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Doesn't Ice Blast put out fires too? I agree, it's kind of stupid that water powers can't do anything against it.

It didn't stink, which is a good thing. I'm still hesitant about anything GoT related after the shit ending of that series.

Yeah this ship sailed already. The time to raise your objections is over, and nobody here wants to hear anything but praise for their changes anyway. No point in trying to get this added back in. Either deal with it or do what a lot of other people are doing - move over to New Dawn and enjoy yourself.

The piss poor attitude does a lot more to drive people away than any RoP nerf. The angry entitled Karen routine gets old really quick. I would say anyone with such contempt for others is too fragile and of no positive use to the community. And despite all the hard work this volunteer group puts in to create new stuff, the population is still in decline, so the patches aren't doing anything to reverse that.

Bet the same things were said about all the other updates too and yet the population is still declining.... just saying.

Thank you. Yes, I wasn't exactly clear and that's on me. As I said above, I wasn't being literal. You've been here long enough, do you expect any less? lol

I know what I wrote and I've already acknowledged and apologized I wasn't clear. I wasn't speaking literally, more figuratively.

You're misunderstanding what I meant, but I can see how what I wrote it can be confusing, so sorry for that. No, I don't need a healer all the time. Not at all what I said, but again I can see how you'd misunderstand.

Huh? That's how you define super, not me. And my builds are fine, thanks. I never said I died a lot. All I said is I don't enjoy tedious, boring slogs of encounters. Nice try though.

Not really. I like playing to feel super. Turning every encounter into a boring, tedious slog where I need a healer to keep me alive against a couple of minions isn't my idea of fun. When I was a kid reading comics, the superheroes I liked all mowed through low level bad guys like grass and had the occasional big boss fights against baddies like Thanos or Darkseid that needed a team. If you like having your ass handed to you by a minion, more power to you.

Can't speak for anyone else, but they can increase the rewards a hundred fold and I still wouldn't run it, nor would 99% of the people I run with. Boring, tedious snoozefests of content aren't our thing.

You don't need super pimped out builds for the higher level difficulty. Yes, it's tedious. And I don't think anyone suggested it isn't optional. Making even more tedious content is never going to bring back anyone who got burned out for sure.

Yes a very, very small group of people cried for harder content on the forums. It is run less as in I never see it advertised anywhere, so that's very telling. The rewards for it suck or people can't devote the time for it or they just don't like the harder content. If one or all of those are the case, which looks highly likely, then yeah in my opinion it was a complete waste of time. I don't care if they want to continue making hard mode stuff for the 3 or 4 people here who want to run it. More power to them. It certainly isn't doing anything to attract any new players from what I can see.

Neither were the runs I was on. We formed from within our private channels when it first hit to get badges, then never again. If they're not being advertised on public or private channels that I can see, that tells me there's no interest in it. And if there's no interest in it in public channels, then who was all of that work done for? Surely it wasn't done for the few who cried for it....

https://forums.homecomingservers.com/code-of-conduct/ If there's people using scripts, then the rules should be enforced on those people and not have everyone else punished for it.

That's great you don't want to PUG a TF on hard mode. Doesn't in any way mean everyone else is the same and won't advertise to fill a spot or two if they want to in LFG. But you don't ever see it. Fact of the matter is, I don't see hard mode TFs advertised at all on any of the channels. "Hard" mode ASF was run in the first few days to get badges, then never again from what I can see. The novelty wore off, at least for the people in the channels I belong to. I see speed ITF/MLTF/YIN/LRSF advertised multiple times daily though.

Not everyone is running optimized AFK farmers or multiboxing. Not everyone is using AE farming. Some people just liked having the option of using that conversion to save themselves a couple of TF runs or whatever to finish out a build. There's lots of things that can be exploited. Using /ah is an exploit. Speed TF runs can exploit rewards at the extreme, but I don't see anyone crying over that. There's less than a handful of people if that doing whatever it was this stupid change was supposed to fix. I guarantee most people aren't exploiting it.

I don't think you've read any of the posts you're quoting. Not everyone bothers with running an optimized farming build or runs AFK farms. It isn't just about having enough inf, it's about the amount of time needed to farm, especially for people who aren't AFK farmers or multiboxing 20 accounts at once. Converting to reward merits helped cut down on farming for some folks. It's also something people didn't "abuse" and liked having as an option. There's a lot of pissing and moaning on these forums about AE and people spending all their time in AE, and your "solutions" are to spend more time farming in AE? That seems very counterproductive to me.

You're welcome to your opinion. I see it differently than you. I also think that for the most part the changes made since the secret server was opened to everyone have been decent. I can still dislike certain changes, if that's ok with you of course.

That ship sailed a long time ago. There's no changing anything at this point, and unless you're heaping praise on changes, they don't want to hear your opinion anyway.

I saw hard mode being advertised in LFG the first week or so after it was launched. I never see it advertised now. Complete waste of time and effort in my opinion. Rewards are garbage for the added time and effort involved.

I'd rather not have to be reliant on a full league of other people to get merits. I'd be fine with removing the conversion if there were more ways added to get merits solo. It's just easier to farm and look into setting up an AFK farm now to earn enough inf to just buy stuff outright. That conversion at least gave some use to EMPs after you've finished out Incarnates and don't want to make any new alts.

You all can't have this both ways. When the topic of instant 50 tokens came up, some people suggested making certain badges like TF commander being required to unlock it. The anti-crowd threw their usual hissy fit and chimed in with the excuse "all badges can be AFK'ed". So yeah, so long as you're on a team of mates who don't mind carrying you, you can AFK any badges or other rewards.

This is absolutely 100% wrong. Teaming is not now nor was it ever expected for all the content in the game. That's complete bullshit.

"Let's not use the TF that proves me wrong"... You and others like you just don't get it. Some people don't want to be herded into running team content. All rewards could be increased 10 times more and I still wouldn't want to team up. I'm not being anti-social, I just don't feel super on a team. I feel superfluous, just like all of the people who've made posts about how they don't feel useful running their buff/debuff toons in high level content. My brute or tank can't get an attack off before the rest of the team decimated entire mobs. That's boring for me. I don't want to be buried under layers of silly colored VFX vomit to the point I can't see what's going on. I want to go at my own pace, not the pace that others want to set. I'm playing this game to feel super, not to have to rely on other people to do stuff. I'm not the only one who feels this way either as others have posted similar things in this and other threads. But we're somehow lumped in with the evil farmers and asked to just team up with everyone else. Well I don't want to. Like I said, I don't feel super on a team and trying to herd people like me into teaming isn't going to have the effect you think it is. Nerfing the emp merit conversion isn't an enticement to try teaming more. It's just going to make me farm even more to make up for that loss.