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I don’t think comments like this come from a place of understanding the term “power creep”. Creep specifically refers to slow and incremental change in one general direction. A change isn’t power creep because it’s game breaking; changes create power creep when people ask “it’s just a small buff, why not?” hundreds of times.

And you made an awful lot of sacrifices in the process.

Would this animation change come with Clear Mind now doing fire damage to your allies? Sign me up if so.

The fact that he mentions radios multiple times does support the possibility that he’s not availing himself of all the options. Also, AE has very specific penalties since it’s so easy to game a system you can design yourself. So it makes sense that moving player creations into the city would be a hard no from a balance perspective.

Depends on the power I guess. I keep SS on always, Fly on except for end-unrelated tactical reasons, and usually SJ off.

Are you implying some people detoggle travel powers in combat? o:

It’s there to give you a survival bump in a pinch. Neither powers nor procs need to go off every 10 seconds to be useful.

Countless times and still think there are a few leaders that are over the top and just plain not fun to play with. Will not do MSR at all on certain servers any more.

I think it’s reasonable that they don’t want inherent junk muling several powerful IO’s. Letting people slot Preventive Medicine in Rest and Blessing of the Zephyr in Sprint/Swift/Hurdle would be akin to giving nearly every character a handful of additional free slots. Considering that would constitute a power creep solution in search of a non-existent problem, I’d prefer the status quo.

(1) Unused assets is a somewhat likely assumption but nevertheless an assumption. Will you and others step up, be honest, stop beating around the bush, and plainly state “I do want to see *some* names ‘stolen’ from players that will return if it means access to the genuinely unused assets.” (2) The “limit” on names is almost incomprehensibly large. We’ll still be working on claiming the first 1% of possible names for a long time, in fact.

Everyone needs endurance reduction. Only work in endmod if thebasics are covered. And even then, I’d rather do acc/dam/endred/procs (elec procs can do some fun things in particular!).

All of the EAT’s are down there for a perfectly legitimate reason completely unrelated to balance. You need a grand total of one of each EAT to experience everything possible within that EAT. You need hundreds of other AT’s to do the same. If you broke this down to powerset combos instead of AT, EATs would actually be at the top of the list, but again, that would mean absolutely nothing relevant to balance. TL;DR graph literally does not support your point.

Seems a little exaggerated

Well they may be plenty good as is (my experience says they’re awesome as is, yes) but IMO it would even still look better if they just moved something VEAT’s can already do into their inherent and call it a day - because the people like inherents. Doesn’t even need more recovery/regeneration, just ANYTHING that makes its inherent even NOTICEABLE.

This is hilarious (because it’s clearly satire at this point right?)

Sonic Blast should really just get the whole orchestra

No thanks, personally. Those sets (like all blasters) completely trivialize endurance and I think that should stay a pro/con item rather than a global power creep item. It gives a little extra character to the different sets too. For instance, someone was recently observing how weak Ice’s DDR is, and I pointed out how things even out when you account for my Ice armor being able to use Ageless Radial while my SR and Shield are stuck with Ageless Core. Likewise, sets that would normally be overpowered, like Storm Summoning, are brought in line by their dependence in on great recovery. IOW endurance is relevant to the balance conversation, and we shouldn’t arbitrarily throw recovery all over the place. Unless you are ready to accept nerfs to all the sets you give new recovery tools to now. Like Dark Armor. Endurance is the only thing keeping that one in check. All this being said, VEATS should get a boost to their inherent in some form because it’s currently the most negligible and pointless inherent.

Would you hurry up and rock my world 😀

+1 to guitar blast.

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How gracious of you to design a policy to benefit yourself at the expense of others and then *gasp* agree to it. Very noble.

You need more than a “strong possibility that lots of wanted names are sitting in [currently] inactive accounts” to justify just seizing all the stuff on their accounts. Just be grateful some of us care about your claims to your own stuff more than you care about a single one of us. Such principles might wind up working in your favor one day.

There’s a vast world of words between the simplicity of “Super Boy” and the gobbledygook of “QZ3#%7G” you seem to be neglecting. I suggest speaking to the Name Assistance Brigade. TBH the fact you got a name like “Metal Ninja” on any of the 5 servers is evidence to me that we’ve barely begun to scratch the surface as far as available names go.

Yep, I find most names I try (surely >90%) aren’t taken as long as I put on my anti-obvious cap (don’t waste time trying “Lady Fire” or “Ice Man”).