Haijinx

Nerf regen.

Is it broken?

Superheroes don't take the subway ...

War Mace. Its awesome on scrappers.

Hopefully the OP moved her IOs to an Eng blaster or something. Since I don't think any if those problems were addressed.

Most of the TF AVs are beatable when you solo since you can horde inspirations. Its only if you want to do it Scrapper Rules that becomes a problem.

I think its true the game could use more challenge. Ideally something that would force players to THINK. I'm kinda okay with making all content after say 30 a little bit harder. Maybe start small give some bosses vengeance ... And maybe progressively harder as you get towards 50. Perhaps you can leave a chunk of it as optional, but I don't think it should be 100% optional. I think the ship has sailed on IOs and incarnates already in the game. And except for really late released sets, probably sailed on balancing powersets. If I don't get my way, will I quit? No. Just my opinion on this topic. Do I think trolling style thread titles about foreheads and other body parts are helpful? No.

This is what has me wondering, since WM is so good, I'd just be surprised if SM was better than that.

I guess I was hoping it was possible to use 1 animation for quick mode and just use default for AS

Crossbows Preferably Joerg repeating crossbows .. let me show you its features! ----- But yeah throwing knives and xbows probably don't count as lowhanging fruit.

Yeah that is used in a lot of sets. And yeah, its so bad

I think up to +2 is leader prerogative. After that they should say something. Unless most everyone is 50 in a Task force that runs runs at 50. At that point max that sucker unless its a speed run or the groups are above average dificulty like Rularus.

Also true. Its a pretty cool Ouro arc to solo tbh.

True. Makes Posi 2 take a while.

That could be corrected by reducing recharge time and thus scale I suppose. And reducing the hold I imagine.

Yep oops. Placate goes to Confront, and AS to Whirling. And yes Stalker EM seems like weak sauce. Which is one reason why I think Scrappers could use it almost as us with no "balance issues" But yeah I already said last week they should fix the stun% for stalkers to match brutes and tankers. What is the hurdle for SM? Seismic Smash? Too much control?

Some of those ERPrs might want to have both flags ....

For EM? Add whirling hands instead of placate and give to scrappers, basically as is. Since its already balanced around some imagined crit issue. Maybe a slightly renewed interest in the set will lead to some adjustments which both stalkers and scrappers can benefit from. Or just port the brute version. SJ Crushing Uppercut has full crit and the space time compendium survived. If a stalker rocking double build ups with double guassians auto critting CU from hide is okay, Total focus critting for scrappers is probably fine.

Fire could be thematically no f/x. Just say its glows brightly in Infrared. So could Rad its not like you can see gamma rays / xrays. Edit - it looks like Leo just mentioned the heat bit.

That was the original poster's boast. Not the suggestions.

Wait .. what ? You want us to suspect the sincerity of someone who boasted he could beat this game with his "forehead" ?

I was going from memory as I was/am on my phone but I was pretty sure in at least one case the animation times for quick AS was the same as Blaster SK at 1.32 (SJ has a fairly slow AS)

Stalkers could use some alternate animations for the quick portion of assassins strike. For example Stalker SJ is basically Uppercut Melee. Maybe sub the Blaster Storm Kick or SJ Rib Cracker animation there. For a lot of the old non-weapon sets, both choices are terrible. So some variants there would be nice

Yeah basing it on combat state seems like it would solve many of the concerns.

Seems like these two would be easy since they are so much like broad sword. Of course WM would probably be the new King Stalker set ... but that's ok.