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Are you implying that that slider isn’t locked in the rightmost position? 🤔

Some -recharge resistance would seem to be optimal since regen is a great set as long as you keep cycling through your 4 powerful clicks.

All of these things are legally true. As Bionic Flea alluded to though, there’s a difference between being legal and not being a scummy thing to do. Getting in a person’s face and recording said person without their consent is legal. It is also a smidge deplorable. Streaming is a little fuzzier than holding a phone in someone’s face, but it still merits the discussion.

Recording (plus publication and distribution of) actions of others without their consent or even awareness, of course. As for why privacy is suddenly an issue, it always has been.

My Grav/Sonic/Sorcery needed both Cardiac AND Ageless (excessive) to feel ok about running 4 pricy ally toggles on top of the rest, but ultimately Incarnates will render endurance a non-issue on any character. Characters with multiple damage auras, Storm MM’s, any character. So there’s just no reason besides exemplaring for that to be a fun killer anymore.

Imagine if this one change resulted in @Yomo Kimyata squandering all his/her trillions until inevitably being spit out the bottom of the porn industry.

Well there’s power creep and design philosophy to talk about and then there’s boobs I suppose.

All I know is, when I think about the person running around recording people without their consent, versus the person who wants to be left out of that, I feel sympathy for only the latter. Stream all you want, but accept some responsibility for what you’re willfully doing to others.

+1

Pfft, my Ice/Time didn’t even need Ageless.

My guess is FF/AR defender

Personally I don’t think the current state of being defeated needs to be trivialized any further.

So your sole reason for calling this a bad change is not because it affected you in any way whatsoever but rather only because the devs briefly deviated from your own personal priority structure? Reasonable? Maybe, not sure tbh. Spiteful and contemptuous towards your fellow players that like the change? Looks that way from here man.

Pfft, no storm is a goof. OP set.

Defender or Corruptor would be fine on this one. Storm doesn’t lose all that much from stepping down to Corruptor multipliers.

I feel comfortable stating that the current devs as they are now would never redo masterminds specifically to intentionally make petless masterminds better.

Yeah, this, not sure why you’d want Excelsior from across the pond.

Just trying to make sure you don’t get hoodwinked or bamboozled 🙂

Sure, but that doesn’t excuse every single animation time on post-t3 attacks being completely miserable. My Graniteless Stone/Kin/Earth tanker does ok with most of the attacks procced to the teeth. But only ever “ok”.

I can’t read developer minds, but I would be completely flabbergasted if they did not already know KM is due for a rework.

My Ice/Staff is not as good as my SR/BS or my Shield/EM, perhaps, but I wouldn’t say it sucks. I run Ageless Radial on it to pad the DDR and it’s usually pretty tough. The silver lining to a Fire weakness is that it’s the most plentiful type of Res/Def set bonus. If you get Permafrost, Might of the Tanker procs, and other fire-related bonuses, it’s just not that bad. I do find Hibernate necessary to have just in case, but I rarely use it. I would say its mitigation is approximately the same as Shield’s for me, after accounting for the fact that my Shield needs Ageless Core where my Ice can easily go Radial. Ofc Shield wins offensively, but I guess not every set can be that awesome. I have at least one tanker of every primary now, pretty neat.

Yep pretty much. My concern is that there is a tier of great pylon times that are attainable by literally having a bad build. And this puts a giant question mark on this test for me. If I wanted to make a great Earth Control build vs max out my pylon time as Earth Control.... those could be two very different builds and I’m concerned that no one is talking about this caveat. What you have done, Myshkin, is probably create a great Earth Control build. But considering Greycat didn’t actually ask for the build to be *good*, I felt the need to bring up the problem I see with just asking for a pylon time. My concern was simply that, if it were me, and I *really* had some urge to brag about a pylon time here, I could make all sorts of bad decisions to increase my build’s focus on single target DPS. Earthquake? Stalagmites? Who needs em?

I’m not talking about your build or your video. I’m only talking about what your rules technically allow. I have seen at least one example on these forums of a player repping a strong pylon time but clearly having no AoE’s in their build. What this means is that, at a certain point, a strong pylon time starts to literally mean your build is *worse*, and what I am asking you is why none of the “standard rules” try to address this. Because as long as they don’t, that’s a pretty big asterisk next to any amazing pylon time.

Well you’ve assumed running, jumping, and flying are somehow supposed to be “equivalent” for one thing. I guess vertical travel means absolutely zero to you? There’s so much more to these powers than time from mission to mission. How has your analysis accounted for a flyer’s ability to be essentially immune to melee damage without moving? And, with a couple range bonuses, essentially immune to ranged damage as well on an outdoor map? How has your analysis accounted for Super Speed’s stealth? Super Speed’s inability to reach some ledges at all? Did you think of any of this? Or is a one variable analysis really how you think this works?

Lol my thoughts exactly. Just stretching for powers 6 and 7 puts me out.