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Not your job, no. Just asking you to imagine that maybe it’s not *entirely* the “victim” who’s to blame across the board. I don’t care much any more about the shit talking because I’m now better at just ignoring it. Though a community that typically acts like using one central voice chat server is all but mandatory just means I’m locked out of certain PvP if I want to continue to ignore it. Which is oh well.

I know I’m not necessarily “these people” because I actually do PvP some (just refuse to do the discord version most of the time). But yes I find PvP far more accessible in social terms in every other MMO I’ve played even if I like the *engine* for this one the best.

As someone who is on your side in this argument but who also has numerous negative childhood memories from live, I’d like to just gently suggest you could frame this more considerately.

I find it hilarious how absurdly specific set name proposals can be. Why don’t we make a set literally called “The Balrog’s Whip From Lord Of The Rings” while we’re at it.

I’m going to be tremendously unpopular here and say that I think that simply reversing the ET nerf would be a lazy and improper solution. The original change was made for a reason. Maybe an animation in the middle of now and then would be ok though. But even then ET is not an underperformer itself right now, so I would prefer to just make total focus and whirling hands better instead.

Will try to show up if not doing anything irl at the time. Will likely get annihilated.

Yeah I’d be kind of ok with antidote or alkaloid being TAoE but not PBAoE. The latter sounds overpowered. Other than that, splash radiuses could go up a hair. Overall though poison is a great set and some people just need to learn to use debuffs and CC effectively as opposed to being completely crippled on every toon without a self heal and defense buffs.

Absolutely agreed. I recall a lot of arguments this summer in which some players were erroneously claiming a three word political activism slogan was not political at all. The GM’s shouldn’t be leaving room here for players to get away with these discussions by making nonsensical subjective arguments to subvert the rules.

Honestly there’s no such thing anymore as a build that is totally doomed to squishiness. You can still be squishy, but you’d have to get there by choice - intentionally leaving no room for defenses in your pool/IO choices, etc because you wanted more recharge or procs or RP power choices that badly. There are builds that are perhaps doomed to be unable to both quickly AND safely solo all +4x8 content, but that’s not the same thing. Also, implying that debuffs and controls/mezzes/mitigation are not a form of self defenses is either disingenuous or a sign someone’s not using the tools at their disposal.

If us having zero trouble using poison effectively means we need our heads examined, so be it. Have you considered tactics such as (1) defense pools and set bonuses, (2) mezzing the mezzers, (3) using inspirations, etc.?

My joke alt Mr. Poopybutthole needs a top hat sans hair. signed.

A fair assessment. The something you missed is people having other preferences for how they prefer their ears to spend their limited time per day. Music >> Silence >> Having strangers shit-talk through my speakers is my personal preference hierarchy here. Other games have arena-like game modes where almost no one is coordinating by voice chat. CoH does not. I will try to join a kickball without it some time, I suppose, to give a little credit to the PvP folks that are legit trying with their outreach efforts. Beyond that, meh.

I would still encourage you to look at making up some of the difference with procs. DP has some of the best proc potential in the game thanks to swap ammo. You can turn the stun/hold into a proc bomb for an extra high damage S/T attack. It’s nice of AR to have a snipe but T7/8/9 all having 3-4 second animations and situational cone arcs/patches just kinda ruins everything after that.

Sure but now we’re just talking about water blast 😉

DB looks pretty meh to me. Between animation times and proc potential, though, I’m pretty sure pistols are miles ahead of AR, imo.

Absolutely true we don’t have enough population to support a random queueing system. In the absence of that, it would just be nice to see more events that encourage casual play as opposed to the current meta of coordinate or don’t bother showing up. I did that a little on live/test for a few months many years ago but don’t have the time/energy/desire for that level of play/social engagement now. I joined the FFA on indom a week or two ago, for what it’s worth. Was fun even if I got most of my kills just figuring out which noobs to farm. TL;DR It just sucks that, unlike zone, Arena has been more or less abandoned by those wishing to use it in casual terms. I get that’s probably not going to change. Just wanted to offer an alternative perspective to complaints like “PvP builds are hard to make” or whatever.

Right. BUT, this game is unique in that it has no viable options that cater to the casual/uncoordinated. I find this game way better than either, but at least in GW2 and ESO you could queue up for random teams where this was the norm. I think the Arena has some options like this but that they have basically never been used by anyone ever.

I have 5 level 50 poisons and respectfully disagree 🙂 Not sure why NB would be slottable with hold. The low splash radius on poison is to balance the powers for having the best overall debuff power in the game. The PBAoE toggle is a self defense itself.

Yeah I’d rather we not advertise a player-created problem as if it’s a game feature and risk making the problem even more impossible to change. I appreciate Mac saying he’d be open to non-voice chatters on his arena teams. Let’s not implicitly discourage that.

Yeah, IMO the only support sets in need of buffs are Force Field, then Sonic Resonance, then perhaps Trick Arrow (and by then only slightly really). But that’s only support sets. Assault Rifle is probably the worst set in the game overall IMO.

Why would you think that? Was it mentioned? Poison seems very far down the list of things needing help imo.

As more of an ex-pvp’er than an anti-pvp’er, I’ll throw out some of my own issues I don’t see come up much. Maybe this is already the case in some events but I wish kickballs would be done without discord in mind. I love the arena PvP in this game as far as the engine goes but absolutely hate that there isn’t really much in the way of casual options. Are target calling binds going to be less organized and effective? Sure, but I think that’s fine. I am a major music fan and find voice chat predominantly more of a major annoyance than anything right now. I also have issues with needing to be shoehorned into the only viable PvP community out there when I think said community includes some really cool people but also some unsavory characters. Other healthier games don’t have PvP engines half as good as this, but they do have outlets for casual, uncoordinated players.

Small radius targeted AoE splash would be nice. Poison doesn’t need a self heal though.

Guess it’d be fine if you increased the duration and recharge by the exact same proportions. A net buff though is a hard no from me. Also, giving something an endurance cost is a pretty weak concession in the days of Ageless Core. Maybe if it cost as much as Telekinesis that would be ok.

Fair critique of the word epic, but yes it is absolutely by design. Another way to think about it is declining multipliers from left to right on your powers/enhancements menu.