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I just want to clarify, again, as a dude with a handful of female toons that wouldn’t say no to a spanking or two. Your claim that this is sexual harassment only works if we can agree that the sex of the pixels in the game is the only relevant data point, as opposed to the typically unknown sex of the player. Is that really a hill you want to die on?

I am a male and have probably ~25% female toons, so tying the spankings to sexism just feels a tad questionable.

No one is discouraging anyone from talking about politics in a broad sense. There's a time and place though. And to say that people are ignorant just because they don't want to discuss divisive subjects in their playtime is kind of ignorant as hell.

When people insist on waiting on the entire group to be ready on easy content to the extent that a level 54 PI radio team would spend 50% of its time sitting around if you didn’t personally step up and run in first. Squishies shouldn’t run into melee first, ideally, but sometimes it’s that or go make a pot of coffee while the tank/brute makes up his mind.

That statement makes sense but only if we have already all agreed on the assumption that an archetype must be the absolute best at one single thing to earn their seat at the table, as opposed to offering their own variety of things. If you haven't made that assumption though, we have to consider that 2nd best survivability and 2nd best damage might be every bit as valuable as best survivability and 3rd best damage or vice versa. For instance, in the most obvious example, in the realm of +4x8 AFK farming with EB's, scrapper survivability is not ideal, nor is tanker damage; brute's unique balance gives them supremacy there.

Can you provide any data that supports this assertion that doesn't seem consistent with the reality I've perceived?

Brutes = useless? Now I've seen it all.

I think, for water, a support set that mashes up storm, cold, and empathy would be pretty dope

I too appreciate a nice big rack

It’s all very fun until you examine the numbers 😕

Veteran levels are not meh to someone who wants their empyrean merits (flexibly without being too reliant on trials).

Hard no’s but kudos for dreaming, Saiyajin

I don’t feel I can adequately reflect on Traps because my only 50 trapper was doomed from the start by my stupid decision to make it a Traps/Assault Rifle.

I certainly slot 4 in all my storms, but you could certainly need more than that for a kheldian or a storm/energy or somethin. 🙂 And those IO’s give you much more than reduced annoyance. It’s a huge DPS boost for Tornado or Bonfire, for instance, so well worth the slot.

Exactly. Powers are NOT balanced solely on level acquired (in fact, they barely are at all in that sense) but on where you get them from. Your epic power pools do not have those worse stats because of when you got them; they have worse stats because they aren't your primary or secondary role. Multipliers affecting damage, endurance cost, recharge, defense, resistance, etc should be best for primaries, then secondaries, then epics, then power pools, then inherents by design. It may seem to make some powers worthless, but power pool attacks just barely edging out brawl is absolutely consistent with the game design going back 15+ years. That said, there is a very obvious preference towards certain pools throughout the history of this game, so the least popular pools (medicine, presence, teleport) should probably get thrown a bone if devs are going to spend time on power pools right now.

Thinking power pools and primary powers shouldn’t be comparable isn’t an opinion. It’s how the game is designed. As far as hasten goes, for a pool power toggle to give that much +recharge, your proposed endurance cost probably needs to be tripled.

Here, Zepp. I've deleted everything that sounds like common sense balance and left only quoted parts that sound more like broad power creep than balance. EDIT: Deleted half the ones I left to be nice and to differentiate between the soft no's and hard no's.

Hard no to most of that, Zepp. Again, I’m of the opinion that we should focus on throwing a lil bone to the struggling powers pools without making the entire game even easier.

Yeah, no. Absolutely overpowered beyond a shadow of a doubt.

3 and 4 sound *obscenely* broken unless you have some serious caveats to unveil to us.

It’s fine either way if they want to spread out the hasten buff to other powers, but I don’t think any of that buff should move to any global inherent powers like swift. In a game where basically everybody knows power creep got pretty out of hand, a blanket buff to every single character in the game is not the best solution we can come up with.

Sounds like something that wouldn’t be too OP but would encourage some interesting frankenslotting. You could put it in a Proc bomb power with 5 procs and one of these to get 5 set bonuses.

Converting KB to KD yields a significant improvement to many powers and merits a significant cost, like a slot per KB power. So it’s a no from me.

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Someone didn’t love you enough when you were little.