The ability to six slot all my powers
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Aett_Thorn,
Posted on: 2012-07-24 24:32 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion
Having to balance slotting and having penalties to other powers because of it is kinda the point. The Devs DON'T WANT you to be able to six-slot every power you have. The balance implications of being able to do that are pretty incredible.
Also, the Devs fiddled around with giving us three more enhancements slots, and it nearly broke the game, forced you to respec before logging into each character, etc. So I don't think they'll be going down that rabbit hole anytime soon.
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That bad. I just feel sometimes I have to sacrifice a lot to get that def cap, but lose that acc or vise versa.
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And that's the point. You're not supposed to be able to do absolutely everything with a build. But you can get pretty darned close.
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Originally Posted by _Hush_
That bad. I just feel sometimes I have to sacrifice a lot to get that def cap, but lose that acc or vise versa.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I was just the one with the most unsolicited sombrero." - Traegus
6 slots in every power would make builds terribly uninteresting.
Building a character is, and should be, about tradeoffs, not just slotting everything in every power.
Six slots in everything? Do you know what kind of power level we'd have?
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I would imagine it would be somewhere just over nine thousand.
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Originally Posted by Quantum Evil
Do you know what kind of power level we'd have?
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r u srs?
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Originally Posted by _Hush_
When are we going have the chance to six lot all our powers? Sometimes I find that I have min/max or short change myself on my builds because of limited slotting. I mean we got inherent fitness, why not this?
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Sometimes I think I'd rather put as many slots as I want in some powers including unslotting the default slot in a power so that i can put it into another one
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Originally Posted by Hopeling
6 slots in every power would make builds terribly uninteresting.
Building a character is, and should be, about tradeoffs, not just slotting everything in every power. |
Yeah, I think I'd rather have the chance to 7-slot three powers than putting 6 in all of them.
I mean, 6 slots for Hover? 6 slots for Super Speed? Teleport? Telekinesis? Brawl? Sprint? REST?!
I mean yeah, set bonuses and all. But there are a few powers that either don't take sets, or 6-slotting it for sets would be just plain wasteful as it'd have minimal impact on how the power performs. ESPECIALLY after ED and bonuses.
Can't see myself getting behind this =/
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Did you notice the "min" part of min/max? It has an important role in understanding the term!
Is it just me...or did anyone else see the thread topic and think "Hey, that sounds like a Dug thread!"?
Lol
I would love for us to get 7 more extra slots one day...why 7? I dunno. It sounds cool.
I rather like the current number. It isn't absurd and it isn't too little, either. Also, more slots means more stuff breaking and everyone having to redo their entire builds. More trouble that its worth.
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Uh...the "def cap" (more properly, the defense soft cap) is an extreme level of power. You literally can't get any more effective (at defense, anyway). Every powerset in the game is made with the understanding that it will be able to function well short of the defense soft cap.|
Originally Posted by _Hush_
That bad. I just feel sometimes I have to sacrifice a lot to get that def cap, but lose that acc or vise versa.
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It's not only appropriate but highly desirable, from a game-design standpoint, that you should have to sacrifice other options to get to the soft cap. And on powersets that don't have much built-in defense, such as electric armor or a Blaster, it's appropriate that the sacrifices be "a lot," because the powersets are already designed to work well without defense and you're adding all the defense anyone can effectively get, making the character extremely potent.
If everyone could just casually be "the best" without investing any time, thought, power choices, or influence/infamy, well, then we'd all be identical...and nobody would be "the best."
It would be Syndrome's sinister plot from The Incredibles: "And when everyone is Super, no one will be."
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The ability to six-slot every power would make the game terribly dull to me. As someone who enjoys the "numbers game" that is min-maxing that would simply make things too easy.
ok.... So I want everything, and I want it all now, why can't I have it!
Sigh.... I give up
Every day someone here seems to want more and more, or should I say EXPECT more and more. In the end people will just want a lvl 50 with every power in the game slotted on one toon, the minute they log on. Then they don't even have to waste time playing the game at all.....
Its like .... " why cant I have 100 Gorilla pets with red eyes that fire ice from their nostrils.... why devs... why cant I have that......"
If people need to ask, they are probably not old or wise enough to being allowed on the internet tbh.....
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Originally Posted by EvilGeko
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I really don't think anyone was feeding them. No one got mad or reacted inanely. Just idle chit-chat.
I do wish the 3 extra slots did not break the game. It would have been very nice to have them (especially on my 'shade). Not everyone has the free money to buy a bunch of Enhancement Boosters to get the sets they want and still have worthwhile power attributes. C'est la vie.
I wouldn't want to 6 slot all my power but I for one would LOVE to be able to 6 slot my last power.
Who do I have to *&^% around here to get more Targeted AoE recipes added?
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I usually get around that by selecting my "last" power second-to-last, then selecting some random power that doesn't need any slots for my lvl 49 pick. (Usually a LotG mule or something of the sort)
-STEELE =)
Allied to all sides so that no matter what, I'll come out on top!
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Right. And now that we can start our epic/Ancillary pools at a lower level, it's somewhat easier to do this.
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Originally Posted by EmperorSteele
I usually get around that by selecting my "last" power second-to-last, then selecting some random power that doesn't need any slots for my lvl 49 pick. (Usually a LotG mule or something of the sort)
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When are we going have the chance to six lot all our powers? Sometimes I find that I have min/max or short change myself on my builds because of limited slotting. I mean we got inherent fitness, why not this?