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This part was previously reported. Yeah, none of the Freaklok should be showing as enemies to you or Bile. That's the problem with the fences. Combat NPCs have a sufficiently large aggro range that they can target those mobs even though they can't reach them. (Edit: It's like when you are going through a building and suddenly the combat NPC you are escorting takes off, leaves the room you're in, goes down a hall, and enters the room on the other side of the walls from the room you're in because somehow the combat NPC detected the mobs in the other room to attack.) If the Freaklok bug doesn't rear its head, you can just lead Bile along the wall opposite the fence to keep him from aggroing over there. (As long as you can clear the ambushes without them wandering over towards the fence.)

The only one I can easily find is from Dev Unitas, but that is specifically about how some attacks are affecting pets in general. So, no, I can't. Sorry.

If that is the route the devs decide to go, I won't complain. (I always did find it odd that MM henchmen pets had lower scalars than regular pets.) One did post in the Suggestions and Feedback forum that they were aware of MMs' plight and were looking at it.

I don't know about others, but I just want people to at least try my arc. I have a followup arc that I've been sitting on because so far only 2 people have even done the one arc I published. (They both rated it 5s, and I appreciate that, but I was hoping for feedback as well. And only 2 having tried the arc in the time it's been sitting in AE isn't exactly encouraging for putting together the followup arc.)

That display is not one big window of text. It is two windows of the same text. Check your chat tab settings for the incorrect tab and see what you have selected there. (Edit: Your screenshot is too blurry for me to see if you have the same chat tab set in both windows.)

That's because it is supposed to work off of the pets' resistance, not the MM's. (Edit: Which means Mercenaries needs to be fixed.)

I'm curious as to what would constitute more visible cursors for the author that high contrast cursors fail at. Just to be clear, I am not opposing the OP. Lord knows I've lost track of the cursor in several big fights and then had to quickly scroll the mouse to try and find it again so I can place a location AoE attack like Lightning Rod. It's just that if high contrast cursors don't work for the author, I don't know what could and would like more information from the author if possible. Another possibility that may help is a mouse home function. You hit a button and the cursor immediately goes to the designated corner, probably top left, of the window to facilitate finding it.

I can't speak for others, but I don't have room for the AoE, and the ST recharges twice as fast. so it makes it much more manageable to lock down priority targets.

At -75%, that still puts it equal to the Scrapper's taunt ability of Confront.

To mirror @megaericzero, I have a level 50 Energy/Energy Blaster that has Pacify and Intimidate. I use Intimidate to lock down specific targets so I can deal with others, like the Tsoo Sorcerers while I clear out their damage dealers. Sometimes, though only rarely, I can even frighten a boss into silence to buy myself more breathing room. (I also have Pacify, but I don't use it as often. Mostly to unlock Unrelenting.)

Not really. Scrappers get provoke. Tankers/Brutes get Taunt. Controllers and Dominators have layered mezzes. I agree that the flee mechanic in the game needs to be fixed. (Edit: For crying out loud, BP Spirits of Death and Totems are not supposed to run away from their chosen PC target, but I've had to chase them down as they fled multiple times.) I don't agree with taking away Intimidate and Invoke Panic to give all characters Tanker auto-taunt aura capability.

I have to agree with @CrusaderDroid. If defeated, just talk to the nurse at the hospital to buy inspirations, then go back to the missions and stomp what defeated you. Or ask an online friend for help. Or ask in a chat channel for help. If you are about to be defeated and don't want to be, then run away. Take the time to heal up, maybe go buy some inspirations or send a message asking for help as previously mentioned. The whole reason why there even is a logoff timer keeping your character in play for a little while after logging off is specifically to prevent characters from avoiding defeat by logging off. Add in the OMG levels of coding complexity the OP asks for, adding the ability to take a mission "snapshot" at the time of the Cliffhanger feature was used, fully preserving mobs defeated, then randomizing where surviving mobs are, sending out a server wide message that Player X is logging back into a (presumably) almost completed mission and needs help, then spawning random responders into Player X's mission before Player X even loads in to deal with the problem? Yeah, that's a very complicated ask. And if the responding player is a support character there to help Player X survive but now is facing off against Elite Boss of Doom alone because Player X isn't even there yet, well now that player's character probably suffered a defeat they wouldn't have if they had just kept playing and not responded to the message.

I sit corrected.

I'm thinking that is because while in the phased part of the map, they are considered to be on different maps. I'm not certain that is the case, it is just what I previously heard.

MM henchmen are still pets. They are pets of a henchman tier rather than a Controller's pet tier pets, the MM gets more of them with all of them being lieutenants, the MM can summon replacements way faster than any Controller or Dominator could ever dream, they can be commanded whereas other pets (excluding Lore) cannot be, and in Bodyguard Mode they shield the MM's HP bar, but they are still pets. Because MMs are the pet master AT. And that would be my guess as to why the ATOs for MMs were designed the way they were. If you think MMs should be able to slot MM ATOs in more powers than the pet powers, that is your opinion. As I said, I disagree with that opinion. Because my opinion is otherwise. And you have not changed my mind on the matter. I was (and still am) content to leave it as we agree to disagree, but this argument you posted required a response. So are we good at leaving it as we agree to disagree? Edit: If you want to understand where I am coming from, it's this: Brutes, Scrappers, Stalkers, and Tankers are melee damage ATs, so they get melee damage sets exclusive to them that have procs based on the respective ATs. Because melee damage can be either single target or AoE, they can slot in either type power. Blasters, Corruptors, and Defenders are ranged damage ATs, so they get ranged damage sets exclusive to them with procs based on the respective ATs. Since range damage can be single target or AoE, they can slot into either type power. Controllers and Dominators are control ATs, so they get control sets exclusive to them based on their respective ATs. Masterminds are the lone pet AT, and so have pet damage sets. Is it fair? I'm not saying it is. However, just like all the other ATs, they have ATOs that are based on what the AT revolves around.

Are you sure? In Mercy, what I see on my higher level characters very much depends on what I did as a starting character. Whether the phased part of the zone is there or not changes upon whether or not I did Operative Kuzmin's arc. Just like Laura Lockhart in Steel Canyon and the doctor in Imperial City. What the character did changes what they interact with while on a team with someone that did that part differently.

Depending on whether the mission was set as active when you changed your difficulty settings, it will retain your previous difficulty settings. Also, some missions are set to a minimum level. If that minimum level is higher than your settings, or if the mission is set to always have some spawns at a set difficulty, it will still appear tougher. Case in point, when doing Crosscut's anti-venom mission, the Cobras are going to be red to you, always. (At least in my experience, regardless of my mission settings or leveling up higher than the mission level.) Yeah, that's a bug that crops up now and again. Sorry it happened to you.

Like @Greycat said, one of you did the Matthew Habashy arc, including the Aaron Thiery part, and the other did not. The area you have highlighted is where Arachnos forces would be during Aaron Thiery's arc, but becomes the normal Hellion, Vahzilok, and Clockwork filled area otherwise. So was one of you seeing Arachnos and the other Hellions, Vahzilok, and Clockwork; or were you both seeing Hellions, Vahzilok, and Clockwork? That's part of the problem with the zone phasing mechanic. If everyone on the team didn't do the same things, they encounter different versions of the affected area.

I'll just leave it at I disagree.

That is precisely why they are a pet enhancement set. Because they have procs that are only useful for the MM's pets. I acknowledge that there are some sets in which the proc does not fit in with the power it is designed to be slotted in, but those other procs are generic global buffs like +6% Accuracy. Those procs can be slotted into pretty much any power and work. As opposed to Pet +AoE Defense or Pet +Resist +Regen. I didn't say it makes sense, I said it makes more sense. Because the upgrade powers are still pet powers. The problem with the upgrade powers is that aside from the procs, the rest of the sets are useless slotted there. See first part of this post.

That would at least make more sense than trying to slot them into the MM's attacks.

What I am trying to do, in so far as the Nightcrawler part goes, is point out that players can already make Nightcrawler style characters and that if Homecoming were to make a Nightcrawler power set, or any other power set that was obviously an attempt to clone the IP of another company, it just can't happen. There are multiple reasons why the game's power sets are as generically named (as a set and for powers) as they are. First, it keeps the provided power sets as open to as many player concepts as possible, and second because it avoids putting (at the time) NCSoft and (now) Homecoming in the line of fire of other companies like Marvel and DC. There is a balancing act that must be done to provide as much content (in this case of powers and power sets) as possible to the player base without putting the game and its developers in legal jeopardy. When it comes to power sets (and their attached powers' names), I will always push for as generic an approach as possible for the above stated reasons as well.

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Then let's try it from a different point of view. New Dawn has not been recognized by NCSoft, the IP owners of CoX, as an official server. Because they are still a pirate server, they have much more leeway in what they can try to get away with. Homecoming has been recognized by NCSoft as official, and that recognition carries specific requirements for Homecoming to meet. One of which is to not steal the IP of other companies like Marvel.

Dual Pistols uses different animations (due to having two weapons at once) and different mechanics. It also does not use the same abilities as Assault Rifle. Laser rifle was created to give Robotics a matching weapon/attack set for the MM to use. Beam rifle was created to give players access to an energy weapon that uses different mechanics than Assault Rifle and Energy Blast. Traps was created to have a more villainous version of Devices. The Live devs wanted the villain ATs to be different from the hero ATs, so the villain version of Devices was created. Otherwise, all that changes is how 1 power works and what 2 powers are between them. After proliferation, the differences between Devices and Traps became moot, but they both already existed. Soldiers of Arachnos and Widows of Arachnos were placeholder VEATs (Villain Epic Archetypes) that the players enjoyed and so became permanent. The difference between Soldiers of Arachnos and munitions sets of any stripe is that like the Kheldians, the Soldiers of Arachnos have multiple build paths within their power sets (without needing multiple different primaries and secondaries), allowing players to play a variety of Arachnos soldier concepts at once. Their sets also include a wider array of defenses than other sets because of their epic status. Those flavors don't tie a character to a specific origin though. Whereas a Magic Blast or Arcane Blast set does. If you are telling me to go away, you don't have the right or authority to.