Can I cry now?

As opposed to not spending any money on AE at all so as to convince the devs that no one's using it and it's fine to abandon?

It's already abandoned.

It was abandoned the last time, even though a bunch of people spent money on it. It's going to be abandoned even if people spend more money on it.

Go for it, dude:



In any case I've done more than my fair share in the way of promoting AE. What's broke about it are things the players can't fix. The ball is in the devs' court now.

If I followed that sentiment I would have to stop playing this game altogether. I'm not ok with many aspects of the game. Back in 2005, I disliked enough of the game that is was not fun, so I did stop using it. When I came back 2 years later, the things I hated had been changed, and not because I quit or there had been a mass exodus.

There are still many things I dislike. I don't like the immersion breaking way the auction house is implemented, for example, but I sure as hell am not going to stop selling my drops there or buying IOs.

I can't stand the mechanics of EBs, but I'm not about to avoid arcs that have them in them at some point as that would reduce the amount of content I could play drastically.

There are many more examples, but, it all comes down to the same thing. Overall, the game is fun, and things I have disliked have been changed despite the fact that I and most of the population were using them prior to being changed. AE, for all that I quickly lose enthusiasm every time I try to write another arc, provides additional content to get me past those levels where I have played the missions dozens of times, or all I have are missions I hate to run. I'm not about to abandon it and reduce the fun of the game because it has problems.

The history of this game has shown very clearly that abandoning some aspect of it does NOT get dev attention. It gets that aspect written off. PvP is probably the best example of that.

Really? I think the Elite Boss/Arch Villain mechanic is one of the best things the Devs have ever done!

However apart from that I agree with everything you said

I'm guessing that he's referring to the fact that EBs have consistently higher mez protection than AVs which have extra high mez protection, but periods of time where they have low mez protection.

Nope, although I do dislike anything with complete mez immunity. It's because I find EBs to be boring bags of HP, given that I mostly solo. I see a Boss and I'll go in and fight, use whatever tactics are open to me, and use inspirations as I need them, making the fight, for me at least, a challenge. I see an EB and I immediately take 3 purples or oranges (unless I'm on a high level tank) because far too often if I don't do this I'm two or three shotted before my old reflexes can get to a green and there are no tactics in the game to avoid it. Then the fight becomes a no-challenge button masher.

That's the problem, they have too much damage output which means either die or activate god-mode, there's no middle ground. There are a couple of EBs which are pretty well balanced, but they are few.

Why is it that sometime EB seem to make more intelligent use of their powers than the AV version? Is it just the RNG or something deeper?

Anyway thats another reason why I prefer EBs