Greycat

Hmm, tour guide missions sound interesting. Though I go after those explore badges anyway because quick merits. 🙂 (Also, I'm glad my WW teleport didn't go away. Biggest use is getting right to the Steel WW to pick up salvage and just hop down the hill to the university to craft. I rather like them.)

This is a thread asking for opinions. Peoples opinions do not have to agree with yours. Stating those opinions is not a demand for anything, especially when in response to a request FOR those opinions. If you find reading opinions that differ from yours "tiresome," then just use the reply feature at the very bottom, leave your opinion as requested, and ignore the thread after that. Problem solved.

Planning to go all Darth Maul on someone? 🙂 (More costume options / weapon look options are always welcome, though.)

You know, I've generally stepped out of the thread since some of the basis of Vanden's arguments are things I don't agree on, but I did mention this before and I am curious what brought this up now, still.

Been asking for this to be more obvious (and useful) for years, if you count here and live...

Yeah, "Sir" is generally acceptable in that situation, regardless of gender. Also: First ward, Master Midnight Revenge: Served Chilled Finale: My Enemy's Enemy "I shall set to work at once studying it's pages" = Its, not it's. (He shouldn't be saying "studying it is pages.")

... not sure how you have such trouble with teams. Yes, every once in a while we have a player kill a cadaver (sometimes by not realizing things like "Confuse is a bad idea," since *they're* not the ones doing damage, or by someone not setting off a bomb ahead of time so the zombies do it,) but generally... most runs tend to be successful at getting it. Then again, most of them ask first "do we want to do a badge run," then give a reminder before hitting the final room on what's needed. Even with a catwalk.

Heck, if you *really* want to give some time, tag her with something and have everyone else back waiting up the "hill" (about where the last Vahz group is.) Make sure she keeps chasing - she's so much faster than the zombies you can take her down before they even show up.

Incarnates. Hmm. First, dump the shards and make everything threads. Having one otherwise useless class of salvage for one power is annoying to me. Personally, I think I would have made Alpha the only... for lack of a better word, "universal" power. I'd be perfectly happy with that, and that alone, exemping all the way down to level 1 as a reward and an expression of "You made it." Everything else should either only be active, or only be active at full strength, in Incarnate content. We were already begining to trivialize high level content with IOs, capped defense, self-perma-ing things and the like. Making nukes irrelevant because everyone gets 30+ target Judgement, and so can just roll over everything, for instance? A bit much. If it had been, say, a 5 target limit in non-Incarnate content, 45-50, it'd be different. But as it is, the old content is like... a racetrack with cars from 1910 or so. IOs? Dropping in cars from the 40s. Then we bring in Incarnate content and it's like modern supercars just blowing everything else away without a care in the world while that 1910 Olds of content is sitting on its side, wheels spinning. *That* said, and yes I know the "coming storm" was... er... coming, more Incarnate content was needed - and would be needed before any expansion of the powers upward. Having it tied to Praetoria was ... eh, ok, that needed to be finished off anyway, and DA at least gave us somewhere appropriate we didn't need a league for, but the otherwise lack of content I think is part of what leaves this feeling unfinished. Basically, having more Incarnate-level content on the one hand, and having it be where to use things full power on the other (lowering the impact on standard content,) would have been nice. (Though obviously all of that was taken out of the original devs hands with the shutdown.) I can't say I was excited by the ideas for the coming storm we were told about, but... eh. Edit: Ahh. Nearly forgot. The UI for Lore could be ... better. Yes, it tells you what you get, and mentions "this pet can buff and do damage" (or not,) but it doesn't really *tell* you anything about the pets, so picking is ... kind of blind. Additional information there would be nice.

... because they can't engage first (other than the stalker) and if they didn't have built in mez protection they would be doing zero damage. They *have* to get into melee range and stay there to do anything -where there are far *more* mezzes - versus the ranged characters. The two are not equivalent. If you want range and you absolutely cannot deal with mez, ever - run a Sentinel. Done.

I've got to admit, I pretty much just ignore the combo system on my DB characters. If I happen to hit one, yay. If not, yay. (That said, I think the DB AS is probably my favourite. "Got'cher kidneys... yoink!")

Only if you intend to be ultra-picky on semantics.

No. Latest release candidate. (In other words, "not done yet, but close to release.")

"One person choked while drinking a glass of water, so everyone in the world is drowning?" I'll just say "no," "read my last post," and "this is a ridiculous counter-nonargument." I play plenty of squishies. I'm never "forced" to pick Clarion, or spend ridiculous amounts on a build. I don't generally do "builds" as it is. The mez issue for squishies is not that bad. If it were, it would have been addressed more comprehensively over the near decade the game had a dedicated dev staff on live, beyond "you can combine three enhancements into one of another type."

As I've said elsewhere. Development is not, and should not be, a democracy. Just because they don't give a response doesn't mean they don't pay attention to your feedback. (Small, volunteer team, putting out a fairly big update, after all.) Just because they didn't go and change things with the "most popular" option doesn't mean the feedback was useless. "Most popular" doesn't necessarily mean "right" (or "fits with whatever internal overall plan they have," or "is something they can do.")

Baked holiday hami?

A university, probably not. Changing zone geometry is a good bit of work. However, you can add a crafting station to your own base, or take a look around when you're in a travel hub base - quite a few I've seen have enhancement tables and "useful NPCs," which do work even if you're not a member of the base's group. No, you can't see the AH from bases, but if you check your recipes and snag the salvage ahead of time, you should be good.

Just because you *give* feedback doesn't mean it'll be agreed with or put in, either right away or at all. That does not mean it's ignored. It's a new patch - a new *issue.* Generally the changes are watched more closely for a while afterward as the general player base gets their hands on it and finds new and interesting ways to break/abuse/fold/spindle/mutilate it. Depending on how the devs feel about it, it may get more changes right away, or in the next "page" or two, or they may be happy with how it fits in the overall idea of how the game works and leave it as is.

The "non squishies" have to get into melee range in order to do anything. Which is why they have mez protection built into their armors. Level one, then turn off (or don't click) your mez protection - that really *would* be a problem. The squishier sorts have other means to deal with mezzers before they get mezzed, or to mitigate it.

While I think @Hyperstrike 's reply goes well into the range of "too far," I don't think I'd agree with this idea, honestly. Blasters have a *bit* of pseudo-protection in being able to use their T1 and T2 blasts, plus the T1 from the secondary (and don't forget things like voltaic sentinel,) so they're not completely helpless. Doms obviously have domination. Khelds have a few options open to them. Depending on the Defender, Corrupter or Controller, they may already *have* mez protection plus defense (or resistance.) Even the ones that don't play merry havoc with foes - or can still boost their own survivability. Most controllers already have a pet doing both offense and defense, as well (and Mind, well, it should be non-agro-generating-confusing its biggest threats, or putting them to sleep while shutting things down.) This is ignoring the "with IOs, people can build up quite a lot of defense as it is," and that mez resistance (shortening the duration) seems to always work its way in there somewhere. And that several pools seem to have mez protection, as I'm recalling. (Leaping - Acrobatics gives minor Hold protection (1pt,) Sorcery has ... one whose name I'm forgetting, and I want to say there's another.)

I don't *remember* seeing barbarian fur on male/tight or huge/tight, right offhand - but it's not a piece I use often, either, so that may very well just be me. Female, it depends on what you're using for a top. (Thus my defaulting to "tight" on male and huge when looking.) Thought it was missing there at first, too, then I realized I had a Baggy top. Switched to TIght and it was there.

Yeah. That's intentional. Old bit of COH... let's say "player lore" since live. There with "jerk hacking" and "gone to the Americans."

Ahh. The wording didn't read that way for me.

Did you forget Total Domination? (AOE hold.) Longer recharge, though, granted.

Don't discount it just because it's a sleep. It's useful. (Maybe because I've been running Keyes a good bit lately, but one application of this can get me a couple of batteries there, for instance, damage (taken) and aggro free, even without any + levels, as an example.)