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I mean you right, that carnie phase mechanic is bad. However, most enemy groups are fine really even the new changes are still fine imo i love when they turn into wolfs at death myself. Synpase didn't make the carnies, rularuu, defeat all missions or a huge plethora of the things that are usually considered annoying. He was hired in 2008. It's entirely possible he believed those mechanics weren't the best as well, you'd have to ask him though. For the record though, I think he was talking as a homecoming player and his opinion on what he likes least, since he was asked "would do differently if it was you in charge?." I am biased though, Synapse/Bab were my favorite devs.

Synapse is 100% correct, making enemies take longer to kill is not difficulty. It's just more boring. I don't personally mind the council or cot revamps myself as they still don't take very long but i too wish homecoming had the time and man power to revamp enemy groups to have cool gimmicks and mechanics instead of more resistances and the ability to revive. I'm sure homecoming wishes they had more time and man power too' just a hunch

More freedom of creativity is always a good thing. People already do their best to make their character theme unique with colors alone. More FX options and using things like Weapons in place of the actual set is cool and good. Don't let the haters tell you that one set can't be something just because of its name and original theme.

hard disagree, i like to push roleplayers off the atlas square into the water when they're afk Bath time for roleplayers

Not to defend homecoming, because i will never forgive them for not naming it beanbag control, but Homecoming is the official server. It's the only official server since the live game. The questions asked should be about the Live server, not the many rogue servers. Side note, There were questions asked and answered about the other servers. Those individuals were likely completely welcome to come and ask questions since some of those questions made it in. Homecoming and its team appears to have not interfered with that at all. I've never seen them disallow their mention on here, in game or the discord either.

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Lots of solid reasons being given about the ST fear, I'd still want something else personally but i no longer hold the opinion it -should- be changed.

So -50% on scrapper -75% on tank for the presence taunt, to keep in line with being weaker but still a proper taunt alternative

Well, you have limited power choices and given unrelenting needs 2 prior powers and offers a taunt alternative, It'd be nice to take the presence taunt over the normal taunt, at the cost of targets hit and it not feel bad to do. It's currently worse two fold by no -range of any kind and less targets (on tanks) Even if the -range was 75% and not the full 100% to be in line with being less than normal taunt, like the revive in medicine vs the revive in support powers, I'd still be happy. that's fair enough

I could see that, the lower recharge would be more appealing while leveling for sure. At 50 though and especially while stacking recharge bonuses, I dunno if there'd be much reason for the ST over the aoe. I can see why you'd have both, but i dunno why the ST would be better than the aoe at 50

Also i should probably specify, I don't even think presence -needs- the ST fear removed, I just think a better power could be there instead. If all they did was add -range to the taunt, I'd probably still be completely happy.

Can you expand on your use of the ST fear? I've never actually seen anyone take it outside of in PvP 15 years ago.

@Luminara It's not selfish, It's also already happened in this game numerous times, see blasters. You're also arguing for people who probably don't exist. I highly doubt anyone is going to be like "No! My single target fear! THE CORNER STONE OF MY BUILD!" The mindset that we can't change anything or update anything is a terrible one, bad game dev, and giving the original devs way too much credit in the assumption they didn't make mistakes. Also, the other fear isn't going anywhere, is the same mag and recharges quickly with a half decent build. So removing the ST fear would change nothing.

Presence is especially bad because the opportunity cost of taking Unrelenting is horrific. Make the placate aoe, remove the ST fear and replace it with a new power entirely. Add -range to the taunt and presence will be cool. What should the new power be? Lots of things, but i think a buff shout could be cool like the romans have. Doesn't even need to be a huge buff or anything really. maybe a lil bit of recharge and some +tohit or maybe some +res or something who knows, shout buffs would be neat as hell though

Guys, power pool abilities can't be good or someone might take them. Don't you know basic design???

Castle is lucky he gets to be anywhere at all. Statesman's death storyline was ass, but the ultimate goal was to bring him back as Tyrant instead, so I'd rather leave that option open for homecoming to explore than bring back a hero we didn't see much just to stand there and do fuck all. Still happy the old LRSF got added in so we can fight him. 🙂

Most of this is known, the thread in question where the XP/Inf/Enhancement test was done was about lowering the cost of SO's to help new players, the test was done so because someone was insinuating that it did give you enough. Like you said, it has always been the case where It's not entirely possible for a fresh toon with no outside help or lucking out on drops to maintain their SO enhancements. We already saw the Homecoming team try to push more inf making methods for new players (The aether particle from TF's) into the game, so it just seemed like an easy win to just lower the cost of gear nobody cares about anyway. i digress though, this isn't the point of this thread. just thought I'd come clarify what was done and why. As for the XP thing, you can easily just look at Paragon Wiki and Homecoming Wiki to see the XP rates haven't changed directly from live, but i assume other things have changed around it that make it faster overall, plus we got that patrol xp bargain sale now since the new update

You suggested it though, as a direct counter to the already overly proven and explained to you in many ways including the literal math there is not enough resources for the white gear for new players. Your suggestion was for them to learn how to use the AH to accumulate wealth to afford the gear they should be able to afford by just playing the content and when told they shouldn't have to read guides for the basic entry level part of the game YOU then double back to your already disproven claims. You keep going in circles and being proven wrong again and again and again. It's extremely tiring. You keep saying "manage resources" or "don't waste your money!" with no evidence or anything to the cost of SO's vs what you earn vs any other expenses that should be reasonable expected to occur. You just keep bullshitting endlessly with the worst takes i have ever seen. You don't need to double back to your gross comments, just fucking stop dude what is your problem?

cool goal post moving. they don't infact function "good enough" either. If someone has to read a bunch of guides to do something as simple as leveling and equipping some white quality gear, it's a bad game or eve. I don't even know what the fuck that means, just stop making weird comments about peoples real lifes.

Your character does infact not function perfectly well without SO's in the 30-50 area. You are considerably worse, just because you can doesn't prove it should be that way for all. This is once again a failure on your end to understand the difference of new vs veteran player. I am not ignoring the AH or AE, i am being realistic to a new player. You keep mentioning managing resources, but i have proven the math supports there is not enough resources to manage at all if you even attempt to SO a little. also since you want to push it, your comments about other peoples finacial states are completely disgusting and not relevant to this at all. You are not helping, you are making baselsss assumptions and actively saying people are just "not handling money properly" . It is fucking disgusting you have no fucking right to make any kind of judgement on other people you don't know the situation of and im going to ask you just one time to stop trying to push this any further.

It is too much to ask for garbage leveling gear. That is poor game design. You're basically saying two of the major functions of this game should be ignored during the bulk of the game. the leveling experience. For the sake of keeping a GM out of the topic, I'm going to completely ignore and pretend i didn't see that books comment.

The stance people shouldn't edit their costumes freely or experience the game with gear before they beat the game is a really dumb take to have, especially since once you're 50 that gear is no longer even what you should be chasing with your influence. We have things beyond SO's that require a ton of influence for them to grind and chase. Taking a stand at the garbage white quality vendor gear has to be the worst hill to die on after it was proven you literally -can't- afford it while leveling with any kind of reliability or without help from outside sources. There is no managing your resources the math does not agree with your stance at all.