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Oh I gave up on suggestions in this community via the forums. You got a guy(or group, idk) with no job, friends or family policing a 20 yr old game's online forum pretending they have any experience in game design despite not playing anything but this one(which I 100% doubt they actually play with how often they're on the forums), GMs who will let these bad actors keep disrupting threads, and a litany of other issues that kinda make me go "Fuck this" to the whole idea of even trying to help this game or community, at least in this capacity. I stick to the discord, most of these problem causers don't know how discord works so are simply incapable of joining in, plus thats where the devs interact mostly with the community anyway so it kinda side steps this fuster cluck.

The archons werent challenging, but this meme, if you replace galaxy archons with HM, would be apt. HM isnt hard, I lead the new ITF HM 4 when it was released completely stoned and didnt even miss a beat. You cant do that in difficult games or content. But the crowd for 4 star for the longest was this meme. I want to make the statement here, there is nothing content wise in this game that is difficult whatsoever from a mechanical standpoint. But the real difficulty? People. Literacy rates amongst those people specifically. And those same people will then do like in the meme "is there nothing to challenge me?" Me? Now? Im more content just vibing and will run arcs at +1×8 most times to just stroll through em if the mood ever strikes me.

This is the pentultimate minmaxer team comp that is used by all minmaxers usually unless special runs are on the table: 5 corrs 2 blasters tank type. 3 cold corrs 1 kin 1 nature 1 Ice/Fire 1 Fire/Fire Bio/Axe tank. If you want the closest to objective best team comp for content, this is it(I would say this is THE objective best tbh but thats no fun and I wanna see what other comps are like)

+4×8. The discord builds can do it easily. Most of my own builds, especially the newer ones I had planned and tested, could do it pretty easily. But yes the average player is not soloing +4×8. Most are probably playing +0×4 at best, which is fine ofc. Just giving an idea of the playerbase, if the people I see in CB are to be believed.

At the risk of looking like an idiot as there may already be this feature on the forums(please point me to it if so!), but I propose the ability to DM GMs. This will allow players the ability to have private conversations and voice concerns without dragging down threads or having an issue become a public scene. Issues I personally can see with this is players abusing this feature and either DMing and trying to “tell on other players” for minor slights, harassing the GMs themselves(my personal biggest concern). To get around this, perhaps there could be a little subject blerb with the DM that explains why the player is asking to speak to a GM and it can be up to a GM’s personal discretion to answer said DM. Typical TOS rules would apply on all interactions of course.

Im a minmaxer, I fully understand the concept of utilizing the optimal chain. If anyone’s playing a different game it’s me as I actually try and minmax which is anathema to this community at times it feels. What I’m scratching my head at is in NO OTHER COMMUNITY have I or will I ever see the players advocate for the smallest amount of spells to be viable. I mean I know CoH is unique but this is a whole ‘nother level of head scratch. In my mind, this concept is basically asking for someone to simplify the building process even more than it already is instead of, again imo, adding more diversity by making powers still niche but competitive picks in their own set. Basically turning duds like Handclap in SS into a “hrm this might be pretty interesting!” power would be my ideal situation. It still would boil down to a optimal rotation of only a handful of 3-4 powers, but that 3-4 optimal rotation won’t objectively blow everything hopelessly out the water as obvious dead picks wouldn’t exist. Someone could make an off meta niche build and it wouldn’t be cringe inducing levels of bad, as there wouldn’t be the grand canyon sized gaps of today. Hell this would also make it so I could play more than a handful of sets in this game finally! (the truly meta sets are pretty much all I can really stomach to play anymore as minmaxing non meta was fine, but uh…Ice/Cold go brrr on fender or corr, so…)

HM to me has potential. I like the idea but think it needs a good deal of tuning to allow more playstyles, notably CC, to be relevant. I also think it needs a lot more mechanical variety, but thats due to playing difficult games and watching turtle WoW and retail WoW raid videos/Mythic+ runs and wanting something similar. Thats a bit unfair of me though and I'm more than willing to work within the confines of what HM is. That all said, it IS pretty much the only content I'm interested in leading again when I get this new upgraded gaming PC before taking my sabbatical to turtle WoW, so I think it definitely did something right.

As RL picks up over where I am, I most certainly wont be paying attention to any threads in CoH/any asinine back n forth that can take place a lot in threads. Thats really about the only advice I'd give. Trying to alter people's behavior online is well...not great.

...You're trying to do the same thing now with this thread to an extent. I mean what do you expect for an answer? Sometimes threads get locked even when discussions are civil. Stuff happens 🤷 Sometimes some people just derive joy from being asses in a thread. Usually arguing against a point isnt a problem, but it's when people argue against each other instead of the main point of whatever thread topic is being discussed.

Do you have any data whatsoever to support this claim. CoH players LOVE to claim a set is overperforming because of reasons I won't list here with no data to back any of this up. Ston has data that proves otherwise though, last I checked. Also what is with this trend of trying to get sets down to only 3-4 powers? There was another thread talking about too many powers and my personal opinion would probably derail the thread but I'm still scratching my head as to this train of thought.

I will say those people are right. Situational IS useless for 99.9% of the time in CoH outside of intang powers for wacky speedrun strats. Since im looking at it from the minmaxers perspective, the answer is always simply more damage, an insp usually a purp or orange or red, and probably barrier/meta set stacking. Thats the current situation of CoH. Those rare niche scenarios don't exist in such a capacity to keep underperformers and dead picks around. I get your premise where a power can try and maintain some usefulness without being super broad in application, but honestly due to what I mentioned above, thats not the reality of CoH. You can either try and force a meta shift away from the above by aggressive nerfs(bad idea) or create more mechanically unique scenarios to promote the more acceptable practice of having niche powers while still making every pick competitive(good idea imo)

When CoH came back and for a few years after, I was in a craze and made 50 after 50, especially after discovering via a forums post, a cheap farming build that I used till recently(still use the build but havent PL'ed any new 50s as of late). I have 103 50s. I only play roughly 3-5 sporadically whenever I log in. Combination of nerfs, and just being too lazy to update and minmax old builds and being burnt out on content leads to me just abandoning a large majority of my 50s, though I still love to sometimes log in and read their bios from time to time. My last ever 50 will be a Sav/Elec/Mu brute probably before the end of this year sometime. Maybe. Depends on when P3 is set to come out. I plan to go all out on this 50, empty my coffers, do the accolade gauntlet to get them HM 4 ready, and to tank all the HMs in order(tanked 4 star ITF on my rad/dark and had a lotta fun) on it. Then I'll enter full retirement and focus on other ventures/games like I did when CoH was shutdown, only periodically logging in to work on AE pilots again if the mood strikes me.

Do I? Huh. Im the most critical of the game and least attached to it being brough back. Enlighten me. Where are these rose tinted glasses? Edit: I forgot to add this but good god arcane you really need a job or hobby outside of CoH forum trolling. And I find it very uh...not mentally healthy of you to be obsessed with my post.

I assume they mean try out the build on the test server to see which is better. I'd argue SR is better tbh because low res caps and the regen in DA isnt useful for low HP toons like stalker.

This is such a fascinating take to me, and I understand your trepidations but this kind of has me sad and worried for your camp. Axe Cyclone is not too powerful or remotely busted. It's strong, and noticeable on a tank, but not busted. It's not like it's wormhole grabbing mobs around corners(also not busted for gravity) but on tanks. My main fear comes from the mindset that CoH players have come to accept and acknowledge a level of painfully mediocre as the "norm" for balance, and look at fun and actually useful for once, as the enemy and unbalanced when it's not. It's actually GOOD. We used to as a community know what this was, then HC for the most part brought the bar significantly down with painfully mediocre release after mediocre release. This is so common place people mistake this drab scenario of forgetful releases as the correct way, which it most assuredly is not. People made the same arguments with Marine being OP. It's not, it's actually the natural evolution of support sets imo and mostly just good and particularly great on MM, which is a fine place to be in the grand scene of sets. You made a fine, articulated argument and im not trying to put words in your mouth, more just springboarding to voice my thoughts on the camp you're kind of in or adjacent to.