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"Perfectly balanced, as all things should be." Heh, sorry couldn't resist 😁 While I think "Is the game too easy" is a different question than "Is the game balanced", there's no need to die on that hill. We have had Cobalt Arachne drop by and let us know that the Devs have built and are testing new ways to provide us with more challenging content without taking anything away from what is currently available. That makes me happy to be patient, and excited to test what makes it to the Beta server.

Then those people should self-identify, and team up to enjoy the game together. I have to be missing some nuance, because this reads to me as: "I don't want to make a powerful character, and I don't want anyone else to make me feel less powerful." I don't think that sweeping, systemic changes are needed to address what appears to be a self-imposed paradigm that prevents the very person who is doing this to themselves from enjoying the game.

Maybe one of the menders in ouroboros could tell you where the timestream needs the most reinforcing (Giving you the weekly story arcs)

I'm sorry you are frustrated, but I think the solution to the above is to make friends (I'd start by reaching out to everyone who liked your post) and run characters with them. The game is big enough for more than one playstyle. Again, I think all of the like minded people in this thread should pick a server and roll new alts together and play the way you guys want. Maybe start a thread and post screenshots of your cool adventures like the Tanker Tuesday folks do and you'll attract more people. I think you just named the Supergroup that you should start: "Au Naturale". A dev team member has let us know that more content is coming, so that's a huge win for everyone! I have to say though, this last part of the post really concerns me. What does "running the show" mean? Why is it important to stop PI Radios? Why is it important to stop farming? In a game that will create a new instance for every character that wants to enter a mission, what does "free up earlier content" mean? Seriously, this game can provide fun experiences for all of the playstyles being mentioned. That's why this is the One True Game™. The kind of gameplay you want is within your reach, you just have to go make 7 friends and team up with them.

Please correct me if I am reading your post incorrectly, but it seems to me that: 1) It is frustrating that people predominantly do not play the way you want to, 2) Some people "dampen" the game for others. 3) Those people who "dampen" the game for others should be guided away from the others whose game is being dampened. So, for the first point, I'd say that you either need to communicate in this MMO as if you were at a tabletop, and make friends who you can team with in a non-frustrating way, or get in bed with the idea that you want to make the whole population exclusively play your way. For the second point, I guess I need a good definition for "dampen". I guess it's something like the feeling you get when you wind up a long-animating attack and halfway through, your target gets blown up? For the third point, setting aside the issue of wanting to separate players based on playstyle, I think the remedy here is more content that requires a specific amount of godhood, and has cool enough rewards to make them worthwhile.

Well, with all due respect to the amount of work you put in here on the forums, is that something that the whole game should be altered to address? It just feels to me that issues like increased player to player communication would ameliorate or eliminate the "feel" associated with teaming.

I get what you're saying, but isn't all of this something that each Team Leader can control? A character's level shift is displayed when you target them. When advertising for a team, you can say "No level shift, please" or "We will be running with +1 level shift only" or whatever. If someone is "dominating" a team you are on, and it bothers you, what is stopping you from leaving that team? I'm trying to think of times where you have no control over the team makeup whatsoever, and mixed level shifts are likely, and at most I'm thinking Hamidon and the RWZ Mothership raid? Is PUGing so badly unbalanced that we should change how the game works?

Specifically on a Shield character, who shouldn't get hit too many times in a row, Melee Core's +regen means that you are getting back more health in between hits. I use Melee Core on my Shield/Radiation Tanker (I know, Brute forum, apologies!) when I pull on MSR, and it works well. As for backup plan, isn't the Brute's plan always "Smash the enemy before they smash you!" 🙂

It's fine. Right now, I think that the thing that bothers me most in HC is that bug that happens when you invite a team into an instanced MSR, and someone on the team doesn't have the badge, and then that team leader cannot be invited without zoning and/or relogging. That tells me that the whole power/progression/challenge discussion isn't all that important to me. However, I like the "More is More" approach to addressing issues like this, so yes, let's ask for more content and more difficult content. I think that the HC devs are better off working on content (woo hoo Piecemeal!!!) and costume options than anything beyond what their data says is a problematic outlier.

Glowing Opaque would also be super great.

Sally has sonic powers, and causes soil liquefaction to flee from aquatic predators.

What does HPS mean? Health Per Second? Or is it just Hit PointS?

BRB, making a new SG

If the pets summoned were all the hovering Arachnos Drone types, then this would a) be awesome and b) be less like a Crabbermind.

Acknowledging that it would be a big undertaking for the Dev team but, Heck yeah! Not only do we need hats for the beast heads, but if the various ears from the "Monstrous" heads could be options for the Bird head, that would give us a great way to do griffin heads!

Good question, I don't know. I normally attune set IOs to be able to slot at the minimum level. *looks at the hcwiki* It looks like it does not change the minimum level, assuming the wiki article is up to date. Source: https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Enhancement_Booster_Salvage https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Exemplar_Effects_on_Enhancements#Set_bonuses This is just me perusing the articles on my lunch break though, so if a more knowledgeable person can confirm or deny, then that would be great!

The forum knowledge that I have put into practice is as follows: If you +5 the lvl 50 Recharge Reduction IOs in Hasten, you can get away with 2-slotting it. It has worked for me so far, but if there are fine points beyond this, I'm not sure.

It's good times! Don't forget to pick up some "Ultimate" Inspirations from Luna in Ouroboros. These give you a +1 level shift and makes it easier/possible to teleport those lvl 54 Bosses and Elite Bosses. It's hilarious to hover slightly above the league and rain down groups of Rikti. Don't forget to reposition your Singularity for maximum Hilarity. I use this bind to make it easier to use Wormhole. You just target a Rikti, hit your bound key and the ones you successfully grab appear just in front of you. /bind <key> "powexeclocation 0:10 Wormhole" Here are some informative links: https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Luna https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Inspirations#Level_Shifting_Inspiration Have fun!

Yep. Better DDR, Recharge, Scaling Resistance that you can stack with IOs, and the #1 reason it edges out Shield in my opinion: You can do /em drink while a pull catches up to you 🙂 But seriously, in the content I run every day (MSR, most often as a puller) I don't die on my Shield or Super Reflexes Tanks, so they're both awesome. In other content AAO and Shield Charge go a LONG way towards making Shield worth losing the ability to do emotes while your toggles are on.

I see what you did there 🙃

I find that Super Reflexes is my favorite when pulling on the MSR. I'd rate it in the "A" tier of @America's Angel's list.

Have a look at Nature

Around these parts, we like to say "Middle Back Pocket" 🙂

The same place the cash comes from when you use the "wealthy" aura, I assume.