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Hehe... but you guys are supposed to be evil! Get back to your stereotypes! 
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Yeah! Be a good Dev and get back in your Box like Pohsyb
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Oh, and PWND!!!
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Thank you Captain Obvious!
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You're wasting your time. Reason, fairness, and other silly things like that are foreign concepts to developers. Remember, such foes are the equivalents their characters, and they're not going to gimp their characters vs. the Enemy (players).
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I trust you'll be happy to learn that I changed Ballista based on feedback in this thread.
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Well, I am.
But then I didn't expect you to be blind to reason and fairness.
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So, after issue 5 comes and slashes defenses, and issue 6 comes and slashes defenses more, we still have toggle-dropping, and that discontent is boiling over.
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Err, you've stopped typing that you're not bitter.... 
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That wasn't a bitter post. I was pointing out that the anti-toggle drop thing is not a fad, it's been there as long as toggle-dropping has. The reduction in defenses and mez resistance have simply aggravated - people who didn't like it but lived with it are much less willing to live with it.
It's the primary reason my interest in PVP waned to nothing.
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Ballista is a Toggle Dropping *******!
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Yeah, he is. He was designed to be as close to a Player Hero as we could make him. How do you guys like the Toggle Drop on him? Is it too nasty or does it add a nice challenge?
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Last night I was fighting a lot of longbow and was constantly having my toggles dropped. Is this intended? Ballista was bad enough with the toggle drops but if this is something that even normal mobs is going to get the game fun level is going to plummet for me.
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What level?
I noticed that Longbow bosses with FF and Storm Summoning were dropping my toggles during Statesman's Strike, bugged it then, but assumed (possibly incorrectly) that it had to do with making Mercy into a sort-of-PVP zone.
I even have it on a demo.
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I actually posted my thoughts on the subject in the suggestion board. Here's the link. Toggle dropping
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Dont take this the wrong way _Castle_ , but you Jonyu, and War Witch are the exception to the rule that Devs dont really talk. Then again Lord Reculse seems to butt in also.
So thanks again for going agianst the grain, and just talking to the players. I am still trying to figure out how to lure you out of Stalkers and into other forums....
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Pwned.
Totally.
Just.... pwned.
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Ballista is a Toggle Dropping *******!
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Yeah, he is. He was designed to be as close to a Player Hero as we could make him. How do you guys like the Toggle Drop on him? Is it too nasty or does it add a nice challenge?
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Last night I was fighting a lot of longbow and was constantly having my toggles dropped. Is this intended? Ballista was bad enough with the toggle drops but if this is something that even normal mobs is going to get the game fun level is going to plummet for me.
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What level?
I noticed that Longbow bosses with FF and Storm Summoning were dropping my toggles during Statesman's Strike, bugged it then, but assumed (possibly incorrectly) that it had to do with making Mercy into a sort-of-PVP zone.
I even have it on a demo.
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It's happening in level 37-40 missions.
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Yeah, he is. He was designed to be as close to a Player Hero as we could make him. How do you guys like the Toggle Drop on him? Is it too nasty or does it add a nice challenge?
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After encountering Ballista for the first time, I'm going to chime in wi th the chorus and state that this game has NO PLACE for toggle dropping in PvE. If you're trying to make a villain "as close to a player hero" as possible, then his powers should do damage equal to that of the player heroes. Those forcefield powers were dropping multiple toggles AND doing tons of damage.
By far the lamest encounter in this game yet. It's cheap and lazy.
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Ballista is a Toggle Dropping *******!
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Yeah, he is. He was designed to be as close to a Player Hero as we could make him. How do you guys like the Toggle Drop on him? Is it too nasty or does it add a nice challenge?
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It [censored] sucks.
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difficult, I don't mind. Being defeated, eh, it happens. But having more trouble with this one mob than I've had with any Arch-Villain/Hero?
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AMEN! (and that includes the fact that I managed to get a dm/da scrapper to 50 on coh...)
My only complaint about Ballista-1 is the unable to go to hospital part of the mish. At least teleport us back to the beginning of the map.
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Yeah, he is. He was designed to be as close to a Player Hero as we could make him. How do you guys like the Toggle Drop on him? Is it too nasty or does it add a nice challenge?
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Last night I was fighting a lot of longbow and was constantly having my toggles dropped. Is this intended? Ballista was bad enough with the toggle drops but if this is something that even normal mobs is going to get the game fun level is going to plummet for me.
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What level?
I noticed that Longbow bosses with FF and Storm Summoning were dropping my toggles during Statesman's Strike, bugged it then, but assumed (possibly incorrectly) that it had to do with making Mercy into a sort-of-PVP zone.
I even have it on a demo.
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It's happening in level 37-40 missions.
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I noticed it with level 40-50 Longbow bosses, but I don't recall seeing any in the mid-high 30s.
Not that anyone will see 41-50 Longbow very often until the next issue.
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How about this-I had blue con mook minions brawling off the toggles on my level 9 dark/dark brute, that doesn't seem quite right.
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How about this-I had blue con mook minions brawling off the toggles on my level 9 dark/dark brute, that doesn't seem quite right.
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Their brawl probably has a chance to disorient, like boxing.
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How about this-I had blue con mook minions brawling off the toggles on my level 9 dark/dark brute, that doesn't seem quite right.
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Their brawl probably has a chance to disorient, like boxing.
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Ok, let's say that was it, even so, that seems a bit much that blue con to a level 9 minions were dropping my toggles so often.
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Here's a question for you _Castle_. Is the fact that Stealth is currently required for a Stalker to be playable in PvP being looked at?
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Is the fact that tactics is currently required for any AT who doesn't have perception already to be playable in PvP being looked at?
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What other class requires a certain power pool selection or their entire purpose is nullified vs a majority of opponents?
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Every one that doesn't have perception. And if you think that a majority of the opponents in PvP aren't stalkers, you're crazy.
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Perhaps picking stealth as a powerpool would not be so painful if it weren't completely redundant and useless for a stalker in PvM. Please look into this situation.
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Do you need perception in PvE either?
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How about this-I had blue con mook minions brawling off the toggles on my level 9 dark/dark brute, that doesn't seem quite right.
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Their brawl probably has a chance to disorient, like boxing.
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Ok, let's say that was it, even so, that seems a bit much that blue con to a level 9 minions were dropping my toggles so often.
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I think the whole boxing reference is exactly what it is. My Stalker was constantly getting his toggles knocked off by Blues, whites, oranges... everything but greens. But that would be because I never fought any greens. 
It's annoying that it happened so often, but not a mortal danger of surviving type of annoyance.
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Super Reflexes resistance to Defense Debuffs does not seem to be working.
It should be. Looking at the data, there are three powers for Stalkers that add Resistance to Debuff. These all stack with one another, and increase in effectiveness as you go up in level, ranging from 18% at level 1 (if you could have all three powers at level 1) to 36.7% at level 40. At level 50, once that is open, it's about 42%.
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quick question.. how come everysingle time I get shot with a radiation attack I see the icon in my effect window?? same thing with the assault rifle burst shot. will the icon show up if you resisted it??
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Ballista is a Toggle Dropping *******!
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Yeah, he is. He was designed to be as close to a Player Hero as we could make him. How do you guys like the Toggle Drop on him? Is it too nasty or does it add a nice challenge?
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I think its fine but then thats just me, if your idea was to make him close to a heroe player then you succeded in making this guys into some scrapper/tanker hybrid and as such i need to bring my brute buddies or my personal favorites a dom
Thread necromancy alert!
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For the curious: How did Ballista actually end up being changed?
Changed as of today's patch? Or a future one? Just curious.
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