The Godchild

I wouldn't loose any sleep over them reverting fly n'hover to being mutually exclusive as it was before, n'keeping the no-pose hover option till they figure out how to address the priority order. If its about the +air control part: they handed that out with fly getting afterburner free as well as evasive maneuvers as a toggle option...you're not hurting for air control while flying. If anything, it makes flying feel extremely jerky and unnaturally responsive like when I get hit with inertial reduction occasionally or forgot to turn afterburner off. Too much air control actually becomes kinda immersion-breaking when there's 0 drift and you have 100% pinpoint control. You don't feel like you're flying so much as instantly propelling yourself in a direction n'stopping/turning with no regards to momentum in the slightest, its actually kinda jarring in-game when you're muscle memory's use to the natural fly-drift.

That note kinda irk's me a tad since there's now no middle ground between hover-pose 24/7 (which looks really dumb with the new speed caps in play), fly-pose during hover 24/7 (which drives me squirrely for reasons that date back to when I started playing on live way back when) ...a third option of a completely ridiculous bind/macro that turns hover off when fly comes on n'viceversa is also a way to go (just like how it kinda was before and things where fine x.x) Can the pose-priority not be adjusted so Fly is top-priority or a no-hover option for fly so it takes priority when active? This seems like a minor gripe...but the majority of my alts are fliers and this is enough to make me not wanna play after just poking around with 1 alt to see the changes.

I should probably mention that most of my /nin users are fliers...so the actual run/jump speed thing means basically nothing and Shinobi-iri is more or less holding my stleath IO, my issues is more with over-complicating the mez protection power which should be one of the most simple-to-use powers for what it does. Nin being a clicky has always been an oddity along with SR, but that's the nature of the positional-type defense sets and at its core its still as simple as "Put on auto > forget about it" once you've got it overlapping with itself...

I'm....not cool with this change tbh, since the stealth IO is a bit of a weird spot giving its either "on/off by the toggle its in" or "2 minutes duration based off a clicky its slotted to" Do people realize that they're adding the option to plug the stealth IO into the MEZ PROTECTION power....that isn't a toggle, its a clicky. So if you put the IO in it, you get the 90 seconds of stealth yes....but you also can't just 'turn it off' like you can atm with it being in Shinobi-iri and that can be a big issue giving how univerally dumb the hostage AI is most times >.> Yes you can just cancel the power to drop stealth forcefully....but that's your mez protection power at the same time...so to lead a hostage out you have to a: give up stealth initially, b: give up your mez protection, and lastly: probably have at least 1-2 ambushes to face on the way out with no protection or having to literally sit n'wait for powers to recharge. Just...no, please...put the travel set slotting part back into Shinobi-Iri or another toggle because this is gonna cause no small amount of headaches... Afterthought: Oh god....I'm even more against this change now that I realize you can also slot res sets in there....you know, the set type with some of the best defensive procs out there. Mez clicky going from IO end redux/rech only slotting, to taking 2 sets...1 of which has alot of options to slot procs with....? Yeahno, please....do NOT push this change through, its gonna cause nightmares for Ninjitsu users if it does x.x Additional Afterthought: ...with all the stacking travel changes, why is this change even on the table? Seriously. Nothing is changing fundamentally about Nin getting the +run/jump speed still, why are things being changed to make 1 cool power totally boring and a core-survival power over-complicated?

Was that around the Defiance revamp n'they kinda overall got their first survival boost? I remember that being a big turning point for the AT along with a new/better/less-abrasive play style.

Blasters have always been in the upper rank for max hp numbers amusingly, just a rough crunch of base numbers has them tied for 4th highest (by 1 point :P) Tank - 1874 Brute - 1499 Scrapper - 1339 Blaster/Sentinel - 1205 Stalker - 1204 Everything else - 1-1.1K MM - 803 :P Blasters with +hp from sets/accolades and high regen are pretty beefy, my AR/dev with meh/low def/res has over 1800 and she can just kinda facetank stuff through sheer hp (and Aid Self occasionally).

...also true >.> I did refer to them as death traps with good reason...and the rather frighteningly high encounter rate for Q's with any Kheld on team would be cause for alarm.

I kinda feel like the disappearance of Cysts probably had more to do with the low populations of the private servers prior to HC and how much of a death sentence they were if you caught 1 while solo. Even after the changes to make nicti damage resistible....when it spawns like 20 angry clouds that pelt you mercilessly the moment they appear, it's not really 'that' big of a mercy in the end vs a cyst. So the mandatory spawns don't 'do' anything now and random cysts in mobs were probably disabled...

The spawn rates of Q's seems to be alot higher recently....but yeah, I was kinda wondering why I never see those purple, crystalline death traps anymore...I actually kinda miss the surprise wipes they'd cause because no one noticed it till it was far...faaaaaar too late to do anything to save yourself. Ahhh....meeeeeeemories...or maybe its trauma/ptsd...kinda hard to tell from that far back.

*...It's STILL going......* ...not sure what kinda miracle declaration you're expecting them to roll out anytime soon... *Oh, now I know why this name seemed familiar....oh dearnotgoodnotgood...*

We're on the same page as far as what power would be a good swap in for body armor. I was actually thinking of the Kinetic Dampener temp you can buy from the p2w but kinetic shield is the power it was based off of anyway. It has some visual to it and looks like it'd be pushing away things like bullets n'fists, maybe some energy as well since scorp shield does that...would endorse this change 100%. Afterthought: Even if it was just Scorp shield's numbers with kinetic's visuals I'd be perfectly happy, you really can't argue that its an amazing defense power plus toxic res.

*...he's gone from adding a new power to modifying epics now...munitions does need a little work its true...progress, yay? *

*gets caught up since last post...munches popcorn*

*sigh* Here we go again... ...again, better def at the cost of "only affecting self"...that's not a viable in-combat option. We've established that you plan to just sit in your PFF bubble doing nothing because of that precious +def and +res it adds. Leadership would be utterly pointless to have since your pets would be getting 0 benefit from it anyway AND you can take more +def powers that affect only you instead! No, no they do not :P No one 'relies' on Afterburner for anything other then getting from one place to another slightly faster then baseline Fly. Anyone that 'relies' on AB is doing probably several things wrong and should probably have someone look into that. Stop trying the blanket-assume everyone does things without any definitive proof. ...So why are we closing in on Page 5 on this travesty of a topic that should have ended like 4 pages ago. Uh, its only a stalemate for you buddy....you're the one trying to break down a brick wall with your own head, not us... I don't know how often you've heard "No, you cannot have what you want. Stop asking." in your life, but apparently not enough if you're persistently pushing and asking like a child who wants something at the store and thinking their parent will cave in if they keep begging for it. What's up next...temper tantrums? Causing a scene...Calling them bad parents (or community in our case...) because they don't love you enough to give you what you want? ...oh, so the third group is "Toggle powers that aren't suppose to be used in actual combat"...riiiiiight, gotcha, sure that's important >.> ...welp, what passed for nice-gloves are off and long-gone now... Buddy, you are legit the biggest lost cause I have ever seen. I'm just gonna start posting memes now because you are obviously refusing to listen to ANYTHING anyone is telling you and I'm slowly warming to the idea this is an elaborate troll because no one could possible be this intentionally stupid and/or stubborn after nearly 5 pages of people saying the exact....same....thing...in response to your terrible and extremely self-centered ideas about an AT that has been and always will be...a baseline 'squishy' AT right outta the box if you don't put the effort into sets and LEARNING the games actual systems rather then assuming what you think is right and badgering the devs to change things to match your expectations. ...am I being an asshole yet? I kinda feel like I'm properly situated onto the 'asshole' side of the fence after that...and I don't regret it :P

...so now you move off to wanting to change something else just so you can get more +def? Its called 'Hover'...that's the in-combat option for flight, it gives +def...as does combat jumping, maneuvers...stealth, weave...there's plenty of +def powers out there....just not with the numbers you seem to be expecting and frankly...demanding at this point :/ Seriously, just stop. Please...I really would prefer to not come off as a dick, though at this point I kinda don't care anymore. You're persistence in trying to get your way while everyone else is saying "No, you can't have that because it makes no god damn sense just because 'you' want it" is just kinda mind boggling. We all seem to understand how the game works much better then you do and you seem to be implying that you know better because *insert reason here when someone figures it out eventually*. Either learn how the IO and set system works and get your +def from sets like everyone else does...or don't and continue to struggle despite multiple people trying to show you other options....Or play a fucking Sentinel, that is the exact kinda setup you're after and multiple people have pointed that out. Again, can we please get a mod to lock this thread...any semblance of hope or understanding is long gone and its gonna degrade into shitposting at this rate...sorta already has actually.