Yomo Kimyata

15bn here, 15bn there. Pretty soon you're talking about real money.

I slot Panaceas partly for the reasons you mention but also because I 50+5 the set for that tiny incremental enhancement.

I appreciate both of these posts. I'm personally sunsetting if not sunset on this game, but I've generally been unhappy at how HC deals (or does not deal) with feedback. It certainly does feel as if whatever has been planned is going to happen, and it does not feel as if contrasting opinions are solicited or even respected. That's why I don't bother beta testing because at this point I don't feel as if I have any influence over the process and I'm just going to see what hits the live servers a week or so after it hits live beta because that's what is going to happen. We are at war with Eastasia. We have always been at war with Eastasia. That said, I don't spend any time on the Gold discord server (or even know if I'm able to log in there) since I detest discord so much, so really I can only blame myself

Unless it recharges or unless I can buy as many as I need from the P2W vendor, I never use it. It's a sickness of mine.

oops i forgot.

the problem I see with the “get all the free stuff you want on beta” is that no one is playing consistently on beta. You’re not having fabulously effed up pugs. Unless maybe you’re Snarky

Ugh, alt-building is so much worse than respeccing, imo.

I'm not going to say I LIKE them, but I do use them a lot. Takes me five minutes (practice!) and I'm playing a better character. It's also vaguely satisfying to clean house every now and again.

The tree of Homecoming must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of respecs.

I would also make the argument (it's not a strong one, but it's an argument nonetheless) that tankers and brutes (post fury nerfs) are fundamentally the same AT with the same powers and epics pools, so that buffs to one and not the other make one of them comparatively weaker.

Sets don’t need to be homogenized across ATs, but when people (minmaxxers) gravitate towards specific sets, that should be a warning sign. I also doubt the HC developers have the data or the inclination to test out their changes on a fairness basis, so it will be what will be. Also, fairness changes over time. Sets like Dark Melee and Kinetic Melee were designed as trade off sets — a little less damage, a little more protection. Protection is no longer relevant, and the moar damage mob has spoken.

Farming and necromancy: what's up with that?

Last night I was the only melee (and therefore tank) on a 54 ITF with a lvl 44 Radiation Melee/Regeneration scrapper, and it was just fine. Regeneration is great as it is, but I also understand that people don't want to have to build around Oh No! buttons. I regret that the devs felt a need to dumb down the set and I lament that we are about to enter the age of City of Regen/SS tanks.

Just you wait until they migrate it to tankers

You could try this: but the problem is that you can do it with x8 numbers of enemies. I don't know of a way to get +5/6 without that multiple.