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Not sure what is accomplished by the OP that isn’t accomplished by hide options, yes. If I don’t want to receive tells from certain people, I use those options.

Even if this were in bounds, the thought of paying players having an outsized impact on the direction of development sounds sketchy and icky and wrongish.

If those two toggles must be changed, I’d hope it’d only be to give them the Enflame treatment (can toggle on both enemies and allies). Because there’s an awful lot of builds out there based on the current state of things, and my Sonic would not like either of your proposed changes to Disruption Field / Sonic Repulsion.

Force Field needs it more tho

I have all support sets with IO’s and Incarnates and will second Time as the tankiest option.

OP sounds like they should just play Cold Domination.

Halloween is overrated, let’s not

Some things about Troo’s build are driving me crazy, but clearly my faceplanting S/T DPS / +recharge build has no room to be critical. I’m curious enough to see how some of my other characters would do here that I might try them. But my most represented melee AT is Tankers (because I can both build offensively AND feel more invincible at once), not sure I wanna bother with those. Doesn’t seem worthwhile to compare a tank to a regen brute. I happen to have a fresh billion on hand.. might refresh my build on one of these outdated characters: Stone/Energy Brute, WM/WP Brute, Psi/Rad Brute, or TW/Ice Scrapper.

All true, but, again, remember my build was not built for these conditions. Sure I forget to use inspirations when playing casually, but I hardly ever actively avoid them. I don’t email chain or buy big insps, just modest usage in tight spots that tends to be pretty reliable and sustainable. And so I have an offensive build because it was never a problem in my world. If I wanted to build around this test I would do a lot of things different. Ice Patch and Rune of Protection would both be strongly considered, and Cross Punch would be out in a heartbeat. Recharge bonuses would probably curbed and better balanced with Defense and Resistance. @TrooBurnout is pretty meh but synergizes better with Regen than almost anything else. It’s essentially a get-out-of-jail-free card because the only thing that kills you is something that out-DPS’s you with all 4 clicks still on recharge. Burnout gives you a freebie reset of that cycle of click powers if you’re under too much pressure.

Sure, yes, fine, but think we might be a little hasty here though. Sure, I’m positive some sets like SR, Shield, Invuln, EA and Stone would be better off here at least. But some people should still do some less lazy/vague testing than I did. I suspect surely Fiery Aura would struggle under the same conditions, but there are big offensive reasons that’s ok. But it isn’t obvious to me that, say, an Electric Armor Brute with no inspirations would fair so much better.

With inspirations disallowed, yes. Inspirations sitting in my full tray would’ve easily prevented this. And other aforementioned caveats about the build such as minimal defense investment and minimal AoE power... I didn’t have to post the blunt truth, don’t make me regret it.

Yeah I always stand in the middle of patch except to jump out for 2 seconds to pull a mob at the edge with Fire Ball. I know yours is Fiery Assault, but for mine, Drain Psyche and soft capped Fire Defense together makes it very safe. You basically have to forget to use Drain Psyche to die.

Well we don’t know for sure about Savage Leap to my knowledge but both Burn and IG are literally broken and not working as intended. “Special case” is a nice way to put “Their days are numbered”.

A new round of pistol animations would be cool. The proposed new powerset triggers my pet peeve of requesting hyper specific sets with slight variations. Not only are you asking for a ton of work over relatively nothing, but it would clutter up the game needlessly if there’s so little that’s unique about this. To give you an example, another thread I recall that triggered my pet peeve was something like “We have Fire Blast, but here’s a new set called Hellfire Blast.” <- wtf go home you’re drunk.

Probably yeah. It’s not optimal at AoE stuff in general either (Frost is also good, so are procs). I wanted to lean into the S/T power of Freezing Touch so stretched for Cross Punch, which gets Armageddon and Fury of the Gladiator into your S/T attack chain. The build is better at S/T DPS but worse at AoE DPS than most Ice Melee builds I would make. I bet its pylon time is OKish. Ice Patch WAS on the shortlist before the final cut 🙂

**Good news to Team Regen Sucks**: I am giving up with 2 SIBYLS still left because after my 2nd faceplant (first in the chokepoint, second in the final big Sibyl room), I realized I still had Amplifiers on. Yes, I gave up on the Sibyl stage. I won’t survive the seafood ambush. Does it have less mitigation than SR? Shield? Invuln? Yes for sure. All the sets? Idk about that but it’s possible. Is this bad by any standard I personally value? Eh, not really. I would normally click insps if I have to, so wouldn't have died. Here is my build. You can absolutely get more defense if you want. Not sure how much that will do against the Romans, but it's just not my thing. I prefer insps, probably teammates, and therefore probably building for offense or, ideally, procs.

I can’t recall what I quoted but I’m positive that whatever I was calling hyperbole was a statement of how bad regen is now, NOT a statement of how good regen was back then. The latter I’m fully aware of and yes it was so powerful that it’d be difficult to exaggerate.

Right, though I think my neurosis will have caused less harm on that one. I’m very obsessive about orderings following some sort of convention. Often this might be: first by IO type (damage first then others) then by level, then by HCwiki ordering to resolve ties. IOW: this reliably puts Achilles’ Heel 6th on IG and reliably puts Fury of the Gladiator 1st on RT (because I have Armageddon in GZ). I have issues.

K guys my calculations indicate this thread is ready to move into the kumbaya phase, I got the need to PvP out of my system.

Wow, so the order does matter. I think my Radiation Therapy slotting tends to put Fury of the Gladiator in slot 1, so I guess I’m gimping myself?

I might be able to do it without faceplanting, but I have a strong suspicion the aforementioned mission 1 seafood horde is going to force me to run away and back at the very least. Considering the last couple ITF’s I did, it was whenever multiple nictus mobs were aggro’d solo in mission 2 that I started looking at my insp tray. I will probably have Burnout and a fresh Ageless Radial reserved for that moment.

It’s ok in context though, because I don’t have Revive 🙂

THAT I can do. Minus the Mids software I don’t have; but I can take screenshots of the build. I can’t guarantee a dope time, but it sounds like a reasonably fun use of my time compared to the AV fights.

I wish y’all had some simpler tests for a lazy guy like me. Here’s a thought: I’d be like 10x more ready and willing to prove some basic solo feats with my /regen’s brute if, say, all you needed to see was me doing the first two ITF missions without inspirations. The inclusion of bigass multi-AV fights adds a layer of uncertainty that makes it far more daunting. Like, my SR tankers could probably even deal with buffed enemies, but the AV’s are too much of a slog to kill. I primarily only “enjoy” soloing AV’s on support/trollers personally. Fighting the regen is just no fun. I don’t know about y’alls standards, but beating down those nictus mobs without using insps is proof enough of my character’s mitigation without bringing giant bags of HP into it.

Oof. I could probably do no inspirations if really careful but no further than that. I know you guys like to paint me as some uber elite, but I’m too casual a player for that.