PeregrineFalcon

I was on the test server and this is my feedback: EDIT: I deleted my numbers because they were wrong.

Let me see if I can explain why this is a nerf for Tanks in a way that you and I will both understand. And, as usual, if I'm wrong someone please correct me. Self damage buff lowered from 1.0x to 0.875x This a nerf to Build Up and Rage. - Nerf -Res modifiers lowered to match other melee ATs Less ability to reduce the resistance of enemies. - Nerf Diminishing returns: In powers that had their target cap increased from 10 to 16, each target above 10 will take 25% less damage than the previous target Reduced damage output of AoEs. - Nerf In powers that had their target cap increased from 5 to 10, each target above 5 will take 44% less damage than the previous target Reduced damage output of AoEs. - Nerf Gauntlet is immune to these diminishing returns No change. Removed passive global Arc/Radius buff This one is complicated. The damage of AoEs varies by their area of effect. Smaller AoEs do more damage. The bonus meant that the damage was based on the base value, but the actual area hit was increased by the bonus from Gauntlet. Now that the AoEs are larger their damage will be reduced to match their actual area of effect. - Nerf Increased the radius and range of all tanker Primary and Secondary Cones by 50% Cones no longer have their arc boosted See this looks like a buff, and it would be if it were on a Blaster, but on a Tank its a nerf. See the cones will be longer, sure, but they're also more narrow. Who cares if they're longer? A tank will have the enemies clustered as tightly around them as possible, so a long narrow cone is going to miss a lot more enemies. Think Cleave vs Breath of Fire. Which one is going to be better for a tank? - Nerf Increased the radius of all tanker Primary and Secondary Sphere AoEs by 50% The increase wont push radius above 15ft Ok, so these two look like a buff, right? They're not. Remember, the bonus area of effect was removed. And then it was added back in by just increasing the base size of the AoE. Which, as I mentioned above, means that the damage will be reduced by the AoE size and then further reduced on some enemies by the new 'Diminishing Returns' addition. Oh, it will also reduce proc rate. So builds that rely heavily on procs for damage will have their damage output lowered as well. - Nerf So did I miss anything everyone? Is there anything in these notes that looks like a secret buff that I missed?

Be warned all! The End of Days is nigh! For as it was written lo those many years ago in the scriptures of the Heronomicon; "You will know the coming of the end times for it will be heralded by three great boons. The first boon, accompanied by the cheers of the long oppressed, will be the unnerfing of Regen. The second boon, accompanied by the tolling of the great bell of Minmaxius, will be the momentous granting of EA to tankers. And the third boon, accompanied by a tremendous noise like unto an enormous stomping of feet, will be the arrival in the city of the paragons of scrappers with super strength." The first two of the Three Great Boons, these heralds of the End Times, are nearly upon us! I say to you now that it is only a matter of time before the arrival of the third Great Boon and the beginning of the End of Days. So get ye to the Well and fortify your Destiny. Prepare yourselves, heroes and villains, for what is to come.

Wait. So you nerfed Rage? I'm going to seal myself into my escape pod now. I'll monitor the situation from there.

My only Controller is Grav/Storm, so my perspective may be limited. It looks to me like the purpose behind adding Adaptive Recharge to AoE Holds in other sets is to allow a quick retry if the power misses/affects few foes, and to allow soloers to use their AoE hold more often, but tone them down so they're not overpowered on full teams. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. So if I am correct about that, can I ask why Adaptive Recharge wasn't added to Gravity Distortion Field? Why change it to a pseudopet that only holds some enemies but not others? Doesn't that make the power less reliable (unless it's Auto Hit on the enemies it randomly chooses) than the way it was before?

Sorry. That's all I have for right now. I'll do some testing after work. Carry on.

Yeah, and I'm still waiting to see which happens first: Scrappers get Super Strength or Tankers get Energy Aura. Neither of which seem likely to happen in my lifetime.

I have to admit, this seems ridiculous. 😁

Clearly I won't, and I never said otherwise. However, there are certain signs. Patterns if you will that I've noticed with other movies that ended up being bad that I'm seeing with this movie. And I hope that I'm wrong, because I actually want it to be a good movie. You are correct. Once again, you are correct. And, fortunately for me, you do not get to control what I am allowed to say. Feel free to go into my post history and down vote a bunch of my posts like you used to do. In any case I'm done responding to you. Take care and have a great Friday!

Oh I do so love it when folks deliberately "misunderstand" that quote. 😄 I'm not offended by the possibility of a the new Superman movie having dialog as I described in my last post. I just wouldn't find it entertaining, and I wouldn't want to watch it, and I certainly wouldn't wany to pay for tickets. There's a huge difference between "OMG! I'm offended" and "Nah, I'm out thanks." And you know that Whiz. You didn't misunderstand my quote, you're way smarter than that. You deliberately pretended to misunderstand it in an attempt to dunk on me. Well, all I have to say is, to quote another movie, "Try harder. Try again."

Yes. The issue is that I want to watch a good Superman movie. Now, if there's also a little bit of a political story in there, as there was in Man of Steel, that's fine. One of the things that I liked about Man of Steel is that the authorities reacted realistically instead of just being non-existent like they have been in most Superman stories. But if the dialog comes off like a blue-haired, patriarchy hater is condescendingly lecturing me about "Orange Man Bad". . . Well, I don't plan on sitting in the theater for two hours listening to that garbage.

I don't know if Critical Drinker wants these films to fail, I know that I certainly don't. But I do find that, at least the movies that I have seen, his opinion almost always mirrors mine to a 'T'. So when he gives his opinion on the ones that I haven't seen, I find it highly likely that my opinion will match his. Maybe that makes me a shitty, formulaic, grifter in your eyes. Fortunately, I don't allow others' opinions of me to affect me one way or the other.

Ya know, I love Christopher Reeve, but Man of Steel is still my favorite Superman movie.

I'm concerned that instead of a good Superman movie what we'll end up getting is a boring and ham-fisted lecture about the current administration.

"If people are still living in New York City at this point, they have no sense of self-preservation."

I had to. Which is really funny because every time my friends and I take the tram in Paragon City we yell "To the Subway of Justice!" specifically because of this cartoon. We'd been saying it so long that I'd nearly forgotten where it'd originally came from.

I noticed that neither the Paragon server, nor Vanguard server, are mentioned on the Wiki. Was Paragon the secret server run by SCORE during the Dark Times?

Oh wait! It gets better.

Looks like your wait is over:

@Excraft @ZacKing Do you guys need anymore proof that he's never going to change his mind, no matter what you say?

By all means go see it then. I'm not one of those that says other people can't enjoy a movie, or game, that I don't. Nor am I one of those that calls people -ists and -phobes if they don't watch a movie that I do. I hope you watch it and enjoy it. I'm actually not happy because it looks like I was right. I really wanted this movie to be good. Unfortunately it looks like it'll be yet another example of a movie that does poorly and then the star and director will attack fans on social media.

It looks like I called it.

I'm sure you already know this, but you're wasting your time talking to him. He's not going to change his mind, he's going to just keep on ignoring everything thing you say while continuing to insist that you don't like the new FF reveal only because you're a "misogynist who doesn't like that a woman's in charge." No matter how many times you tell him that the real reason is because it looks like they're changing Sue's entire personality he's going to keep on holding his hands over his ears while chanting "nah nah nah can't hear you, you just don't like girl boss, nah nah nah you're a bigot."

It may be a cliche, but that's because it's something that is often true. Look, someone can be a "mother figure" without the adult men around her being children. The Matriarch is long standing archetype for a reason. In large families the actual mother, or grandmother, is often the Matriarch who, while not quite the leader, is a respected figure who guides people into certain directions, helps family members and gets them to cooperate. You say this like it's supposed to be a valid critique. It's a comic book! It's not supposed to be Shakespeare, or a scientifically accurate historical text. It's a comic book written for kids and teenagers. If you change the story because it's not grown-up enough for you, or scientifically accurate enough for you, then it's no longer the same story and they're no longer The Fantastic Four. Yeah, and? I don't see anything wrong with that picture. Why don't you tell me what's wrong with that picture.

Are you REALLY trying to argue that comic books aren't ultra realistic takes on the how the world works? What's dumb about it? What's wrong with a strong mother figure? Families and moms are very important to human society. Moms in particular are extremely important. Spoiler alert: the entire species dies off without them. And Sue Storm being the super powered mom figure of the team is part of The Fantastic Four's lore. Change that and you're no longer telling a story about The Fantastic Four, you're telling your own story about a group of super heroes that are wearing Fantastic Four skins suits. This at least I can agree with. But the writers can make Sue Storm a strong supporting character without making her a man-hating feminist girl-boss that "don't need no man." How are Reed's motivations bizarre? He's a curious scientist that wants to learn more about how the universe operates. What's bizarre about that?