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I’m certainly skeptical it will be widely popular, but I’m absolutely certain it will be more popular than the highly unpopular mechanisms we have now for pumping difficulty up past +4x8. Mostly because it very clearly is intended to allow people to simultaneously experience difficulty and IO’s/incarnates/inspirations/etc at once instead of the typical “you think the game is easy? Why haven’t you gimped yourself?” nonsense that floats around here.

That plus all the other ways we have to create our own difficulty instead of just having good endgame content. Like this whole level 44 TF fad. It’s harder, I get it. Other games don’t make me choose between modest difficulty and a maxed out build though. And I do boosters, not catalysts, so the whole thing demands I redo my builds. So it’s just dumb and I refuse to engage with it.

People would probably appreciate Mind Control more if or when Seeds of Confusion is balanced appropriately. That and the questionable sense of needing a mediocre pet tends to devalue Mind Control’s incredible T9 in a rather misleading way. If not for pitchforks, this would’ve likely already happened.

IMO: sets most in need of a facelift: Assault Rifle, Force Field, Kinetic Melee, perhaps Mercenaries AT’s most in need of love: Masterminds, Sentinels VEAT’s need power color customization and no redraw QoL type stuff but performance-wise they’re fine. Mind Control and Regeneration and dominator assaults look like other things you’re highly underrating.

A superior game might have torched plans for surely inferior games? Cry me a river 😉

Is this without temp powers? Don’t consider it a solo job with temp powers so curious about DPS sans daggers/amps/pets/etc.

Awesome @SuperPlyx. Sounds like it primarily happens on cast, not something that reoccurs like in some patches. Seems pretty dang reliable though! @Doomguide2005I only ask for clarification because, once a patch or pet or pseudopet is involved, it seems like all certainty is thrown out the window and you really need to test every kind of proc individually. At least that’s what I get from studying Sir Myshkin’s work. You have all sorts of powers where certain procs work great and others not at all.

Range inspirations (but not affecting melee attacks) seem like they would be fine. The rest, eh, not so much. Maybe the control mag one but def not the recharge/duration ones.

Never picked up this power because never got verification on how it procs. So thank you, SuperPlyx. Any comment on damage procs?

FWIW I’m not sure why Dark Blast wouldn’t do well against AV’s. It may not be the best secondary for damage, but it’s got a solid snipe, perfectly good animation times/DPA’s, and ofc the easy survivability.

I’ve represented myself badly in this thread, and you are correct about the facts. I think the underlying reason I haven’t dealt with the distinctions in a measured and rational way in the last few posts is because I feel no practical need for the distinctions. While I’m well aware that fascism is a specific ideology, I could care less about distinguishing it from authoritarianism because I already see authoritarianism as pure evil. K now I’m out.

Ok well I guess my original question has to be altered from “How can you try to rule the world without being fascist” to “How can you try to rule the world without being like fascists”. The former question has been thoroughly discredited, but I still say you can’t rule and subjugate others and whatnot without at least having some major commonalities with fascism. All that said, this thread is getting a bit much fast. Maybe we better not, lol

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy) Some helpful reads. I know Wikipedia isn’t a reliable source, but this isn’t exactly a controversial subtopic. ”True until proven otherwise” is a just another way to say “not true”, in this instance.

I’m well aware of that, no need to talk down to me. I guess, at the end of the day, a person may not be fascist by the book, but, if they support fascist playbook favorites like censorship, they’re, if not fascist, certainly no better than fascist.

Yes, but that doesn’t mean those empires didn’t have to engage in practices that we can retroactively call fascistic. Suppression of opposition, for instance, is both fascistic and predates the term.

I am of the opinion that the burden of proof falls on the person making the claim. Until proven, we have no way of knowing no one else has or has not done this before you. You don’t get to claim every thing that can’t be disproven. That is illogical and not how the world works. But telling all the same that you’re willing to just brazenly claim to be the best with no support. Some people would have some shame about something that silly.

How exactly is it verifiable that you’re the first to “verifiably” do something? It seems you’re using “verifiably” as synonymous with “uploaded to YT”. Making such bold claims while knowing nothing about 99+% of this game’s players... do you understand how it’s extremely difficult to interpret as anything other than beating your chest? I have the same cringe reaction to PvP threads about the “best players in the game”. Like who on earth doesn’t actually see that as transparently bullshit.

How can you try to rule the world without being fascist?

Hang tight until next page’s beta patch notes, the new earth stuff might provide more options for this 🙂

You seem to make a lot of evidence free claims though. Like every time you claim to be the first or only person to have done something in this game.

I left the Master ITF channel because it seemed to be primarily for talking about (1) arbitrarily imposed rules, (2) unverifiable claims of being the best, and (3) more than anything, a penis measuring chat channel. Definitely not the playstyle for everyone.

I will totally use Soul Transfer intentionally, as a highly effective “heal” 🙂

Rebirth is a low population server *because* of this. Thunderspy is a low population server *because* of their new powersets. Can’t move full speed ahead on the creative side with limited resources and zero thoughts on stability, balance, things that actually make games work instead of just the shiny toys, etc... and expect otherwise. That’s just having your cake and eating it too. So when people suggest we emulate the cool things about other servers without emulating the bad... they just need to be reminded there’s no free lunch.

I hope that’s a given, yeah. Would be good for T9’s to do things, yeah.

Pfft Cassie is like 2,100 now