Razor Cure

Still super unfair. The main point of doing Synapse is for TFC, and the merits are just there to make is sorta kinda not really (unless its WTF) worth running. I know I'd totally join Syn on the last mission, knowing I get the badge and minimum merits. The solution to doing TFs with friends is better communication and planning.

Only in later TFs like STF, RSF, Lady Grey and Cude/Reichsman. Even those, have all been ( I think) solo'd, Anything under those few can be done with almost any AT (obviously better to have at least 2-4 people).

Exactly the argument I made! lol. I mean, are say..Fire armour melees (with perhaps the best basic heal) suddenly going to be taking stim+aid self+FM, JUST to get an extra heal? WHen they could take tough and weave/whatever pool?

I complaining about Field Medic last year sometime, saying that using FM (as it is now, a click) should at the very least removed the Interrupt from Aid Other. And of course..a lot of people claimed the power would be OP and better than 'proper' heals that way. *shakes head* Even if the auto part of FM (with the power itself still being a click), gave some reduction to the int of Aid Self...so you could get away with using less slots there.

As someone said, the Spells in Night Ward. Also, the Drudge faction are utterly, stupidly tough. All dark melee, dark blast AND dark control. They use the aoe shadow hold, stacked, and summon pets that DONT die when you kill the chaster.

The biggest one for me (that is, phrase I'd want automagically blocked) is..ANYTHING that mentions AE. I am sick of people (usually the same toon) begging for AE hour after hour.

I recently did a topic on how Khleds can NOT benefit from empowerment buffs when using forms, and just found another bug. With the trick or treat costumes, you cant have those active when using Dwarf or Nova..which is really really stupid, for those who dont use Human form. Even more silly, you CAn use the Midnight Costume temp (turns you into a guy in a hat) with Nova form. So the precedent is there.

What if you used congress as in..the congress between two consenting adults? Would that get a ban? I

God yes. It is even worse when the is an MM on the team, and your screen is just full of pets and people. Some of the entry points to various maps (I cant remember the specific ones, but they may have been cot caves?) are odd too, and you zone in facing the side wall or whatever.

Manti for Munitions epics. Infernal for Fire Synapse for Elec Penny for Psychic Woodsman for Earth/stone etc etc. Sure, some wouldnt be as matching as the Patrons, but still. Even ONE single arc to unlock every kind of epic would make it more balanced.

Fair enough. BUT. If the epics were swapped along these lines, lets be fair, and give each epic a Story Arc to unlock em. The patrons do.

Let ScorpShield take Resist Io sets. It's unfair that IceArmour can take them and slot the +def uniques, but Scorp (basically the same power just with different +res) can not.

Apologies to anyone actually named Derek..but it is such a perfect name for a bumbling Mender! Also..are the Mender costume pieces available to us?!

Oh that's true. But with teh ease of IO given rech..that is hardly an issue. And Hasten and Ageless!

Also, if you change sides, you can redo teh arcs. I did them all AGAIN on one toon, by accident, not realising I had done em as a hero!

I will leave questions on which system works better to the number crunches, but to me..the current PPM system just seems to overly reward 'crazy' or non standard slotting. I totally get that the old 20% chance per proc was unfair to low rech powers, and great on fast ones. But the PPM system seems to be the opposite. You can take a 'long' (I forget teh exact value, but MacSkull had a great thread about PPM rates and recharges), slap a ton of procs in it, and they basically all get a 70% or higher (may not have actually been 70, but it was MORE than 20%) to go off. This is even worse (that it, better for a player) if you build for rech (which, is very easy and common), and more so with +rech alphas and Ageless (super super common). Case in Point..Savage Melee. I tried it on my very first toon coming back, and found Hemorage and SLeap to be..well..shite. Low damage, and silly mechanics (the damage vs distance) almost cripple the powers. Then I found a great thread about proccing SM. It is basically doing both those attacks with a 53% damage purple IO, and procs. ANd it is INSANE. Just stupidly awesome. All those procs go off almost every time, and turn less than average powers into basically broken ones (I think teh difference seems so great, since both powers are very lacking out of teh box). Other examples include Epic Holds (for blasters) slotted with FIVE procs. Is an epic hold really really meant to do 5 lots of proc damage, with like a 90% chance? Or the dark melee changes, and Dark COnsumption becoming a mini nuke,. So yeah..PPM totally made procs worth it in long duration powers..and exploits global rech (and minimal power rech slotting) to a silly degree.

Speed runners..and you refuse to use something that makes stuff so much faster? Hmmm. So you are friends with a bunch of cheating, exploiting, game breaking cads? I mean, I see your point but.. AE and Fire farms say Hi. Sure, it is a dead horse, but getting to level 50 in an hour (or however long it takes) is a pretty big exploit to my mind too. Not that I am saying you use AE, or I care if you did...but I regard the state of AE as more unhealthy for the game than people spending LESS time traveling, and more time actually playing.

So..exactly LIKE Beam Rifle? That has Dot (via dis), aim, -def effects, stuns, kb, AND a -res shot. Great point there. Especially given that BR has not made other sets obsolete at all. ANd even if it (or a new set) did, people would still play the old ones.

Could always..ya know..go do it on a Server that is NOT the pvp one.

What annoys me about Ms Lib in the RSF..WHY the hell is she targetable, when she is KO'd? I seem to constantly tab to her, instead of the 7 heroes trying to kill me.

I brought this up ages ago too. It is really dumb that robbing a bank gets you not even ONE single origin enhancement. Not to mention that Mayhems, especially low level ones when powers are lacking slots, are some of the toughest missions in the game with full teams. Those ambushes just go forever (almost), and its easy to get stuck in a cycle of death, going to jail, breaking out..only to find about 500 Longbow coming into the jail to kill you..again? Kinda dickish move to be honest! Mayhems (proper ones, not from the unlockable contact) should give more money, perhaps scaling with team size. Even a reward table with cash/SOs/other stuff.

Regardless of how live was.. 'designed' for teams, and 'meant' for teams are quite different now. Sure, the TFC's are designed for teams, because you NEED a team to start them. But back when patrons came out, how many villains would have been soloing them? And now every TF in the can can be started solo, so the argument can be made that the Homecoming team (i forget if the TF min members was on Live before shutdown, but I dont think so) has redesigned every single tf in the came to be soloable. Obviously not everyone can do that, but I'd also say that not everyone can solo the patron arcs either. Regardless of design or intent, Redside SHOULD get more WTF options, especially since every week blueside gets two.

Posi 1 has Bosses, that's IT. Just from that, even if the devs didn't 'design' it to be solo'd, it is STILL far and away easier than any of the patron arcs. Also..proof, in writing, that patrons were built specifically with solo players in mind? I can wait.

Only if a Toxic one had NO other damage type. There is no typed def to Toxic damage, so it would just check on aoe def most likely. As far as resist goes...in pvp they would not do anything major, as all epic/patron toggles now (at least they did when I last pvpd) give resistance to All.

ALL the TFC task forces say Hi. Posi1 is stupidly easy (and faster than a full team) to solo, and all the others can be done very easily with lotsa ATs, or by taking some Shivens. I dont see much difference between Posi1 and any of the Patron arcs. In fact, some of the patrons (fighting seraphina for one) are much harder. Blueside already gets TWO WTF's per week as it is.