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Most likely, they didn't care as much. Its when they found the patrol exp bug, they just used the Positron supported and approved method to "fix" the problem; I4 it into the ground. If they want to fix something, I can understand.. its how they did it. They didn't even communicate before hand the problem, "patrol exp was unintentionally boosting beyond expectations and players were not aware." They didn't even fix the bug, they just removed it and hand waved away something they didn't seem to like. All I am going to say, if they are going to do something like that they need to communicate its breaking their expectations. Hammering it down and weak ass excuse afterward the fact, sorry it looks more like they were covering their ass. On the flip side, "guys, HC Dev crew in the house here. Its come to our attention AE is generating problems beyond our expectations and control. Expect some changes shortly." Done, all there was to fixing the problem, easier to let down slowly expecting it than kicked in the nuts, and stomped in the face over milk money influence. Devs giveth, can taketh back as an Indian giver but at least be upfront about it.

hittable by your own allies AoEs, And thats not abusable? I loved shooting ass holes in world of tanks, large caliber HE shell would "rekt" a tank and leave them still alive. Now, I never started a fight but those keyboard licking map pingers or General Keyboard trying to order people; fun times dealing with annoying twats. Now, 8 years later there is no friendly fire and pretty sure it was 101% abuse of the mechanics instead of accidental fire. And those with no KB protection? Not everyone slots Steadfast or slot 3 of a IO set all the time. You want more KB "fix" suggestions? your group buffs buffed enemies, Guaranteed no one is gonna use this and you will be soloing a lot of the time if you did. And you should try Scirocco's arc, you will not like perma confused by Malaise, 5 minutes I can't get back of my life while fighting illusion pets I can't kill or a EB I can't hit. Doesn't help the illusions couldn't really kill me either. Now its Scorpion everytime.

that carpet is lame. Saw it the other day, no self respecting ranger would ever set foot on a dining room accent piece.

Hold Stun Fear Aim for the small fry, aka the sappers Nit picket for lower levels: No, getting your ass handed to you at low level doesn't justify some buff as it affects everyone equally with endurance issues. At high levels you are just gonna roll through it any way.

I wasn't happy how they pulled the plug, as the only bug/hack/exploit was 99% patrol exp which is does absolutely dick at 50. Everything else was just using game mechanics as they were intended, and utilized for max efficiency which wasn't broken or exploited; thats just human nature to optimize. You don't need purples, I have been Mids theory crafting for the last 5 days; vacation during these damn pandemic is is boring! Been optomizing for defense and recharge, as cheaply as possible. Between Hasten and some LotG, you only really need 2 slots in hasten and Incarnate haste to get Perma-Hasten to 120 sec rech for the 120 duration during battle; you don't need Perma chilling at the tram or in front of Miss Liberty. I was able to get other things I was never focused on. Outside recharge, there is nothing you can't get from a purple you can't get from another IO bonus. You just get less of it; and you don't exactly need +15 ACC x5 that much. Extra fire resist is nice, but even +10 x5 recharge has less return on investment, it starts reduce only a few seconds under WHAT YOU ACTUALLY NEED, not what you desire. Believe me, try making Mids builds cheap, maybe 150m for your favorite proc/bonuses and see what else you can get with another 150m. I have looked at TW/Electric farm builds, outside Burn it has same specific requirements: damage aura, high energy resist for a different farm, and and endurance recovery click with a built in +20 recharge, even snagged +15% damage bonus. You can even do spines/electric farmer, I think scrapper is better but not an AFK so you have to actively play it. Got a Savage/EA scrapper self contained all damage type def cap, no PBoAE nuke from epic and went Body mastery. A Savage/Nin capped positional, +25 dam and assault to go with it. Stone/Spines tanker, can fire farm on granite or do normal content on the toggles; cheapest build that doesn't excell at anything but does a lot. Just going to finish, with purples and AT you get limited options towards a few bonuses. If you Franken slot for the first 2-3 bonuses and jam in something else to finish that power; you might free up an entire power you don't need for something else. You might build a character you like, which is more fun than optimal bad ass.

Titan weapon or Staff Fighting and electric armor. Can pull off a "green warrior" without the typical protector of nature crap druids you see in fantasy MMOs with the heals or buffs; nothing says they are required to theme a character concept for nature.

Yeah, TV's maps have a trick. All the hostages turn into EBs, once you approach the hostage floating in the CoT flame. His middle map is the best speed wise, larger map is just a drag and the small asteroid map is just over kill aggro blob.

<---- Suggestion forum is that way Also, not to brag but I am not sure why my guy won on Indomitable in the top 5. Costume was just bio-luminescence skin colored dark, an aura that looked like a ooze falling off, amd Bio-Armor made up the rest of the effect with a gaseous titan weapon in his hands. His biography might of helped, being a former Paragon water works engineer and he spent most of the time in the sewers....after unblocking a Hydra blob and getting dragged into the sewer he ended up as....a mutant turd 😆

Double check those zeros? And break fingers of any of your digit minions abusing their power. Got to keep those fingers in line.

The point was a joke. Easier to correct something when you are reading off and typing, than realize immediately you made a mistake even with the text obscured. Kinda of a human intuition type thing when you screw up and realize it. The remember part with a sticky note is kinda a standard joke with passwords.

*slaps a post it note on the monitor* can't get any more secure if you can't forget it, and if you fumble while typing it the first time you know its a really impregnable password (or you left capslock on)

Cheerleaders, with those pompoms

Forget placate. Turn off hide No defense or resist Go blapper style in the nude. Stalkers are the retarded cousins of blasters, but they got the spirit of a blaster. Scrapper or brute, just a tanker with a lot of caffeine and sugar. A lot of caffeine and sugar.

Reaper Salad Tossing

Bob from development meets up with Steve in Accounting. Steve mentions this really cool idea for a power he is thinking up, so Bob takes him to Rick in programming. Steve states his ideas, concepts, and wishes for this power to Rick so he can slot stuff in it. Rick is listening, idly muting out Steve when Bob asks "Why the fuck would Super Awesome Kick in the Nuts (stupid name BTW) be able slot Range, Targeted Range, PBAoE, and Slow?" So Steve attempts to respond when Bob cuts him off "I can see maybe Immobilize as he is Holding his twigs and berries, Confused, and Stunned, possibly Knockback....but range doesn't make sense for a single target melee?" Steve goes to respond when Rick simply states; "Powers are not designed around IO sets and procs, IO sets are designed around powers. That means, some powers benefit from multiple procs while others don't. If it can fit many procs, it got lucky. Bob, this is why we don't go to Accounting for ideas, they only understand spread sheet numbers output onto a form, not design concepts and how to input the code for them." tl;Didn't laugh - Quicksand and Tar Patch, both targeted slow floor patches which are essentially the same. Tar patch is -resist and Quicksand is -def, so all things created equally in concept....Quicksand should be able to fit -def procs while Tar Patch with -resist could not fit anything but slow. EXCEPT Quicksand can't fit anything but slow, according to Mids and unless it is not coded correctly Mids is usually spot on. Means, not all powers get the same treatment, some powers shouldn't be able to fit 3 different IO set types; its just really lucky they can.

Dark Servant isn't a pet, its a walking swiss army knife -Hold -Immoblize -Heal -Tohit It is basically a walking mini-back up controller/defender

Click below 😏 Burn. Stand in it, enemy gonna knock you out. BALANCE! Extra damage aura ability, more weakness. Though burn is redundant in a group, everything is dead before you cast and the immobilize protection is a joke since you would be stuck in the patch when its cast....so it like helps while in it but its killing anyway so the point of being immobilize in it only hurts the enemy from their own actions. Rainbow of resists across all damage types; though moderate 60.5% Psi resist, whats that? Selling point! Multipe control powers, Stun and Fear with some -tohit (yeah minor, but turns the set into a control hybrid) PBAoE based self heal = 8100 hp self heal with an accuracy check; Is that right? 8k heal ? Little knockback isn't going to hurt you, when you can take a little bit of everything in return.

High level stuff has a resistant check vs almost everything but cupcakes and cookies, muffins....now that is kryptonite and has brought down many an arch villain without a fight. As for taunt Herd complaint - would it make sense for hundreds of guys to dog pile a dude who gave them the middle finger and hundreds of guys can't be stopped by this one guy? "Hey, lets pick on the weaker ones while he is distracted by Moe, Burt, Bart, Larry, Harry, Tim, Dick, Don, Pat, Rob, Rick, Jim, Joe, Adam, Jake, Steve, and Brjorn. I feel sorry for Bjorn, guy is kinda the odd ball there." Boss or higher - the great epic fights are boring if the main villain stays on the lead tough guy and is brought down quickly while everything whittles him down. Kinda like the movies. Not everything is game mechanics, even the little minion guys get their .15 seconds of fame before turning into jelly on the pavement and the arch villains like to show off even for the heroes.

cones doesn't get wider arcs from enhancements, they get longer and occupy more volume.

IO bonuses included? Or like standard IO without? Cause the idea sounds exactly like grabbing any triple or quad stat from 6 of the same category and popping it in, Franken slotting. They already exist, why build it than?

You can also turn off exp, like at level 14 to finish the content between 10-15 if you are leveling to fast. Turn on, get to 19 and finish the content to 20. Rinse and repeat.

OP says something about Empathy being difficult to solo.... Device says hi, smokegrenade (weak)/tripmine/timebomb/gun drone being useless in a group. Taser is questionable in utility, with kthxbai! kill power of AoE for up to normal bosses who die to everyone's attacks. Caltrops, meh works but kinda pointless at the same time and at least Web grenade now does damage. Self buffs are kinda obvious at the top of the useful list. Polar opposites, match made in heaven. Empathy/Device Hero! Only one power set works solo and the other power set works in a group.

So basically people must/have to/required to run at all times in a group, because;reason its annoying. In that people who don't like it when things are thrown back by another person, if you choose not to suppress KB other people will kick you out vote you off the island; man democracy is great when others in power. tl;dr - you guys seem to think a global fix is a good idea, but suddenly now a person is forced by others in the group to run this toggle or a global IO if not slotted or you get the boot from the group. Basically goning exile someone over a powerset or affect; just because its annoying and others don't like it. You also have the option to not group with people with KB powers, not play with KB powersets or use communication skills and info check for before starting a TF to weed out "yeah man, can you get another character with out KB. We can wait a bit, send a tell." I expect a counter of "I am not gonna waste 2 minutes of my life" response to talk with people during the TF suggestion, but hey let's debate for for a couple days on the forums or hope/wait that HC devs might put this idea into effect some time in the unknown distant feature, when you already have the power and ability to do so. Fix AOE/cone KB, single target isn't gonna ruin anyone's day. Also /jranger Nerf Regen Buff Regen Nerf Aardvarks Buff Pandas 🐼 Nerf sticky threads for common suggestions Buff Forum search Nerf player response More SG storage space Hasten inherent thread Hasten nerf thread Buff GM thread jacking

I was like WTF!?!?! just as I was replying . Now its 2 threads of discussion, kinda like people yelling to be heard over each other and going "what were we talking about? It was hasten, but someone started talking about aardvarks I think. Nerf Aardvarks, buff GM threadjacking."

Challenge accepted! *runs off to make eleventybillion costumes with all characters and use minimal graphics* But really, I pretty much use the default costume and maybe a second on a few. 4 was good back in the day, now its way to much.