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Five runs on Ill/Storm/Psy T4 Agility Radial / Degen Core / Ion Core / Ageless Core / Assault Radial Had Offense, Defense, and Survival Amplifiers 1:39 1:53 1:33 1:28 1:38 Average 1:38

The “criticism” I am not addressing does not deserve to be addressed imo because it literally reads “agree with me at every turn or stfu” (and then ironically calling *others* gatekeepers?? English pls). Bit of a non-starter. Engaging with such a thing is not fruitful. If people are not posting out of fear of criticism, that’s called a them problem. People don’t owe you their perfect agreement.

See, this is where we put it down and agree to disagree. You and I have irreconcilable differences on what we want and need from our characters. Good game.

They should logically just lock every thread in this subforum were that actually the intention of the subforum. Ofc it’s not and people are just trying to silence disagreement but speaking hypothetically here.

Probably because this is an open forum and that’s how life works in such places. I suggest rethinking the extreme fragility with which you approach this subforum as human behavior isn’t going to change to accommodate you any time soon.

Imagine calling others gatekeepers while literally being the only ones vocally opposed to an open discussion of their ideas. Cmon guys not this again. If you’re truly anti-disagreement, you can refrain from replying, but constantly telling people to agree or shut up is a ridiculous look.

No one’s missing that - rather it simply doesn’t matter to me if Regen comes in dead last (not seeing evidence if that but let’s assume it’s true). What matters to me is if it’s viable - which it is with extremely modest inspiration usage. And by modest inspiration usage, I mean a level of usage that is reliable and should never require any inspiration planning or purchasing. Comparing to other sets is extremely limiting thinking when all that really matters is can the character do the job within reason, which it undoubtedly can. Who cares if most other sets are better - we all have dozens of meta builds already, and we’ve arrived at regen for the sake of variety. There’s already enough top tier sets for the meta-builds-only powergamer to enjoy for a lifetime. Now, I would like to see some more focused survivability testing (insps must be involved for the testing to mean anything to me) with things like Electric Armor and Fiery Aura. Because I’d actually like to see it proven that Regen is dead last. Unfortunately citing Bio, Rad, SR, EA, etc over and over doesn’t prove anything on its own.

Notices aren’t in the same category as merits, they’re in the same category as components, none of which can be traded. Can convert to threads then to Ultimate inspirations and sell though if you want.

Same on that, I don’t have much in savings but it’d be nice to be able to scan everyone quickly for pennies. Never more than 2 billion tops in cash on hand when you’re slotting or respecing a couple new builds a week. My builds never cost me less than a billion tho 🧐

I’d be more inclined to concentrate my wealth more perfectly if I knew where the rest of it was without logging in to all my characters. I do transfer inf to my main most of the time but it’s not practical to transfer all merits every time you play because of the way they are a designed to be a pain to transfer unless you have exactly 50 of something. And all of this still leaves vet levels on the table. Do you email every single merit you have every time you switch, or are you telling me your assets are poorly consolidated? 😉

Do you find it “easy” (as in not burdensome) to log in to 100+ alts in a day just because you’re scrounging for some cash or a transcendent merit? Say no to a QoL improvement, but acting like maintaining a very detailed spreadsheet every single day is every bit as good as an alternative strikes me as a little ridiculous. I will live without this change but I sure as hell will not track every 1 influence, every merit, and every vet level manually. I often switch characters every 25 minutes or so nearly every night. Do you think I want this to be a fulltime bookkeeping job, or a game?

I agree here. We could argue about which powers “would be nice to have” at certain levels and we’d probably wind up with the single target immobilizes being T9 powers because everyone can stand to hold off on those. BUT…. That would be… stupid..

Nah

If there was no more XP in AE, I stand ready with Harvey Maylor’s demon farm.

If only I was a secret undercover dev I could fasttrack this

It’s a bit much I guess that you can get hit by a Malta stun grenade, and, before it wears off, your team can complete the mission; you can zone out; and then still have a chunk of time wandering around drunk outside. I swear some of those last minutes.

Well my position is still that Regen works as well as anything and perhaps better than some things provided you play as if you’re not completely allergic to occasionally using small inspirations. AND I can’t say I think I’d want to play Scrapper Electric or Fire Armor without inspirations any more than Regeneration. The set’s biggest problem is it scares away hardcore arbitrary-rule-setting power players that have dozens of /bio characters, and I’m generally ok with that. 🙂 Anti-inspers are so weird.

I think we should focus on more popular ideas not yet covered for Masterminds - lot of ground to cover there still before you get to an arbitrary niche like this. And then port Illusion Control to Dominators with Phantom Army swapped out for something else. IMO Phantom Army as is on Dominators would be way too OP.

I use one of them silver rectangles from some kinda fruit company

And people say builds don’t cost billions anymore… my D-Sync heavy builds can run multiple billions easy 🙂

I’ve never heard of the -end deal but the -recharge from nictus is pretty dang obvious…

Thinking on this further I think the OP makes a compelling argument for expanding 100 yds to 150 or 200 but not more 🙂 Street sweeping can be very lucrative. It’s what I do most often if I want to work on veteran levels solo without loading up a farmer. Definitely not definitively worse xp than missions in all cases - often much better. I’m fine with the idea that you shouldn’t lose xp too quickly if you fall behind by one mob for a minute. I do not think that translates to removing the cap entirely and getting xp from anywhere - no thanks to that.

Storm only has a bad reputation amongst the n00bs 🙂

What in tarnation is Windows 😢

That’s my guess is that people might say the power is bad because the AoE barely tickles. But they’re missing the point: it’s a Blaze with a little baby splash, not a Fire Ball.