fighter, and with some ways of evaluating, we may be able to make outselves useful, but I'm still not going to beat the crap out of anyone in unarmed combat. This video game doesn't have a wide variety of different situations to excel in. There's basically just "kill stuff" with a couple of variations. Maybe that fire tanker can dance on a pole better than the shield, but that doesn't mean it's useful in any way for playing this particular game.

No, that's the way the world works when you have a writer making it work that way. Without writer-god making things work, the results would be very different.

It's hard enough to make a power imbalance work in a tabletop roleplaying game where you can constantly adjust for the different characters - but to do it in an impersonal computer game where the enemies react indifferently to you, it's a very different story.

Just imagine that Superman/Green Arrow crossover where Superman's enemy spends the first three seconds of the comic punching GA's heart out the back of his chest and then spends the rest of the comic taunting superman with his new skull shaped sock puppet.

And while people might not read a comic because the hero is balanced, many will read superhero comics because the characters are badass. And video games don't have the luxury of making a sub-par hero appear badass.

No, as stated already, I find both laborious.

Did people on this board really not learn about comparisons in school? The big wide alligator mouth eats the bigger number and the little pointy fish mouth eats the smaller number - only the relative values matter. It's not that hard a concept to grasp. Getting a prostate exam is also more pleasant than getting a catheter inserted - doesn't mean I have to enjoy either.

I already place everything on the market for 1 and bid the highest I would be willing to pay. I don't see a way to minimize market time more than that, and it's already orders of magnitude more time that I would like to spend in the market.