And, as I'm thinking about it, an awful realization comes to mind: what if I go on respec mission #2 this weekend, respec into or out of something, then end up needing it again after Rage gets changed again... or something else around it gets changed!
*shudders* 
Detour - 50 Inv/SS Tank - on since Beta; Foresight - 50 Controller - on since Summer 2004
Zephyr. - 28 Scrapper - April 2005 1st Place,Victories/ 1st Place, Outcast Nemesis - Steel Canyon - Victory Server- all on Victory.
Catalyst Kid - level 50, Justice server
Wind Racer - level 50, Virtue red side
Erm... with the lack of ANY Dev responses about how this was implemented, or even an inkling of when or if it will be fixed - is this a "You Better Take it AND Like it" response?
Reading between the lines is seldom accurate, but I must admit, as a Tanker, my Mind Reading powers aren't all that hot... and since I haven't seen bupkus from those that Did-This-To-Me in a full week, I'm also impatient....
Sorry, but when you mess up, at least communicating how long it takes to fix your mistake - or how you're doing on it, with occasional updates - would strike me as polite, heck, almost even professional.
YMMV.
Alas, poor Rage. We suffer much in your current state of complete endurance collapse. Mayhap we shall have a new version soon to test you? I yearn for the days of yore when I could Rage most furiously to suffer not my foes' presence for as long periods of time as I currently do. We, the SS Tanker community most sincerely implore you, the Development team of the most enjoyable CoH to conjure a new Rage for us to partake in soon.
Do we need to have the :
Forget Me Not - Daily Rage FIX ME PLEASE - post?
Hey - it worked for Dark Armor!
(Just dont' remind me how long it took)
Due to your poor timing with regards to your change in rage, I believe the only fair solution is that all effected are given one more free resepec. I am level 50 and have no more resecs at Terra Volta, and the change you made was after the free respec had been given. So please hear our voices and let us regain what we lost by allowing us to respec once more!
Did you notice there is a new patch on the test server. fixes a cape issue and adds some cool water effects.
It looks like they assigned the programmers that went to the "Sally Struthers School of Programming and VCR repair" to the rage fix and everyone else got the good ones.
Amazing. Who would have thought that the game has apparently been programmed around Rage? No doubt this explains how after many days they still haven't figured out how to at least roll back the change. 
Still no Rage to test yet. I really want to get the new Rage hammered out so we can decide if the new one will be useful or poo. Currently it's poo. Hopefully this delay is mostly due to the memory leak fix, as mentioned elsewhere.
I don't even have an active SS tanker anymore and this delay is starting to get to me.
Please put the new Rage on test so we can move on to fixing the other broken powers please.
Hmmm... Well heres my updated boo-hoo (voice) about Rage. Like everyone else a response from the Devs would be appreciated, I can live with Rage as is for awhile but at least give us some info.
I have life alot better than most of these poor tanks since my wife plays an Illus/FF and we almost always group with a friend we met on CoH who plays and Illus/Emp. So I still use Rage but hey, I have Bubbles, Heals, and best of all Recovery Aura. BUT! I never EVER solo anymore, just cant do it with Rage like it is. This gives me lots of time to play alts and takes from my time trying to get my main char to 50 so I can try the new ATs....
Obviously the servers are down cause I'm saying waaay more than is necessary ;p see ya all be well and keep the faith!
Now that you're back from your unexpected time away Statesman, can we please get an update on the situation with Rage? I'd really like to get back to playing my favorite character, please? 
Rage is still messed up, with no word of what 's going on?
Alright.... who kidnapped the Dev team and gagged them (i.e. no more responding to game balance 'issues') about two weeks ago?
Statesman,
Have SuperStrength Tankers been put into "Timeout" (Bad, Bad Rage!) - with nary a Developer's word (kind or otherwise) for a reason?
(Waves hand back and forth in the darkness - seeing if there's actually anybody in the room...) 
Devs, is there anything going on with Rage? I know it's in the pipeline and you want to get other things done as well, but you did say the current Rage was too harsh and it's been 2 weeks with nothing. We would like this ironed out, and to see if we can get a useful Rage out of this again. It was always a gamble at high levels anyway, but now it's just poo. If we can get a useful and balanced Rage it would make a lot of us SS Tankers happy.
*sigh....* I dont play my tank any more, I miss him but it was just to frustrateing, its been 2 weeks and I have a plethora of new chars thanks to the Winter Lords......
Come on Dev's, get your [censored] in gear!
just put it back how it was and swing the Nerf bat at someone else for a change, please
Agreed!
I just think its funny that rage is so hard to fix.
who would have thought that a simple multiplier stat would be so hard. I would have thought that in the age of modular code it would have been easy to swap one rage module for another rage module.
Maybe its not the programmers fault, but the associated manager. Any manager worth their pay should make sure that coding is modular and easily fixed/rolled back.
So, the length of time taken to get a fix out leads me to believe that either the programmer is incompetent, or the manager is incompetent. Or, they just don't care to fix it.
Take your pick.
But that is just my opinion.
PLEASE FIX RAGE!
I honestly think the Devs have no idea what they want with rage. They want a penalty that isn't harsh yet isn't too soft. I can honestly say that SS is weak because at Lvl 39 My tank was doing Less damage in all of his attacks save one compared to a lvl 37 Battle Axe tank. I think its something to point out that a Battle Axe Tank is doing a little more damage then an SS tank 2 lvls above her.
SS is a dead horse and its amazing with all of the complaints that the devs thought an end burn would be an wise penalty change? I think whats amazing is SS players are willing to play a set that is far weaker then the other aslong as they have a power that can EVEN them out with the other sets.
Rage change please. Everytime I play an alt with Build-Up I miss Rage all the more. Build-Up is not my favorite but better then the current live Rage. At least Build-Up wont kill toggles in a room of Maltas when it expires.
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I posted this in another thread, but i was curious how many people are still playing their SS tanks.
I have shelved mine and started a scrapper instead. (actually tried a defender ,god to i suck at that).
Personally, at this point I believe they are watching how Rage is used in it's current form and will make a decision based on that data. It wouldn't surprise me if they announced either a) "Never mind, we decided the old version was fine afterall." or b) "Nevermind, we decided the new version was fine afterall."
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Personally, at this point I believe they are watching how Rage is used in it's current form and will make a decision based on that data. It wouldn't surprise me if they announced either a) "Never mind, we decided the old version was fine afterall." or b) "Nevermind, we decided the new version was fine afterall."
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I posted this in another thread as well, but why does rage have to have a negative? Since all it does is give SS the same damage as other tank types shouldn't it be penalty free?
Dear Devs:
Well I logged on to see if any changes had been announced, and alas they haven't. Put me down with the people who want an ETA of some sort for a fix of the 'fix'. The current Test build has Rage with the same drop of death it has on Live.
I also agree wholeheartedly with the people who feel betrayed by the timing of this change, coming as it did sufficiently after the free respec to guarantee most of us would've already used it. The build I chose with my free respec relied on Rage as it was. I still have the defense, but my offense is patchwork, to say the least. A lot of re-enhancements and I can muddle through.
Suffice it to say I would have waited had I had any inkling that a change of this magnitude was coming. I don't recall any announcements that Rage was going to be changed; if there was put me down with the 'casual' crowd you were supposedly trying to help. As it now, I'm staring at the few bars between me and 50 and guessing how much closer I'd have been w/o the adjustment bat whacking my powers in stealth fashion.
Please if you can work out the technical details, give SS users another respec or do something to try and make up for the timing of this whole thing. Also, try to get better in-house communication & coordination; then let us know what's happening. This Rage change just seemed to slip into a major build which helped a lot of others. It was announced for testing then published live just a few days later,which is unusual for your dev team. I'm not sure what happened but given the overall timing with the respecs, the invulnerable set changes, and the usual policy of 'Don't worry, it's only on Test." I feel disgruntled. Something went awry somewhere in the pipeline and my main character got screwed in the crossfire.
Yours in eager anticipation of news of reversion to Rage usability,
Proletarian
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