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Do whatever you want as long as the main functions of Force Bolt and Detention Field (high mag KB and targeted intangibility) aren't changed. Those powers are set-defining for Force Fields in PvP and the cottage rule simply must be invoked here (sorry thread title that tried to head off this inconvenient truth).

Agree poison doesn’t need buffs. One of the stronger debuff sets without a doubt. 3 of my 20 50’s are OP poisons :D.

I would like to propose that we name this powerset after the electric lettuce.

I promise not to initiate again. My right to self defense from fresh attacks is another matter you'd best take away from me via banning 🙂

Actually you never stopped once. You immediately began accusing people of illiteracy moments after the GM posted.

You have attacked and belittled people as much in this thread as anyone. I wouldn’t be talking.

I, for one, learned something today. Excited to tell people that boomers and millennials can be the same age. With that, good day everybody. This has been taxing and emotional and I must hibernate for awhile.

Didn’t mind people having opinions one bit. The clear implicit threats were my issue.

That’s really the one post that set me off in the old thread, for what it’s worth. I didn’t mind much else. Admittedly the fraction of ECT candidates that aren’t old folks is tiny, but I had it done at age 20.

Thread is less than a week old, for the record. And what on earth makes you think I’m a boomer?

Direct quote from old thread: “be prepared for press reachouts on this topic really, really soon.” I think it’s pretty clear that the devs can’t just eject anyone they like when facing thinly veiled threats like this in a raging cancel culture.

That’s one way to say they were successfully bullied into it. I don’t care one bit about the name. I do care about how the name change came about.

Not just that. One user in the old thread was threatening media attention. You know, the kind of thing that routinely ruins lives. The devs are absolute saints for putting up with such cowardice.

As one of what must be, statistically speaking, a very tiny number of people in this game that have actually gone through a regimen of electroconvulsive therapy, I’m disappointed that you bowed to threatening posters and that you apparently agree that I need to be coddled. That being said, I, unlike them, will get over it. So I understand how the move was necessary.

100% of my builds have miracle/numina, and the majority have panacea/preventive. Four slotted health is not uncommon.

Gliding was implemented well in guild wars 2, but that game has a lot more going on, vertically speaking. You have to have lots of good cliffs, ledges, etc. to make it worthwhile. In that case, zones were specifically designed with gliding in mind (heart of thorns).

Huh. Pretty odd that my post was removed while a number of posts on the same subtopic remain...

Another relevant question is whether or not the complainers are availing themselves of all of the different challenge settings in Ouroboros to make regular content harder.

I haven't either, but I imagine that the people that want the game to be harder should actually try some of the harder content options before having their requests taken seriously.

Faintly related question about game difficulty that I was wondering about: have any of the complainers ever tried using custom AE mobs to create more difficulty? Like creating enemy groups with much scarier sorts of powers (presumably a lot more buff/debuff/control and damage type diversity)?

I don’t have the time to read all this, but, in all fairness, people who believe in equality of outcome are objectively morally inferior.

OP is clearly a communist.

Don’t think cold/poison/storm are suffering in PvP in the grand scheme of things from a lack of self heal. Cold is in decent shape but suffering from i13’s slow movement nerfs. Poison is a top PvP set. Storm would be in good shape if i13’s mez system nerfs didn’t come in and make you have to retoggle hurricane every few seconds... Would much rather see changes made to the broken state of slows and mezzes than anything else.

Think we're in agreement really. I'm ok with just about anything if done properly. However, there are different levels of watering down across various epic powers, and I would simply say we need the absolute highest level of watering down on a lot of these choices. Some powers are hardly watered down at all (Personal Force Field, Hibernate, and Telekinesis are good examples... Power Boost and Power Sink are a couple of other examples of powers that don't take huge hits in their numbers). This specifically would not be acceptable, whereas the massive levels of watering down in other examples (the Dominator Link Minds example, for instance) would be ok.

Admittedly most are workable under the circumstance that their effects are reduced dramatically and their recharges are increased substantially. Sort of like how dominator mind link or brute melt armor have but a tiny fraction of the utility of the original powers. But without fundamentally neutering levels of stat shifts, there's way too many self heals, set-defining powers, etc littered all over these. Envenom, Weaken, Mental Training, Oil Slick Arrow, Acid Arrow, Radiation Therapy, Siphon Speed, Fade, and World Of Pain are all examples of powers I wouldn't be ok with unless their functionality was similarly at least 75% gutted. You might say this is already the case in all epic pools, but I think there's plenty of counterexamples where powers don't have their numbers adjusted all that much. So that's my one caveat. EDIT: I'd say my caveat is most serious for the poison and trick arrow powers. You're literally offering just about every major reason to take each set in one epic (especially with /TA blasters already having the other cool parts of trick arrow covered). These examples in particular would need to have their effects quartered, their recharges doubled, their endurance costs increased, and maybe their radiuses decreased as well before I could even begin to be ok with it... EDIT 2: Pretty sure all of the self heals you've included here is another one very much out of line with what epics currently tend to include. And when so many builds are easily soft capping defense these days, a self heal is just the last piece of the puzzle to unlocking stupid levels of god mode.