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"Entire second build" .... As if a build with no IOs is much of a thing to do. No IOs and only SOs is very easy to do. You have 3 builds available that YOU can do Respect are available Hardly anyone has all three builds taken up You don't need Devs to put in work or effort to do this for you to play with only SOs I don't know why this is so hard to grasp

I have teamed up with soooo many players with no IO set bonuses. I never kicked them from any TF or teams or missions, and so on. Is the problem some players? It could be. Repeat Offenders is a network of players that I belong too. We play mostly support toons. With a team like ours it's never going to be an issue that any player does not have any IOs. While leveling up, no IOs will never be an issue. I can see what you are saying about doing PUGs in incarnate trials. I can certainly feel it. Keep in mind those trials are very challenging to those who have no incarnates as well, some of them will only be a smooth ride until some higher level incarnates are equipped. Playing with a team made up of support toons is a great way to play and never think of IOs. Repeat Offenders started off as a group of all Defenders teaming. With all the Kinetics, Empathy, Sonics, Force Fields, and so on.... with all that in the team, we could buff a player more than sets of IOs could ever buff that player. Two kin defenders, two Rads, ABs and the list goes on and who needs IOs and for what ?? You don't even need a travel power with the kins in the team. I can go on and on .

I was thinking and this occurred --> Why is this even being suggested for the Devs to step in and grant YOU the ability to choose this? Right now you can play the game with no IOs. If you really wanted that, and one of the reasons you used was that in your mind the game is not balanced towards IOs, then play with no IOs. You have the ability to have several builds in your toon One of the builds can be no IOs or no set bonuses Simply , change to the build you want with no set bonuses and you are done Or is it that you want your team mates to play with NO IO set bonuses With a game that had very little resources, this option of YOU making one of your builds with no IO set bonuses and having the Dev put time and effort to make this happen, but I am sorry, you can play the game with no set bonuses and you are done with the issue. You have three builds to choose from in your character. Why not just switch to the one you have no IO set bonuses? If @Solarverse finds the game too easy, just play the way we, the old school players who were here since the beginning, play like we did -- play with only Dual Origins and Single Origin enhancements. Just do that, then come back to the forum and tell us how many builds were "too easy" to solo with and how many were not "too easy" to solo with only SOs or DOs. I played the game a whole lot when no IOs were out I already know the kind of experience it was.

But read the posts, people are saying that they have enough slots in other forms outside of human. The AT needs more slots, period. That's a fact. These ATs are just starving for slots since they were created.

This is certainly not the case with a Warshade. And, about PBs -- the point is strengthen by your statement - human form ends up lacking slots. So, the point stands and you are helping it. Giving it more slots would be great. You can then spread them into human form as well.

It is not debatable that the game WAS, emphasis on WAS, created initially and balanced initially around SOs. The game in the present is NOT being balanced, nerfed, buffed, in PVP, nor PVE, around SOs. So many changes are being done, nerfs being done and so on, around or about IOs. The list of evidence is enormous. I won't bother any of you nor take the time to list them all, but one of the latest is the tank changes where the developer even mentions many times how the changes were done with IOs in mind. I like the idea being proposed but I have to say the fact, the game presently is not being handled or managed with SOs in mind, or, not with SOs in mind only. IOs play a HUGE role in nerfs or changes to builds or powers and so on.

Devs, Please allow lvl 50 characters to exempt down to the levels of each zones without the lvl 50 character needing to to find another player of that level range. So, for example, I can go to to Founders or Talos, go see a contact or something, agree or choose to exempt to that level, and that way we can do missions on that zone, and initiate team forming ourselves. At the very least to do radio missions on that zone. This will also help others to team with us since many are so shy to start a team themselves, especially if new or too squishy or whatever other reason. It also gives us lvl 50s a chance to do something else outside of endgame without the need to be first recruited by a lower level character. I would love to do that. I think it will be very fun for others too

We solved everything Manga and I discovered that it had everything to do with permissions

They are far far from Dull Crabs can be amazing Widows are nothing short of amazing and supreme Fortunatas are so strong as well. About the slots for Warshades and PBs THe developers should award them more slots for their powers as soon as the power is grabbed or selected, auto awards of some slots Something like that

War Shades came out just about the time that I joined the game. One thing the community, at least some of us, have been saying this - WAR SHADES ARE STARVING FOR SLOTS War Shades need to be granted more slots than any other character in the game WS and PBs could be in the same basket. If War Shades would be given more slots, then ONLY because IOs exist now in the game, only because of that they would be OK. I have ideas on how to make those War Shades much better, but I don't have enough slots to carry those ideas out. VEATs were and are still a masterpiece VEATs are perhaps the best or the peak of what excellence in designing a class to play To say they are EPIC is an understatement.

I never ever gone to the forums and demanded that critters be debuffed. I just buffed my characters and tactics and those of my friends or SG mates, or helped PuGs to learn how to deal with them I love a challenge but I love it even more when I can meet it and beat it Nemesis... bring them on; they can stack whatever they want. They are dead meat. I was playing the game for 7 years, and even long before IOs came out, we never ever called upon the Devs to nerf the Nemesis groups, NEVER EVER. Now with IOs and and now with incarnates we going to call for a nerf ? Please, let me clean the water I spit out from laughing When we only had single origin IOs on our characters we were still handing Nemesis their asses Now we going to cry , now that we have IOs ????

@crytilis Thank you for the instructions TWO ISSUES 1. The problem now is AFTER the installation and getting it open and running Where, on the MAC Big Sur does this get stored ? Looks like I have install everything again and again when opening the files or downloading new builds from the forum It's not stored in typical places in the Mac M1 , Big Sur locations, the usual locations Help me out please 2. Any other Mac M1 users who have wine skin in use while the game COH is open having problems opening MRB ? Looks like wineskin can only do one or the other, but not both, since both use wineskin

@crytilis Thank you for the instructions The problem now is AFTER the installation and getting it open and running Where, on the MAC Big Sur does this get stored ? Looks like I have install everything again and again when opening the files or downloading new builds from the forum It's not stored in typical places in the Mac M1 , Big Sur locations, the usual locations Help me out please

I tried to install IslandRum I already tried method 2 As already shown in previous posts, it's not working Now, I tried now method one Here is what happens First you see the green arrow and then it's gone Then no more progress Now, I am going to suggest that you guys look into WINE been a problem, or the wrapper or checking if needs to go through the process as shown in the video I will link from YouTube That same process they used to get MidReborn to work on M1 chip Mac OS See if you need to do something similar to that As of right now, not procedure 1 nor procedure 2 is working on the MacBook Pro 13 inch M1, Big Sur

Even after disabling or uninstalling all my AV programs and such , I am still getting this message

Performance is based on 1. Skill 2. Build ( of course, gear is a huge part of this). Wether alone or in a team Measure that by the results Done

My argument is not "At is fine until you get IOs" My philosophy stems from the fact that IOs are indeed part of the game As in the vast majority of these types of games, a character is indivisible from the gear As in almost every other game, a character is only as strong as his gear But... You and I are reaching a common ground and you and I seem to be in an agreement which we did not know until now You see for quite some time, even before the live serves went down and CoH closed, I, along with many others, were petitioning the Devs to improve both, drop rates, and influence earned or given in game Our goal was to address poverty Both kinds of poverty, poverty of money and poverty of gear There is another game, which I won't mention here because I worry about rules , but we the players managed to persuade the Dev team to increase money and gear drop, even how the Artificial Intelligence was programmed to determine what gear dropped for you IT got so good, so well improved that even the Auction House was gone No one needed it Gear, good gear became more abundantly available for lobbies and end game I am not seeking for the AH to be gone I am seeking to get this issue of poverty fixed My proposal will help or "fix" not only Dominators , but every player who faces challenges because they lack access to resources to strengthen their beloved toons

I am with Mez on this one I frankly don't understand how a Mind/ Dominator can solo the STF , the FREAKING STF !! Yet.... people saying Mind/ needs help Listen, sounds like someone has IO problems or someone doesn't know how to play more effectively Mind and earth are the kings of control Get your IOs, get that global sick recharge very very high , then come back and talk

The increase of survivability is easily done in IOs. You want the game to give you what Domination was intended to do , but you want that outside of Domination Yeah, there's a case for Mag 3.5 outside of Domination , extreme power creep. All this about wanting more dmg and more mags holds You want more powerful Dominators Listen, and IO'd Dominator is already GODLY. Get your IOs, you can build to buff dmg (IO bonuses too and process). You can get permanent domination Some people need to ask if they want a blaster or a Dominator They want closer and closer and closer to be like Blaster dmg or scrapper/brute dmg Get your IOs I am all for changes but I have hard time seeing how a Dominator can farm easily and quickly +4 x 8 SOLO is saying that Dominators have a problem with dmg in PVE Like I said, the correction should be specific We need to look at some sets or some powers But I don't agree with a blanket statement about all dmg for Doms Can we agree there ?

Having an attack cycle is one thing Having an attack cycle of fast charging and fast animation is another There is a good case based actual practice that faster recharges and faster animations are great to kill , if not outright better. This is especially the case in PVP In PVP where diminished returns are very high, the global recharge is much smaller, then the real bad news is adding more animation time In PVP this will or can eliminate a viable build and send it to useless Animation time is key to attack and damg So, no, I don't want nerfs to recharge time, nor animation I will give only one out of many cases in the 7 year history I was in the game. Look what they did to Energy Transfer, the attack for melee When they added the long animation , every single energy build in melee, PVE and PVP (worse) was thrown away . The chain was all gone Very very few people played energy melee after that change Other builds were better for DPS because of recharges and animation time I rather have a direct buff to dmg and faster animations More often than not, this will buff dmg per seconds in both PVE and PVP Your idea could be used in PVE and that's it But even in PVE, it's already been proven that faster recharges and faster animations are reliable Sure, I am not saying you have a good and viable point with some positive probabilities but we are gambling here to find the golden and glorious perfect spot During that gamble, what we lose what we win? In PVP this is costly 100%.

I would not word it Longer recharges I would say faster recharges The faster the recharge then the more you attack I have no problem if that's the idea I don't play Doms without a hefty amount of Global recharge from IOs . I love faster recharges When you said you want longer recharges it did not give the idea Faster recharge is cool. After IO's came into the game , I never saw myself ever wanting to play without them Gear, as in most games, makes a huge difference

You said "... but in general, none of them actually work well together " That's a blanket statement It's not right either That's what I am referring to as well

This certainly is NOT the case with Dark/Dark I take the evidence for all of this from the performance and feats I was soloing AVs 50+ with dark / dark dom before live servers went down after incarnates came out Dark/Dark is a great way to play Mixing and machine melee and range is great +4 x 8 anything was a joke As long as the task gets done in a great way, that's it; look no further. It's not sucking at all If it's fun, powerful, and can show that in a performance , then it's the case --> it's all right and not broke to the point that it needs to be critiqued that the whole thing sucks Plant/Thorns is another example Plant/Fire is another approach I can go on with different combos The problem is SOME SETS I don't like electric , neither primary nor secondary I like thorns, fire, earth (it's designed for the melee approach single target mostly), dark perhaps the most, those secondaries are fun and perform well for me for the specific task I want. As with life, same in game, problems stem from what we want. What we want to do ? If you can't do it, then you have a problem. But if I can do it, do what I want, then it's fine. Sets should not be the same at all tasks, that's where flavors and style come in. If I wanted a melee focused secondary , then some secondaries are out of the question Do we have secondaries that have decent mix of both , probably. I am not familiar with the new sets after the live servers went down I won't comment on them But when I see a plant/thorn farm a map of +4 x 8 on battle maiden and wipe the floor with a fire/kin controller trying to compete to see who clears the map fastest , it is very hard to talk about the whole thing sucking and needing to be totally redone It's hard to see that with a Mind/ Dominator soloing the STF ... hard to talk about the whole AT needing a rework Then, if we talk PVP, just for kicks, I personally witness the two top PVP teams back then when live servers where UP Guess what team beat the number two like it looked like they were out of their league ? The Dominator team won and it was a slaughter The score was easily over 15 - 0. A complete ownage as never seen before in a team vs team made up of decent players We have to look at individual cases , build specific, specific combinations I do not agree with the blanket statement Performance and results should guide Sounds like WE NEED direction , not the Dominator AT class as a whole

This is calling for a nerf on Dominators NO NO NO NO Do not nerf Dominators at all The offense of a dominator is also their defense The best defense is a great offense Dominations plus awesome offense is great and more fun Putting their secondaries on longer recharge is a nerf to their offense Dominators do not need their offense to be nerfed at all Where is this coming from ??? WHY. ???