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"Doms seem to consistently be designed in a way that many players don't like." "This is by design. Doms are designed in a way that many players don't like." Ummm...okay but why though?

When I think of all the people crowding around the AH on Freedom back in the day it's hard to imagine that our population is that much higher on Excel. I know people don't do that anymore due to /ah, but I've not seen say a Rikti invasion on HC attended by anywhere near the number of people I remember from back then. Selective memory perhaps.

It's nice to see Doms get a new set that wasn't clearly designed with Controllers in mind and given to Doms as an afterthought. That probably comes across as more negative than I intended. Lots to process here. The Bane changes are incredibly welcome. I suspect a Bane may become one of my new favorite Stalkers. Disappointed by how some of the power "fixes" are going to impact some of my builds, but not altogether surprised. Probably my biggest disappointment of all after the excitement of seeing that epic pools are getting a look: Weapon Mastery still sucks. The single-target attack is weak and the AoE has a tiny radius, and neither got addressed.

Are we at a much higher online user count now than pre-shutdown? Surely hardware has improved significantly in the last 10+ years. How were they able to make all this go back in the day?

Can you point me to the part that addresses this specifically? I asked in that thread and got no answer. What is it about the new license agreement that requires one launcher to rule them all?

It's kind of self-regulating for me. I don't tend to be driven by concept, but rather interesting power set combos. Many ATs have few interesting combos, so my problem is often finding something new to try that seems fun.

I'm a little disappointed and a lot curious about this one. Can you say any more about it? It's not obvious to me why they would care about third-party patchers. I'm on Linux and I've been happily running the old command-line etoh-downloader updater for years. I'll be sad to see it go but presumably I'll be able to get the new launcher running under WINE. I guess maybe it's for the best. As I'm writing this I can't get into the game because it was just patched and the manifest file hasn't updated yet.

This is great news. So the fix will go out in tomorrow/s release, yes?

In case anyone stumbles across this post, apparently the root cause has been found. Now I just have to decide if I want to mothball this character until the next release, which could be who knows how many months away.

Well dang I was getting all excited that maybe finally I'd found a way to run a newer Mids again. Installed Lutris and tried installing from the dotnet installer but... ...so I guess I'm back to my ancient version again.

This is the only reason I don't play it anymore.

Is that on Linux? If so can you offer any info about how you got it running? I haven't had any luck myself. I'm rocking an ancient version of Mids' currently as that's the only one I could get running.

Looks like there's no crit according to CoD. There was a "rebalancing" (ie: nerf) of Burn not that long ago and I'm guessing it happened then. I can't say if it was intentional or not. I'd post about it in the bugs section and hope that it was a mistake.

The only thing not to like about that proc is the 10-second lockout.

The numbers for Elec Blast are not accurate. Those are the numbers for the bonus -recovery based on the Shocked mechanic. Thunderous Blast does -125% for 20s on a Defender. Short Circuit does -125% for 10s.