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I wasn't saying it was. So kindly don't portray me as doing so.

Do you really think this wouldn't happen? With everything we have both seen on these forums? Options are options. Adding more options that falls in line with how the game has been made/presented is great. Including more powers that yank mobs to you. I really enjoy Teleport Target, it just doesn't work against as many mobs as I would like. Adding options that you know full well will be demanded of any player joining a team and takes away the whole point of an established game mechanic simply so the current meta group can keep facerolling game content isn't something I can support. (Edit: Especially as it has already been established that learning how to leverage KB to benefit teams is not a difficult skill to learn. It just takes a willingness to actually approach the situation tactically rather than trying to faceroll everything you see.)

Given the ideas already proposed across multiple threads and that the main complaint from players complaining about KB is relevant to DPS? I disagree. (Edit: Especially since powers like Fold Space can be used to immediately yank scattered mobs back to the group.) And I'll leave it at that. Edit again: That could be a fun power set to have.... a power set that includes a few attraction powers, like a reverse KB. Make an Energy Blast/New Set Blaster that alternates blasting enemies away and then bouncing them back in. Would make for hilarious crowd control.

Then players would be decrying it as a garbage set for wasting a set bonus slot on converting KB to KD unless it was a global change. And I personally oppose a global set bonus or proc for converting KB to KD. Just like I oppose a Null the Gull toggle. I am firmly of the camp to make KB more appealing to the player base in general rather than trying to murder it and drop it in a forgotten ditch somewhere.

And popping Strength of Will I don't have to worry about my lack of orange inspirations. (Edit: Especially since with the enhancement, it grants +11.55% to my Brutes. That's slightly better than the orange inspiration's 10%.) Let's just agree that we disagree. SoW only takes Resist sets. The scaling damage resist enhancement is in a Defense set (Reactive Defenses). Not the proc'. An attuned enhancement. They scale as your level changes. Hence "a scaling damage resist enhancement" and not "the scaling damage resist proc". (Edit again: And if you are wondering why I posted scaling instead of attuned? It's because I didn't remember "attuned" at the time I typed the post and you had already responded before I remembered.)

Not sure why you put your response in my quote or why you are trying to explain Twitch partnerships to me. I don't care about Twitch, so I'm not going to weigh in on anything about it. My only intent was to clarify what I perceive as the likelihood of your request being met. I'm not arguing against you by any means, not trying to convince anyone that your request is a good or bad idea, or otherwise have any say in the matter. If the devs go "Hey! That's a great idea!"? That's fine. If it gets you more viewers if you get the sponsorship? That's fine. I don't care either way. That was not the intent of my response.

Yes. Like Facebook and other social media, I don't bother with Twitch. I would also like to point out that I am not arguing against the poster, just pointing out the livestream guidelines (that I realized after the fact the poster most likely already knows since was asking about a partnership and not about streaming) and providing feedback about the request possibility. That feedback boiling down to "I don't think it will happen but that doesn't mean it won't".

Are you expecting some sort of financial sponsorship from HC? I cannot see the mods/devs officially endorsing a random player... I suspect it is less about financial sponsorship and more about becoming the "official" game Twitch stream.

There is already guidance for this. https://forums.homecomingservers.com/code-of-conduct/#video-policy Edit: Oh, you are talking about a partnership, not just streaming. Not sure if that will fly, but who knows.

I completely disagree. I take Strength of Will on all my Willpower characters, and I find the boost for Fire, Cold, Energy, Negative Energy, Psionic, and Toxic it gives to be very helpful in turning fights around even though the set lacks other powers that provide resistance to those damage types. Yes, Willpower relies more on defense against those damage types, but when your defense isn't keeping you from being hit, adding near Toughness levels of resist to those damage types is a definite help. Not a huge help, but a definite one. I still only leave the power at its base enhancement slot, but I don't use it as a mule. It gets a scaling damage resist enhancement slotted. And because Strength of Will's crash is so minor, I'm clicking it every time a fight gets rough. My endurance never wavers until it crashes and my endurance has finished filling before it finishes timing back in.

This comes up every KB thread, so I'm very surprised this is the first you are hearing of it. The gist of it boils down to the DPS goes up because you don't have to spend time getting back into range to attack again.

I'm calling false advertising on this. The thread title clearly said this would be exciting. That aside, this suggestion has been made into threads many times.

You put a space between the n in on and the close parenthesis. With the space separating them from anything else, the close parenthesis+colon combination does this: 😞

And I would very much like to know what player powers at base value like you are saying are anywhere near as high as 45. Please enlighten me on these powers, because I would most definitely like to start using them. Even Nova is Mag 16.617 at base value.

We're going about it differently, but we apparently have the same goals. So to @biostem, my apologies for my earlier response to you. There was a difference in your and @PoptartsNinja's approaches after all.

Conversely, if it is based off the magnitude but with a multiplier, then you will find players trying to max their KB for the increased damage instead of just aiming for the minimal requirement to trigger the proc. And will feel so much better when you send an enemy flying across the room. (Edit: But will also feel really bad when you get Freem'ed by the Council. Or any other enemy that uses good KB.)

That's still a function of KB magnitude. So you aren't really saying anything different than @PoptartsNinja.

There are players that choose to go hidden while playing simply because we don't want to deal with others. I'm one of them. Not frequently (for being hidden), but I am one of them. However, when we see something being broadcast that we decide we want to join, we go to join just like anyone else. And half the time I am hidden and decide I want to join something forming? I forget I am currently hidden and wind up teamed as hidden. (Though there have been cases where I chose to stay hidden rather than forgot I was hidden. Sometimes you just want to limit the number of people that know you are on.) I can't speak to @Ridiculous Girl's post because her post states they are misbehaving while hidden. However, yes, there are valid reasons for players to play even on a team while hidden.

Why not just use the chat bubble settings in the Windows tab? (Edit: Or if that lacks the functions you want, then why not request those functions be added?)

I am disinclined to have yet another pointless argument with you. The author has already clarified what (s)he/they meant and I admitted my mistake in understanding the OP. So kindly drop it.

Should be. Just don't have your Hybrid toggle turned on when you are trying to sneak and assassinate.

Elude isn’t a defense power. It is a run speed, jump height, and endmod buff that also happens to grant defense. Look, I can do it too! Hail of Bullets is intended as a damage power, Dual Pistols T9 nuke. It gives a defense boost for all of 5 seconds. Elude grants its defense bonus for 3 minutes. One of these two powers is a defense power, the other isn't. Try again.

No. How much power (damage) a bow or crossbow does is dependent on the weapon's draw weight and arm length. Crossbows tend to have a higher draw weight, but they also have much shorter arms, resulting in a much shorter draw length so they impart much less energy into the bolt they fire. Less energy transferred to the projectile means it has less penetrative power regardless of the draw. You can have a bow that has significantly more penetrative power than a crossbow despite the crossbow having the much higher draw weight. While this is typically true, it isn't a hard and fast rule. I can cock, load, and fire my hand crossbow faster than I can draw and fire any bow I've shot since the hand crossbow simply requires me to pull the cocking lever in back and it requires no mentionable effort to do so. There is a tradeoff for this though.

Hail of Bullets isn't a defense power. It is a nuke that also happens to grant defense. You're right, I misunderstood. That makes more sense. (Edit: Though I would probably call that more like "Explosive Decoy" or something similar. Have it spawn a copy of you as a pet as part of you teleporting away, the copy generates aggro like Omega Maneuver, and then promptly explodes as a nuke.)

I really don't see a blast set getting a defense power as its T9 like an armor set.