PeregrineFalcon

New low level content only benefits veteran players who will be able to play new low level content, it does not benefit new players at all. If someone is truly new to the game then all of the "old" content that you and I have played a thousand times will be new to them.

Suffer? If someone disagreeing with you on an internet forum makes you think of the word suffer, then you do not know what that word actually means. The word suffer is associated with other words like pain, injured, bleeding, fear. Nothing posted on an internet forum can do that to you. And what exactly do you mean by "people"? Do you not believe that I'm an actual human from Earth?

No. It's not worth consideration because the ability to teleport, or leap, to your target is already in the game. If you want a Gap Closer then take the pool power of your choice. Also, there's this thing called "The Cottage Rule." I've been waiting to see if anyone would bring this up, and I'm disappointed that no one has. Particularly because people love to invoke The Cottage Rule when it doesn't actually apply.

Somebody's been playing Guild Wars 2 I see. 😁

I have a bunch of melee characters. None of them have Combat Teleport or any other 'Gap Closer.' Well ok, my Broadsword Shield Scrapper has Shield Charge. Point is that if you feel that your melee character, or any other character for that matter needs a Gap Closer you can pick one up. Some people do not feel the need for them so they don't bother. But there's no objective need for a Gap Closer. Actually I've already explained this. While the developers are spending time working on changing all of the Confront powers to Gap Closers, that's time they cannot spend doing other things. Now, if this were an ordinary game company that wouldn't matter. But this isn't. Homecoming has around Thirteen people, working part time, for free, and not all of them are developers. So literally anything they do it taking time away from them doing anything else. And you can already pick a Gap Closer. It's already in the game.

Opportunity cost. While the developers spend time changing all of the Confront powers to a Combat Teleport - which already exists in the game, and the OP can pick it, and therefore is complete waste of time to add it into the game AGAIN - that's time that they cannot spend doing other things. How could it possibly make sense for the developers to spend time adding something to the game, that already exists in game, instead of adding in something new to the game?

Ok, I knew that Tankers had their damage output increased. I did NOT know that Brutes' damage output was decreased. That doesn't seem right. I mean... it's kinda funny, but yeah. It's doesn't seem like the right decision. Well, Brutes were the villain-side tanker/scrapper then blah, blah, blah. You already know the backstory. Yeah. What can I say? The Paragon devs didn't really think that whole thing through very well. I don't know that the Homecoming devs can really fix that at this point. I'll make sure to feel the door to see if it's hot before I open it on my way out. 😁

First of all, what you've said here is clearly true. The numbers are what they are. Secondly, I have a few questions. What's wrong with an AT that splits the difference between Tanks and Scrappers? And if Brutes didn't split the difference, then what would you have the devs do to fix them? Have them do as much damage as Scrappers? Give them as much mitigation as Tanks? How do you 'fix' Brutes without causing either Tanks or Scrappers to become obsolete? Am I going to need to don my fireproof suit for this one?

I blame Arcane. I'm pretty sure it's all his fault. 😁

This is funny to me because my 17 year-old son said this to me just a few weeks ago. He said that he likes the gameplay of CoH, which is why he plays, but that he thinks the stories are all stupid. So that's what I did to recruit new players to City of Heroes. I went out and created a couple of them! Let's see any of you top THAT!!!

Bio is great on endurance, or it can be anyway. It has a power that lets you choose between +dam, +end, or +def. That's one reason why it's so popular. Another is that a lot of players really enjoy having their characters look like the poo-monster that just crawled out of the sewer. For Shield, like pretty much every other set, I highly recommend getting a Performance Shifter +End Proc to slot in Stamina and a Miracle +15% recovery to slot in Health. They're easy to get and, even if they're the only two IOs you have in your entire build, you'll really notice the difference. As for pool powers, you already called it. It depends on what you like and what you want to do. Fighting, for Tough and Weave, has always been a popular choice. It still is.

Shield and Bio are both very popular because they give a damage boost. Bio in particular has basically become "The Meta" because of the damage boost and absorb and self-heal and it even comes with built in cup holders. Now that's out of my purview. You'd want to ask @Yomo Kimyata or @Ukase. Perhaps they'd be willing to give you some advice. Sorry to just ping you guys, but I hate to see a newbie's questions go unanswered and I don't know the right answer to his question. Once again I'm going to say Shield and Bio. I remember when the shield set went live. There were so many Broadsword/Shield Spartans running around Paragon City that it was ridiculous. Titan Weapons/Bio and EM/Shield are also fun favorites. The Guide subforum has a ton of useful info. I hate to just point you to that and not answer your questions, but there's so many good (and long) posts in that subforum that anything that I could post would only be a tiny fraction of the good information that you could get from some of those guides.

That's not the MM AT, that's just your personal preference. Which is fine. I love my MMs. Yeah? I think I'll have to make one of those one of these days.

With all due respect Arcane, you're out of your mind. There's nothing wrong with the Mastermind AT. Mercenaries need some buffs, the rest of the MM sets are doing just fine.

Oh, I agree. Assault Rifle and Mercenaries definitely should be fixed well before any improvements to Regen or the Epic Pools. 😁

I said; "You kids get off my lawn."

Uh, oh. Now you've done it. Prepare to be mobbed by the "all ATs and all powers should be useful while soloing" crowd. I agree though. It'd be nice to have more options to help your teammates.

@Troo So, did you ever get a response on how to fix this? And is it safe to assume that you've already done the things like restart and verify files and all of that?

And I whispered back: "It's you're. Now get off of my lawn." I definitely believe that this silence that we've been receiving from the Council of Thirteen is only making the problem worse. They really should post something, anything, at least once a month. If only to let us know that they're still alive. I'm not saying constant updates and progress reports, but a "Hi, everyone! We're still alive. Here's a hint on what we're working on." would do a lot to keep interest up and put concerns to rest. They could even, heaven forbid, ask us what kinds of things we'd like to see fixed/changed/updated. 🤣 Yeah, I know. I'm a funny guy. But hey, that's why you'll kill me last. Right?

Welcome back!

I know what you mean. That's why I'm trying to help you out man... I mean respected gentlebeing. Sorry, I didn't mean to assume your gender.

@Troo I don't know anything about game controllers so I can't help you there. However, my posting in this thread makes it 87.35% more likely that a moderator will read your thread. Hopefully that helps. 😁

If you want an AT that has armor and ranged attacks why not just play a Sentinel? If you give Scrappers more ranged attacks then why would anyone ever play a Sentinel? Or, quite frankly, a Blaster?

Hey @arcane correct me if I've misunderstood something here. After failing to get people to agree to giving Blasters innate mez protection, people are now trying to get people to agree with giving ranged attacks to Scrappers. Did I read that right?