PaxArcana

You can't, not in this game. You are probably thinking of Champions Online, where you can indeed do such things.

You will find that the City Of X community is, and has long been, one of the better gaming communities out there. Don't get me wrong, we have our black sheep, crabapples, sour grapes, and even a few lurker-under-the-bridge types. But, in smaller proportion than typical for an MMO. (Probably even moreso now, as we've hopefully shed the worst of the Negative Nancy types during the Interregnum - what you find here is still a somewhat distilled version of the old Live community. 🙂

... because they're cheaper, by far, than actual lawyers. Also, because if you send an actual lawyer, that is a tremendous escalation of matters that becomes hard to back down from. By the by, your own prejudice towards private investigators is almost certainly informing your willingness (perhaps eagerness) to leap to the conclusion that they were sent there to intimidate anyone. Maybe they were ... but, equally, maybe they weren't. Regardless, I think your own biases are inclining you to assume the worst (just as mine, admittedly, are inclining me towards the other direction). The truth, as is so often the case, is likely to be found somewhere in between those two extremes. A truism I love to quote: Never ascribe to malicious intent, that which can be adequately explained by simple human stupidity.

.... was it really that big of a hit? BWA HA HA HA HA HA ....!!! <--- one of those 5M ex-subscribers ...

.... for one thing, they could have done something similar for the whole "azerite armor" thing. They could have let Legion's artifact weapons continue to scale, while then using that system as the basis for azerite-enhanced armor. As sets, so getting a new piece is how you unlocked new options to spend azerite on. But, yeah, the "new expansion, new systems, and get rid of the old stuff" trend is a big problem. People invest themselves into how the game works, only to have all that investment thrown out the window with the next big expansion. I think that mostly started after Wrath, though IIRC in Mists and Pandaria it was more "tweaks" than wholesale revisionism. It was with Warlords that they really went whole-hog with that, IIRC. Maybe during Mists, but, I think not near the beginning of it. ... Yet one more sin to lay at the feet of whats-his-name, the anti-flight lead dev that took over starting with Warlords, I think.

As others have observed: that would be almost literally everything conceivable. Any Brute, Scrapper, Stalker, or Tanker will be welcome on nearly any team. Yes and no. The difference is largely in their Inherent powers - the power that comes, for free, with your Archetype. For Scrappers, they can occasionally get Critical hits for extra damage. For Brutes, as long as they are fighting - attacking, being attacked, etc - they build up a special-to-them bar called Fury. The more fury you have, the more damage your attacks do. If you ever STOP being in combat, your Fury starts to drain away. So, a Brute is going to want nonstop, constant battle. Any significant pause in the action, actually starts to weaken them. Scrappers, OTOH, will never reach the heights of DPS a Brute can put out - but their damage output is consistent, whether they've been in a fight for two hours straight, or just finished a six-hour nap. 🙂

Let me help it add up: 2K, even if they expect they would prevail in any civil litigation, does not expect the guy to be able to pay any significant judgement. 2K, in the end, would lose more money than the victory would be worth. (This is almost always why any civil suit ever comes to a settlement before the final ruling by a judge: an expectation that even victory would cost more than it was worth, on one or both parties' part.) Well, since an NDA wasn't involved, it's mostly a moot point .... but for future reference: NDAs don't always just restrict what information you can reveal. Theyc an also simply preclude any discussion of the subject at all. I've been in a few closed betas, where the first and primary rule was "do not discuss this game at all - not the closed beta, not things you read elsewhere, NOTHING - outside the closed beta forum." I'll admit, absent any further information (like what those infringements supposedly are), that does seem excessive. But again, I don't know the whole story, so ... :shrug: ...

So, if you want melee, you mostly have three choices: Brute, Scrapper, or Tanker. EDIT: as was pointed out below, four choices. Stalker is sort of a stealth-assassin approach to melee, but it's still melee. And I always forget it even exists - their stealth must just be THAT blasted good, eh? "Kick-butt" implies a higher damage output, which in turn means Brute or Scrapper. Almost any melee set can work as a cyborg, really. It all comes down to, "what kind of cyborg parts do you have?" You could go with an elegantly-agile cyborg ninja (Katana/Ninjitsu or Dual Blades/Ninjitsu scrapper), or a big beefy unstoppable brute of a cyborg (Titan Weapons/, War Mace/, or Super Strength/ paired with either Shield/ or Invulnerability/), and so many more options. What will make them a Cyborg, are: (a) the costume (b) a Technology origin (c) your own decisions about HOW their cybernetic pieces give them the powersets you've chosen. For example ... let's go with recent movies for an example: Battle Angel Alita. IMO, she could be well represented as a Martial Arts / Super Reflexes scrapper. Her signature fighting style, Panzerkunst, is explicitly a cyborg-specific martial art. And she mostly avoids harm by being impossibly quick and agile. Or you could go with something with less subtlety than a truckload of bricks: a Titan Weapons / Invulnerability Brute. His cybernetics make him both strong, and tough, as half a dozen battle tanks. Or, Fire Melee/Shield. Fire Melee is explainable as the product of implants that can generate, and project, tremendous amounts of heat at very short range. The possibilities are literally endless. 🙂

No-one ever takes group fly, because it results in pets (pr team-mates) being dropped from the sky all the time.

Let's put some of these ideas together. How about, a blanket doubling of it's radius, and let it grant 20% faster fly speed to everyone except the caster? The bigger radius makes it so pets' pathfinding won't leave them dropping out of the sky, the speed boost means everyone can follow the caster. Do those things, and I would actually take Group Fly on my Masterminds.

Or give it an absolutely HUGE range for pets, but not other players.

Not buying that. There's always at least three sides to any story. When he is described as one of "2L's" youtubers, I'm assuming he has a long-term, standing NDA that lets him get access to things a little early ... with certain conditions as to what he can and cannot reveal before the all-clear notice is sent out. When the guy says two "goons" were sent to his house, what I hear is, they sent two employees of a law firm to his house, when he either failed to respond to other means of contact (e.g. email, snail-mail, phone, etc), or perhaps, explicitly rebuffed those arms-length contacts. When he says they "intimidated" him, what I hear is, they probably explained the legal, court-room consequences of his breach of that NDA. ... Maybe I'm wrong. But maybe I'm not, and I have had a fairly good relation with 2K games myself in the past (Hell, just today I used my limited-edition, $200 MSRP 2K branded Timbuktu messenger bag, that they gifted to me, out of the blue, just for being a fan (with a prolific level of participation on their forums). So I am absolutely not going to jump on the "2K is sending thungs to intimidate people into not telling us about bugs/flaws/etc" bandwagon, without a whole LOT more information than that video - the majority of which, by the by, amounts to neither more nor less than hearsay.

Except, it doesn't. You're not "a subscriber", if you aren't paying a subscription. And a whole lot of people can be drawn into supporting and participating in something that is, on any objective measure, BAD for them, because they don't personally see the consequences. SMOKING, for example. Most people who're smokers now, got addicted to them when they were teenagers - just 13, 14, or 15 years old. They had no idea they'd have mesothelioma, throat or lung cancer, and so on forty to sixty years later. ... I will repeat: "Free to Play" is a cancer.

On a related point: what's the difference between Attuning an enhancement, and Boosting it? (Neither were options until after I left Live, so ...)

Seriously, you just need to slot your Ninja-Proof better. And maybe pick up (and slot!) Just Re-read the Whole Thing as soon as you can; that's not a power to skip! (Hint: read my signature. Then laugh. 😄 )

I disagree. Shareware, really, is more akin to Demo versions of a game. It's not that you can pay to get faster levelling or better gear, with Shareware. It's that you can pay to keep playing the game at all. Big, classic series of originally-shareware games: Spiderweb Software's Avernum games (classic cRPG stuff). The "free" part of the game was absolutely huge, easily twenty or thirty hours. But eventually, you'd run into that paywall .... which was only "if you'd like the other two-thirds of this game, go to <address> and buy the full game for only <price>". F2P is, simply enough, A CANCER ...!! Nothing more, and nothing less.

... yeah, um, "a party of four" != "solo". Solo means, "never have to team up at all". Also, was this before or after TBC? Because, let me tell you, in Loch Modan, as a level 21 or 22 Dwarf Hunter ... I was sent out to hunt ... um, cyclopes or ogres, I forget which. But they were big. And all of them were elites. Now, I could do one, solo. If I was careful to make it JUST the one. But it was a long, hard fight ... followed by having to sit down and eat/drink (and feed my brown bear, Muffin). After every single fight. And the quest wanted me to cap a good forty to sixty of the blasted things!! That's not playing. That's grinding, and to me, that is completely and entirely unfun. Catastrophically so, even. I don't mind if leveling itself is slower - just make sure I can actually be doing things, measurably, the whole time. "Not solo friendly" doesn't only mean thats oloing isn't possible, it can also mean just that soloing isn't fun.

... that would get me back. Especially if Inscription worked the old way - that was how I financed myself, and my then-g/f, on Horde-side: I had Herbalism and Inscription both, on my Forsaken Death Knight. I'd spend a couple hours just Herbing, then park myself somewhere quiet with a pile of supplies, scribe a couple dozen Glyphs, and head for the AH. Come morning, I'd be several hundred gold richer .... even underselling everyone else by a good 10%. No exhorbitantly-priced stuff either; since most Glyphs were Raid level content, paying 50g or 100g was "loose change" level for most of my customers. ... Then they changed how Glyphs work, and the bottom got kicked right out of the market. ESPECIALLY when they became "once-and-done" memorization things. It was at the point where it made no sense to mill herbs into pigments anymore ... the herbs were worth more than the pigments, the inks, or even the finished glyphs. By a factor of five to ten!! THAT really cheesed me off. Eventually, halfway through Warlords, I just dropped Inscription (which I'd had maxxed out for, like, ALWAYS and forever) and picked up Skinning instead. 😢

Dunno what Legion or Battle did, but at least up through Warlords, I rather liked it, myself.

Time consuming, and not even remotely friendly to solo leveling past about level 20. 😢

Honestly, with the OP having pulled a fade from the forums entirely (not just this thread), it's probably a good idea for a GM to close it - else it will keep getting necro'd by all the well-meaning and helpful folks in our community.

Homecoming, and Homecoming Beta, are here, where you are now. (Beta is for the Test Server, Justin.) Freedom and Paragon Chat are other COH-related things, that all share a common launcher: Tequila.

You know what, I like this idea. One slot, for every 20 vet levels, for the first ... oh, 500 vet levels. 😄 GO. HUNT. KILL SKULS. (GET SLOTS.) 😄

No, it wouldn't be awesome. It would be completely unnecessary. ED ("Enhancement Diversification") imposes strict diminishing returns limits on what you can do with Enhancements. Once you've got SOs (or level 25+ IOs), more than two or at most three[/u] of a single Enhancement type is just a waste.

Warlords was fine while levelling, IMO. What ruined it (and for me, WoW entirely) is the whole "No Flying" debacle, and the absolutely, petulantly punitive way they finally put it back in. "At- or Near-level-cap means you can fly now" has been a thing in WoW, longer than Vanilla was. TBC, Wrath, Mists, Cata, all of those had "once you've done the Storyline stuff once, you're free to fly around" as a goal to work towards. All of a sudden, new lead dev for Warlords hates flight, so "No Soup For You!" 😠 ARGH 😠