Lazarillo

Procs are desperately out of balance as it is. We don't need more of the "git gud" crowd making everything about minmaxing them.

I mentioned these in a previous reply as well, but summarizing it bullet points: SR: -Lacks taunt aura, causing enemies to scatter very quickly -No protection against Confuse without Tactics. No protection against Terrorize, period. Shield: -Can't be paired with several sets (including, IMO, the best set) -Locks character stance, makes you look stupid while moving (looking cool, by contrast, being objectively the most important thing in the game)

I'd note that if you're steamrolling groups at x8, the ride to 50 is gonna be pretty short anyway. And that, again, that's only part of the equation. There are things that /SR and /Shield can do that Willpower cannot, but they do not make up, from my perspective, for what Willpower can do that they can't.

I think when you get down to brass tacks, that might sound nice but isn't something that works in execution. When there's one, maybe two updates per year, each with one arc per side at best that's one and done, after which Ouro becomes the only option, it just won't compare to what we're talking about here, even if it were great and wonderful and perfect content that was universally beloved by all (and don't get me wrong, y'all have come up with some good ones, but also, I'll be frank, some real stinkers). Doubly so if it just leads to resentment on the part of the content creators who feel existing content needs to be "rebalanced" in the first place to push people away from it and into the new stuff that some players may not jive with for whatever other reason.

See, that seems backwards, though. Once you hit level 40, if you're Blueside, Peregrine's pretty much the only place in the city to do anything in the first place. Want to do something in IP? Too bad! How about Steel Canyon? Nope, nada. There is no moving through the city because there's no place else to go if you want to do some superheroing/villaining. And that, I think, has far more to do with the second half of what you said than anything: Cimerora, DA, and the Shadow Shard are all incredibly narrow, in terms of theme. If you've got a concept to play City of Romans, then Cimerora is no doubt your bag, but if you want to take down stuff that's more traditionally associated with the setting, Peregrine and Grandville are the only choices. "We won't let you play in Port Oakes because maybe people wouldn't play there anyway." does not really make much sense, particularly when even if someone wants to play in Port Oakes, they can't.

I'm not sure if something changed in the code, but I find more often than not, I get bounced around. I do feel like it used to be a lot "better" at this. I've definitely been thinking about this a lot lately, and how much it'd be nice to have "hometowns" for my characters by guaranteeing Tip missions give missions in the zone, as well as opening up the paper/scanner. I'm sure there's some fear that, kinda like the AE buildings, devs would insist on not doing it in Atlas or Mercy, but even expanding it to everything but that, would still be really nice for making each part of the cities feel more lived in.

The thing is, while those debuffs can hurt, first, as lemming mentioned, Ageless fills the gap a fair percentage of the time. Second is this last point: Let's say I try to pick a set that can handle debuffs better. /SR, maybe, because nothing I can think of off the top of my head really handles "all" debuffs well, rather, certain sets have certain schticks they excel at in this front, and with /SR it's basically immune to defense debuffs, which, with a couple lucky rolls, can really start to hurt. /SR's gonna suffer on x8, especially, because it has no way to keep enemies from scattering on a Scrapper. It also has holes in status protection like Terrorize, which in my experience, usually comes from non-vectored sources (Psychic defense only, meaning /SR gets no major way of diminishing it), and without being able to stack different types of mitigation, is still vulnerable to some occasional oopsies. An effective compromise might look at /Shield, which doesn't have /SR-levels of resistance to defense debuffs, but does fill both the specific holes in SR I mentioned above. But that one, well, can't use Claws/ which is also part of that excellent combo. Energy instead? Okay, I'm having a hard time coming up with crunchy issues for that one. But also, /Shield locks you into the silly shield stance, and looking good is 80% of being good in this game, and so that's way too big of a penalty, too (okay, I'm being a little tongue-in-cheek here. But only a little).

I didn't ask "how big is the room", I said, "I cast Airstrike Core Final Judgment".

If it were lore-dropped, it's probably be in the Pandora's Box SSA, since that's the last time the game saw any sort of Nemesis story, and the only from after the reveal was officially made official (or since after the other thing you mentioned was introduced at all, IIRC). That said, it's been long enough since I ran those arcs that I don't remember if it came up or not. But I'd check there.

Oh, that part, I see no problem with. More my point was that Duray's "air strike", when it actually hits, has no real visuals except for some dust in the air, and the SFX is this really pathetic "ptptptpt" sound. I feel like to work as a Judgment power, it needs to come in more like the Seismic Blast t9, or the like.

I'm going to echo a sentiment already posted a few times, but I've been playing my main a fair bit today, a Claws/Willpower Scrapper and it's, like, almost frustrating that nothing seems to compare in terms of sheer unstoppable steamrolliness (and not just on Scrappers, but any AT, that I can think of). A few solid-but-distant second place options spring to mind (Energy/Willpower comes to mind on the Scrapper front...though again, still /Willpower), but it's a build that covers so many bases so well. It just feels like there's no content (or, at least, no content I'd want to do) that it doesn't do well at, and while it does have a couple shortcomings, what it would sacrifice to play a set that might excel at those shortcomings, is too steep.

It's a neat concept, but the visuals for it in the TF are so...dinky. Seems far from the effect a Judgment should generate.

I would argue that protection against Fear, particularly, doesn't need to be a weakness for such a wide swath of armor sets, doubly so when unlike other weaknesses, it can't be compensated for from pool powers or set bonuses. That's probably a tangent, but always important to note. Still, if we're buffing Regen, no reason not to include something that's needed on a wider level anyway.

Does it need to be an arc that provides a badge currently? On-theme, my first inclination would be one that speaks specifically towards defending citizens, and to that extent, an arc like The Vahzilok Pollutant Plot or its next step up, The Vahzilok Plague. Or similarly, An Unnatural Order or The Unity Plague also work well from this perspective, and are closer to the same level range as Shauna Braun, I believe, if that's important (and also adds some variety: wouldn't be more Vahzilok which are already the feature of Watkins' arc).

Something that struck me as a little weird that I wrote off the other day as not having noticed, or similar, but then caught on to today, after doing a couple others, is that in Mayhem missions, destroying objects, stops increasing the remaining time after defeating the hero and getting a mission complete. It still works before finishing the mission, and completing side objectives or "resisting arrest" (i.e., beating PPD or spawning Longbow ambushes) will work both before and after. But destruction stops. This is not how it was in the past, and I don't recall any patch notes about it, so my guess is that this bug reared itself from somewhere in ye olde spaghetti code at some point.

Talk about a detailed response! Much appreciated! And good to know that accuracy in the attack is still serving a purpose.

After the last update, Laser Beam Eyes apparently now cannot miss, but "damage inflicted will fluctuate the current hit roll". Assuming that that description simply has a typo that should say "...fluctuate based on the current...", the question still comes up, for me: HOW does it fluctuate? Particularly, does this mean slotting it for accuracy now does nothing? Or does making the attack more accurate mean you're more likely to "roll" higher damage?

Small point of note (though it might be seen as a reason to not do this?) is that Rebirth has a "Ninja Assault" set that incorporates the Katana. FWIW, it's laid out like: t1 - "Flashing Blade" - Throws a dagger, normal t1 ranged attack t2 - Gambler's Cut - from the Katana/Ninja Blade set t3 - "Steel Wind" - Throws a fan of daggers, ranged cone t4 - Soaring Dragon - from the Katana/Ninja Blade set t5 - Chi Strike - Like Envenomed Blades from Martial Assault, but energy damage instead of toxic t6 - Scorpion's Sting - Throws a dagger, same animation as t1 but does more damage + DoT t7 - The Lotus Drops - from the Katana/Ninja Blade set t8 - Caltrops - from various other sets t9 - Golden Dragonfly - from the Katana/Ninja Blade set

To clarify a point from Laucianna's post, a point of note is that unless HC has changed the credit code fairly recently, it's also worth noting that if you're in the open world, to get credit towards a "kill" of most Giant Monsters (U'kon included), you need to be on a team that did at least 10% of the damage needed to defeat it. Furthermore, being on one of the teams in the League is NOT enough. Leagues don't actually provide any credit sharing. Your character must also be within range for the credit of the defeat (i.e., not coming back from the hospital or the like). This is the most likely explanation for why you would have less credit than runs, as basically any group that does a MSR is fighting U'kon (even if, in the chaos, he can be kind of hard to spot...or outright invisible if there are too many entities around him). Note that the rules are different, to at least some extent, if you join an instanced MSR, although I'm not 100% sure on whether/how they differ with regards to U'kon specifically.

Not that you shouldn't feel welcomed back, but bear in mind the only time the game has been yanked away is when it had official support...

I don't care how easy it is, it's a confusing, un-fun mess, believe I ran it 1 time and will never run it again (unless maybe if it gets made into an SSA-style arc like it clearly should've been).

Speaking of Bane Spiders and epic pools, either Shatter or Shatter Armor needs an alternate animation, so that they can have some more variety.

Yeah, but one of those is Aeon, and "an extra small breakfree every 10 minutes" is hardly worth that clustermess.

Man, don't I wish it were though...

I have an old school mod that changes the color of the enhancement screen on Praetorian characters to purple, but nothing that (should) influence the border colors, and it's not even the color I get defaulted to anyway. Plus, as noted, it also will change if I use /wdwload, but again, only to the one color that I set it to before using /wdwsave. Yeah, the colors themselves do, but I don't think being able to reset to default does. Or am I misunderstanding and you found it?