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I'd absolutely love to see this.

Hell yes I can have even further trip mine/time bomb spam on critters. EDIT: Also, far as AE related fixes/changes, could we see the new mobs added in P7 added to their respective enemy group listings in AE?

Also, as a bonus, you will have two pistols, a bow, AND a gun on your character model.

I would personally say yes, if you're primarily blasting at range. Surveillance is a good ST debuff, LRM now functions on fast snipe rules -- out of combat it does more damage and has a longer cooldown, shorter one but less damage in combat. I could see LRM being useful to a DP just to have a stronger ranged AoE attack.

>general chat there's your problem

To give an example -- in an arc I made, I had it end with a 3-phase AV fight, with each phase having different custom powers. I designed it, intentionally, to be challenging for the player, because I reason that I had built this boss up, throughout the entire arc, as a major, serious threat, and while I didn't want it to be annoying to fight, I also wanted the player to feel it and feel like they'd emerged from a serious, grueling battle.

Honestly, I 100% agree with this.

Just personal opinion, but I do think that Arsenal Assault and Control should be usable alongside Assault Rifle and Mercs in AE. They use the same weapon model, after all, and while there is some redundancy between AR and Arsenal Assault, I think it's nice for flavor on rifle-using opponents.

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Yeah, I agree with Crane.

I will also say, I think for mission bosses you plan on tying dialogue and ambushes to, in order to slow down the pace of delivery of dialogue and/or arrival rate of ambushes, it's often a good idea to make them EBs and/or slap a resistance set on them. Give the player time to read the lines rather than having everything get spat out at once with a couple heavy hits.

Ah, fair enough! Some people have accused my tendencies in mob design of being moderately, uh, sadistic.

Suit yourself, I guess? I think it makes them funner and more interesting to fight, they were really underpowered compared to basically every other group in that level range, at most I think you can argue the change brings them in line with that, it's not like you're having 50+ Banished Pantheon forced on you, there's no significant -res/-def/-acc, just some enemies that have to be locked down/dealt with accordingly when they transform or selfrez. I don't think having X enemy group be about as powerful as every other enemy group in Y level range is making the game overly "hardcore", unless you're going to argue that all the existing content since 2012 with the exception of the Council and certain Portal Corp groups within that level range already was too "hardcore." You're right, though, I -do- think players should absolutely be forced to play at a level where they know how to handle the majority of enemy groups that have existed within their level range for literally more than a decade (ie Crey, Nemesis, Malta, Longbow, Arachnos, the Carnival of Shadows, etc.) Groups which existed in game all well before IOs were even a thing, let alone incarnate abilities. If this is a significant concern to you, provide proof to the devs that the Council tweaks make them more difficult/out of line with the challenge other level 40-50 enemy groups give groups.

i'm not like "ooooh i want them to be HARDCORE" enemies doing distinguishing things that encourage target selection, particular tactics, and approaches is called -basic game design-.

it's not about arbitrary challenge it's about giving enemies personality/distinguishing features and making them more interesting.