Triumphant

I want to know more about this Conan and Red Sonja Cyberpunk sitcom, dang it! 😁

The last thing in your list doesn't bother me. That's just background fluff. Anyway, Statesman was punked by Darrin Wade and Ms. Liberty doesn't have anything better to do than stand on a platform in Atlas park all day long and train noobs. I wouldn't admit to being related to either one of them. 😛 The rest of it, though- yeah, it can be kind of annoying.

@Mezegis I've never played it on Tankers, so I can't speak to that. I've ran it on Scrappers, Sentinels, and Brutes, though, and it's awesome. In my top 3 armor sets (Willpower and Invulnerability being my two other faves).

So?

They do. But, then again, an orangutan does critical thinking better than I do. None-the-less, I am correct in my assessment.

It doesn't matter. 90% of the player base is lvl 50. 90% of the players wants to be lvl 50. At this point, it's academic. So, what possible negative impact could this change have? Answer: None.

Use Homecoming Launcher. It works better.

I only take my incarnates to T3. T4 doesn't provide sufficient payoff to be worth the hassle for me.

@KaizenSoze I don't have the accolades, yet. Actually, the only character I have any accolades on is my Energy blaster. But, yeah, it does seem to be an endurance hog. Also, the attacks seem quite slow to recharge (though, given they are ice based, I suppose this makes sense). I don't typically bother with hasten and LotG in my builds, but this may well prove to be the exception. Of course, quicker cycling through attacks just creates more endurance issues. I may be doomed here. 😛

Have you considered a synonym? Divergent. Variable. Aberrant. Variance. Discrepant, etc?

As others have pointed out, the problem here is the buggy-as-all-get-out AH.

@KaizenSoze Well, based on the information in your latest reply, I'm not so sure that you are wrong. That sounds pretty frustrating. Sorry. 🤷‍♂️ Not to derail your topic, but I'm kind of having the same issue with my Ice/Inv/Ice Sentinel. Cool powers. A lot of fun to play. He runs out of endurance frustratingly quickly, though, and I have him slotted up with endurance in Durability and Stamina + lots of endurance procs. Ah, well, maybe it will get little better once I hit 50 and reshuffle my slots a bit. 🤔

Not going to happen but, for what it's worth (nothing), I think it's a good suggestion. 👍

@KaizenSoze Part of the problem with Night Widows may be the very specific powersets. Most AT's can have endurance issues, depending on the powerset combo you choose, as certain powersets are just more "endurance hoggish", if you will. This can be offset by carefully considering your primary and secondary powersets and then filling in the gaps with endurance procs from the health and/or endurance sets. But Widows are "locked in" to a choice of one base powerset and two branching choices. So, you kind of get what you get and don't throw a fit (as it were). It's always kind of put me off from trying them. I have played Crab spiders a couple of times, but never really cared for the similar restriction in power choices. Ditto for Peacebringers/Warshades. I do think you should try to stuff all the endurance procs into your build that you can afford (panacea, miracle, etc.), along with stuff like Numinas Convalescence and what not. These really do help in a notable way that I think will surprise you. Or (and I realize, this is not really a solution to your specific problem) just play an energy blaster and perma Energize, as I do, and never worry about energy again (I run all toggles and have hover and fly turned on all the time and can cycle every attack power I have, repeatedly, and my endurance bar hardly moves. (Okay... maybe I'm just bragging, now. Nevermind. Anyway, blasters are horribly overpowered. 🤷‍♂️).

Yeah, the sound effects are cool. Reminds me of the old ray gun noises in the Flash Gordon cartoon that I watched as a kid, back in the 80's.

I'll have to remember that notoriety trick. Clever!

Sounds like a group of street-level heroes that patrol Kings Row and put the beat-down on the local thugs. Which is cool. 🙂👍

I don't mind a little club RP. Even heroes and villains need to kick back and have a beer, now and then. I do find it gets boring/stale for me after about an hour, max. After that, I'm wanting to move on to classic action/investigation oriented comic book RP and adventure. There are some players that are super into it, though, and prefer to spend most of their time doing it- and that's fine. I imagine it might be the primary means of social stimulation for people that are physically disabled, grappling with social anxiety disorder, or stuck inside because of coronavirus quarantine, or what have you. Or heck, even for people just too broke to go out to the bar, tonight. 😛 It's difficult for people to get the social interaction they crave, under these circumstances, and club rp might be a viable means of doing that.

Honestly, on a full team, you've got 8 people. At least one of them ought to be a controller with good lockdown powers. Once the tank has the aggro dialed in, the controller locks down the mobs and then the energy blasters can fire away. You'll still get a mob or two bouncing around, but that's part of the fun IMO (even when I'm running a tanker or other melee toon). I think PUGs are the real problem, though, because you send out the invite and then you get what you get. Team composition is random, so you might get a nice mix of AT's or maybe 1 blaster and 7 scrappers. You just never know. Level of experience with the game by players in a PUG is entirely random, as well, so they may not grasp how all the game effects interact yet. In these instances, I think you just deal. When I play melee toons in a PUG I just use Combat Teleport macros or the "F" key to fight. Yeah, there's a lot of chasing mobs. That's just how it is and I don't mind it. It reflects how fights are in the comics. I mean sure, you see team tactics in comic books. What you don't see is every enemy glom onto the biggest tank on the team every fight, and stand there flailing ineffectually, while they allow ranged toons to pick them off. If hero teams did that in the comics, it might work once or twice, then the villains would figure out that the X-men (or whoever) just uses the same, predictable tactics every time, and quickly adapt. Even in a purely game experience context, having every battle resolve in this rote way every time, would quickly grow boring. A little randomness and chaos keeps players on their toes and helps make things interesting, IMO (especially once characters become very powerful and team play grows ridiculously easy, even on +4/8).

Yeah, there are serious issues with the timing of how the power effects go off and affect enemy behavior. The problem is, I don't see how you address those issues without a huge amount of changing up the code, so I think it's likely this isn't going to change any time soon. Don't get me wrong, I agree with the OP, so if the Dev's decide they can do it and make it a priority, I'm behind that plan 100%!!! 👍

This is interesting. Thanks for doing the leg-work. I've always been pretty curious about this but I tend to forget to pay attention by the time I get to the end of a story arc. 👍

I typically test the different power auras/animations in the costume creator before I finish making my character, so there's no animation/aura that has ever made me abandon a character. There are powers that I won't ever pick b/c I dislike the graphics, though: 1) Ice armor. The graphics on this power are terrible. You've got these big, cumbersome, goofy-looking blobs of ice on your arms and legs. Like, you're supposed to move... fight effectively with those? I don't know how you could even stand up, honestly. Also, it makes your character look like an idiot. 2) Ice/fire sword. Pretty cheesy looking. I don't hate them quite as much as Ice armor. I will occasionally take them if I badly need a close-in attack on a ranged toon, but I'm never really happy about it. I feel like the graphics for these could be redone to look much better than they do. 3) Some melee weapons/guns. There are some wonderful-looking guns and melee weapons in this game. Most of them are poorly rendered and uninteresting to look at, though. It's like someone that wasn't interested in creating the weapon models was given the task and then got sick of it and started getting lazy about it. Here- I'll bang out another crappy-looking gun. There we go, done. Now I can move on to something more enjoyable. Now, granted, a person's opinion on what is visually appealing is an entirely subjective thing, so maybe I'm the only (or, at least, one of a few) people that feel this way.

That doesn't really bother me, personally. The main problem I have with the forums is when I hit "unread posts" it takes like 15 years to load. 😛

Yeah, it's not for everybody. I was a slow, somewhat reluctant, convert to discord. I like it now, but back when I started using it on Roll20 it just irked me that I couldn't use the in-game Roll20 voice chat because it's so buggy. I have occasional issues with discord but, for the most part, it seems to work pretty well. Disconnect/Reconnect typically solves in sound issues I have.

@Bill Z Bubba Oh, yeah. That stuff can make a difference. Powersets and inspirations and whatnot really impact performance, too. My blaster has his incarnates at T3, presently, and I did all of Mu'Vorkhan's missions solo last night, at +4/8. I sort of have a method I use to engage that tilts the odds for me. Firstly, I have energize perma'd. If my robotic drones is up, I activate that for heal (slow recharge on lore pets though, so it's often not up). Before I attack, I activate Assault total core and Clarion partial core, then gobble 1 defense and 1 resist inspiration. Then I click aim and build up. Then I combat teleport into the middle of a group of enemies, trigger Mighty assault, followed by Nova. Whatever is left (usually little to nothing) I mop up with my normal attacks. That's when soloing. When in a group, things are moving very fast and I don't typically have time to activate all those powers and/or wait for them to recharge. I don't typically need to, though. As long as I have a tank or other melee AT engaging and drawing the attention of the enemy, I can typically spam my ranged attacks and combat teleport in for occasional blapping with near impunity. For your particular build, the approach may necessarily be very different. Each combo of powersets, even within the same AT, can produce very different ways of approaching tactics and combat (which is actually one of the things that I really enjoy about this game, tbh).