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Yeah I was a subscriber since launch with a slight hiatus (wow launch until mid burning crusade) so yeah I did get them all without p2w mentality as I was always a subscriber. It ticked me off more that I wasn't subscribed long enough to get the anime wings on the subscriber duration rewards (I did get 1 staff and maybe att?). The end made me sad.

All power sets were introduced in Issues to all players. What we call p2w was mostly prestige stuff for subscripes (see p2w vender) and things like mystic fortune and ninja run and the Boosters/ATOs Packs. I don't remember if you could just buy ATOs directly. You could buy a numinas that would work at level 1 for $5 though. This reminds me of an other thing Arcanville did. Immortality lines. Repost: I7 scrapper secondary comparisons - City of Heroes Forums (archive.org) Might partly explain where these arguments started...

If you're going for burnout sure. If you want fold space sure. On that note your Stone tank can be a hover tank now. I do like teleport when it tied with hover. I like it with Mystic flight. I like it with speed of sound. If you are a cold dom why bother with SS now? Yes, your still married to the speed pool for hasten. But why pick up SS when you could get Hover or Speed of sound and the T4 those pools have. Same for storm and dark. The only travel good for MM pets is group fly though. Don't make me fight that inherent "ignore group fly" in the options argument again. It gets no traction. Those dudes just don't keep up with you without it and it breaks a bunch of power sets allowing you to troll people. I once couldn't get a fire brute to walk to the other side of pocket D so he could ignore it. I just farmed the other half of the map.

Testing has fire, procced out ice, beam, ice. I'm not sure where water with procced out water jet shenanigans is at. I'm not sure where electric with the pet is at since it was buffed. I think it's most dps on sentinels. On that note, blaster typically don't do proc fu too often.

Everything in nature is an aura that affects you or is an enemy debuff. It's pretty good.

Ice/stone stalker is pretty sweet

SS always stacked with the support set auras, since launch. Thats what I meant earlier about having to relearn a decade worth of ingrained game knowledge.

Which is a nerf to super speed. It makes speed pool as irrelevant as fitness now. Just give everyone inherent hasten, if I have to slot stealth IOs like every other power set (as Storm/Dark/cold could slot end instead). This doesn't differentiate builds, it homogenized a piece for all builds. It was one of those benefits to those power sets pre IOs that persisted past IOs. It persisted until this dumb change.

Im' in the fire/dark camp. Want positional soft cap, ludicrous regeneration/recovery and you could couple that with a resist app. There is old guide of camels you should search for. It's a fun read.

On live I made my 1st brute before GR. I made an Electric farm, to level, since he was dark/electric

I'm on, just less since October. And it's the new year so lots of new things to check out. Winter sale and game awards provide that. and that particular main was a synapse champ since creation. I was "let's give MC a spin and why can they see me?" Pretty sure he's the only hero that runs without celerity and SS since he wouldn't need too before. If I could get a new pool I wouldn't get SS since this change. Even my fort use celerity. I play this game becuase I remeber the mechanics and most times it's easy. Changing this particular mechanic and how it works is something I disaprove of. I don't want to relearn changed mechanics that I knew for over a decade. It not better, its actually worse. The change is worse than what came before.

I have 40 something OF procs sitting in storage want one =p On that note IT IS DUMB

Your advise is shut up and take it basically. I listed already what I did to make myself stealthable again. Can I not call it dumb and get an answer on why change the way its been since IOs were introduced.

I have a fire/dark so can't really ever have endurance issues with that hero realistically. Controller /dark has the signature regen/recovery sustain that eclipses all other like powers that can affect everyone near you. It's really good. I now have to use SS and sprint with celerity to stealth maps now as before I could use SS and stealth auras. Most builds can handle the toggles of sprint and travel power. Maybe while leveling but after Ios... Before SS and shadow fall and be invisible to mobs. Now I (have to for the same performance) run shadow fall, SS, and sprint. Thats whats dumb The endurance isn't the point. It is still a nerf to the endurance on support power sets as they now have to run sprint with celerity. And there is a difference between the price of a celerity and +5 quick foot Its more of why. What was broken about it that it needed to be changed? NOBODY has an issue with ghosting missions. The OG developer even made a class that could do it level 1.

+4 arachnos has been a pain lately. They are doing something I hadn't noticed before and something with a blind combined with -end and -def is wrecking my widow and controller. The widow was surprising as they have +perception built in, sits at incarnate AOE def and still got super blinded. Ate yellows still blind. There's also an old flashback mission (predates going rogue) for antimatter that is mobs and mobs of rad/rad defender robots. My not yet incarnated but built scrapper reset it to -1x1 Also no AVs since posi/antimater are essentially rad/rad defenders. Those toggles are no joke without ageless or barrier.

Its a nerf to both support sets with an aura (steamy mist/the cold dom one/and shadow fall) and super speed. I mean thats how I level those power sets. It makes me post o the forum instead of play the game. It makes me never want to take anything but hasten from the speed pool. Its dumb. It's a dumb change that wasn't a problem. It was a benefit of those 3 power sets. Pvp sure I get it. BUT getting my butt handed to me by clockwork because IM dragging half a map is dumb. Do i just have to get a celrity +stealth in sprint mandatory for all characters now.

Anyone know why stealth toggles not stacking in PVE became a thing. I don't like rock solid builds having to use unslotters becuase of changing how something worked since launch. I mean its a nerf to my fire controllers endurance as I have to change a run/end to a stealth IO. Really makes me think I should spend my time more constructively though.

Uhm wasn't elude added only for PVP back in the old days? This was so enemy players could actually hit SR 5% of the time and SR wasn't always being hit 80% of the time. I used SR as an examplefor the defense catch all, but it was for all defense. I think?

Sapping is best by.... Electric control. I've seen some that can zero out a monster's endurance bar in seconds. Your damage is very meh though.

Ice arrow procced is probably more DPA that most of your secondary powers. PGA is a potent - dam which is multiplied by the amount of -resist you do and is a 1 slot wonder (recharge).

Ice melee/bio scrapper is one of the fastest trap door times. Ice melee is the bee's knees on stalkers. Is ice melee bad on tankers? Frozen Aura should match FS size with the tanker inherent. I haven't seen frost on tanker yet is it not bigger on tankers? No idea why Bio/ice would be bottom 10 least played tankers unless ice is bad on tankers.

It doesn't stack clarion rad/PB FS (or bubbles) though. You only get 1 PB.

Isn't that Rad Melee's gimmick though.

Did that with my robots time, man are they are bad Aoe at low levels. They will slowly plink every mob like a cheesy grater done very slowly. Long story short lots of resummoning in the rafters dodging enemy fire. This was done prior to me having money or any idea what p2w vender was. Know that I know more about the game get the p2w taser and grenade and aoe everything while in Bodyguard because if you have the toggle, you're going to get mezzed so embrace the KB. Its better now than it was for me since the toggle doesn't drop like it did then. Slot OF in the t1 pets works since arsonist has aoe at those levels. Praetoria arcs also give out temp weapons. Use them. Carry purples for the elite bosses.

If you are MM /Traps your better off putting OF in the T1 pets. I wouldn't waste a Ragnarök proc in there but some might disagree.