biostem

People play this game sober?

You are under the misapprehension that I slot enh's with IO set bonuses as my main concern, and this simply isn't the case. Perhaps you or others do, but, as I stated, that is not my design goal. I cannot be said to be "giving up" something if that other thing was never a consideration. If I'm going for defense, then I'm focus on defense. if I'm going for +rech, then I'll go for that. But to say that I'm giving up a Ferrari by going for a Honda assumes that I was ever going for said Ferrari...

I'm not here to give a book report. The "I think" part is all you need to know. One, or even a dozen, of posters still does not equate to the entire community...

Just because you don't clear out every room or mob does not mean you are "speeding" the TF. Respecting people's time is not rushing.

I think it's a matter of perspective. For instance, before IOs, (and it still holds true for most attack powers I take), I aim for about 2 SOs worth of acc, and 3 SOs worth of dmg. So if an IO set grants those bonuses AND some global +rech, then I have not, in fact, given up anything in order to attain said global +rech. That doesn't mean that nobody has made such sacrifices in chasing that global recharge, but it also doesn't mean that everyone has...

Great pic, but there's just something off, to me at least, when you've got an animal person with "real" animal ears and human ones... Maybe that's why they frequently have hair that covers where the human ears would be...

Nice Kafka-esque setup you've made for yourself there; If you don't agree with me, you must be part of the "wonderfully accepting and friendly community", right? It's not that these are valid criticisms, no... let's attack those making such critiques...

Granted. I don't think anybody lies 100% on either extreme...

What do you consider "trashing"? Is raising valid concerns or critiquing their conclusion, "trashing" them? I'm sure they are fully capable of defending themselves, (and hopefully not further doubling down by saying that any criticism of them is an attack, in classic crybully fashion)...

Sure that can happen, but my next question would be, well how many such people need be on a team to "spoil the batch", so to speak. What if this journalist wasn't respecting the other people's time, stopping to smell every rose or read over all the flavor text, instead of keeping up with their team? The answer is we don't know how things transpired. In a setting like a TF, (unless you're soloing it), it isn't about just what you want, anymore, and some people may have difficulty putting their wants aside to complete a team-focused task...

Not that I disagree, but I think a big divide occurs when those who play to realize some concept or just "for fun", come up against those who play with a degree of powergaming/roflstomping in mind...

Can you think of any currently operating game that doesn't have some "toxic" and/or otherwise undesirable segment, (be they miniscule or otherwise)? I also think that neither the forums nor the discord are accurate representations of the player base. It's like being angry at an entire shopping mall because the panda express guy said he didn't like your taste in food...

I think their perspective on the game's meta is derived from seeing people call for "speed" TFs or farms, not realizing that those don't comprise the majority of players, (only a small loud subsection)...

A rad/rad was my 2nd or 3rd character in beta. I didn't understand what AM even did - I mainly used it for the increased run speed, lol!

How'd you achieve perma-hasten before IOs? Kin? SR? 6-slot rech pre-ED?

I think it depends upon what you want out of the character; Super strength may work, since it's not like the crash is going to ruin your defense or anything. If you want to "compensate for" regen, then maybe dark melee or one of the sets with +def might be a batter choice. You could always go radiation melee or spines to get yourself a damage aura, or maybe savage or elec melee if you want a nice T9 with some extra movement and soft mitigation...

You can go into your power list, or the window while selecting a new power, and click the (i) icon to get more info about that power. It isn't perfect, but it will allow you to see the base values for those powers, (even if you don't take them), and there's even a little level slider so you can see those base values at different levels...

I don't dispute that you will have to make some very intentional slotting decisions to achieve perma-hasten, but the degree to which you sacrifice regular power effectiveness is entirely up to the player...

There's no crying in baseball superhero-ing!

IMHO, hasten addresses one of those "issues" that can be addressed in other ways; Hasten just does so in a more straightforward way. Sure, you could take more attack powers and/or slot the ones you have to better fill any gaps in your attack chain, or you can take hasten and slot for enough global recharge to make it permanent, thereby improving the recharge of all of your powers, without having to adjust the slotting of any of your other powers...

Well, they could have the second drop-down be the only one to actually include the path auras + the regular ones, to address that...

This argument seems to hinge on one major point that needs clarification; Am I correct in understanding that tankers are having their inherent Aoe/Arc buff removed, and instead, the powers are individually getting their AoE/Arcs buffed, with the further qualifier being that targets beyond their original target cap will take less damage. Is this correct?

IIRC, you can already have both a path aura and a regular one. I wonder how difficult it would be to simply allow us to just select 2 of *any* aura options instead...

Unsure on name right now, (working title "Bad Mustard"):

I think, at this point, maybe we should move the discussion about the use of AI to a different thread, and allow people to share what they've created using it, in this one...