The game is tedious

Y'know, I figured by staying clear of the Tanker forums I'd be able to avoid a dose of JB but here he is going into other sections and posting the same stupid stuff and then calling himself a martyr.

Also, lol @ Ultimo claiming the Defender inherent buff happened because Defenders were underpowered. It's kind of like claiming pre-buff Stalkers, Khelds, or Dominators were underpowered, or old Defiance was underpowered (hint: none of those were). Look at the Stalker, Kheld, Dom, Defiance, and now Vigilance changes and there is one thing in common: damage increase. Apparently, the key to making things appealing lately is MOAR DAMAGE - so I guess, in a sad sort of way, that any eventual solution to "fixing" Tankers (which don't need looking at as a whole, by the way), will be a damage buff of some sort, because apparently being unable to die in 99% of situations in this game isn't enough.

Well, pre-buff stalkers were pretty dang overshadowed in nearly every gameplay situation by brutes, but that's just the one AT I had the most experience with. In that case, MOAR DAMAGE seemed like a good call since that's what stalkers were primarily all about.

Now if they gave them an innate taunt effect to their attacks and double mez/debuff duration from Hide, then I'd have to facepalm.

At the same time, I want to disagree with you, Mac, about the Dominators. The Dominator's change was in need of fixing them in their usefulness against PTOD - basically, even solo, the dominator couldn't kill an EB quick enough with inspirations to keep 'em alive. The solution was not 'just moar damage,' especially since it had to deal with a commonly accepted exploit being so common as to become 'the norm.'

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Back to the actual, as stated topic. I pulled this quote out of an old thread about pre-20 endurance, and I stand by it.

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Originally Posted by Pendix The early levels of most RPGs (PnP, Single Player and; MMO) have to strike an important balance between 'Suk' and; 'Awesome' or 'Suk' and; 'Fun'. A low level character has to feel like he both is haveing fun, but could be having more fun if certain things were different, for instance if he were doing more damage, hitting more often, or being better at taking hits, that way he will feel compelled to strive for the higher levels where he will (presumably) have those things. If the game were as 'instantly' as fun as the player could imagine it being, he will likley not feel as compelled to play it will lack any relevant/tanigable reward to complement the 'fun'. Concenquently he will be further likley to be drawn away buy other games (or passtimes) that do induce a compulsion to play. The very existance of this disscussion is evidence of the game being very successful in inducing in the player a need for certain things, in this case, better 'End Managment'. Feeling that 'End Managment at the low levels sucks' is not only understandable, but INTENDED. It is suppose to make you want to get to a higher level where you have access to many more better and; varried 'End Managment' tools.

The Dev's, IF they are significantly conserened with the endurance issues faced by new and low level (and bad?) players are most likley not going to do any global adjustments to End Consumption. (that would not be keeping with the posted philosphy above) Rather they would be trying to increase and diversify players End-Consumption-Mitigation options. Which, largely, is the tatic they appear to have embraced over the years. End Increasing accolades, IOs with +recovery, insperation combining, and, most recently, Recovery Serum (dayum, that's some awesome temp).

Wanting CoX to be more like a comic book, that there is the crux of the problem. You want the game to be something it's not, and then bring up perceived issues with the game because that's "not how they do it in the comic books." We have endurance because it's part of how most MMOs operate, because we need some type of limiter. Otherwise we would just wait for our powers to recharge and spam them indefinitely. Likewise, there's problem a good reason why we can't perfectly recreate comic book heroes.

They'd be overpowered. If you could make a character that has offense and defense of Superman, that would certainly not be balanced.