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A couple dozen posts over the course of six weeks in a single thread isn't high activity. A year ago, you said that sentinels were fine, other than Opportunity needing a revamp. You gushed about how good sentinels are (not an exaggeration). If coming back and finding that one power isn't exactly what you want it to be has completely redefined your perspective of the entire archetype, then it's not the archetype or the power, it's you. So what's really bothering you? Relationship troubles? Family drama? Wonder Woman 1984 disappointment? We're all here, lay it on us. As I explained already, the current development team have their own prioritization in addressing issues. If sentinels aren't currently performing so poorly that they're dead last in any metric, and none of the primaries or secondaries are drastically under-performing in comparison to other primaries or secondaries, then they're not at the top of the list to be dealt with. They'll get to it when more immediate and important issues, as determined by them, not you, have been resolved. Derogatory shouting won't make them get to it any sooner. I'm equally positive that the majority of people would prefer that you didn't. No-one wants to play a hybrid dominator/crab/sentinel with copypasta mechanics. Let it go.

Well, he's carrying a shield now...

There are a handful of savant-level geniuses who have isolated a bug that no-one else can replicate, because the rest of us aren't that smart, and that can't actually exist because the code isn't structured in such a way that would allow it, according to @Faultbro, and everyone is just "gaslighting" when they disagree. Or, a shorter explanation: comedy gold.

Where do you think they got the ingredients for those pumpkin spice lattes from?

What he/she said.

And now we have a universe with this. I wonder if that could be done with cheesecake...

I can get naked IRL. I can describe myself stripping down to my birthday suit in a tabletop game. But in video games, I can't seem to get all of my clothes off, no matter what I do. I have to get someone else to undress me (nude mods).

The HC team didn't create sentinels. The faulty power descriptions, the changes to powers, the design of the archetype, all of that occurred eight years ago, when a completely different group of people were in charge (SCoRE). And the HC team has their own prioritization of what needs to be addressed, and different skills and levels of capability with the existing tools, so they're doing what they can when they can, in the areas of expertise in which they can best contribute. That they haven't addressed sentinel issues yet is neither an indication of lack of interest nor grounds for accusations of laziness, only that they haven't gotten that far down the list yet. But don't let facts interrupt a perfectly good tantrum. Please, carry on. I'm sure the people who spend their free time working on the game, with no compensation beyond the expressions of gratitude from others, are delighted to be called to task and verbally abused over things they didn't do or for failing to acquiesce to your whims.

There was a small company who made a whole bunch of Co* fan films. They were... hold on, trying to remember the name... oh, yeah, Marvel Studios.

This is now and will forever be my favorite in-game quote:

I have no idea how these weren't be in use when I tried them: Irma Gird - no-one? NO-ONE TOOK THAT?! Titanea - started a Titan Weapons/Energy Aura scrapper and figured I'd at least make a half-hearted attempt at the obvious name. It was available! I juggled names to move it to one of my more regularly played characters, one of the Sisters. Munition - Was listening to kidneythieves' Arsenal, thought, "Hey, that's a really good name for a superhero/villain!", but it was taken. A little digging through synonyms, Munition. It's got a nice comic book vibe to it, I think.

She's only interested in you for your mind.

Is that what they call Taco Bell in Praetoria?

See, this is why no-one likes the wealthy elite. You and your 8 bits. Did you ever stop to think that some of us couldn't afford that much? Some of us have to settle for 6 bits, and be grateful to have that much. Think of the bit impoverished!

There are missions in which people die. They're killed before they can be medi-ported out. Those black, human-shaped bags you click aren't keeping pizzas warm.

Goodbye nipples, my old friends. I'd love to see you once again. But the devs were afraid of creeping, Nerfed the nips while we were sleeping. Of the areola that once graced my chest, Nothing's left. Within the City, of Heroes.

I'd find who was responsible for putting me in the game and beat them as much, as hard and as long as necessary in order to be sent home. I can't tolerate being separated from my cats for more than a few hours.

Some people think it's ridiculous to take offense at everything under the sun, and emphasize that ridiculousness by satirizing what people think is offensive. That's not bullying, it's reminding people that they're adults, and adults need better coping strategies than expressing mortification and outrage at every minute thing that gets the teeniest bit under their skin. Somewhere along the way, we forgot how to let things roll off of our backs. People who force us to either remember how to do that again, or die of a heart attack at a young age because we're freaking out over meaningless bullshit, are necessary. We can all use some "Lighten up, Francis." in our lives. It gives us the proper perspective so we can see what's really worth being offended over (pro-tip: a ribald name, off-color joke or bit of skin isn't it).

The minimum is 6.67 endurance per tick (barring insane debuffs like Nectanbo's Curse). If you're bopping into spawns quickly enough to short yourself only two ticks that you otherwise would've had before getting to the spawns, that's 13.33 endurance not recovered. And with unslotted Stamina, it's only 6.4s for those two ticks to occur. Essentially, shaving 5s of travel time between spawns shorts you about 13% of your endurance when you start fighting. And if you're starting every fight with 13% less endurance than you had when you started the previous one, it's not going to take long to be completely out of endurance. That's the math.

If it were a toggle, it couldn't double-stack the Defense Debuff Resistance it includes. As little as I like click status protections, this one works better as a click.

Unless the reason you're bottoming out your blue bar is because Sprint is allowing you to rush from one spawn to the next, depriving you of two or more endurance ticks between spawns and eventually leaving you completely drained. Toggle cost is only part of the picture. It's what you're doing with Sprint that matters, not what Sprint costs.

None of these issues appear to be present with Athletic Run, per testing on a similarly leveled and gendered character.

If Dreck stopped thinking with his dongle, he wouldn't run into problems like this.