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Mac user here. Not sure how hundreds are online but my launcher still won’t update.

Speed of Sound > Combat Teleport in a vacuum. Combat Teleport > Speed of Sound in reality because Teleportation > Experimentation. Every single one of my characters has Teleport/Combat Teleport/Fold Space, so that kinda settles it for me.

If you are using all of the various resources available to you, from inspirations to IO’s to Incarnates, you should never have a character that doesn’t even feel “viable”. Considering what you posted in the SR thread about enhancement slotting, I can confidently say that you are not using all of the various resources available to you yet.

The GM clearly didn’t know what they were talking about. This is not a bug.

Working as intended…

Sentinels don’t get less AoE defense. The amount of defense from Lucky was just added to Evasion as a free bonus for Sentinels.

I have always dreamed of a Grav/Dark/Group Fly/Team TP troll.

I think Whip Melee is actually a reasonable contender for a future powerset unlike many ideas posted here, so I wouldn’t even call it a joke. Don’t know about some of the special mechanics buried in there, but let’s do it.

You don’t need much besides a good taunt to tank a 4 star TF because 4 star teams rely on team buffs for safety rather than pointless defense/resistance bonuses that aren’t large enough to save you anyway. Just recently tanked all of the TF’s on an offensively-built Night Widow with basically no issues. Had no issues tanking them on my Spines/Fire Brute either. Done them all with Rad, Bio, and Dark tanks too. And none of my characters have the fighting pool or slot sets of 6 or anything like that. But yes you need to have Barrier just to get invited most of the time. It won’t be as bad as you think since most 4 star teams will have kins or colds or marines helping your endurance. But sure, I’ve had to pick Cardiac on some Tankers to make Barrier a viable pick for general play. At the end of the day, on a 4 star, the most offensively built taunter will be fine on a decent team, and the most tanky build you can imagine won’t stand a chance on a bad team. EDIT: Only caveat I can think of: if you are going to try to do 4 star Lady Grey with a Scrapper/Widow Confront instead of a Brute/Tanker Taunt… it helps to actually slot Confront instead of just dropping a range IO in there.

Your powersets and your build determine your strengths and weaknesses, and I’m not really seeing a reason to introduce an entirely new system on top of that.

I think this critique only applies to Tanker SR (maybe Brutes I’ve never tried?), so perhaps this could be viable to test out on Scrapper/Stalker. But basically my only problem here is that there is already a prevalent narrative around here that SR Tankers are basically immortal without giving them an absorb shield. So I can’t see Tankers specifically getting the SR absorb. I’m down to see the recovery buff tho.

My spreadsheet requires that I fill in the following fields for each character, beyond being IO’d and boosted: - 7 T4 Incarnates (6 + Incandescence) - Mini mode purchased - A T3 prismatic aether “effect” purchased - 4 auto +HP/End accolades acquired - Mobile dummy acquired - Excalibonk acquired - Veteran level (I’d like 100+) Characters with all benchmarks completed are pretty much “done” I suppose, not that the adventure stops there. I have a couple of characters that have pursued things like Undefined Mode, Block Mode, all of the other accolades I didn’t mention, level 53 Provocations, etc, but I would cry if I made that the standard for my whole list.

If your goal is the most expensive build possible, that goal will ultimately be achieved by spending a 10-11 digit amount of influence on level 53 D-Sync Provocations. At one point I had a character with 9 of those 53’s slotted (at buy now pricing and before Ectosomes were released), so probably a 20 billion influence build at the time. Benumb, Heat Exhaustion, Fulcrum Shift, and Fold Space are primary examples of powers that benefit the most from these enhancements.

I really liked running Maria Jenkins missions and having the Portal Corps doors take 15 seconds to respond, I guess.

Great point by the way. I have so many dozens of T4’d but gutted and forgotten alts that I wouldn’t have an incentive to join trials for years.

Okay it’s now clear to me that people are hyperfocusing way too much on my perhaps-flippant use of the word “free” and trying to paint me as some kind of retard for not understanding the OP’s plain english, rather than focusing on any part of the debate I actually care about. Yes, the suggestion in the OP would technically consume your prior incarnate picks. At the end of the day, replacing old incarnate picks currently requires a second time investment, and the OP advocates for the removal of this second time investment requirement. Sounds a little like a freebie to me compared to the current status quo, regardless of the minor detail that you do have to dispose of prior incarnate powers you plainly don’t want or need in the first place. Yes, rare exceptions will exist where this exchange actually feels like it has some cost, because your character wants to have two Destinies or something. So the word “free” here is indeed a bit misleading. But you are absolutely asking to have the cost of something reduced from substantial to near-zero, so, kinda splitting hairs. So I find it kind of obnoxious that you chose to type such a long response about why I was wrong to use the word “free” and completely ignored the rest of my post, which essentially asked you “are some costs and time sinks not acceptable, or, even, good?”. FWIW I have always liked playing with Projector and think he’s a solid dude.

@Projector go ahead and answer this new part if you feel like it. Need to know if you can acknowledge that time sinks are not 100% inherently evil all the time. I’m fine with agreeing to disagree on the nuances and details from there.

I think we could all come up with analogies in which the waste of time would really sting and other analogies in which the “waste” of time would be an entirely justified time sink, so I don’t find that argument compelling at all. For instance, if I asked for a button that grants me all badges in the game with one click, you’d be completely stupid to grant that over time concerns, and Voltor would rightfully lose his shit. If it is so wrong to argue that maybe you shouldn’t get new Incarnate powers for free, I need to know why you don’t think the same about levels, IO’s, accolades, badges, temporary powers, prismatic aether costumes, etc. If my logic is so flawed, those all need to be free with zero time investment too, no? Is it possible that this, oh I don’t know, isn’t as black and white as you all make it? Is it possible that acting like video games haven’t had costs associated with rewards since the beginning of time whilst mocking me as some ignorant horse-drawn carriage driver with his panties in a bunch… isn’t the best way to win people over? As a side note, I just love my anonymity between forum and game. As the most hated poster here by a large margin, I just always find it a little whimsical that I get on discord and play with some of the very people that trash me. What a world.

battlewraith in this thread - it’s not a problem if this change renders the hard work of many players to be a complete waste of time also battlewraith in this thread - you think it’s okay to just waste people’s time? 🤦‍♂️

As with all your wonderful ideas, we will know how wonderful they are when the developers decide to implement them. Until then, try to contain your impulses to lash out at disagreement. Peace.

I’d have to think about the exact numbers in my head but a conversion of this kind sounds fair too.

Okay. I’ll take your small amount of stuff then, thanks. It has no value to you. Obviously there are more kinds of value than monetary value or you would have no reason to beg for free stuff. Also, my total “loose change” across my whole account totals 30M at this point. What if we didn’t make stupid assumptions just to construct a strawman we can argue against.

Can I have your stuff since you’re taking the laughable disingenuous position that time investment should have zero value?

@golstat2003 Doing this any time at zero cost would absolutely be a non-starter. That would mean there will never again be a point to having more than 6 T4 Incarnate powers, and would thus retroactively render so many hundreds or thousands of gameplay hours a complete waste of time. If veteran players aren’t somehow reimbursed that would be a pretty major middle finger. Imagine being one of those players that worked hard to unlock every T4. Their efforts would mean zero with your suggestion. Several steps too far. My proposed boundaries under which I wouldn’t see this change as a step too far: Minimum frequency - once per character Maximum frequency - once per year per character Minimum cost - 100 million influence Maximum cost - 500 million influence

Same. I’ve been doing a ton of work lately replacing old incarnate choices. And I’m not even one of the people that has all Incarnate T4’s unlocked on their main. It’s an awful lot to ask for for free. If it were heavily restricted, I might be okay with it. Once per toon, cost equivalent to hundreds of millions, that kind of thing.