Gerswin Jr

IMO attempting to balance the ATs is a stupid geek errand. All that matters at this point in the game is having an enjoyable product. This is not a tournament fighting game that requires constant balance adjustments to react to the meta. Let people play what they want to play. If certain sets or ATs are more effective than others, who outside of a few nerds really cares? Some people in tjis game act lile AT balance is a RL social justice issue or something. All of the potentially good new content is being overshadowed by irrelevant buff and nerf seesaws. If I were a developer who wrote and tested a bunch of new content only to have it buried by this stupid AT or powerset balance crap I would be super pissed. Neither tank nor brute damage has never been meta outside of specificly constructed solo circlejerk benchmarks like pylons and AE farms. All of the deliberately balanced difficult content in the game like 4* and incarnate challenge badges are much smoother with blasters and corruptors. The reason this issue sets off my dooom detector so much is that I now have no confidence in the leadership of the development team and I am hesitant to invest the time to respec my hundreds of alts. I understand why so many of my friends and coalition members are so negative. It is not that the nerfs are that bad, it is that the developers are spending so much time and effort trying to settle meaningless archetype pissing contests rather than just fixing bugs and adding content. The game will be just fine if one AT is more damaging or versatile than another, but if the player base begins to dread every new issue waiting for the other shoe to drop it will fall apart fast.

In the chat, it would be helpful if actual drops (recipes, aethers, merits, temps) could be separated from the absolute spam of influence and xp. I would be happy if there was a "hide inf and xp" button somewhere.

I agree 100%. 1 or 2 boosted rech IOs are the most efficient 99% of the time. Don't use more than 2 slots unless you can't eke out anything better than touch of LG set bonuses somewhere else in your build.

Based on your tier list, I think you would really enjoy Mortimer Kal and maybe Ice Mistral redside. Aeon is my favorite but it might be a bit long for you if you don't just stick to objectives.

I like all of the suggestions. I was mostly trying to suggest the theme and to have a canine gang war clone. I figured that the whip animation was the least used and had potential for both melee and ranged. I also wanted to avoid anything overtly supernatural in the powers. Also, I believe masterminds are one of 2 non epic ATs that have no new primary power sets since live, so I thought this could work with minimal new animations.

I can only read about 15 words a minute before my brain starts to overheat and the boss only lets me take 5 minute breaks.

Thermal is a great set for certain team compositions. The trend of building for def means people neglect resists, so often the thermal shields actually add survivability rather than just excess over the cap def. Thermal is a jack of all trades with heals and both offensive and defensive buffs and debuffs. On corrs I like to pair it with ice, but on a def I could see a number of blast sets having synergy. Electric for end drain, sonic for -res, etc. Good thermals keep several teammates forged and pay attention to positioning to get maximum endurance recovery for the team with heat loss. The self heal opens up options for patron/epic pools. I generally try to get 165+ global recharge and switch between musculature and cardiac alphas, usually musc. Ovrrall, thermal is overshadowed by cold, nature and even elec for hard mode damage mitigation/healing, but the margin is well within the range of skill distribution in that the best thermals are far better than average colds.

Looks great. Ceilings high enough for an Ogier!

I know what you are.asking for OP, as it has come up before. All missions should boot people from the mission when the contact is called, on tfs at least, but that is not what the code does. I assume there is a time or coding reason why.

I gobbled.up all of the lemon yogurt enema firework themed names on excelsior.

Bad PUGs are just about my favorite thing in this game, especially if someone is trying to RP. The hundred death mission 1 failure of an accidental +4 KHTF while some guy was RPing some sort of mecha robot and the leader was playing on a 2001 laptop or something that froze up for minutes at a time might be my most enjoyed CoH experience.

I am opposed to any proc nerf that would necessitate mass respecs. I still have hundreds of toons who are a few pages out of date. I understand power set revamps, but changes that affect every single character should be exceptionally rare.

Let containment work for teammates vs. AV and GM class enemies. If the AV is held, stunned, or slept, they take double damage from everyone. Immob would probably be broken. This would primarily benefit troopers and doms. Another option would be for the mez to suppress defensive toggles, but that would probably be hard to implement in a meaningful way. This would give teams facing DPS checks a ranged alternative to blasters and corrs.

My only source of defense when exemplared that low is vengeance, so I try to trigger the ambush asap.

I just can't wrap my head around an /arse ass dom without butt stroke.

Yeah why don't u just go read a book nerd

A super inspiration called "Clairvoyance" Effect: Displays all enemies on the map for 5 seconds. This could cost 10 threads or something and have very limited use. I don't think it would imbalance play or anything but it would reduce frustration on certain maps. Not sure if it should display glowies.

I used to have those issues until I started /ignoring everyone that irritated me. My ignore list has 40 or so names on it and I rarely see farm beggars in lfg or tells. I think it is a small number of players making a lot of noise.