rsclark

Quite impressive how you stopped reading after one line.
And then assume things i never said.

If you expect me to really respond, you need to go back and actually read what I said. I clearly said I asked people, had read and acknowledged their LFG messages, and had given the details of what we were doing in the message, yet you still give some canned post about spamming broadcast.

And if someone wants to pass the message on to SwellGuy, my global is @el chupacabre if he feels like avoiding me ingame as well. Anyone with ignore on quickdraw is someone I will be happy to avoid.

Exactly. That's what I said.

I only mentioned the soft cap because that's what it sounded like Tyrrano was talking about when he mentioned debuff resist. I assumed he had confused the effects of ED for soft capping.

Unless I am really, really confused, then no, it doesn't. Pushing above the soft cap helps with debuffs, but ED is more like a hard cap than a soft cap. ED makes resist not go about X value for a power, while the soft cap lets it go as high as you want, but beyond Z it isn't useful.
Depending on how many sets there are, then you can frankenslot pretty high. From 2 different sets, you can get (depending on what the power is) an X/recharge from both and maybe an x/x/recharge from both. You're only getting the first set bonuses from both sets, but you've also got .75+.75+.5+.5 recharge, which is still 2.5 recharges, which hits ED. Even if you have to use a set that caps at 30, that's a lot of recharge.

I think you pick it afterwards, but soon. The problem I see with that is it seems arbitrary, since those are independent of hero/villain. i know that currently I have characters planned for both resistance and loyalist that plan on going hero after 20.

What on earth are you talking about, Mr Cryptic?
Oh, I see your post now. Dude, I'm an adult. I have a job.

Do it Sunday. Pinnacle. 1pm-3pm. No asking your SG members to log characters onto that server. No TF, just a 40-50 mission group. You will fail. There will probably not be enough characters on who don't explicitly refuse such groups in their LFG message to make a full team.

I'll give you the win if you hit 5 counting yourself within the time frame.

And no people in this thread cheating to make a point.

And damn, you're an *******.

Well, I've been on my server (Pinnacle) since launch day, so I'm not moving without all my characters and my SG base - which I don't see happening anytime soon. It certainly wasn't low pop when I picked it. I would have picked a different one if the name had been "watch the tumbleweeds roll by".

And I'm not talking about teams of 8. Sunday I played for 9 hours with LFG up and never saw an invite. When i finally needed to get more damage/debuff/whatever to take out 2 AVs I couldn't solo, it took another 2.5 hours to get 2 people to help - and to get them I had to give up asking people if they wanted to group and switch to asking people to do me a favor by helping out.

Switching the difficulty to remove AVs and beating it solo would have been easier than getting 2 people, and that seems like a waste for an online game. It doesn't make me happy with the state of the game when I can honestly say that 90% of the time it's easier for me to solo than to get a group together.

It's almost like i said that already.

Oh wait, there it is -"Now, I don't know whether to blame any changes on lower population or simply on the effect IO sets and the new difficulty settings have had on the ability to solo content".

Most of the people in this thread are stuck in some defensive mindset, where every criticism of the current state game is taken as a pronouncement of doom and reacted to with canned responses that don't actually correspond to the complaints made.

It might help if people would not quote walls of text and actually read what's on the screen before responding.

Name your server.

Yes, it is a huge improvement in convenience. Yet, you still have to actively seek out and make groups which didn't used to be the case.

People keep giving all this advice on how you can get groups, and some of it is valid. But all of that advice ignores the fact that the advice wasn't needed 3-4 years ago. You could group just fine from 1-50 without ever forming a group of your own or building friends lists. You could PUG to 50 with no trouble beyond trying to SK the wrong number of people in.

Yes, you can compensate for this difference by doing certain things, but that does not mean that the difference is not there. The very fact that you do need to do these things now and didn't have to do them in the past indicates that there is a very large difference.
Now you're just being a *********. #1 I never said anything about merging and #2 merging isn't something that's intrinsically bad or indicative of problems. You just want to portray anyone who doesn't agree with you as a panicking kook, because it removes your own need to make an argument.

Wow you dodge points with deftness. I never suggested merging servers. I simply object to people claiming that teaming is not less common now than it used to be. The claim is just as silly as those who say CoV isn't distinctly different than CoH in terms of grouping.

If I had to come up with a solution, it would be cross server grouping, since most of the content is already instanced.

That seems like a couple more than 1 zero off. I mean, if they are selling for 150 mill, I'm gonna start farming them in AE.

Powers, slots, and enhancements. A real 45 is just better than a 15 SKed to 45. It really matters if you're killing an AV instead of running radio missions.

Did it ever dawn on anyone that they had to make the SK changes to in some way help combat the decreased teaming opportunities. I mean, assuming it does have a positive impact on getting teams together, shouldn't the end result be a vast improvement over how the game used to be?

I mean the game used to have good teaming, so something that made it even easier should make teaming breathtakingly wonderful, instead of meagerly passable - that is unless the improvement was being used to offset a noticeable decrease in teaming.

If what you need is white salvage, you might as well run regular missions. Thus spake the man in need of 7 kinetic weapons.

You're a cool guy. I like the cut of your jib.

Congratulations. You have just made the dumbest post I have ever seen on the internet.