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The frackin' Easter Bunny
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Yay! It's almost Easter! Maybe we'll SEE him(her) for once!
Or perhaps, like all wonderfully imaginative holiday icons, he(she) is made up to make small children behave when their parents can't control them...
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Rabbit turds for everyone!
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What? No...those are chocolate eggs made by bunny...
Right? Right?!
Talen_Lee: Taking absorb pain is like branding 'H' on your forehead. Which stands for 'Failure'
Scarf_Girl: ever since I six slotted my Rp with cyber/emo Hami-O enhancements they haven't been able to touch me
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The frackin' Easter Bunny
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Yay! It's almost Easter! Maybe we'll SEE him(her) for once!
Or perhaps, like all wonderfully imaginative holiday icons, he(she) is made up to make small children behave when their parents can't control them...
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Rabbit turds for everyone!
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What? No...those are chocolate eggs made by bunny...
Right? Right?!
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To quote the dev team;
"We're looking into it..."
Take that how you like...
Brother of Markus
The Lord of Fire and Pain
The Legendary Living Hellfire
Fight my brute!
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Hell, I'd take one that mildly gives a [censored] about the AT.
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Well, _Castle_ meets that standard at least:
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I like a number of the ideas you present. Many simply won't happen, for a variety of reasons, but some are quite doable. When I get out of my current mountain of work, I'll re-read this and try and implement some of it.
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Not just an acknowledgement that change needs to happen, but an announcement of an intent to actually implement some suggestions. That's more than Tankers and Defenders have gotten so far, and they're both clearly hurting as well (albeit, not as long).
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The thing that pisses me off about this is that here we have a brand new AT. It's brand new! and it's getting all this work done on it (don't get me started on whether or not the whole AS thing is getting "looked at", 'cause clearly it ain't) and here we are, almost two years later, with nothing.
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I sort of wonder if Cryptic isn't hyper sensitive about doing anything with Blasters due to the preception that "fixing" Blasters will lead to (and this is still a misperception) a new "City of Blasters"
Ok I was like how the hell did my thread get here, but then I went back to the first posting and realized it was not my thread.
Bump and Grind Bane/SoA
Kenja No Ishi Earth/Empathy Controller
Legendary Sannin Ninja/Pain Mastermind
Entoxicated Ninja/PSN Mastermind
Ninja Ryukenden Kat/WP Scrapper
Hellish Thoughts Fire/PSI Dominator
Thank You Devs for Merits!!!!
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I sort of wonder if Cryptic isn't hyper sensitive about doing anything with Blasters due to the preception that "fixing" Blasters will lead to (and this is still a misperception) a new "City of Blasters"
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This is incongruous due to the fact that they consistantly have loads of bandwagon jumpers for every AT they buff, why should blaster be the one they care about and ignore the fact that everyone jumps on the whatever AT it was that was buffed last?
Secondly, "City of Blasters" is a myth, it was "City of Fire/Dev Streetsweeping Blasters". Massive difference that no one sseems to want to get because it's easier to present that myth in their mad attempt to make sure that they get to eat our lunch.
Brother of Markus
The Lord of Fire and Pain
The Legendary Living Hellfire
Fight my brute!
If _Castle_ reads this, I have a serious question...
_Castle_, the blaster community has been told by the devs (pretty sure it was States himself) that blaster secondaries were getting fixed. Its been over a YEAR since we were told this. Why the long delay, why no progress report, why does it take so long, and how much longer, if ever, are we going to see the secondaries reworked?
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If I were Castle, I'd demand a raise. If I were doing 11 people's jobs I'd want to make sure I was paid for doing 11 people's jobs.
Seriously, if any company has actual plans to hire a person to do a job, there is no way it takes this long to get people hired. (don't know for sure, but I'm thinkin it's been about 6 months since it was mentioned, even longer considering when COV's beta was)
You post a position, hold some interviews, and pick the ones you like. Add another couple of weeks for HR to get their crap together and there you go. 3-4 months max, preferably shorter than that.
Either this was something States really wanted to do, or he was just blowin smoke up everyone's [censored]. When the boss, the head honcho, the main man, the big chief says we're gonna get some people, it really should help to expedite the whole process. Unless if what the boss says, and really wants are two different things.
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If _Castle_ reads this, I have a serious question...
_Castle_, the blaster community has been told by the devs (pretty sure it was States himself) that blaster secondaries were getting fixed. Its been over a YEAR since we were told this. Why the long delay, why no progress report, why does it take so long, and how much longer, if ever, are we going to see the secondaries reworked?
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Yes, this has bugged me as well, was it post I-5? where he said just after I-5 they would be looking at and re-working blaster secondaries? I though post I-5 as in how long it took post I-4 for stacking armors...and i've been waiting...and waiting...
I don't disagree with anything you say LH, just saying that there was a perception in the community that has taken root and no amount of weed-B-gone seems to get rid of it, and I wonder if the devs aren't leary of doing something that might be perceived as recreating that mythological time.
That said, the dev team has pretty much painted themselves into a corner with way they have handled melee classes, and I think that to truly fix blasters would require a whole lot of work, and probably more melee tweaking that they are unwilling to do. So we just get more "we're looking into it" and "...after we get finished with Controllers..." type statements.
It is very simple: We are going toware a "City of No Blasters" just as quickly as any fix to blasters might create the oposite. As the other ATs get perfected, the Blaster will just fade away, and it will be none but the most dedicated that play them until you start getting statements like "A Blast-what? Oh, you mean the fifth archetype. Didn't the devs remove them?"
What is the meaning of life?
To gain more experience/money/magic/runes/red pages/blue pages/coins/gold/whatever?
No!
It is to have fun!
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It is very simple: We are going toware a "City of No Blasters" just as quickly as any fix to blasters might create the oposite. As the other ATs get perfected, the Blaster will just fade away, and it will be none but the most dedicated that play them until you start getting statements like "A Blast-what? Oh, you mean the fifth archetype. Didn't the devs remove them?"
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Honestly, I think the tankers are going to disappear first. Those who are level 40+ now were already 40+ back in the golden days of tankers. All the new level 1-10 tankers pretty much quit by the time they get to level 20 and hit the brick wall of nerfed defense.
If you have a level 20-something character, look around and you'll find a lot of scrappers, defenders, and controllers (in that order), followed by blasters, then the rare 1 or 2 tanks.
By the 30s, you will probably not find any more tanks ... meanwhile, the scrappers and controllers become very prevalent.
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Well, _Castle_ meets that standard at least:
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Not just an acknowledgement that change needs to happen, but an announcement of an intent to actually implement some suggestions. That's more than Tankers and Defenders have gotten so far, and they're both clearly hurting as well (albeit, not as long).
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Until blaster issues are addressed most blasters are going to see a dev saying "I'll look into it later" and merely think "more of the same". We have heard the song and dance Pilcrow. I acknowledge that Castle has helped scrappers and stalkers a good deal however, when it comes to blasters I'll just wait and see. I am not holding my breathe.
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I'll have to echo Concern on this one. We've been told before about intent to fix Blaster secondaries and we've gotten nothing. Castle has done good things with some ATs, but as of right now it's just another in a long string of promises.
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Yupper. And since the perceptions and pantybunchitation of non-Blasters is far more important than actually addressing actual issues I don't expect much to change.
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Pilcrow casts Redname_Post at Cynicism
Cynicism takes 1 HP
Cynicism casts Witticism at Pilcrow
Pilcrow takes 1000HP
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Now THAT, was funny.
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Pilcrow casts Redname_Post at Cynicism
Cynicism takes 1 HP
Cynicism casts Witticism at Pilcrow
Pilcrow takes 1000HP
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Now THAT, was funny.
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With the one-shot fix, it's even better...
Telecommuter casts Redname_Post at Cynicism
Cynicism takes 1 HP smashing damage!
Cynicism casts Witticism at Telecommuter
Telecommuter takes 999HP smashing damage!
Telecommuter gains Full Defiance(tm)
Telecommuter casts Defiance at Cynicism
Cynicism takes 5 HP smashing damage!
Cynicism casts ROFLMAO at Telecommuter
Cynicism has defeated Telecommuter
You are in Chiron Medical Center
Nurse says "Welcome home, Telecommuter! Back so soon?
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Cynicism takes 1 HP
Cynicism casts Witticism at Pilcrow
Pilcrow takes 1000HP
Cynicism has defeated Pilcrow
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Now THAT, was funny.
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With the one-shot fix, it's even better...
Telecommuter casts Redname_Post at Cynicism
Cynicism takes 1 HP smashing damage!
Cynicism casts Witticism at Telecommuter
Telecommuter takes 999HP smashing damage!
Telecommuter gains Full Defiance(tm)
Telecommuter casts Defiance at Cynicism
Cynicism takes 5 HP smashing damage!
Cynicism casts ROFLMAO at Telecommuter
Cynicism has defeated Telecommuter
You are in Chiron Medical Center
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As for blasters being ineffective and being in constant debt yadda yadda yadda. Look at your build. Respec. I'm level 47 now, and I havn't had more than 100k in debt since dinging 40. I only die when aggro mismangement goes bad. I never die soloing because I don't try to do more than I can handle.
Do blaster secondaries need evaluation? Yes.
Has it been a long time? Yes.
Are the problems this AT faces any more dire than any other issue the game faces right now? No.
Relax. The only argument in this thread with any relevance is the one that I'd like to see what the development team is thinking reguarding blasters etc.
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Cynicism casts Witticism at Pilcrow
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That'll teach you to post on Invincible. 
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As for blasters being ineffective and being in constant debt yadda yadda yadda. Look at your build. Respec. I'm level 47 now, and I havn't had more than 100k in debt since dinging 40. I only die when aggro mismangement goes bad. I never die soloing because I don't try to do more than I can handle.
Do blaster secondaries need evaluation? Yes.
Has it been a long time? Yes.
Are the problems this AT faces any more dire than any other issue the game faces right now? No.
Relax. The only argument in this thread with any relevance is the one that I'd like to see what the development team is thinking reguarding blasters etc.
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Now, you may say that if they are not GBI's then how can they be more important than another. It is only because there are very few GBI's ever IN the game.
What is the meaning of life?
To gain more experience/money/magic/runes/red pages/blue pages/coins/gold/whatever?
No!
It is to have fun!
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Cynicism takes 1 HP
Cynicism casts Witticism at Pilcrow
Pilcrow takes 1000HP
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You know Pilcrow, if you didn't suck because you're an Illusion Controller, stuff like this wouldn't happen.
But you do suck because you are an Illusion Controller, so this stuff does happen.
That just goes to show you, kids: never make an Illusion Controller so that you don't end up getting defeated by Cynicism like Pilcrow does.
Oh, and also so that you don't suck because you're an Illusion Controller, and in Soviet Russia, Illusion Controllers suck because they're you.
(The More you Know!)
Arc Salvo: Okay hold one sec guys, we can't just rush in blindly vs these Nemesis, they've got these ranged aoe's tha-
Teammate1(charging in): Shut up, Arc Salvo, you lame*$% Viewtiful Joe wannabe! What do you know?!
Teammate2(also charging): yeah, ST#& arc salvo u PWR RANGR U!
Arc Salvo: *sigh*
<<Nowadays I don't expect much at all. >>
What do you expect when the Devs increase LT, Boss, and EB end, then weeks later say, "hey, you guys are right, that does kinda mess with end drain. Hmm...never really thought of that. We will uhhh look into changes...soon..."
They are so oblivous to us and whats going on. They probably still have intraoffice emails touting how well liked and loved defiance is. Im guessing they are all Nixonites, believing in the "silent majority."
I7 is my deadline. I've already moved over to wow with a little gw on the side, coh can no longer depend on my loyalty to keep me here, now i want substance.
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Nerf Blaster Controllers!!!!
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Have you seen Poison Trap from /Poison? Honestly, it shows you just how much the developers waste their time when they push powers like that to market.
I just want an update...thats it, somthing that lets me know that the devs care
@TheBro
solo pvp?
Cooler than every single owl EVER.
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Fixes, yes. Complete redesigns of several powers and/or powersets, no. Unfortunately, what a lot of you are looking for is the later.
I'm (ever so slowly) going through the list you guys put up a while ago. I've referred a couple things to animation for bug fixes. Many things, I'm still scratching my head of how to fix in such a way that they are useful -- snipes are a good example of this. Simply increasing the base damage is dangerous, and we can't make it exempt from ED. So, I'm thinking of workarounds, which I will toss upstairs once fleshed out. Then, if it is approved, I'll be able to make the changes.
That process happens with each and every change (read: not a bug fix) I do.
EDIT: Adding a couple things.
I put in a fix for Endurance Drain that I think you guys will like. It is in I7, because it was a huge amount of data changes.
As for changing secondaries, when I was interviewing for this position over a year ago, this was the thing I mentioned I wanted to 'fix.' It's still something I want to do, but there are a couple technical and design philosophy problems to overcome. The design philosphy isn't easy to change, but it's hardly in the realm of impossibility. The tech side, though, is very much non-trivial. Since I've no control over programming schedules (for good reason, I might add) it is something I cannot do much of anything about.
FYI: my first COH character on Live was (is) a Fire/Fire Blaster.
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The frackin' Easter Bunny
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Yay! It's almost Easter! Maybe we'll SEE him(her) for once!
Or perhaps, like all wonderfully imaginative holiday icons, he(she) is made up to make small children behave when their parents can't control them...
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Rabbit turds for everyone!
Brother of Markus
The Lord of Fire and Pain
The Legendary Living Hellfire
Fight my brute!